Chapter 449: Fragile Defense
In the laboratory, Su Hao bathed in the white light of the array, quietly waiting for the transformation of his spiritual power to be completed.
After an unknown amount of time, the light of the array gradually dissipated.
Meanwhile, Yashan retracted his black crystal armor, exited the Earth Lord state, and eagerly said, “Boss Wei, give it a try and see if you can use the ‘Wind Escape Technique’ now.”
Without saying a word, Su Hao didn’t even form any hand seals. He just closed his eyes, and the next moment, spiritual power erupted from his body, forming a powerful airflow around him. Su Hao leaped into the air, swaying slightly left and right, quickly finding balance and stabilizing his position, floating in mid-air.
Yashan swung his fist vigorously, excitedly exclaiming, “It worked!”
Su Hao carefully controlled the flying technique in mid-air for two laps, then landed and smiled, “It feels pretty good. Three years of research can allow one to learn a technique within two hours. It’s quite valuable!”
If all three years were spent on practicing techniques, one could learn only around twenty or so. However, after summarizing the ‘Art Implantation’ method, learning multiple techniques became effortless. Just activate the ‘Activator’ rune for two hours, practice a bit, and with the corresponding seals, it’s almost done!
Yashan agreed, “Indeed. Mastering the laws of things, coupled with a set of multifunctional rune tools, makes it easy to control these laws. The power of thought is truly formidable.”
Su Hao said, “Alright, I’ve already accepted your results. Once you enter the Foundation Establishment Realm, I’ll arrange the second research task for you.”
Yashan happily said, “Okay, Boss Wei!”
After Yashan left, Su Hao took out the three annihilating spirit techniques again and murmured to himself, “Since art implantation is possible, there’s no need to choose. Let’s cultivate all three techniques together!”
At this point, it was no longer appropriate to say “cultivate.” It should be “implant.”
Su Hao’s path of growth seemed to be deviating further and further away from the path of cultivation.
With the Diamond Armor surging beneath his feet, a huge rune array was completed. Su Hao then took out the technique “Heart-Piercing Drill” and quickly entered a state of cultivation.
“First, try to cultivate the ‘Heart-Piercing Drill’ and let the ‘Composite Collection’ rune collect the corresponding data…”
Two hours later, Su Hao exited the cultivation state, and the data collection was complete.
“Next, match it with your own spiritual power and adjust the ‘Activator’…”
Step by step, Su Hao completed the preliminary work, taking two hours to prepare everything.
“Finally, implant the ‘Heart-Piercing Drill’!”
Su Hao infused spiritual power into the ‘Activator’ rune, and it quickly activated.
The entire ‘Activator’ rune array emitted a faint white light, shining on the ceiling.
After confirming everything was correct, Su Hao stepped into it, closed his eyes, and waited for his spiritual power to be completely modified.
This process would take about two hours! Besides feeling that his spiritual power had become unusually active, there was nothing special. However, Su Hao still focused his attention to prevent any unexpected occurrences.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
The light of the array gradually dissipated, and Su Hao slowly opened his eyes.
Then, he extended a finger towards one side, and the tip of his finger gradually emitted a dazzling golden light. After reaching a certain level, a golden beam suddenly shot out.
“Puff!”
The beam pierced through the wall, leaving a round hole.
This technique had extremely strong penetrating power. If it hit a practitioner, not only would it create a hole in their body, but it would also completely erode and annihilate all the spiritual power within them.
After successfully releasing the “Heart-Piercing Drill,” Su Hao gained some insight into these kinds of spirit-annihilating techniques. He couldn’t help but think to himself, “So that’s how it works. It’s similar to the principle of combustion. The ‘Heart-Piercing Drill’ provides all the conditions for ‘burning,’ allowing spiritual power to undergo a chain reaction, burning intensely. It only takes a moment, and everything collapses and dissipates.”
Anyone who could develop spirit-annihilating techniques was undoubtedly a genius!
Su Hao practiced the “Heart-Piercing Drill” for a while, solidified the corresponding seals, and then focused on the other two techniques: the “Bone-Corrosion Soul-Destroying Technique” and the “Soul-Splitting Finger Technique.”
“Implanting these two techniques at once, and then summarizing their commonalities, to find a way to counter them.”
Five days later, Su Hao had successfully implanted all the supporting spells for the Foundation Establishment Realm, the Golden Core Realm, and the Nascent Soul Realm.
These included techniques such as the “Wind Escape Technique,” the “Light-Conjuring Sun-Flying Sword,” the “Arc-Light Flowing Wind Barrier,” the “Spring Wind Returning to Shadow,” the “Mountain-Sinking Wind Binding Technique,” the “Wind Erosion Technique,” the “Foggy Wind Vanishing Technique,” the “Eightfold Qi Form Technique,” the “Hundred Life Arrows,” and so on.
Of course, it also included techniques obtained from Feng Qianye, such as the “Wind Spirit Sealing Technique,” the “Azure Edge Cut,” the “Pattern Heart Technique,” and the “Wind Traveling for Thousands of Miles.”
In just five days, Su Hao mastered various miscellaneous techniques. Overall, it wasn’t too difficult!
“Next, I’ll study how to resist spirit-annihilating techniques!”
No matter what form a practitioner’s spiritual power took, encountering spirit-annihilating techniques was like fuel meeting a flame, almost instantly igniting.
“Why can the spiritual power of spiritual stones resist spirit-annihilating techniques? Maybe I can find the key here.”
Two days later, Su Hao shook his head and gave up on the idea of gaining inspiration from spiritual stones.
Because Su Hao discovered that although spiritual stones contained the word “spiritual power,” their essence was too different from the spiritual power inside a practitioner’s body. They couldn’t be considered within the scope of biological energy and were essentially no different from other roadside stones.
Therefore, the idea of using spiritual stones to resist spirit-annihilating techniques was fundamentally worthless.
Then Su Hao began to think again.
“The methods to resist spirit-annihilating techniques are nothing more than isolation, preemptively extinguishing the flames, creating conditions where they cannot burn…”
Su Hao’s “Opposite Space Barrier” could provide isolation effects, but after being attacked by Feng Jiutai, Su Hao realized that he could still be harmed by spirit-annihilating techniques. His “Opposite Space Barrier” might not be able to be set up before the radiation arrived!
Therefore, the “Opposite Space Barrier” was just one layer of protection, and not all safety could be relied on it!
If one day he didn’t have time to deploy the barrier and was hit hard by someone, it would be a big problem.
Being hit by a spirit-annihilating technique would not only result in the complete destruction of spiritual power throughout the body but also cause the entire body to collapse. Even with his “Life Element” vitality, he couldn’t prevent the outcome of death.
As for preemptively extinguishing spirit-annihilating techniques…
After pondering for a long time, Su Hao focused on the “Activator”: “Perhaps, the activator can be used to neutralize spirit-annihilating techniques.”
Su Hao quickly came up with a plan: design a set of formations on the “Child of Fate” armor, continuously releasing a wave targeting spirit-annihilating techniques around the body. When the technique enters the range of the wave, it gradually loses its “ignition” characteristic and becomes an ordinary attack technique!
It’s like a burning arrow entering an oxygen-free zone, where the flame will extinguish, turning into an ordinary arrow.
“Now the problem is, how can spirit-annihilating techniques be neutralized?”
With an idea in mind, achieving results was not far away!
In just ten days, after repeated design and experimentation, Su Hao came up with a preliminary plan—the first-generation “Activator” targeting spirit-annihilating techniques.
Su Hao named it the “Extinguisher”!
The principle was much simpler than Su Hao had expected. Spirit-annihilating techniques were essentially aggregates of spiritual power in a semi-explosive state. Su Hao’s task was not to revert them but to give them certain stimuli to destroy them prematurely and lose their original effectiveness.
Stimulating spiritual power was a very simple matter for Su Hao, who had mastered “Spiritual Power Transformation.”
Su Hao transformed into “Life Element,” and the golden armor under his feet surged crazily, enveloping the entire laboratory, followed by the carving of formation runes.
“Absolute Defense”!
The next moment, a thin blue light film appeared on the wall, Su Hao’s absolute defense shield.
Su Hao pointed his finger, and golden light flickered.
“Heart-Piercing Drill”!
The next moment, a golden light shot out and hit Su Hao’s absolute defense shield.
“Boom!”
After a muffled sound, Su Hao’s activated absolute defense shield collapsed immediately! It was eroded in an instant!
Su Hao thought to himself, “My so-called absolute defense is simply laughable now!”
When designing the “Absolute Defense” initially, all emphasis was placed on resisting high-intensity attacks! If it weren’t for the “Opposite Space Barrier,” Su Hao would probably have fallen into a trap now.
Taking a deep breath, Su Hao whispered, “There is no such thing as absolute defense; it’s just a lack of understanding! I… was too arrogant!”
With that, Su Hao changed the name of “Absolute Defense” to “Fragile Defense”!
Not for anything else, just for the future use of defensive formations. Subconsciously considering this defense layer fragile, he would definitely avoid attacks that could be dodged!
Arrogance is the road to death.
