Chapter 433

Above the ruins of the temple, space seemed to be cut in half, simultaneously staging two mirror-like destructions.

The light of the Great Da Guang Xiang illuminated the dust, and two huge circular arrays composed of tens of thousands of rune wizard tools, almost identical, rotated crazily above the two ends of the temple, pouring out energy barrages like rain.

The dark golden Li Huo Extinction Divine Light crossed and pierced in a limited space, and every confrontation triggered small-scale elemental annihilation and spatial wailing.

Silver space cracks and twisting force fields flashed from time to time, canceling each other out, emitting teeth-aching tearing sounds.

On the ground battlefield, two black giant legions, almost identical and exuding bone-chilling cold, were like two colliding black metal torrents, tearing at each other in the most primitive and violent way.

The collision of claws and bodies, the interference of time acceleration force fields, and the ability of devouring and self-healing turned the battle into a tug-of-war consuming energy.

Gao Jie Ming floated in mid-air, his wizard robe damaged in many places, his breathing slightly rapid, and a trace of uncleaned blood hanging from the corner of his mouth.

He controlled the Great Da Guang Xiang for suppressive shooting, while distracted to command the black giants, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, locking onto the "self" on the opposite side.

Slightly at a disadvantage.

This is an undeniable fact.

The Li Huo Extinction Divine Light of the sneak attack at the beginning, although barely resolved by him with Light Transformation, also consumed a lot of spiritual power and spiritual sense, and disrupted his rhythm.

And the opponent—that replica—entered the arena in a full state, every strike precise and ruthless, carrying the same killing intent as his.

Must find a way to break the situation.

Gao Jie Ming's brain operated at high speed under high pressure.

Since he was affected on his side, it meant that Wizard Altius should have broken free, and might even be trying to crack this trap from the outside.

But the flow speed difference of the time branch is a difficult problem to solve. One second outside, days might have passed inside.

It is stupid to pin all hopes on rescue.

The optimal solution is always to master the initiative yourself, which is to kill this mirror image in front of you.

But the question is sharply placed in front of him: how to defeat a "self" with completely identical strength, skills, combat instincts, and even thinking patterns in a disadvantageous situation?

Relying on conventional tactics? The opponent will pre-judge synchronously.

Relying on sudden outbreaks? The opponent's trump cards are exactly the same.

Relying on a war of attrition? His own state is worse.

Must find a variable, a variable that the opponent cannot copy and that he can quickly utilize in battle.

Knowledge.

This word was like a match lit in the dark.

According to the knowledge he had crammed about time-based laws during this time, he had already identified the essence of this replica—Time Afterimage.

A high-level application of time laws, the principle is similar to creating an independent time crack world.

But the target is an individual, forcibly "imprinting" a "mirror image" containing most of its current state on the space-time nodes where the target is located or related.

This mirror image possesses all the power, skills, equipment, and even combat consciousness and most of the knowledge of the main body.

But it has a limit.

Time Afterimage, after all, is an "application product" under time laws.

What it can copy are things that can be clearly defined, recorded, and reproduced by conventional laws: energy level, material form, conventional law knowledge, solidified skill models.

And things that transcend the conventional law level, involving higher-dimensional cognition or unique knowledge systems... it cannot copy.

For example, advanced knowledge mastered by all high-level wizards above Tier 6.

For another example, the cultivation knowledge system derived from the rules of another world recorded in the "Dadaoshuge"!

So Gao Jie Ming knew he needed a method that could produce differences in a short time in battle.

And among all cultivation methods, what is it that can be quickly applied in battle and immediately produce differences?

Body-Refining Technique!

The essence of the "Body-Refining Technique" is to guide the body to undergo "adaptive evolution" through specific energy operation and physical tempering.

Time Afterimage might be able to copy the physical strength brought by his current body-refining technique, but it is absolutely impossible to copy the kind of "adaptive evolution" that only occurs when running the method!

That is to say, in the next battle, his body-refining technique can continue to "evolve," while the mirror image's physical strength will be locked in the current state!

This is the breakthrough point!

A flash of light in his eyes, Gao Jie Ming immediately changed his tactics.

His mind moved, and he gave an order to the part of his black giants who were struggling with the mirror image's black giants: Self-destruct!

The remaining thousands of black giants stopped biting without hesitation, the black liquid metal on their bodies boiled instantly, and their internal energy cores overloaded crazily.

Gao Jie Ming stared at the opposite side while accumulating power.

In his expectation, faced with this sudden range-based suicide attack, the opponent's most reasonable response should be: either order the black giants to retreat and avoid, or cast powerful protective wizardry to resist the impact.

Either way, he could take this opportunity to accumulate an extra Li Huo Extinction Divine Light, striving to establish an advantage.

However, the mirror image's reaction made his heart sink.

The "Gao Jie Ming" on the opposite side gave the exact same order to its own front-line black giants almost the same moment the explosion occurred!

Even more terrifyingly, the opponent did not try to adjust or defend at all, but like Gao Jie Ming, the moment the explosion fire rose, it had already started accumulating the Li Huo Extinction Divine Light!

Then...

Boom boom boom!!!

The chain explosions bloomed like flowers of death, and the violent energy impact and space-time disorder force field instantly swept across a large area.

The next moment, two destructive dark golden torrents of light condensed in front of the two retreating people almost at the same time!

"Damn it... even the thinking mode and tactical choices are completely synchronized..." Gao Jie Ming gritted his teeth and could only shoot out the accumulated divine light with all his strength.

Two dark golden torrents of light collided in the aftermath of the explosion!

More violent energy annihilation occurred, and terrifying energy turbulence and law fragments splashed in all directions, further ravaging the already dilapidated structure of the temple.

It even created an extremely unstable elemental violent chaotic zone in the area between the two.

Just now!

Taking advantage of the collision of the two attacks and the moment when energy perception was severely interfered with, Gao Jie Ming made an operation that the mirror image did not predict!

The Great Da Guang Xiang circular array behind him suddenly emitted a discordant, ear-piercing hum!

The three metal disc runes at the core serving as energy storage and regulation hubs flickered crazily, and the energy flow direction was forcibly interfered with by Gao Jie Ming's spiritual power, instantly reversed!

The "power furnace" that had been continuously outputting attack energy turned into a "water pump" running at full power!

The powerful suction field composed of the three discs expanded suddenly, crazily devouring all free elemental energy in the surrounding space!

The energy chaotic zone produced by the collision bore the brunt!

The violent and chaotic energy was forcibly pulled and drained by this powerful directional suction.

Almost in the blink of an eye, centered on Gao Jie Ming, the concentration of free elements within a radius of ten thousand meters dropped to near zero.

Elemental vacuum zone, or rather, temporary magic-forbidden domain, instantly took shape!

In this domain, all wizardry and rune wizard tools that rely on external environmental elemental energy will have their effectiveness greatly reduced or even fail directly!

The "Gao Jie Ming" on the opposite side obviously didn't expect this move.

However, although it didn't expect it, the reaction of the mirror image "Gao Jie Ming" was also fast to the extreme.

The mirror image didn't try to save itself when it found the surrounding elemental environment becoming chaotic, and didn't even try to escape the magic-forbidden domain that was taking shape.

What it did was pour all the energy stored in the elemental pool into the remaining rune wizard tools of the Great Da Guang Xiang in a desperate gamble.

Rip... Bang! Bang!

On the Great Da Guang Xiang circular array behind the mirror image, thousands of rune wizard tools exploded with sparks at the same time due to the sudden change in energy supply and internal overload, and even shattered directly.

But it disregarded the load limit of the rune wizard tools at all, and at the cost of the collapse and self-destruction of most of the rune wizard tools, it launched the final attack before the magic-forbidden domain enveloped itself.

A round of light bullets shot out, the light of the entire circular array behind it dimmed rapidly, the rotation stopped, and it temporarily fell into paralysis.

"What?!" Gao Jie Ming's pupils shrank.

Although the number of light bullets in this round was not large due to the chaotic elemental environment outside, it was enough to kill himself!

Now he wanted to dodge but it was too late in time, but if he chose Light Transformation, the three metal discs connected to his spirit would also transform into light, losing the effect of creating the magic-forbidden domain.

Gao Jie Ming gritted his teeth and could only barely turn sideways, concentrating his protective spiritual light and the remaining defensive wizardry that hadn't collapsed yet in front of him, while operating the body-refining technique to the limit, attempting to resist hard.

Boom boom boom...

The continuous explosions instantly pierced through the layers of hastily condensed defenses, fiercely piercing through Gao Jie Ming's left chest position!

Terrifying power erupted, and Gao Jie Ming's left shoulder along with a small half of his chest flesh and bones instantly vaporized and disappeared!

The huge impact force blasted him away fiercely, like a rag doll, smashing through several broken stone pillars, and finally fell heavily on the cold stone floor of the temple, dragging out a long trail of blood.

"Cough... heh..."

The damage to his chest made Gao Jie Ming unable to even cough, and blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth and the huge hole in his chest.

He struggled to raise his head, his blurred vision looking into the distance.

That "Gao Jie Ming" was also in an extremely bad state after shooting this blow.

The energy backlash caused by forcibly driving the Great Da Guang Xiang made its face as pale as paper, blood spilling from the corner of its mouth, and its body swaying slightly.

More importantly, this choice caused it to fall into the elemental vacuum magic-forbidden domain carefully laid out by Gao Jie Ming.

At this moment, the domain had stabilized.

Its Great Da Guang Xiang was already scrapped, and the black giant legion suffered heavy losses in the previous self-destruction confrontation and was separated by the domain.

Gao Jie Ming struggled to stand up in the pool of blood and rubble, looking at the figure struggling to breathe trapped in the magic-forbidden domain in the distance, and slowly pulled out a cold smile on his blood-stained face.

Although the price was huge... half of his body was almost gone.

But... the trap, after all, was successful.

(End of chapter)