PFC Chapter 6987 Roadside 1
Chapter 6987 Roadside 1
Chapter 6987: A Roadside
When Tien broke through the barrier of internal energy leaving his body, Yan Liang had already vaguely sensed some danger. However, in Yan Liang's intuition, this danger was not fatal. In addition, Yan Liang also vaguely sensed something was wrong, such as Wei Shuang's completely unscientific combat power.
If the initial few killer moves could be considered as Wei Shuang holding back some trump cards for Sun Er, given the relationship between Wei Shuang and Sun Er—everyone knows what that means—then it's perfectly normal for Wei Shuang to secretly prepare a few killer moves for Sun Er. However, Wei Shuang later used far too many moves that Yan Liang had never seen before.
Even if Yan Liang's actual combat skills are not as good as those top-level masters, he is still in the top circle. Even if he is not very familiar with Wei Shuang and his intelligence on the other side is somewhat behind, he is not so far behind that his own comrade used ten sets of moves that he had never seen before.
To put it bluntly, we're all in the same circle. Even if there are differences, even if we don't pay attention to intelligence, we should at least have some understanding of our comrades' current situation. It's not like we're talking about a teammate developing a whole new set of gadgets without even hearing a whisper of it.
After all, the higher you go, the smaller the circle becomes. Even if you want to pretend you're out of touch with the world, some bastards will still force certain information on you as gossip.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Wei Shuang to have opened ten new skills and Yan Liang had not even heard a word about it. Generally speaking, if such a thing happened, Yan Liang would refer to it as changing accounts.
The problem is, if someone of Wei Shuang's caliber were to have their account switched without anyone noticing, that would be a huge problem. Although people often joke about Wei Shuang and Zhao Ying, these two guys are definitely strong; they're just really unlucky.
To put it bluntly, most people in this world will never reach the level of Zhao Ying or Wei Shuang in their lifetime. The veterans make fun of these two, but it's just something to talk about in the top circle, as a joke for unlucky guys. As for their strength, even the top group of people wouldn't doubt them. Usually, this kind of joke will eventually come down to, "Zhao Ying, why don't you move?"
I'd rather die than move!
Therefore, Wei Shuang cannot be replaced. His noble, normal will is already enough to say no to everything in this world. Even if he can't win, at least he has the freedom to commit suicide!
This is why Lu Bu only said to capture Tien, rather than to seize Tien and extract all the knowledge from his brain. He simply couldn't do it; brainwashing is meaningless for breaking the limits of will. Even at the very end, they still have a degree of freedom.
"What exactly is going on with Wei Shuang's visibly rapid increase in strength?" Yan Liang gripped the God-Slaying Spear, his expression growing increasingly solemn. He had personally witnessed Wei Shuang's growth from a level where he could only hold his own for a short while to now. Yan Liang estimated that if he rushed in, he would be defeated by Wei Shuang in a dozen or twenty moves at most. This rate of growth was simply too exaggerated.
All of the seventh level cultivators could actually defeat Yan Liang, but the time it took for each of them to defeat Yan Liang varied. In the past, Sun Er, Wei Shuang, Zena (who had revealed his talent), and Anada were the ones who took the longest to defeat Yan Liang.
It's not that these four aren't strong enough; on the contrary, three of them are among the top-tier level in the seventh level. However, it will take these four more days to take down Yan Liang because of their mobility and reaction speed, while Yan Liang can rely on his intuition to hold out longer.
On the contrary, Huang Tao and Su Zong, who are the weakest in combat among the seven, and Gu Laili, who is relatively weak in direct combat, can basically defeat Yan Liang in two or three moves.
No matter how much his intuition warned him in advance, Yan Liang couldn't react to the speed of these three guys. At least with the others, the advance warnings could buy him some time.
Therefore, Yan Liang had a basic understanding of the strength of each of the seventh level cultivators. Before today, Wei Shuang would never have been able to capture Yan Liang alive in a dozen moves. That's right, not kill him, but capture him alive.
"Because he acquired the part of the talent that the Wolf Riders were missing." Sun Er appeared from behind and landed next to Yan Liang, saying to him.
"I knew it! Even though Tien has advanced to the Inner Qi Separation stage, I haven't felt any fatal threat, just a vague sense of danger." Yan Liang turned to look at Sun Er upon hearing the voice. "So it was you. What talent are you missing, Wolf Riders?"
"The Wolf Riders were originally created to counter the Xiongnu Imperial Guards. Before acquiring the talents belonging to the Xiongnu Imperial Guards, the Wolf Riders were just an incomplete legion. That's why I didn't retry the Decathlon." Sun Er looked at Tien, who was standing in the sky, and Wei Shuang, who was standing on the ground with a calm expression, and said with a hint of regret.
As a vanguard, Sun Er knew the weaknesses of the wolf cavalry very early on. When he encountered the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guard in the northern frontier, Sun Er actually learned a lot of techniques. However, the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guard could not truly use such combinations of techniques; they relied more on their military spirit to forcibly reproduce them.
Therefore, Sun Er's understanding of the Wolf Rider's 10-skill versatility was more about ordinary skills. This is why, after the Wolf Rider reached the third talent level and became a blank slate, he could naturally use some very basic skills and combine them.
To be fair, it was powerful, but it didn't really mean much to Sun Er. So, Sun Er naturally gave up the idea of pursuing the decathlon path and instead chose other talents.
But now, Wei Shuang has shown Sun Er with facts that he shouldn't use his own mindset to understand the God of War. The God of War is the God of War! Skill combinations require a sufficient foundation to be used effectively.
Conversely, even the Xiongnu needed the most elite members of the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guard to achieve this.
"A decathlon can reflect complex techniques?" Yan Liang was taken aback when he heard this. After all, he had seen some veterans from the previous era use multiple techniques to launch attacks. Although it was usually a combination of five or six techniques, its power was in no way inferior to a finishing move. More importantly, this kind of thing could be combined and recombined with talent fusion.
“Yes,” Sun Er nodded and said, “And didn’t you see it clearly? The things Wei Shuang is using now are actually copied from Tien.”
"Ah!" Yan Liang was completely shocked. Could this really be done?
"Then why didn't you replicate them from Marquis Wen, General Zhang, General Zhao, and others?" After his initial surprise, Yan Liang suddenly realized a blind spot and immediately asked.
"Because the only subjective aspect of the decathlon talent is its application to the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guards; everything else requires learning," Sun Er said with a complicated expression.
Learning combat techniques is a complex process. Simpler ones, like jerking and maneuvering, don't take much time. But higher-level techniques require a lot of time and diligent practice. Moreover, while you can still progress on the path of refinement, focusing your energy on complex techniques is extremely inefficient.
"..." Yan Liang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Wei Shuang.
“There’s no need to learn it. You just need to encounter it, and the decathlon will naturally replicate all the skills the opponent has mastered, incorporating them into your talent. Then, because the basic qualities for mastering each skill are already qualified, with repeated use, it will become instinctive.” Sun Er looked at Wei Shuang calmly. He was also copying it. This thing was open source for wolf riders. The only difference was how far you had developed your decathlon, which was related to its ultimate power.
"Are you wolf riders really going this far?" Yan Liang asked suddenly after a moment of silence.
“Four hundred years have passed, and this is the only chance.” Sun Er said with a sigh, “General Wei was too optimistic back then. In the decisive battle in Mobei, the Marquis of Champion killed all the elite guards of the Northern Xiongnu who had mastered this kind of complex skills. For hundreds of years afterward, none of them survived.”
Nonsense! Apart from their peak, how long would it take for the Huns to develop a complete system? Tien was able to accumulate a complete system of skills purely because he was talented enough and had been working on it for almost fifty years. Anyone else would be dreaming!
Throughout the entire Xiongnu, only three people possess a complete system and framework built with advanced composite skills, and all three of them achieved this through cheating. Tien, for example, relied on the time flow in the alternate universe and his cheating within the Northern Xiongnu Guard in reality, and he had been holding back for fifty years.
As the inheritor of Huyan Chuxuan's qualities and skills, Huyan Bobo was directly handed over all the relevant records of the Xiongnu over the past four hundred years. Moreover, Bobo could only be said to know them, not be as proficient as Tien. As for the other one, it was Tien's instructor, Luan Ti Hui, who was the inheritor of Huyan Chuxuan's illusions and will. This guy's situation was similar to Qiu Lin Nian's. The system really existed, but to say that he could use it was a bit of a joke.
So luck is sometimes very important. If Wei Shuang hadn't met Tien this time, even if he knew the Xiongnu had what they needed, it wouldn't have mattered.
"It's still too much." Yan Liang thought for a moment, then looked at Tien, who was hacking Wei Shuang to pieces with his sword. He felt that the wolf riders' ability to absorb the opponent's skills in this way was still too much no matter what.
“After all, this is General Wei’s only work; it would be abnormal if it didn’t have this effect.” Sun Er patted Yan Liang on the shoulder. “I’ve seen enough; now I need to go help Wei Shuang.”
"You've got it too?" Yan Liang gasped. Damn it, you beast!
"Pretty much, but since I didn't do the decathlon again, it's a bit of a shame. But I can still pick and choose and find something I can use." Sun Er said with a smile. He knew what Wei Shuang was thinking, and he knew what the others were thinking, but why should I, Sun Er, give up my first place to you?
After saying that, Sun Er was about to rush over, but Yan Liang stopped him.
"What's wrong?" Sun Er looked at Yan Liang with a puzzled expression.
"Brother Sun, go change into some armor. This armor doesn't seem like it's designed for fighting strong opponents," Yan Liang said, frowning as he looked at Sun Er's armor. Sun Er has adaptive abilities and a solid foundation of physical attributes, so he can wear a fortress. Although he's not as good as some of the more famous fortress enthusiasts, he can still wear Jiang Guang's full 460 fortress.
Normally, Sun Er wears size 180, but now that he's had muscle-building injections, he wears size 240. Under normal circumstances, that's enough, but now that he's facing a top-tier internal energy leaving the body, to be honest, size 240 isn't quite enough!
Sun Er looked at his armor. Indeed, this armor was designed to balance speed, endurance, and defense. But now, he could make up for his endurance with the breathing technique he had just copied, and his speed could also be improved with the special mobility technique he had just copied. This would surely make him reach 500 fortresses. Holy crap, I can wear even thicker armor than Jiang Guang!
"Lord Chen, are you still there?" Reminded by Yan Liang, Sun Er quickly realized that to fight a tough opponent like Tien, he needed to wear heavy armor. Moreover, after learning two very useful techniques, he could wear even heavier armor. Even with muscle-building injections, Sun Er was still only one or two centimeters shorter than Jiang Guang. If he could wear armor even heavier than Jiang Guang's, he would dare to engage Jiang Guang head-on!
"I'm here." Chen Xi had been keeping an eye on things, so when Sun Er spoke, he contacted him immediately. "What's up?"
"Could you get me a full set of 500-level fortress gear? Tien is a bit difficult to equip." Sun Er asked directly without any attempt to hide his intentions.
“I don’t have anything else you need, but I have plenty of 500 standard fortresses, and they’re already etched. I’ll have an external information system come in, but it might not fit perfectly,” Chen Xi said after thinking for a moment.
Chen Xi felt no pressure whatsoever about cheating, especially since it involved fighting the Xiongnu, which was something he practically wanted to switch to reality mode, so cheating was not a problem at all.
To be honest, if Liu Bei hadn't been holding back the others, a group of big shots would have pounced on Tien right now and besieged him, letting Tien experience the kind of siege that Lu Bu had always faced, and with Lu Bu leading the charge!
"It's alright, a general-purpose armor is fine." Sun Er said with a dry laugh. He wasn't really particular about it. After all, in the past, it was good enough to have armor at all. Whether it fit or not was something to consider later. Back then, people adapted to the armor. These days, Chen Xi has made a lot of general-purpose armor, in many sizes. If your body shape isn't too outrageous, you can just get the right size.
Of course, this applies to ordinary soldiers. For people like Sun Er, Jiang Guang, and Jiang Bin, the armor they wear is custom-made, so it fits them better and allows them to better exert their combat power. This is why when Jiang Bin fought Xu Bu Rui, he first unfastened the buckle and took off his outer armor. When Xu Bu Rui began to transform, he picked up the outer armor and quickly put it back on.
If it weren't tailor-made, it wouldn't be possible to put it on so quickly.
"Wait a moment, it will be sent in soon." Chen Xi notified the palace guards stationed at the Myriad Manifestations Divine Palace through the small world. Soon, an old soldier of similar height and weight to Sun Er transmitted his 500 fortresses from the Myriad Manifestations Divine Palace into the small world, and then appeared in front of the two of them with Yan Liang not knowing what to say.
"Your treatment is a bit speechless..." Yan Liang said, but still quickly helped Sun Er put on the clothes. Although this kind of thing has been optimized and can be worn by one person, it is still the fastest to put on the clothes together when there is someone to help.
Soon, fully armed, with only his eyes showing, Sun Er, carrying a long spear, began to adjust his stance, preparing to deliver a thunderous blow and end the battle.
At this point, Tien had already noticed Yan Liang and Sun Er, but neither of them showed any threat. On the other hand, Tien's main focus was on eliminating Wei Shuang. After all, Wei Shuang had plundered the centuries-old heritage of their Xiongnu people. If they didn't kill Wei Shuang, all their accumulated wealth would be wasted.
Therefore, Tien didn't focus on Yan Liang and Sun Er at all. Even though Sun Er was dressed in the style of a fortress, it didn't increase the threat in Tien's mind. On the contrary, it confirmed that the opponent was a weakling. There's no way around it, this is how the strong look on the battlefield.
Therefore, Tien focused all his attention on dealing with Wei Shuang, and this guy himself did not need to adapt at all. From the moment he was promoted, he directly displayed the ultimate combat power of internal energy leaving the body.
Skills are inherently variable and do not diminish with advancement; in fact, their power may even increase with improvements in fundamentals.
Furthermore, Tien no longer cared about concealing his skills, and used all his abilities at once, resulting in an astonishingly powerful attack.
Wei Shuang's expression was cold as he leaped out of the dust, spear in hand. Tien's attack pierced through the air, and due to his special technique, it was highly refined, rendering the defensive technique that relied on atmospheric flow for evasion meaningless. Fortunately, if that didn't work, there were other methods.
However, the increase in strength and speed brought about by Tien's advancement in internal energy separation caused Wei Shuang to quickly fall into a disadvantageous position during the collision. If Tien previously relied on skills to confront Wei Shuang's exaggerated basic qualities, the situation has now reversed. Wei Shuang has to rely on skills to confront Tien's terrifying basic qualities after his advancement.
How can we possibly win?
Even if Wei Shuang, through his all-around skills and special attacks against the Northern Xiongnu guards, forcibly absorbed all their techniques, and with further training, it would only be a matter of time before he surpassed them, Wei Shuang's ability to apply these techniques, having just acquired them, would at best be no better than Tien's.
In terms of basic qualities such as strength and speed, he was weaker than his opponent, and his skills were about the same. The only advantage he had was his armor.
The problem is that Wei Shuang lacks adaptability. Relying on the terrifying qualities gained from twice re-running the decathlon, he can only wear 240 armor without affecting actual combat. This thing is indeed very strong, but the internal energy leaving the body can really be shattered.
Let's not even mention Tien. Even Sudari, who was killed by Jiang Bin, could have cut through this armor with a single slash. But as I said before, Sudari only managed to make a scratch a dozen millimeters deep on Jiang Bin's armor. That wasn't because Sudari's limit was that level, but because Sudari's broken sword was only at that level!
Furthermore, the defensive capabilities provided by armor thickness do not increase linearly. To put it simply, the defensive capabilities of true physical defense are like this: take a Barrett armor as an example. This thing can easily penetrate a 21mm thick steel plate at a distance of 50 meters, but against a 22mm thick steel plate, it can only leave a dent. From penetrating to leaving only a dent, this is the difference in true physical defense.
Similarly, the same applies to armor. When facing Jiang Bin's 800 composite armor, a typical internal energy strike can only leave a scratch a few millimeters deep, at most thirty millimeters. But for the 240 armor, a single strike could easily cleave it in two.
Therefore, Wei Shuang, who had initially gained the upper hand, quickly found himself in a sorry state. Fortunately, he had multiple defensive techniques and a relatively sturdy layer of defense, which gave him a high margin for error. Especially when facing certain slashes, he could deflect them with shockwaves and air membranes and then withstand the attack with his armor, which was still manageable.
However, Wei Shuang knew that this situation couldn't last long. With the improvement of Tien's basic qualities and the extended time he spent in the internal energy separation stage, his will at the limit-breaking level naturally achieved the divine will representing a divine cultivator without any tempering. His control over his own power further improved, and Tien's strength began to rise significantly.
If he was still adapting to this power before, now Tien has begun to master it. In fact, given enough time, Tien could fully realize his accumulated power and directly touch the threshold of breaking through the barrier.
This exaggerated speed of cashing out quickly put Wei Shuang in a difficult situation. If he had previously held the idea of fighting the other party, now Wei Shuang was already thinking about how to escape. After all, he had already gotten what he wanted. Next, as long as he could get these things out alive, he would have already won big. Although killing the Right Wise King of the Xiongnu could earn him a marquisate, he had to be realistic about his abilities.
It was obvious that Wei Shuang had realized that the title of Marquis was not easy to obtain, so he decided to accept his current position while he was ahead. Of course, Wei Shuang was still confident in his personal safety. After all, he could clearly feel Lu Bu's gaze, which was as tangible as a physical force, descending upon him. This was also the reason why Wei Shuang remained calm even when facing the possibility of being killed by Tien.
What's there to be afraid of? I have powerful backers too. If something really happens, Marquis Wen will step in directly. What's there to be afraid of? Do you think a mere Right Wise King of the Xiongnu can kill Marquis Wen in a one-on-one fight? What a joke!
However, just as Wei Shuang realized he couldn't win and was preparing to run away, letting the truly top-tier warriors reap the rewards for Tien, he took a step forward and then caught a glimpse of the steel fortress standing on Yan Liang's side. Wei Shuang paused for a moment, and a frantic scream erupted in his mind: Why is that bastard Sun Er here!
Although it's just a text recommendation, considering I haven't recommended anything for years, it still feels outrageous. I thought I had stopped recommending anything altogether, and suddenly I get a text recommendation, or rather, a tiny little thing. What does that mean?