Chapter 713: Icy Battle
The Supreme elder vanished the ice hands with a wave of his hands and stared down at the long valley below him. His expression was still stern despite the fact that he had delivered a strong blow to Lin Wu.
He didn’t know what beast this was, but knew that it was not weak.
‘What is its cultivation base? How can I not tell it even after my spirit Qi managed to penetrate its defenses? And what is the strange energy corroding the spirit Qi?’ The supreme elder had several questions.
At first he was filled with anger and had almost gotten blinded by it, but now having seen Lin Wu’s power and toughness, he knew that the beast was nothing to scoff at.
“Come out! Don’t pretend. No beast that can breakthrough my sect’s defenses will die this easily.” The supreme elder spoke out loud.
~Tremble~
In response to his words, the ground started to shake and the already collapsed buildings flattened even more.
~BOOM~
Then suddenly, the ground behind the supreme elder broke apart, and from it shot out the head of Lin Wu.
~hiss~
His fangs were on fully display and a yellow glow could also be seen on them. Lin Wu’s eyes glowed in the crimson light, looking like large lanterns.
“Humph! So you were there.” The Supreme elder quickly turned around.
“Of course! T’was but a scratch!” Lin Wu casually said while his jaws narrowed around the figure of the Supreme elder.
~WHOOSH~
But when he was just a meter away from trapping the Supreme elder in his jaws, he was stopped.
Two streams of frost continuously pushed him back. These were coming from the Supreme elder’s hands and had a very cold temperature. If this frost spread over iron or steel, it would be chilled enough that even a light tap would shatter it.
A layer of frost appeared on Lin Wu’s head and neck, going all the way to three of his segments. Wind attribute spirit Qi tried to shield him from the frost but couldn’t help but be torn apart.
“You really are worth your title huh…” Lin Wu said before retreating.
He knew that attacking like this was not possible and the old man had already taken the opportunity to put distance between them.
~Crack~ Crack~ Crack~
The ice on Lin Wu’s body cracked but by bit as the radiation started pouring in and melting it. The rapid temperature change quickly melted it off and removed it. Lin Wu needed to do this urgently since it wasn’t just a problem of having ice on his skin, but rather the fact that this ice would continuously inject ice elemental spirit Qi into his body.
He had already ended up with some amount of this foreign ice elemental spirit Qi into his meridians, and it wasn’t doing any good for him.
Lin Wu quickly looked at the warning window that had been flashing on the side of his field of vision.
~WARNING~
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HAZARD WARNING: 10% Meridians affected
NOTIFICATION: Spirit Qi circulation is slowing down, several blockages have been detected
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Seeing this, Lin Wu knew that a battle of attrition against the Supreme elder was the worst thing he could do. The longer he fought, the more ice elemental spirit Qi would leak into his body.
This was something he was unable to stop even if he tried to. Even expelling it seemed to be impossible in a short time as there was a different aura to the ice elemental spirit Qi. It was like it had a ‘will’ and his spirit Qi, did not.
‘Is this the power of someone in the Dao Treading Realm?’ Lin Wu wondered.
He recalled the information about the Dao Treading realm, how one had to birth a Dao Embryo and ponder on the traces of Dao that were present in them.
While Lin Wu wasn’t a Dao Treading realm expert yet, he could still see the traces of Dao sometimes. The best example of it was none other than the Tribulation lightning bolts that he had resisted.
Back then, he was able to not only resist them but also block and redirect them. But that was a method that would not work for him this time.
‘The tribulation lightning bolts are still a form of radiation and I can somewhat control it due to my Radiation Manipulation Innate skill. But I can’t do the same with ice… I might have been able to heat normal ice, but this is not the same at all.’ Lin Wu understood.
~SLASH~
In the few seconds Lin Wu taken to think the Supreme elder had not stayed still. He condensed a sword from ice and swung it towards Lin Wu. This shot out an arc of ice elemental spirit Qi that froze everything in its way.
Lin Wu of course, didn’t miss it and swung his tail against it while using Immortal Sky Shaker Art and radiation with it. This was the only way he was somewhat able to resist the ice elemental spirit Qi.
“Looks like I have no choice. I should have updated it before this, but testing this in real time was important too…” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
Lin Wu looked at a window he had kept on pause on the side and selected ‘accept’ on it.
“Do it system!” Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
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TRANSFERRING SPIRIT QI: 94,592,284 units [Liquid Spirit Qi]
HOST CULTIVATION: Shell Genesis Stage Of the Dao Shell realm
-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [5,407,716/100,000,000] units (liquid spirit qi) -> [100,000,000/100,000,000] units (liquid spirit qi)
CULTIVATION BASE UPGRADE: Initiated
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The spirit Qi fluctuation coming from Lin Wu’s body suddenly spiked and the Supreme elder felt it as well. Seeing the massive change in the spirit Qi, even his calm demeanor was broken.
“What?!” The old man said in surprise.
If one compared the spirit Qi that Lin Wu had before this and now, it would be nearly 100 times more. This was why the old man was stunned.
