Long Live Summons Chapter 187 – Threefold Strengthening?

Even though the difference between a Level Two [Innate] and a Level One [Innate] was only one level, it was an insurmountable chasm.

Amongst the group of [Innate] Rankers, even the meticulously cautious and prudent Thousand Goblins Sect Leader did not feel that Yue Yang, who had just been promoted to [Innate] less than two days ago, could defeat the battle-experienced Tu Cheng.

Yue Yang had not even truly mastered [Innate] strength, while his opponent had been battling on the upper floors of Tong Tian Tower for many years. He was a young fellow who was of young age and had insufficient strength, while his opponent was a distinguished [Innate] who had profound strength and excellent beasts ... No matter how one compared them, Yue Yang was far from being on par with the Massacring Demon Elder, who had been training for more than two hundred years and had a well-known reputation. Even Jun Wu You, State Grandmaster, and Elder Yue Hai did not have hundred percent confidence in Yue Yang. They had supported Yue Yang because, firstly, this was the Night Empress’s suggestion, and the Night Empress would never harm Yue Yang; secondly, because of Sky Law’s hint. Since she was the one who had opened up Yue Yang’s potential and directly helped him to be promoted to become a true [Innate], she should be the person who best understood his ability. Since she did not oppose this, and even thought that Yue Yang may be able to defeat Tu Cheng, then of course, Jun Wu You and company would not oppose it as well.

What eased the minds of Jun Wu You and company the most, was because Yue Yang’s Introducer was ‘her’.

‘She’ was Yue Yang’s Introducer.

Just this was enough to fill those who supported Yue Yang with confidence.

Even though he may not necessarily win, but they believed he would probably not lose. In this battle, even if it was still a tie after fighting to their last breaths, for a young, twenty year-old Yue Yang being able to tie with Tu Cheng, whose fame had lasted for two hundred years, a Level One [Innate] drawing against a Level Two [Innate] was also a victory with extreme importance!

Yue Yang was still young and had an inexhaustible potential, whereas Tu Cheng, who had been reknowned for so long had already reached the peak of his strength. His potential had already been exhausted and there was no longer any possibility of improvement for him.

“Ha!”

Tu Cheng who had leaped in mid-air suddenly gave an unexpected loud shout when Yue Yang was about to meet his attack.

His body paused, both of his arms opening wide.

A series of strong shock waves exploded. A golden light beam diffused outwards from his two palms, and blasted Yue Yang away with the force of a large explosion. Tu Cheng knew that Yue Yang had an [Innate] skill that could bind others. Previously, he had been careless, and had been beaten up by him. Now, he had already thought of a method to deal with Yue Yang, and it was to use mid-range attacks ... His [Binding] Inherent Skill was certainly powerful, but such a strong Inherent Skill could definitely only be used for a few times, and only in a long range. Tu Cheng predicted that Yue Yang’s Inherent Skill could only be used to its full strength if he was in contact with his opponent or at a very near distance.

Hence, he decided that he would not give Yue Yang such an opportunity at all. He would simply use the shockwaves emitted at mid-range to defeat him.

Even though he could not kill him, but he had a hundred types of devilish methods to depose this fellow.

One of them was to entirely break the fighting spirit of his opponent, and deal blows to his opponent’s resolution. As long as this fellow lost the heart of a Ranker and became a coward whose whole body was trembling in terror and could not even raise a fist, then even if he had potential, it would be to no avail.

Tu Cheng had seen many talented youngsters who had become cowards and useless beings after experiencing significant setbacks.

Now, he was going to completely break this arrogant young fellow ... ...

“You want to became an [Innate] Ranker? Pay some school fees first!” Tu Cheng, who had estimated a safe distance, was pleased. He flashed and reappeared behind Yue Yang’s back. At the moment when Yue Yang was waving his fists, Tu Cheng summoned a Platinum Grimoire. A halo of light rose, and blasted Yue Yang away. He was prepared to use an extremely precise and ingenious Grimoire Summoning to push Yue Yang, who was completely incapable of counterattacking, into the pits of despair.

At the same time when Yue Yang was blasted away, Tu Cheng summoned a Strengthening-type Ancient Giant Beast that was as enormous as a small hill.

The golden Ancient Giant Beast that was summoned howled out into the sky and assimilated into Tu Cheng’s body.

At that moment, Tu Cheng’s body became numerous times larger.

Now, Tu Cheng’s body was about ten meters tall. One of his fingers was almost as large as Yue Yang’s thigh. His open palm could completely envelop Yue Yang’s entire person.

Summoning a Strengthening-type Ancient Giant Beast was not enough. Tu Cheng decided to make Yue Yang feel desperate and inferior on the basis of strength, and completely pulverize his fighting spirit. A second Summoned Beast was summoned in the midst of golden light.

This time, it was a golden giant dragon.

Yue Yang had seen wyverns, but this was his first time seeing a giant dragon.

“Second Strengthening!” Tu Cheng yelled. The majestic and awe-inspiring golden giant dragon transformed into a bright ray of golden light, and assimilated into him.

Gigantic dragon wings sprouted out from Tu Cheng’s back. Both of his hands turned into dragon claws, and a dragon tail grew out from his back. All these made Tu Cheng look almost like he had become a human-shaped giant dragon. The [Innates] who were familiar with Tu Cheng knew that if the first strengthening of the Ancient Giant Beast merely added to his strength and size, then the second strengthening would cause his battle strength to increase exponentially. The second strengthening would also add the golden dragon’s skills of [Power Pressure], [Dragon Breath] and [Fly] to his skillset.

With these three skills, Tu Cheng’s victory was guaranteed.

His opponent’s level, realm, battle strength and especially his beasts could not be comparable to him ... ... Just the skill of [Power Pressure] could already reduce one’s opponent’s battle strength by half. Additionally, he had the terrifying [Dragon Breath] which was even scarier than [Hellfire], and [Fly], which made it impossible for his enemies to escape.

This battle was one that could be won without being fought.

Every single person in the group of [Innates] thought that way in their hearts. Only Pheonix Fairy Beauty, who had stood out individually, had a mysterious smile on her face, as if she was sneering at Tu Cheng’s silly antics that were a waste of effort.

The purple-robed handsome young man from the Demonic Palace revealed an even more hateful look at Yue Yang when he saw the smile on Phoenix Fairy’s face.

But he did not show this openly, like a poisonous serpent which was deeply hiding its true colours.

“I’ll turn you into a roasted pig!” Tu Cheng pounced towards Yue Yang from a distance of ten meters. His enormous mouth opened, and a whiff of [Dragon Breath] spouted out.

“......” Yue Yang did not retreat. Instead he advanced, directly rushing to face Tu Cheng headon.

In a breath, Yue Yang summoned his Silver Grimoire, and the protective shield rose, ricocheting the imminently reaching [Dragon Breath] away. Everybody was extremely shocked. This fellow could actually use [Instant Summoning]? If they did not notice that his Grimoire was actually a Silver Grimoire, there would be practically nobody who would believe that this was a young rascal who was only twenty years old. This ability to control the skill of Instant Summoning was practically not something that a young person could master.

Jun Wu You and Elder Yue Hai were the ones who were the most surprised. They both knew that this fellow had only just contracted a Grimoire not long ago. Only half a year had passed, and yet he had already mastered Instant Summoning, which was something that other people may not even be able to master in twenty years.

It was not that they have not seen a genius before, it was just that they really haven’t seen one that was genius to such a frightening level ...

It was the difference between half a year and twenty years.

Those who managed to learn it in twenty years were already considered geniuses. This... his growth really made people speechless.

Also, this fellow had always behaved like a useless trash. Jun Wu You and Elder Yue Hai sweated even more profusely. Turned out that this brat was also good at pretending to be useless!

Tu Cheng, who initially wanted to burn Yue Yang to a crisp, was instead burned in the face by his own [Dragon Breath]. He howled in pain. The [Innates] opposite them frowned when they saw this. This brat had actually erected his protective shield at the right time to protect against [Dragon Breath]. If he erected the shield one meter too far, it would be able to reach Tu Cheng. If her erected the shield one meter too close, the [Dragon Breath] would blast Tu Cheng away like a bullet. His grasp of the distance was just right.

If it were them, would they be able to do it better?

Nobody answered the question out loud, but the answer in all of their hearts were the same: They could not have done it better.

“[Windstorm]!” Even though Tu Cheng had suffered a blast of his own spouted [Dragon Breath], it only caused him pain. He was not injured at all. However, he was so embarrassed that he flew into a rage. He started to spin his body and hands like a pinwheel, creating a [Windstorm] that encircled the protective shield as it whirled.

The Grimoire’s protective shield was linked to its master’s state of mind. Small amounts of attacks would not have any impact on its master.

But long term attacks and tremendous quakes would affect the Grimoire master’s mind.

If the one attacking was a Ranker of Level Six and below, then even if he continuously attacked for an hour, it would not cause much of an impact on even the most low-levelled Bronze Grimoire Contracter ...... But Tu Cheng was an [Innate]. Although the tornado [Windstorm] that he produced did not have enough power to destroy the protective shield, after some time, it would definitely affect Yue Yang’s state of mind. In a battle between experts, even a teeny bit of impact would cause one to completely be at a disadvantage.

Yue Yang did not hide within the protective shield to wait for the [Windstorm] to pass. These kind of [Windstorm] created by strength like this could be created by Tu Cheng anytime.

He instantly kept his Grimoire, and unexpectedly appeared behind Tu Cheng.

Using both of his hands, he grabbed at Tu Cheng who was as large as a small hill and raised him high into the air, then tossing him into the air of the [Tornado Windstorm]. At that moment, Tu Cheng was swept up into the sky.

“Its [Teleportation] and [Binding]!” The [Innate] rankers frowned yet again.

There was nothing strange for an [Innate] to master the Teleportation Skill. But this fellow had just been promoted to become an [Innate] and barely two days had passed. How did he learn it? The weirdest thing was how this fellow managed to teleport out from under his own Protective Shield. Before the Protective Shield vanished, Grimoire Contractors could walk out from within, but they definitely could not teleport out from it, could it be they had seen it wrongly? Or had this fellow reached the level of being able to instantly keep his Grimoire, and at the same time, could also instantly teleport?

The [Windstorm] disappeared and Tu Cheng fell down from the air. His reactions were very quick, he had already spread his giant wings out when he almost crashed to the ground, landing steadily.

Even though he did not slip and fall, he still felt that his reputation had completely been thrown away.

This fellow had actually returned all his proudest signature moves. This was a bigger and an even more intolerable humiliation to him than a ruthless slap to his face!

His [Dragon Breath] had been rebounded and his [Windstorm] had been used against him...

The furious flames in Tu Cheng’s heart were already raging to the extreme.

He did not believe that with his Level Two [Innate] strength, he could not defeat this young rascal of Level One [Innate] strength. He decided to use the most direct method, using the greatest force he could muster and the most barbaric strength in his body to defeat his opponent head-on.

Could this fellow even make his own fists rebound on him?

“He!” Tu Cheng raised his giant fist and ruthlessly pounded towards Yue Yang.

With a giant rumbling sound, Yue Yang was blasted ten meters away.

Tu Cheng was pleased with himself. Yue Yang’s [Binding] Inherent Skill was not omnipotent, it probably has a limit on the amount of times it can be used. Under his powerful attacks, this brat would definitely kneel on the floor and beg for his forgiveness! When he thought about how this brat was going to kneel in front of him, his voice quivering and choked with tears as he begged for his forgiveness, Tu Cheng felt extremely pleased. The one who laughed at the last moment would be the real victor. Young fellow, you are still too green!

He raised his giant fist a second time, using his full strength to execute his punch.

Jeering and mocking as much as possible at him, he sneered, “Young fellow, have you not suckled enough milk from your mother? Why do you only have such little strength? Haha!”

The group of [Innate] Rankers opposite all felt that there was no suspense in a fight where a Level Two [Innate] was pitted against a Level One [Innate].

The disparity was so obvious and it wasn’t something that could be made up for by technique.

The Thousand Goblins Sect Leader who was light as a shadow, however, had a bad premonition at this moment. He looked towards Jun Wu You and Elder Yue Hai, and discovered that even though they had anxious expressions on their faces, but it was still far from panic. This proved that this newly promoted [Innate] fellow still had some strength left and would not be easily beaten. When he looked at Phoenix Fairy, his heart shivered. Phoenix Fairy’s smile had became even wider than her smile just now. Her expression was as if she was looking at a young tiger cub that had still not known how to hunt for prey but had successfully caught a wild water buffalo. The tiger cub seemed to be trying to practice its hunting skill continuously, and could not bear to consume its prey at one go ...

A strange feeling flashed across his heart.

Before this, that fellow was blasted away by one punch of Tu Cheng and was forced to retreat ten meters, smashing the pillars and almost collapsing the walls.

At the moment with Tu Cheng having Twice-Strengthened, his strength had been raised by not less than ten times. With another blow at full strength, and this fellow meeting his attack with his fist, he only retreated ten meters.

What did this mean?

This meant that this fellow had been continuously improved himself in the battle, and was continuously becoming stronger. His strength had progressed from just now, when he had collapsed at a single blow, to his current state where he was almost on par with the Twice-Strengthened Tu Cheng. If they continued to fight, with Tu Cheng continuously using up his strength, and this fellow continuously improving, after a long attrition, the Level Two [Innate] Tu Cheng may very well be defeated by this Level One [Innate].

This fellow definitely had some sort of talent to be able to learn and grow in battle ... ... Otherwise, the Night Empress would definitely not have proposed for him to fight Tu Cheng one on one in an Supreme Duel.

Sky Law would also not approve of it, and would definitely not stand out on her own accord to volunteer as a judge!

As this thought flashed past his mind, the Thousand Goblins Sect Leader was extremely angry. He felt that he had been tricked by the combined co-operation of the Night Empress and Sky Law.

Most importantly, the fact that ‘she’ would also agree to this one-one-one Supreme Duel proved that this brat’s Inherent Skill might not even be [Binding]. This could possibly be a certain special ability of his beast. This brat’s true talent was definitely being able to learn and grow in battle!

Bam!

The Thousand Demons Sect Leader saw that Yue Yang was still forced to retreat by the second punch.

He took note and counted the number of steps that Yue Yang retreated. Just now, it was ten steps, and he had retreated by ten meters.

Now it was nine steps, and it was also nine meters ... ... Just now, the footsteps were deep, each of them smashing into the ground. Now, the first few footsteps were still extremely deep, but the last two steps had become obviously shallower!

“Brat, use all your power! Hahaha, where’s the strength you had just now?” Tu Cheng was now very arrogant. He felt that his strength could completely overpower his opponent, all his punches connecting squarely with Yue Yang. He estimated that he only needed another ten punches or to make this fellow collapse to the ground, sapped of his strength, and sustain injuries serious enough to make him cough blood... To fight a proper battle with an [Innate] was different from exchanging moves with normal Rankers. In a situation where one did not defend himself at all, as long as he sustained a hit from an [Innate] Ranker, he would also immediately collapse.

As long as this fellow’s body was sapped of his strength, once he sustained a blow from his giant fists that had been Twice-Strengthened, all the bones in his body would probably be crushed to pieces.

Even if he could be saved on time, his future would also be bleak.

Tu Cheng had an extremely pleased smile on his face.

He raised his giant fists high into the air, ready to smash downwards with full strength, forcing Yue Yang to sustain his blows.

“Wait, Tu Cheng, let’s concede this battle, don’t fight anymore.” The Thousand Goblins Sect Leader was not so stupid as to let his subordinates function as practice targ