Chapter 124 Complete Engagement <TOC> Chapter 126 The Counterattack of the Soul Cult
Translator: SumTLMan
Li Mu slowly walked towards the first car in the convoy. The boiling psychic energy surged within his body, and a black aura enveloped him.
“Energy runs through the whole body.”
After entering this state, Li Mu’s speed, strength, and defense power all rose sharply.
Suddenly, the aura around him brightened, and he stomped on the ground, abruptly accelerating and covering a distance of more than ten meters.
The next moment, the ground suddenly exploded, and rolling sand and dust spewed out from the ground like a fountain.
Li Mu did not slow down, charging straight towards the vehicle where Hicks was hiding like a meteor.
The sand and gravel that gushed out from the ground moved like a long snake, slithering at high speed on the ground, attempting to catch up with Li Mu.
Unfortunately, Li Mu’s speed was much faster than the sand and gravel. With a single leap, he reached the vehicle’s proximity.
“Boom!”
A huge rock broke through the ground, towering majestically.
Li Mu’s psychic energy surged like a tide, and he could not help but release it. With the vigorous force of his Steel-Breaking Fist, he managed to split the huge rock with a single punch.
With a burst of psychic energy, the rock exploded into a sky full of sand and dirt.
This was the result of Hicks using his energy-manipulating psychic power to temporarily solidify the soil into a solid rock. Its hardness was no less than that of a real rock, but once its internal psychic energy structure was destroyed, it would turn back into soil.
After breaking through the rock, Li Mu’s figure abruptly shifted, and he stepped on the car door, directly twisting and deforming the sturdy door and flying into the car.
The next moment, a violent burst of sand and gravel spewed out from the car, solidifying in mid-air into a massive, sharp stone sword that stabbed straight towards Li Mu.
Hicks had been waiting for this moment for a long time, using the psychic energy-solidified stone sword propelled by the sand and gravel, making it unstoppable. The sand and gravel that followed behind Li Mu turned into a thick tentacle, reaching out from behind to grab him.
In just an instant, Li Mu found himself in a dangerous situation.
However, he remained calm, as if he had anticipated this all along. The psychic energy surged, and he stepped on the ground with one foot. The seemingly solid ground immediately cracked on a large scale, revealing the pit below.
The entire pit was more than two meters deep, and the original soil had disappeared without a trace.
Li Mu fell into the pit, and the sand and gravel and stone sword that were originally aimed at him collided in mid-air, exploding into a shower of sand and dirt.
Hicks was merely an awakened person with a bias towards energy manipulation. He couldn’t create sand, soil, and rocks out of thin air with his psychic energy. After extracting a large amount of soil and sand, a huge cavity had already formed under the road surface.
He did not know when he had secretly hidden himself underground from the wrecked car.
If it were any other awakened person, it would be difficult to notice this. But Li Mu, who possessed the power of Shock Calamity, could not be deceived.
He used subtle vibrations to shake the ground and was already familiar with the structure of the surface and underground.
“Got you!”
Li Mu leaped forward with a punch.
The strong wind that came with the punch made Hicks’ breath hitch, and even his skin felt like it was about to split open.
Before facing Li Mu, he could not believe that there would be a fifth-level awakened person who could be so powerful.
Hicks tried his best to mobilize all his psychic power, manipulating the curio – Sand of Dark Corrosion.
Sand of Dark Corrosion was composed of countless black fine sands, and its interior was embedded with the moon-level holy relic – Dark Corrosion.
This rare curio could decompose solid matter into fine particles through psychic power and manipulate them. The amount of psychic power consumed to decompose different substances was not the same.
For a fourth-level awakened person like Hicks, the burden of decomposing soil was not too heavy. Coupled with his ability to instantly transform and solidify soil with his Earth Control – this ability could be said to be a great addition to his powers.
Although the Earth Control could transform and solidify muddy soil, it could not manipulate solidified rock for a second time, and its control range was very limited at low levels.
Sand of Dark Corrosion perfectly solved this problem.
Due to the violent mobilization of psychic power, the veins on Hicks’ forehead bulged, and his face turned red.
“Earth Control Technique – Eight!”
This was the most powerful defensive move among the Earth Control Techniques, capable of instantly transforming the surrounding soil into a huge stone coffin to protect the awakened person inside.
High-level awakened people could even create a huge stone coffin up to a hundred meters high, turning it into an indestructible Wall of Sighs to block the enemy’s attack.
Hicks directly used the Sand of Dark Corrosion mixed with gravel to instantly solidify into a black coffin, covering himself inside.
The surface of the huge black coffin was smooth as a mirror, like a huge black crystal.
Li Mu’s unstoppable punch struck the black coffin, and the Steel-Breaking fist’s powerful force blasted the outer layer of Sand of Dark Corrosion.
Dust and sand splattered everywhere.
To prevent his arm from being trapped by the Sand of Dark Corrosion, Li Mu quickly withdrew his fist, threw punches, and unleashed his psychic power, bombarding the coffin with more than a dozen punches in a single breath.
The Sand of Dark Corrosion surged like a wave, buffering and dissolving the terrifying impact of the Steel-Breaking fist. The entire black coffin trembled violently, on the verge of falling apart.
“Boom!”
The walls of the entire pit suddenly collapsed, and Hicks had been trying to control the surrounding sand and soil with the Sand of Dark Corrosion scattered around. Tens of tons of soil turned into rolling dust waves, swallowing Li Mu.
Li Mu, who had activated his neural acceleration state, stepped on the black coffin with one foot, leaping high into the air and soaring into the sky, avoiding the surging sand and soil. Even for him, being trapped by this sand would put him in a dangerous situation.
The sand and soil on the ground transformed into more than a dozen tendrils, reaching out to grasp Li Mu in midair.
Li Mu, in his neural acceleration state, skillfully maneuvered between the tendrils, using his power to dodge and occasionally shattering them with his steel fists. He leaped several times in the air, landing lightly on the ground.
He brushed off the sand and gravel that had stuck to his body, almost unscathed. It wasn’t easy to defeat Hicks cleanly without using the Blade of Annihilation and the Shock Calamity.
The Sand of Dark Corrosion and the Earth Control Energy Seal were extremely restraining for enhancement awakened who didn’t have much long-range attack capabilities.
The black coffin dispersed, revealing Hicks hiding inside. His current state was terrible, with his hair matted to his head by sweat, his face pale without a trace of blood, and the crisscrossed veins visible beneath his skin.
His body was covered in bruises, and his ribs were broken.
Li Mu’s fist strength had penetrated the black coffin, and although it had been weakened a lot, it still severely injured Hicks, and the excessive consumption of psychic energy made his condition even worse.
“What kind of monster are you?”
Hicks coughed violently, coughing up fragments of his internal organs. Ordinary enhancement awakened couldn’t possibly possess such terrifying power, speed, and resistance at the fifth level.
He struggled to raise his hand and squeezed it hard.
“Earth Control Energy Seal – Three!”
The sand and soil were condensed into sand-shot pellets by psychic energy, whistling towards Li Mu like a storm.
Chapter 124 Complete Engagement <TOC> Chapter 126 The Counterattack of the Soul Cult