Chapter 23 - Arctic Dominating Axe
"You are Hu Cheng, right?! I can perceive that you are a formidable fighter. Come on, let's fight! And don't you dare go easy on me!!"
Once Sun Kang heard this, he couldn't help but blink his eyes many times. It was too sudden that he couldn't almost comprehend what was going on.
But since the proposal for a match had been thrown in his face, he wasn't one to back down. So, he would accept it and fight it out till there was only one person standing, the Champion! Besides, noticing the high cultivation stage of this person that asked for a match from him, caused his blood to begin to boil in excitement.
'Finally someone worthy that I can battle it out with at my present cultivation rank.' Sun Kang said within himself as he faced Ji Fun who had a cultivation base of eleventh layer, Common Law Warrior stage.
Swoosh!
A large solid axe that glittered in the color of gold and was formed from Origin Energy, suddenly appeared before Ji Fun and shot towards Sun Kang like it were a furious cannonball.
As it shot towards Sun Kang at a great speed, it caused the air around it to tremble, and the blood of everyone to seemingly freeze, producing the feeling in them that they were submerged in a pool of ice that inexplicably caused their bloods to surprisingly turn solid. But, if this could happen to them who were just ordinary spectators, what about the person at the receiving end of this particularly powerful attack?
'This attack is powerful! It has caused my agility, speed and reflexes to slow down.' Sun Kang mumbled within himself as he tried to deploy a technique that wasn't part of the Unparalleled Nine Firmaments Severance Sword art.
He definitely wouldn't use any of the technique from the Severance Sword art until he was now an Inner Court Disciple of the sect. Or he would have to explain where and how he came across such a technique that shouldn't exist in this world. Although he mentioned to elder Xiong Yan sometimes ago that an expert brought him back from the dead, experts of such level, if judging based on that technique, shouldn't be found in this world. So, he would definitely have a hard time explaining himself.
'Besides, I am still weak. It is however this kind of battle that will ignite the hidden or dormant talents of this body. I just hope it has one that will cause me to be marveled. Or this body will just be a waste, as I would only have to depend on my cultivation to make it to the top.' Sun Kang said internally as he utilized a technique that caused Origin Energy to gush out of his outstretched right palm and immediately transform into a three-horned, dragon-headed serpent that shot towards the massive golden axe roaring towards him.
BANG!
The dragon-headed serpent formed from solid Origin Energy was immediately cleaved into two, while the golden axe still shot towards Sun Kang with eighty-five percent of its energy still remaining.
The technique that Ji Fun used and was called the 'Arctic Dominating Axe', was one of the five techniques of the Shadowless Cleaving Axes for the Common Law Warrior stage. While the technique that Sun Kang used, and was called the 'Dragon Serpent Devourer', was one of the thousands of experimental, low-level techniques that he formed himself back at the Blessed Tyrant Planet when he was at the Earthly Law Saint stage. And if one recalls, this is the cultivation stage that the Sect Master of the Great Dragon-Elephant sect was presently at.
Without wasting more time after the golden axe cut apart his dragon-serpent attack like paper, Sun Kang immediately unleashed two more attacks of the same technique, where each of them exited his left and right palm before blazing off at great speeds towards the incoming axe. And this time, the attacks were three folds larger than the one he sent out earlier.
Sun Kang had actually used more Origin Energy in these attacks to increase their masses and denseness, which will in turn heighten the offensive power that the attacks equally possessed.
BANG!
BANG!
A second later, the attacks rammed into one another with the golden axe losing most of its strength and luster as the two dragon-serpent attacks that Sun Kang aimed at it, caused more than forty percent of its power to be instantly chipped away.
Then with forty-five percent of its total power left, the axe smashed heavily into the thick protective shield that Sun Kang immediately formed just a few feet in front of him to protect himself from the raging golden axe.
BOOM!
The shield immediately shattered into countless smithereens with the axe shooting towards Sun Kang as it still had about thirty percent of its power left.
At this point, the axe seemed completely unstoppable, since it continued to cut, break and shatter through all obstacles that appeared in front of it to inhibit or stop its movement.
BANG!
With a loud bang sound instantly ringing out, which was immediately accompanied by a muffled grunt of pain, Sun Kang was furiously flung backwards when his fist that was enveloped by many layers of his violet-colored Origin Energy, suddenly made contact with the axe that still possessed power sufficient enough to cut a few inches deep into refined steel.
However, the axe was stopped this time in its track by the move that Sun Kang used which was called the Nine-Layered Executioner Fist; a move that caused his actual fist to be enclosed by nine illusory fists formed from highly compacted Origin Energy.
"You actually stopped my attack with your measly, fourth-layer Common Law Warrior stage? That's totally amazing. Let's see if you can stop this one!"
Ji Fun who was rather astonished that Sun Kang could take his really powerful attack head-on, immediately unleashed another attack before Chu Cheng who was also deeply astounded by Sun Kang's genius-like feat could move to stop him.