Chapter 380: Thousand Flowing Water Blade Art

Swish!

A brilliant, watery blade-light swept violently past. The high-speed flow brought with it astonishing lethality; wherever the blade-light passed, it seemed as if even the air was torn apart, and a piercing, shrill sound rang out incessantly.

A few breaths later, the watery blade-light struck heavily against the body of the high-grade Green Spirit Puppet. Immediately, the green wooden armor on its surface was torn open with a deep gash, and there were clear signs of cutting at the mark.

The high-grade Green Spirit Puppet's wooden armor clearly possessed no weak defensive capabilities, but it had served no purpose. This was because the "Thousand Flowing Water Blade Art" that Li Luo had unleashed this time possessed an inherently powerful armor-piercing ability.

"Not bad attack power."

Li Luo also sighed in admiration at the results achieved by this strike. This "Thousand Flowing Water Blade Art" was an elemental art he had been practicing recently, which could be considered an advanced version of the Water Ray Art. Previously, the Water Ray Art was basically just applied to the twin blades to enhance the blade's penetration and lethality, but this "Thousand Flowing Water Blade Art" was able to transform elemental power into a high-speed flowing water blade-light that could be released from the body. In this way, both its power and attack range were greatly enhanced.

Among Tiger General Arts, this technique definitely counted as one of the profound and difficult ones to master. Li Luo had long had the intention to attempt it, but he had never succeeded. This time, with his strength having increased to the fifth pattern of the Pattern-Birth Stage, his own elemental power had finally met the requirements.

However, although he was quite satisfied with the result of this first attempt at the technique, Li Luo felt that there was still significant room for evolution for him. For instance, if he were to fuse his Light elemental power into it, forming a light path to accelerate the Water elemental power, then the final penetration and armor-piercing power should both be able to improve. It was not impossible that it could eventually possess power comparable to a "Dragon General Art."

But this kind of improvement needed to be carried out step by step. After all, the "Thousand Flowing Water Blade Art" was the most difficult elemental art he was currently practicing; he could not expect to achieve it in one go.

While Li Luo's thoughts were turning, his gaze remained fixed on that high-grade Green Spirit Puppet. The latter's chest had nearly been pierced through, and the emerald elemental power surging on its body was also rapidly weakening, but it had not dissipated. After all, the puppet did not have any sense of pain; it still held its wooden spear and, somewhat unsteadily, charged toward Li Luo.

Li Luo tapped his toes and his figure swooped out. The twin blades in his hands traced out blade-light, and elemental power flowed over his body like water waves.

Clang!

The two figures crossed. Li Luo's left blade blocked the incoming spear tip, while his right blade swung past like a stream striking a stone, slicing directly through the cut on the high-grade Green Spirit Puppet's chest. The Green Spirit Puppet was immediately split in two, and as it collapsed, it turned into green mist all over the ground.

Having dealt with this high-grade Green Spirit Puppet at the fastest speed, Li Luo's gaze immediately turned toward Bai Meng and Xin Fu. At this moment, Xin Fu was holding off the Green Spirit Puppet at the first transformation of the Transformation Stage, but it was clear that he was falling into a disadvantage. After all, his own elemental nature was not suited for head-on combat, and being forced into a direct showdown left him somewhat disheveled for a moment.

As for Bai Meng, she was entangling the other Green Spirit Puppets. From start to finish, she had not had the slightest contact with them, but instead relied on the uniqueness of her own elemental nature to constantly create illusions. Since the Green Spirit Puppets lacked intelligence and could not distinguish the real from the fake, they were instead led in circles by her for a time.

Li Luo headed to Xin Fu's side immediately. With his addition, there was no longer any suspense in the following battle. With the two of them joining forces, this Green Spirit Puppet, which only had the strength of the first transformation of the Transformation Stage, did not last a minute before being cleanly and efficiently dismembered into green smoke all over the ground.

The two Green Spirit Puppets of the Transformation Stage disappeared, and the final threat vanished. As Li Luo and Xin Fu arrived at Bai Meng's side to help her resolve all the remaining Green Spirit Puppets, the twentieth floor was finally cleared completely.

The three of them felt a sense of relief and sat on the ground, disregarding their image. Although their faces were covered in exhaustion, the excitement in their eyes could not be hidden.

On the platform of the twentieth floor, green light surged at this moment, and then three strands of green energy separated out, finally descending from the sky and landing on Li Luo and the other two.

Feeling the pure and gentle energy surging in, all three of them intoxicatedly closed their eyes, enjoying the fruits of their hard work.

And while Li Luo and his group were absorbing this green spirit energy, the several other teams on the other platforms discovered that the green mist permeating their own platforms was gradually dissipating.

This was a situation they had seen often over the past few days; it was a sign that the green spirit energy for the day had been completely consumed.

Clearly, Li Luo and his group were the first to clear the twentieth-floor platform, so they had directly absorbed the final portion for the day...

"What a pity, Li Luo snatched it a step ahead," Qin Zhulu said with some regret as he stood on the twentieth-floor platform, watching the Green Spirit Puppets in front of him begin to dissipate.

Their team had originally been about to start challenging the twentieth floor as well, but they were a step too slow; the last bite of the day had been eaten by Li Luo and his group first.

"How did this Li Luo suddenly become so powerful?" In the team, the young girl named Yin Yue said with some amazement.

Although Li Luo had performed quite well in the past, in the hearts of many first-star academy students, the strongest in the first-star academy was still Qin Zhulu. But in this special training, the strength Li Luo had displayed was even faintly exceeding Qin Zhulu by a margin.

"It seems that for the ticket tournament of this Holy Grail War, the representative of the first-star academy will likely be between the two of you," Lu Qinger gazed at the figure in the green light on the distant platform and then smiled at Qin Zhulu.

A look of burning heat and anticipation emerged in Qin Zhulu's eyes.

"I don't really care about being a representative, but I have long wanted to have a full-strength fight with him."

"This guy is really fierce after going to the Golden Dragon Dojo," Yu Lang also sighed as he gazed at the platform over there.

Bai Doudou, who was to the side, glanced at him and lectured: "Li Luo is from the Nanfeng Academy just like you. Look at how many ranks ahead of you he is now. Don't even think about slacking off during this month of special training."

Yu Lang was practically on the verge of tears. Who told you that just because we both came from Nanfeng Academy, I have to be the same as him? Jiang Qing'e also came from Nanfeng Academy; do you want me to go and compare myself to her too? This woman is truly unreasonable sometimes.

However, many painful experiences in the past told Yu Lang that what he needed to do now was nod and agree, otherwise, showing too much emotion would only invite more fierce criticism.

"Dual elements are indeed powerful. That high-grade Green Spirit Puppet on the twentieth-floor platform probably reached the strength of the second transformation of the Transformation Stage, right? To be able to complete such a leap in rank, this Li Luo is truly becoming more and more unfathomable," Yi Lisha smiled.

"The ticket tournament representative will likely be Li Luo. The current Qin Zhulu might not be able to suppress him. I am actually quite curious: if they are at the Holy Grail War, is it possible for Li Luo to become the strongest first-star academy student in the Eastern Divine Continent? This is an honor that our Astral Sage College has never achieved since its founding," Qian Ye said.

Hearing this, Yi Lisha could not help but be stunned, saying: "The strongest first-star academy student in the Eastern Divine Continent... your idea is a bit wild."

Qian Ye smiled: "Do you think it's impossible?"

Yi Lisha hesitated for a moment and said: "The difficulty is extremely high. While Li Luo certainly has the advantage of dual elements, don't underestimate the foundations of those other top holy academies. For this Holy Grail War, who hasn't made full preparations?"

"To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if any monsters appeared at that Holy Grail War."

"Then let's wait and see when the time comes."

Si Qiuying, who was to the side, listened to the conversation between her two teammates and felt a little dazed. She still remembered the young man who came to Daxia City from Tianshu County more than half a year ago. At that time, he was still so unremarkable, and now, he actually had the qualifications for people to consider whether it was possible for him to become the strongest first-star academy student in the entire Eastern Divine Continent?

This guy, without knowing it, has reached this step?

Compared to the sighs of the other teams, the atmosphere on the side of Wang Hejiu and Duze Beixuan was heavier and more oppressive.

Both of them looked over there with somewhat unpleasant expressions. In fact, they were the people who least wanted to see this scene. After all, they both had some grudges with Li Luo to varying degrees, and coupled with the reason of Shen Jinxiao, they were naturally full of malice toward Li Luo.

Of course, the most important thing was that when they first entered the academy, none of them had ever truly regarded Li Luo as an opponent; they had all held an attitude of looking down on him.

But now, the person they had looked down upon had surpassed them by a step, which was truly hard to accept.

But it was a fact that Li Luo was stronger than them. How could it be easy to catch up?

After a moment of silence, Wang Hejiu said in a low voice: "It seems we have to think of a way, otherwise we probably won't be able to catch up to Li Luo in this special training. If we lose this opportunity, there might not be any chance to overtake him."

Duze Beixuan's eyes moved, and he nodded immediately.