Chapter 1061
Chapter 1061 - 147: Desperate Situation?
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"...so cold."
Lu Ping’an’s breath turned into fog that was visible to the naked eye.
The temperature had already dropped below zero, and Snow Mountain was covered in thick snow, with the heavy flurries of snowflakes from the sky growing larger and larger.
The blizzard, coupled with the eerie frost fog, greatly reduced visibility. If it had been an ordinary person, they could have been declared missing by now.
However, even Lu Ping’an himself felt the discomfort... The extreme cold was quite hostile to both "animals" and "plants," and he even felt that what was being taken from him was not just body heat, but a conceptual-level "Life Stripping."
"Extraordinary Rank temperature drop? Isn’t this level of environmental advantage unfairly excessive?"
What surprised Lu Ping’an was not the severity of the environment but the aggressiveness of the environment towards him.
Having home-field advantage is certainly allowed, but this level is strong enough to break the balance... These aggressive environmental factors that actively interfere with the battle are obviously too much.
"I haven’t offended this Deity, have I? No, even if I did, It wouldn’t operate beyond the bounds during Its ’Ceremony of Rules.’
According to Lu Ping’an’s understanding of Deities, once a Deity intervened in the "automatic deduction" of Its own ceremony, the process of proving Its "World’s Reason" would become meaningless and might even harm Its own "Reason."
If the Domineering Three Faces wouldn’t be foolish enough to break the balance itself, then, since the temperature that keeps dropping isn’t a condition set by the host, there is only one possibility...
"This is the attack of a Clone... cough, it’s the attack of ’Snowman’ Su!"
And this reality was even more frustrating.
This was a "Fighter’s" match; the world’s rules always applied, and it wasn’t some Element Manipulator’s domain of mutual barrage; how could he achieve such a level...
Lu Ping’an spread his hands and watched big snowflakes fall into his palm; he could feel the "hostility" within them.
"I see, so it can be played like this..."
Lu Ping’an’s eyes were constantly looking for the "Snowman’s" body; theoretically, these snowflakes shouldn’t stop his probing.
However, "Contamination" was indeed omnipresent and did obscure his shallow vision, and when he increased the output frequency of the Eye of Truth, forcibly seeing through these "coverings"... he still couldn’t find his opponent’s body!
Clearly, Lu Ping’an didn’t believe that a "Decree-level" had the ability to avoid his eyes, so there was only one possibility...
"...He’s gone, or more precisely, his ’Body’ has become non-physical... heh, it’s really an approach from the Fighting Path that uses the body for combat, is this a kind of boomerang in a different sense?"
If "Fighting" is a way of battling that manipulates the body, then Tentacles and variable bodies are also permissible, right?
Because of his own "plant-based body" Fighting Path, Lu Ping’an thought he was already outrageous, but he didn’t expect to encounter someone even more thorough here...
"Snowman, are you watching me?"
Lu Ping’an’s seemingly delirious inquiry received no response, only the sound of the blizzard that seemed to carry back faint laughter.
Lu Ping’an looked up, and this time he didn’t attempt to see through the heavy snow or the fog because that was utterly meaningless... his opponent was right before his eyes, always there!
When he opened his eyes again, this time, he could sense the ’low temperature’ around him was obviously more concentrated.
"Elementalization at this level, and it’s still just Decree-level?"
Lu Ping’an’s doubts were not answered by Big Cat.
Even if she knew the answer, there was no need to spur him on... In her experience, things others teach you are easily forgotten, while things you think of and comprehend on your own truly belong to you.
More importantly, it was this logical thought process and problem-solving method of seeking "truth" within battle.
"... The snow and frost covering the entire Snow Mountain are his way of using his ’body’ to ’fight’; he dismantled his own body and scattered it everywhere."
Lu Ping’an had already made his way to the summit of the Snow Mountain, where there indeed were castles made of ice and snow.
But Lu Ping’an knew that all this was a smokescreen, there might be traps set up by those on the Craftsman Path, but their power was definitely low, they were merely distractions meant to waste his time.
If he didn’t have these Twin Eyes to quickly ascertain the status of his opponent, he would have lost the opportunity to resist while searching each room one by one, breaking mechanisms and traps... in a fruitless search.
"Indeed, one should never underestimate anyone in this world."
If not for his experience in cultivating the Fighting Path, if he couldn’t understand that its essence involved "using the body", Lu Ping’an wouldn’t have been able to quickly make sense of the situation.
Among the Talent Ability Users of the Six Great Systems, those from the Elemental system were rare and precious, and the best among them had bodies that could elementally transform, rendering them almost invulnerable to short-term physical attacks.
However, this kind of "body transformation" was obviously a high-level ability and had many restrictions.
The most basic one was probably that the range and amount of "elementalization" were limited. If you truly divided yourself into countless parts and still managed to maintain self-cognition, that was incredible, and the control over individual elements tended to be quite low.
To use an inappropriate analogy, if you were just one pound of water thrown into a swimming pool, you would instantly sink to the bottom, and if you were sprinkled into a room, it would be even more meaningless.
This ability was more often used to amplify one’s own Elemental control or to dodge various fatal harms, not as a regular ability.
This related to the limitation of "Elemental total quantity", just like Lu Ping’an couldn’t directly turn himself into a living forest as large as the original Bloodvine.
"He, having cultivated on the Fighting Path, uses it to control the ’properties of his body’, managing the ’elemental low temperature’ scattered in the atmosphere... He is omnipresent; the entire arena is him!"
Accomplishing all this was not simple; it most likely also involved a boost from the Spiritual Power of the Awakener Path. But even if he really managed to create countless clones with self-consciousness, his ability to interfere was limited.
"Lowering the temperature, summoning snowstorms, concealing the field of vision, that should be the limit..."
Mr. Su, having transformed into "cold air", had given Lu Ping’an an incredibly difficult problem to solve.
How to attack an opponent without a physical form? Staying here meant his body heat was continuously stripped away by the supernatural cold in the air—Lu Ping’an already felt the extraordinary chill and it seemed the "pain" was accumulating.
"Divine Grace... uh, probably not effective, the opponent doesn’t even have a physical body, Divine Grace that targets the body will certainly be ineffective."
Lu Ping’an could manipulate fire, but if the enemy was the pervasive ice and snow, whom and where should you burn to be effective?
This situation where one’s punches hit nothing was somewhat frustrating... If it were a normal battlefield, Lu Ping’an would just walk away, as an opponent in such a state could not possibly move fast.
Once the opponent tried to catch up, returning to a physical state, a well-aimed heavy hit could solve the problem.
Was there really no solution? Not necessarily, but now the opponent was using his Talent on the Fighting Path to control himself, achieving two hundred percent effectiveness, while Lu Ping’an’s original problem-solving approach was being suppressed by the environment.
𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"Surrender... surrender..."
Carried over by the wind from some direction came Mr. Su’s "suggestion".
It indeed was the most rational choice at the moment; the supernatural low temperature was continuously stripping heat from living beings, and if dragged on long enough, the dead one was certain to be Lu Ping’an himself.
"A dead end..."
Yet this scene made Lu Ping’an start to laugh.
"... Finally, things are getting interesting."
Lu Ping’an, who had been having a smooth journey, laughed contentedly; he finally had a worthy opponent.
— End of Chapter 1061 —