The Divine Urban Physician Chapter 3478: Far from Enough! (Fifth Update)
Previously on The Divine Urban Physician...
With a sharp cry, Zhang Qiao Ling swung her Dragonslayer Sword relentlessly. In mere moments, the blade's technique shifted endlessly, forming a vast tapestry of shimmering silver sword beams that fused with the thunderous silver bolts crackling in the overhead storm clouds. This fusion created a mesh of blue, purple, and silver hues, blanketing the heavens as it plunged down toward Ye Chen!
This powerful attack drained her greatly, leaving even Zhang Qiao Ling panting heavily. The price of unleashing this sword strike was enormous!
Confronting the electrified mesh that aimed to smash him, the radiant glow in Ye Chen’s gaze intensified further. He drew in a profound breath, activating the Mystic Flames and Destruction Divine Dao across his form, lifting his sword to its utmost capacity, refining the Destruction Divine Dao on the Slaughter Sword to a sharper edge!
In the following instant, his body blurred into a streak of light, surging forward boldly against the electrified mesh capable of shattering the skies and wiping out all life!
The Heavenly Destruction Sword Technique erupted, unleashing frigid sword beams, surging with True Martial Intent, an unstoppable might standing alone like a solitary mountain in the Eight Desolates!
Suddenly, as if a celestial river crashed down, Ye Chen’s blade collided with the massive electrified mesh!
A blinding radiance burst outward in every direction!
Even powerhouses like Gu Han and Zhang Chi, at the Holy Ancestor Realm level, found themselves squinting their eyes shut briefly!
The instant after, the world cleared once more, and Gu Han with Zhang Chi reopened their eyes, witnessing how the apocalyptic electrified mesh had vanished, with only a cracked emptiness lingering to show the force of the clash!
High in the sky, a figure marred by blood stood tall, a warrior whose laughter rang out wild and free!
Ye Chen’s frame bore scorched gashes from sword wounds, crimson drops falling from his feet to the earth below, painting a pitiful sight, but his grin held unshakeable assurance!
A profoundly fierce assurance!
The assurance of a genuine supreme warrior!
Ignoring his injuries, he stepped onward, stamping bloody imprints into the air with every stride, advancing straight for Zhang Qiao Ling!
Right then, Zhang Qiao Ling’s complexion drained to ashen white!
She clenched her jaw, her striking eyes locked on Ye Chen, as notions of pulling back flooded her thoughts unbidden!
To her, the approaching presence was no wounded Heavenly God Realm fighter!
Rather, it embodied a vast sea of corpses and rivers of blood!
What sensation was this?
A flicker of reluctance stirred in Zhang Qiao Ling’s lovely gaze...
Was fear taking hold of her?
Fear right in the heat of combat?
Zhang Qiao Ling had never known fear...
Regardless of foes mightier than herself, she had always stood fearless...
Yet strangely, as Ye Chen drew near, terror gripped her!
How could fear not seize her?
How many Outer Heaven Demons had fallen to Ye Chen’s blade?
Countless, without doubt? And those Outer Heaven Demons were no weaklings, but formidable entities!
With hordes of demon kin cut down, the spiritual might Ye Chen gathered surpassed that of typical warriors!
Even a figure from the Outer Realm Star Xuan Domain like Zhang Qiao Ling, a seventh-level Holy Ancestor Realm expert, felt its weight!
"Damn it!"
Zhang Qiao Ling bellowed fiercely, as the sacred maiden of Qianlei Sect and heir to its leadership, a being on par with Moon Soul Domain’s Venerable Immortals, how could dread claim her?
Her dignity forbade any trace of fear!!!
Lightning flared brighter around Zhang Qiao Ling, carrying a devastating presence, and she lunged once more, almost wildly!
Ye Chen observed this and merely smirked, knowing that Zhang Qiao Ling’s growing haste stripped away her composure, allowing him to dictate the fight’s flow more easily!
In reality, had Zhang Qiao Ling battled with poise and steadiness, even bolstered by the Purple Cloud Stone’s essence and the Netherworld Water’s boost, plus the Sword Soul Xuan Han Jade’s might amplification, Ye Chen wouldn’t fall swiftly, though securing an easy triumph would prove challenging.
After all, the Purple Cloud Stone’s power, if taken in outright, could harm the Martial Arts Foundation, so Ye Chen planned to integrate it slowly as his cultivation level climbed amid the skirmish, requiring time to close the cultivation divide with Zhang Qiao Ling.
Given Ye Chen’s present state, neither the Netherworld Water’s worth nor the Purple Cloud Stone’s, and not even the Sword Soul Xuan Han Jade’s strength, suited a drawn-out confrontation!
This put time in Zhang Qiao Ling’s favor.
Yet Zhang Qiao Ling, stirred by his taunts, abandoned reason, wasting her vigor...
Ye Chen shook his head slightly, a touch of regret washing over him.
While this eased his path to success, it also meant less growth for his martial path.
He had just fifteen days in this place.
Back in the Divine Kingdom, such Holy Ancestor Realm foes for practice were scarce!
It looked like he required mightier rivals to truly advance his martial way!
Zhang Qiao Ling fell short! Way too short!
Ye Chen’s eyes sharpened, so if that were true, time to wrap up this duel swiftly!
Though Zhang Qiao Ling remained oblivious to Ye Chen’s inner musings, his head shake and evident letdown ignited her deeply!
Clashing with her left him disappointed?
For a prodigy as arrogant as Zhang Qiao Ling, nothing cut deeper!
Rage in her stare nearly took physical form!
The very next instant, their forms collided anew, sword beams and lightning intertwining in a frenzy, and in a flash, they traded more than a hundred strikes!
Gu Han and Zhang Chi had pulled back to a safe distance, joined by the Green Phoenix and its ruler, or else the fallout from Ye Chen and Zhang Qiao Ling’s duel might not just wound them but obliterate them outright!
Now, the longer they observed, the deeper their shock grew!
They had traded hundreds of strikes, at first, Zhang Qiao Ling had kept Ye Chen firmly on the defensive...
But bit by bit, they noticed Ye Chen’s setback fading?
At present, Ye Chen matched Zhang Qiao Ling blow for blow, locked in a brutal deadlock!
What was going on?
They knew tales of prodigies who strengthened mid-battle...
But those were just myths!
Even in myths, nothing approached this level!
A hundred exchanges back, Ye Chen had suffered under Zhang Qiao Ling’s sword, his torso cracked open, heart burned to char, though his otherworldly resilience kept him going, the gap was obvious!
How much time had passed since then?
Only a hundred strikes, and now Ye Chen held his own against Zhang Qiao Ling, a seventh-level Holy Ancestor Realm powerhouse, on equal footing!
Unprecedented!
Even by the standards of Outer Realm warriors, it stunned beyond belief, impossible...
How does one battle such a foe?
Not only do they refuse to perish, they keep advancing?
Far too freakish!
Completely hopeless!
Three hundred exchanges!
By now, Ye Chen had flipped the script from defense to dominance, utterly overwhelming Zhang Qiao Ling!
Ye Chen grinned coldly, his sword beam whirling as he thrust forward!
Against this blow, Zhang Qiao Ling’s features blanched, her energy in disarray, and at last, dread crept into her exquisite eyes!
The point where Ye Chen gained the upper hand sealed the duel’s end!
Zhang Qiao Ling lacked Ye Chen’s freakish endurance to endure his assaults...
Even if she had it, she couldn’t keep evolving through the fray to turn things around...
That horrifying sword beam rushed in, Zhang Qiao Ling’s jaws locked, her purplish-blue Dragonslayer Sword crackling with electricity, her whole blood essence blazing, heedless of the fallout, she drove her sword out!
Purplish-blue lightning shaped into a roaring thunder dragon, charging ahead!
This blow carried tremendous power!
However!
This formidable sword attack crumbled amid Ye Chen’s sword beam...