Ou Yangming smiled mischievously at the elder, but he thought, 'How did I know you're hiding here? I simply guessed it, okay? In fact, it was the Military Fire in my sea of consciousness that guessed it.'

Needless to say, he was not going to say that out loud. He grinned mysteriously and waved his hand gently.

Wind blades and blue splashes were released in an instant, but Ou Yangming's essential Qi was also being consumed by a huge margin. Through the skills in his pieces of equipment, he could release powers that did not belong to him, but they could not be released without an end.

Certain essential Qi was required for each release, and the greater the power released, the more the essential Qi needed.

The relationship was directly proportionate, and it was not opportunistic at all.

In actuality, based on Ou Yangming's mental power, after he grasped the runes, he could use his mental power to activate the skills. Nonetheless, the young fellow rather use his essential Qi than his mental power.

As two different energies zoomed in the elder's direction, he scoffed and reached out his skinny hands to stroke in the air.

Consequently, shields that shone in peculiar lights appeared around him once more and blocked Ou Yangming's skill attacks with ease. Nevertheless, just as the elder sneered and wanted to ridicule or persuade the young fellow, his vision was blurred as he was greeted with various lusters again.

The elder furrowed his eyebrows and said contemptuously, "Fine. Give me everything you have, and we'll talk again when you're exhausted."

He was still rather afraid of Ou Yangming, but instead of the young fellow's martial arts, it was because of his identity.

A genius who could receive the Sky-devouring Inheritance in the lower realm would have an entirely different status in the upper realm. Therefore, even as Ou Yangming attacked him, the elder did not intend to kill.

Ou Yangming curled his lips into a meaningful smile. He kept wielding the pieces of equipment on his body and released forceful powers one after another.

At the same time, the young fellow turned his wrist and retrieved his interspatial bag, then he discreetly placed a lump of average-sized meat behind him. Similarly, Ou Yangming also withdrew a military saber from the bag.

As the Military Fire burned, he attached the Devouring attributes on the saber.

Afterward, he pointed the military saber to the back and stabbed the piece of meat.

An endless stream of energy flowed from the flesh and blood into his body through the saber, then the energies transformed into surging essential Qi that entered his dantian.

Ou Yangming had finished with Big Yellow his portion of the Earthly Dragon Beasts' flesh and blood. Despite that, when he returned to the prefecture and requested Her Royal Highness for some more, the princess gave a quarter of her share to him without any hesitation.

He was extremely touched.

Back then, Ou Yangming could not have carried the pieces of meat around, but now, they could only fill up his biggest interspatial back.

To him, he seemed to be carrying around a treasure that provided an endless supply of energy. As long as he was not killed in one move, he would not need to worry about having insufficient power.

Ou Yangming kept simulating the skills on his arm guards and greaves. Although they could not cause fatal damages to the elder, due to the skill attacks, the elder could not stay out of his sight by using the Illusion Art. As long as the young fellow continued this for a long time, the elder would be drained.

Having said that, Ou Yangming's face changed after a brief moment.

He sensed that his arm guards and greaves were beginning to burn. When the young fellow kept inciting the Rune Energies on them, even when he provided abundant essential Qi, the pieces of equipment could not withstand the mighty powers' impacts.

Ou Yangming was speechless. After all, the carved pieces of equipment were magic tools.

If even the magic tools could not withstand the skills' powers for a long time, it could only mean that the skills were out of the ordinary.

The elder smiled faintly as though he knew this was going to happen, so he was not surprised at all.

Even though magic skill tools were incredible, they were also quite limited. The essential Qi requirements and the depletion of the tools themselves were troubling issues.

However, it was quite rare that magic tools could be enhanced to such a level in this world.

The elder quietly waited. Once Ou Yangming was at his wit's end, he would counterattack.

That said, it was then when he saw…

Ou Yangming worked at the speed of light as he removed the burning arm guards and greaves. Following that, he retrieved new arm guards and greaves from his interspatial bag and put them on, then he continued to attack the elder.

A white ice arrow appeared and was launched at the elder at an odd angle. On the other hand, white frost was also formed in the void.

The temperature in this area lowered out of the blue, especially the spot in the center, which was filled with frost. As such, one was forced to move slower.

Upon seeing this, the elder was stunned, and his face took on a ghastly expression because he sensed that the powers released by Ou Yangming this time were greater than before. Besides, the ice arrow and frost released were two skills that could be matched with each other. when they were combined, the power generated increased by a few times, so much so that the elder dared not neglect it anymore.

The elder moved his hands and produced virtual shields one by one, but he was shocked to find thin layers of frost on them.

A frightened look was seen on the old and thin face as the elder wondered, 'What's this skill? Why is it so powerful?'

Little did he know, the abilities that generated the frost and the ice arrow were unique skills from the imperial family's divine weapon, and that Wu Hanning was the only one who could release them freely. Though Ou Yangming reverted those powers, he needed to consume way more essential Qi as compared to Her Royal Highness.

Despite that, he could cheat by using the Devouring ability. As long as his essential Qi was not depleted right away, he had nothing to fear.

At a distance away, the little phoenix had quietly moved backward, and it cursed to itself.

'Brother, why are you playing with ice and snow? Isn't that the exact opposite of our native ability?

If someone else had played with ice and snow in front of the little bird, it would have breathed blazing fire to burn that person into ashes. Nonetheless, when it sensed the familiar and warm energy inside Ou Yangming, it could not bring itself to go against him.

Hence, while the icy atmosphere was unpleasant for the little bird, it merely took a few steps back.

The elder looked grimmer than before, and he eventually consumed more essential Qi too to release greater powers and resist the continuous attacks from the ice arrows.

Keeping a distance away from each other, Ou Yangming released two skills while the elder gathered more shields to resist the powers. It seemed like a friendly battle, but the two of them knew how dangerous the fight was, and they dared not relax at all.

After a brief moment, Ou Yangming inhaled deeply and removed two pieces of equipment, then he replaced them in the blink of an eye.

This time, Ou Yangming would employ special earth mastery and wood mastery skills. Stone awls kept emerging from the ground while the plants on the walls around them grew crazily; they tried to harm and disturb the elder from different angles.

The immature powers could not harm the elder, and they were far less threatening than the ice arrows and the frost earlier.

Even so, the elder was extremely perturbed. 'Why does this young fella have so many pieces of equipment, and they're all attached with skills?'

It was worth noting that even in the upper realm, ordinary people could not acquire pieces of Skill Equipment. Ou Yangming had performed basic abilities from different masteries, but the fact that he could imprint the skills on the pieces of equipment was commendable.

At this point, the elder was struck with an untimely thought.

He wanted to see how many pieces of Skill Equipment the young man had.

A piece of Skill Equipment was an intensive energy consumer, and it could not withstand continuous consumptions. This was the reason Woo Lejia and the others were careful when they released skills from their pieces of equipment, and they always waited for at least an hour before they released their skills for a second time.

This was because they could protect the pieces of equipment better. If they had continuously activated the skills as Ou Yangming did, the pieces of equipment would surely be destroyed.

Apart from Ou Yangming, nobody else in the world would waste such valuable resources like that.

After inciting skills for over ten times in a row, Ou Yangming abandoned the two pieces of equipment and retrieved new ones again.

Different powers were released at the elder, who could not take a break even if he wanted to.

"Roar…"

Far away, the Eight-armed Giant Beast's mad roar echoed, but it did not take long before it faded away.

Ou Yangming was relieved because it was a furious roar from the spirit beast, who was retreating. Li Xinfan, Elder Universe, and the other powerhouses did not let him down, they managed to force the mighty spirit beast to retreat. The young fellow became more relaxed, and he released the skills from the pieces of equipment with more ease.

The little phoenix looked in that direction with shock and thought, 'The Eight-armed Giant Beast was forced to retreat by the Humans?'

Nevertheless, it had a new target at the moment. Whether the Humans were eliminated by the Beasts or the other way round, it was not bothered at all.

The elder gave his all to resist Ou Yangming's attacks from the different pieces of equipment. At the spur of the moment, his wrist shook as his invisible shield was destroyed by a fireball.

Feeling appalled, the elder quickly shifted his body to evade the fireball's attack, but it made a turn in the mid-air and flew toward him again. He immediately focused to form another shield to stop the fireball.

By the time the elder gained his footing, he realized that he was almost depleted of essential Qi...