Chapter 386: Fierce Battle

Violent Xiang Power erupted on the fortieth-floor platform, the energy shockwave blooming like fireworks.

Li Luo shot forth like lightning, his eyes tightly locking onto the high-level Green Spirit Puppet ahead wielding a massive green axe; the sounds of combat from other battle circles were completely blocked out by him. His sole task now was to defeat this high-level Green Spirit Puppet, whose strength surpassed Lin Suo's, as quickly as possible.

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

Li Luo held dual blades, water light flowing over them, the blade light sharp and biting.

As he approached, his toe suddenly tapped, his figure darting out like a flying swallow. Xiang Power within his body erupted, the dual blades carving out blade lights, directly striking the massive-axe Green Spirit Puppet with a fierce posture.

However, facing his attack, the Green Spirit Puppet raised the massive axe like a shield, catching all the blade lights. Amidst splashing sparks, its burly figure remained motionless like a rock.

Then the massive axe suddenly swung down, violent green light slashing down directly toward Li Luo's position.

Li Luo's figure agilely dodged; a green light several zhang long shot out from his side. As it passed, the fierce energy fluctuations still made his skin feel waves of stinging pain.

With one move failing, the high-level Green Spirit Puppet rushed straight to kill, axe lights turning into afterimages, enveloping him with a suffocating sense of pressure.

Beneath the axe lights, the air was directly compressed and exploded, the piercing sound of sonic booms ringing out continuously.

Li Luo's eyes were stern; the Xiang Power within his two Xiang Palaces rapidly circulated, then converged like two streams, quickly merging as the mighty energy fluctuations stacked and strengthened.

The dual blades suddenly slashed down; a deep blue water-flow blade light shot out fiercely from the blade tips. That water-flow blade light revealed astonishing piercing power, leaving faint water trails in the void wherever it passed.

Thousand-Flow Water Blade Art!

Facing this high-level Green Spirit Puppet, stronger than Lin Suo, Li Luo without hesitation used dual-Xiang Power to activate the Thousand-Flow Water Blade Art, one of his strongest offensive moves.

Buzz!

The water-flow blade light flew past and clashed directly with the angry downward-swinging axe-light energy of the high-level Green Spirit Puppet. Immediately, piercing metallic sounds rang out, and violent energy shockwaves swept outward.

Li Luo's figure was directly knocked flying. That high-level Green Spirit Puppet was also knocked back two steps, but its defense was too astonishing, and it felt no fear. After stabilizing its figure, it grabbed the massive axe and chased after Li Luo.

Li Luo's figure retreated mid-air; his blood and qi churned somewhat. The previous clash had caused him considerable impact. The strength of this Green Spirit Puppet was indeed formidable.

Previously, when dealing with Lin Suo at the Golden Dragon Dojo, Qin Qin Zhulu had acted as a meat shield to absorb and share the pressure. This time, however, Li Luo could only rely entirely on his own abilities to contend. Fortunately, his Xiang Power had also improved during this period. Although he had not yet broken through to the Xiang Transformation Stage, it was still a significant improvement compared to before entering the Holy Wood Realm Cave. Otherwise, just the previous clash alone would have caused him some internal injuries.

His figure retreated mid-air. Li Luo looked at the Green Spirit Puppet rushing after him, reversed his dual blades into the scabbards at his waist, and his hand swept over the space ball on his wrist. Instantly, a silver-white great bow emitting holy light appeared. As soon as this bow appeared, it emitted extremely strong energy fluctuations, and the energy fluctuations of the surrounding heaven and earth all converged toward the great bow.

It was the Light Falcon Bow.

As soon as this bow appeared, the Green Spirit Puppet that had been chasing it slowed its steps slightly, obviously sensing some threat. Immediately, the green light on its body surface became even more intense, and green energy vortices continuously formed on the green armor it wore.

This was a manifestation of strengthening the armor's defense.

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

Screech!

Li Luo quickly drew the Light Falcon Bow. As his fingers hooked the bowstring, more than ten light arrows suddenly shot out instantly. The light arrows emitted the sharp cry of a falcon and, at an astonishing speed, struck vital points on various parts of the Green Spirit Puppet's body.

However, each shot only made the Green Spirit Puppet's body tremble slightly. The energy vortices continuously surging on the armor constantly dissolved these light arrows.

Even when a light arrow occasionally pierced through the energy vortex, it failed to cause serious damage. Since the puppet felt no pain, it rapidly approached while enduring Li Luo's arrow storm.

Li Luo watched the Green Spirit Puppet rapidly chasing him with a solemn expression. At the same time, his peripheral vision swept over the other battle circles on this platform. On Qin Qin Zhulu's side, he had almost been suppressed, but now his strength had indeed improved so much that although the situation was not advantageous, he managed to completely tie up that Green Spirit Puppet so it could not break free. As for Student Xin Fu and Lu Qing'er's side, the situation was even worse. Although they had a numerical advantage, they were instead being forced into a step-by-step retreat by the Green Spirit Puppet. Judging by this, they probably could not hold out for much longer.

Li Luo's gaze, in this fleeting moment, swept over the platform in the distance. He did not look closely at too many places, focusing only on Ye Ye Qiuding's location.

He saw two figures clashing fiercely in that battle circle. Unlike his own fighting-and-retreating style, Ye Ye Qiuding was completely holding his ground against that high-level Green Spirit Puppet in a direct confrontation. Both sides fought with exchanges, which could be called spectacular. However, this was normal. Ye Ye Qiuding was now at the second variation of the Xiang Transformation Stage, and with various techniques, his combat power would not be weaker than that top-tier Green Spirit Puppet at the third variation of the Xiang Transformation Stage.

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

Time is running out.

Li Luo's mind turned, but his actions did not stop for a moment. With the amplification of the Light Falcon Bow, light arrows continuously broke through the air, like an exceptionally fierce rain of light, covering the sky and earth as they shot toward the Green Spirit Puppet.

On the Green Spirit Puppet's body, energy vortices continuously surged to resist the light arrows.

This kind of consumption was not meaningless. Because with each surge of those energy vortices, Li Luo also keenly discovered some weaknesses in the Green Spirit Puppet's solid defense. Actually, they could not be called weaknesses; it was just that the speed at which energy vortices surged in certain places was obviously somewhat stagnant.

"The position of the right waist and abdomen..."

Li Luo's eyes flashed, finally confirming the defensive flaw of the Green Spirit Puppet. Immediately, he understood that his opportunity to act had arrived, and time did not allow him to delay any longer, because if he delayed further, Ye Ye Qiuding would probably win.

Hoo.

Li Luo Heavily exhaled a breath, and his eyes suddenly became sharp and fierce at this moment.

His opportunity to strike existed only this once.

Boom!

Just then, the ground suddenly shook. He saw that the Green Spirit Puppet, which had already approached, let out a low roar. The massive axe in its hand suddenly flew out of its grip, like a green tornado, directly slashing violently toward Li Luo's retreating figure.

Li Luo quickly raised a hand, Xiang Power circulating. He saw water-phase power howling out, transforming into layers of Xiang Power vortices.

"Water Vortex Barrier."

Splash-splash-splash!

The massive-axe tornado directly shattered all those Xiang Power vortices like destroying withered grass, then slashed down toward Li Luo's position. At this moment, the Light Falcon Bow in his hand flipped, and as Xiang Power circulated, it collided with that axe light.

Bang!

Mighty force surged. Li Luo was directly knocked flying backward. The sleeves on his arms were torn into powder by the violent force at this moment. Streaks of bloodstains tore open on his arms, and immediately blood dyed the entire arm red.

But Li Luo did not care at all. Instead, taking advantage of the instant his figure was knocked flying, he directly drew the bow.

Dual-Xiang Power within his body erupted!

Seven Xiang Power bubbles shattered!

Buzz!

Within Li Luo's body, mighty Xiang Power climbed step by step. On the bowstring of the Light Falcon Bow in his hand, Xiang Power rapidly condensed and compressed. After a few breaths, a Light Falcon arrow formed, the Light Falcon lifelike, spreading its wings as if ready to fly.

Li Luo's expression was Solemn; his fingers released.

The Light Falcon shot out violently. The piercing cry of the falcon echoed throughout the entire platform. In that instant, even several Purple Radiance Instructors on the high platform turned their heads slightly to look.

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

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