Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 410 - 409: Frenzied Output
Xiao Cheng smiled and stretched his wrists. ’This is fine, too. My superpower is best suited for dealing with a Female Saint whose own superpower is unknown. At a time like this, sheer strength isn’t necessarily what works. Besides, my cultivation is even a notch higher than Zhi Zhan’s. Luo Zhi must have rocks for brains to choose me so confidently!’
’She probably still thinks that a Twelfth Level male from the Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan is only as strong as a Level 10, and that I only beat He Heng through petty tricks.’
"Oh my, Luo Zhi, you really got on my nerves just now. And you still dare to challenge me? I’m worried I might not be able to control my strength, and you’ll end up splattered all over the place, reporting to the Beast God," Xiao Cheng said, shaking his head and clucking his tongue.
A strange smile flashed across Luo Zhi’s face, as if she was certain she would win. "Don’t worry. Even though I’m a female and this is my first time competing on the stage.
"I know the rules of the arena. Accidentally injuring or even killing your opponent is permitted.
"So, if I accidentally take your life, that’s just your bad luck. I hope that little female of yours will accept the outcome and not take her anger out on me."
"You won’t get the chance," Xiao Cheng sneered.
With that, he was the first to leap onto the arena stage. However, the seemingly delicate Luo Zhi also vaulted up with an agile leap. Her posture looked a bit like... Xiao Cheng glanced down at Luo Zhi’s Beast Husbands below the stage. It was just like her Peak level 12 antelope beast husband!
As soon as the Clan Leader shouted, "Begin," Luo Zhi charged forward first. The air filled with green leaves. They appeared vibrant and lush, yet each one was razor-sharp and carried a murderous aura.
As she drew closer, the leaves hummed and shot toward Xiao Cheng. Xiao Cheng raised an eyebrow. He didn’t use a deflection superpower; he was curious to see what kind of superpower Luo Zhi had. Instead, with a wave of his hand, a dense swarm of Golden Needles materialized before him. Without a moment’s pause, the needles shot out. The crowd saw only countless flashes of golden light, followed by the green leaves being pinned and knocked from the air. Luo Zhi scrambled to raise a defense of vines, but her cheek was still cut, and she cried out in pain.
"Is that all you’ve got?" Xiao Cheng clapped his hands, once again shaking his head and clucking his tongue.
Luo Zhi touched the bloody gash on her cheek. The iron-hard vines in front of her began to grow wildly, lashing out and extending toward Xiao Cheng. The vines were covered in barbs; getting caught by them wouldn’t just mean a scratch—it would rip out a chunk of flesh and skin.
Xiao Cheng, however, simply made a grabbing motion with his hand, condensing a Tang Blade sharp enough to cut through iron as if it were mud. His shoes had metal soles. He leaped, weaving between the vine branches, slashing left and right, and spinning for a few more cuts. In an instant, the menacing vine-growth was stripped bare!
’For vine attacks like this, where spiritual power is used to control Spiritual Power, the user’s own spiritual power takes a heavy blow once the vines are severed. This move is typically used by High level Beastmen when fighting large numbers of low level Beastmen. Anyone with a bit of real combat experience would never use such a Spiritual Power-draining, wide-area attack in a one-on-one arena duel.’
Xiao Cheng narrowed his eyes, a second doubt flashing through his mind.
Seeing Xiao Cheng raise his blade and charge at her, Luo Zhi closed her eyes for two seconds. When she opened them again, her previously weakened aura had changed. She waited for Xiao Cheng to get close, then threw a burst of fire onto the vines, which erupted in a blazing inferno. As she waved her arms, clumps of that fire hurtled toward Xiao Cheng.
Xiao Cheng dodged left and right, then leaped to the base of the vine-growth. With a powerful slash and a kick, he cut it down and sent it flying off the stage.
Luo Zhi condensed a Fire Dragon in her hands and sent it chasing after Xiao Cheng. Beastmen, who can undergo Transformation into their Beast Form, have a natural fear of fire and lightning, and Xiao Cheng, with his Gold Ability, was at a disadvantage against the Fire Element. She smiled, recklessly pouring out her Spiritual Power, determined to bury Xiao Cheng in a sea of flames.
Xiao Cheng was extremely fast. The moment he leaped away, Luo Zhi’s Fire Dragon would crash into the spot he had just left. After a few rounds of this, her Spiritual Power output was no longer as fierce.
Fire certainly had strong attack power—intense heat could melt metal—but by the same token, its defensive capabilities were weak.
Unable to land a hit on Xiao Cheng, a frustrated and furious Luo Zhi started creating a Fire Wall. This Skill consumed even more Spiritual Power, and she cranked up the heat, hoping to render his metal defenses useless. If she couldn’t burn him to death, she could at least scald him.
However, Xiao Cheng’s Metal Element Ability wasn’t about ordinary metal; it was an upgraded, composite-material type. As long as it was inanimate, he could create anything.
The Beastmen of the Beast World Continent weren’t very worldly, but Si Shuo had practically dismantled a supermarket, having Xiao Cheng learn to replicate many new types of materials. High-temperature resistance and heat insulation were just the most basic requirements.
He created a vacuum gap within the composite materials, effectively preventing heat transfer through air convection. This achieved a degree of insulation—at least enough for him to easily forge a path through the sea of flames.
He used metal scrapers to disperse the flames, while several high-temperature-resistant, heat-insulating panels flew around to defend him. With a Spirit Storage Talisman, his Spiritual Power was abundant, so he had no need to worry about running out.
Before long, Luo Zhi’s Spiritual Power faltered, and she switched to an Earth Element Ability.
At that moment, down below the stage, Si Shuo was watching Luo Zhi’s Beast Husbands. When she saw another one’s face turn pale from Spiritual Power exhaustion, she finally understood Luo Zhi’s superpower.
She pressed her lips together tightly, secretly wrote a note to Xiao Cheng, and placed it on the stone table in her space. "Xiao Cheng, Luo Zhi’s superpower must be the ability to borrow her Beast Husbands’ superpowers and Spiritual Power, right?"
Xiao Cheng glanced down from the stage. Luo Zhi had a good seventeen or eighteen Beast Husbands. ’Her plan is probably to exhaust my Spiritual Power, even if she can’t defeat me,’ he thought, ’so she can kill and humiliate me at her leisure.’
He gave a soft laugh and began to toy with Luo Zhi, leading her on. He guided her into depleting her power reserves one by one, forcing her to cycle through all the different superpowers. Once her Beast Husbands’ Spiritual Power was completely overdrawn, it would be much easier for his little female when it was her turn on the stage.
After a while, Luo Zhi’s expression turned extremely ugly. She never expected Xiao Cheng to be so durable. She had no way to retreat. In order to win back the Contract Spirit, she began to recklessly and crazily drain the Spiritual Power from her Beast Husbands, one after another. Each time, she felt she was just one step away from landing a devastating blow on Xiao Cheng.
Yet, the next second, Xiao Cheng would emerge again with a punchable look on his face, taunting her mercilessly!!
Driven into a frenzy by rage, Luo Zhi unleashed a mad barrage of attacks. But then, suddenly, like a car that had stalled or a firecracker that had fizzled out, she was spent. No matter how she waved her hands, she couldn’t summon any more Spiritual Power.
Xiao Cheng smiled. "The show should be over now. How should I send you off to see the Beast God? After all, you were quite ruthless with me just now."
Luo Zhi’s body trembled violently. "You... you can’t touch me! I surren—"
Before she could finish the word, one of Xiao Cheng’s Golden Needles shot into her Dantian. With a soft SQUELCH, her Dantian shattered.
Luo Zhi collapsed to the ground in agony. "Xiao Cheng, I’m going to kill you!"
’Without my Dantian, I can’t gather Spiritual Power... How can I use any superpowers?’
Xiao Cheng smiled and waved his hand dismissively. "Luo Zhi, consider this me cleaning house for my Mother. You were once her apprentice. She was a poor judge of character, teaching an ungrateful female who only caused trouble in the clan.
"This fate you’ve met today is what you deserve. I’m leaving you alive as thanks to the Beast God for looking after my little female."
