Chapter 173 A hundred years of martial arts, learned in one day!
The harbor was in ruins, and two figures, wreathed in divine brilliance, fought to the death, refusing to yield an inch!
Arthur's figure was like lightning, platinum arcs tearing through space, continuously slashing at those seemingly delicate arms!
Luo Hao's palms glowed with divine brilliance, tracing abstruse trajectories, meeting the blade precisely and countering every move!
Palm winds erupted with tremendous force, sending chunks of the ravaged earth flying!
Arcing light crisscrossed, either severing surging waves or splitting narrow fissures in the ground!
Though the exchange was brief, both knew clearly that if they continued to entangle, they might fight for three days and three nights without a victor!
Boom!
Arthur suddenly exerted force, the surging divine brilliance separating them, each retreating dozens of meters amidst the Impact of wind and waves, facing each other from a distance.
"I didn't want to expend too much power before finding The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, but the Cult Master is indeed the Cult Master, completely different from those brutes like Voban."
Arthur's voice was as firm as iron, his eyes devoid of any hesitation.
"There's no other way."
"Here I display the supreme valor of hunting lions and dragons, shattering heaven and earth!"
A pale brilliance surged from Arthur's body with full force, that pure destructive divine power making Luo Hao take him seriously, her battle intent completely ignited!
Within her delicate frame, a power that looked down upon the world surged!
"Strength originates from the bones, power from the tendons; thus, a single force can overcome ten skills, innate and boundless!"
In the next instant, Luo Hao retracted her steps and closed her palm, the divine brilliance, condensed to its extreme, magnified infinitely in Arthur's eyes, swift as a startled swan!
In the nick of time, a brilliant golden light enveloped his entire body, allowing him to forcefully withstand this fatal blow!
Immediately after, Arthur's earth-shattering heavy punch caused space to tremble, striking straight for the heart!
The heavy punch connected, Luo Hao's pretty face twisted in response, and she flew backward like a kite with a broken string, plowing a terrifying, hundreds-of-meters-long gully across the harbor!
Dust obscured the sky, yet both, separated by this chaos, precisely captured each other's figures, their eyes filled with undisguised dread!
Luo Hao lightly touched her cheek, her injuries healing in an instant, her voice still as clear as water, but within it was like a ten-thousand-year-old glacier, bone-chillingly cold!
"Since slaying a god in my youth, you, this madman, are the first to leave a mark on my face!"
Arthur retracted his punch, feeling the sudden depletion of his spell power from resisting that palm strike, and his heart tightened.
"Vajra Great Power Divine Art... it truly lives up to its name."
"I told you, a little flattery is unnecessary."
Luo Hao's gentle smile vanished; having just been at a disadvantage, she, like a scorching sun, instantly ignited with brilliant phosgene flames across her entire body, her voice shaking all directions!
"You are neither human nor god, possessing the power to slay dragons, and also the essence of a dragon. Thus, by my martial arts, I shall take your life!"
"The Qi scatters, the Dragon dies, the Four Gods perish!"
A cold shout, imbued with divine brilliance, transformed into a violent shockwave, attempting to utterly overturn and shatter everything in front of Luo Hao!
"Thousand Winds, heed the call of the sky-borne, come swiftly!"
A relentless storm arose from nothing, firmly enveloping Arthur, directly colliding with the shockwave capable of overturning the earth!
Boom!!!
Two immense storm surges crushed against each other, the tide retreating with overwhelming force, revealing shattered, disintegrating cliffs!
However, in the instant of the head-on clash, Arthur keenly noticed that the divine brilliance within his storm was rapidly weakening!
His power was being suppressed!?
In contrast, Luo Hao's bursting aura grew stronger and stronger, her feathered neon-robe clinging to her delicate body in the storm, flapping loudly, like an immortal deity.
In the next moment, the surging shockwave completely swallowed the storm, grinding the ground, the waves, and the harbor all into dust!
Flying ash permeated the air, but it did not affect the demonic Cult Master in the slightest; she stared intently at the center of the battle, her tone suddenly grave.
"You, this madman... in the final moment, learned my method of wielding authority?"
Streaks of brilliant golden wind tore through the dust, and Arthur walked out unharmed, a swirling vortex of energy condensed in his palm, causing space to ripple!
"Thank you for your guidance, Cult Master. So this is how authority needs to be combined with one's own abilities, truly marvelous."
Just as Luo Hao integrated her two hundred years of martial arts training with her authority, Arthur, finally, in the midst of battle, touched that threshold.
Avalon combined with the Thousand Winds of Heavenly Authority, this seemingly fragile layer of brilliant golden vortex was enough to withstand that world-shattering, crushing impact!
Luo Hao, who also understood what Arthur had accomplished, her eyes gleaming with a strange light, her cold, icy pretty face actually bloomed into a bright smile once more.
"It took me nearly a hundred years to fully integrate my martial arts with my authority, creating the Twelve Divine Phoenix Palms and the Dragon Death Curse of Absolute Doom."
"You... only took a quarter of an hour?"
Arthur casually dispersed the vortex in his palm and nodded frankly.
"The Cult Master's century of accumulation must be more than this. If you're not afraid of this madman continuing to steal your skills, then attack."
Hearing this provocation, Luo Hao did not get angry but laughed instead, the orange-yellow phosgene flames burning all over her body swaying in the wind, even twisting the surrounding air, like a mirage.
"Since that's the case, then let me show you the true essence of the Vajra Great Power Divine Art!"
"The Vajra power residing within me, here condenses into an unparalleled strike!"
The Incantation fell, phosgene flames soared, and that twisted mirage immediately revealed its true form!
"Aside from granting me ultimate raw strength, the Vajra Great Power Divine Art can also, like this, summon the true forms of Buddhist strongmen!"
Two Vajra strongmen, eyes wide with fury and muscles bulging, stood on either side of Luo Hao, every movement causing space to groan under the strain!
"Authority that enhances power can be used like this?"
Arthur looked up at the two Nioh statue that seemed to prop up heaven and earth, the Salvation God Sword held to his side, his thoughts racing.
Luo Hao would not give him time to think and process; the two Vajra strongmen simultaneously took a step, and genuine Great Power Vajra Palms slammed down with ferocity!
Overwhelming wind pressure roared down, but a hint of eager excitement flashed in Arthur's eyes, and he declared loudly!
"Support the sky, bear the mountains, Lord of Baal's Twin Horns, all of you shall look up!"
A new Incantation ignited a pale brilliance, and a colossal giant, only half-bodied, rose from the ground, its stature already a hundred meters tall, utterly domineering!
The two Vajra strongmen, who had been charging wildly, simultaneously paused, their movements stiff as they looked up, gazing at the King of Gods who cast a dismissive look upon them!
The next moment, the colossal giant lowered its arm.
The sky-obscuring giant palm descended with a pure, crushing force, the entire space being twisted into powder by this supreme might!
The two Vajra strongmen burst apart with the muffled sound of flesh and bone disintegrating, and even Luo Hao behind them suffered unprecedented heavy injuries, her phoenix eyes filled with nothing but boundless horror!
Unrivaled power surged down, forcefully kneading the fine sand of the harbor into indestructible steel-hard rock!
The sky-high dust arrived late, but was firmly pressed to the ground by the immense force, creating no ripples!
Within the desolate and barren wasteland, only Arthur remained, kneeling on one knee, gasping for breath, the colossal giant enveloping his entire body dissipating with the wind.
The power of the new Incantation was astonishing, but the terrifying depletion also left him with less than one-tenth of his spell power.
Fortunately, the victor had been decided.
Arthur stepped over the steel-hard ground, arriving at the edge of the distinct five-fingered depression, looking down at Luo Hao, whose bones were completely shattered and who was spitting blood.
"Cough, cough, cough... I lost... Kill me or flay me, do as you please."
Arthur lightly tapped his chin, numerous thoughts flashing through his mind, and finally, he raised his left hand.
"Then, from this moment on, your life belongs to me."