hsntnovel Chapter 686 Art is explosion
Chapter 686 Art is explosion
The meteorite from the sky hit Zuo Xi directly. He didn't expect Zhongli to be so decisive and use his ultimate skill right away.
But to be honest, this was meaningless to Zuo Xi right now. Although the scene looked quite intimidating, it actually couldn't cause any harm at all.
Not necessarily, it can still cause some psychological harm.
After all, this meteorite falling from the sky really looks a bit like a nail of punishment.
But that's all. Without any special effects or other collateral damage, pure physical attacks can no longer cause any harm to Zuo Xi.
Even attacks that utilize elemental forces essentially cause damage on a physical level.
As long as he fails to break through the limitations of space, no physical damage can touch Zuo Xi.
Zhongli should not be unaware of this, and the falling stars will cause sea waves, which will be a considerable burden on the coastal defense line.
But even so, Zhongli still chose to do this. This can only mean two things.
1. He started to get a little drunk, and the effects of wear and tear were beginning to show. Zhongli's mind had changed without him noticing.
2. Zhongli has other plans, and the release of this meteorite has other purposes.
Other power-based skills, such as Columbia's attack on the soul, Nashida's ability to drag enemies into dreams, the Queen's conceptual delay, the powers of the four shadows of the world...only special abilities like these have the possibility of affecting Zuo Xi.
For people like Zhongli and Ruota, the only feasible way for them to win this competition should be the "suppression" ability of the rock element.
In other words, the two of them have to use the sealing formation to have a chance of winning.
Therefore, the significance of the appearance of this falling meteorite is very clear - to confuse people.
Sure enough, when the star fell and the huge waves mixed with gravel obscured the surrounding vision, Zuo Xi could feel a hidden energy mixed in it, and then the sea surface appeared with mysterious and complex patterns shining with golden light.
Zuo Xi didn't know what kind of formation this was, but he didn't think it was a killing formation. After all, a killing formation also caused physical damage, and was essentially no different from using a star to smash.
Since they already knew that ordinary attacks were useless, they naturally would not use this kind of attack method which was essentially no different, except that it was a different form.
Zuo Xi guessed that it was either an illusion array or a trap array.
The possibility of an illusion array is higher. After all, unless the trap array is a suppression array that suppresses energy, Zuo Xi can just open a space door and jump out.
And a formation of that level cannot be set up hastily in such a short time without a suitable medium and sufficient energy foundation.
He did not sense any movement by the two men to deploy an array formation, nor did he see any signs in the previous battle that they were secretly deploying an array formation under the guise of fighting.
The difficulty of setting up an illusion array is relatively much lower. Illusions are usually divided into hallucinations and illusions, and the difference lies in whether the target is a person or the surrounding illusion.
Hallucinations targeting humans are useless to Zuo Xi. His mental protection system had been immune to mental interference attacks before he became a god.
So, this is an illusion array?
But this is meaningless. After all, illusions cannot have the same direct impact on people as hallucinations. When people are in an illusion, they are still awake in essence, but the things they see are changing.
They went to so much trouble to create this illusion using the stars as a cover. What exactly are Morax and Ruota up to?
Could it be that they thought that his defense needed to be controlled autonomously, so they disrupted his perception? The combined age of these two people is in the five digits, they should not be so naive.
And there was another very strange thing... He didn't seem to see anything that looked like an illusion.
Advanced illusion arrays would appear to be nine-tenths true and one-tenth false, with the mixture of truth and falsehood making it hard to guard against. But in essence, the purpose was just to make people careless in order to seize the opportunity at that moment of carelessness.
Zuo Xi doesn't have such a thing. He can just lie down and take a nap. After all, his defense system can even block out sounds, so he doesn't have to worry about noise or anything.
The good thing about fully automatic defense is that you don’t need to worry about it.
Forget it, let’s just break out and see.
Thinking of this, Zuo Xi decided to forcibly break the illusion array. He did not intend to follow Zhongli and Ruo Tuo's ideas and play games with this meaningless illusion array.
He wanted to use his own hands to weaken the connection between Zhongli and the rules of Sky Island. If he continued to waste too much time like this, the old man Zhongli might become more and more crazy.
However, just when Zuo Xi was about to gather the energy in his body to forcibly break the formation, he was surprised to find that there was a slight blockage in the flow of energy in his body.
This formation is actually a trap that has the effect of suppressing energy?
The principle of the formation with such a "suppression" effect is basically to block the flow of energy. After all, energy is meaningless if it does not flow. No matter how huge the volume is, it is equal to zero if it cannot be stimulated.
But when did they complete the preliminary preparations? How did they get the media and foundation?
It can't be water, and it can't be some substance in the water. To use the characteristics of rock elements, the medium must be a substance with high affinity for rock elements. How can seawater be considered a substance with high affinity for rock elements?
Wait, something with high affinity for rock elements... seems to really exist!
Zuo Xi realized something belatedly, that the fragment of the star was an excellent medium!
And in this way, as long as more energy is poured into the guiding of the stars and less is detonated during the explosion, the remaining fragments storing energy can be used as the energy cornerstone of the formation.
Zuo Xi couldn't help but admire them. They were indeed people who had been fighting for more than a thousand years. Such combat qualities and combat IQ were indeed not something that could be developed casually.
At least in this respect, Zuo Xi, who has never had a serious fight, is indeed far behind the two of them.
Under normal circumstances, Zuo Xi would have already lost at this time. After all, being trapped in the formation, even the Ruotu Dragon King had no ability to resist, and could only wait for the energy of the formation to gradually dissipate before coming out to cause trouble.
But Zuo Xi has never been a person who would be bound by the word "normal". He often uses these two words to restrict others within a framework.
Blocked energy flow is indeed troublesome, and usually there is really nothing that can be done about it.
But everything is relative. No matter how powerful or miraculous the formation effect is, it will be nothingness due to the huge difference in size between the trapped people.
To put it simply, it means that your strength is so great that bricks can fly and you can break everything with one force.
With Zuo Xi's current size, it is not difficult to do this. But as mentioned before, he is not a person who will be bound by "normality", and he does not intend to use such a boring method to solve the problem this time.
Blocking the flow of energy simply means that the energy cannot be transferred, and therefore cannot form various moves and attacks.
But the energy itself does not disappear; it still exists in the original place, exactly as it should be.
In addition to providing energy for various moves, there is another more primitive use of energy.
It happens that this usage does not require the flow of energy.
Because you just need to detonate it where it is.
"Art is an explosion."
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"Mad man, what a mad man! Who is worn out? Morax is not as crazy as you now!"
Ruo Tuo, who was held in Zuo Xi's hand, cursed mercilessly, as if it was not her who was held in her hand, but Zuo Xi who was being scolded by her.
The moment a burst of white light instantly filled his field of vision, Ruota knew that he and Morax were in trouble.
She really couldn't imagine that Zuo Xi would actually self-destruct!
This is a competition! Who would explode right after a competition? She knew that Zuo Xi would always give them a hard time, and this time was no exception!
Zuo Xi's self-destruction naturally shattered the formation. After all, the formation itself has an upper limit, and a god's self-destruction has long exceeded this so-called theoretical upper limit.
While they were worried about Zuo Xi, they were also thinking quickly about how to withstand the impact of a god's self-destruction.
However, just as they were preparing to fight to the death to protect Liyue's safety, the light of the self-explosion was swallowed up by the portal the next second and disappeared into the void.
The next moment, Zuo Xi suddenly appeared behind them and subdued them both neatly... It could be seen that this guy had been holding back before, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to fight so hard just now, and now he subdued them so easily.
Ruota could see that Zuo Xi, relying on his immortal body and the endless amount of faith available at any time and place, could instantly repair his body after his self-destruction.
No wonder there was no hesitation when bombing, it turns out there was no cost.
That's why Ruo Tuo continued to curse at Zuo Xi even after being subdued. Next time you want to play something so exciting, can you tell me in advance?
I'm almost having a heart attack!
"What's there to complain about? After quantifying the cost, this is just a very common decision... Morax, do you feel better now? The degree of wear and tear has probably recovered to a better level than before, right?"
In the part just omitted, Zuo Xi had already achieved the purpose of this competition - beating Zhongli and reducing his wear and tear.
To be precise, it should be downplayed rather than alleviated.
But when it comes to specific performance, they are actually similar.
"...Brother Zuo, you really turned decay into magic."
Zhongli, who was covered in dust, said so.