From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 403 - 278: Mastery, The Power of Wind Dragon

Evening.

At the foot of the Storm Cliff, in the Dragon Sleep Stone Forest.

Lu Heng stood with his eyes closed, standing in front of the stone forest, repeatedly going over the essence of the Wind Dragon Breathless Slash in his mind.

Today marked the third day since the Acceleration Skill had been upgraded to A-Level "Wind God Step."

He had spent these three days training in the stone forest, with the wind pressure from his strikes growing stronger by the day, only a hair’s breadth away from mastering this Sword Saint’s ultimate skill.

Lu Heng closed his eyes and slowed his breathing, adjusting the Source Energy within his body, preparing to draw his sword.

Activating the Wind God Step, a whirlwind began to spin slowly around his body, and the Source Energy inside him started converging towards his limbs.

The Wind God Step began to charge, and within two seconds, the power of the Wind God filled him completely, and his figure dashed forward.

After obtaining the A-Level Wind God Step, his speed in the charging state increased by 450%, and with 115 points in Agility, he sprinted at an extreme speed of 442 meters per second.

His body broke the sound barrier, creating a ring of sonic boom clouds around him.

With a "boom," a sonic explosion erupted.

Lu Heng dashed into the stone forest and unsheathed his sword to execute the Wind Dragon Breathless Slash.

With one slash, fierce winds howled, instantly forming a wind dragon that circled and struck a pillar in the middle of the stone forest.

The wind dragon rotated around the stone pillar, lifting it from the ground amid the violent wind pressure, and flung it into the air.

The pillar, two meters in diameter, rose three meters high, then came crashing down, making the ground tremble.

[Practicing Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, Training Level +1]

[Insights gained through practice, learned the Martial Skill "Wind Dragon Breathless Slash."]

[Body attributes increased through practice, Strength +0.1, Agility +0.1, Constitution +0.1]

Lu Heng’s eyes lit up when he saw the prompt, and he hurriedly checked his attribute panel.

[Name: Lu Heng]

[Level: 35]

[Qi-Blood: 820/900]

[Source Energy: 360/950]

[Attributes: Strength 90, Agility 116, Constitution 90, Spirit 95, Perception 90.]

[Talent: Agile as a Dragon, Divine Evolution, Demon Hunter]

[Combat Rank: Shadow Swordsman (Second Transition)]

[Unfused Source Material: Void Blade (Third Transition)]

[Source Material Ability: Shadow Traversal, Rift Slash, Void Flash]

[Skill Slot Number: 6]

[Skills: Thunderous Heavenly Prison, Divine Embodiment, Wind God Step, Bullet Time, Damage Retrospection, Spiritual Dominance]

[Martial Arts: Swordsmanship (Conception Level), Fighting (Micro Level), Movement Technique (Conception Level)]

[Martial Skill: Wind Dragon Breathless Slash LV1]

...

Finally, he had mastered Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, and a new [Martial Skill] entry appeared on the attribute panel.

Currently, Wind Dragon Breathless Slash was still LV1, with significant room for improvement.

Terres’s Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, once executed, would lift over a dozen stone pillars into the sky with the massive wind dragon.

Any one of these pillars weighed over twenty or thirty tons.

Without even thinking, it was clear that Terres’s level of Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, if not already maxed out, was very close to it.

Having mastered Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, Lu Heng’s slash could lift a stone pillar weighing over twenty tons; this power was already terrifying.

When the level of Wind Dragon Breathless Slash increased, the power was unimaginable.

In addition to Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, his Agility Attribute also improved.

Originally, his Agility Attribute was 115.9, but it increased by 0.1 through practice, reaching 116 points.

...

Phew...

After executing Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, Lu Heng stood in place to rest.

Using this sword skill consumed a tremendous amount of Source Energy and physical strength.

The immense power meant that this sword skill could not be used consecutively.

After mastering Wind Dragon Breathless Slash, Lu Heng began to recall the second sword technique Terres had used before – Flying Dragon Hunting Sky.

This sword skill was a Chasing Sky Skill; after the wind dragon lifted the target into the air, executing Flying Dragon Hunting Sky would allow him to slay the opponent in midair.

Lu Heng had tried several times, but the difficulty of this skill was no less than that of Wind Dragon Breathless Slash; it wouldn’t be easy to master.

At that moment,

Terres came down from the Storm Cliff, and with a stern face, he said, "You’ve been here for ten days now, when are you going to Kolos City?"

Counting from the time of teleportation, today was the twelfth day.

The first day was spent in the Moonshadow Forest, the second day he arrived at the Storm Cliff.

Then, after spending a day hunting five hundred demons, he practiced the Wind Dragon Breathless Slash for six days, entered the Twilight Mountain Range to look for the Witch Demon Dionysus, and after returning, he trained for three more days.

Adding it all up, twelve days had passed, and if it was one of the previous summons to the Abyss Battlefield, it would have been almost over by now.

This meant that this Abyss Battlefield summon lasted longer, a total of thirty days, but half of the time had already gone by.

Terres’s demeanor seemed very much like he was hurrying someone along.

Lu Heng asked with a smile, "Is senior in such a hurry?"

"Hmph!"

Terres snorted with dissatisfaction.

Clearly, he was still preoccupied with the crisis in Kolos City.

Although the crisis had not yet been revealed, he couldn’t help but worry.

These past days, Lu Heng had been pondering a problem. The Witch Demon Dionysus had mentioned before that he knew a secret about the Great Arcanist Augustus – a secret that could ruin him.

Could this secret be related to the crisis in Kolos City?

But if that were the case, why didn’t Terres let Dionysus finish speaking?

Why did he destroy Dionysus’s Life Protection Box?

The timing of his action clearly indicated he did not want Dionysus to reveal this secret.

If his action was indeed to silence Dionysus, it could mean that he knew what secret Dionysus wanted to reveal.

And he was so concerned about the crisis in Kolos City.

Combining this information leads to a sure conclusion: the secret of Augustus was not related to the crisis in Kolos City.