72: Battle of Luo Di (1)
The Secret Realm opened, and Zhang Sheng was the first to fly inside.
Since Rodi dared to show himself, he naturally feared no schemes and followed close behind.
Divine Sense, expand!
The environment within a one-kilometer radius filled his mind. To avoid revealing the true strength of his Divine Sense, Zhang Sheng intentionally restricted its detection range.
"He really followed me, didn't he?"
Zhang Sheng looked back; four wings had sprouted from Rodi's back, and his speed was incredibly fast.
Peaks rose one after another, with towering mountains filling the view.
"Zhang Sheng, is this the place you've chosen for your grave?"
Rodi's voice drifted from behind.
Zhang Sheng ignored him, slightly increasing his speed as he flew deeper into the Secret Realm.
"Zhang Sheng, I'll see what tricks you have up your sleeve today. So what if you've planted nuclear bombs in this Secret Realm beforehand!"
Possessing numerous top-tier Talents, Rodi was confident he could survive in any environment.
Even a nuclear explosion would struggle to harm him in the slightest!
This was why he dared to come even though he knew Zhang Sheng's appearance might be a trap.
He was now extremely curious about Zhang Sheng's Talent. Was it instant spellcasting or something else?
If it was instant spellcasting, it wouldn't explain why Zhang Sheng possessed such massive spiritual power.
Thus, he guessed that instant spellcasting was merely one of the Talent's effects.
At the thought of devouring Zhang Sheng's Talent soon, he couldn't help but lick his lips.
Zhang Sheng flew for three hundred kilometers before stopping over a lake.
"Yo! Why'd you stop running?"
"Zhang Sheng, I don't know where you got the courage to come deal with me," Rodi sneered. "Especially now that the whole world knows I have the ability to Devour Talents?"
Zhang Sheng turned to face Rodi, his expression calm.
He snapped his fingers with his right hand.
Hundreds of lightning bolts instantly erupted around Rodi.
Now that he had entered the Divine Breath Realm, even a first-tier Spell was several times more powerful when cast.
"Zhang Sheng, you have no martial ethics!" Rodi cursed loudly.
"Damn it, this move again!" A giant lotus appeared around Rodi. The lightning struck the lotus but had no effect.
"Zhang Sheng, you don't think the same trick will work on me twice, do you?" Rodi formed hand seals, and a massive Fire Dragon coalesced before him, opening its maw to bite at Zhang Sheng.
With a single thought, the Spirit Shields rose—eighty-one layers in total.
Zhang Sheng frowned; it wasn't until Rodi cast the Spell that he was certain.
The Rodi before him hadn't changed his appearance, but his spiritual energy aura was different from before—there were similarities, yet also differences.
How strange!
Transforming from a white man into a black man and constantly changing Talents and spells—how on earth did he do it?
Not only that,
the spiritual energy aura emanating from Rodi was incredibly powerful, reaching a full five million, even surpassing Song Xian.
Therefore, the person before him might not be Rodi, or perhaps his physical body had undergone some unknown change.
Crack, crack, crack!!
The Spirit Shields shattered at an extremely high speed; the Fire Dragon Rodi cast was likely a second-tier Spell.
However, its destruction speed still couldn't keep up with the speed at which the Spirit Shields regenerated.
"Damn it!"
Rodi used his Spirit Eye Talent, but he still couldn't see through Zhang Sheng, who possessed the Flawless Body.
"In that case, taste this!"
"Enhanced Laser!"
Two beams of blinding golden light erupted from Rodi's eyes.
This time, he simultaneously activated two SSS-level Talents: Laser Eyes and Enhancement.
Several top-tier Awakened had died to this move before.
The two laser beams merged into one, instantly piercing through Zhang Sheng's 81 layers of Spirit Shields.
The moment the Spirit Shields shattered, although Zhang Sheng tried his best to dodge and avoid his heart, his chest was still pierced by the laser.
"Zhang Sheng, countless experts have died to this move, and you will be no exception."
"With mountains and water here, it's the perfect place for your grave!"
However, in Rodi's eyes, the wound in Zhang Sheng's chest actually healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"How is this possible?" Rodi's eyes widened.
Such an incredible self-healing speed—was it a Talent or a Spell?
Having cultivated the Nine Calamities Secret Codex - Foundation Establishment Chapter to Perfection granted Zhang Sheng's physical body unparalleled recovery abilities, making limb regeneration a simple matter. Moreover, Zhang Sheng also possessed the Rejuvenation Spell at the Perfected State.
The Enhanced Laser could only produce a miraculous effect during the first sneak attack.
Now that Zhang Sheng was on guard, he used his Perfected State Flight Technique to dodge and weave in the air. Rodi's Laser Eyes couldn't inflict any effective damage and instead wasted his Mental Energy for nothing.
With a single thought, eighty-one Spirit Shields appeared.
"Water Binding!"
"Freeze!"
Dozens of water dragons rose from the lake below and flew toward Rodi.
They instantly enveloped Rodi and the lotus around him. Simultaneously, Zhang Sheng cast a freezing Spell, turning him completely into an ice sculpture.
Seeing a black man sitting cross-legged in the center of a lotus, Zhang Sheng really couldn't bear to look.
"Shatter!"
As the ice sculpture shattered, Rodi's figure was nowhere to be found inside.
"Die!"
Rodi teleported behind Zhang Sheng and cast the Enhanced Laser again.
But his appearance was instantly caught by Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense.
While moving, Zhang Sheng summoned several Spirit Wood Cages outside the eighty-one layers of Spirit Shields.
Spell—Wood Prison Cage!
The Wood Prison Cages not only blocked the path between Rodi and Zhang Sheng, reducing the laser's power, but also bound Rodi tightly.
"100,000 Volts!"
This time, Rodi didn't have time to activate his Lotus Protection Talent.
However, his passive Talent, Status Compensation, activated.
The power of the lightning was absorbed by the Status Compensation Talent, giving Rodi a chance to breathe as the lotus protection reappeared around him.
"Dammit! This guy didn't have so many tricks last time!" Rodi was inwardly alarmed.
"Zhang Sheng, I admit you have some tricks, but it ends here!" Rodi pulled out a Spiritual Artifact long saber from somewhere.
From the moment the long saber was drawn, Zhang Sheng felt a sharp aura emanating from Rodi.
It seemed that Miyamoto Saburo from Japan really had died at his hands.
Rodi swung his saber repeatedly, and the Spirit Wood Cages were completely pulverized under the countless blade lights as he slashed toward Zhang Sheng.
A beam of rainbow light flew out from Zhang Sheng's waist.
It was a clash of titans; the Flying Dagger collided fiercely with Rodi's long saber, sending sparks flying and erupting in a thunderous roar.
The Cultivators watching the battle from a distance heard the massive thunder.
Beyond that, they could only see two beams of light—one gold and one blue—constantly colliding in the sky.
The two lines clashing at high speeds were a dazzling blur.
"Run!"
That was their first reaction; the aftershocks of a battle between two top-tier powerhouses were not something they could withstand.
If they were accidentally killed by a stray hit, they would be more wronged than Dou E.
Rodi's long saber was clearly a second-tier Spiritual Artifact. The first-tier Flying Daggers couldn't withstand its edge, so Zhang Sheng could only control his sole second-tier Flying Dagger to face the enemy.
However, with the double Enhancement of the Perfected State Object Manipulation Art and his powerful Divine Sense, Rodi remained helpless against Zhang Sheng even with his God-like Blade Dao Talent.
"Dammit! How can this guy's spiritual energy be so massive!" Despite such high-intensity combat, Zhang Sheng's spiritual energy hadn't weakened in the slightest.
Rodi was filled with resentment; during his last battle with Zhang Sheng, he had realized that his total spiritual energy was his weakness.
To compensate for his weakness, he had endured his disgust, abandoned his original white body, and possessed a black man with a special physical Talent.
This black man's Qi Sea and Dantian were naturally nine times larger than an ordinary person's!
Right then, however, he discovered that several crescent-shaped Spiritual Artifacts had appeared out of thin air around Zhang Sheng.
The Moon Blades were engraved with wolf patterns, and their entire forms radiated a cold silver light.