The sudden ferocity of his attacks caused the Jinxi Patriarchs features to tighten. There was finally a shred of doubt in his heart. Sage felt a surge of greater Law energy from his foe and knew that he was finally ready to bring out his strongest techniques.
The old man was many millenia old and fighting an orphan who was barely older than a century had been a joke in his eyes. He was using this challenge as an excuse to show off how powerful he was by displaying the techniques of the Jinxi Faction to reinforce that they werent just in charge because of their excellent diplomatic and managent skills. It was only at this mont that he finally realized that he had severely underestimated his opponent.
It was also the exact mont that Sage was waiting for. The instant when the old man released more Qi to interact with the laws of the world. The power of laws did not co from within, it was a force that existed outside them. After gaining an understanding of a law, a cultivator could use their own Qi to resonate with the law energy of the world and bring it under their control. The greater the understanding, the greater the law energy they could manipulate.
At that mont the Jinxi Patriarch was reaching for more power, Sage was already ready to strike. He had already seen exactly how the old man would react with his Foresight and he kicked hard to propel himself forward. This ti, unlike the others, there was no boom from the stage being shattered. He used Cosmic Traction to apply his force to an empty area of space to conceal his motion, a plan that bought him a fraction of a second more ti before the old man noticed his attack. Just as the old man noticed him approaching, many wooden points burst out of the stone stage in a semi-circle behind him. They shot out of the ground from 20 yards away, just outside the range his Spiritual Sense had covered. The roots grew so fast they were like thrown spears, and just as the roots shot out, the sky was suddenly filled with burning seeds. The red lotus seed pods attacked indiscriminately, completely filling the air above the patriarch with burning projectiles to keep the old man grounded.
Inwardly, the old man was cursing. The brat had blocked off his back, so he couldnt even leap off the stage to forfeit, and filled the sky with random attacks. He knew that it was all so that hed have to face him head on. Did this kid think that just because he was skilled at the Golden Mantis Body that this old man was afraid of him?
Contrary to what had happened so far, the Jinxi Patriarch didnt avoid the branch head this ti. There was a vicious look on his face as the old man leaned forward and then shot forwards towards the golden eyed man rushing straight towards him. His mouth opened and another cricket chirping sound filled the arena. Then the old man shimred and his outline blurred. What had been one patriarch suddenly beca dozens. Tens of Jinxi Patriarchs rushed towards the Lang branch head with steely eyed determination. The branch head raised a hand and the blade disappeared from it, then a torrent of orange flas burst outwards and blanketed the small army of old n. The patriarchs twisted their lips and the chirping sound altered slightly. Before the flas reached them, it was deflected by an invisible barrier, and those with shred eyes could see the flas werent impacting a static shield, but they were instead being pushed back in rhythmic waves.
Unperturbed by the torrent of flas, the many copies of the patriarch closed the distance with Sage and altered their speeds to create a semi-circle formation aid to surround and trap him. It was too bad that Sage already knew exactly which one of these clones to attack. With Foresight, he could plan an attack and then see it fail long before he ever actually made a move. The old man approached him confidently and Sage already saw what gave him such confidence.
This fellow had ruled the Chong Clan for thousands of years. There was no way he didnt have a similar technique to the one used by the Lang Clan. Why would they give any weapons to their subordinates without having a good way to counteract them? A golden aura appeared around the Jinxi Patriarchs hands and feet. It was a much easier to use version of the Golden Mantis Body. Instead of covering the whole body with armor, it only focused on the hands and feet. The hands and feet had many more Qi pores than the other part of the body which made it far easier to use them to form techniques. By limiting the golden aura to the hands and feet it could be learned tens of tis faster than the full Golden Mantis Body. It was inferior in that it only covered a small portion of the body, but the golden aura techniques strength ca from how well it could transform the Qi. So what if the Lang Clan could cover their whole body with armor if that armor was like paper to them. The Jinxi only had to punch a hole through a few Lang mbers' bodies to keep the rest in line.
Contrary to his expectations, the branch heads crossed arms swung towards the old mans true body, the two of them moving in a backhand motion to create a scissor-like cut. Just like his earlier techniques, these clones were illusions. An illusion that targeted the external senses rather than the internal ones. Most illusions were rely unusual ntal attacks. They confused the sensory signals sent to the brain to change what a person could see, sll, hear, or feel. This illusion was similar in the confusion it caused, but it wasnt a ntal attack, it was actually sothing more like holograms with sound. Holograms that even Sages Spiritual Sense couldnt distinguish between. Their energy fluctuations were all exactly the sa, and that strange air bubble movent technique blocked Sage from sensing any temperature or air fluctuations.
The Jinxi Patriarch felt the yard-long blades coming towards him, but even if the clones hadnt seed to work he wasnt flustered. His body lowered down, ducking under the horizontal slashes coming his way and kicking hard at the ground with a foot covered by a golden aura. He shot underneath the energy scissors, aiming at the branch heads now exposed side. The golden aura around his feet had magnified his strength and the aura around his hand made his fingers into claws. Those energy claws struck towards the branch heads midsection, pointing his fingers and aiming to stab into the kids body like a knife to puncture his liver.
With his two arms already spread wide from the missed attack it looked like Sage was helpless, but thats when he opened his own mouth and a massive burst of air shot from him with booming force. The Jinxi Patriarchs air bubble shield burst, but it happened before Sages Stormbreath hit it. The old man instantly reversed his montum and shot backwards to avoid the air cannon attack. He twisted and rolled to the side to avoid the pressure wave, but then he felt a hard force strike against his chest and then a sudden sharp pain from his back. Before he knew what happened, he saw a blood covered spear erge from his stomach. He wanted to pull it out, but his body wasnt responding properly. Thats when he noticed the pink gas emitting from that spear and realized his whole body had turned numb.
Just as the Jinxi Patriarchs Nascent Soul flew out of his dying body, a brilliant white fla fell upon him. Sage combined his Divine Breath technique with the First Light and attacked the Nascent Soul before it could get its bearings. Then he leapt forward and one of his golden blades turned a purple color. Sage stabbed the purple blade into the Nascent Soul and it squealed in pain. The sound was the dying scream of an insect, and the patriarchs final attack. Blood dripped from Sages ears, but the Nascent Soul dissipated completely.
The clan leader was dead.
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