Chapter 244

“Damn it! Why’d we have to run into this monster!”

“Quit yapping! Run faster if you want to live!”

Within moments, the once-threatening Eastern Wilderness cultivators scattered like rats.

But how can flesh outpace the wind?

The raging large array suddenly swelled with a spiritual flash, swallowing all twenty cultivators again.

Only the wind’s mournful howl remained.

When the gales faded, Yang Lingrui stood alone amidst brown remnants where cultivators once were.

“Sacrificing twenty as test subjects? The Eastern Wilderness spares no expense.”

He muttered, eyes narrowing eastward.

Soon five powerful auras approached.

The earlier group had been disposable pawns – decent cultivation realms but weak fighters, meant to probe defenses.

Yet they’d been wiped out before even nearing camp.

Learning Yang Lingrui was here, the Eastern Wilderness deployed these five.

The three men and two women came from a great family skilled in joint attacks, masters of the Spiritual Manipulation secret method.

Prepared for Tiger-Chasing’s elites, they’d swallowed Wind Stabilizing Pills to weaken wind techniques.

“Huh? Vanished?”

Yang Lingrui sent black wind ripping toward them from afar.

But the gusts shattered against an invisible barrier near the group.

“So that’s your trick,” he realized through the dispersing winds.

Their defense didn’t nullify wind techniques – it canceled them through opposing force.

By the time he’d grasped this, the five stood mere hundred yards away.

“Form up!”

“Yes!”

At their leader’s shout, four struck incantation poses. A massive Spirit Projection began taking shape.

Yang Lingrui summoned his yellow wind projection, but even its corrosive power dissolved uselessly against their barrier.

The Eastern Wilderness fighters grinned.

“His wind tricks really don’t work!”

“Without that accursed wind, his lone projection can’t beat our combined Spiritual Manipulation!”

"Heh, if we can take him down in one swift strike, the top merit will be ours!"

Freed from wind technique disruptions, the two-headed, four-armed Spirit Projection swiftly materialized.

Yang Lingrui sensed formidable pressure radiating from the manifestation. Its oppressive aura reminded him of Shen Yue’s green mountain.

"Remarkable! Just as Lord He taught – countless Daos and endless techniques exist. Today’s battle expands my understanding."

Though his wind techniques had been countered, Yang Lingrui’s expression remained steady. This mirrored Bai Songran’s previous confrontation with Shen Yue, when the mountain-sealing decree had been deployed.

He recalled Bai’s mistaken belief that sealing Shen Yue’s green mountain would level their combat footing. Yet even without his iconic technique, Shen Yue had dominated effortlessly. True prodigies couldn’t be suppressed by mere restrictive decrees or elemental counters. Shen Yue had proven this then – Yang Lingrui would demonstrate it now.

CRACK!

The completed projection lunged forward under the five attackers’ control. Massive palms smashed through Yang Lingrui’s yellow wind manifestation within moments.

"That’s it?! You call this a prodigy’s skill?"

"Wait – the projection reforms!"

Retreating several paces, Yang Lingrui stood before renewed swirling yellow winds.

"Formless wind arts! His Wind Path mastery exceeds expectations. Stay vigilant!"

As the quintet attacked again, the dual-headed spirit’s eyes unleashed searing energy beams.

"Extinguish."

WHOOSH! The Black Wind Giant Python materialized instantly, coiling to absorb the assault. Observing two attack patterns clarified Yang Lingrui’s strategy. While multiple victory paths existed, he opted for direct brutality.

SWISH-

Instead of evading the descending quartet of massive palms, Yang Lingrui raised two fingers. "Black Wind. World’s End."

KABOOM!

Eastern Wilderness fighters staggered as ground tremors answered the declaration. Yang Lingrui’s spiritual pressure skyrocketed while their entangled projection developed arm fractures.

"Impossible! The Wind Stabilizing Pill still works!"

Before reactions came, apocalyptic cyclones engulfed them. The leader shouted through rising panic: "Steady! The pill shields us! This is mere posturing!"

Yet terror gripped him as the black tornado pierced cloud layers, tripling in scale compared to Bai Songran’s past efforts against Shen Yue. Yang Lingrui’s surging spiritual power fueled continuous expansion.

"Just an elixir?" Yang Lingrui chuckled at their cries. "Let’s test this pill’s capacity against my winds."

With focused will, the sky-piercing vortex inverted violently.

BOOOOM!

The cataclysm consumed the five. Their pill-forged barriers crackled under relentless black wind assaults, detonation sparks heralding imminent collapse.

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