Translator: AnubisTL
Hearing Levin Mills's defiant "No!" Jieming couldn't help but sneer, his voice dripping with mockery:
"In your current half-crippled state, you'd be dead the moment you tried to fight. If you turned and ran now, I might actually struggle to stop you."
Levin Mills nodded, acknowledging his weakened condition, but a triumphant smile quickly spread across his face, as if he had everything under control:
"Jieming, geniuses like you often share a fatal flaw—arrogance! It's precisely your arrogance that gave me the time to complete my final preparations!"
Before he could finish speaking, he abruptly opened his palm. A silver-white metal disk, etched with intricate runes, pulsed with intense magic-nullifying energy and swiftly crumbled into ash!
Buzz...
An invisible force field erupted from him, expanding outward in all directions.
Jieming immediately felt his connection to the surrounding elements sever, his mental power shackled and sluggish.
He wasn't the only one affected. The surviving wizards on the battlefield paled in unison.
Their ability to manipulate elemental energy had been drastically suppressed, as if they had been transformed from free-flying birds into insects trapped in a mire.
Even Levin Mills himself was affected. His flight spell failed, and he slowly descended to the ground.
Yet he remained calm, deliberately steadying himself with a confident smile:
"Jieming, you truly are a genius! The 'magical formation' behind you, composed of that unique combination of spell artifacts, is a perfect masterpiece of warfare! Before the magic nullification, if I had faced you directly in my current state, I might have been defeated."
"But!" His tone shifted, brimming with absolute certainty. "The difference in our life levels is fundamental! It represents a comprehensive transcendence in every aspect—physical fitness, energy reserves! Once I neutralize your strongest trump card..."
His gaze swept over the rune-imbued magical artifact behind Jieming, which was gradually dimming as its energy connection was severed, talismanic seals falling one by one. He sneered, "...the rest will be child's play."
"So you're quite confident in your close-quarters combat skills, are you?" Jieming's smile vanished, and he glanced expressionlessly at the rune-imbued magical artifact behind him, its talismanic seals continuing to fall.
Both to allow the magic-nullifying field to reach its optimal effect and to undermine his opponent's confidence, Levin Mills declared arrogantly:
"My research focuses on the vitality rule within the life system! Even if external elements are stripped away, I myself am an inexhaustible source of life! With this body reinforced by the rule and my boundless vitality, my close-combat prowess ranks among the top-tier third-tier wizards!"
Jieming listened expressionlessly as the metal disc-shaped spell artifact, the core of the Great Light Phase, plummeted behind him.
But just as the disc was about to strike the ground, a triumphant smirk curled Jieming's lips:
"How convenient. It seems we were thinking the same thing."
Buzz...
The seemingly inert metal disc suddenly erupted with blinding light, its surface patterns glowing frantically.
A tremendous suction force erupted, instantly draining the residual energy from Levin Mills' magic-nullifying field and ravenously devouring every stray element in the vicinity!
In a mere instant, a "elemental vacuum" far more complete than Levin Mills' creation formed around them!
If Levin's magic-nullifying field was like a straitjacket for wizards, Jieming's move was akin to throwing a fish onto dry land.
The nearby wizards, already barely standing due to their severe injuries, suddenly felt suffocating pain, their vision blurring with stars as they nearly collapsed.
Seeing the confident glint in Jieming's eyes, Levin Mills was both shocked and enraged. "You... you're truly arrogant!"
The difference between second-tier and third-tier wizards wasn't just the amplification of rules; there was also a vast gap in fundamental attributes.
Moreover, with the vitality rule bolstering his strength, Levin Mills was certain that even if Jieming specialized in physical enhancement, he could never surpass him in close combat!
Besides, since this man had already demonstrated mastery of alchemy and rune studies, it was impossible for him to also possess exceptional physical prowess.
...Or rather, Levin Mills refused to believe such a possibility.
Jieming said nothing more. He was indeed confident, but he had every right to be!
Centuries of relentless physical training, combined with the amplification from the immortal cultivation world's most lethal body cultivator techniques, had earned him this confidence.
From the moment he sensed something was amiss, Jieming had been deliberately guiding the situation.
If the timing hadn't been so critical, he would have been tempted to sweep his hair back and declare, "Finally, you've taken the bait!"
Boom!
Without another word, the two figures transformed into streaks of light, colliding like twin meteors!
A pure, brutal physical clash erupted!
Levin Mills launched the first direct assault, fully aware that his greatest advantage lay in the fundamental attribute superiority granted by his third-tier wizard life level.
His right fist shot forward in a seemingly simple punch, yet it contained a reversed application of the vitality rule.
Even before the fist landed, a corrosive force, sharp as a needle, pierced toward Jieming's chest, attempting to disrupt his muscle function from within.
The air distorted around the fist, revealing the immense power behind the strike.
Jieming's eyes sharpened, his superhuman dynamic vision allowing him to track the attack.
Instead of meeting the punch head-on, he swayed slightly like a willow branch, letting the fist's wind graze his chest.
The strange life energy struck his resilient skin with a faint sizzling sound.
Simultaneously, his body tempering method activated, initiating an adaptive evolution to counteract the vitality rule's corrosive effects.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Levin Mills lived up to his reputation as a third-tier wizard. The vitality rule granted him terrifying vitality and physical fitness.
As his first punch missed, he immediately unleashed three more in rapid succession.
His fists and feet tore through the air with piercing whistles, each strike carrying immense force capable of shattering mountains and splitting stone.
Though his movements appeared brutally powerful, they also possessed an eerie agility, like a venomous snake striking from its lair, targeting Jieming's vulnerable joints and weak points.
Jieming, however, moved with ghostlike fluidity, relying on the enhanced dynamic vision and reflexes granted by his body tempering method, as well as the refined body arts he had learned at the Great Dao Library Pavilion. His speed and skill far exceeded Levin Mills' expectations.
He continuously deflected Levin's ferocious onslaught with precise techniques, countering with vicious strikes aimed at his opponent's joints and vital organs.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Each collision between the two combatants erupted with a deafening roar, the shockwaves shaking the ground and distorting the air.
To any observer, this battle would have seemed less like a duel between wizards and more like a desperate struggle between two humanoid beasts fighting to the death!
Yet as the battle raged on, Levin Mills was shocked to realize that he was actually losing ground.
Levin Mills possessed immense strength and a formidable vitality rule, yet he found himself overwhelmed by Jieming's relentless, storm-like assault.
Though Levin Mills' attacks were ferocious, Jieming dodged or blocked most of them with razor-thin margins.
Meanwhile, each of Jieming's counterattacks struck with surgical precision. Though Levin Mills appeared unscathed on the surface, the cumulative damage steadily eroded his vitality.
His vitality rule frantically activated, attempting to repair the damage, but the healing rate was beginning to lag behind the rate of injury.
What truly alarmed him was that he had been continuously using his reversed vitality rule to corrode Jieming's body.
Initially, this tactic had proven effective, but as time wore on, the law's effects diminished drastically.
"How is this possible?! How can his strength be so immense? Does his stamina have no limit? And his physique... why is it resisting my law's corrosion?!" Levin Mills grew increasingly panicked with each exchange.
He tried to create distance to regroup, but Jieming remained relentlessly close, giving him no room to breathe.
Jieming had completely mastered the rhythm of the battle.
Sensing that Levin Mills' vitality regeneration was beginning to falter, a cold glint flashed in Jieming's eyes.
He deliberately left an opening, allowing Levin Mills' heavy punch to land squarely on his left shoulder.
Crack!
A faint crack echoed from his shoulder bone, followed by searing pain.
Yet Jieming didn't even flinch. The body tempering method had not only granted him formidable defense but also extreme pain tolerance and perfect control over his body.
Using the force of the punch, Jieming spun fluidly, his right leg swinging up like a massive axe. He delivered a powerful sweeping kick, striking Levin Mills' supporting right knee joint with brutal force.
"Ugh!"
Levin Mills screamed in agony as a clear cracking sound echoed from his knee. He instantly lost his balance and toppled backward.
The outcome would be decided in this instant!
Jieming's spinning motion didn't falter. His left knee, coiled like a venomous dragon ready to strike, surged upward with all his momentum and speed as Levin Mills fell backward, his defenses completely exposed.
Bang!!!
The knee strike landed squarely on Levin Mills' lower abdomen.
The terrifying force instantly shattered his internal defenses, and the agonizing pain dispersed the vitality rule he had been preparing to use.
Levin Mills' eyes bulged, bloodshot, and his body contorted into an exaggerated shrimp-like curve as if all his bones had been removed.
Pfft!
A massive mouthful of blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs, erupted from his mouth like a fountain.
His entire body, now like a tattered sandbag, was sent flying backward by the colossal impact, carving a visible trail across the ground.
With a final, thunderous crash, he slammed into the solid cloud-mist surface behind him, creating a spider web-like crater.
Levin Mills' body convulsed violently a few times, still struggling to move.
But the boundless vitality he had once prided himself on was now draining away like air from a punctured balloon.
He finally collapsed to the ground, limp as mud, his face a mask of utter disbelief and despair.
He had lost.
(End of the Chapter)
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