Chapter 386: Fierce Battle

Violent resonant power erupted on the fortieth-floor platform, energy shockwaves blooming like fireworks.

Li Luo's figure shot out like lightning, his gaze locked tightly onto the high-level Green Spirit Puppet wielding a massive cyan axe ahead; he had completely blocked out the sounds of battle from other skirmishes, his only mission now being to defeat this high-level Green Spirit Puppet, which possessed strength even greater than Lin Suo's, as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, they would lose the initiative in today's battle for the fortieth-floor platform, and then everything would lose its meaning.

Li Luo held his twin blades, water-like radiance flowing over them, the blade light sharp and cold.

As he approached, he suddenly tapped his toes, his figure darting out like a flying swallow; his resonant power erupted, his twin blades carving out streaks of light as he slashed fiercely at the giant-axe Green Spirit Puppet with a ferocious posture.

Yet, facing such an attack, the Green Spirit Puppet held its giant axe vertically like a shield, catching all the blade light; as sparks scattered, its burly figure remained as immovable as a boulder.

Then, the giant axe swung down abruptly, a violent, extreme cyan light slashing directly toward Li Luo's position.

Li Luo dodged with agility, a streak of cyan light several yards long flying past his side; the fierce energy fluctuations as it passed still caused his skin to sting.

With one strike failing, the high-level Green Spirit Puppet lunged forward, its axe light turning into afterimages, enveloping him with a suffocating sense of pressure.

Under the axe light, the air was crushed, and piercing sonic booms rang out incessantly.

Li Luo's eyes were stern as the resonant power within his two resonant palaces began to circulate rapidly, then converged like two streams; as they fused, the powerful energy fluctuations grew layer by layer.

He slashed down with his twin blades, a deep blue stream of water-like blade light shooting out from the tips; the water-like blade light revealed astonishing penetrating power, leaving faint water trails in the void wherever it passed.

Thousand-Flow Water Blade Art!

Facing this high-level Green Spirit Puppet, which was stronger than Lin Suo, Li Luo did not hesitate to use his dual-resonance power to unleash the Thousand-Flow Water Blade Art, one of his strongest offensive techniques.

Hum!

The water-like blade light streaked across, clashing head-on with the axe light energy the high-level Green Spirit Puppet had unleashed; a piercing metallic sound rang out, and violent energy shockwaves swept outward.

Li Luo's figure was sent flying, and the high-level Green Spirit Puppet was also forced back two steps, but its defensive power was too astonishing, and it lacked any sense of fear; after steadying itself, it grabbed its giant axe and pursued Li Luo.

Li Luo's figure drifted backward in mid-air, his internal blood and Qi churning; the previous head-on collision had caused him no small impact, and the strength of this Green Spirit Puppet was indeed formidable.

Previously, when dealing with Lin Suo at the Golden Dragon Dojo, he had Qin Zhulu acting as a meat shield to share the pressure, but this time, Li Luo could only rely on his own abilities to contend with it; fortunately, his resonant power had also improved during this period, and although he had yet to break through to the Resonant Transformation stage, it was still a significant improvement compared to before entering the Holy Wood World Cave, otherwise, the previous collision alone would have caused him internal injuries.

As his figure retreated in mid-air, Li Luo watched the pursuing Green Spirit Puppet, sheathed his twin blades at his waist, and swiped his palm over the space ball on his wrist; instantly, a silver-white longbow radiating holy light appeared, and the moment it emerged, it emitted extremely strong energy fluctuations, causing the energy in the surrounding heavens and earth to converge toward the bow.

It was the Light Falcon Bow.

Once this bow appeared, the pursuing Green Spirit Puppet's pace stalled slightly, clearly having sensed some threat, but immediately, the cyan light on its body surface grew even more intense, and cyan energy vortices continuously formed on the cyan battle armor it wore.

This was a sign of reinforced armor defense.

Although these puppets lacked intelligence, they could adjust their offense and defense based on the level of threat posed by their opponents.

Screech!

Li Luo quickly drew the Light Falcon Bow, and as his fingers hooked the bowstring, over a dozen light arrows shot out almost instantly; the light arrows emitted the sharp cries of falcons, striking the vital points all over the Green Spirit Puppet's body with astonishing speed.

However, each shot only caused the Green Spirit Puppet's body to tremble, as the energy vortices constantly emerging on its armor neutralized these light arrows.

Even if an occasional light arrow pierced through an energy vortex, it failed to cause significant damage, and since the puppet felt no pain, it approached rapidly, effectively ignoring Li Luo's rain of arrows.

Li Luo watched the rapidly approaching Green Spirit Puppet with a solemn expression, while his peripheral vision swept across the other skirmishes on the platform; Qin Zhulu was being suppressed, but because his strength had indeed improved so much, although the situation was not advantageous, he was still able to keep that Green Spirit Puppet completely occupied; as for Xin Fu and Lu Qinger, the situation was even worse—despite their numerical advantage, they were being forced back step by step by the Green Spirit Puppet, and it seemed they would not be able to hold out for much longer.

In that fleeting moment, Li Luo's gaze also swept across the distant platform; he did not look at many places, focusing only on Ye Qiuding.

In that skirmish, two figures were locked in intense combat; unlike his own situation of fighting while retreating, Ye Qiuding was holding his own head-on against that high-level Green Spirit Puppet, with both sides trading blows in a spectacular display; this was normal, however, as Ye Qiuding was now at the second transformation of the Resonant Transformation stage, and with his various methods, his combat power was not weaker than this top-level Green Spirit Puppet, which was at the third transformation of the Resonant Transformation stage.

Moreover, Ye Qiuding was clearly gradually turning the stalemate into an advantage.

Time is running out.

Li Luo's mind raced, but his movements never faltered; aided by the amplification of the Light Falcon Bow, light arrows continuously broke through the air, shooting toward the Green Spirit Puppet like an exceptionally sharp rain of light, covering the sky.

The Green Spirit Puppet's body continuously manifested energy vortices to resist the light arrows.

This consumption was not meaningless, because as those energy vortices emerged time and again, Li Luo keenly discovered some weaknesses in the Green Spirit Puppet's solid defense; they could not exactly be called weaknesses, but the speed at which the energy vortices emerged in certain areas was clearly sluggish.

"The right waist and abdomen..."

Li Luo's eyes flashed as he finally confirmed the flaw in the Green Spirit Puppet's defense, and he understood that his opportunity to strike had arrived; furthermore, time did not allow him to delay any longer, because if he dragged it out any further, Ye Qiuding would likely achieve victory.

Haa.

Li Luo let out a heavy breath, his eyes suddenly turning sharp.

He only had this one chance to strike.

Boom!

Just then, the ground suddenly shook, and the Green Spirit Puppet, which had already closed in, let out a low roar; the giant axe in its hand suddenly flew out, swirling like a cyan tornado and slashing violently toward Li Luo's retreating figure.

Li Luo hurriedly raised a hand, circulating his resonant power, and water-resonance power roared out, transforming into layers of resonant power vortices.

"Water Vortex Barrier."

Splash!

The axe tornado shattered those resonant power vortices like dry wood, then slashed down toward Li Luo; at this moment, he flipped the Light Falcon Bow in his hand, circulating his resonant power to collide with the axe light.

Bang!

A massive force surged, and Li Luo was sent flying backward; the sleeve on his arm was torn into shreds by the violent force, and bloodstains ripped open across his arm, instantly dyeing it red.

But Li Luo did not care at all; instead, he used the momentum of being sent flying to draw his bow.

Dual-resonance power erupted within his body!

Seven resonant power bubbles shattered!

Hum!

Within Li Luo, his powerful resonant power climbed layer by layer; on the string of the Light Falcon Bow in his hand, resonant power rapidly condensed and compressed; after a few breaths, a light falcon arrow took shape, the falcon looking lifelike, as if it were about to spread its wings and fly.

Li Luo's expression was solemn as he released his fingers.

The light falcon shot out, the piercing falcon cry resounding across the entire platform; in that instant, even the several Purple-Glory Mentors on the high platform glanced over slightly.

The power of this arrow from Li Luo far exceeded his resonant power level.

However, with the discernment of those Marquis-level experts, they could see at a glance... even this arrow from Li Luo, which exceeded his own strength, was still not enough.