Hundreds of bone dragons simultaneously opened their mouths and spewed breath attacks. An ancestor of ancient bone dragons, hundreds of meters long, was worth a hundred dragons. The entire sky was covered in dense, dark clouds. Legend had it that Eastern dragons could control clouds and rain, and the current situation was much like that.
The seemingly light and airy breath attacks were not to be underestimated. It wasn't just a Dragonkin who would suffer; even a seventh-level ancient dragon would find its flesh and bones worn away into bone dragons within moments in such a terrifying environment of hundreds of bone dragons breathing together.
The giant knight, seated on an ancient dragon, transmitted excited soul fluctuations from his soul fire outward. Other knights and bone dragons, sensing these fluctuations, also shared their emotions, a mix of excitement, exhilaration, disdain, and thoughts of Li Xi being a great fool, all laced with schadenfreude. None dared to challenge such a torrent of bone dragon breath attacks with their bodies. Not a single one! Not even their undead kin dared!
But in the next second, as if presaging the coming of heavy rain, thunder boomed within the misty breath attack. A piercing, crackling sound ensued. All undead felt a sense of aversion upon sensing the presence of lightning; it was among the top three things they loathed.
A figure, cloaked in a shimmering, illusory red energy with a strange energy tail, wielding the power of lightning in a flaming palm, pierced through the dense fog of breath attacks. As the mist formed by the bone dragons' breath collided with this bubbling red, illusory energy cloak, both were annihilated and vanished. The venomous death energy breath could not inflict any damage on the Dragonkin within.
In that instant, Li Xi surged forward with even greater speed and power than before, lunging towards the giant knight. Time and space seemed to cease to exist before him.
Too fast, fast to the extreme, fast enough to arrive in a blink. Li Xi's body blurred, leaving a long trail of phantom images behind him. So fast that the misty breath attack behind him was still churning, so fast that the forest of lances had not even moved, Li Xi was already on the back of the ancient dragon, before the giant knight.
His hand, imbued with lightning, became a blade and plunged into the soul fire within the giant's skull.
With a "bang," accompanied by scattered bone fragments inscribed with ancient runes, the giant's soul fire weakly flew into the distance. This strike not only shattered the myth of the giant's proud skull's durability but also nearly annihilated the giant's soul fire with the Lightning Cutter.
Li Xi had unleashed all his buffs: the Three Gates, Shadow Clone Jutsu, Dragon Transformation, Expansion Jutsu, Lightning Cutter, and Chakra Cloak. If even with these enhancements he couldn't instantly kill a seventh-level giant undead knight, it would be strange. Even with magic enchantment and multiple reinforcements making his bones incredibly tough, all of it was in vain against absolute power.
The bone dragons' breath attacks were indeed potent. If not for the Second Tail Matatabi's Chakra Cloak, Li Xi would have had great difficulty resisting. Upon initial contact, the dragon scales, renowned for their defense, hissed as if doused in sulfuric acid, the burning pain making Li Xi grimace.
Fortunately, the Second Tail Matatabi intervened in time, using its Chakra Cloak to help Li Xi withstand the bone dragons' breath mist, thus giving Li Xi the time to further enhance his speed with the Lightning Cutter, turning him from a green-skinned brute into a towering behemoth.
A battle for survival, what was it all about if not about who had more trump cards and more skillful techniques?
Li Xi's techniques were superior; he had broken through both the bone dragons' breath attacks and the knights' lances. Therefore, all that remained was to face Li Xi's relentless slaughter.
A fifty-meter-long dragon tail swept through the air. Li Xi remained still, dispelling the Expansion Jutsu, his height of over seven meters reverting to less than two. The bone dragon, caught off guard by this move, its attack, akin to a cannon blast, grazed Li Xi's head, almost shattering nearby bone dragons due to uncontrolled force.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
"Bang!"
A similarly dragon-transformed Shadow Clone appeared. Li Xi's main body tossed his Guardian Warbow and a spatial ring to it. The Shadow Clone, receiving the items, quickly flew away. What was most important in kiting? Distance, of course.
Meanwhile, Li Xi's main body drew the Executioner's Blade and struck the spine of the ancient dragon beneath him with a heavy blow. "Boom." He had expected it to be a clean cut, but the Executioner's Blade sank halfway in and stopped. One had to admit, the bones of an ancient dragon, a former eighth-level powerhouse, were truly hard!
The ancient dragon's massive body rolled, attempting to throw Li Xi off. Li Xi, gripping the stuck Executioner's Blade, was swung around in the air along with the ancient dragon's roll. Some of the other bone dragons pursued the Shadow Clone, while others, disregarding the ancient dragon's body, began to attack Li Xi indiscriminately.
Lances pierced, bone dragons breathed, and small orbs of death energy rained down on Li Xi like a tempest. Friendly fire was impossible, for they were all undead, and not afraid of such mishaps. Sultan Novel Network.
Li Xi felt attacks coming from all directions. Even the air was filled with hostility towards him. Apart from the orbs of death energy, every other attack could shatter the defense of his dragon scales.
The red Chakra Cloak covered his body. A tendril of energy suddenly grew and nimbly hooked onto a bone dragon's chin. With its limbs and tail, combined with Li Xi's dragon wings, even a nimble monkey would have conceded defeat to Li Xi's current evasive maneuvers. Li Xi was as slippery as a loach's ancestor. He couldn't withstand so many attacks head-on, nor could he escape, so he could only maneuver here. Fortunately, the ancient dragon's body was large enough for Li Xi to work with.
Unlike the ambush on the giant undead knight where he had the advantage, this was different. Now, bone dragons and knights circled Li Xi in the sky. These were not childish playground maneuvers; every strike was powerful. Thus, Li Xi could only flee frantically, his Sharingan eyes spinning like wheels on a 120 mph car, helping him choose the least damaging attacks to endure amidst the all-encompassing assault.
Emerging unscathed was impossible. The red Chakra Cloak had been shattered multiple times. Although the Second Tail Matatabi would quickly replenish it, it didn't prevent Li Xi from being tossed around in the sky.
Li Xi was not one to only take hits without retaliating. If the eighth-level ancient bone dragon's bones couldn't be broken, not all the other bone dragons were that tough. The Death Scythe's Spinning Blade Whirlwind took flight. Wherever he was hit, the Executioner's Blade would slash, sparing no mercy. Li Xi wished he could swing the Executioner's Blade until it glowed red. Consequently, bone fragments, from both dragon riders and bone dragons, began to fall from the sky with crackling sounds.
As for the Shadow Clone, the spatial ring that Li Xi's main body had entrusted to it was filled with long arrows. Coupled with the Guardian Warbow, it was like a lone fighter jet facing fifty enemy aircraft. Like Li Xi's main body, facing a barrage of distant attacks, the Shadow Clone moved like an agile swallow, tumbling, ascending, retreating, and skimming the ground—a series of high-difficulty aerial maneuvers executed without hesitation.
The Shadow Clone's physique was only that of a normal human. The bone dragons, on the other hand, were of normal dragon size. Despite the more than tenfold difference in size, the driving force and sheer power of the Shadow Clone were greater than that of the bone dragons, enabling the Shadow Clone's speed to overwhelm its pursuers.
Therefore, facing the same enemies, the Shadow Clone fared much better than the main body. The main body had already sustained considerable damage, while the Shadow Clone had only been grazed a few times at most.
"Boom!"
The Guardian Warbow finally found its opportunity and roared in its master's hands. The arrow streaked through the air, faster than Li Xi's speed when he ambushed the giant undead. A Soul Knight, without even a flicker of its soul fire, was instantly blown apart, accompanied by shattered bone fragments and a soul fire that flew away, disappearing into the distance.
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"
Outside was the Chakra Cloak of the Second Tail Matatabi, and inside was the Chakra of the Third Tail Isobu. Naturally, he would use the Water Release ninjutsu with the strongest attack power. The highly compressed, high-pressure, and greatly amplified water blade made a sudden appearance, decapitating two six-level bone dragons abreast. Their bodies, like building blocks losing their support, tumbled down with a clatter.
The skeletal structures of these undead were not connected by flesh and blood, but held together by the death energy of their soul fires. When Li Xi severed their necks, he cut off the passage for the soul fire's energy. Therefore, setting aside the formidable undead creatures like bone dragons, without energy replenishment, they were simply a pile of surprisingly hard, assembled bones.
Of course, at the moment Li Xi unleashed his ninjutsu, he endured no less than five types of undead magical attacks: two soul shockwaves and three dragon lance strikes.
The one-tailed beast cloak collapsed instantly, and the dragon scales on his chest were scattered. Golden blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
Immediately, instantly, and without delay, a two-tailed beast cloaked form appeared, enveloping Li Xi's body once more, barely fending off the subsequent attacks. Li Xi also used this opportunity to leap onto the back of another bone dragon, seizing the dragon lance from the dragon rider on its back. The dragon rider was thrown off the high altitude, and the dragon lance shot out, carving a brilliant vacuum tunnel in the sky, piercing through an adjacent dragon rider and his dragon before Li Xi vanished from that spot.
As soon as Li Xi left, a series of subsequent attacks struck the back of the bone dragon. The entire bone dragon was instantly blown apart by the concentrated attacks, and its fractured bones rained down like meteorites onto the ground.
Within the sealed space, the Second Tail Matatabi cautioned gravely, "A two-tailed beast transformation is the limit for the Three-Tails. If one more tail is added, you will fully transform into a tailed beast, and the Three-Tails will uncontrollably seize control of your body."
"I understand."
Currently, the tailed beast cloak was provided not by the Second Tail, but by the Three-Tails. In terms of defense, the Three-Tails had the right to claim superiority. That massive turtle shell was not for show.
Since the tailed beast cloak had switched to the Three-Tails, its defense had indeed increased significantly, and the frequency of injuries had decreased.
Li Xi was once again forced back onto the back of the ancient dragon. On the dragon's back, which resembled an aircraft carrier's deck, he was completely surrounded by bone dragons. Every bone dragon and dragon rider was practically laughing triumphantly into the sky. Fighting a master and pinning them down was always the most exhilarating experience, a feeling that even the undead could not escape.
Li Xi, who appeared quite battered, had been pushed into a desperate situation. However, when he saw that all the enemies before him were within a hundred meters, a triumphant smile appeared on his face.
Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, he formed a hand seal and slapped his hands onto the ancient dragon's back. Then, ancient runes appeared, his movements flowing and seamless.
"Summoning Technique: Rashomon Double!"
The ancient dragon likely never imagined that no creature had ever dared to appear on its back during its lifetime, except for the sun and gentle breezes; even unseen insects would have avoided it from afar. But after death, two massive, heavy iron gates, like mountains, pressed down upon its back.
The ancient dragon didn't even have a chance to struggle. Its three pairs of bone wings, like the frail wings of a cicada facing a hurricane capable of breaking trees, appeared powerless. No matter how hard it flapped, it couldn't stop the fact that it was plummeting towards the ground at freefall speed.
How heavy was Rashomon? Fifty meters high, two meters thick, all made of pure metal. Let alone an ancient dragon, even a Titan, the ancestor of giants, would have been crushed.
"Boom!"
The ancient dragon landed. The layer of bones on the ground churned like a stormy sea. However, what was tossed into the air were merely fragments of shattered bones, large and small. The ancient dragon itself was smashed into the ground, its depth unknown, as only the top of Rashomon remained visible.
This was a strategy Li Xi had mulled over for a long time. The only entity that could inflict fatal damage on him was this ancient dragon in its bone dragon form. Once it was dealt with, Li Xi would be invincible.
After the Executioner's Blade failed to break the ancient dragon's skeletal structure, he had to find a way to trap it. With a hundred-meter body and an eighth-level strength in life, it still maintained a top-tier seventh-level level. The Executioner's Blade couldn't cause much damage.
Such an existence was like an iron hedgehog, leaving Li Xi nowhere to strike. After considering all options, ninjutsu seemed ineffective. He had even considered summoning the second generation Li Xi, but ultimately gave up, because if he couldn't breach its defenses, the second generation certainly couldn't. However, Li Xi had a flash of inspiration: using Rashomon, originally a defensive technique, with its mountain-like weight to crush the ancient dragon was certainly feasible.
Now, looking at the muffled roars coming from beneath the ground, yet unable to do anything, its entire body pinned by Rashomon and unable to move even an inch, Li Xi felt reassured.
He had stealthily killed the most powerful giant knight and now suppressed the ancient dragon. The remaining bone dragons and knights were no longer capable of inflicting fatal damage; at most, they would cause minor injuries. This was the time for him to shine.
A green orb of light appeared on his palm, and he brushed it over his chest. The shattered dragon scales, torn skin, and the dull ache within his chest instantly vanished. The pain disappeared, the skin healed, and the dragon scales regrew. This was the effect of the healing ninjutsu, the Mystical Palm Technique. As long as there was chakra, healing was infinite.
Chakra? Li Xi had two tailed beasts, so he had no shortage of chakra. What was there to fear from injury!