Chapter 488: Chapter 487: The Terrifying Sunflower
What Tang San first encountered was a descendant of the Emperors, the strongest defense of the Golden Mammoth Tribe, and now, in the second round of the knockout, he was facing the Sunflower Spirit Clan. To describe his luck as bad was an understatement.
Tang San was not familiar with the Sunflower Spirit Clan, but he had heard of this powerful race. So, when his opponent released their Fierce Sunflower Essence bloodline, he recognized it. The corners of his mouth involuntarily began to twitch. Had he not invoked "Luck Arrival" today, was this him unleashing all the stored misfortune upon himself?
A Ninth Stage powerhouse of a top-tier bloodline wouldn\'t cower even when facing an ordinary God level strong. Just as he was able to defeat the Ice Maiden Clan\'s patriarch, Huang Bingbing, he firmly believed that the powerhouses from top-tier great clans also had the capital to contend with Gods. Undoubtedly, this representative from the Sunflower Spirit Clan must be one of them.
At this moment, as the opponent released their bloodline power, the other half of the competition stage turned into a world of fierce flames, the temperature continuously rising, with more Sunflowers growing out. Just by looking at the total energy, the opponent\'s aura had already surpassed the realm of the Ninth Stage peak. It was only that they had not yet ascended to another level.
Tang San was somewhat speechless, facing such a situation, defeating the opponent would not be an easy task.
By now, the Sunflower Spirit Clan\'s strong contender had already begun to take steps towards Tang San, and with each step forward, the blooming Sunflowers became even more vibrant and dazzling, the dark red pistils flickering faintly with light. Already over a hundred Sunflowers had bloomed. Each one was locked onto Tang San. The pressure this one person brought on Tang San was even more formidable than that of the Spider Tree Spirit coupled with the Corpse Eating Spirit he faced during the previous day\'s doubles match.
What he did not know was that if the opponent knew his thoughts, they would be extremely angry. If the Spider Tree Spirit and Corpse Eating Spirit were before it right now, they would simply surrender and admit defeat, without even a desire to fight.
This contender had unleashed their bloodline power to such an extent when facing Tang San because they had already researched him beforehand. As the direct scion of the Sunflower Spirit Clan, they had learned of the opponent\'s situation before the match. Tang San\'s victory over the Golden Mammoth Tribe was something that left them wary; they did not think it was a fixed match. Would the Golden Mammoth Tribe deliberately lose to a human in a fixed match? What a joke. Then how did the Golden Mammoth Tribe lose?
Before this match, the advice given to it by its elder was that this human must have some secret in close combat. It should not let the opponent get close, but instead resolve the fight with remote attacks, denying the opponent any chance to approach. That\'s why it released its full bloodline power from the start, pressing down with all its might against Tang San.
Tang San\'s eyes began to harden, a white incandescent glow flickering on the surface of his skin. This battle, it seems, could only be decided by a head-on confrontation.
The next instant, his figure suddenly disappeared.
The opponent from the Sunflower Spirit Clan had their pupils contract instantly; the Sunflowers that had been ready to burst forth shined with dazzling light, as streams of fiery red beams spurted from the pistils of several Sunflowers. Each flame column was about half a foot in diameter, instantly weaving into a net of fire, sealing all the space around the Sunflower Spirit Clan\'s contender.
It remembered not to give the opponent a chance to get close; if Tang San dared to appear beside him, then he would immediately be hit by the true fire of the Sunflower\'s utmost yang.
Amid these scorching trails of flame, vast ripples of water also began to appear, causing the space around the Sunflower Spirit Clan\'s strong contender to seem somewhat illusionary and distorted. The space became highly unstable.
Pretty Girl was an expert at controlling space elements, and she could see at a glance that the intense high temperature was distorting the surrounding space. Under such conditions, using Space Teleportation could likely result in appearing in unexpected places, making the teleport uncontrollable, and there was even the possibility of being injured by the space itself. Her hands clenched into fists in an instant.
A flash of light, and Tang San indeed appeared, but to everyone\'s surprise, he didn\'t materialize in front of or near the Sunflower Spirit Clan member, but rather about ten meters away from him. Then, they saw him raise his hand, which now, somehow, held a crossbow.
The bolt shot out from the crossbow in an instant, the very one from the Zhuge magic crossbow.
At a distance of ten meters, there was virtually no possibility of dodging the powerful bolts from the Zhuge magic crossbow, and it was nearly impossible even for God level strong to do so. Accompanied by the "clank" of the trigger mechanism, dozens of bolts were already hurtling towards the Sunflower Spirit Clan member.
The surface of the Zhuge magic crossbow even burst forth with a strange golden halo.
Only Tang San himself knew that it was the activation of the magic array by the Golden Winged Roc bloodline.
The shooting speed of the Zhuge magic crossbow was already fast, and with the added speed of the Golden Winged Roc and the attached sharpness, almost at the moment the trigger sounded, the dozens of bolts had already plunged into the opponent\'s body.
Everything happened so quickly that many spectators didn\'t even see the bolts being shot out.
However, in the next instant after firing, Tang San\'s pupils contracted and he vanished into thin air, performing another teleportation.
Columns of blaze crisscrossed from his previous location, and the air twisted.
If one looked closely, they would notice that in this moment, three Sunflowers had quietly withered, and the Sunflower Spirit Clan individual who had been peppered with bolts similarly withered, simply being swept up and devoured by the vines behind it.
But on the other side, a huge Sunflower\'s petals closed and the whole rapidly grew larger. When the petals opened again, an unharmed, identical Sunflower Spirit Clan member reappeared in everyone\'s sight.
A substitute? Tang San, who had appeared far away through space teleportation, revealed a look of surprise in his eyes.
Undoubtedly, in the previous surprise attack, his Zhuge magic crossbow had indeed hit the opponent. If it had been any other race, being peppered like this at close range, even a Ninth Stage strong would have been seriously injured. Of course, the Golden Mammoth was an exception.
But this one, clearly having been hit, had only moved to another place and then was reborn from a Sunflower, an ability he had never seen before.
But with Tang San\'s experience and understanding, he immediately grasped the problem. That humanoid Sunflower Spirit Clan wasn\'t really it; those vines behind, those Sunflowers were the real entity.
His damage to its humanoid form indeed hurt it, but in reality, the previous humanoid Sunflower Spirit should have been the incarnation of three Sunflowers, which is why three flowers had withered. Yet, it could be reborn into a humanoid body. In other words, unless he killed all the Sunflowers, the opponent was almost capable of infinite substitution.