Chapter 197 - 197 194 Three Tails
Chapter 197: Chapter 194: Three Tails Chapter 197: Chapter 194: Three Tails “Senior Brother, please teach me.”
Qin Feng bowed slightly as he spoke to the peculiar youth in front of him.
“No need to be polite, Junior Brother.”
With a strange laugh, Shi Qiansui merged with his Lifebound Spirit Beast, the Stone Turtle, and a thick, azure-colored turtle shell instantly appeared behind him.
His giant head coupled with the massive shell made him look exactly like a Turtle Demon.
However, Qin Feng’s face showed no mockery; instead, his expression grew even more solemn.
The heavy aura emanating from Shi Qiansui gave him significant pressure, as his slim body seemed to contain overwhelming strength, making him wary of underestimating this man.
“Be careful.”
As Shi Qiansui let out a light yell, he pointed his finger directly.
A lime-colored light emerged instantly, shooting straight towards Qin Feng.
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This was the Stone Turtle’s Innate Divine Ability, the Petrification Technique.
Although Qin Feng felt that as long as he defended with all his might, using the defensive power of the Ruyi Golden Snake, he would certainly not be petrified in a short period of time.
After all, the Golden Scales of the Ruyi Golden Snake were much tougher than most metals.
The Petrification Technique might easily petrify ordinary flesh, but petrifying these extremely tough Golden Scales was not an easy feat.
Still, Qin Feng did not wish to experience the sensation of being touched by the Petrification Technique.
Earlier, while he and Liu Wuxiang were waiting for others’ matches to conclude on the stage, he had seen Shi Qiansui nearly petrify half the body of one disciple.
Had that disciple not conceded in time and been released from the petrified state by Shi Qiansui, a prolonged period of petrification, even for a cultivator, could be unbearable and might lead directly to physical death.
Thus, he relied on his speed advantage to directly dodge and simultaneously tested out sending out Ruyi Golden Light to gauge the depth of Shi Qiansui’s defenses.
Shi Qiansui lightly stomped on the ground, and immediately a wall of stone rose in front of him.
With several light thumps, the stone wall could not stop the Ruyi Golden Light, which pierced through, leaving behind several translucent holes, but that was all it could do—Shi Qiansui was merely using this stone wall to assess Qin Feng’s attack power.
His real defensive spell was a barrier formed from a turtle shell phantom, which, when struck by the Ruyi Golden Light, only stirred a few ripples and nothing more.
Qin Feng sighed lightly in his heart; indeed, this guy’s defense was terrifyingly strong, and with his current strength, breaking through this defense was far too difficult.
Of course, if the two were to encounter each other in the wilderness and engage in a life-and-death struggle, it would probably end in a stalemate where neither could do anything to the other.
Because Qin Feng was exceedingly fast; if things went south, he could retreat at any time, while Shi Qiansui’s impressive defense was slow, making him only passively take hits and he couldn’t retain a speedy opponent like Qin Feng.
However, this was a competition stage, and space was inevitably limited.
Moreover, as a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, how could Shi Qiansui lack other spiritual beasts?
After he released a Lightning Falcon and a Spotted Leopard, he then had two exceptionally speedy helpers.
Qin Feng swiftly dodged a lightning strike from the Lightning Falcon, his brow slightly furrowed.
He hadn’t yet reached the Foundation Establishment Realm with a Spiritual Bird, which put him at a disadvantage; however, he soon noticed the lightning attacks from the Lightning Falcon were somewhat weak.
With the capabilities of the Swallowing Sky Toad, it could easily restrain it.
He then released the Ghost-Faced Spider and the Fire Ape.
The spider silk and other spells from the Ghost-Faced Spider couldn’t shake Shi Qiansui’s defenses, so he directed it to deal with the Spotted Leopard, while the Fire Ape, driven by Qin Feng, opened its mouth to howl and charged directly at Shi Qiansui.
Its realm was much higher than Shi Qiansui’s, and although Shi Qiansui continuously cast the Petrification Divine Power to attack the Fire Ape, as long as the outer layer of Flame Armor wasn’t breached, it couldn’t harm the Fire Ape at all.
Seeing this, Shi Qiansui continuously cast spells, persistently blocking the Fire Ape’s movements and harassing it from constantly attacking him.
Then, one could see on the stage walls of stone continuously rising in front of the Fire Ape, sharp stone thorns emerging from the ground, and stone spears materializing out of thin air, relentlessly controlled by Shi Qiansui to attack the Fire Ape.
Facing all this assault, the Fire Ape showed no concern.
Its robust body was also immensely strong.
The walls of stone couldn’t stop its advancing steps, it barged straight through, its thick arms swinging, directly pushing down all the walls, and its mighty feet stomping hard on the ground, breaking the sharp stone thorns with each step.
The protective spells outside its body sparked countless sparks upon colliding with the stone spears, turning into flames, which only highlighted its formidable and strong presence.
Shi Qiansui frowned slightly.
His spell power definitely wasn’t as ordinary as it seemed.
Unexpectedly, it was so ineffective in front of this Fire Ape, which puzzled him.
A regular Foundation Establishment Peak Spirit Beast shouldn’t be this powerful, let alone the fact that this Fire Ape was still recuperating from injuries.
Could it be that this Fire Ape’s realm had surpassed the Foundation Establishment Peak?
Quickly, he shook his head with a laugh.
How could that be?
If the Fire Ape had transcended the Foundation Establishment Realm, that would mean it had reached the level of forming a Demon Core; relying on Qin Feng, a disciple who had just reached the Foundation Establishment a few months ago, how could he tame such a Demon Beast?
Even if he could take advantage of the Fire Ape’s severe injuries to implant the Binding Great Spell deep within it, with Qin Feng’s strength, he shouldn’t be able to command it so freely; after all, when a Spirit Beast’s strength greatly surpasses one’s own, backlash is likely.
Perhaps, this Fire Ape was a mutated variety, which enabled it to exhibit such powerful strength.
Soon, Shi Qiansui steadied his spirit, and since his spells posed little threat to the Fire Ape, he decided to save some energy and focus on defense.
After all, that was his true forte.
Even if the Fire Ape was formidable, it wasn’t possible for it to breach his defense in a short time.
As long as he could hold out for a while, Qin Feng, to avoid the Fire Ape’s old injuries from flaring up again, would have no choice but to recall it, and that would be Shi Qiansui’s chance to counterattack.
His calculation was precise, and under his full defense, indeed, the Fire Ape struggled to break his defense in the short term.
Even when the Fire Ape unleashed its strongest power, its thick arms continuously striking the huge turtle shell phantom surrounding Shi Qiansui only managed to reduce the size of the phantom slightly.
Qin Feng, seeing this, felt somewhat vexed—his opponent’s defensive power was simply exasperating.
In fact, Shi Qiansui’s matches in the arena often ended much later because many times, he simply wore his opponents down with his defense.
Now he was replaying his old tricks, intending to use his usual tactics against Qin Feng, and unless anything unexpected happened, he felt he could still emerge victorious.
But the unexpected did happen.
It wasn’t really unexpected, rather, Qin Feng had merely switched his mode of attack.
He first soared into the sky, wounding the Lightning Falcon, then joined forces with the Swallowing Sky Toad to assist the Ghost-Faced Spider in knocking the Spotted Leopard out of the ring.
With the interference from other Spiritual Beasts gone, Qin Feng could focus all his energy on Shi Qiansui.
He instructed the Fire Ape to distract Shi Qiansui from the front, then ordered the Ghost-Faced Spider to continuously spray webs, wrapping the turtle shell phantom around him.
Once layers of webs had thoroughly covered the turtle shell phantom, Shi Qiansui became somewhat restless.
Though his defense was far from being broken, Qin Feng had stopped attacking him and instead planned to entrap him within layers of webs.
Maintaining such intense defense was certainly draining, and even though this was a talent of the Stone Turtle, allowing it to last longer, the consumption of True Yuan was continuous.
If this went on, he could last for several hours, but ultimately, he would deplete his True Yuan and still lose.
Seeing Qin Feng’s expression, it was clear he planned to wear him down; he even saw Qin Feng take out several Elixir Pills, casually swallowing and refining them, recovering his True Yuan.
Shi Qiansui, seeing this, felt helpless.
In previous battles, it was always he who wore down his opponents.
Now, ironically, he was the one being drained, which felt even more frustrating than his own tactics.
With no other choice, he employed the Petrification Technique on the webs above him, then abandoned his defense and burst out to fight Qin Feng.
But solely with his own strength, he was clearly no match for Qin Feng, who had the support of three Foundation Establishment Spirit Beasts.
And when he tried to reuse his defensive spells, Qin Feng simply retreated, allowing the Ghost-Faced Spider to advance.
For the first time, Shi Qiansui experienced the frustration that his opponents must have felt.
After several attempts, out of sheer helplessness, he leaped off the arena.
Otherwise, if he kept defending, he would deplete his True Yuan, and if he chose to fight face-to-face, he couldn’t even defeat the Fire Ape, let alone Qin Feng and the other two Spiritual Beasts.
Once he stepped down, Qin Feng also secretly sighed in relief.
Once this guy put up his defense, any cultivator of the same level would find it difficult.
The only strategy Qin Feng could think of was this tedious attrition warfare, and that was how he secured victory.
Fortunately, his next opponent wasn’t an invincible defender like Shi Qiansui.
This next one was not only not proficient in defense but was also particularly sharp in breaking defenses, very adept at penetrating them.
Because standing in front of Qin Feng was the disciple from Sky Scorpion Peak, Xie Ding.
Behind Xie Ding, three slender Scorpion Tails stretched out, each moving unpredictably, ready to strike at any moment.
And once those half-foot-long hooks struck his body, the sensation would certainly not be pleasant.
“I’ve been wanting to fight you for a while.”
Xie Ding looked at Qin Feng, chin slightly raised, and said leisurely, “You backed down at the Ten Thousand Treasures Building last time; I hope this time, you won’t disappoint me.”
Qin Feng chuckled lightly, “I certainly won’t disappoint Senior Brother Xie.”
“That’s the best, I’m making my move now, be careful.”
With those words, the three long tails behind Xie Ding suddenly shot forward dozens of feet, arriving right in front of Qin Feng and stabbing towards him.
Seeing those sharply menacing hooks, Qin Feng didn’t dare to test whether his defense could hold up, especially since those things looked pretty intimidating.
Moreover, those poison thorns were not only razor-sharp but also emitted a bluish sheen, clearly indicating they were incredibly toxic.
In the previous arena battles, Xie Ding’s fights often ended the quickest.
Even though his Cultivation Realm was actually slightly lower than Shi Qiansui’s, none of his opponents dared to take him lightly.
After all, while Shi Qiansui focused on defense, Xie Ding specialized in breaking through defenses and laws.