Chapter 199: Chapter 196: Can you swim?
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"W-What the hell is that?!" Dugu Liubai exclaimed in shock.
He had never before seen such a method of inducing a lightning strike from the Heavens as if it was under one's beck and call like that!
After the other party had dived into the water previously, the latter had only rose one hand towards the sky, before lightning bolts from the 8 different cardinal directions instantly scrambled through the sky to meet at one point exactly above the position of that hand before striking down!
And by the looks of it, when the lightning bolts struck down, it coalesced together to form a weapon, a great axe made up entirely of lightning!
Even for someone like him, Dugu Liubai, whom had already experienced the many vicissitudes of life, had never before seen something as bizarre as this!
"Ahh! All those Krakens were electrocuted when the lightning bolts touched the water.."
Dugu Liubai watched as the Krakens began to float ontop of the water one by one, unconscious while their body twitched every so often.
"To think that the lightning bolts called upon by this fellow was so strong that even Nascent Soul realm monsters were affected to this extent.. just what is the origin of that great axe?" he said as he couldn't help but to ponder upon this.
He himself had some weapons in his disposal that could be considered as legendary as well with even more terrifying nature and damage to it, but he could sense that the lightning elements within Duan Li's great axe has the nature of a lightning tribulation in it!
But how could that possibly be?
No one should be able to harness such a thing, especially not mortal!
"And that sword on his left hand.. its a sword with a spirit? That's quite the rare stuff he has there.."
If he remembered correctly, there was no blacksmith in the Tian continent back then whom possessed the capability to smith a weapon with a spirit..
Was there actually someone so formidable right now?
"Furthermore, his skill arts.. was it just me or its a little bit too powerful for someone of his realm?"
That palm attack and sword strikes even managed to repel the attacks from Nascent Soul realm monsters!
One has to remember that Duan Li was just at the Core formation realm while the pack of monsters were one whole realm higher than him!
Therefore, logically speaking, it shouldn't even cause a graze, let alone some slight damage, but the other party somehow managed to hurt the Krakens!
Thus, Dugu Liubai couldn't help but to cup his chin and pondered upon this, "Was the identification system for the Eternal maze broken?"
...
Puah!
Duan Li swam back to the surface, and climbed atop of one of the unconscious Kraken.
Throwing the Eternal Great Axe on his right hand into the air, with a slight 'Bzztt!', the weapon dissipated back into 8 individual lightning bolts before zapping towards the sky to return from whence they came.
Pant! Pant!
"That took quite the toll on my body without my normal stamina.." Duan Li breathed out rapidly and had to stand from his kneeling position with the help of his hands.
I hadn't really noticed before, but the Eternal Great Axe had actually ate up a lot of my stamina as well, not just my spiritual Qi!
'I really have to train my physical body sometimes..'
Should I be like Shen Murong? But he is too big.. hmm.. I'll aim for a leaner muscle definition next time..
For Duan Li, after reaching the Core formation realm pinnacle, he doesn't have to temper his body like the one he did back in the lower realm. After all, the Crimson mysterious pearl had automatically reinforced his internal body state, meridians and pathways right after he ascended!
Although he had not yet managed to uncover more secrets of what the crimson mysterious pearl could do, just this function alone was really convenient for him!
Whoever made these mysterious pearls, you have my thanks!
Staring at the unconscious kraken below his feet with a snort, Duan Li activated his Tetra Soul Sense!
Wengg!!
"Ohh! That's a really nice and big monster core!" he said, excited upon the thought of being able to cultivate it and incubate another Elemental Spirit Origin like Dilong and Zhulong in the future.
Raising his sword, Duan Li struck down.
Clang!!
The tip of the sword rebounded off from the skin of the Kraken.
"Hey little sword, what is wrong with you? We need to cut this octopus up and get its monster core!" Duan Li said in a displeased tone.
"Eh.. young master, the skin which protects the region of its monster core is pretty tough! Unless you execute skill arts, we won't be able to puncture it! Damned lower life-forms, what is the use for so much of these protection!" the sword cursed out.
Hearing this, Duan Li harrumphed, "Hmph! Wielding you while executing skill arts? That would be a waste to my stamina! Nevermind, I'll just directly use a skill art to deal with this then."
Pointing his right index finger towards the region where the monster core was located, Duan Li redirected his spiritual Qi inside his meridians and Qi pathways in a unique way.
One Finger Starlight Slash!
Zzzuuuuuu!!
Oh?
"This is unexpected, although the output is only at 10 percent, it still took quite a while to penetrate the skin inch by inch.." Duan Li said.
"That's because young master's skill art were the combination of light and fire, while this hideous creature is of the water attribute which overcomes fire.." Duergar explained.
"Huh? How did you know that my skill art nature was the combination of light and fire?" Duan Li asked in surprise.
"Eh? I-Isn't that quite obvious young master?" Duergar replied in a stutter.
"Is that so?" Duan Li narrowed his eyes suspiciously towards the latter.
...
Hmm?
"That skill art technique, it seems to be a little bit familiar.. where have I seen that before.." Dugu Liubai pondered, before the fruit on his hand fell down to the ground as his eyes widened in shock.
"N-No! T-That's absolutely impossible!" he shook his head furiously.
This fellow's skill art was just similar in nature to that person's!
That has to be it!
He suddenly found himself to be drenched in sweat. The more he thought about the matter, the more his heart palpitated.
...
After a short while, Duan Li finally finished laser-cutting the tough skin that protected the monster core of the Kraken below him, exposing a shining bright blue monster core!
He then turned around to look at the other Krakens around him, drifting far apart from each other.
"Eh.. there are 4 more to cut.. and I don't want to swim again, the water is just too cold and salty.." he said before summoning up everyone again.
After instructing everyone to push the other floating Krakens near him so that he could cut them up later, he quickly scanned the water again to make sure that it was safe before giving them the green go.
"Remember, keep some of your body parts above water! They can't attack you if you do that!" he reminded, before Di Rou, Komodo and Daelius nodded, and simultaneously moved to do their respective tasks.
Except Cucko that is.
"What's wrong?" Duan Li asked as he turned towards this chicken of his, feeling concerned that the other party might be having a lasting trauma from the previous incident!
CUCK CUCCKOO!!
"Oh.. you can't float like a duck? But don't you have feathers to paddle through the water?"
Now, now! Don't you try to fool me, I know chickens could swim and float on water because I've seen one back in the village, where a chicken was once chasing a female duck across the pond!
Hais!
'It seems to be a trauma indeed..' Duan Li shook his head as he thought of this.
Let me help you overcome it..
Grabbing Cucko with both hands, Duan Li assured the former that he will help the whole process and make it less tedious.
Then, he pulled his arms backward and threw Cucko into the air towards the direction of an unconscious Kraken.
"Go Cucko! You can do it!" Duan Li cheered.
CU-CUCKKK! CCUUCKKOOOOOO!!
"..." everyone.
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A.N: Believe it or not, chickens really do know how to swim, and this article really cracks me up lol xD
https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/can-chickens-swim/
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