Chapter 1213 - 168: Duel to the Death (Part 2)

Ross did feel it was a pity. After all, that would have been another few hundredfold boost on top of his previous foundation. For this pity, Ross merely frowned, then threw another punch.

In Wen Yu’s eyes, this punch was nothing but an invisible blur of light. He didn’t even see Ross’s body move before his chest cavity was smashed to pieces by the heavy fist. Mighty force, accompanied by a Soul Attack similar to a Soul Strike, surged straight into Wen Yu’s mind. Wen Yu felt as if his Soul Body was about to shatter, and Ultra Mortal Combat was directly blasted into its final state!

The host’s current physical stats are once again tripled, and for 30 seconds he will be immune to any form of attack (this is not absolute immunity—no skill can achieve absolutely immune damage! Similar to being Invincible, it is only relative immunity). After 30 seconds he will enter Near-death State.

But that promised triple boost was forcibly siphoned away by the threads, half of it gone, leaving less than double effect applied to Wen Yu’s Soul Body!

Even worse, the much-hoped-for immunity to any form of attack turned out to be completely useless in front of Ross at this moment. He simply threw another punch, and in an instant Wen Yu’s flesh was torn apart!

Ancient Dragon’s Wrath activates, immune to instant death...

At that moment, Wen Yu felt a violent weakness well up from his body. At the same time, a faint trace of despair surfaced in tandem—Ultra Mortal Combat completely failed, he entered Near-death State, and Wen Yu also knew very clearly that he might no longer have any way to deal with his enemy!

In an internal war between Spirit-based users, Wen Yu was actually completely countered! And the cause was nothing more than one bizarre Soul Balance Scale!

Ross was smiling. He casually swung another punch—four punches, just four simple punches, and Wen Yu would be dead without question. Yet before this punch was even thrown, a gray pattern suddenly flared across Wen Yu’s body. The pattern collapsed rapidly, and in a flash Wen Yu’s injuries were completely restored.

Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs...

A lifesaving ability, and at this moment, it was nothing but a pure lifesaving ability!

When Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs takes effect, the boost from Ultra Mortal Combat will be completely offset, and in this seesaw where one is cut and the other rises, this Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs will leave Wen Yu with absolutely no room to fight back!

Even if he forced reality to twist using Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift, given the current gap in strength between the two, it probably still wouldn’t reach the level of Dream Come True!

Yet just then, the situation suddenly reversed...

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With his injuries fully restored, Wen Yu was just about to dissolve the Soul Battlefield to try to escape when the threads coiling around his body suddenly flared with white light.

The radiance was gentle and warm. As the light flashed, Wen Yu felt Ross’s Soul Strength across from him plummet again and again, quickly dropping back to where it had been before Wen Yu’s Ultra Mortal Combat activated.

Ross’s breath caught; even the attack he was about to unleash stalled. Understanding instantly flooded Wen Yu’s eyes!

This thread skill seems to work both ways...

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Geniality (Species-specific Esoteric Level, Active Skills): After activation, it will fire off a large number of threads. These threads spread outward from the host as the source and coil around enemies within a certain range. The threads cannot be removed and cannot be severed by any means.

Whenever any party already linked by the threads, and then further linked by the threads, activates a boost or debuff state, Geniality will forcibly balance this state onto both parties. This effect cannot be blocked or dispelled.

Note 1: The threads produced by Geniality have a limited effective range. When the host and the enemy are separated by a certain distance, the threads automatically fall off and Geniality’s effect is nullified.

Note 2: Once Geniality is activated, unless it is canceled using the method in Note 1, its effect cannot be proactively cleared.

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An extremely powerful skill! Combined with Ross’s Soul Balance Scale, it was simply perfect.

He used Soul Balance Scale to forcibly equalize both sides’ Soul Strength, then boosted himself with Strengthen-type skills, followed up with Soul Pressure to weaken the enemy, and finally added a dose of Geniality, forcibly stacking half of the opponent’s boost effect onto himself.

Under this chain combo, Ross could ensure that against any opponent, he would always gain the upper hand in Soul Strength. It was basically an unsolvable skill combination!

If the Soul Skill System can counter almost every other Skill System, then Ross’s Skill System is enough to hard-counter even powerful soul-type powerful experts!

Once Wen Yu’s intel was leaked, the Demon Palace Security Bureau immediately found a way to deal with Wen Yu and sent out targeted personnel.

However, after sensing Geniality’s effect, Wen Yu, at this moment, actually wasn’t in a hurry to run...

Not because Wen Yu had found a way to take Ross down, but because the current difference in strength between them, in Wen Yu’s eyes, wasn’t impossible to make up...

Geniality balances buff effects. Wen Yu strengthens himself tenfold, of which fivefold is siphoned away by Ross. Yet this boost added to Ross is not Ross’s fivefold, but Wen Yu’s fivefold!

It’s like 1 and 100. Originally there was a 100-fold gap, but after Wen Yu’s amplification, both sides add 10, becoming 11 and 110...

Only a tenfold difference! And as Wen Yu keeps growing stronger, the multiple gap between them will continuously shrink, until it shrinks to the point where Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift can exert a decisive influence on the battle!