Chapter 1219: Calculated
There was a stark difference between the power between Li Chengfeng and Lin Dongxiao. Both of them were clearly much stronger than before, but it was Lin Dongxiao that had the advantage. Ultimately, the entire area around the two would be destroyed completely if the two were to clash.
A victorious gleam entered Lin Dongxiao. He could already envision seeing the flesh and blood of his enemy scattering through the skies....
His own attack drew ever more closely to Li Chengfeng. But right as it was about to make contact…Lin Dongxiao’s eyes flew open with horror!
“Kra-kow!!”
Like a clap of thunder, the violet bolt of light suddenly shot perpendicular from his attack to curve right around it!
The abruptness of this evasive maneuver was so rapid that not even Lin Dongxiao, who was a Mid-stage Soul Emperor now, was able to predict it!
Fear wouldn’t be an emotion that Lin Dongxiao would have if he saw his opponent only ‘dodge’ his killing move. The reason behind his fear was because of where Li Chengfeng was flying toward!
His expectations were that Li Chengfeng would continue flying upward to where his human body was. But instead of that, Li Chengfeng was flying down toward the rotting dragon!
“No!!!”
Seeing him do so filled Lin Dongxiao with an unprecedented amount of fear. A shrill cry erupted from him as he waved his hands. The demonic figure behind him descended quickly as if to protect the dragon beneath it.
But it was….far too late!
“Boom!!”
The last vowel of Lin Dongxiao’s cry was still being said when a loud explosion erupted in front of the dragon and drowned his voice out.
It happened near the ‘throat’ of the dragon. Just about a good ten meters below its head, a violet light exploded and transformed into a maelstrom of the Law of Lightning. At the center of this maelstrom was Li Chengfeng with a crackling longsword embedded halfway through into the dragon.
“Hmph!!”
His body crackled with energy as he raised his left hand up high. Grunting aloud, he slammed his left palm onto the hilt of the sword!
“Tzzzkk!!”
Powered by the added force, the longsword submerged itself even deeper into the dragon’s body!
“Crackle crackle…”
Violet bolts of lightning began to travel through the dragon’s body with the sword as its origin. In a matter of moments, the entirety of the dragon’s body was completely overwhelmed with its energy and began to tear open in multiple places with devastating lacerations!
Li Chengfeng smiled in satisfaction at his handiwork. Abandoning the soul armament within the dragon, he took off into the sky.
“Whoosh!”
The arms of Lin Dongxiao’s demonic figure swept through the spot where Li Chengfeng was standing on not even a second later.
It paused there upon reaching its destination. Seemingly looking as though it was about to give chase, the figure froze up and began to fade away!
“Ahhh!!! Ahhhhh!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!”
Moments later, a tragic wail began to erupt from Lin Dongxiao.
“Phew…”
Now far away in a safe part of the skies, Li Chengfeng let out a sigh of relief. Wiping his brow, he stared calmly at Lin Dongxiao. He wouldn’t be attacking anymore, it seemed.
“Crackle…”
The elemental lightning within the dragon was reaching a point of coverage so massive that there was hardly any part of the dragon left untouched. The ripping of its flesh was louder than ever and was practically ready to be torn apart!
And it’d be any second now, too!
“No! No no no!! This…this can’t be happening!! How…how did you know?! How did you know my ‘life gate’ was there?! It’s impossible!!”
The larger the cracks became, the louder Lin Dongxiao screamed. His voice was as crazy as before, but this time it was due to his horror and panic instead of bloodlust and anger.
The point Li Chengfeng struck wasn’t an ordinary part of the dragon’s body, but the very weak point of it. There was a part of the dragon’s body that became especially sensitive due to it fusing with Lin Dongxiao. It contained the ‘life gate’ of both of them and was essential to their continued existence!
As long as the ‘life gate’ was there, Lin Dongxiao could continue fighting even if it meant having the four limbs and tail of the dragon being torn apart. But without the life gate, Lin Dongxiao was doomed to having death spelled out for him…
The body of the dragon began to fall apart as Lin Dongxiao screamed. Chunks of flesh dropped from the main body before quickly disintegrating into ash to be scattered throughout the world.
Even Lin Dongxiao’s aura was starting to disappear. Draining from him like water down a drain, his aura had already dropped down from the level of a Mid-stage Soul Emperor. And as if scrambling to stop it, Lin Dongxiao’s arms flailed like a lunatic around him.
It wasn’t until the entirety of the dragon was gone that Lin Dongxiao’s human body began to disintegrate as well.
Lin Dongxiao stopped screaming, strangely enough. Some form of sanity came rushing back to him in his final moments before death, it seemed. His eyes swiveled upward to the person floating up there in the sky with focused clarity.
“How…did you know about my weakpoint…?”
He muttered softly, but Li Chengfeng heard it, for he replied, “Guess it won’t hurt to tell you—I calculated it.”
“Cal…culated it?”
The confusion deepened in Lin Dongxiao’s eyes. He didn’t understand what Li Chengfeng’s message meant at all and thought that Li Chengfeng was instead mocking him.
“Haha…I turned myself into this for revenge, and yet…I didn’t even manage to kill a single crafter…”
And just like that, Lin Dongxiao turned into dust and disappeared from the world.
“……”
Li Chengfeng breathed out a heavy sigh once Lin Dongxiao was gone before patting the left part of his chest.
What he said might be confusing to Lin Dongxiao, but it was the truth. Li Chengfeng had indeed ‘calculated’ it.
And not just once either. He made many attempts to do so.
His many ‘attempts’ to attack Lin Dongxiao wasn’t to infuriate Lin Dongxiao. They had another purpose. Most of his attacks were misses, if anything.
But it was all ‘predicted’ beforehand.
Every time he attacked Lin Dongxiao, he did it with the intent to actually deal some harm rather than to make a bluff. But he’d always stop after a moment for a simple reason—to see if his lifebound armament, the Heart Compass, would activate.
He’d ‘listen’ to the ‘fate’ of each attack he made with the Heart Compass. Each time he felt a ‘bad’ omen, he’d stop, since that meant it’d be a poor decision to continue attacking.
There were times when his Heart Compass didn’t activate its effect, but that didn’t deter Li Chengfeng much. Thanks to the +10 additional effect of the Heart Compass, Li Chengfeng could at least gleam some information of the potential futures.
By targeting a different body part on Lin Dongxiao repeatedly, Li Chengfeng could create a mapping of the best and worst places to attack. He’d abandon his attack each time the Heart Compass gave him a bad reading and would move onto the next spot. This process of elimination eventually allowed Li Chengfeng to learn of Lin Dongxiao’s weakpoint.
Simulating an attack onto the life gate on the dragon had been the turning point. With the Heaven Compass giving him a good reading, Li Chengfeng was able to ascertain the best place to attack.
And so Li Chengfeng was able to land a stunning blow on that exact spot to kill the enemy!!
……
Lin Dongxiao’s death brought ripples across the battlefield. Many combatants found themselves pausing mid-flight just so they could stare at Li Chengfeng in awe.
The battle between Li Chengfeng and Lin Dongxiao hadn’t even taken ten minutes! Ouyang Hua spent far longer than that fighting Lin Dongxiao and was unable to get anywhere. So how was it that this young and unknown Early-stage Soul Emperor able to kill him!?
As they tried to find an answer, Li Chengfeng kicked off against his footing to fly off to another side of the battlefield.
The side of the battlefield where Yang Yao, Hu Yang, and Huo Zhenting were fighting!