Dragon's Origin

Chapter 284: The Fall of a Legendary Assassin (Part 1)

After returning to the Marquis's residence in the capital from the Old Lord Temple, Wang Sheng began to ponder another use for the 'Travel' character formula.

The 'Travel' character formula allows Wang Sheng's spiritual energy fluctuations to resonate with formations, achieving a state of integration. Could this be used to conceal his movements?

In essence, could he align his spiritual energy fluctuations with the surrounding environment?

This was very difficult because formation fluctuations are usually quite distinct. But even the most unique formation fluctuations have a certain frequency. After all, they are artificially created. The formation fluctuations, no matter how weak, are at least ten times clearer than those of the ordinary environment.

In a normal environment, spiritual energy fluctuations can be so weak as to be negligible. In such an environment, unless someone has undergone specific training or possesses a unique Yuan Soul talent, they cannot hide their own spiritual energy fluctuations.

The reason why experts can lock onto a target's location through their aura is that they use their spiritual energy to lock onto the target's spiritual energy fluctuations. This is actually a very profound method of using spiritual energy, and ordinary entry-level practitioners below the fourth level cannot use it at all. Only true experts can skillfully use this move.

The reason why the middle-aged assassin wasn't afraid of Wang Sheng escaping even when the practice room was full of dust and he couldn't see anything was because of this.

But at this moment, he couldn't find Wang Sheng's location. What was going on?

Wang Sheng only realized when he completed the Pulao Transformation that he could use the 'Travel' character formula to briefly make his own spiritual energy fluctuations consistent with the surrounding environment, concealing his position in situations where vision was useless. This was the trick Wang Sheng was using now.

The time that the 'Travel' character formula could conceal fluctuations wasn't very long because the spiritual energy fluctuations in a normal environment were too weak. No matter how high one's cultivation, they could only suppress their own spiritual energy for a short time, just a few breaths. However, even these few breaths were enough for Wang Sheng to disappear from the opponent's spiritual energy lock.

However, the middle-aged assassin was no amateur and wouldn't panic over such a small setback. Wang Sheng had only concealed his spiritual energy fluctuations, but he couldn't have moved too far from his previous position because he hadn't heard Wang Sheng's footsteps.

Besides spiritual energy locking, sight, hearing, and even smell can help people locate enemies during combat. Whatever ability works is fine.

The middle-aged assassin wasn't flustered, and he wasn't afraid of Wang Sheng escaping. Even if there was a tunnel here, his super hearing would be able to detect Wang Sheng's movements. So, when Wang Sheng's spiritual energy fluctuations suddenly disappeared, he still walked towards Wang Sheng's previous position, following his previous rhythm.

Under the overwhelming and crushing power, everything else was just a vulnerable ghost. Even if Wang Sheng could hold his breath, he couldn't hold it for long.

Sure enough, after only two steps, the middle-aged assassin once again sensed Wang Sheng's spiritual energy fluctuations and re-locked onto Wang Sheng's position.

As the assassin expected, Wang Sheng was almost standing still, and strangely, Wang Sheng seemed to have suddenly adopted a crouching posture. What was he doing?

Just as the middle-aged assassin was wondering, an inconspicuous egg-sized sphere at his feet suddenly flashed, and then an incomparably dazzling light filled the assassin's entire field of vision.

Boom! The dazzling light not only brought burning but also a violent explosion. Or, strictly speaking, a large-scale deflagration.

Wang Sheng had filled the previous few explosive packs with about ten kilograms of military-grade black powder each, making a total of fifty kilograms. All fifty kilograms of this black powder were now in powder form, filling this practice room of nearly several hundred square meters.

The egg-sized sphere was Wang Sheng's last incendiary bomb. In this critical moment, Wang Sheng used it without hesitation.

The violent deflagration turned the entire practice room into a huge torch. With a loud bang, the wooden doors and windows around the practice room were all shattered.

Don't think that this was all there was to it. Wang Sheng had placed at least a total of over one hundred kilograms of complete explosive packs in the underground and on the ceiling of the practice room, at several precisely calculated angles and directions.

The first deflagration of black powder directly ignited the explosive packs placed in these locations, triggering a second explosion.

This time, it was a real explosion. The military-grade black powder, which was compressed and tightly packed, had at least 60% of the power of TNT when it exploded.

The explosions from several angles happened to completely engulf the area in the center of the practice room, and it was precisely the area where the power was叠加. In an instant, the middle-aged assassin in the center of the explosion felt as if he was in hell.

The explosive power of over one hundred kilograms of black powder completely erased the practice room from the Marquis's residence. Only a few large pits remained at the scene, as well as a black area of dozens of meters around that had been熏 over by the gunpowder.

At the instant the fire flashed in his vision, the middle-aged assassin had already raised his spiritual energy to the extreme, firmly protecting his entire body.

In his decades of life experience, mere flames could not harm him. Even flames doused in oil couldn't harm him. As long as his spiritual energy was completely released, those flames would naturally be blocked by the spiritual energy an inch away from his body, allowing him to leave calmly.

He had such experience before. He had once walked through a burning fire field unharmed. If Wang Sheng thought he could hurt him like this, then he was very wrong.

But when the deflagration occurred, the middle-aged assassin realized that something was wrong. Unfortunately, once this process started, he basically had no more chances.

If the explosive power of the large-scale black powder deflagration wasn't enough for him to feel threatened, then the subsequent explosion of the black powder explosive packs made him feel like several experts were launching attacks on him from all directions at the same time.

The power of over one hundred kilograms of black powder exploding violently was comparable to the strength of several eighth-level experts, and the coverage was almost without blind spots. From top to bottom, from left to right, from front to back, everything was calculated. No matter how strong the middle-aged assassin was, he could only withstand the power of this explosion.

As a newly advanced ninth-level legendary expert, even if a dozen eighth-level experts attacked him from all directions at the same time, even if he couldn't dodge a single attack, he could still withstand it with his powerful strength, at most just getting injured. But even if he was injured, he had enough confidence to kill Wang Sheng.

Unfortunately, he ignored Wang Sheng's true ultimate move in this attack, which was not the power of the explosion, but the temperature.