Chapter 460
Chapter 460: Battles Of Masters (3)
Translator: TYZ Editor: TYZ, KLKL
The meditation room lit up and darkened at random .
A dark-green sword was engulfed by countless streaks of lightning that resembled numerous long and slim, silvery water plants . Suddenly, a lightning arc that was as thick as a thumb extended from the sword towards the depths of the darkness, illuminating more than half of the room .
His face was clearly defined when the flickering light shone on it . His firm and sharp nose and his brow ridge were flickering with silvery lines . In the darkness, his lips merely appeared as a faintly discernible, cold line, resembling the distant horizon of the wilderness in the night .
Within his eyes, there was a dark, deep lake that contained the reflection of a starry sky .
The reflection of the starry sky was staring at the sword in front of it .
Placed perfectly upright, the blade of the sword happened to split his field of vision exactly in half, resembling an abyss-surrounded, narrow pathway that led to the depths of an unfathomable darkness .
The streaks of lightning on the sword had filled this path with thistles, thorns and swords .
As he stared at the lightning streaks, the sword and the darkness, his breathing remained slow and steady without a single sign of trembling .
I should not be distracted when trekking along a precipitous path . I have to endure the agony of walking through a path that is filled with thistles and thorns . I should not leave empty-handed when walking through a path that is lined with swords . In the darkness, as long as I can slay my enemy, there’s no need for me to care whether or not there is light .
Yes, this is the way .
Lightning erupted from the sword and his palms felt an intense pain, as if numerous needles had sprouted out from the hilt of his sword . Even so, he tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword . Ai Hui’s face remained indifferent as usual . His goal wasn’t based on a sudden impulse .
He’d set this goal a long time ago and it had never changed .
The path to power always came with agony .
The elemental energy in Ai Hui’s body was undergoing drastic changes . They were remodelling .
In the Cultivation Era, lightning was the most dominant power . It was also one of the powers that had an extensive range of applications . Almost every sect had its own lightning-related techniques . However, when it came to the Elemental Era, where spiritual force disintegrated and elemental energy prospered, lightning became a forgotten power . People only knew of it as the wrath of nature, and that it lived in the depths of the sky and clouds .
Before Ai Hui, there were countless elementalists that had tried to harness the power of lightning but ultimately failed to do so . Ai Hui was mainly inspired by the artifact remnants in Dragonspine Inferno and [Dust Fall] .
The artifact remnants within Dragonspine Inferno contained an ancient seal . It was a lightning seal that was left behind from the Cultivation Era . At that time, Ai Hui used the blood crystal to activate the lightning seal .
It wasn’t until the Battle of Long Street that he used [Dust Fall] .
If one compared the lightning seal to a one-thousand-year-old rusty lock, then [Dust Fall] would be the key to that lock .
[Dust Fall] was one of the three moves in the sword pill .
When Wang Shouchuan gave the sword pill to Ai Hui back in the day, he definitely never thought that the tiny sword pill would have such a deep impact on Ai Hui’s life .
[Crescent Moon] gave rise to [Six Moons], which became one of Ai Hui’s most used moves . [Dust Fall] became one of the driving forces that gave rise to Ai Hui’s Path of Master . [Night Epiphyllum] was used to end his master’s life, leaving a deep and painful scar in his heart . Ai Hui had told himself never to use [Night Epiphyllum] in his life again .
Were these events his fate?
One by one, the elemental energy sword pills in his body shattered . More and more lightning streaks were produced . Their thickness increased continuously as well .
Ai Hui’s lightning-tempered flesh began to spasm and tremble at this moment . The lightning streaks were far too powerful, even the flesh at the innermost part of his body was affected .
The lightning streaks became increasingly stronger while his flesh trembled more and more violently . Not only was Ai Hui’s body being tempered by the lightning, it was acclimatizing to the lightning as well . His body had to acclimatize to the lightning, otherwise, it would disintegrate .
Luckily, he was metal-attributed .
This was the only thing that Ai Hui was glad about .
Ai Hui controlled his breathing and maintained its stability . He imagined himself as a sword, a metal sword that was being forged in a lightning-filled smelting furnace .
More and more elemental energy sword pills were shattered . Like a surging, silvery river of lightning lava, the lightning streaks flowed through his body with the Circulatory Revolution Cycle . They flowed very slowly and everywhere they passed through was destroyed thoroughly .
Ai Hui was the first person to experience the destructive aura of the lightning streaks before his enemies could . His body was shivering involuntarily . He wanted to bellow in rage and howl in agony but he couldn’t make any sound .
He had anticipated the agony and decided to endure it . However, when the moment finally came, he still wailed, moaned and shivered in pain . These were unavoidable .
He had neither a strong faith nor a grand ambition . At this point of time, he only had an instinct, the instinct to survive .
His mind was blank and his body was out of control . He had not choice but to be brave and endure whatever was coming his way .
Frantic elemental energy gushed towards Ai Hui . The glow from the surrounding walls began to flicker frantically . Long shadows were being pulled out from them and absorbed by Ai Hui’s body . This phenomenon was caused by the gradual disintegration of the seal on the walls due to a strong suction force .
The earth elemental energy beneath Ai Hui’s feet was frantically gushing towards Ai Hui . A brown-colored earth elemental ring appeared beneath Ai Hui’s feet . The inside of the earth elemental ring gradually became silver-colored . Earth engendered metal . The newly converted metal elemental energy quickly rushed into Ai Hui’s body, but it was still not enough .
At this point of time, Ai Hui’s body was like an insatiable and avaricious beast . The elemental energy that it had just devoured was insignificant and insufficient .
Very soon, the perimeter of the earth elemental ring began to expand continuously and became scarlet in color . The temperature of the meditation room started to increase as well . The scarlet ring kept on expanding and became a fire elemental ring . Fire engendered earth .
Now, the metal elemental energy in his body had surpassed the limit of his previous elemental energy capacity . The lightning streaks flowing in the elemental energy within his body became increasingly concentrated .
The first one to sense Ai Hui’s abnormality was Venerable Volcano .
He realized a portion of the earth fire had been involuntarily channeled to a particular place . To his surprise, that place was the underground meditation room . Initially, he was shocked . However, very soon, his shock became ecstasy . He did not expect Ai Hui to attain a breakthrough at this critical moment .
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