A series of five Wind Blades, like a flock of swallows, sliced forward one after the other.
An incredibly sharp aura rushed forth, seeming to slice the very air apart.
The expression of the Qi Introduction Fourth Layer Cultivator changed in horror.
'What kind of Magic is this?!'
'How can he cast five Wind Blade attacks in a row?'
'Is it some special magical technique?'
The figure was utterly horrified.
However,
thanks to his big brother's earlier warning and the momentary delay from Shen Changchuan's sneak attack on the other man, he had just enough time to react.
His hands flew, rapidly forming a Technique seal.
The spiritual light of his Magical Power pulsed around him.
A faint golden light rose up, forming a tangible-looking phantom of a Golden Bell around his body, completely enveloping him.
The Golden Bell Technique!
A well-known defensive Magic, similar in fame to the Fireball Technique and Wind Blade Technique, was instantly cast!
His Magical Power transformed into overlapping layers of faint golden light around him,
giving off a sense of indestructibility!
'But that isn't enough!'
'Although I can't recognize what kind of Magic lets him fire five Wind Blades in a row, the weirder the method, the greater the threat.'
'I can't afford to get tripped up by some freak accident!'
At that moment,
almost in the span of a thought, the Magical Power in his body completed a Circulation and activated the Leather Armor he wore close to his skin.
Following the infusion of Magical Power, a faint yellow glow began to rise from beneath his clothes,
revealing the outline of a set of Leather Armor.
It was a set of Leather Armor forged from the hide of some unknown Demon Beast!
It was a rare defensive Magical Artifact on the market.
He always wore it,
but only now, in this moment of crisis, did he dare not hold back and fully activate it.
A Golden Bell Shield technique,
and a suit of Leather Armor.
With these two layers of defense stacked together,
it was enough to withstand a full-power Magical Attack from any Cultivator of the same Realm!
As the two defensive measures rose,
a confident expression appeared on the man's face.
"You little brat, you're dead!"
The man stared daggers at Shen Changchuan, his pupils filled with hatred and venom.
'The death of my second brother was only because you got lucky with a shameless sneak attack.'
'Now I have two layers of defense. Against your single Magical Attack, the advantage is mine!'
'Once Big Brother gets here, I'll make sure you die without a grave!'
The face of the figure, enveloped by the Golden Bell, became distorted with glee and savagery.
Of course, Shen Changchuan had no idea what his target was thinking.
And in that instant,
the five Wind Blades, as fast as cyan lightning, sped forward. They crossed several dozen feet of space in a flash, and the first Wind Blade was already crashing down on him!
BANG!
The first Wind Blade slammed into the Golden Bell.
As the two powerful forms of Magic collided, a muffled boom echoed through the air.
The Golden Bell's phantom was torn and cracked,
and the Wind Blade itself disintegrated, erupting into a shockwave of energy that swept out in all directions.
The explosion from the collision of Magical Power created a visible shockwave of air that swept out for dozens of feet.
The tree trunk underfoot and the surrounding trees were all snapped in half by the tangible impact, sending wood chips flying up, which then fluttered down like snowflakes!
The sheer power of the impact
was clear for all to see!
But at this moment, the Qi Introduction Fourth Layer Cultivator had no time to think.
The second Wind Blade descended right after,
completely shattering and dispersing the Golden Bell Technique.
The Wind Blade drove straight through and slashed directly into the Leather Armor Magical Artifact beneath his clothes.
BANG!
Another muffled sound.
The second Wind Blade seemed to sink into a muddy swamp, as layer after layer of spiritual light from the armor's defense continuously ground it down,
until the Wind Blade was completely blocked by the armor's power and ground into nothingness.
But at the same time,
the Leather Armor Magical Artifact he wore did not escape unscathed.
The main material of the Leather Armor itself didn't seem very strong; it was likely refined from the hide of a Demon Beast at only the Second or Third Layer of Qi Introduction.
Because of this,
after taking a Wind Blade strike that exceeded its material limits, a large gash appeared on the armor where the blade had struck, and its entire earthen-yellow glow dimmed completely!
This life-saving treasure, worn close to the body, had been instantly and severely damaged!
But it wasn't over yet,
because right after,
the third Wind Blade arrived!
The five Wind Blades, one after another, were so fast that they struck with almost no interval between them!
RIIIP!
The third Wind Blade completely sliced through and shattered the Leather Armor!
Its defensive spiritual light instantly crumbled, revealing the completely unprotected figure behind it!
The man's face was one of absolute horror.
The reflection of the fourth Wind Blade rapidly expanded in his pupils, and an unprecedented terror filled his face!
"This is the Wind Blade Technique! Five Wind Blade Techniques fired in a row!"
"It's not one Magic, it's five Magic cast in rapid succession!"
"Legend says that only by cultivating a Magic to Perfection can one cast it instantaneously... Don't tell me this person has actually cultivated the ordinary Wind Blade Technique to the Realm of Perfection?!!"
"How is that possible?!!!"
Only when the sharp edge of the fourth Wind Blade was right before his eyes did the Qi Introduction Fourth Layer Cultivator suddenly realize the truth. His eyes flew open wide in horror, as round as bronze bells, and his pupils shrank to the size of a pinprick!
'I was wrong!'
'I made a terrible mistake!'
'The five Wind Blades weren't some unknown Magic that could fire five blades at once,'
'but five separate Wind Blade Techniques!'
'Five Wind Blade Techniques, cast in rapid succession, creating the scene of five Wind Blades flying together!'
'This was five Magic,'
'not one!'
'This was an incredibly fatal misunderstanding!'
'Because the power of a single Magic has a limit. No matter how strong the Magic, its power is capped by one's Realm!'
'For a Qi Introduction Fourth Layer Cultivator, with the dual defense of the Golden Bell Technique and the Leather Armor Magical Artifact, I could have withstood a single Magical Attack from any other cultivator at my level.'
'But five Magical Attacks combined...'
'their stacked power could unleash a might far beyond that level!'
"No..."
Death descended.
The figure screamed in terror,
his eyes filled with an unprecedented fear.
But unfortunately,
his realization came too late!
The cyan Wind Blades passed through his body as if meeting no resistance at all.
The fifth Wind Blade followed close behind, cutting through the middle of his body from a slightly different angle.
RIIIP!
Blood splattered.
A wild wind swept through.
The man's upper body flew into the air and fell to the ground behind him,
while his lower body remained standing in place.
Blood gushed like a fountain,
staining a large patch of fallen leaves red.
"AHH! Fourth Brother! You little bastard! I'LL KILL YOU!"
From the moment Shen Changchuan discovered the trap and decisively used the opportunity of offering Spirit Stones to heavily injure Zhao Hanguo, to when he used Golden Needle Stabbing to launch a surprise attack and kill the Qi Introduction Fifth Layer Cultivator on the right,
and then used five Perfection Realm Wind Blade Techniques to cut the ambushing Qi Introduction Fourth Layer Cultivator on the left in half at the waist—
everything had happened in the span of just a few short breaths.
And only now
did the Qi Introduction Sixth Layer Cultivator—the one they called "Big Brother," who had been positioned in the center, deep within the dense forest behind them—finally arrive.
And seeing this scene,
the powerfully built man with a long, centipede-like scar over his eye roared, his eyes bloodshot with fury.
An earthen-yellow light flared up around him, and he charged toward Shen Changchuan like a speeding truck!