X-Dragon Era

Chapter 216 Chapters 172-173 Fire in the Water_2

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"Good!" Excitedly, Yi Luo Xiang exclaimed upon seeing Xin Yun pull off that move. The timing and angle were both mastered too well. With a single move, the dragon's tail drew a graceful arc in mid-air, shattering all six True Illusions that had attacked from behind.

"Not so easy!" Yi Luo Xiang's voice had hardly faded when Yan Qingying let out a low shout. Simultaneously, the remaining two True Illusions, one on the left and the other on the right, leaped towards Xin Yun from behind.

"Flying Dragon in the Sky!" Faced with this move, Xin Yun didn't even turn his head. He used the force of the spin and flick of his tail to spin into the air. As the dragon's body rotated, Yinglong spread his legs and instantly kicked the two rapidly approaching Phantom Spiders. With one kick, the two True Illusions burst apart on the spot.

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"I won!" Just as Xin Yun kicked apart the two True Illusions, Yan Qingying couldn't help but excitedly shout. At the same time, Yan Qingying's real body appeared above Xin Yun, and her eight Blade Feet whooshed down from above.

"Ah!" Yi Luo Xiang screamed at the sight of such a thrilling scene. Although this was only a training session, not meant to cause harm, their training was different. They were fighting with all their might, and even if they wanted to hold back, they couldn't.

"Kang Long Regrets!" Just when Yi Luo Xiang and Yan Qingying both thought Xin Yun was sure to lose, in mid-air... Xin Yun yelled loudly. At the same time, Yinglong's body fiercely spun around, and after whirling, his right claw swooshed up from below him, hurtling towards Yan Qingying.

Watching this scene, Yi Luo Xiang clenched her chest. Logically, under such circumstances, Xin Yun should not have been able to win. But the series of bizarre combat techniques he just exhibited made Yi Luo Xiang hesitate, wondering who would achieve victory!

"Bang!" Amid the dull sound, and under Yi Luo Xiang's shocked gaze, the dragon claw tore through the defenses of the Phantom Spider's Blade Feet as if they were nothing, striking heavily on the Phantom Spider's abdomen and sending it flying straight up.

Watching the Phantom Spider soar high, just as Xin Yun was about to pursue, a thought crossed his mind, and he gave up. In just an instant, Yan Qingying completed an Illusion-Reality Transformation; continuing the chase would have only led to pursuing an illusion.

Shaking his head helplessly, whether it was Yi Luo Xiang or Yan Qingying, they were both too formidable, almost monstrously so. Even that palm strike was an instance of catching Yan Qingying off guard, seizing the moment before she could react. Bolstered with caution, she could perform Illusion-Reality Transformation at any time to evade that strike.

"Stop!" Lost in thought, Yan Qingying promptly completed an Illusion-Reality Transformation and shouted to halt. Seeing this, Yi Luo Xiang, curiously steered her Glittering Butterfly over.

As Yi Luo Xiang arrived, Yan Qingying also appeared from behind the stalagmites. They stood atop their respective dragons, staring at Xin Yun with faces full of surprise, as though pondering something.

After a moment, Yan Qingying shook her head and said, "What did you just use? Don't tell me it's newly learned. That set of combat techniques is very powerful, a system in itself, and you use it very adeptly, transcending from the impossible to the possible."

Hearing Yan Qingying's question, Yi Luo Xiang nodded curiously and said, "Yeah, I thought you were bound to lose just now, but in the blink of an eye, everything changed. I still don't know how you managed to unleash that palm strike."

Faced with the queries from the two girls, Xin Yun suddenly felt dumbstruck. In fact... the set of combat techniques he had used was from his past life, combining the names of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms with his own combat experience and the deeper meanings within those names to create a close-range combat technique.

Although named "palm," it actually encompassed movement technique, stepping, palm technique, kicking, punching, clawing, tail lashing, and various abilities. At close range, its power was boundless.

The Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms are a Yang Steel Palm Technique, and in his past life, Xin Yun had commanded a Fire Series dragon. As such, each strike was incredibly fierce, as if causing the heavens to collapse and the earth to split.

However, in this life, after Xin Yun transitioned to a Water Series dragon based on the Azure Sea, this was his first time using the palms. After the recent practice, he felt many more marvelous subtleties. The moves were still fierce, but now they contained Extreme Yin energy.

Although Xin Yun's Yinglong was water-based, one must not forget that dragons are innately extremely Yang creatures. The Extreme Yin Water contains extremely Yang life, thus producing fire in water. This is the strongest and most pure fire.

In fact, the reason why Xin Yun possessed Thunderbolt abilities was due to this. Those familiar with Taiji know that the utmost Yang is contained within the Extreme Yin, representing the supreme Yang, the strongest of all Yang Steel forces.

In terms of energy, this gave rise to the Thunderbolt. What is the Thunderbolt? Correct... it is the fire within water. Normally, fire cannot burn in water, but the Thunderbolt is the exception; it can only gestate in water. As such, Xin Yun mastered the Thunderbolt Force, capable of destroying all laws.

Now, in his Yinglong form, the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms might lack a bit of that external ferocity, but in dodging and weaving, they became more agile and enigmatic by far, akin to a plane in the sky becoming a fish in the water, able to move however one wishes. With a flick of the tail, a 360-degree turn at high speeds became effortless—an attribute unique to the Water Series.

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