Chapter 641 - 440: The Supreme Escape Technique

The moment Fang Qingyuan appeared, a flash of joy crossed Chunyu Hua’s face. He hadn’t expected Fang Qingyuan to be so easily provoked, coming out after just a single taunt.

But before he could even order Qing Ji to flank him, Chunyu Hua’s expression suddenly changed.

In the pool before him, his spiritual sense detected a massive and extremely condensed ripple originating from Fang Qingyuan’s position. The ripple vibrated the water between them into a trail of foam, carving a straight tunnel through the pool that reached his face in an instant.

It was that move again—the same technique he had just used against the Cyan Flood Dragon. It was immensely powerful, specialized in attacking the soul, and difficult to defend against.

But Chunyu Hua wasn’t too flustered. He was confident his own defenses could block such a technique completely.

But could they truly block it completely?

In an instant, a blazing curtain of light flared to life around Chunyu Hua. Unknown, tadpole-sized runes swam across its surface; whatever their meaning, Fang Qingyuan couldn’t begin to decipher them.

A considerably thick barrier of light stood before Chunyu Hua, originating from an exquisite white jade pendant at his waist.

Then, a sound that shook one to their very soul erupted. It passed through the pool water and the cover of the arena’s Array, causing the spectating Cultivators who were below the Golden Core Realm to grimace in pain.

CLANG!

The seemingly unstoppable Godslaying Needle was actually blocked by the curtain of light from the jade pendant. The trajectory of their violent collision was clearly visible in the pool water.

A massive spray of water shattered into mist. Huge ripples from the impact surged toward the Array at the arena’s edge, actually triggering its defensive light screen.

The aftershock alone was so powerful; one could only imagine that if the Godslaying Needle had truly struck Chunyu Hua, he would have been critically injured, if not killed.

But regardless, he had blocked the Godslaying Needle. The price, however, was that the dense Spirit Charm on the surface of the white jade pendant had been significantly diminished.

"Is that all you’ve got..."

Chunyu Hua hadn’t even finished his short sentence when he felt another Godslaying Needle shoot toward him from Fang Qingyuan’s fingertip.

’A technique this powerful... doesn’t he need to recover his energy? This is easily on par with the Nascent Soul Level! How can he cast it instantly, and in succession? Is this really his ultimate move?’

Thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. Just as these questions appeared, Chunyu Hua had no time for anything else. He could only grit his teeth slightly and once again activate the defensive Magical Power within the jade pendant.

CLANG!

After another tremor, the Spirit Charm on the jade pendant grew visibly thinner.

But what Chunyu Hua hadn’t expected was that a third shot would follow, then a fourth, all the way to a tenth!

The third shot cracked the jade pendant. The fourth shattered it. As the fifth arrived, Chunyu Hua roared at the sky:

"Taiyuan Body Protection!"

In the blink of an eye, Chunyu Hua, who had just been in human form, was utterly transformed. His body was now covered in thick, glossy fur that rippled with the water like a waterfall cascading down a cliff.

His frame had become massive, standing over ten feet tall. His skin, the color of a thousand-year-old glacial pool, gleamed with a fine, delicate texture. His eyes were as deep and dark as cold flames in the abyss of a lake, containing two utterly contradictory emotions: icy coldness and brutal violence.

And his face, once handsome, had twisted into the ugly visage of an ape.

The moment this beastly form appeared, all the water in the pool surrounding Chunyu Hua fell under his control.

Endless waves shielded Chunyu Hua’s beastly form. The Godslaying Needle was worn down layer by layer in these waves, and by the time it reached his body, its power was already spent, like an arrow at the end of its flight.

"A Canglan Saint Ape transformation? I didn’t expect Chunyu Hua to follow the path of the bloodline True Spirit. This explains why he was exiled here."

Outside the arena, Lechuan muttered to himself, but Fang Qingyuan couldn’t hear him at that moment.

’A True Spirit transformation? Interesting. But not even that will save you from the Ten Linked Godslaying Stabs!’

Fang Qingyuan’s thoughts raced as he considered Chunyu Hua’s trump card. But he had no extra energy to spare on analyzing the various changes of Chunyu Hua’s transformation. Unleashing the Ten Linked Godslaying Stabs in succession took too much mental effort. Right now, he had only one thought: to land every single one of these Godslaying Stabs on Chunyu Hua.

The sixth and seventh shots, Chunyu Hua barely managed to withstand. But by the eighth, tiny trickles of blood had begun to seep from the fur on his body, dissolving into the vast pool.

The ninth shot!

Chunyu Hua suddenly spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, dyeing the fur on his chest red. Only three breaths of time had passed since Fang Qingyuan had first appeared.

The tenth shot. This one flew straight toward the spot between Chunyu Hua’s eyebrows. If it hit, given Chunyu Hua’s current state, he would most likely be a dead man.

But at that very moment, Qing Ji, who had been at the side, moved to block it.

"Ah, that hurts, that hurts!"

A dozen or so emerald-green scales were blasted away. The final Godslaying Needle left a bloody, bowl-sized wound on Qing Ji’s body. She coiled herself in front of Chunyu Hua and weakly repeated to Fang Qingyuan:

"You can’t kill him. If you kill him, I’ll be locked up. Hundreds of years of lonely silence would be too hard to bear, so you absolutely cannot kill him."

Fang Qingyuan ignored the somewhat dim-witted Cyan Flood Dragon. His gaze remained fixed on Chunyu Hua, who was kneeling on one knee. He could sense the sharp remnants of the Godslaying Needles’ divine will rampaging within Chunyu Hua’s body, wreaking havoc on his physical form.