Chapter 274: Wind Dragon Extinction Slash

Chapter 274: Wind Dragon Extinction Slash

Morning.

At the foot of Storm Cliffs, within the Dragon Slumber Stone Forest.

Teris stood with his eyes closed, arms crossed, as still as a statue in front of the stone forest.

A mechanical tiger flew overhead and slowly descended beside the stone forest.

Lu Heng dismounted from the tiger and stood quietly beside Teris, not wanting to disturb his concentration.

The previous night, the trio had spent the entire evening clearing abyssal creatures in the miasma of the Wasteland Swamp, and their bodies were filled with the stench of the creatures and the damp, muddy smell of the swamp.

After waiting for over ten minutes, Teris still hadn't moved, as if he had fallen asleep.

Just as Lu Heng was about to speak, Teris suddenly moved.

He dashed forward, summoning a gust of wind as he charged into the stone forest.

Clang! With a swift draw of his sword, the wind pressure surged exponentially, forming a Wind Dragon that surged into the stone forest.

The Wind Dragon roared and raged within the stone forest, striking the stone pillars.

The powerful wind pressure swept through, blowing trees, sand, and stones in all directions, lifting them into the sky.

As the trio marveled at the Wind Dragon created by Teris's sword, something even more astonishing happened.

Over a dozen stone pillars, each with a diameter of two meters and a height of five meters, weighing over thirty tons, were lifted into the sky by the Wind Dragon.

Lu Heng's eyes widened in shock at the sight.

The sheer strength required to lift thirty-ton stone pillars into the sky with a Wind Dragon was terrifying.

Moreover, Teris's Wind Dragon didn't just lift one pillar but over a dozen of them.

What level of power was this? It was almost unimaginable.

Severing the stone pillars wasn't the challenging part.

Lu Heng could easily cut through them with a Rift Slash, but to create a Wind Dragon and lift the pillars into the sky was a task of far greater difficulty.

The elven warrior, a Quel'Dore Sword Saint, truly lived up to his reputation with a single sword strike capable of toppling cities and armies.

Lu Heng's heart raced as he witnessed the power of this sword technique.

Before coming here, he had heard that this technique was one of the three ultimate sword skills of the Elven Sword Saint, Teris, known as the "Wind Dragon Extinction Slash."

He never expected to witness it so soon.

Teris sheathed his sword, and the stone pillars, lifted by the Wind Dragon, crashed back to the ground, some sinking into the mud, others shattering into numerous pieces, causing the ground to tremble with each impact.

Teris exhaled and turned to look at Lu Heng, glancing at him briefly before continuing his ascent up the mountain.

Lu Heng hurriedly asked, "Can I learn this ultimate technique?"

Teris glanced at Lu Heng and replied, "Didn't I just show it to you?"

Lu Heng paused, then said, "Just once?"

Teris's eyes suddenly flashed with an intense, piercing gaze, like a sword stabbing into Lu Heng's eyes.

Lu Heng felt a sharp pain in his eyes and quickly closed them, covering them with his right hand.

The essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash repeated rapidly in his mind, over and over, as if it were being etched into his eyes, his mind, and his sword.

Teris continued up the mountain, leaving behind one final statement, "This technique is called the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash. Once you can create a wind pressure strong enough to lift a stone pillar, you will have mastered it."

Lu Heng, still covering his eyes, absorbed the essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu, standing nearby, heard Teris's words and stared at him in disbelief, then turned to look at the stone forest, their eyes filled with astonishment.

Each of those stone pillars weighed over thirty tons, and to lift them with a Wind Dragon and the accompanying wind pressure was an unimaginable challenge.

Furthermore, Teris had just demonstrated the technique once, essentially completing the teaching.

For Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu, it was indeed a single demonstration.

But for Lu Heng, that brief moment of eye contact with Teris had imprinted the essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash in his mind, repeating it countless times.

At that moment, Lu Heng was still processing the essence of the technique, a mentally exhausting task, even more so than hunting demons all night.

Lu Heng exhaled and leaned against a stone pillar, closing his eyes to rest and absorb the essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Lin Zeyu was about to speak, but Su Muyu interrupted him, as she noticed Lu Heng's breathing slowly calming, and he had fallen asleep.

After a night of demon hunting and receiving the sword technique from the Elven Sword Saint, Teris, Lu Heng was indeed exhausted, mentally, and had fallen asleep.

However, even in his sleep, the wind pressure of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash continued to howl in his dreams.

Su Muyu used his primal energy to condense a Life Tree Vine seed and squatted down to bury it in the soil.

The Life Tree Vine grew from the ground, weaving a vine treehouse around Lu Heng, providing shelter from the wind and rain.

"Don't disturb him, let him sleep for a while. I'm going to take a nap too," Su Muyu whispered to Lin Zeyu, then leaned against the vine treehouse and started to doze off.

Lin Zeyu looked around and decided to explore the forest to see if he could find something to eat.

As this Abyssal Battlefield mission would last for 30 days, the food and water they brought would barely be enough to sustain them, but they would need to find other means to eat their fill.

...

After a good sleep, Lu Heng woke up at noon and found himself in a beautiful vine treehouse, which he knew was woven from the Life Tree Vine.

"You're awake, have something to eat first," Su Muyu said, serving a bowl of meat soup from the pot and placing it on a low table woven from the Life Tree Vine.

Lu Heng was indeed a bit hungry, and he took the bowl and sniffed it, unable to identify what the meat was.

Su Muyu explained, "I consulted with Arcanist Aelena from the Twisted Tower, and she said this type of meat is edible."

The dietary habits of elves and humans were quite different.

However, most of what elves could eat, humans could also consume.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lu Heng got up and walked out of the vine treehouse, entering the stone forest. He drew the Aurora Blade from the void and began practicing the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Su Muyu sat under the shade of a tree near the stone forest, taking out a rune gem and a runepen to practice inscribing runes.

After eating, Lin Zeyu stretched lazily and complained, "I want to practice with the gun too."

He had only recently switched to the electromagnetic accelerated sniper rifle, and his handling skills needed more practice.

However, in the Abyssal Battlefield, live ammunition training was not possible.

One aspect of the firearm enhancement route was quite troublesome; each bullet required divine energy to bring into the battlefield.

Practicing with the gun in the Abyssal Battlefield was like stabbing oneself with a knife to let out blood.

Although Lin Zeyu's bullets were purchased, their quantity was still limited.

With the Abyssal Battlefield mission lasting 30 days, if he ran out of bullets during this long period, he would be no better than a regular soldier, unable to even fire his sniper rifle.

So, he decided to practice hand-to-hand combat in the stone forest instead.

His combat skills were already at the Proficiency level, and he would practice them from time to time, but opportunities to use them were rare.

After all, as a sniper, he usually operated from a distance, out of the enemy's sight.

Even if a close-range psychic were to rush in, knowing combat skills wouldn't be enough to withstand their assault.

Of course, practice was still necessary.

Training in combat not only improved fighting techniques but also enhanced physical attributes.

...

In the stone forest, Lu Heng activated his Windrunner skill, charged forward, and then unleashed the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash according to its principles.

Each time he swung his blade, it created a sonic boom, echoing through the stone forest with a loud 'Bang!'

After practicing a few times, Lu Heng noticed a problem.

When Teris performed the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, his speed and sword swings were incredibly fast, but he didn't produce a sonic boom.

Indeed, Teris's Wind Dragon Extinction Slash did not trigger a sonic boom.

This was odd.

With Teris's abilities, creating a sonic boom would have been effortless.

Moreover, when Lu Heng asked to learn the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, Teris's first requirement was to create a sonic boom.

Lu Heng effortlessly produced the sonic boom with his first swing, after which Teris proposed the task of slaying 500 demons.

Lu Heng, Su Muyu, and Lin Zeyu spent a whole night hunting demons; at first, they kept count, but eventually stopped as the number far exceeded 500.

Upon returning to the Storm Cliffs, Teris didn't ask about the number of demons they had slain.

He didn't need to ask; the demonic aura clinging to Lu Heng and his companions was so thick that it was clear they had slain over a thousand demons.

Thus, Teris directly demonstrated the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash and taught them this ultimate technique.

Lu Heng recalled the process of Teris teaching him the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash and had a question.

When Teris performed the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, there was no sonic boom, yet he initially required Lu Heng to create one.

From this requirement, it seemed that producing a sonic boom was a fundamental condition for practicing the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

So why didn't Teris's swings create a sonic boom?

A sonic boom is the sound produced when a blade breaks the sound barrier.

The sound barrier is a phenomenon where an object moving through the air at near-sonic speeds encounters a powerful force of resistance.

This force causes the object to vibrate intensely, slowing it down.

In other words, barely reaching the speed of sound was insufficient to break through the sound barrier.

Upon touching the sound barrier, one would be suppressed by this powerful resistance, causing their speed to rapidly decrease.

Therefore, greater power was necessary to break through the sound barrier.

When an object breaks the sound barrier, it creates a high-pressure zone by compressing the air in front of it, eventually forming a shockwave.

On the shockwave's surface, sound energy is highly concentrated.

This energy propagates outward in the form of sound waves, thereby creating a sonic boom.

Lu Heng closed his eyes, carefully recalling the essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash and comparing it to the situation when Teris unsheathed his sword.

He quickly discovered the true essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Teris indeed didn't produce a sonic boom, but that didn't mean there was no shockwave when he drew his sword.

Not only did he create a shockwave when he drew his sword, but the energy on the shockwave's surface was also extremely intense.

Normally, when the energy on the shockwave's surface is compressed to a certain extent, it would burst out in the form of sound waves, causing a sonic boom.

However, when Teris drew his sword, he didn't trigger a sonic boom because he controlled this energy, compressing it onto the blade and pushing it to the extreme, creating a powerful wind pressure, which eventually transformed into the Wind Dragon Slash.

This was the true essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Lu Heng understood this and resumed his cultivation.

When unsheathing his sword, he began to suppress the energy, creating wind pressure, and then slashed outward.

Boom!

With a single slash, a sonic boom erupted.

This slash still triggered a sonic boom, but the wind pressure it generated was much stronger than before, indicating clear progress.

Lu Heng continued his cultivation, constantly suppressing the sonic boom and enhancing the wind pressure.

Slash after slash, each one showed improvement.

Because Lu Heng had already seen the proficiency prompt.

[Cultivation of Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, Proficiency +1]



However, he was only practicing the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash and hadn't mastered it yet.

After comprehending the essence of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, Lu Heng's proficiency increased with almost every sword swing.

Cultivating the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash was extremely exhausting, and Lu Heng practiced at a rate of one sword per minute. After an hour of swinging sixty times, his body felt fatigued.

Lu Heng didn't stop; instead, he continued to cultivate. After two hours and over a hundred swings, sweat dripped from his forehead and back, soaking his clothes.

Two hours of cultivation nearly exhausted his stamina.

Lu Heng took a break to rest and replenish his energy.

After resting, he resumed his cultivation.

On the first day, he persevered for over ten hours, practicing a thousand swings until he was so exhausted that he fell asleep on the ground.

The next day, he woke up refreshed and continued practicing the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

With each swing, the wind pressure became stronger, and the sonic boom grew fainter.

The smaller the sonic boom, the greater his control over the wind pressure energy.

Lu Heng never imagined that three months after learning the Sonic Blade, he would now have to eliminate the sonic boom.

Boom, boom, boom...

The sound of the sonic boom reverberated through the stone forest, gradually fading.

Lin Zeyu, aiming his gun on the peak, found it strange that the sonic boom was diminishing, thinking that the sword's power was weakening.

It wasn't until he returned to the stone forest in the evening that he realized a fierce whirlwind had formed.

The tornado created by Lu Heng's slashes had begun to show signs of forming a Wind Dragon. With each swing, a whirlwind would rise, swirling and roaring through the stone forest.

After three days of cultivation, Lu Heng officially unleashed the Wind Dragon.

The Wind Dragon roared through the stone forest, its wind pressure lifting stones and dirt into the sky.

Even large millstone-sized rocks were swept up by the Wind Dragon.

Lu Heng had essentially cultivated the embryonic form of the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, but its power was still far inferior to Teris's.

Starting on the fourth day, Lu Heng practiced his slashes against stone pillars, with the Wind Dragon howling and striking the pillars.

The tornado blade carved into the stone pillars, leaving sword marks everywhere, but it was still far from being able to lift the pillars.

On the Storm Cliffs, Teris wasn't paying much attention to Lu Heng's cultivation progress. However, since Lu Heng was practicing in the stone forest every day, Teris could see his progress whenever he left the cave, even without paying close attention.

Witnessing Lu Heng's ability to unleash the Wind Dragon on the fourth day surprised Teris.

This reminded him of Arelana, the Elven Queen, who, before becoming queen, was a humble and diligent student with exceptional talent.

When Teris taught her the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, Arelana also mastered the Wind Dragon in just a few days.

He never expected that two hundred years later, he would encounter another person who could unleash the Wind Dragon within a few days.

(End of Chapter)

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