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Su Wen felt his feet sink as he was controlled by a restrictive force.
He quickly mobilized his spirit power to impact it.
Having replicated the Diamond Mammoth spirit, he had experienced and researched "Pressure Kill." At this moment, as he impacted it with spirit power, his spiritual power surged, enveloping himself completely.
Bang!
The Pressure Kill, which was cast hastily to begin with, quickly lost effect under Su Wen's targeted countermeasure.
However, Huyan Zhen's "Gravity Squeeze" had also descended. It was called Gravity Squeeze, but it was actually an oppressive force descending within a range.
Gravity Squeeze was a spirit skill that many spirits could obtain. Zhao Wuji's Vigorous Vajra Bear had this skill, but his version involved suction force erupting from the ground and controlling the air within the range to suppress the enemy. Huyan Zhen, whose spirit was the Diamond Mammoth and who was accustomed to overwhelming people with sheer force, had a Gravity Squeeze that was an oppressive force descending from the sky.
Above Su Wen, vortex-like air currents appeared, weakening this oppressive force layer by layer.
If this oppressive force was a hundred, Su Wen weakened it eighteen times consecutively in this short instant with the vortex air currents, each time by two.
Among them, the force deflected nine times was converted by Su Wen. The airflow quickly rotated once in place, changed direction, and countered the gravity suppression, neutralizing about ten more points of damage.
With such means, Su Wen had weakened nearly half of the oppressive force.
A burst of flames erupted within his body as he fiercely rushed towards the cliff behind him.
Forcibly enduring the impact of this oppressive force caused Su Wen's internal organs to shake violently, seemingly tearing slightly.
"Huyan Zhen, I'll remember this grudge!"
Su Wen leaped fiercely off the cliff.
Propelled by the airflow, his descent was extremely fast, disappearing from sight in an instant.
After disappearing from view, Su Wen condensed his wings, changed the direction of his fall, and flew towards where the team was located.
On top of the cliff, Huyan Zhen's face was ugly.
He didn't think Su Wen returning would bring any trouble, but simply felt it looked bad on his face.
A dignified level eighty-nine Spirit Douluo personally took action, yet let him escape.
A great humiliation.
"He has means of wind element control and has displayed flying techniques. He definitely couldn't have fallen to his death." Huyan Zhen pondered the possibility of Su Wen returning to the team.
Very small.
However, he prepared to go and wait in ambush.
However, just after descending the mountain, before even approaching the Royal Team's camp, Huyan Zhen felt a gloomy and cold aura, making his hair stand on end.
His gaze fixed firmly on the old and young pair in front of him.
"Grandpa Dugu, it's him!" Su Wen pointed at Huyan Zhen.
Dugu Bo's cold eyes looked at Huyan Zhen. Behind him, the phantom of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor faintly condensed, and poison gas pervaded the air.
"Huyan Zhen, you're really regressing the more you cultivate, actually attacking a junior." Dugu Bo said gloomily.
This was his favorite excuse.
Because no matter who the opponent was, they wouldn't dare to confirm this in front of him.
Huyan Zhen's mouth twitched, forcing a fake smile as he cupped his hands to Dugu Bo: "It's truly a flood washing over the Dragon King temple. I didn't expect Su Wen to be a junior of Your Excellency Poison Douluo. I heard a Spirit Ancestor genius appeared in Elephant Armored City recently and just wanted to test Su Wen's strength."
"You wanted to kill me and take my spirit bone just now," Su Wen pursed his lips and said.
Dugu Bo's face was gloomy as he looked at Huyan Zhen and questioned, "Huyan Zhen, shouldn't you give a reasonable explanation? Using such an excuse to fool ghosts... do you look down on me, the Poison Douluo?"
Huyan Zhen inwardly cried out 'dare not'.
The gap between a Spirit Douluo and a Titled Douluo couldn't be bridged by having a top-tier spirit. After all, to cultivate to this level, those without top-tier spirits had already been eliminated.
And Titled Douluo had completed the process of spirit power solidification; their explosive power and endurance far exceeded Spirit Douluo.
Even though Huyan Zhen was already level eighty-nine, and even though Dugu Bo was only level ninety-one and jokingly called the weakest Titled Douluo, he, Huyan Zhen, dared not look down on Dugu Bo.
He dared not based on strength alone, and considering other factors, he dared even less.
Having been caught by the Poison Douluo with the excuse of attacking a junior, Huyan Zhen was truly afraid that if he didn't handle it well, the Poison Douluo would go crazy and release poison in the Elephant Armored Sect.
"Rumor has it that Dugu Bo has a secluded personality and is moody." Thinking of this, Huyan Zhen felt even more bitter.
You're a Titled Douluo; why follow a group of kids on their spirit battle training tour?
What is there to be worried about?
Huyan Zhen truly regretted not dealing with Su Wen more decisively earlier.
Of course, this regret certainly couldn't be realized, so he actually felt a trace of relief.
Fortunately, he hadn't truly killed him.
Dugu Bo was moody and his character was hard to fathom. If Su Wen disappeared for no reason just after leaving Elephant Armored City, mobilizing manpower to investigate in the Great Spirit Arena could easily reveal that the Elephant Armored Sect had been inquiring about Su Wen's information for the past seven days.
In that case, the Poison Douluo might also release poison.
This was the relationship between the two deduced by Huyan Zhen from the interaction between Su Wen and Dugu Bo.
Quite close.
"I wonder how Your Excellency Poison Douluo wishes to resolve this matter." Huyan Zhen lowered his stance quite a bit.
"Since the misunderstanding was caused by spirit bones, let's resolve it with spirit bones." Dugu Bo said lightly, as if the condition he mentioned was very ordinary.
"Your Excellency, spirit bones can be encountered but not sought—"
"A dignified Spirit Douluo can't even get a single spirit bone?" Dugu Bo sneered, mocking him.
"Besides, your Elephant Armored Sect is such a big sect and has been passed down for long enough. Successive Sect Masters were all Spirit Douluo. I don't believe you don't have excellent quality spirit bones."
Hearing Dugu Bo cue his Elephant Armored Sect, Huyan Zhen felt even more helpless.
He heard a threat in Dugu Bo's words.
Your Elephant Armored Sect has been passed down for so long, such a big sect, successive Sect Masters worked so hard to develop it to its current state... you don't want your sect to decline because of you, right?
Beside him, Su Wen also gave a thumbs up to Dugu Bo's threat.
Correct.
It has to be like this.
Although Huyan Zhen definitely didn't know the value of the two spirit bones he wanted to plunder, Su Wen absolutely couldn't suffer a loss.
Knowing that the two spirit bones on Su Wen were the most precious treasures in the Spirit Master world—one External Spirit Bone encountered by chance but not sought, and one hundred-thousand-year spirit bone.
So, compensation must be demanded!
"Grandpa Dugu, this old fellow guessed I had two spirit bones on me and attacked." Su Wen fanned the flames.
As for whether Huyan Zhen would retaliate later, Su Wen expressed no worry.
Dugu Bo looked at Huyan Zhen, his expression even gloomier, and the oppressive aura he released became even stronger.
And it was this point that put even greater pressure on Huyan Zhen.
Because the rumor that Dugu Bo was stuck at level ninety-one after breaking through to Titled Douluo seemed to be false.
Dugu Bo's current spirit power pressure was definitely not level ninety-one!
Huyan Zhen expressed that inaccurate intelligence really killed people.
"My sect has a five-thousand-year head spirit bone—"
"Are you dismissing beggars?" Su Wen bullied others relying on his backing, shouting.
(End of this chapter)