Decaying World

Chapter 242 Chapter 242 Sea 2

"Huh, it can actually block this? What is this thing?" Tu Yue's eyes lit up, and her sleepiness and impatience disappeared instantly.

She straightened up and stared intently at the transparent airflow surrounding Lin Hui.

"This is a special secret technique that I developed on my own, the Circling Wind," Lin Hui said calmly.

hiss.

He drew his longsword.

The Mist People, the strongest group that had been echoing in his ears since he was born in this world.

They stand at the highest peak, looking down upon all things, overlooking everything. All people are their playthings, their servants.

And now, he is about to challenge the world's top group.

The strongest individual.

The strongest mistman
With his eyes closed, Lin Hui sensed Tu Yue's presence not far away.

It was a terrifying orb of light, as dazzling and blinding as the sun.

Just by getting a little closer, one can feel an immense pressure and a tingling, numb sensation throughout the body.

"Lin Hui, the leader of the Qingfeng Dao, please enlighten me."

"If you can truly injure me, then you'll be worthy of my remembrance." Tu Yue smiled.

"Then let's give it a try."

Lin Hui raised the Ruyi Scepter without holding back, and the three seals transformed into golden light, appearing behind him, activating the secret technique of Ascension.

laugh!
The next instant, he appeared to leap hundreds of meters through thin air, passing right through Tu Yue.

But the empty feeling made him pause, and he immediately moved hundreds of meters to the side.

boom!!

A massive wave grazed past him and crashed heavily into the seawater.

A huge hole appeared in the seawater, hundreds of meters deep.

The cavity, hundreds of meters wide, was embedded in the sea surface, as if an invisible force was resisting the pressure of the surrounding seawater, forcibly maintaining this huge black cavity.

Lin Hui controlled the wind, floating above the cavity, and looked up at Tu Yue, who was slowly emerging in front of him.

"Is this the speed of the Fog People!?" For the first time, he had encountered someone who could directly compete with him in terms of speed.

"Is this the speed you're so proud of?" Tu Yue smiled. "It's fast. But it's still within the realm of mortals. If you intend to fight me with this, you're doomed."

She paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Of course, I wouldn't have the heart to kill you. Such a rare sample isn't something you can find easily."

Lin Hui can now travel a kilometer in an instant.

However, in the eyes of the other party, this still seems insufficient.

Lin Hui had long anticipated that the Fog People would be difficult to defeat, but he never expected that reality would be even more dangerous than he had anticipated.

He took a deep breath and held up the Ruyi scepter.

"Again!"

Swish!
The next moment he disappeared from the spot again.

Everything around him blurred and lost its form, except for Tu Yue, which rapidly magnified in his eyes.

One strike!
The Ruyi sword flashed across Tu Yue's neck like lightning, but it only struck a fleeting afterimage.

The next instant, Tu Yue appeared behind Lin Hui and struck out with a palm.

boom!!

The palm struck Lin Hui hard on the back.

The immense, terrifying force, before it even touched Lin Hui's skin, first came into contact with the surrounding wind effect.

The transparent, swirling airflow persisted for a moment before dissipating on the spot.

Before Lin Hui's flesh and skin were even hit, they were already slightly twisted and deformed.

But at that moment...

A strange fluctuation flashed across Lin Hui's body.

Swish!
Tu Yue's palm strike actually passed right through Lin Hui's body.

It hit the afterimage illusion as well!

'this!??'

Gongsun Xinlian, who was in the distance, clenched her fist and her expression froze.

Not only on the Moon Tower in the distance, but the two Black Cloud City Lords also fell silent.

Even they were shocked by this, let alone Tu Yue herself.

She missed her target with her palm and was stunned, hovering in mid-air. She looked at her right palm, seemingly not realizing what had just happened.

"Just now...!!!" She turned around and looked at Lin Hui. "What was that just now!?"

"I don't know." Lin Hui paused for a moment.

He turned around and looked directly at Tu Yue.

"I just moved instinctively."

He wasn't lying; he genuinely sensed danger, instinctively shifted his body, and then everything just happened naturally.

A slight glimmer.

He had previously thought this special effect was just for crushing noobs, but its true purpose seemed to be something that wasn't passively activated at all.

Instead, use it proactively!

He had just used it on his own initiative and in an instant completely avoided Tu Yue's terrifying attack.

Although it only took a moment, the instant the flash took effect made him feel as if he had entered a wondrous realm, completely detached from reality and matter.

"Are you humiliating me?!" Tu Yue's expression changed.

"I'm just stating the facts." Lin Hui was still feeling the strange situation he had just experienced.

"Very well. Do you think you have a chance to truly defeat me with that move you just made?" Tu Yue was clearly a little agitated.

"Who do you think you are? You think you can stand on equal footing with us with just a mere secret technique?! What are you anyway?!"

“You’re right, I’m not a thing, I’m a person.” Lin Hui gripped the Ruyi tightly, staring intently at the other person.

"You dare talk back! You're asking for it!?" Tu Yue was furious.

She suddenly raised her right hand. "I've changed my mind! You'd better cut off your mouth first, so as not to affect my mood."

hiss.

A massive, transparent, distorted ethereal force appeared around her palm, condensed, contracted, and finally transformed into a thin, slightly blue glove.

"die!"

In the blink of an eye, Tu Yue disappeared from her spot.

'Can't keep up!?' Lin Hui also moved at lightning speed, but as soon as he moved, he realized that he couldn't keep up with the other person's movements!?
He's a practitioner of speed-based martial arts, yet even he can't keep up with his opponent's movement speed!?
Before he could think further...

A light blue gloved hand slapped his left shoulder with lightning speed.

Swish!
A slight flash activates.

The palm passed right through him, but the next moment it changed direction and struck his chest again.

Swish swish swish swish!!
On the sea, Lin Hui and Tu Yue clashed at lightning speed. His figure flickered and blurred as he dodged the opponent's supersonic attacks.

However, due to the huge speed difference, his own attack was simply unable to catch up with Tu Yue's clothes.

A series of powerful palm strikes continuously stirred the air and crashed into the seawater.

It continuously churns the seawater below, creating bottomless, pitch-black cavities.

These cavities never disappear, resembling giant, transparent spikes embedded in the sea.

The seawater surged, gradually forming larger waves that spread in all directions.

"What kind of secret technique is this?!"

Gongsun Xinlian heard her elder brother Xie Chang'an's question.

"Although Tu Yue is considered relatively weak, even her most basic Mist Man Palm technique can shatter a small town with a single strike. Is she holding back?"

"No!" Gongsun Xinlian was also watching intently. "Tu Yue didn't hold back. From the start of the battle, she had already used mental invasion to try to forcibly modify Lin Hui's thoughts, but she failed and was repelled by some unknown force."

Then she attacked with superhuman speed, and while she was indeed much faster than her opponent, she was blocked by that inexplicable blinking technique. In that blurred state, it seemed that no attack could touch Lin Hui!

As she explained, she became increasingly shocked.

"Although Tu Yue hasn't really used her full strength yet, it's already quite remarkable that we've fought to this extent!"

“Indeed!” Xie Chang’an, the eldest brother, agreed. “Since we can’t hit them point-to-point, Tu Yue will definitely have to use an area-of-effect attack next. Be careful not to let the tsunami affect the port.”

"Understood." Gongsun Xinlian nodded slightly.

On the other side, the Qingfeng Dao members couldn't see the battle at all, but they could sense that Dao Master Lin Hui's aura was still there and hadn't weakened. At this moment, everyone waited with trepidation.

The only impact of the battle between the two was that the people and ships in the coastal port felt the waves were becoming larger.

"I don't believe you have no limits!" Tu Yue attacked frantically, her speed increasing rapidly; she could even accelerate!

This is simply amazing!!

Lin Hui cursed inwardly. He could barely see his opponent's figure anymore, which meant that the speed difference between him and his opponent was almost to the point of being unmanageable.

And the slight flicker, just as the other party said, was indeed reaching its limit.

When activated, this special effect grants absolute invincibility by avoiding all external attacks, but there is a gap of less than one second in between.

This interval cannot be entered again; you can only endure it on your own!
Furthermore, actively using the micro-flash also greatly depletes his mental energy.

In just a short while, he actually felt a little tired.

Even if he used his full swordsmanship, he wouldn't have expended so much energy.

Therefore, at this moment, Lin Hui knew that he could not delay any longer.

Taking advantage of the slight flash, he dodged Tu Yue's palm strike once again.

He dodged back several hundred meters, holding his longsword horizontally.

"wind!"

A sudden gust of wind swept through, encircling the area for dozens of meters.

This is the Gale Sword Technique, used for short-range acceleration.

He had barely started his sword technique when a pale blue palm struck Lin Hui squarely in the chest.

boom!!

He was finally unable to dodge and was struck in the chest by the palm.

The surrounding wind blocked the speed for a moment, then dissipated, reducing some of the speed.

Bang! ! !
Lin Hui held his Ruyi sword horizontally, desperately blocking the palm strike.

Hissing ripples of air spread fiercely from behind him.

The wind was helping him to absorb the force.

But it didn't work!
The immense and terrifying force far exceeded Lin Hui's ability to withstand it.

He was like a baby being hit head-on by a giant truck; he froze for a moment before being sent flying backward with a thud.

His flying body created sonic booms in mid-air, piercing through the fog and flying thousands of meters before crashing into the sea.

boom!
Huge waves splashed up on the sea surface, with spray reaching hundreds of meters high. The spray exploded in mid-air, turning into raindrops that lingered for a long time, instead intensifying the fog around them.

"That's more like it." Tu Yue stopped, her smile returning to normal. It was as if her earlier rage had been nothing but an illusion.

"I thought they were really going to force me to use my true form. But I didn't expect this, huh?"

Suddenly her expression froze, and she looked up at the sky.

"What's this!?"

Not only her, but also Gongsun Xinlian and the other two city lords of Black Cloud City raised their heads and looked up at the sky at the same time.

bang
A sudden clap of thunder pierced the fog, and the pale blue lightning illuminated everything on the sea.

It also illuminated the vast scene that appeared in the sky at that moment.

—That was a giant whirlpool that covered the entire surface of the sea!

The vortex didn't seem to appear suddenly, but rather it had been gathering momentum for quite some time before finally taking shape.

At this moment, dark clouds gathered and lightning flashed. From the center of the enormous vortex, a thin, gray-black tail was rapidly growing downwards.

Directly below the tail, countless seawater mists were also spinning at high speed, connecting upwards to form another similar slender tail.

The two tails met each other under the astonished gazes of the crowd.

Click.

As the lightning flashed, it also illuminated the point of intersection, revealing a well-proportioned figure wielding a sword.

(End of this chapter)