I Can See Your Combat Power
Chapter 1504 - Chapter 1504 Chapter Twelve Regret_2

Chapter 1504: Chapter Twelve: Regret_2 Chapter 1504: Chapter Twelve: Regret_2 “What’s there to regret? Do you really want to witness the rise of a Saint King from among the prestigious families with your own eyes? A Grandmaster at the age of twenty-six is frightening to even contemplate. The way things ended now is for the best. Tang Luo is strong, but he can only show off his ferocity in the Mysterious State. For a scion of a great family, that’s more than enough!”

“No wonder the Langhuan Sword Master was willing to release him from the sword formation. It turns out he had seen through the limit of his potential.”

“Indeed, Senior Brother Chen has a clear insight. Yu Heng, the Saint Child, even saw him as a future opponent. Now, it seems he is nothing to be afraid of.”

“You can’t say that. With a Spiritual Body forged from Void Energy and given Tang Luo’s age, in time he could certainly become a supreme Grandmaster. For a scion from a great family, such an achievement is already astonishing and unprecedented!”

“I still feel it’s a pity. Tang Luo had a chance to reach higher realms but chose this path instead. It’s quite lamentable.”

“Lamentable my ass. Do you really want him to keep today’s enemies in his heart and seek revenge on each of them after becoming a King? That would be satisfying to you?”

“It truly is regrettable. Crafting a Spiritual Body with such violent energy means that Tang Luo’s period of spiritual decline will come much sooner, and his lifespan will be a few centuries shorter than that of an average Grandmaster.”

“That’s right. Under a normal lifespan, Tang Luo might indeed have become the strongest Grandmaster. But with only two hundred years to live, I fear it might be difficult.”

“You all think too far ahead. In my view, he can’t even get past the current challenge. Grandmasters from the four great families of Longzhou are rushing over, and those old monsters from the Evil King Palace of the Duan Family will also emerge. Even with Tang Luo, the Void Grandmaster, it’s going to be tough, tough, tough for the Tang Clan to fight for a path to survival.”

At the pinnacle of Xiehe martial arts were the sects and sacred lands. These disciples, who had grown up in the famed mountains and immortal dwellings, might not yet possess the strength to stir up tempests across the land. Still, raised among the congregations of the strong, their horizons were already as high as the heavens, even if their power was not.

They spoke only of reaching the Human King realm and aimed solely at the summit of Saint King. Even Grandmasters were considered the bare minimum in their eyes.

The establishment of such invincible convictions has its pros and cons. The downside is, it can make the disciples in these sects somewhat arrogant and incompetent. When they truly encounter the limits of their talents, it might break their Dao Hearts.

However, the upside is that no matter how grand the scene before them, the pride borne from the heart allows them to remain composed and unfazed.

Just like how the Void Giant, in its “As You Wish Gate” mode, was now deflecting the two hundred and sixteen strands of Void Energy back at the two Grandmasters from the Evil King Palace, causing them to scramble in disarray and continuously lose ground.

Yet they could still idly chat and casually comment on the situation. Fundamentally, it was because they simply did not take the Evil King Palace and Tang Luo seriously.

As the true disciples of the Zhongzhou sects, they never had to worry about their own safety, not only because of their martial abilities but also due to the powerful backers they had.

To them, the campaign against the Tang Clan was just a game. The Tang Clan of Longxi represented evil, and they stood on the invincible side of righteousness.

It didn’t matter that Tang Luo was only a Grandmaster today. Even if a Human King stood in their way, they wouldn’t be courteous. Yet now, looking at Xiehe’s most brilliant talent being cut off from advancing further, these martial sect disciples felt their enthusiasm wane as they babbled away.

Zhu Huolong squinted his eyes as he watched the Void Giant from afar, overwhelming the two mythical creatures, and mumbled, “The As You Wish Gate’s manipulation of fate and reversal of Spirit Arts, combined with the immense and indefatigable strength of the Void Battle Body–can these two states coexist?”

Unlike the other disciples’ noisy discussions, Zhu Huolong was more interested in this world’s first case of a Void Spiritual Body. But interest was useless; Tang Luo would definitely not share the information about the Spiritual Body with him, and what could he discern from mere observation?

“What a pity.”

It was unclear whether Zhu Huolong was lamenting the end of Tang Luo’s journey or his inability to properly study the Void Spiritual Body. After a low sigh, the true disciple from Wushen Mountain said to those around him, “The battle situation in Longxi is settled. Out of respect for Xiehe’s youngest Grandmaster, I’m planning to return to Zhongzhou to report to the Saint Child.”

Zhu Huolong looked around at the slightly surprised crowd and smiled, “Those who don’t wish to return with me can stay in Longxi a while longer. Xiehe’s first Grandmaster forged by Void Energy–it’s a sight to behold in the battle of Longxi, and you might not get the chance again!”

With these words, Zhu Huolong didn’t wait for a reply and immediately left the battlefield.

The remaining true disciples from Zhongzhou glanced at each other, then followed suit.

Though they were arrogant beyond their abilities, the true disciples of the sects were not stupid. The game was always going to be a sure win, but as it progressed, the prey they were toying with was starting to fight for its life.

If they stayed and suffered scratches and bites, the loss would outweigh the gain. After all, they had already completed the Saint Child’s trial, and departing now would be a fitting conclusion.

As proud as they were, these true disciples would never admit that their hasty departure was because they saw two Grandmasters from the Evil King Palace being beaten into a hasty retreat, while the elite of the Justice Alliance floundered like headless flies, unable to help at all.

Even as they belittled Tang Luo with their words, they knew all too well the terror of a Spirit Qualified battle body constructed from Void Energy.

“Zheng!”

“Roar!”

In the distance, the spirit bodies of Long Zheng, shrouded in darkness and covered in massive wounds, and Xiang Liu, left with only three heads and utterly disheveled, were constantly pushing back against the approaching Void Giant.

Even the fiercely violent Divine Light of the Xuanwu, which had undergone more than three qualitative transformations, couldn’t harm the spirit body crafted from Void Energy.

To say it couldn’t harm wasn’t entirely accurate; if Tang Luo truly chose to withstand it with his spirit body, he would be injured, but he had far too many methods to weaken the enemy’s Spirit Arts.

First and foremost was the Void Spiritual Body, forged from Void Energy, immune to all Spirit Arts before three qualitative transformations–all of them.

Whether it was a specialty in a particular element or the Five Elements, the yin-yang techniques of blade and sword, or the Five Poisons, cursing spirits, Spirit Ghosts, and blood-cursed soul spells, they were all treated equally in the face of Void Energy.

There would never be an issue like other Grandmasters had, with their spirit bodies being vulnerable to a certain type of Spiritual Power.

If the saying “the sea contains all streams and the earth bears all things” was merely a description, then Void Energy represented the true capacity to carry everything.

Ferocious yet obscure, capable of containing and accepting everything, this also meant Tang Luo’s spirit body hardly had any weak points.

But that wasn’t all of the Version 7.0 plan to become stronger; after the Void Energy had transformed and built the Void Spiritual Body, the internal Void Energy would activate the Void Dual Wheels for a second evolutionary enhancement of energy.

The Divine Light-fortified Void Energy increased the overall strength of the Void Spiritual Body by more than fifty percent, making it nearly immune to 160,000 points of spiritual damage.

But the grandeur did not end here.

The Void Spiritual Body had even higher applications, like stacking with the strength of the Undying Battle Body, given his current internal reserve of nearly 200,000 points of Spiritual Power.

Once he activated the fourth-grade Undying Xuanwu body, he would further increase roughly an additional 120,000 points of dual defense for the spirit body. In other words, unless faced with Spirit Arts that broke through three qualitative transformations and reached 300,000 points of spiritual damage, they wouldn’t be able to touch him.

This was the despair that Duan Siping and Duan Zhenyao were currently experiencing–a Void monster that could not be harmed by even the Grandmasters’ ultimate techniques.

As for the elite members of the Justice Alliance circling around, not daring to make a move, they felt even more desperate.

They wanted to help the two Grandmasters but dared not launch Spirit Arts at the Void Giant because the wounds they now suffered came from their own unleashed Spirit Arts.

Compared to Tang Luo’s Void Spiritual Body, the mythical beast spirit bodies of these two from the Evil King Palace were like paper mache.

To think of physically attacking the Void Giant up close was even more impractical; unable to hit or escape, they were left with no choice but the current situation of circling flight.

The Void Giant smashed another of Xiang Liu’s snakeheads with a punch, scattered another attempting a sneak attack with a backhand elbow strike, and then kicked away the charging Long Zheng with a soaring foot.

For outsiders, this one-sided battle was too much to bear witness to; it was especially painful for the two Grandmasters of the Evil King Palace within the fray. They had experienced clashes of spirit bodies before, but never did they encounter one so defensively overwhelming and brutally powerful.

Had the Void Giant’s attacking power not been so limited, they would have already been beaten; but their current situation was not much different from defeat.

Evil repelled and all poisons resisted, Tang Luo’s Void Battle Body seemed to have no faults other than perhaps insufficient attack power.

In contrast, their own spirit bodies, while still able to hold their ground, kept taking damage and regenerating. If they allowed the furious fists, built from the rampaging Void Energy, to keep pounding away, their ruin wouldn’t be far off.