Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2244  Amethyst Crystal

And it hadn't even been a simple attack either. That blast of energy originating from his crystal skull was easily the second most destructive attack he had. It was one of the three great techniques he had received from his bloodline, so to see it be so easily defended had him shocked.

"You're not bad," the ram said. "It seems I can't win as easily as I thought I could."

Pearl said nothing in reply and simply made 25 stabbing motions in quick succession.

25 spear attacks, each carrying his Dao of Metal, and his Spear Aura flew toward the ram.

The ram stood still, a violet barrier forming in front of it, the energy coming out from the amethyst crystal on its head.

The 25 spear attacks struck the beast's head, and to his relief, the barrier lasted.

Pearl looked at his Spear. He still hadn't been able to master this technique. It was one of the more difficult forms, despite being placed on the very first of the list.

Five Heavenly Forms of Spear - First Form: Thousand Spears Pierce the Heaven

One was supposed to make multiple stabbing motions in as little time as they could, and at the moment, Pearl could only do 25. He needed both more cultivation and more speed to make it reach the legendary 1000 spears.

Although, it is hard to say if even Grimsight himself could do such a thing. Pearl simply had a hard time believing one could stab so many times in the first place.

'There has to be some other trick to this,' he thought.

The ram charged toward Pearl, his head ready to ram into him.

Pearl calmly looked at him approaching with a wave of aura surrounding him and, for the first time since coming to this arena, teleported.

His sudden disappearance and reappearance should have certainly come as a shock to many outside the stage. It certainly seemed to be surprising to the ram.

The ram quickly turned around, looking at Pearl with wide eyes. "That… that wasn't a technique," he said. "Dao!"

Pearl raised an eyebrow. "You could tell?" he asked.

The ram seemed concerned at that point. "To learn the Dao of Teleportation at such a young age. Maybe I misjudged you," he said.

"Perhaps you did," Pearl said. "Perhaps, you still misjudge me."

The ram seemed concerned at that point. "To learn the Dao of Teleportation at such a young age. Maybe I misjudged you," he said.

"Perhaps you did," Pearl said. "Perhaps, you still misjudge me."

Pearl's face changed into a smile and he stabbed forward. The world around him seemed to squeeze right before his eyes, shrinking toward him right until he saw the ram as if he was standing right before him, in the reach of his spear.

The ram seemed to realize that something was wrong at the last moment and put up a barrier to block the attack, but the force with what Pearl attacked was still quite strong.

His barrier stood, but it had cracks in it. The attack was stronger than the previous 25 flying spears combined. He failed to understand how that was possible. This one didn't seem like that strong an attack either.

The ram moved at the same time, charging for Pearl, but Pearl dodged the attack, teleporting to another corner of the room. He stabbed back, the space shrinking during his attack.

The ram blocked again, but this time did something different. He used a Dao to soften the attack he made so that when it struck him, it didn't hurt him.

Pearl was certain it was the Dao of Softness, a Water Dao that was capable of reducing the force behind attacks so that it would be easier to defend again.

Hannah had used this Dao.

'The ram is showing more of its own skills too,' Pearl thought and smiled. The battle was getting more intense.

He quickly shot out some simple spear arts he had learned along the way as well as some of his own techniques. He used metal wires created from Metal Qi, to try and lock the ram in place while he attacked.

But the ram had another trick up its sleeve, a Dao of water that didn't defend his attack but rather made it difficult to correctly infer the ram's location on the stage as he stood in a different place visually than where he was physically.

The Dao of Refraction.

Pearl unknowingly attacked the wrong location and was surprised when his attacks landed way off target.

The ram laughed, bursting out of the metal wires, and charging toward him, and they began fighting once again.

They were both on more-or-less equal footing. While Pearl seemed to hold the upper hand in the fight, because the ram was so good at defending against attacks, he couldn't outright defeat him.

Also, he needed to physically attack the beast for the attack to even do anything, so he continuously used the Dao of Shrinking Space to attack the ram.

As Grimsight had taught him when the enemy was no doubt physically stronger, the best way to fight was by remaining in the distance, so that was all Pearl did. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

He teleported around the stage, trying to stay one step ahead of the ram while attacking him from all directions. He was beginning to feel the onset of a headache from all the Dao he was using, but it had to be similar for the ram too.

It was using Dao all the time to defend against him, so no doubt it was using up its own Spiritual energy as well.

Pearl never defended another attack again, just teleporting out of it when he could. He did use the First form of the five spear forms to set out multiple spears toward his opponent's direction.

It was a shame that Pearl's Spear Aura wasn't one that was dedicated to attack, but rather a defensive one that was more so focused on Pearl's own survival. Had it been something like Alex's where it continuously attacked then the outcome of the battle might have been set already, but Pearl had never regretted his Spear Aura, so he wasn't going to do so now.

The battle went on for another 15 or so minutes with nothing major happening when the Ram suddenly used a technique that it hadn't used ever before.

The amethyst crystal on its forehead suddenly glowed bright purple. Pearl saw the glow and disappeared to the edge of the stage. But it did not matter.

The attack wasn't one that the ram had to target. It was something that went out in a shockwave of energy, touching everything in its direction.

Realizing that teleportation wasn't going to help him, he quickly used the Second Form: Heaven Guarding Spear to protect himself.

However, it wasn't a technique he could so easily protect against. The wave passed through him, doing nothing that Pearl could tell at a moment's notice.

He curiously looked toward Violentram, wondering what it was smiling so widely for. Then, Violentram charged toward him as he did the past hundreds of times.

Only this time, its speed had multiplied by over a dozen times.