Chapter 986: Epic Red, One of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods - Touch of Gold Turns to Stone! |
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Lu Ding raised his hand, the 【Way of the Jinche】 brewing within his palm, aimed at the charging beast.
He said, "It wasn't me who dug it up, so what the hell are you yelling at me for?!!!"
It was like those ads Lu Ding saw as a kid urging people not to eat shark fin. Before he saw the ad, he didn't even know what shark fin was. After seeing it, he even wondered, fish bones? People eat that stuff?
Doesn't it stab you?
So Lu Ding always believed, vengeance has its target, debts have their debtor. Whoever did wrong, go find them, don't attack everyone. He hadn't done anything to wrong this monster. On the contrary, this monster was aiding and abetting evil, sheltering the Star-Plucking Tower that was causing chaos in the west.
And now it dared to yell at him.
Die! You son of a bitch!!!!
As his words fell.
He Xiaoyi, who had been beaten back to his beast form, already had little clarity left and low rationality. His current massive size only made dodging even harder for him.
A barrage of dense slashes continuously carved into his beastly body.
Blood splattered and flew, but before it could hit the ground, it transformed into heavy, blood-colored gold crashing down.
The agonized roar of a beast rang out.
"ROAR!!!!!!"
His colossal body was dismembered mid-air.
This monster's skills weren't bad, and its defensive abilities were impressive.
But it ran into the 【Way of the Jinche】, which cuts through anything. Two words - completely useless.
Seeing He Xiaoyi gravely wounded, about to step through death's door, He Xian's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. He could no longer care about anything else, his mind going blank.
"Lu Ding!! I'll f*ck your grandmother!!!!!"
The Sky-Rending Talisman he had been afraid to use was hurled out fiercely.
The imprisoned, terrifying power, the moment its restraints were released, erupted in an instant of extreme violence.
Lu Ding felt the horror within it.
He yanked the 【Stone Dang】 over to shield himself.
With an explosion that shook heaven and earth.
BOOM!!!!!!
The terrifying power shattered everything inside the 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 like a whirlwind.
In an instant.
The entire interior of the 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 was destroyed in one fell swoop.
If not for the mechanism holding it together.
The 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 would probably have blown a massive hole open.
But even so, the 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 had endured an attack near its absolute limit.
It frantically drained Lu Ding's Spiritual Energy to stabilize itself.
This was definitely a full-power attack far exceeding an ordinary God Ascension cultivator.
Comparable, in the world of ordinary people, to a Tsar-class strike.
When the explosion finally cleared.
The only thing left in the 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 was a cracked, incomplete stele.
Even the words 【Unshakable as Mountain - Stone Dang】 had become blurred and indistinct.
Lu Ding slowly stood up from behind the stele.
His battle-worn face was slowly healing wounds that went deep to the bone.
"Facing a full-power attack at the God Ascension level, I'm still lacking."
"Maybe only by reaching Spirit Refinement can I truly face a real God Ascension powerhouse head-on."
Of course, when Lu Ding said God Ascension powerhouse, he wasn't talking about the cheap Feng rank One of God Ascension from the Giant Wave Group.
That stuff was useless, at most counting as a gatekeeper.
At the same time, Lu Ding felt relieved in his heart that he hadn't rashly gone to kill the talisman holder first. Otherwise, exploding at close range without the 【Stone Dang】 to help block it, he didn't know how badly he would have been blown up.
He took one last look at the 【Stone Dang】.
Lu Ding felt some regret. Today's damage meant that the 【Stone Dang】's usage rate would probably drop even further from now on.
If not for the fact that 【Golden Ao Island】 consumed too much, he wouldn't have used the lower-tier substitute 【Stone Dang】.
Thinking about what he had gained in the Third Circle, that it could still accompany him this far in the Second Circle, it was worth it.
He raised his hand and dismissed the Stone Dang.
Lu Ding took a look at his Golden Finger reward.
Just before He Xian detonated the Sky-Rending Talisman, he had already successfully completed the kill on that monster.
So this kill counted as his.
【Contained Monster: 𤜣 Wolf】
Why isn't this character showing? So strange, can it not be recognized?
【Containment Reward: Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】
【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone: One of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods, transforms all things into gold】
IT'S AN EPIC RED!!!!
And a huge one at that!!!!
This was the second of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods that Lu Ding had acquired.
The first was 【Mountain-Shaking Earth-Quaking】, which provided him with a powerful boost to his strength, very pure.
Even now, Lu Ding hadn't yet uncovered its limits.
Of course, that also had to do with his cultivation realm and physical body.
Not enough to unleash the absolute power of 【Mountain-Shaking Earth-Quaking】.
Otherwise, it would be hurting the enemy eight hundred while losing a thousand himself.
But his proficiency, however, was maxed out.
Now, having acquired another method, 【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】, Lu Ding's combat power had skyrocketed again.
Don't underestimate the description of Touch of Gold Turns to Stone, as if it's not very useful.
But in reality, this represented the decomposition and recombination of matter.
The monster Lu Ding had just killed had a similar technique, but its method of turning all things into gold was still too low-level.
The truly terrifying aspect of 【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】 was dissolving the opponent's attacks, changing the arrangement of Spiritual Energy in their attacks, and then choosing to either recombine them or directly decompose them.
This step was very difficult.
But for Lu Ding, who possessed 【Heaven-Man Unity】,
Easy!
【White Snake Shakes Scales】 and 【Heaven-Man Unity】 gave him absolute control over his own Spiritual Energy and physical body.
And on top of that.
The 【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】 spell was a massive boost to the 【Qi of the Ticket Wind】.
The 【Qi of the Ticket Wind】's positioning had always been awkward, making Lu Ding often feel that it didn't match its description. But now, with the supplement of 【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】, Lu Ding suddenly realized in a daze.
The 【Qi of the Ticket Wind】 was likely a framework that raised the upper limit, needing various spells to fill it in order to unleash its maximum power.
Although no fusion had occurred, they could be used together.
Like right now.
Lu Ding flicked his sleeve, and the 【Qi of the Ticket Wind】 surged forth, driving 【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】. In an instant, the ruined 【Black Prison of Death's Body】 was restored to about seventy or eighty percent.
The reason it wasn't fully restored was because those missing parts had been blown out of existence, not just reduced to dust, but simply gone.
【Touch of Gold Turns to Stone】 could only decompose and recombine, it couldn't create something from nothing.
But this was just the beginning.
Lu Ding believed that as the monsters he killed grew stronger, the rewards he got would also get better.
Maybe one day, he really could create something from nothing with a flick of his hand.
That would be a creator-level technique.
He glanced at the Goddess, who had a look of regret on her face. Lu Ding smiled apologetically and said, "Sorry for the trouble."
He formed hand seals, and Lu Ding immediately disappeared from the 【Black Prison of Death's Body】.
Although the moment he saw the name '𤜣 Wolf,' the information about it instantly appeared in his mind, now wasn't the time to slowly recall this Classic of Mountains and Seas monster.
There were still things waiting for him outside.
The master of Star-Plucking Tower hadn't come out yet, and he didn't know what was going on.
Logically, Lu Ding should have used the 【Mourning Cloth Timing Pillar】 and 【Mourning Nail Year Pillar】 to attack 'He Xian,' using the bloodline connection to affect that old man from Star-Plucking Tower.
But the man was holding a massive killing weapon. Rushing in recklessly meant risking death. Who would dare gamble on a point-blank explosion?
You don't need to have eaten pork to know what a pig looks like, right?
In how many movies and shows, there are countless bombs of all kinds - release and it explodes, heart stops and it explodes, the list goes on and on. Not to mention, this was a world with supernatural forces.
Anyway, Lu Ding didn't dare gamble on a point-blank explosion.
He had already mustered a lot of courage to gamble on keeping his distance, with the 【Stone Dang】 helping to share the damage, ensuring he wouldn't die.
If this weren't the new city, the territory of the Great Han, and if this matter hadn't been started because of him, he would have run away long ago. Let others die, not this poor monk.