223: If you are my brother, come and chop me

Cold Sand Crystal Land.

"Are you exhausted? Chen Du!"

Gao Zhongwang let out a low roar with a hint of excitement; he also looked slightly exhausted at this moment.

Chen Du's combat power, endurance, willpower, and that competitive mindset of always looking for a way to counterattack made him view Chen Du as a respectable opponent!

However, respectable as he was, it was impossible for him to go easy.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Chen Du was panting heavily; his fatigue level was much higher than Gao Zhongwang's.

Under the second consumption mode, the Promotion had a total duration of ten minutes, and seven minutes had already passed.

But this did not mean Chen Du could fight for the remaining three minutes.

With the intense battle, his stamina would also be consumed rapidly, and it was impossible to still have the same strength as when they first engaged.

Especially for Chen Du, because his Life Strength Rank was forcibly raised by Promotion, there was offensive pressure due to the time limit.

This meant that his attacks had to be powerful, and his stamina naturally consumed faster.

Although the speed at which the Five Secret Treasures absorbed starlight energy was decent, and he had the ring with wild moving spring water given by Gao Zhongwang...

But the recovery rate could by no means keep up with the intense consumption at this moment.

"It seems I can't defeat you in one go."

"One go?"

Chen Du's sudden remark left Gao Zhongwang confused, and he asked suspiciously.

"Yes, one go."

After saying this, Chen Du immediately raised the long sword in his hand, his eyes narrowing.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

Chen Du swung his long sword rapidly, launching several Crescent Sky Rushes in succession, and over a dozen small black crescent moons flew toward Gao Zhongwang.

"Useless, this kind of trick is just a waste of stamina!"

"Crescent Moon Swordplay is a long-range attack sword technique; its damage is destined not to be too high. How could this kind of attack defeat me!"

Gao Zhongwang glanced at Chen Du with slight disappointment; this action made him feel like Chen Du was mindlessly raging.

Subsequently, the chain in his hand connected end-to-end, forming a high-speed rotating yellow ring.

It blocked all of Chen Du's dozen black crescent moons. After the black crescent moons were shattered, they exploded like smoke, but did not hurt Gao Zhongwang.

However, just as Gao Zhongwang finished dealing with this wave of attacks, he discovered that Chen Du had disappeared.

"Ran away?"

"Did he use the Hand of God's swap ability to escape through continuous movement?"

Although the Hand of God could swap positions with other places, creating the appearance of teleportation, the distance was very short.

Coupled with the limitations of continuous use and stacking consumption, it was not suitable for escaping.

"He wants to hide and recover his stamina before engaging me again, right?"

"No wonder he said 'one go' earlier."

"However, doesn't his Rank Promotion come with a price?"

"Although I don't know the specifics of that ability, it seemed to be reaching its limit just now."

Generally speaking, the more powerful the ability being boosted, the shorter its duration.

If the boost is significant and the duration is long, there must be a major side effect.

This is common knowledge.

Gao Zhongwang frowned slightly and analyzed earnestly.

A battle is not about standing and fighting to the death the moment you meet, especially on the outside where everyone only has one life.

Every Martial Artist strives with all their might for survival; this "striving with all their might" is not just about physical stamina, but also mental capacity.

Unless there is an overwhelming disparity, many decisions can tip the scales of victory.

"The recovery speed of the wild moving spring water I gave him isn't fast; it can only trigger its effect during battle."

"His stamina was already largely consumed, and he just performed a small burst, using Crescent Sky Rush as cover to continuously execute Hand of God swaps."

"The current Chen Du definitely has no combat power left; as long as I can find him, it's over!"

"I didn't expect this 1v1 real man's battle to turn into a game of cat and mouse!"

Gao Zhongwang smiled inexplicably when he thought of this.

"Chen Du, oh Chen Du, you probably don't know that I also possess a search-type mental Martial Skill; you cannot hide!"

After muttering to himself, Gao Zhongwang closed his eyes, and a disc resembling a star plate appeared above his head.

The disc had no grooves and no Mystic Treasure, only a pointer and twelve directions.

The pointer turned like a clock, ticking away, and finally settled in a certain direction.

"Behind me?"

Looking at the direction the pointer finally determined, Gao Zhongwang was slightly stunned.

"He's quite clever."

"Unfortunately, in front of my [Direction Clock], I'm afraid you can't hide for even a minute!"

"With this little time, what will you use to recover your stamina?"

In the Cold Sand Crystal Land, one meter under some yellow sand, there was a small, artificially dug cave, just large enough for one person.

Chen Du was lying inside like a corpse at this moment.

This was a small cave he had dug and marked in advance; it was a contingency plan he made when he sensed Wang Dadi's gaze back then.

Unexpectedly, it wasn't needed when fighting Wang Dadi, but it ended up being useful when facing Gao Zhongwang.

This small cave was not for hiding, but for recovery.

The means of recovery was naturally not the single remaining wild powerful recovery agent in his ring, but the Crystal Space!

At this moment, Chen Du had already deactivated the second consumption mode of the Promotion, and a powerful sense of weakness swept over him.

The weak state after the second mode ended, coupled with the cumulative consumption of using Hand of God continuously at the last moment, left Chen Du, who already had little stamina, so exhausted that he couldn't even open his eyelids.

Chen Du didn't even have the strength to think and passed out directly from fatigue.

Chen Du opened his eyes and looked at the familiar blue crystal beside him.

Having just entered the Crystal Space, he had Peak stamina.

Now, there were 30 seconds left until the eleventh wave of monsters, the Eight Direction Shaking Ape, appeared.

Chen Du instinctively looked around.

Don't know if it was his imagination, but Chen Du felt that this blue crystal, which was taller than himself, seemed to have "thinned out a bit."

To be precise, it had become a little thinner.

"Is it an illusion?"

After muttering to himself, he shook his head and stopped overthinking; after all, he had serious work to do now.

"The plan is half successful; now it depends on whether the Crystal Space's recovery mechanism or the Promotion's weakness mechanism is stronger!"

Chen Du said seriously.

He had thought the Fifth Secret Treasure's Promotion would be enough to defeat that person whom everyone looked up to, but now it seemed he was still too naive.

Gao Zhongwang's strength exceeded his expectations; it was impossible to win with 100% certainty.

Now, all he could do was defeat the opponent on the second or even third attempt!

Chen Du was gambling; he was gambling that the Crystal Space's mechanism could overcome the weakness of the Promotion. Although it was a gamble, the probability of success should be over 80%.

Chen Du's reasoning was that the Crystal Space's ability was greater than any single ability.

No matter how you looked at it, a single ability should not be able to contend with the entire Crystal Space.

After all, this was a space capable of bestowing Mystic Treasures upon you, while you were merely one ability of a Mystic Treasure.

In order to save time, Chen Du walked straight to the mysterious and eerie Pale Dense Fog.

This Pale Dense Fog could be entered, but one couldn't see anything inside, nor could one perceive the positions of other creatures.

Mental Energy would be shielded upon entering, making one instantly "blind," and dying in the Pale Dense Fog did not count as the definition of dying in battle within the Crystal Space.

It would trigger a penalty of being weak for the entire next day.

At this moment, Chen Du was like someone with a stomach ache, anxiously standing at the bathroom door, waiting for the "penny" inside to open the door.

For the first time, Chen Du felt that 30 seconds was so long.

When the 30 seconds were up, the eleventh wave of monsters, the Eight Direction Shaking Ape, stepped slowly out of the Pale Dense Fog.

Looking at the opponent's fierce eyes, Chen Du's eyes immediately lit up, as if he had seen One Piece.

"Here!"

"Brother, I'm here!"

"If you are my brother, come and cut me!"

Chen Du swung the long sword in his hand forcefully and shouted energetically.

At this moment, his desire to die reached its Peak.