159 White Spirit, Guardian of the Secret Place
Seeing that Liu Hongshan had turned around and fled, Lin Ran was furious.
He had spent so much effort to lure him over. If he let Liu Hongshan leave just like that, firstly, there would no longer be a battlefield where he could fight freely. Secondly, he had already crossed that critical point. It would be a problem for him to bypass the white figure and get out!
Seeing that Liu Hongshan was about to fly close to the crack, Lin Ran hurriedly activated his internal energy to slash out a bolt of lightning.
Boom!
With a loud bang, a huge dragon made of lightning roared and crossed the distance between the two of them almost instantly, heading straight for Liu Hongshan!
Lin Ran used all his strength in this strike. Even Liu Hongshan did not dare to take it head-on. He hurriedly turned around and wanted to dodge, but the lightning dragon did not go straight like an ordinary sword energy. Instead, it turned its head in the air and charged at him!
This was the first time Liu Hongshan, who had lived for more than a hundred years, had seen such sword energy. In the moment of distraction, his chest was struck by the electric arc on the dragon claw, instantly leaving a burn mark on his body.
After dodging a few times, he realized that the world in front of him had returned to normal! It was no longer upside down.
“What’s going on? What is this place?”
Liu Hongshan could not help but exclaim. Before he realized it, he had already crossed the critical point of the world turning upside down.
At the same time, when Lin Ran saw that Liu Hongshan had crossed the critical point, he immediately stopped circulating his internal energy. At this moment, he was no longer planning to sneak attack Liu Hongshan. He was praying that the white figure would not notice him.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.
Although Lin Ran had only activated his internal energy for two to three seconds, the internal energy triggered by his strike was too great. It was even greater in intensity than Liu Hongshan, who was dodging in the air.
Almost instantly, a white figure appeared in his line of sight. At first, it was still a few thousand feet away, but in the next second, it was within a hundred steps of Lin Ran!
Seeing the white figure rushing towards him, Lin Ran couldn’t help but recall the despair he felt when he was chased by it last time.
However, it was also because of this face-to-face confrontation that he finally saw what the white figure was.
At this moment, the white figure became more and more solidified. Only then did Lin Ran recognize that it was not only a person, but also a person in silver armor.
The armor was abnormally smooth and wrapped around the person’s entire body. Even at the eyes, there were only two black slits.
Lin Ran didn’t know who was inside the armor, but he could tell that the style of the armor was very ancient, perhaps even older than the history of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty.
This armor had clearly experienced war. Countless sword marks lined up on the surface, as if they were layers of mysterious runes from the ancient times.
That was all Lin Ran could observe.
In the next second, the armored spirit approached. He did not have any weapons in his hands, or rather, his hands were the best weapons. The person crossed his fingers in front of him and easily slashed out a cross-shaped air slash!
Clang!
As soon as the sound of a sharp blade being unsheathed was heard, the cross-shaped air slash was already pressed against Lin Ran’s chest.
In a thousandth of a second, Lin Jin’s clothes exploded. At the same time, the Dark Insect Shield he built with his sword intent took shape in front of his chest.
Lin Ran felt as if he had been hit by a speeding train. Before he could spit out the blood that surged into his mouth, he was already smashed into the ground like a cannonball!
Boom!
With a loud bang, a huge pit was instantly blown up on the flat ground, causing dust to rise hundreds of feet high!
When Liu Hongshan saw this, he rushed towards the crack in the sky without hesitation.
However, at this moment, the white figure appeared in front of him like a ghost again. He turned around in the air and gathered strength. Then, he slashed at Liu Hongshan’s face.
In a hurry, Liu Hongshan only had time to raise his arms to block. At the same time, he transferred his internal energy to the Dragon Roar Dagger under his feet, wanting to take the brunt head-on and escape into the crack.
Liu Hongshan’s divine strength was indeed extraordinary. Facing the white figure’s thunderous strike, he could withstand it for an instant with his bare hands, but that was only for an instant.
An instant later, a huge force burst into his body. Liu Hongshan could even hear every bone in his body groan in pain. Then, he was smashed down from the sky like Lin Ran.
Boom!
With another loud bang, an even larger pit was blasted open on the flat ground. The white figure flashed in the air a few times before disappearing.
In the smaller pit, Lin Ran closed his eyes in pain. He did not dare to use his internal energy to ease his injuries, so he could only rely on his willpower to withstand the pain.
Fortunately, when he was cultivating the Three Essence Sword Technique, Moonlight, Lin Ran had experienced the pain of being destroyed by lava countless times. Therefore, even though his chest felt like it had been smashed by a huge hammer, he did not find the pain too unbearable.
Half a minute later, Lin Ran calmed down and looked at his chest. Although there was a cross-shaped bruise, his bones were not deformed.
The only problem was that the number of black insects had greatly decreased. It was not possible to form another shield. With the current number of black insects, it might even be difficult to condense a foot-long short sword.
“It seems that I have to go back to Sword Grave to gather more insects when I have time.”
As he thought about it, Lin Ran had climbed out of the pit.
He lay at the edge of the deep pit and wanted to take a breather, but he realized that not far away, another deep pit had appeared. Liu Hongshan, who was covered in dust, was lying at the edge of the deep pit and staring at him with a dark expression.