Chapter 498: A Desperate Fight

When the rainbow light converged again and Jie Ming's figure re-condensed, his state was disheveled to the extreme.

The robe on his body didn't suffer any damage, but there were fine blood marks all over his exposed skin caused by over-mobilizing spiritual power.

His breathing was as heavy as an old bellows, and every inhalation was accompanied by a burning stinging pain in his lungs.

His dantian was nearly exhausted, and his spiritual power had become dim and unclear under continuous high-intensity consumption.

He landed on a cracked grey-black land; desolate, dead silent, and nothing else.

The distant horizon distorted with thin heat waves, and the sky was still that depressing lead-grey.

"A day..." Jie Ming muttered hoarsely to himself, so angry that he couldn't help but grit his teeth.

This death chase between him and that Tier 6 wizard of the Tower of Extinction, spanning tens of millions of kilometers, had lasted for a full standard day.

The situation not only did not improve, but turned sharply downward, becoming increasingly suffocating.

In order to deal with the fatal flaw of "light transformation can only fly in a straight line," Jie Ming had long changed his strategy.

He no longer pursued extreme-distance straight-line speeding, but changed to intermittent "short-distance turning."

After flying for a while in light transformation, he forcibly lifted it, then chose a new direction and turned into light to escape again.

Sometimes he flew for a few seconds, sometimes he persisted a little longer, trying to disrupt the flight pattern so that the opponent couldn't easily predict the landing point.

This method did have some effect in the early stage, but it was not a permanent cure.

The strength gap between the two sides was there.

Every time Jie Ming turned, every time he lifted the light transformation and restarted, it took time and produced energy fluctuations.

This also led to the time Jie Ming could use to gain movement becoming shorter and shorter.

The speed of light was fixed, and the length of movement time was proportional to the movement distance.

When Jie Ming's movement distance was lower than a certain limit, ultra-long-distance space teleportation was replaced by space jumps.

And with the level of mastery of Tier 6 wizards over space technology, short-distance space jumps were almost as natural as breathing.

With the growth of one and the decline of the other, the distance between the two was rapidly closing.

And the closer the distance, the shorter the safe time window for Jie Ming to transform into light each time.

Short time meant that the actual distance he could escape each time was shrinking sharply.

Thus, a vicious cycle was formed.

The strategic space between Jie Ming and this wizard was being squeezed and swallowed bit by bit, like falling into quicksand.

Finally, when the light transformation ended and he felt the near-exhausted sense of collapse coming from his body, Jie Ming stopped in place silently.

He didn't immediately escape again, but quickly took out a few highest-specification recovery magic potions and drank them all at once.

The medicinal power surged into the parched land like a sweet spring, nourishing the near-bottom spiritual sea and the exhausted body.

Relying on the continuous adaptive evolution of the body-refining method, Jie Ming's recovery ability and absorption ability for magic potions were also getting stronger and stronger; this bit of magic potion was enough to make Jie Ming barely activate the Wu Yun Hua Hong Mirror again.

But he didn't leave, but slowly exhaled a turbid breath with a bloody smell, his eyes becoming sharp and decisive.

"Cannot run anymore."

Continuing like this, the state would only get worse and worse, and finally be easily crushed by the opponent when exhausted.

Rather than being hunted to death in a disheveled manner, it was better to turn around and show his fangs while he still had strength!

A desperate fight!

But time was too tight.

The opponent's speed of chasing along the trail was beyond imagination, and there was no time to lay out complex composite killing arrays as before.

All Jie Ming could do was arm himself to the teeth.

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sank into the cave heaven in his body.

The next moment, a dozen strangely shaped metal components were summoned out, floating behind him.

These metal pillars were about two meters long, diamond-shaped, narrow at the front and wide at the back, with a dull metallic luster flowing all over, and extremely complex three-dimensional energy flow runes and micro-teleportation arrays etched on the surface.

They were arranged in a precise array on both sides of Jie Ming's spine, with the tips slightly outward, as if putting on a pair of cold and ferocious metal wings for the grey-robed wizard.

This was exactly the combat system he once made to match the spirituality of the Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier, which was once shelved due to technical route adjustments, and now reused: 【Floating Cannon】.

Modified spells like Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light, due to their unique energy structure and driving logic, were difficult to be stably carried and continuously excited by conventional talisman wizarding tools.

This made the "Big Da Guang Xiang" tactic of Jie Ming's early research, which relied on the spirituality of the Wu Yun Hua Hong Mirror to automatically coordinate thousands of talisman wizarding tools to form a covering barrage, difficult to continue using on these modified spell combat systems.

The core of "Big Da Guang Xiang" lay in using the spirituality of the Wu Yun Hua Hong Mirror to automatically coordinate thousands of talisman wizarding tools to form a covering barrage.

But for a combat system that required constantly changing the wizarding tools that had finished releasing, what was needed was a precise "cannon barrel" and an efficient "supply system."

These diamond-shaped metal pillars were the "cannon barrels."

They were hollow inside, and the core was an exquisite chain-type teleportation cavity.

The "ammunition" for each floating cannon was those thumb-sized special wizarding tools that sealed a Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light inside.

When the front-end wizarding tool was excited, it would be instantly teleported back to the cave heaven in the body for recharging through the micro-array at the muzzle.

And the teleportation array at the back would simultaneously push the spare "ammunition" that had been recharged to the firing position.

The floating, movement, and array changes of the floating cannons themselves were autonomously controlled by the spirituality separated from the Wu Yun Hua Hong Mirror, like arms extended out.

And the ammunition scheduling, excitation timing, attack aiming, and spell control of the cave heaven in the body needed Jie Ming to personally control with concentrated spirit.

This required maintaining high-intensity spiritual power output, precise energy control, and fine grasp of the material flow of the cave heaven in the body at the same time, which was a huge burden.

If not forced to a desperate situation, Jie Ming would not easily use this set of immature systems.

A dozen floating cannons adjusted their angles slightly as if they had life, the runes on the metal surface lit up one by one, entering the excitation state.

Not long after Jie Ming completed the armament preparation...

The space in the high sky a few thousand meters ahead was suddenly torn apart by invisible hands!

Grey-white mist surged out first, and then, the figure of the Tower of Extinction wizard shrouded in grey-white mist, like a god of death stepping out of the abyss, suddenly appeared!

Without any nonsense, the moment the opponent's figure solidified, Jie Ming's eyes flashed with fierce color, and the metal wings behind him suddenly burst into dazzling dark golden light!

"Fire!"

Boom boom boom!!!

A dozen dark golden pillars of light, compressed to the extreme and only the thickness of a water bucket, shot out from the tip of each floating cannon!

Under Jie Ming's control, these pillars of light adjusted their trajectories slightly in mid-air after being shot, devouring the enemy who had just completed teleportation and whose figure was not fully stable from different angles!

Each pillar of light contained energy condensed to the extreme; where it passed, space was burned with long-lasting fluctuation traces, thin air was completely ionized, making a harsh crackling explosion.

Almost at the same moment Jie Ming launched the attack, the two scarlet light points in the Tower of Extinction wizard's hood suddenly burned brightly!

He didn't even have a complete form fully stable, just raised his right arm wrapped in grey-white mist, and pressed it in the air toward the direction where Jie Ming was.

Under the huge spiritual power of the Tier 6 wizard, massive elements were directly mobilized.

Rumble!!!

Above Jie Ming's head, the firmament of hundreds of kilometers suddenly darkened!

Dark grey clouds surged, and space itself collapsed and distorted under some kind of terrifying force!

Finally, a giant palm covering the sky, completely composed of chaotic space wrinkles and boiling grey-white mist, appeared out of thin air like a god's punishment, and slapped down toward Jie Ming!

The giant palm had not yet reached the body, but the terrifying sense of oppression had already caused the ground below to crack inch by inch, and countless grey-white rock crystals were ground into powder by the invisible force field, and the dust rushed into the sky!

The next moment, the attacks of both sides hit the target almost at the same time!

The dozen Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Lights shot by Jie Ming fiercely bombarded the grey-white mist around the Tower of Extinction wizard.

The expected explosion did not occur.

Those highly condensed destructive energies, the moment they touched the mist, were like mud cows entering the sea, being rapidly consumed and neutralized in the light and dark energy frantically circulating and annihilating each other in the mist.

The mist surged and fluctuated violently, its color dimmed a bit, but the wizard figure at the core remained motionless, the scarlet gaze locked coldly on Jie Ming through the slightly thinner mist.

And that giant palm that seemed to be able to smash mountains also printed firmly on the position where Jie Ming was!

Hum...

There was no earth-shattering loud noise, only a dull hum that made the soul tremble, as if the whole world was being squeezed.

At the landing point of the giant palm, space completely distorted into a chaotic mess.

Light and dark, positive and negative, creation and destruction... countless opposing elements and laws were forcibly rubbed together, continuously colliding, annihilating, regenerating, and annihilating in a narrow area!

Every micro-annihilation released terrifying energy, but was constrained within the range of the palm force, forming an explosion that continued to ravage.

When the grey-white giant palm slowly dissipated, a huge palm-shaped pit with a diameter of over 100 kilometers and a depth of several thousand meters was left in place.

The pit wall was as smooth as a mirror, showing the glazed texture after high-temperature melting and rapid cooling, and there were still wisps of unstable annihilation energy remaining at the bottom of the pit, making a sizzling corrosive sound.

At the very center of the palm pit, a slightly thin grey-robed figure stood straight slowly.

It was Jie Ming.

The Gui Xu Armor on his body surface was flashing with micro-light at an unprecedented frequency, and the surface of the transparent armor was covered with fine cracks like spider webs, as if it could collapse completely at any time.

His face was as pale as paper, and a wisp of bright red blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

"One strike... consumed more than 60% of the reserve?" Jie Ming felt the state fed back by the Gui Xu Armor, and his pupils contracted uncontrollably.

That seemingly simple palm actually contained energy manipulation precise to the extreme.

It was not a brute force bombardment, but countless small, continuous, opposing elemental annihilation impacts.

These annihilation impacts were like billions of the smallest files, simultaneously grinding his defense from all directions.

The Gui Xu Armor, which theoretically could absorb the "storage" of thousands of basic Tier 6 wizardry attacks, was almost filled up in an instant.

This meant that with the attack intensity shown by the opponent, his Gui Xu Armor could withstand at most one more attack of the same level before completely overloading and collapsing!

And at the same time, the Tower of Extinction wizard far outside the attack range also had violent fluctuations in the grey-white mist around him.

Those two scarlet light points stared dead at the figure standing in the center of the pit, although disheveled.

What surged in them was no longer pure killing intent and coldness, but mixed with suspicion, disbelief, and even a trace of... horror.

"Actually... resisted?"

A low, hoarse voice came from the depths of the mist for the first time, with obvious instability.

That palm of his just now, seemingly casual, had actually used a deep understanding of the law of "annihilation," and its power was enough to instantly severely injure or even kill an ordinary Tier 6 initial-stage wizard!

And this Tier 5 wizard not only defended it, but didn't even lose combat effectiveness on the spot!

This guy... really just Tier 5?

The grey-white mist surged violently, the scarlet light in it became more intense, locking dead on that figure in the pit.

Killing intent, boiled to the peak.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 499 =====