Atlas of Heaven and Man
#552 - Intercept
After Nie Guanshan and Yang Shen took their stances, they didn't immediately attack.
Having cultivated to their level of the Third Threshold, the gap between them wasn't actually that significant. The harmony of mind and body only proved the level of self-cultivation, but it didn't represent absolute combat power.
The real fight depended on their performance in the heat of battle.
And in this regard, due to the differences in their power, each person was destined to have strengths and weaknesses. However, the cooperation between the two of them was enough to compensate for each other's shortcomings and amplify each other's advantages.
They believed that if the plan was executed smoothly, it would be enough to subdue Chen Bitong.
At this moment, Chen Bitong was also standing still, as if observing and considering countermeasures. However, on the field, Yang Shen had the strongest presence. With the latter's murmuring incantations, it gave people the illusion that the strands of long rope between his fingers were slowly coming to life.
Obviously, he was using the recitation of some kind of scripture to encourage his mental power, so that the power he mastered could fit the rituals of the old state religion, thereby possessing greater power.
Even if he could escape into the rift to avoid the opponent's obstruction, if Chen Chuan on the other side reacted quickly enough when he reappeared, even a slight delay would be enough for Nie Guanshan to catch up again.
The two of them could block him on the periphery.
So, to get rid of Nie Guanshan and attack Yang Shen, the first thing to solve was Chen Chuan. And on the surface, Chen Chuan seemed to be the weakest link.
This wasn't referring to ability, but to cooperation. He seemed to be subtly excluded from the cooperation between the two, and his mental power wasn't as strong as theirs.
Then…
He turned his gaze to Chen Chuan and took a step in his direction.
Yang and Nie were both watching his movements intently. Seeing his actions, there was a sense of 'as expected' in their eyes.
Chen Chuan was the gap they had left. Although this gap looked like a trap, there was a chance of winning by attacking this point, but almost no chance of winning by not attacking. Everyone knew how to choose.
However, the next moment, both of their expressions changed slightly.
When Chen Bitong took the second step, he suddenly turned to Yang Shen.
He didn't intend to attack Chen Chuan, not because he had taught Chen Chuan before, nor because this point might be a bait, but because he felt that Chen Chuan's side was the most difficult to break through.
He chose to trust his intuition.
After Yang Shen noticed, he kept chanting and jumped back without hesitation, retreating further away.
Nie Guanshan's spirit had been locked on Chen Bitong. At this moment, he suddenly shouted, tapped his toes, and his whole body leaped out, pushing his fists forward. Because the speed was too fast, it was almost like instantaneous movement.
Even in the eyes of everyone present, it was a straight trajectory that was almost impossible to distinguish, and a huge sonic boom erupted in the air.
The Immortal Worship Stance wasn't just about worshiping immortals oneself, but also about sending others to see immortals!
Chen Bitong's figure was instantly penetrated by a pair of fists, but this was just an illusion left in place. He had already avoided it one step ahead and entered the rift. Undoubtedly, the next moment he appeared near Yang Shen and launched an attack.
Chen Chuan had been sensing the situation on the field. Perhaps his mental strength wasn't as strong as these people, but thanks to the enhanced spirit of Spiritual Illumination, his sensitivity was not low at all.
At this time, after sensing a trace of mental fluctuation, his eyes flashed, and he suddenly crossed dozens of meters of space and slashed a knife at a certain empty space.
With a clang, Chen Bitong's figure emerged from the void, surrounded by flickering rift light. He blocked the slash with a dagger he carried with him. His arm only shook imperceptibly, and he resolved the force that had penetrated down from the blade.
Chen Chuan could feel that his power wasn't that weak, but the other party seemed to use some kind of combination of mental and physical power to make this move relatively easy.
But at this moment, he didn't need to knock the opponent down with one blow, just delay him a little. It was precisely because of his attack that Chen Bitong couldn't continue his attack, because Nie Guanshan had rushed over again.
He saw Chen Bitong take a deep look at him, and in his feeling, his spirit quickly dissipated. With a bang, Nie Guanshan's powerful force swept across from the front, and the illusion left in place became erratic and flickering.
When he looked up again, Chen Bitong had already returned to his original position, as if he had never moved.
The sound of chanting scriptures was getting faster and louder. Yang Shen had also returned to his previous position.
Chen Chuan glanced at the long rope fluttering around him. He felt that as time went on, the danger here seemed to be gradually increasing.
Although Yang and Nie hadn't told him about the specific matter, he was a person who understood the secret religious rituals. After taking a look, he could roughly guess that this should be some kind of religious ceremony.
Not only that, but since standing here, he felt that there was a very subtle mental power trying to influence him, and there were signs of virtualization on his Second Self.
He initially thought it was the influence of the surrounding environment on him, but through the fight just now, he could be sure that it wasn't. He turned his gaze and glanced at Nie Guanshan, who was holding the Immortal Worship Stance.
After Chen Bitong tested it once, he seemed to think for a while in place, and then he turned and walked to the box placed by the roadside.
Yang and Nie watched coldly, unmoved.
They weren't afraid of Chen Bitong delaying time. As long as the ritual was completed, subduing him would become extremely easy, so the latter should be the one anxious now.
After Chen Bitong opened the box, he reached out and took out two swords. One was a slender rapier that looked rigid and sharp, and the other was a soft sword. After unfolding it, it looked the same as the shape of the one held by Fang Zhixin, but it was longer, almost reaching more than ten meters. It could be said to be a slender sword whip.
And under his manipulation of power, he flicked his wrist lightly, and it revolved around his body.
He generally didn't use weapons, because his own String Void Power was enough to deal with Third Threshold fighters, but in special circumstances, some weapons could be of great use.
He was called a teacher by many people, but he didn't only know one kind of power, nor did he only know one kind of attack method. He could have different ways to deal with different enemies, especially when the opponent's methods were relatively simple.
He returned to the field and looked at Yang Shen, obviously preparing to break through from here again.
As he walked forward, Nie Guanshan seemed to have captured something. His eyes widened, he shouted, and rushed to a certain empty space. Another Chen Bitong appeared out of thin air there, and then he was penetrated by his fist.
But this time, the third Chen Bitong appeared behind him and stabbed his back neck with a sword.
Nie Guanshan wasn't flustered at all. The Immortal Worship Stance had only two moves for offense and defense, but these simple two moves had been tempered thousands of times. No matter which direction the attack came from, he could block it.
He quickly retracted his fist and continued to maintain the original Immortal Worship Stance. The sword stabbed his neck. In an instant, a sharp and extremely penetrating force entered his body, and then turned into subtle, thread-like forces that penetrated into various parts of his body, as if there was no way to stop it.
String Void Power?
Nie Guanshan sneered in his heart. He admitted that this power was very difficult to deal with. If it were someone else, they might lose their ability to resist after one blow. Even he, who was maintaining the Immortal Worship defense, couldn't completely resolve it, but the characteristic of the Immortal Worship Stance was that offense and defense were integrated. As long as he punched out the Immortal Worship Fist again, he could completely squeeze out this force.
And this process was almost impossible to stop, unless there was absolute power to kill him with one blow, but if one had this ability, there was no need to entangle with him.
As he thought so, his fighting instinct had already driven his body to punch forward.
However, this time, the movement was a line slower than before. This was because although he could squeeze out the remaining force, there was indeed a line of hindrance in the process.
At this moment, when Chen Bitong's illusion in place was penetrated, another figure appeared further behind. As expected, a flash of knife light appeared on the side, and Chen Chuan slashed over with a knife.
He raised his short sword to block it, and while easily resolving the force, he flicked the sword whip, which was more than ten meters long, towards Yang Shen in the distance.
This was because Nie Guanshan was a line slower just now, giving him more room to adjust. Even during the block, he could launch an attack, instead of being unable to attack after being intercepted like just now.
But at this time, Nie Guanshan had recovered. His figure flickered, and he had already blocked in front of the sword whip. It seemed that this sword would not be difficult to block either.
However, just as he watched the long sword almost fall on him, the front end suddenly disappeared. It actually appeared out of thin air near Yang Shen and pointed directly at his face!
This sword actually used rift traversal to bypass him and attack Yang Shen, who was in the rear!
Chen Bitong stared at the front. He couldn't bypass Nie Guanshan himself, but his sword could bypass him.
This kind of oral ritual required the cooperation of breath, and it was necessary to make every step appropriate. He didn't need to make this person shut up, as long as he forced him to feel the danger and had to mobilize his power to defend, he could achieve the purpose of disturbing his rhythm.
However, at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared on the side of the sword's momentum, and a bright knife light slashed up, accurately and incomparably slashing on the tip of the sword!
With a clang, the front of the sword body bent like heavy curved waves, and the force on it was also blocked by this knife.
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