Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

"Ugh!" Guardian Yun grunted and turned back. but then his face fell.

"What!" But then his face fell and he was shocked to see nothing behind him.

He was rather Dependant on his sense of hearing since Lin Wu's radiation manipulation had made it close to impossible for his spirit sense to work. Every time he tried to use it, he felt like his spirit sense had entered a bog and got trapped.

If he struggled too much the spirit sense even showed signs of tearing. This was certainly not what he wanted in the middle of a battle. 

Guardian Yun also had a lot of trust on his other senses and was thus sure that the attack in front of him might be a trick and the attack was coming from behind. But the reality turned out to be different.

~BOOM~

The true attack descended with the force of a volcano, giving the man barely enough time to condense an ice shied in front of him. 

~cling~ 

~cling~

~cling~

Taking the fraction of second that the ice shield provided, Guardian Yun retreated as he created more ice shields to delay the attack as much as he could.

~shing~shing~shing~

But alas, under the power of the Undaunted Sapphire Blaze Cleaver, the ice shields were no more than butter under a hot knife and were cleaved apart almost instantly. The blade was emitting enough spirit Qi fluctuations mixed with radiation that Qi refining realm cultivators would have simply died from being in the area.

Wang Xiong and Ye Jin started having trouble breathing and the pressure from it made it difficult to use their own spirit Qi as well.

"Dammit! We can't stay like this! Inverse Yin Frost Dome!" Wang Xiong said and flipped his hands.

~shua~

Ice attribute spirit Qi emitted from his hand and started to float put above him. The color of the Qi was also different than the normal ice elemental Qi being a bit more dark in color.

Its level of coldness was also more than the normal level and if anyone touched it they would get frostbite almost immediately.

Holding Ye Jin in his embrace, Wang Xiong let the Inverse Yin Frost Dome descend on them.

~DENG~

The solid glass like dome covered them entirely and protected them from the surrounding effects of Lin Wu's attack. 

But even under the protection of the dome, Wang Xiong realized that it was not enough.

"This can't be… how is it degrading this fast?" Wang Xiong was confused.

Gritting his teeth, he placed his hands on the insides of the dome and started pouring his spirit Qi into it, trying to maintain its form as long as it was possible.

'At least till senior Lin Wu's attack is over.' Wang Xiong thought.

Ye Jin felt like her world view was being broken down and being rebuilt at the same time. While she knew that there were many strong experts in the world and she had even seen them; seeing the power of Lin Wu and Guardian Yun was still on a different level.

'How can this beast imitate human techniques? He even has a hint of sword intent within that attack!?' Guardian Yun thought as he saw the glowing blue blade approaching him.

The fire orbs behind it were like thrusters that increased the force of the attack, as well as its speed. It was something he had never seen or heard of before. After all, even if there were many spirit tools that imitated modern technology, Guardian Yun had not seen the level of innovation that Lin Wu's old world had.

Even with a rather crude application of different principles, under the refinement of the system's computational abilities, everything could be made perfect.

~Crack~

~Crack~

~Crack~

One after the other, the ice shields broke apart before their fragments were directly evaporated. These were ice shields that even other Dao Shell realm cultivators might find a hard time breaking and yet Lin Wu was breaking them with ease.

~Zoom~

~boom~

Another explosion happened and the force of the attack increased more as the blade's opposite side emitted even more fire.

If before the fire was only being emitted from specific points along the length of the blade; now the entire blade itself was emitting it. It looked like a long wall of fire pushed the blade ahead.

Lin Wu who was the perpetrator of all this was grinning widely. His two venomous fangs looked especially glaring under the different lights.

"Ahahah! How are you liking this guardian Yun? Are you having fun? Made the right decision, didn't ya!" Lin Wu said with a chuckle.

Guardian Yun gritted his teeth under his mask and realized that he may have truly made a mistake.

"Curses! Can't stop it like this." He muttered under his breath.

~huu~

Taking a deep breath, he steeled his determination as a strong aura emitted from him.

~shua~

Lin Wu quickly noticed the development as the system was actively analyzing everything and notified him.

"Oh? Can't hold back now, can't we?" He said as he saw a Pale blue orb appearing out of Guardian Yun's body.

It rose up from his head and quickly started to expand. In just a second, it reached a size of six meters in diameter. All this happened, just before the final ice shield had broken.

~CLANG~

The giant blade met the large Pale Blue orb which was nothing but Guardian Yun's own Dao Shell. 

Seeing its appearance allowed Lin Wu to confirm the fact that the man in front of him was already past the Shell Completion stage. There were thin and very faint lines that went around the orb which showed that the orb had expanded several times before.

These were often called as expansion lines and were a sign that a Dao Shell realm cultivator was in the Shell expansion stage. Though not everyone could see them since they often melded into the rest of the orb easily.

The collision of the two objects though shook the entire area.