With a loud boom, the building under Wilhelm's feet suddenly collapsed under the impact of the powerful Strength from both sides.
However, in the eyes of both enemies and allies, the world seemed to slow down at this moment. The rubble from the collapsing building and the shattered splinters from the long spear were slowly scattering outwards, while the two of them seemed frozen in mid-air.
The eyes of both sides met in the air.
Wilhelm could now clearly see his opponent. He was dressed in the Da Shun military attire, with his jacket and scarf fluttering behind him. The Weapon that shattered the long spear was a gleaming Long Sword.
Chen Chuan stared at his opponent. His strike had directly shattered the opponent's Weapon. Without prior preparation, there would be no time to adjust under such an attack. He could immediately press forward with his blade and behead the enemy, even if their Strength was similar to his.
This was the advantage gained by seizing the initiative.
But Wilhelm was prepared. Among the fragments of the shattered spear, he still held a white spear core in his hand, which was about the same length as the Snow Emperor Blade.
The unique design of this spear was to use the outer layer of the spear to dissipate force. The shattering of the spear just now had dissipated a large amount of Internal energy, slightly deflecting the Snow Emperor Blade from the impact.
At that moment, Wilhelm suddenly grabbed the spear core and thrust it towards Chen Chuan .
In the next moment, a faint light emerged from the tip of the spear.This was undoubtedly Spiritual Awareness. In a confrontation of this level, without defensive measures, the battle could end in an instant.
Chen Chuan focused on the front, his eyes deep and still, without a ripple. The Snow Emperor Blade in his hand had already deviated by half an inch. Returning it to its original position would usually require readjustment, and the timing of this adjustment would be enough for the opponent to thrust the spear into him.
However, at this moment, the Long Sword in his hand returned at lightning speed. This was actually a two-stage Internal energy!
During the forward stab, a faint light also bloomed on the blade!
With a bang, the Long Sword struck the side of the spear core squarely this time. The two streams of Spiritual Perception light collided, and the surrounding light dimmed for a moment, as if even the surrounding air was distorted.
Spiritual Awareness can only be countered by Spiritual Perception, but after these two streams of light collided and dissipated, what followed was a collision of Strength between the spear and the blade!
Wilhelm's Van Hohr book highly emphasized the unity of Spirit and body. Cultivating the body was training the Spirit, and training the Spirit was also refining the body. Therefore, in his attacks, the two were highly integrated.
His strike simultaneously carried both Spirit and Strength, and they complemented each other, resulting in greater destructive power.
Usually, few could withstand his spear, because if a Martial Artist's Spirit and body were slightly out of sync, he could tear open this unstable connection and deliver a fatal blow.
However, this collision greatly surprised him. Cultivating the Van Hohr book, he could feel that the opponent's Spirit and body had not reached perfect coordination, which was normal, because under most Cultivation systems, a Martial Artist's body and Spirit were not in equilibrium, and this was precisely what he wanted to exploit.
However, to his surprise, he was unable to shake his opponent in the collision. The opponent's physical Strength was far stronger than his. Even if his Spiritual Power was also slightly higher, whether it was Spirit or body, as long as one of them was lacking, he could find a loophole. But now, both of the opponent's Strength surpassed him, which meant that not only could he not break the enemy's momentum, but he had become the one being repelled and suppressed.
A Strength transmitted from the spear core to his body. Although most of the Strength was absorbed by the Mutated Tissue in the spear, some still impacted his body's Mutated Tissue, influencing his Internal energy exertion. He could foresee that the spear would eventually be shaken open slightly, resulting in a gap.
In a high-intensity confrontation, even a slight difference could be the key to determining victory or defeat. If an experienced opponent could take advantage of this deviation, while maintaining this advantage and gradually expanding it, then they could achieve victory.
In a battle between two opponents of similar level, this process was almost irreversible, unless the attacker made a mistake.
But he would never gamble on Chen Chuan making a mistake. People at their level could not make such low-level mistakes.
So, having fought to this point, it seemed he had already lost. But at this moment, his eyes lit up with a light that flickered like stars. The Mutated Tissue, which had been suppressed by the Internal energy impact, suddenly became active. Not only was it no longer affected, but it seemed even stronger than before.
This was because he Cultivation and had experienced the trials of hardship recorded in the Van Hohr book.
Having undergone these trials, when he felt himself in a desperate situation, he could take a breath and recover. Not only could he make up for the deficiencies caused by the setback, but he could also become stronger than before.
Because he had already experienced three trials of hardship, he had three such adjustments. After each one, his physical fitness would be elevated. And if he reached the third time, he believed his Strength would be unmatched.
At this moment, he seemed unaffected by the previous impact. He timely stabilized the slightly trembling spear core and forcibly moved it back to collide with the Snow Emperor Blade again.
This time, not only Strength was enhanced, but even Spirit was elevated from being slightly weaker than the opponent to being slightly stronger. This slight advantage was enough for him to exert the strengths of his own Internal energy. Next, as long as he could deflect the opponent's blade by a fraction, he could seize the initiative of the attack!
Both Weapons were now covered with a faint light, but the Heart Qi Internal energy was overflowing, so even before they collided, their Strength had already begun to collide and compete with each other.
Chen Chuan immediately felt from it that the opponent's overall Strength had been elevated, and he could roughly guess that the opponent had used some secret technique.
In fact, at this time, he only needed to Merge Second Self to directly break through all obstacles in front of him, but he did not do so.
When the blade collided with it again, the Internal energy he used had a new change. He instantly swallowed the opponent's Internal energy without any Influence, and horizontally slashed out the third blade without any Influence!
This was the Rotating Screw Force from United Power Heavy Industries' Fan Mo .
He could Simulation this kind of Internal energy from the old National religion, but he could not make it as smooth and fluid as Fan Mo . But he didn't need to do that. He only needed to be able to swallow the Internal energy and then quickly launch an attack.
At this time, his Strength was still higher than the opponent's, so he only needed to maintain the Momentum of the attack to gain the advantage!
This time, when the Strength collided again, Wilhelm's enhanced physical fitness still failed to completely resist the Internal energy impact that penetrated his body, but his tenacious foundation made his Spirit even more excited, and his body instantly underwent a second transformation.
Not only that, because he felt the unparalleled sense of oppression from the enemy, he instantly entered the third level of reverse elevation on the basis of the second transformation.
This time, his Strength, Speed, and Spirit were all elevated to an unprecedented level since Martial Combat Cultivation. The spear core turned, and it seemed that not only was it not affected by the collision, but it took the initiative to meet the Snow Emperor Blade.
Chen Chuan's eyes were now deep and profound, like a bottomless pool. The Snow Emperor Blade flashed and met it.
The moment the two Weapons met, they did not produce the kind of collision they had before.
The Strength that poured in from the opponent seemed to enter a void, and at the same time, a Strength almost twice as strong as before burst out from the blade.
Assistant Ling's penetrating void force!
Now he was in mid-air and could not Guide the enemy's Internal energy to the ground, but he could directly transmit it to Hong Fu . Although he could not gather and explode several times the Strength at one point like Assistant Ling , it was enough to double the Strength.
The blade shook the spear core away with a bang, and then Blade flash advanced rapidly, slicing across Wilhelm's neck with a hiss.
Wilhelm's eyes widened suddenly. Although his head was cut off at this time, it had not yet left his body.
However, in this instant, the great sense of stimulation from the imminent death allowed him to see the fourth trial of hardship that he had never been able to overcome.
This level of trial was to completely transform in the face of near death, and he truly felt it at this moment.
At this moment, although his body had died, his Spirit had not.
The strong desire to survive made Spirit feed back to the body and drive the long spear, which he could no longer feel, to move quietly. He was sure that after this move, Chen Chuan's Strength had also been used to the extreme and was about to decline.
As long as he could bring the spear over, he would be able to kill his opponent with one blow, and then, under the strong Spirit stimulation after the victory, he would be able to overcome this trial of hardship. At that time, not only would he be able to reattach his head, but he would also be able to advance to a higher level in Cultivation.
However, before the long spear could turn around, Chen Chuan folded the Long Sword in his hand. The Blade flash that had already been slashed out did not weaken because of this. Instead, it was brought back again, and he held it high with both hands.
At this time, what he used was Flying Dragon Fist!
Flying Dragon Fist used fists, but the principle was the same. In mid-air, the moves were continuous and connected, with the previous move driving the next, and it could also borrow the enemy's momentum, so the Strength would not be exhausted.
And this move could be called Flying Dragon Blade Slash!
The blade in his hand suddenly slashed down, and with a hiss, Blade flash flashed across Wilhelm's body from top to bottom, and a semi-circular cut mark appeared in the air, as if dividing the atmospheric dust in half.
Although they had exchanged several moves in the sky, because the Speed was too fast, it was not until this moment that both sides showed signs of falling.
With a tap, Chen Chuan's feet landed on the ground, and Wilhelm also landed on the ground at the same time.
Around the two were crackling sounds of falling dust and gravel.
Chen Chuan held his blade and stared at Wilhelm , who maintained his posture of holding the spear. After a moment, the light in his eyes dissipated, and the spear core in his hand fell to the ground with a clang. Then his head fell down, and then the headless corpse split in half from the middle, each falling to the sides and smashing out a cloud of dust.
……
……