Chen Xin vs Percy (2)
"You are strong…" Chen Xin commented with a smile.
"Thank you. You too. As expected of a title douluo," Percy nodded and a red light was born from his saber as his third spirit ring manifested. The black color increased as did the light of the saber.
"Third spirit ability: Unrivaled Saber!" Percy exclaimed as he brandished Anaklusmos. The red light condensed on the edge of the God-Slaying Saber and was ejected in a huge bloody slash that split the earth.
Chen Xin immediately raised his Seven-Death Sword, but his eyes widened as a headache invaded him. The slash sent towards him seemed to increase in size in his eyes as an external force invaded his spiritual sea at that moment.
Percy seized that moment. Even if it was only a second or two, it was enough to release his fourth spirit ability: Absolute Edge. And although he could use his first spirit ability to slow down Chen Xin, it had a higher chance of failure. The Absolute Edge spirit ability, unlike the first spirit ability, had the ability to ignore the enemy's defense, so it had a higher chance of hitting Chen Xin.
"Fifth spirit ability: Massive Earthquake All Around!"
Seeing the two dangerous spirit abilities so close to him, Chen Xin screamed as his fifth spirit ring shone brightly. Swords manifested above him and fell hard towards the ground. When these swords collided and stabbed into the ground, the earth split and an invisible and powerful force deflected Percy's two attacks.
Percy jumped back as he saw the earth rise and huge pieces fly in all directions.
"A skill that was both defensive and offensive. Nice," Percy smiled a little excitedly. This battle was complicated. While he had the possibility of being harmed, so did Chen Xin. But both sides knew that neither was giving a hundred percent in this fight.
Still, even without giving a hundred percent, both of them realized the terrifying power of the other. On one side was Chen Xin, who could fight with more than one titled douluo below level 96 together and even have a chance of winning. On the other side was Percy, a level 76 spiritual saint who could match a title douluo. Chen Xin knew that if Percy reached level 91, then perhaps only people at level 98 or 99 could match him at that time.
And those people were the closest to gods!
"Magnificent! Truly impressive!" Chen Xin thought with a smile, "But also a pity. If this young man wasn't so lonely or such a cold personality, I'm sure he would even think of joining our clan."
"Are you not planning to use your seventh ring?" Chen Xin asked curiously.
"I have doubts," Percy replied. "Unlike the rest, my seventh ability awakened a dangerous domain. Even you, a level 96 title douluo could be severely harmed. And this match is not one of life or death."
"Domain!" the swordsman was shocked before smiling more excitedly. "Alright, use it. I'll also use my seventh spirit ability."
Chen Xin wanted to see how far the young man in front of him could go. For the first time in a long time, he felt excited about the battle. He was entertained.
Percy looked at Chen Xin for a moment before nodding seriously. His seventh spirit ring appeared. A black ring glowed and Percy's body glowed red. At the same time, Chen Xin also activated his seventh spirit ability.
"Seventh spirit ability: Seven-kill sword avatar spirit!"
"Seventh spirit ability: God-slaying saber avatar spirit!"
The two voices sounded at the same time and the human figures disappeared.
Instead of Chen Xin, what was left behind was a massive Seven Kill Sword, two meters long and half a meter wide. The sword was just inserted into the ground, identical to the Seven Kill Sword in Chen Xin's hand before, only much larger.
And where Percy was before, there was now a two-meter-long and one-meter-wide saber. The God Killing Saber hovered above the destroyed ground, sending out faint shockwaves that cut through everything in its path. Killing intent manifested and everything seemed to change color. The sky turned red like a sea of blood due to the Saber Mastery: Divine Annihilation.
Percy's power increased by 30% and Chen Xin's decreased by 20%. The latter immediately knew what happened and what Percy's mastery did. The feeling of annihilation seemed to caress Chen Xin's soul, causing a chill and a sense of doom.
The two avatars stood facing each other before they moved. At a speed that seemed like time stopped, the sword and saber were already slashing towards each other.
Shii~nng!!
A sound that seemed like a mix of a whistle and a bell rang out as six glows appeared in front of the Seven-Death Sword. The six lines of powerful sword lights in front of that giant sword in total wrote a large character for 'kill' (杀), and each sword light was black. That was another dimension exposed as the sword lights tore open space. The word 'kill' (杀) was truly capable of shattering space.
Wind swirled in front of each slash as if a void was opening up and absorbing every bit of wind in the world.
However, Percy's attack was no worse. In front of the saber, a single slash appeared. But, unlike the six produced by Chen Xin, this single slash from Percy was even larger than the other's six together. In front of him, the character for 'Annihilation' appeared and the entire world around the two turned a dead grey.
'Death' and 'annihilation' clashed. The moment they collided, the world lost all its color and a dazzling light was born from the earth. The trees were cut into tiny pieces and their roots flew away. The sky above them seemed to be split as rain began to fall. But even the raindrops seemed to be cut apart.
To Ning Fengzhi who was watching from afar, the collision seemed as if a disaster had befallen the world. The waves of sword and saber intent had formed two domes that collided again and again before they exploded into a huge sphere of destruction.
The sphere had a white color before changing to grey, then fiery red and finally gained a black color before it exploded into the world. The shockwaves decimated everything around, even the mountain where Ning Fengzhi was standing was crumbling as the powerful wind created by the collision sent rocks flying everywhere.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan Chief had to cover his face as he tried to continue watching. And before he knew it had disappeared, the sound came back with a powerful roar that shook the ground once more.
The birds that had long since escaped had to take flight once more to get away from danger. And when it was all over, Chen Xin and Percy came into view once more.
Chen Xin had a small smile as he looked at a wound on his torso that was bleeding deeply. Percy let out a sigh as he touched one of the wounds on his body. He had two cuts in total: one that traveled from his shoulder to near his left ribs and another diagonally that started at his stomach and ended at the left side of his hip.
"It seems like it's a tie..." Chen Xin said after inhaling a breath of air.
"It seems so..." Percy smiled slightly as he took out six pills from his bracelet. He threw three towards Chen Xin.
"My God-slaying Saber has the attribute of annihilation in its domain. Unless I decide to heal you, your wound will never heal. Take those pills."
"So that was the sensation that numbed my soul! It turns out it was an annihilation attribute!" Chen Xin opened his eyes in surprise. He accepted the pills he had caught with one hand and immediately took them. The wound on his torso was not simple, and not because of the fact that it would not heal if Percy decided to do so, but also because of its size and depth, which almost touched his organs and bones.
And if it weren't for Percy's domain, which diminished his power, he was sure that he had cut some bones of the young man in front of him.
Percy approached a few steps and put his fist and his counter palm together in a greeting, as was tradition in this world.
"I thank you for the battle, you helped me glimpse my current limits."
"Hahaha! Hey, young man, there's no need for such things!" Chen Xin laughed in satisfaction.
"I'll be leaving now, I have to go to my tent. I've already left it unsupervised for too long," Percy said goodbye and stood on his saber before starting to fly.
"Sword Uncle, are you alright?" Ning Fengzhi walked over and looked at Chen Xin's wound in surprise.
"Yes… thanks to the pills you gave me, the wound is slowly closing up."
"How… do you see it?" Ning Fengzhi didn't know how to ask the question. After all, it was also about the pride of a level 96 person. Even if he tied in a fair fight, he would still feel a little upset, but Chen Xin didn't seem upset in the slightest.
"If it was a level 91 titled douluo, then I would have lost to Perseus. If my estimates are accurate, then his domain decreased my power by twenty percent and increased his power by about thirty percent."
"Although… I could tell that it wasn't his one hundred percent. In the end, neither of us used all of our spirit abilities."
"Simply put…" Ning Fengzhi opened his mouth, but Chen Xin finished for him.
"Even if we used all our power, we would still end up in a tie. Someone like Dugu Bo or the old men from the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Sect, would lose without a doubt. And sadly, if he had been a title douluo, he would have lost as well."
"The age of their spirit rings is also unheard of," Ning Fengzhi let out a slightly weak sigh.
Chen Xin narrowed his eyes slightly at this moment, recalling a man.
"Fengzhi, you can try recruiting the young man, even befriend him. But definitely not make him an enemy," Chen Xin began to soar on his sword as he said this.
"A god's heir is no good as an enemy."
"What?!" Ning Fengzhi exclaimed in surprise and almost fell over as he soared with the flight-type spirit tool.
"Only someone like a god's heir could raise the age of their spirit rings. Just like that man…" Chen Xin sighed, recalling the person who killed his father. He knew that his father had died seeking and improving his way of the sword. And at that moment, he met Qian Daoliu. If it were otherwise, then Chen Xin would definitely seek revenge against that man.
There was no shame in his death at the hands of Qian Daoliu.
Because if there was one thing that everyone who knew of Qian Daoliu recognized, it was that the man had respect for the strong.
Ning Fengzhi managed to react before following Chen Xin. While the existence of gods was a knowledge—however scarce—of some sects, especially the more powerful ones, he never thought that Perseus Jackson was the heir of one of them. It seems that, from now on, he would have to be a little more careful when dealing with the famous spiritual tool creator.
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