Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2245  Fourth Form

Pearl found himself in the corner, unable to move out quickly enough as the ram's charge was beyond fast.

Instead, he quickly used the White Tiger's Dominating Body technique and took the full force of the attack. He used every other technique and the power of his armor he could to stand against the attack and even then, he was slammed away.

He flew through the air, spinning uncontrollably, as he nearly slammed into the wall. Just before he did, he teleported, arriving toward the center.

By the time he was up, the ram had already turned to him, charging his way once again.

'Damn it,' Pearl thought. The ram's attack was a bit too strong for him to handle and too fast for him to teleport away in time. He couldn't even use the second form in time, unable to understand how the ram had gotten so fast suddenly.

Was that the wave of attack he had let out from his crystal? 'It did something to him. It made him faster somehow,' Pearl thought. He quickly protected himself and was blasted away, but this time he had more time to save himself as he was close to the center.

He teleported to a far corner, concealing himself. He could only conceal his aura, and even that not all that much. People looking for him could find him easily.

The ram would take no time to find at all.

'Look at how fast he's moving,' Pearl thought. 'Even regular movements like turning around are so fast. I wonder if he—'

Pearl's thoughts paused at the very moment as he looked beyond the ram, looking out into the stage where the inaudible crowd cheered for the fight.

And there he saw people move, all seemingly dozens of times faster.

'What?' Pearl thought with a confused look. 'How are people outside…'

He looked at the people, then the ram, then down at himself.

'Shit!' he thought, finally realizing the real situation. 'He's not fast. I'm the one that slowed down. Damn it, I should've realized it earlier. Brother did say purple was the color of time, and his crystal is damn near that color.'

The ram found him and charged at him at that exact moment. Pearl barely managed to teleport away and dodge, and quickly held his spear to the side, channeling his Qi into it.

He watched the ram turn around and charge toward him again.

To the ram, Pearl moved so very slowly, barely getting ready to attack. 'He wants to fight this time?' he thought. 'Very well, if he wants to take me head on.'

The ram was very certain in his own powers. He charged toward Pearl and…

Pearl's spear glowed brilliantly at that exact moment, and he stabbed forward 26 times in quick succession.

"What?" the ram shouted in surprise.

He had to end his charge suddenly and quickly use the shield to block the attack. The 26 spears flew instantly at the ram, crashing onto the barrier, and disappearing.

The ram breathed in and out, concerned as to what had just happened. How had his opponent managed to attack that quickly while slowed down?

He felt the flow of energy in the air and looked toward Pearl. Pearl stood at a low stance, his spear glowing with metal energy, swirling all around it, gathering in to become stronger.

The ram was shocked. The flow of energy was fast. Way too fast. Pearl had somehow broken through his time stagnation wave. He released the wave once more to catch Pearl within it, but even as the wave passed through Pearl, nothing about him slowed down.

"You cannot use the same trick on me twice," Pearl said, grinning. Thanks to the technique Alex had taught him, the Spirit Reversal technique, he could stop any and all aura from affecting him.

While he used that technique to stop the aura from affecting him, he used another technique to pour his Qi into the spear.

The golden energy was so condensed that it began glowing white. The air warbled around the spear, and all around it glowed with its light. Little by little, the aura leaving the spear was one that no one could ignore.

The ram finally stepped back, scared. "What is that?" he asked. "It's… it's… it's so powerful."

Pearl said nothing, gathering more power into his spear. This was the power of another one of Grimsight's spear techniques. This one specifically could gather energy into it for as long as one could. The longer one used it, the stronger it became. There was a level to how strong the attack could get, but as Pearl was right now, he could get it up to 3 levels beyond what his highest strength was.

So as of yet, with ample time, he could let out an attack that would even cause Alex to flinch.

Once enough energy had gone into the spear, he targeted the ram, ready to attack.

Five Heavenly Forms of Spear - Fourth Form: Heaven Revolving Spear Strike

"I give up!"

Just as Pearl was releasing the attack, however, the ram gave up. The attack had been gathered and was already released, so he couldn't stop it. And it was also so powerful that he couldn't just stop it.

'No, it can't hit him,' Pearl thought. 'No, I must… not… hit…'

At the very last moment, Pearl drew in the Dao of Teleportation, channeling it quickly into the attack. Then, he teleported the attack.

The attack disappeared and appeared behind the man, hitting the barrier that protected the arena. It shook wildly, ripples glowing across the golden illusory wall.

The shockwave threw the violetram forward as he came skidding down next to Pearl. He slowly got back on his feet and met Pearl's eyes.

Pearl took a bit to understand what he had just done. 'Oh… I can teleport attacks now?' he thought. That was a fun advancement in a direction he wasn't thinking about.

He focused on the ram in front of him finally and smiled. "Good fight." He said nothing more and walked away.

Pearl looked at his spear, seeing its durability somewhat lowering. 'That fourth form is a bit too much for this spear,' he thought. 'I need to either refine it to make it stronger or I need to get a better spear.'

For now, it made sense to refine it, so Pearl thought of doing that.

He walked up only a few stairs when he looked in a certain direction. 'Oh, brother is back,' he thought. He then realized that he hadn't been back in a while. 'I should go make sure I know what is going on. Maybe it's time to leave.'

He wanted to say his farewell to the fox, but he couldn't see him. 'Did he go to watch a different match?' he wondered.

He didn't care enough about the fox to find him at the moment, so Pearl instead left to go get his payout. He arrived at the place where he got his pay and was beyond surprised to find out how much he had earned from this single match.

"I'm sorry, 32 thousand? Just from one match?" Pearl was flabbergasted by the number. Most he had earned from the 2nd floor was 4000, so this was big.

'What poor fellow lost all of his money?'