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Chapter 467: One Chance
Chapter 467: One Chance
Chapter 467: One Chance
Pathetic! This whole thing was so pathetic! He was going to die at such a place and such a time! What else besides pathetic could this be!?
Furthermore, this whole week had been nothing more than a futile and pathetic effort to postpone his pathetic dying moment!
Even his nerves and mental fortitude were giving up with whatever was going on. He seemed to be losing his focus, and clarity due to the extreme tiredness.
Everything seemed to be going against him at the moment, as it truly looked like these were his last moments.
How much he would wish for this moment to be one of those cheat moments when and where the main character discovered some hidden talent, or power and reverse the situation.
But that was just a mere crappy thought passing through his mind, there was nothing he could do himself, and he had less than 30 seconds to go on!
If Tianlong Hu Die and those idiots on the outside didn't follow his instructions in this short time, then he would most certainly die.
It felt so pathetic and stupid to leave his life in the hands of those outside, but there was nothing he could do right now.
He could only hope that help was on the way! Even though it looked really impossible for help to arrive as he was in his last straits.
Still, he wouldn't give up until he truly disappeared! Until then he was going to do the best he could, and resist as much as he could.
The seconds were slipping through one by one, as now he only had 25 seconds, and the black remnant soul seemed to be getting better at counterattacking him.
There was still no sign in sight that help was coming but he still didn't give up, even though there were only 20 seconds left by now.
His extra Soul Power had already been exhausted, as now he would have only his normal one, but even that was disappearing with a truly high rate.
Perhaps he would have even less of a time than he thought, most probably he only had 15 seconds left, if help didn't appear now, he was certainly dying here.
At that moment he couldn't quite control himself, and keep his calm, as his Soul Avatar seemed to be on the brink as well, all color was fading from him, even the flames were slowly getting weaker.
Damn this! He was slowly dying, slowly losing his second chance! He couldn't let this happen! Rage was building inside him.
But all he could do right now was release a powerful and painful soul growl, more than as a form of attack, or distraction he did it to wake himself up.
At that moment he could feel that he was being overcome with gloominess, and panic, making him even more of a pathetic person right now.
He felt like he had truly hit rock bottom at that point, for the first time in his life he had allowed for a fleeting moment of fear and panic to take over his being.
This was something he couldn't, and shouldn't allow no matter what. Once a cultivator lost to fear and panic, his path towards the peak was cut there, and he wouldn't be able to climb higher.
No, he couldn't allow that to happen, he wasn't someone who would give up on his path even in face of death.
But time didn't wait for him to set his thoughts straight to continue moving, as it moved forwards ruthlessly, without a stop.
There were only 10 seconds left!
9!
8!
7!
Each second brought him closer to extinction, and there was nothing he could do about it! In fact, he could see that images of his previous, and current life were slowly springing in front of him.
Apparently, it was true when they said, in the last moments before death beings were truly able to see glimpses of their life.
Still, he didn't give up! No matter what, steely will and resilience were two of the most necessary ingredients towards the path to the peak.
Only someone who was able to take everything that Heavens threw at him, and never give up, and come through it with hard work, was able to climb higher.
Tianlong Yun was precisely that type, he would never give up. Perhaps even if he disappeared he would find a way to crawl back from nothingness!
6!
5!
Every heartbeat was a step closer to death, but he didn't care, he wouldn't give up no matter what! He would keep his fight until the end, even though the black remnant soul had already broken the stalemate.
His Nirvana flames had weakened way too much, and the black miasma had increased quite a bit in size, so he was unable to hold the thing in its place.
Even though he was doing the best that he could, he was unable to stop the miasma to create a small gap in his hold, and then send a black vine attacking him.
He was already on the brink of death, that vine attack just shortened the time he could resist against that thing, as he was surely going to die.
4!
The next instant the black miasma vine was in front of his eyes, it was clearly heading for his Soul Avatar's core, which would certainly destroy his soul, and existence.
He was screwed!
No matter how much optimistic he tried to be, no matter how much he resisted this thing, at the end of the day he wasn't able to survive this.
Well, at least he didn't die a coward and fought until his last moments. He could take pride in that, at least!
3!
Before he could start saying 'goodbye' though, something changed! A blinding, and shinny light conquered his whole conscience sea making him unable to see anything for an instant.
The next one, a terrifying pressure was released from that blinding light, but that seemed to be only on the black remnant soul.
The pressure was so strong, and so sudden, that it destroyed the vine immediately, and made the black remnant soul's form blurry.
The black miasma at that moment underwent a shocking transformation, as it almost immediately disappeared, erasing the 'form' of the black remnant soul.
Tianlong Yun didn't understand if it happened because the black remnant soul didn't expect it, or because the pressure was that powerful, but he knew this was his chance.
It was at that moment that the black miasma was disappearing, and his form disintegrating, that he was able to finally discover something about his enemy.
Apparently, his form was nothing more than cheating of sorts, that black form of the remnant soul he had been focusing, and fighting until now was nothing more than a smock screen.
He had been fighting just like Don Quixote fighting against the windmills, he felt truly stupid at that moment, but now wasn't the time to stay there cursing and swearing at himself.
He didn't have time to lose, as he immediately let the pressure deal with his opponent, and the miasma it was releasing as he used all the strength he had left to make a pair of Nirvana flames wings.
Just like when he attacked the level 3 tree, he started revolving in the air to create a tornado of flames, but on this occasion, he didn't have enough time to reach its peak.
For that reason, he just made 2 spins for 1 second and launched himself on the enemy, which was still under that crazy pressure.
2!
He didn't even have time to think that he was winning or anything like that, as his only thought at this moment was to 'reach'!
He wanted to reach his target before he ran out of Soul Power and collapsed, everything would be decided at this last second.
His fate, life, and death, his own existence would be decided in this last second, so of course, the only thing on his mind was a reach.
The 'opponent seemed to have felt the danger looming over so he gave up on trying to oppose the pressure, and immediately created a short black vine, heading towards his most dangerous enemy.
Tianlong Yun could avoid this attack, but even if he could he still wouldn't do it because he didn't have the time for another attack.
Everything would be decided in this last attack, he could only hope that he would be able to make it and that he was going to win in this last bout.
It was his flaming tornado, composed of Nirvana flames, against the last desperate attack of the remnant soul, he didn't know what the future held, but he didn't have any other choice.
1!
His time was running out, as the two attacks clashed with each other, to create a powerful impact, his conscience sea seemed to have been distorted, like waves, and rain was being created.
There was no dust in there, but it was still impossible to see anything from what was happening at that point.
The impact and momentum were truly terrifying but it didn't last for long, as both attacks seemed to pass through one another and make their target.
Two spears that didn't show any interest in parrying each other, and instead aimed at the opponent's weak points.
They were both going for the kill, throwing away any form of defense and concentrating totally on offense.
0!
Time was up for Tianlong Yun who was unable to understand what happened, or who won that fight, as his Soul Avatar couldn't stay up anymore, and closed its eyes, unable to understand the outcome!