
Chapter 86: 86
An extremely powerful aura burst out from John, completely shocking Dylan and his audience. While the battle aura that John was emitting from earlier felt like he was a bloodthirsty battle demon, the aura he was emitting right now felt like he was an invincible battle god.
The moment John unleashed the Supreme Battle Art, he felt his body being empowered to a much higher level than before, and also felt the effects of the Red Hell Domain diminish. Although the domain effect did not cause much trouble for him, John was still surprised to see that the Supreme Battle Art completely canceled the effect of the domain.
‘The Highest Fighting Art is even better at negating the effects of the Red Hell Domain than my own Immortal Asura Body. I wonder why that is? ‘
As John thought about the astonishing effects of the Supreme Battle Art, his mind was touched by the frantic screams from Dylan.
“This is impossible. How could you know that battle art?”
“Hmm?” John could not help but be surprised by Dylan's reaction. “Does he know this battle art? But how is it possible, except..”.
Not only John, even Cade and Barden Fenix were shocked by Dylan's comments, and squinted at the thought of a frightening possibility.
“What is important how I know this battle art? The only thing that matters now is this fight, and I think it's time we end it, right?” John responded with a confident tone and a satisfied grin.
“Bogged. Don't be so confident” muttered Dylan, but internally, he was completely shocked and panicked.
“Quite talk.” John summoned the first two steps of the Five-Step Movement Technique in combination with the Supreme Combat Art to dart explosively towards Dylan. Dylan's eyes widened in panic as he looked at John right in front of him, slashing down with his scythe.
“How is he this fast?” Dylan hurriedly raised his sword, and swung it to meet John's scythe.
The peng!
The weapon collided and Dylan was thrown backwards like a bullet. Just before he was thrown off the stage, he managed to control his body and stop his momentum. He looked up and saw John quickly approaching once more, where he sent out successive Qi attacks towards him.
The stage began to collapse as several explosive Qi attacks and powerful sickle attacks collided. After a few exchanges between John and Dylan, the stage started to look like it would break at any moment. Many large craters were carved into its surface, and almost the entire stage was covered in cracks. Although Dylan was in a defensive position, his strength within his Crimson Hell Domain was staggering, and he was at least able to defend himself from John's powerful attacks.
“How is the power of Fog Creation?” Both the juniors and seniors in the crowd could not understand how these two fighters were so powerful. Although the Core Formation Elders were still far stronger than the two of them, they could not help but admit that they did not even come close to this level of strength when they were in the Fog Creation Realm.
The explosion!
“Hahaha” A loud laughter echoes boisterous from Dylan. “The Highest Fighting Art puts tremendous pressure on your body. I think you've reached your limit.” Dylan was about to attack, but suddenly stopped when he saw John slowly opening his eyes and looking at him as if he was a clown.
“This is the first time I have fought a Supreme Battle Art, so I am still used to it during our exchange. But between our exchange and my understanding of the art of battle, I believe I have finally mastered the first stage completely. Thank you for your help. “
John was completely shocked by the depths of his Eternal Asura Body. He knew that the Supreme Combat Art was profound, and it certainly took him longer to understand and master than any other technique he had learned so far. But, it was as if the Eternal Asura Body was the perfect container for learning the body battle arts, and would reduce the much-needed comprehension time.
This is one of the main advantages of having an Innate Variant Body. Not only would the body itself become extremely powerful, it would naturally be suitable for learning body techniques, and would greatly reduce the time needed to master such body techniques.
Dylan snorted and was about to respond in a mocking tone when he suddenly opened his eyes in surprise.
The explosion!
The sword and scythe collided, and Dylan was once again thrown backwards violently. After successfully landing on his feet, Dylan once again exploded with even greater force than before. He had realized that the current John was truly terrifying, and he himself did not know if he was capable of defeating John. But his pride as a genius did not allow him to retreat, and therefore he gave up the most powerful state he could manage.
John and Dylan continued to exchange blows repeatedly, and the once genuine stone arena now seemed completely unrecognizable. The crowd watched attentively as the two fighters repeatedly clashed. Although John had some injuries on his body, the wounds were rather shallow and did not hinder his fighting prowess at all.
John also managed to dispatch many powerful Myriad Annihilation Scythe during their battle. Even though it was far from enough to threaten Dylan, he was still required to expend energy to block him, as he was not a body cultivator and could not allow attacks to fall onto his body.
After a few minutes of fierce fighting, Dylan was at the end of the rope. His Red Hell Domain consumed a lot of Qi, and he was also required to use Qi for movement techniques and Qi attacks when fighting John.
John on the other hand is fine. His dantian situation allowed him to have almost double the amount of Qi that normal cultivators possessed, allowing him to unleash more attacks, both body and essence, without exhausting. Not only that, but John was finally able to realize the absurd superiority of his dantian body and palace realm connections.
During this fight, John constantly absorbed the blood essence from the palace realm into his dantian body, constantly refreshing his Qi reserves, which allowed him to fight with his peak strength the entire time. The Supreme Battle Art required a lot of Qi to use, and was usually used at the last step to end the fight. Most of the first stage Supreme Battle Art users were able to hold on for a few minutes before running out of Qi, but John had fought for almost ten minutes under these circumstances, completely shocking Dylan.
‘I have enough reserves to keep fighting like this for a little more, but I have learned quite a lot from this fight by dragging it down for so long. It's time to end this. ‘
If Dylan could read John's mind, he would most likely cough up blood from anger. John had used Dylan as a grindstone in this fight, and extended the battle to learn more about the Supreme Combat Art and how to use it.
But his Qi reserves were beginning to thin out, and it was time for the battle to end. Suddenly, an even more explosive aura gushed out from John, making him seem like a demon battle god.
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