Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 1046 - 301: Magical Duel

"Hmm?"

The calamitous immortal sovereign crushed the teacup he was holding in his hands to smithereens all of a sudden.

For the first time, a hint of astonishment crept into his expression that otherwise looked as though he held every matter within his grasp.

It was as if he had witnessed something utterly inconceivable.

Indeed, in the eyes of the calamitous immortal sovereign, he had seen something that he found hard to believe, and utterly inconceivable—the Fan Wu of Qiulong Temple, who was vastly weaker than him, suddenly burst forth with a tremendous surge of momentum in the blink of an eye.

Then the calamitous immortal sovereign realized that the aura emanating from Fan Wu of Qiulong Temple was no longer beneath his own. It had reached a state where it vaguely rivaled his own power.

For a brief moment, the consciousness within the calamitous immortal sovereign’s mind came to a halt.

He truly couldn’t fathom what kind of tactic could allow a human, who was so much weaker than himself, to suddenly reach a level that matched his own?

"This guy..." The calamitous immortal sovereign had risen from the stone bench in the pavilion. He turned around, his gaze fiercely locking onto Fan Wu, as if he wanted to dig out some secret from him that highly intrigued him.

However, much to the immortal sovereign’s disappointment, his eyes, obviously, failed to discern the secret within Fan Wu—perhaps because this incarnation of his was still relatively weak.

If his true self had been there, he might have been able to see through the man’s secrets at a glance and effortlessly seize them for his own use.

"Tsk, tsk..." After a brief moment of astonishment, the calamitous immortal sovereign said with great interest, "I thought the surprises you’ve caused me before were plenty. But to think, upon our first meeting, you’ve brought me yet another huge surprise."

"Yes! Consider it a big surprise prepared especially for you." Fan Wu’s face bore a sinister smile. As his words fell, the ground beneath his feet instantly collapsed into rubble.

His figure abruptly vanished from sight, and when he appeared again, he was already in front of the calamitous immortal sovereign.

The Demon-slaying Sword, unbeknownst to when, had been swiftly drawn by him. Faced with such a formidable enemy, it was natural for Fan Wu not to test his foe with bare fists but to resolutely draw his strongest weapon.

The Demon-slaying Sword slashed down, tracing a brilliantly radiant arc, its blade aiming directly for the head of the calamitous immortal sovereign.

However, Fan Wu’s exceptionally swift strike seemed to have been anticipated by his adversary. The immortal sovereign’s body floated gently backward, dodging the sword in a surprisingly fluid motion.

After drifting about several dozen meters away, the calamitous immortal sovereign smiled and spoke, "How strange, why do I feel like I’ve become weaker all of a sudden after you approached me? Could this also be some peculiar tactic of yours? Truly uncanny."

The reason for such a sensation, naturally, was due to the passive skill of the Star Lodging Sword Technique, which directly reduced the opponent’s attribute values by ten percent.

The calamitous immortal sovereign, who had eight hundred points in the "Power" attribute, saw it directly decrease to seven hundred twenty when Fan Wu approached him. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"No wonder that scheming immortal sovereign wanted to recruit you. It seems you’re not as simple as I imagined. Even from a thousand miles away, I feel the urge to recruit you. Unfortunately, even he failed to win you over, and I don’t have much faith in my own ability to do so."

After uttering these words, the calamitous immortal sovereign suddenly struck from afar with a palm towards the direction where Fan Wu was.

Fan Wu saw an enormously huge palm print flying through the air toward him and braced himself to block it in an instant.

However, just as the vast palm print was about to touch the Demon-slaying Sword in his hands, Fan Wu suddenly detected something amiss—his pupils contracted slightly.

The massive palm print in front of him vanished like shattered glass, and another identical one appeared out of nowhere behind him, striking him squarely in the back!

Boom!!!

At that moment, it seemed as if half the Imperial City trembled slightly, and Fan Wu’s body was sent flying, crashing through countless buildings.

His body, like a hoe lifted from the ground, carved out a trench tens of thousands of meters long into the earth.

"Phew—" Fan Wu let out a puff of white smoke as he climbed out of the large crater, twisting his neck and feeling a soreness in his back.

"What strange method is this, has it deceived all my senses?" Just as he voiced this thought, he suddenly raised his head to look directly above him.

The Calamity Immortal Honor seemed to have silently floated above him at some point, his voice drifting down, "I didn’t expect you to react so quickly, tensing your back at the critical moment. Otherwise, the injuries this could have caused you would have been even more severe."

"And your mind seems quite sharp as well, not the brute I had imagined. You guessed right away that your senses had been deceived. However..."

The Calamity Immortal Honor chuckled and continued, "A very sad fact is that, even if you realized it, it’s of no use."

The Calamity Immortal Honor pointed downward from above, and with that gesture, a seemingly endless force pressed down out of thin air.

Unafraid, Fan Wu swung his sword upward in a slash. The two forces collided mid-air instantly, sending a roaring shockwave in every direction, leveling thousands of kilometers to the ground in a blink of an eye!

The massive battle naturally could not go unnoticed by the people within the Imperial City, and even less so by the cultivators.

One after another, the cultivators sensing this great disturbance leaped atop various tall buildings to gaze towards the commotion.

"Hisss!" someone exclaimed with wide eyes, "If I’m not mistaken, isn’t that direction where the National Teacher’s Mansion is located? Could it be that the National Master has started fighting with Fan Wu of Qiulong Temple?!"

"It seems it must be the two of them engaged in a duel; otherwise, how could ordinary cultivators cause such a commotion? It’s just too great, feels like a meteorite has struck the earth."

"What realm have these two cultivated to, to be so unbelievably powerful? What’s with that huge pit, could it have been created by their duel?"

"Hisss... I’ve never truly seen the National Master take action before. I didn’t expect the National Master to be so formidable!"

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