In the arena! Ye Chu’s fists were wrapped in seven-coloured light. One strike surged out with vast power, directly sending Cicada Emperor flying. Cicada Emperor retreated a hundred zhang before barely steadying himself. Ye Chu stood in place, his clothes fluttering, his might incomparable.
“Baleful aura…”
Cicada Emperor’s face was cold and stern. He had not expected Ye Chu to possess such terrifying baleful aura. Just now, if not for his quick reaction, he nearly would have suffered great losses. The terror of baleful aura was known to all cultivators. Once it eroded into the body, it could cause immense harm to a cultivator. As a Sovereign, Cicada Emperor did not fear ordinary baleful aura, but the seven-coloured baleful aura vibrating from Ye Chu’s body still gave him a few moments of heart palpitations.
“Correct! It is baleful aura!” Ye Chu stared at Cicada Emperor, his eyes carrying coldness. Ye Chu dared to fight a true Sovereign precisely because he possessed coloured-pattern baleful aura. Being able to borrow the power of baleful aura could raise his lethality by several degrees, and he was not without the power to fight a Sovereign.
Cicada Emperor’s face was equally gloomy. He had heard that Ye Chu was also a baleful spirit practitioner, but he had not taken it to heart, because ordinary baleful spirit practitioners posed no threat to him whatsoever. But what he had not expected was that Ye Chu’s baleful aura made even him tremble with fear.
“I truly had not expected you still possessed such ability!” Cicada Emperor stared at Ye Chu and snorted, but do not think this can do anything to me.
“Whether it can do anything to you, we will only know after fighting!” Between Ye Chu’s words, his might was vast, his power vibrating out. Towering force transformed into a giant sword, wielded in Ye Chu’s hand, chopping towards Cicada Emperor. As the sword fell, space directly split open with ripples like water waves, the scene magnificent, shaking people’s eyes.
Everyone gazed at the seven-coloured baleful aura flickering upon the giant sword, each person clicking their tongues in amazement. Ye Chu had fought all the way here, yet they had not expected him to still retain such a hidden card. Seeing Cicada Emperor’s expression, they knew the baleful aura erupting from Ye Chu gave him an extreme headache.
Cicada Emperor was dominant, his thick aura spreading like surging lake water, endless power continuously crashing. The power upon his body transformed into a giant cicada. Light erupted from the cicada’s body, carrying the power to devour all things, fiercely pouncing towards the giant sword dancing towards Ye Chu.
“Boom boom…”
Two powerful forces collided. Terrifying energy blasted into the canyon. The canyon was forcibly carved out by more than ten metres. Collapsing boulders continuously tumbled down, smashing onto the corpses previously slain by Ye Chu. These corpses were directly smashed into meat paste, then buried by the boulders.
The power of a Sovereign was terrifying. Every exchange could shatter space. The force blasting out had long since torn apart the clouds. Ye Chu and Cicada Emperor exchanged blows.
Cicada Emperor’s intent was astonishing. Between his strikes, he could erupt with the strongest power. Although Ye Chu had walked his own path, he still could not compare to a Sovereign. He was shaken into retreating step by step. However, using baleful aura to resist, he caused Cicada Emperor to also be extremely wary, not daring to press Ye Chu too tightly.
Cicada Emperor once again evaded Ye Chu’s baleful aura assault. His face was cold and gloomy as he stared at Ye Chu. The veins on his arms vibrated, and the vigorous power upon his body blasted out. The cicada’s legs transformed into sharp weapons, sweeping through space, bringing forth sounds of tearing air.
“You naively think a King can block this Sovereign?” Cicada Emperor roared, his fist blasting out. As Cicada Emperor’s fist blasted out, the giant cicada’s legs shot out, transforming into sharp saws, rising from beneath Ye Chu’s body upwards. In the next instant, it seemed it would saw Ye Chu into two halves.
The power of the cicada legs rising upwards was terrifying, and the speed was also extreme to the limit. In the next instant, it arrived below Ye Chu’s crotch, intending to split Ye Chu in two from there.
Such a perilous scene made many cultivators widen their eyes, almost believing Ye Chu simply could not dodge.
But the result surprised them. Ye Chu’s figure flashed, instantly disappearing from his original spot. The long saw rose upwards, forcibly blasting countless ripples into the void, explosions sounding continuously.
And Ye Chu, at some unknown time, was holding the giant sword, fiercely stabbing it towards Cicada Emperor, tricky and ruthless, carrying terrifying power.
“Hmph!” Cicada Emperor saw the force shooting straight towards him, gave a cold snort, his long arm swinging. The veins coiled around his arm like old snakes, and vigorous power blasted out with one fist directly, crashing into the giant sword with brilliant force. Ye Chu’s giant sword was blasted into pieces. Ye Chu’s body flew backwards, gliding across several dozen zhang.
Cicada Emperor also staggered backwards. That arm wrapped with vibrating veins trembled, with a few drops of blood continuously dripping down.
“What does Cicada Emperor think?” Ye Chu stood above the void, his clothes fluttering, gripping his fists, ten thousand blossoms blooming around him, petals flying out like sharp blades.
Cicada Emperor stared at Ye Chu, his expression cold and stern. This boy’s combat power truly exceeded his expectations, his reactions too keen. His strikes were ruthless and tricky, without the slightest bit of superficiality. Such fierce attacks truly did not seem like the seasoned experience someone of his age should possess.
However, thinking of Ye Chu fighting and killing all the way here, the surprise in his heart vanished. It was not strange for a prodigy to possess such seasoned methods under such tempering.
“You have indeed surprised this Sovereign. But this Sovereign does not believe your secret art can persist indefinitely. This Sovereign need not directly kill you. So long as I drag you out for one hour, it will be enough to make you perish in defeat.” Cicada Emperor looked at Ye Chu. This kind of strength-surging secret art all had time limits, without exception. In that case, so long as he blocked Ye Chu and did not let Ye Chu escape, then Ye Chu would certainly die. There was simply no need to fight Ye Chu to the death.
These words made Ye Chu’s heart skip a beat. His mind merged into his qi sea. “How long can I persist?”
Cold Fire Sovereign’s voice answered with excitement. “Half an hour is the limit!”
“Half an hour!” Ye Chu murmured to himself, looking at the Cicada Emperor before him, thinking that breaking out within half an hour would be extremely difficult. And once the secret art’s time limit passed, how could he block the opponent?
“Within half an hour, I absolutely must break out, or it will be a dead end!” Ye Chu gritted his teeth, his face cold and gloomy as he stared at Cicada Emperor. “Again!”
Having spoken, Ye Chu roared. Blossoms like brocade shot out, thousands of blossoms transforming into flying projectiles, carrying coloured-pattern baleful aura within them, gorgeous yet fierce. The entire sky was left with nothing but petals.
The gorgeous petals, in the eyes of other cultivators, did not feel the slightest bit of beauty. There was only heart-palpitating fierceness. Such attacks swept towards Cicada Emperor, and Cicada Emperor’s brows also grew heavy.
Ye Chu’s powerful intent made him wary as well. The attack power displayed by Blossoms like brocade he had to face with caution. But Cicada Emperor was after all a Sovereign. This attack that gave other cultivators headaches, he did not fear.
Cicada Emperor’s figure flashed, using his own will patterns to vibrate. Countless cicada chirping sounds blasted out, carrying Cicada Emperor’s intent, fiercely crashing into the petals filling the sky and flying towards him.
“Bang bang…”
Collision sounds were continuous. The terrifying power carried by the cicada chirping collided with the petals, like explosions, with streams of energy blasting out. The entire void was filled with rampaging energy. Space was blocked by the heaven-covering, earth-shrouding storm. The numerous cultivators were simply powerless to see through the storm to the Ye Chu fighting in the arena.