LRAB Chapter 85 I am the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and earth!
Chapter 85 I am the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and earth!
Chapter 85 I am the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and earth!
"Shrinking Earth?" Lu Jin frowned slightly, his gaze closely following Lu Linglong's unpredictable movements in the arena, and muttered to himself.
With his keen eye, he could see that the steps contained not only speed, but also an ancient charm that blended with the earth's energy and shrunk to an inch, yet it was something that seemed real but not quite.
"Heh, it does bear some resemblance to the Heavenly Gang Steps of my Celestial Master's Mansion, but its core is completely different, and it is more ethereal and transcendent." Zhang Zhiwei stroked his beard and pondered, his interest growing even stronger.
He was knowledgeable and discerned that Lu Linglong's steps subtly resonated with a higher and more profound rhythm of nature, far surpassing mere footwork skills.
Meanwhile, the fierce battle raged on the field.
Zhang Lingyu calmed his mind and temporarily suppressed the Yin Five Thunders.
Faced with Lu Linglong's unpredictable close-range attack ability, he chose the safest approach by pushing the Golden Light Spell to its current limit!
"drink!"
With a clear shout, a magnificent golden light, even more solid than before and with an inner radiance like liquid gold, suddenly erupted from his body!
Instead of being evenly covered, it formed a thick, tough, and ever-flowing layer of golden armor on his body, following his will!
He shone with golden light, his aura as solid as a mountain, making him appear like a golden-armored war god, awe-inspiring and imposing.
Almost the instant his golden protective aura took shape, Lu Linglong's figure once again darted into his central palace like a ghost!
It was still a simple straight punch, without any fancy moves, aimed straight at the heart where the golden light shone brightest!
"clang-!!!"
This time, it wasn't a muffled thud, but a resounding boom like a great bell!
The fist clashed violently with the golden armor, unleashing a burst of piercing golden-white light and surging air waves!
Zhang Lingyu stood as steady as a rock, the ground beneath his feet cracking inch by inch, yet he did not retreat even half a step!
Lu Linglong's fist was deflected by the recoil, but she followed the movement of her fist, twisting her waist and turning her hips, and her left fist slammed towards Zhang Lingyu's ribs like a poisonous dragon emerging from its cave!
Zhang Lingyu lowered his arm to block, golden light flashed, and he clashed with the opponent again!
"Bang bang bang! Clang clang clang!"
The two fought with lightning speed, their figures flashing and intersecting rapidly across the field!
Lu Linglong's fists, palms, elbows, and knees all transformed into the most ferocious weapons, launching a continuous barrage of attacks from various tricky angles. Each strike was powerful and heavy, carrying a strange shockwave, attempting to shake the impregnable golden light defense.
Zhang Lingyu held firm in the center, manipulating the Golden Light Mantra with ease. He could either block directly, deflect force, or solidify the golden light into shields or walls, neutralizing most attacks. Occasionally, the golden light would flicker like spears or whips, launching fierce counterattacks that forced Lu Linglong to change her movements to dodge.
For a time, it was a back-and-forth exchange, with the sounds of fists and feet colliding with golden light filling the air, and energy radiating in all directions, making for an extremely intense scene!
The sight was dazzling, leaving everyone breathless.
However, two fists can't fight four hands. Zhang Lingyu's mind raced, and he found a tiny gap in Lu Linglong's strength when she had just exhausted her old strength and had not yet gained new strength. His eyes flashed with a sharp light!
Suddenly, the golden light around him fluctuated violently. Instead of dissipating, it surged toward his right arm like a living fluid!
In the blink of an eye, a giant hand, about ten feet in diameter and with five clearly defined fingers, made entirely of condensed golden light, suddenly took shape in front of him!
The golden giant palm, carrying an overwhelming and irresistible power, with its five fingers spread wide, resembled the Buddha holding up a flower or a Vajra subduing demons, and slammed down on Lu Linglong, who had just landed and was slightly dazed!
The palm strike howled, enveloping all directions, leaving no way to escape!
"boom!"
Lu Linglong seemed to have not expected the Golden Light Mantra to have such a change. Caught off guard, she was struck solidly by the giant golden palm!
Her petite body was flung backward like a kite with a broken string by the tremendous force!
"Oh?" While still in mid-air, Lu Linglong let out a soft exclamation of slight surprise, without any sign of panic. "The Golden Light Mantra can change like this? It's truly—such a convenient supernatural power."
Before she finished speaking, she twisted her waist in mid-air in an incredible way, her feet lightly touching the air as if stepping on invisible steps. Her figure gracefully flipped and landed steadily on the ground, though her clothes were slightly disheveled, her breathing remained steady.
"It's useless, Miss Lu." Zhang Lingyu withdrew her golden giant hand, which transformed back into a uniformly protective golden armor. Her voice came through the golden light, carrying absolute confidence, "With just your fists and feet, no matter how strong your skills or how wonderful your movements are, you have absolutely no chance of breaking through my full-force golden light spell head-on."
"Is that so?" Lu Linglong tidied her messy hair, looked up at Zhang Lingyu in the golden light, and suddenly a very faint smile with a strange meaning appeared on her lips. "Since Master Lingyu says so, then I also have a move. Please have Master Lingyu judge it."
After this battle, no one dared to underestimate this previously unknown girl anymore.
Each of them was completely focused, holding their breath as they watched their opponent unleash their attack.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Lu Linglong suddenly made an extremely strange move.
She slowly raised her right hand, her index finger pointing straight to the sky, while her left hand moved downwards, her index finger pointing to the ground.
His body stood straight, head held high, his eyes becoming incredibly deep and empty at that moment, as if they contained the entire starry sky, or as if they were completely empty.
A clear, calm voice, yet seemingly imbued with some supreme decree, slowly uttered from her lips: "Heaven and Earth—"
—
"I am the only one who matters!"
The eight-character mantra, each word spoken with deliberate pause, strikes like a great bell, resonating on some invisible level!
The moment the words fell, Zhang Lingyu felt an indescribable, overwhelming, and unbelievable "aura" rise suddenly from Lu Linglong's body, who was in that strange pose. It was not a physical force, but a pure spiritual will, a "sense of existence" that transcended all things!
The feeling was as if she was no longer a person, but had transformed into the backbone that supports the sky and the foundation that suppresses the earth!
The world is vast, yet it seems to revolve around her!
A domineering, unyielding, and unquestionable "I will" swept across the world, ignoring everything, and instantly crashed into Zhang Lingyu's mind and consciousness!
"Ugh!" Zhang Lingyu groaned, feeling a blur before her eyes and a violent tremor in her mental world!
The state of "body and mind in perfect harmony" that had been maintained so seamlessly and in perfect harmony with the Golden Light Mantra was abruptly shaken and interrupted by this sudden and supreme spiritual pressure!
When the mind loses focus, the vital energy flowing within the body instantly becomes slightly disordered.
The essence of the Golden Light Mantra is the external supernatural power manifested by the high unity and resonance of the mind, spirit, and spirit.
With his mind in turmoil, the invisible string that held the golden light together snapped with a clang!
In reality, the stands were in uproar.
In the eyes of most viewers, Lu Linglong simply made a strange gesture, shouted a seemingly domineering but cringeworthy □ sign, and then—that was it?
There was neither a truly earth-shattering explosion nor any mysterious magical light and shadow.
Even more strangely, Zhang Lingyu seemed to be under a spell, remaining motionless while protected by golden light.
The two stood several feet apart, silently gazing at each other. To the audience, the scene was deathly silent.
"What on earth happened?"
"What happened? That's it?"
"A true hero—killing with his eyes?" Someone couldn't help but make a joke, and even began to suspect that Zhang Lingyu was cooperating in fixing the match.
Even Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Jin on the high platform had their brows furrowed and looked puzzled.
With their cultivation level and eyesight, they could vaguely sense that Lu Linglong had emitted a very special spiritual fluctuation just now, but they couldn't quite figure out what it was.
The gesture, the words, seemed to touch upon some realm they had never explored in depth.
On the other side of the stands, Feng Baobao, who often sparred with Lu Linglong and had witnessed her various strange and unusual methods, blinked and showed an "I see" expression.
"It's this move," she said calmly.
"Sister Bao'er, do you know what happened?" Zhang Chulan immediately came over, his face full of question marks.
Xu San, Xu Si, Feng Xingtong, Wang Ye, and others nearby also turned their curious gazes toward Feng Baobao.
"Hmm." Feng Baobao nodded, and then, under the astonished gazes of the others, she actually imitated Lu Linglong's mannerisms, raising her right index finger to the sky and her left index finger to the ground, striking the "I am the only one who is supreme in heaven and earth" pose, facing Zhang Chulan and the others.
"————" Zhang Chulan and the others looked bewildered. After carefully sensing, they found nothing.
"Did you sense anything?" Feng Baobao asked earnestly, maintaining her posture.
Everyone shook their heads.
Feng Baobao then lowered her hand and explained in her unique, straightforward tone, "This move is very strange. It's clearly a very ordinary movement, but when Lu Linglong uses it, it becomes very powerful."
She paused, seemingly searching for the right words, "It's like—you're standing perfectly fine on the ground, and then the whole sky," suddenly rose up from her, and then, "boom!" slammed down on you. It was brutal!
Her description was somewhat abstract, but combined with Zhang Lingyu's reaction in the room, Zhang Chulan and the others seemed to have vaguely grasped something.
Feng Baobao's description is pretty accurate.
Lu Linglong's move was not a direct energy attack, but rather a brief simulation and release of a supreme "aura" and "artistic conception" that she had "seen" somewhere, using a specific posture and angle as a guide and her own pure magic power and spiritual will as a medium!
It strikes at the opponent's spirit, and has the remarkable effect of intimidating, suppressing, and even temporarily depriving the opponent of a certain "state".
Its power depends on the level of "momentum" that the user has witnessed.
What she just simulated was clearly at an extremely high level, high enough to shake the mental balance of someone as skilled as Zhang Lingyu.
The so-called Golden Light Mantra, in essence, is a supernatural power that manifests golden light when the mind and body are in a highly coordinated state of harmony.
Lu Linglong's move, "I am the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and earth," with its domineering and supreme mental impact, brutally disrupted the delicate balance and harmony between Zhang Lingyu's mind and body.
The string is broken, and the music has ended.
The Golden Light Mantra, naturally, could no longer be continued and receded like the tide.
Because this move only works when viewed from a specific angle and directly facing Lu Linglong's spiritual projection, which contains profound meaning, the audience outside the arena, including Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Jin on the high platform, could not feel the spiritual collision at all, except for Zhang Lingyu who was directly opposite. They only saw the two of them standing still in an eerie way.
At this moment, in the arena.
As the protective golden light melted and faded away rapidly, like snow under the sun, Zhang Lingyu's tall and straight body swayed slightly.
His face was slightly pale, his chest heaved, and he was breathing heavily, unable to control himself. Fine beads of sweat even appeared on his forehead.
This was not due to excessive physical exertion, but rather a brief period of exhaustion and discomfort resulting from a sudden and severe shock to the mind, followed by a forced attempt to maintain the state of near collapse.
He raised his head and looked at Lu Linglong, who had already stopped her posture and returned to her normal expression not far away. For the first time, shock, disbelief, and deep solemnity clearly appeared in her cold eyes.
"You—" He opened his mouth, his voice slightly hoarse, "What was that just now—?"
Lu Linglong let out a soft breath, and her clear smile returned to her face, as if that domineering move just now had nothing to do with her.
"Just a little trick to distract the mind, I hope Master Lingyu will forgive my blunder." Lu Linglong's tone was relaxed, but her eyes remained bright and focused. "So, without the Golden Light Mantra—how will Master Lingyu deal with this next?"
On the stands, Wang Ai and Lü Ci, the old partners, exchanged a meaningful glance, their eyes simultaneously glancing at Lu Jin and Zhang Zhiwei, whose expressions differed on the high platform.
This scene is so familiar.
In a daze, it vaguely overlapped with a scene from the Lu family compound decades ago.
Back then, at the same age and under the same public scrutiny, the arrogant Lu Jin, a genius of the Lu family, challenged the up-and-coming Zhang Zhiwei with the profound mystery of the Triple Rebirth Technique.
As a result, Zhang Zhiwei interrupted Lu Jin's reversal state with a seemingly casual but profound slap, forcibly "slapping" him out of that mysterious state of unity!
However, Zhang Zhiwei used a real slap back then, while Lu Linglong used an intangible and spiritually direct method today.
One person used physical "interruption," while the other used mental "intimidation."
It's truly a case of fortunes changing, and today it's the Celestial Master's Mansion's turn.
A subtle mocking smile appeared on Wang Ai's chubby face, while Lü Ci twitched the corners of his mouth, a hint of pleasure flashing in his eyes.
Both of them recalled the time when Lu Jin was stunned by a slap, and how frustrated he looked, almost on the verge of tears. Now, seeing Zhang Zhiwei's prized disciple also having his signature move broken in a similar way, they couldn't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude.
Feng Zhenghao, standing to the side, looked puzzled. He was relatively young and had not personally experienced what happened back then. He only felt that the atmosphere was subtle, but he didn't understand why.
Zhang Zhiwei, however, clapped his hands and burst into laughter, his voice booming like thunder: "Hahaha! Good! What a clever little trick to distract the mind! Old Lu, Old Lu, I never thought that after all these years, your cunning—cough, your dedication to research—hasn't changed a bit! You must have put a lot of thought into this scene today!"
He clearly believed that Lu Linglong's mental technique, which specifically counters "state-type" supernatural abilities, was something Lu Jin had painstakingly researched and deliberately taught to Lu Linglong, just so that on this occasion, in front of Zhang Zhiwei, he could "bring glory" for himself back then.
Lu Jin: "————"
His dough twitched almost imperceptibly, his heart filled with mixed emotions, yet he couldn't express them.
He has no interest in studying this.
He was a hundred times more puzzled than Zhang Zhiwei about the origin of Lu Linglong's abilities!
At this moment, his curiosity about Lu Linglong's mysterious "Penglai Hermit" master had reached its peak.
In just one year, a girl who had almost no experience in cultivation was trained to such an extent that her movements were unpredictable and her strength was astonishing. She also mastered this strange mental attack that directly targets the essence of supernatural powers and specifically breaks the state of unity between body and mind!
This ability to turn lead into gold and transform the mundane into the miraculous is simply unbelievable; you probably won't find another like it anywhere else in the world!
Speaking of teaching ability —
In Lu Jin's mind, an image involuntarily surfaced—a figure forever shrouded in a hazy halo, yet incredibly clear and profound.
His senior fellow student was Zhou Yi.
Back then, under the personal guidance of his senior brother, his cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds. In a very short time, he broke through the first level of "Ascension to Immortality" – "Water and Fire Immortal Robe" – and steadily stepped into the second level – "Innate Qi".
That feeling of being pushed forward by an invisible hand, and of being constantly enlightened, is still unforgettable.
In contrast, in the decades since his senior brother ascended to immortality, although his cultivation level has not regressed, his progress has been so slow that it is almost stagnant. Compared with his past self, it is like heaven and earth.
No—impossible!
Lu Jin abruptly banished this absurd thought from her mind.
How could Linglong's master, a "recluse" whose background is unknown and who doesn't even dare to show his face, possibly be compared to her brilliant and already ascended senior brother?
It must be some kind of unorthodox secret technique that I am not yet aware of, or it is simply Linglong's own extraordinary talent.
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The platypus has a move called "True Hero Kills with His Eyes," but I forgot the name. Something like "Something Something Slash."