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However, this was not the end. With a flick of his wrist, the master of the Mirage Tower changed the shape of the whip once again in mid-air.

The whip's body contracted and thickened segment by segment, the mist threads intertwining and twisting tightly, like countless thin ropes twisted into an iron chain.

In an instant, the thing transformed from a whip into a chain of gray mist.

At each end of the chain was an iron hook made of solidified gray mist, the tips of which gleamed with an extremely faint dark light.

The Mirage Lord grabbed the middle of the chain with his left hand and gave it a shake. Two iron hooks shot towards Chu Nan from two directions, one above and one below.

The iron hook wasn't particularly fast, but its angle was extremely tricky.

One lunged at Chu Nan's left shoulder, and the other at his right leg.

Chu Nan leaned back to avoid the one above, then kicked the one below away.

However, the iron hook itself was formed from condensed gray mist. After being kicked, it did not lose its strength. Instead, it coiled around his ankle like a live snake.

Chu Nan felt a sudden tightening around his ankle, and the chain pulled him off balance.

The Mirage Lord suddenly pulled, dragging Chu Nan towards him.

An immense force came from the gray mist chains, dragging him along the ground, sparks flying from beneath his feet.

Chu Nan tried to use the cracks in the ground to gain leverage by exerting force with both palms, but the Mirage Lord's pulling force was too great, leaving deep finger marks on the ground.

"Lock!"

The voice of the Mirage Lord was right next to me.

The iron hooks of the chain tightened suddenly when Chu Nan was dragged to within three feet of him, wrapping around his waist and legs from both above and below.

The gray mist coiled around Chu Nan like a giant python, and the lotus-shaped shield creaked under the pressure of the chains, leaving visible indentations in the golden barrier.

"You think your Lotus True Qi can evaporate my gray mist, don't you?"

The Mirage Lord's face was right in front of Chu Nan, his gray-white pupils revealing no emotion. "But the gray mist created by Nine Illusions is different from ordinary illusion mist. It was refined by me with my life essence, and its density is a hundred times that of ordinary illusion mist."

"Your little bit of heat might evaporate a patch of fog, but could it evaporate this chain?"

Chu Nan did not answer; the fog was indeed different from before.

Whether it's the gray mist of the Mirage Lord or the mist threads of Li Guanqi, the Lotus True Qi can evaporate upon contact.

However, the gray mist on this chain seemed to have been compressed to some kind of limit, with an astonishingly high density.

He channeled his inner energy to evaporate it, and the surface of the chain only became whiter, but the structure did not collapse.

It's like pouring boiling water on ice; the ice melts, but very slowly.

"Since it won't steam, let's just destroy it!"

Chu Nan slowly brought his hands together in front of his chest, interlocking his fingers as if forming an ancient hand seal.

The lotus energy within the body began to circulate in a special rhythm, no longer spreading outwards, but contracting inwards.

After contracting to a certain extent, it is released in another way.

Sky-Reaching Hammer!

This move is also one of the thirty-six techniques of the Lotus Flower Style.

The principle is to forcibly draw the opponent's outward true energy into one's embrace, compress it with lotus true energy, and then counterattack it.

No matter how dense this gray mist chain is, it was formed by the true energy of the Mirage Lord through that jade bracelet.

Any external release of true energy can be affected by the Heaven-Supporting Hammer.

The golden true energy was compressed into an extremely bright and tiny point of light in Chu Nan's arms.

The gray mist chains were pulled by a powerful suction force, loosening from between Chu Nan's waist and legs, and like a snake whose tendons and bones had been removed, they slid softly into Chu Nan's arms.

The gray fog hissed under the compression of the light spots, like a trapped beast making its last struggle.

"What?"

The owner of the Mirage Tower's expression changed.

Chu Nan pushed his palms outwards, and the gray chains, compressed to their limit, slammed back towards the Mirage Lord like a cannonball.

The denser the fog, the more terrifying the force of its counterattack after being compressed.

The Mirage Lord was completely unprepared for Chu Nan's use of leverage. He had no time to retract his move and could only hold the jade bracelet horizontally in front of his chest, where it shone brightly.

"boom!"

The cannonball formed from the gray chains slammed into front of the Mirage Lord, but was blocked by the light of the jade bracelet.

The impact still forced the Mirage Lord to retreat four steps, and with his last step, he slammed his foot hard on the ground, shattering a bluestone slab into pieces.

"You bastard!"

The voice of the Mirage Lord was no longer calm; it even carried a hint of anger.

At the same time, the light from the jade bracelet changed.

Two short blades were simultaneously pulled out from the bracelet and held in the hands of the Mirage Lord, one on the left and one on the right.

The short blade is extremely thin, like two pieces of grayish-white ice, with tiny barbs at the tip.

The Mirage Lord spread his arms wide, his entire being resembling a crane suddenly spreading its wings, his twin blades slicing towards Chu Nan.

The speed was so fast that Chu Nan only saw two gray lines streak across the air before the double blades were already in front of him.

He almost instinctively tilted his head back to dodge, and the two short blades grazed his nose and chin, making his hair stand on end.

The double blades didn't retract after slicing through the air; instead, they swirled and slashed again.

The Mirage Lord's hands were like two invisible entities, manipulating two short blades to spin and slash around Chu Nan, with each angle becoming more tricky and the speed faster than the last.

They drew concentric gray arcs in the air, like two jagged moons.

Chu Nan dodged with the Lotus Step for less than five breaths, and then seven or eight shallow cuts appeared on his body.

The wounds weren't deep, but blood was seeping from each one, staining his clothes in spots.

He realized that he couldn't keep passively avoiding the situation.

This old guy changes his fighting style every time he changes form, using different weapon characteristics to suppress him.

He is far superior to Li Guanqi, whom he has faced before. If you want to counterattack, you must disrupt his rhythm!

Seeing Chu Nan suddenly stop, the Mirage Lord knew he was about to retaliate, so he immediately closed his twin blades, and the jade bracelet transformed once more.

This time it's a bowl.

A gray bowl, the size of a water vat, formed from condensed gray mist, fell upside down towards Chu Nan.

The bowl was perfectly round, its surface covered with extremely fine runes, and inside it churned with gray mist, as if it contained half a bowl of boiling water.

It pressed down slowly, but with an intimidating pressure. Chu Nan's shoulders felt as if a small mountain was pressing down on them, and his knees bent slightly.

"This bowl contains millennia-old sea mist, each wisp refined from water vapor from the sea's eye. You might not even be able to catch it, so let's see how you use its force against it!"

The owner of the Mirage Tower sneered.

Chu Nan felt the pressure on his back gradually increasing.

The alms bowl continued to press down, and before anyone knew it, the lotus-shaped cover had been deformed.

Countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the golden barrier, like a glass lotus flower about to shatter.

If you can't get help from others, then there's no need to try!

Chu Nan suddenly raised his foot and took a step forward, crashing into the alms bowl.

Liantai Town!

The next second, his entire figure merged with the stone slab beneath his feet.

Lotus True Qi surged from the soles of his feet, condensing into the phantom of a golden lotus platform beneath his feet.

The alms bowl slammed down, striking the golden barrier that had been unfurled in Lotus Terrace Town.

"Buzz—"

A deep, muffled metallic hum resounded.

The barrier of Lotus Terrace Town trembled violently under the weight of the alms bowl, but it did not shatter.

Chu Nan's legs were planted firmly in the ground like two iron stakes.

The lotus-like true energy surging up from the ground continuously replenished the barrier's depletion, making the golden barrier, though thin, extremely tough, like a bowstring that would never break!