Chapter 459

Chapter 459: Battles Of Masters (2)

Translator: TYZ Editor: TYZ, KLKL

Yang Xiaodong seldom took action himself . The guards of Clearwater City were rather powerful elites . Clearwater City was located in the depths of Wilderness and the living conditions here were extremely dreadful . Elementalists that could survive here were neither weak nor stupid .

After quelling a few brawls in the past, Clearwater City’s public security had been pretty good since then . They also did not encounter any powerful enemies from the outside world . As such, Yang Xiaodong seldom appeared in public .

Everyone was more familiar with his nephew, Yang Wuchang instead .

Yang Xiaodong’s betrayal had caused all the guards to loathe him . All of them felt that he was someone who merely fished for fame . However, [Refraction Forest] made them realized that Yang Xiaodong was still a Master, despite his vile character .

Yang Xiaodong broke out in a cold sweat as well .

Apparently, the combined attack from the guards was premeditated . If he had not not activated [Refraction Forest] just in time, he would have been destroyed by those densely-packed attacks .

A blaze of rage suddenly ignited in the panicked Yang Xiaodong’s heart . Having lived like a prince for a long time, he had never encountered such a dangerous situation . It had also been quite a while since someone provoked him like this . Even the mayor Qiao Meiqi talked to him in a polite and respectful tone .

Yang Xiaodong snorted coldly and the densely-packed prism pillars around him began to move .

Immediately, countless light beams were reflected off the forest of prism pillars, flickering erratically and dazzling people’s eyes .

The guards could not help but squint their eyes . These light beams were unusually dazzling, making them feel as if their eyes were being pricked by needles .

On the ground, there were a lot of water stains that were formed when the water screen collapsed . At this moment, these unremarkable water stains were extremely deadly, behaving like pythons that were hiding in the dark .

Silently, the water stains gathered together and transformed into numerous, thin ice spears with extremely sharp tips . Without making any noise, they shot towards the guards . At this instance, the sky was filled with dazzling and fascinating light beams, distracting the guards from the impending doom on the ground . The ice spears on the ground were like pythons hiding in the darkness, slowly revealing their poisonous fangs .

Just as the ice spears were about to pierce through the bodies of the guards, a wisp of mist suddenly appeared . Like a nimble-moving snake, it flashed across the guards .

The wisp of mist was only as thick as a thumb, but it was exceptionally strong . In the blink of an eye, the sneaky ice spears were completely smashed .

In the sky, Yang Xiaodong looked at Shi Xueman with shock in his eyes .

However, Shi Xueman did not have the time to bother about Yang Xiaodong . In front of her, Autumn Water had begun to take action too . She threw out a ragdoll which consisted of five different colors: white, green, black, brown and red .

The ragdoll looked as if it was made using patches rags that were of five different colors . Its mouth was made up of stitches, making it looking sinister and scary .

When the ragdoll landed on the ground, it melted like snow and formed a five-colored light spot on the ground’s surface .

Autumn Water’s eyes flickered as she smiled, “Come out, King!”

The shape of the light spot on the ground began to distort . Following which, a short figure climbed out of the light spot . The figure resembled a seven year old child . Its entire body was slick and slippery, looking as if it had been dyed with a multi-colored fluorescent paint . Its face was flat and multi-colored as well . It had no eyes, ears or nose . It only had a strip of stitches as its mouth .

When the King appeared, an eerie aura engulfed the entire place .

“Kill!”

The guards launched their second wave of attacks .

Since their attacks were ineffective against Yang Xiaodong’s [Refraction Forest], they changed their target and locked onto the multi-colored, man-like doll .

Boom!

Dazzling streaks of light engulfed the short and stout doll .

The violent explosion set the guards’ minds at ease . The odd-looking, short doll should be destroyed by such a concentrated, combined attack .

However, when the light and smoke cleared away, the guards’ facial expressions changed drastically .

Not only was King not injured at all, it had increased significantly in size as well . Its stitch-made mouth began to spread apart .

It was smiling .

Upon seeing this, the guards were overwhelmed with horror . This weird doll could devour all types of elemental energy .

[King] was Autumn Water’s Path of Master . Fusion elemental energy’s unique characteristic of not being restrained by any types of elemental energy had been put on full display by Autumn Water .

This was King, the doll that could devour all types of elemental energy .

Shi Xueman was roused .

Her mind was filled with killing intent .

She had discussed with Ai Hui about fusion elemental energy before . Both of them felt that fusion elemental energy was an extremely powerful force . It had the potential to become an enormous energy system on its own .

Their conjecture had been verified by what she had just seen . Jiu Gui’s [Sky Palace Possession Technique] was completely different from Autumn Water’s [King] . However, both were remarkable and unfathomable .

They did not expect the Assembly of Patriarchs to become their enemy .

Shi Xueman moved extremely fast and appeared out of nowhere beside the doll . With two currents of mist swirling around her Cirrus, she thrusted it towards King .

The King’s reaction was very fast as it reached out its hand and grabbed the tip of Shi Xueman’s spear .

Cirrus and King’s hand collided together . At the same time, the mist swirling around Cirrus was heading towards King too .

The spear tip pierced through King’s palm but it looked as if it felt nothing . Its other hand extended like a rope and lunged towards Shi Xueman .

However, at this very moment, the mist from Cirrus struck the doll’s palm .

Boom!

The doll’s body and its pierced palm disappeared all of a sudden . It was as if a charging, wild beast had slammed into King, causing it to fly backwards through the air .

Autumn Water’s facial expression changed drastically . She vanished into thin air and appeared beside King .

King’s colorful right forearm had disappeared . It only had half its right arm left .

Shi Xueman slowly retracted her Cirrus . This was her Path of Master, [Cloud of Firmament Iron]!

“Firmament iron is made up of a very simple raw material, water . The method of forming it is very simple as well, compression . As long as you can compress one thousand buckets of water into one single bucket, firmament iron will be produced . Cloud can be compressed into water, water can be compressed into firmament iron . What about a cloud that is made up of firmament iron?”

“After putting in an immense amount of hard work, even the most ordinary technique can become magnificent . “

“Water can become iron, ice can become steel!”

“For the Shi family, inheritances and absolute arts do not form the foundation of our greatness . It’s our lofty ambitions to put in hard work and the solitude that comes along with it that forms our greatness . It’s all about putting in more hard work, even after you have put in tons of hard work!”

“Focus on your spearmanship and don’t care about other things . “

“This world has nothing to do with you . “

After Shi Xueman released the restraint on her base level, a colossal amount of water elemental energy gushed into her body . The elemental energy level in her body kept on rising while her aura kept on intensifying .

Shi Xueman remembered her father’s words and intentionally restrained her base level all this while . She absorbed the water elemental energy and released the clouds within Cirrus . Following which, she compressed the clouds into water and then compressed the water . She repeated this process over and over again without finding it a hassle . Her goal was to compress Cirrus’s clouds into firmament iron and shatter it into numerous tiny granules . Ultimately, she would use these granules to reconstruct the clouds of her Cirrus and form the real Cloud of Firmament Iron .

This process was much harder than her father’s process of forming firmament iron . Her workload was a lot more than her father’s as well .

Until now, she had never formed the real firmament iron .

However, her spear clouds were already extremely heavy, so much so that they were heavier than steel . The power of her spearmanship had become extremely terrifying as well . Even her most ordinary spear move was exceptionally deadly and formidable .

This was Shi Xueman . She was an individual that never cut corners and always chose the most challenging path . She overcame all obstacles along her path and progressed steadily .

She had neither the brilliance of a genius, nor an amazing creativity .

But her greatness always caused despair in people, as they did not know how to withstand it .

Autumn Water’s face turned pale-white with agony . Her life was connected to King . If King died, she would die as well .

This was the unique characteristic of a Path of Master . Path of Master was intolerant of hesitancy and indecisiveness . One could only become a Master by pursuing a path that he or she believed in and committed his or her life to .

How could one become a Master by fluke?

Viciousness returned to Autumn Water’s face as she channeled fusion elemental energy into King’s body with all her might . King’s severed right arm began to wiggle and a brand-new forearm regenerated rapidly .

When Yang Xiaodong saw this, he was overwhelmed with horror .

Autumn Water’s King set him off in fear and trepidation . It could actually devour its enemy’s elemental energy . King was the bane of all elementalists!

Shi Xueman was even scarier . Her spear move was plain and simple, but it was extremely deadly .

Yang Xiaodong could not understand why such a simple-looking spear move was so powerful .

The guards returned to their senses and began to attack Yang Xiaodong .

Even though Yang Xiaodong’s [Refraction Forest] could deflect their attacks, it was still better than the doll that could strengthen itself by devouring their elemental energies . They felt that Yang Xiaodong was a better target .

Yang Xiaodong composed himself . He had decided to place his attention on these guards .

Shi Xueman could not leave the open-air terrace, otherwise, the guards behind her and the people in the underground mediation room would suffer . When she saw that King was knocked back far away by her spear move, she took in a deep breath of air and thrusted her spear forward .

Hiss!

It sounded as if the air was being ripped apart by the thrust of her spear .

Two long and slender streams of cloud intertwined like two white snakes and shot towards Autumn Water .

Far away, Autumn Water, who had been channeling fusion elemental energy into King, changed her facial expression drastically . At this moment, a shadow appeared in front of Autumn Water .

Boom!

A deafening explosion resounded through the sky as the air in front of Autumn Water suddenly exploded .

A frail-looking man stood in front of Autumn Water with an indifferent look on his face . His almond-shaped pupils did not have any emotions . His entire body was emitting an intense, savage aura .

Jiu Gui had regained his energy .

Bombarding the water screen had put an enormous strain on Jiu Gui’s body . When the water screen collapsed, Jiu Gui had no choice but to rest . However, since Jiu Gui possessed the abilities of a mutated dire beast, he was able to regain his energy at an incredibly fast speed . Most of the mutated dire beasts possessed a powerful regenerative ability . All of them had an extremely vigorous and strong vitality .

At this point of time, Jiu Gui did not seem tired at all .

In the sky, Jiu Gui vanished into thin air and appeared before Shi Xueman in almost the same moment .

Shi Xueman’s Cirrus mysteriously appeared in front of him .

Jiu Gui dodged slightly to his side and his claw-like fingers lunged towards Shi Xueman’s spear . When his fingers made contact with the clouds spiralling around Cirrus, his body was knocked back over thirty meters . Shi Xueman’s body sank into the ground as countless cracks appeared on the ground beneath her feet, resembling two huge spiderwebs .

Jiu Gui disappeared once more .

Shi Xueman thrusted her spear forward once more .

Boom!

Another explosion broke out . Dust beneath Shi Xueman’s feet flew up into the air and engulfed her . Once again, Jiu Gui was knocked back thirty meters into the air .

Jiu Gui’s fingers became oddly distorted, but he did not care about them at all and charged towards Shi Xueman once more .

Autumn Water observed all the ongoing battles from one side . No one took notice of her as a gleam flashed across her eyes .

Having regained its fighting capabilities, King silently sank into the ground like a puddle of mud .