#495Chapter 495 Template Superposition Evil Eye MasterAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 495: Template Overlay — Evil Eye Master
Hong Meiling is a thorough and thorough physical combatant.
Her derived moves incorporate Tai Chi Chuan and Bajiquan, making them incredibly fierce. With every gesture, she can easily tear up the ground. Close-quarters combat, mid-range potential, and long-range sniping are all within her capabilities, and her body's toughness is far beyond what a human can compare to.
Especially after her previous match against Chun-Li from the Women's Fighter Team, she has initially adapted to the pressure of the audience's gaze and the serious response she gave due to misjudging Cheng Tian's strength. This has allowed Hong Meiling to display a performance almost a full level stronger, forcing Cheng Tian to retreat again and again.
Hong Meiling's expansive punches and kicks are imbued with solid fighting spirit, as if her body is enveloped in a layer of gaseous armor.
Although this kind of action leads to greater energy consumption, Hong Meiling judges it to be a necessary evil.
After all, she doesn't have the ability to stop time, which means that if Cheng Tian stops time, she will inevitably be unilaterally beaten. The only counter-strategy Hong Meiling can employ is to rely on powerful physical defense to endure. As long as she can withstand attacks without suffering fatal damage, she will have an opportunity to counterattack.
Cheng Tian quickly perceived her intentions from Hong Meiling's strategy.
It must be said, this strategy is simple and unadorned, yet truly effective.
Strictly speaking, the Maid Chief's defeat was based on her concession after losing in a time-stop confrontation. If she had truly wanted to continue fighting, the outcome between them would still be unknown.
And to counter the time stop, Cheng Tian also expended a large amount of resources.
One Command Seal, 350 Innocent Souls, and after releasing The World and becoming the dominant force in time stop, three-quarters of his second blue bar was also consumed. He has only now regenerated his magic to approximately 400 MP.
Although he still has two Command Seals available, Cheng Tian feels it's better to keep some in reserve.
Compared to Izayoi Sakuya's high-frequency, low-damage, multi-hit attacks, Hong Meiling's approach is almost the complete opposite.
Low frequency, high damage, single hits. It's impossible to leech back magic with a Guardian Barrier; if Cheng Tian dared to do that, he probably wouldn't get any magic regeneration and his blue bar would be emptied instead.
Her moves are also quite effective against Cheng Tian.
The barrage of throwing knives, which could originally provide some distraction, was directly churned into nothing by her 'Water Form Tai Chi Chuan' and then reflected back towards Cheng Tian.
At mid-to-long range, she also has 'Fragrant Wave,' which looks even more like a Kamehameha than anyone else's.
These are even just minor moves, not ultimate skills that use spell card slots.
If Izayoi could be countered with similar abilities, Hong Meiling could only be countered with pure strength.
Hong Meiling's Strength and Agility stats have surely reached their maximum. Cheng Tian could roughly deduce this from the feedback of their fistfights while manipulating The World. Her previous fight with Chun-Li seemed a bit awkward, apparently due to a lack of tournament experience.
This force and speed even gave Cheng Tian a very familiar sensation.
Yes, it felt very similar to fighting Bazett in training battles, but in terms of moves, Hong Meiling's are far more exquisite.
Because the opponent's strength was too great, even when clashing with her using his Stand, the impact force began to damage Cheng Tian's main body. Cheng Tian then knew that she was also a stat monster.
So, after being entangled, or rather, being suppressed for over half a minute, Cheng Tian decisively made a decision.
Cheng Tian's gaze sharpened, and an invisible ripple spread out from his glabella, directly enveloping Hong Meiling.
In her combat state, Hong Meiling's perception was incredibly keen. Faced with this ripple, which no one had ever successfully perceived before, she instinctively began to rotate her hands in front of her, once again employing Water Form Tai Chi Chuan, precisely facing the source of the ripple.
However, these rainbow-colored water ripples could not block the ray, which was not essentially effective against her.
You cast Hundred Demons' Night Parade on "Hong Meiling."
Judgment failed.
You suffered a backlash from the effects of Hundred Demons' Night Parade. You will be forcibly transformed into a "Youkai" or "Demon" that fits the current situation.
As an existence originating from Gensokyo, and essentially a Youkai, Hong Meiling's sensitivity to Youkai energy goes without saying.
Cheng Tian's Hundred Demons' Night Parade ripple circled around Hong Meiling once, then returned to Cheng Tian himself. And at that very moment, Hong Meiling suddenly felt a powerful surge of Youkai energy erupt from Cheng Tian, who was supposed to be human!
Accompanying the Youkai energy was a large mass of soaring black flames that enveloped Cheng Tian's entire body, as well as a dragon's roar that made one wonder if it was an auditory hallucination!
As the black flames dissipated, Cheng Tian's figure reappeared, but in the eyes of Hong Meiling and other perceptually keen individuals, the current Cheng Tian was utterly different from the Cheng Tian of moments ago!
If this were their first time seeing Cheng Tian, they would definitely think he was a pure-blooded Youkai in human skin!
The air current blew away Cheng Tian's bangs, revealing his Heavenly Eye, which had previously been difficult for others to see due to being obscured. The black and white Tai Chi-shaped pupils, like a living double pupil, crashed left and right within their sockets before locking onto Hong Meiling in front of him.
At the same time, the Oni Gauntlet reappeared, and the accompanying Flame Dragon Sword was also gripped in Cheng Tian's hand after a flash of fire. However, the flames that then rose from the entire sword body, which had been crimson inherited from the Greatsword of Blazing Lotus, transformed into an indescribably deep black!
Heat contained coldness, possessing a beauty like being burned by low temperatures in a world of ice and snow.
Cheng Tian, the instigator, also curiously flicked the sword in his hand, which was covered in black flames.
The split sword body, enveloped in black flames, split apart and flew chaotically around him. And where the sword body had clearly lost its edge, fierce black flames still burned.
"The flames of the Demon World…"
Remilia, who was clearly more knowledgeable than other beings, even knowing that Cheng Tian was an alternate self of Izayoi's 'wild dad,' looked at the flames burning on the sword with astonishment.
Detected that you possess the talent Heavenly Eye —
Detected that you hold the Oni Armament "Oni Gauntlet" and its derivative weapon "Flame Dragon Sword" —
Detected that you possess the skill 『Mental Combat Technique Origin』, and have developed and obtained the ability to release mental flames —
You have gained the Template Overlay state.
You have overlaid and loaded the 강화급 조연 템플릿 — Evil Eye Master / Hiei from the world blueprint of "Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyo Toitsu Sen".
Ch. 495 / 855