DipNovel Chapter 421 Dao 1's Cannon
Chapter 421 Dao 1's Cannon
The Celestial Venerable of All Things said that one hand was enough. He wasn't exaggerating.
The freezing power in the left hand condensed slightly slower than that in the right, but its power was no less.
A beam of ice-sealing rays slashed towards Lu Sheng's head.
Lu Sheng dodged with all his might. Although his speed in his human-dragon form was weakened by the domain's suppression, his basic evasion ability remained.
The rays grazed his scalp.
Another one.
This time it came from the left.
Lu Sheng dodged to the side and flicked out a fireball condensed from fire-elemental laws.
The fireball struck the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations' frozen domain, hissing as it was extinguished after three seconds.
No harm was done.
"Stop struggling." The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations approached. "Your spiritual energy is less than half gone. Your Law Resonance cannot be used within my domain. Apart from that hard skin, you have no advantage whatsoever."
Lu Sheng took a step back. Then another step back.
He was indeed struggling.
The Law Resonance can't be used. Ranged attacks are ineffective. Close combat—although that punch injured the palm of the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Venerable last time, it was when the opponent was completely unprepared. Now the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Venerable is serious and won't give him the same chance again.
"There's one more card."
Lu Sheng was making plans in his mind.
Dao Yi.
Anti-rule turret.
But Dao Yi's aircraft hasn't arrived yet. Based on the timeline—
"Luo Tianfei, where is Dao Yi?" Lu Sheng asked in a low voice through the communicator.
"Approximately 30,000 li from the outer perimeter of the Old God's Abyss. Expected arrival time: 40 minutes."
Forty minutes.
Can he last forty minutes?
The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations has made his move again.
This time it's close combat.
His left hand transformed from a palm into a fist, and he punched Lu Sheng in the chest.
The freezing laws condensed on the fist formed a layer of dark blue ice armor.
Lu Sheng crossed his arms to block.
boom!
His body was blasted away again.
This time it flew out 500 meters.
It crashed through the wreckage of three warships.
A large piece of the dragon scale on its chest was broken.
"cough--"
Lu Sheng spat out a mouthful of blood.
It hurts. This time it really hurts.
The full-force punch from the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations was more than three times heavier than the previous palm strike. If it weren't for the physical toughness of the Dragon God Sequence, this punch would have been enough to break his ribs.
"Thirty-nine minutes," Lu Sheng counted down in his mind.
He struggled to his feet from the wreckage.
The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations has caught up. He is not fast, but every step he takes exudes a sense of oppression.
Lu Sheng made a decision.
Stop fighting. Run.
It wasn't an escape. It was a tactical retreat.
All he needs to do is circle around the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Venerable in the old God Abyss's warship graveyard for forty minutes.
The warship graveyard was filled with massive wreckage, its terrain complex and covered in numerous obstacles. While a late-stage Spirit Saint's speed wasn't as fast as a peak Spirit Saint, they could still manage to escape through the complex terrain.
Lu Shenglong flapped his wings and charged suddenly into the depths of the warship graveyard.
The Celestial Venerable of All Things saw him run away but did not chase after him.
He stood there, watching Lu Sheng's figure disappear among the wreckage.
Then he turned around and looked at the spherical space.
The law trap has already been triggered. He has punched a hole in the defensive array.
The remaining defenses—can be broken through with little effort.
He didn't pursue Lu Sheng.
He plays directly in spherical space.
"Go ahead and run," the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations muttered to himself. "Once I'm inside and have what I want—running to the ends of the earth won't help."
He raised his left hand and slapped at the hole that had been punched through the spherical space membrane.
boom!
The gap has doubled.
Another slap.
The gap widened to a size large enough for one person to pass through.
The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations took a step forward.
"etc."
A voice came from the side.
The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations turned his head.
Azure Guardian.
He wore a long, emerald-green robe and had a thin, gaunt face. He flew over from another direction of the warship graveyard and landed next to the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations.
"Celestial Venerable, are you injured?"
"A superficial wound." The Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations glanced at the wound on his right shoulder. Blood was still seeping from the wound.
Qingming's gaze lingered on the wound for a moment. A complex light flashed in his eyes.
"Where is Lu Sheng?"
"He's escaped," said the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations nonchalantly. "Ignore him. Let's go inside."
He turned to face the opening in the spherical space, ready to enter.
Just then—
Luo Tianfei's voice rang in Lu Sheng's communicator.
"Dao Yi has reached the outer edge of the Old God Abyss. He is 20,000 li from your location."
Lu Sheng was hiding behind a huge piece of wreckage, monitoring the movements of the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Venerable and the Azure Netherworld Protector through his sensory anchor.
"Notification one—I've sent him the target location. Fire within one minute."
"clear."
Twenty thousand miles away.
Dao Yi and Zhou Lei sat in the cockpit of the hastily constructed aircraft.
The aircraft's outer shell still retained the warmth of forging. You could even see burrs that hadn't been polished at the seams of the replica armor.
But the core—the anti-rule turret—has been calibrated.
Dao Yi received the coordinates.
His hands were trembling.
It wasn't because I was afraid. It was because I was excited.
"Zhou Lei, target locked."
Zhou Lei's hands were trembling, but his operation was steady. The fire control system locked onto the target within three seconds.
"Target locked. Distance 20,000 miles. Energy decay rate—42 percent."
Forty-two percent attenuation.
This means that when the shell hits the target, its power is reduced to only 58 percent of its original value.
For the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations at the peak of the Spirit Saint realm, this cannon shot would at most cause minor injuries.
But what the Lord wanted was not to seriously injure him.
What the Lord wants is to interrupt him the moment he enters the spherical space.
"fire."
Dao Yi pressed the launch button.
boom--!
The entire aircraft shook violently.
A silvery-white beam of light shot out from the turret, traveling at the speed of light through 20,000 miles of space.
The Celestial Venerable of All Things is half-peeking out from the gap in the spherical space.
His peak spiritual perception detected the energy fluctuation 0.3 seconds before the silver-white beam arrived.
"What—"
He suddenly pulled his body back and pushed his left hand in the direction from which the beam of light was coming.
The law of freezing solidified into a massive ice wall.
boom!!!
The silvery-white beam of light struck the ice wall.
The ice wall shattered.
The beam of light, still powerful, struck the left shoulder of the Celestial Venerable of Myriad Manifestations.
After 20,000 miles of attenuation and the weakening effect of the ice wall, the actual damage of this shot was already very small.
But it did one thing—
This interrupted the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Venerable's action of entering the spherical space.
And it also hit his left shoulder.