Chapter 351

Chapter 351: Evil Energy vs. Evil Energy

Tang Qianqiu thought the feeling he experienced was just an illusion of his own, but in reality, it was not, because Lou Yun’s face still showed a hint of glee, since absorbing evil energy through his arm and launching an attack allowed him to truly gain a deeper understanding of evil energy!

Evil energy was not ethereal or weightless like spiritual energy; on the contrary, it possessed its own weight. Moreover, when immense quantities of evil energy coalesced together, they could produce unimaginable, crushing heaviness.

Therefore, he could now press Tang Qianqiu’s evil weapon firmly, rendering it utterly immobile.

At the same time, Lou Yun further recalled when he faced the Han family, they employed a weapon technique with their unique magical weapon book known as the book mountain!

Back then, if Lou Yun hadn’t immediately utilized the Chaos Golden Cauldron, he likely would’ve been flattened into a pulp by the book mountain. Even now, thinking of that sensation made him shudder with lingering dread.

So, Lou Yun now thought, if he could attack enemies with evil energy as done with the book mountain, wouldn’t it achieve a similar suppressive effect?

Thinking this, Lou Yun resolved to attempt it!

Lou Yun surprisingly released his hold on Tang Qianqiu’s evil weapon as he raised his arm, but his hand grasped the Dream Emperor Sword!

Originally, Tang Qianqiu was almost prepared to temporarily release his evil weapon and attack Lou Yun to force him back, yet he never expected Lou Yun would voluntarily retract his arm.

Although Tang Qianqiu saw Lou Yun draw a magical weapon as his arm withdrew, he secretly breathed an inner sigh of relief!

However, before that breath fully left him, his expression abruptly shifted drastically!

Because he saw Lou Yun raise high the Dream Emperor Sword, and the boundless evil energy pervading their surroundings instantly surged violently like colossal waves, rolling ferociously into the Dream Emperor Sword!

"You, are you an evil weapons master?"

Tang Qianqiu couldn’t contain himself anymore and blurted out that question!

And this query was also what Chang Feng and Mo Bingju yearned to ask!

Lou Yun smiled faintly and said, "I am not an evil weapons master!"

Lou Yun indeed was no evil weapons master, but because he could perceive and absorb heavenly energy, it allowed him to fearlessly absorb both spiritual energy and evil energy, which belonged to that heavenly power!

A fierce glint flashed in Tang Qianqiu’s eyes. Suddenly, he clutched his evil weapon with both hands and forcefully twisted his wrists. His evil weapon instantly detached from his grasp, hovered in midair, and began spinning.

As the evil weapon rotated, a stream of the evil energy frantically converging toward the Dream Emperor Sword split off and gushed toward the evil weapon.

Now, both men began absorbing evil energy using their magical weapon and evil weapon respectively. Chang Feng and Mo Bingju watched this scene in utter bewilderment, completely perplexed about their intentions!

Lou Yun naturally perceived Tang Qianqiu’s actions, but he disregarded them because his purpose for absorbing evil energy differed profoundly from Tang Qianqiu’s!

Tang Qianqiu urged his evil weapon to absorb spiritual energy naturally to unleash more potent weapon techniques, while Lou Yun absorbed evil energy to test an entirely new attack method!

After a moment, Tang Qianqiu’s expression turned grave, and the evil weapon floating before him slowed its spinning visibly, indicating the absorbed evil energy had reached saturation and could absorb no more. Yet Lou Yun’s Dream Emperor Sword seemed an insatiable void, continuing to draw evil energy endlessly.

This occurred because Lou Yun’s physique was uniquely capable, storing considerably more heavenly energy than Tang Qianqiu!

Tang Qianqiu realized he couldn’t delay longer; extended time would only worsen his situation. Thus, he emitted a sharp, short whistle like a command. The evil weapon shrouded in dense evil energy floating before him abruptly accelerated its spin and lunged toward Lou Yun!

High-level rank technique, Evil Dragon Cloud Roller!

The evil weapon resembled a coiling dragon, tearing through layers of evil energy as it advanced, and those shattered energies adhered faster to it. With evil clouds billowing everywhere, it charged toward Lou Yun in a swirling wind!

Simultaneously, Lou Yun finally halted the Dream Emperor Sword’s absorption of evil energy. His face shed its ease and joy, replaced by solemn gravity!

It wasn’t that the absorbed evil energy had saturated, but his strength had peaked. He felt he clutched not the Dream Emperor Sword, but an incredibly ponderous mountain. By Lou Yun’s estimate, it weighed tens of thousands of pounds. Infusing more evil energy would crush him first!

Indeed, no one could now discern Lou Yun held a magical weapon sword, as the Dream Emperor Sword had morphed into a colossal shapeless mass after absorbing excessive evil energy.

Staring at the evil weapon hurtling toward him wreathed in an evil-energy tornado, Lou Yun inhaled deeply. Hoisting the Dream Emperor Sword, he cautiously pushed it forward with both hands—a gesture less like attacking and more like tenderly offering a priceless object.

Unlike Tang Qianqiu, who released his evil weapon to attack remotely midair, Lou Yun gradually lowered his arm height but didn’t fling the Dream Emperor Sword. Instead, he hurled the immense sphere of evil energy affixed to its blade.

After all, abilities like Tang Qianqiu’s to weaponize aerial control were unique to those reaching Earth level cultivation. While Lou Yun’s true strength might match or exceed Earth level, cultivation limits still bound him, preventing such command.

The massive evil energy sphere—seemingly both weightless and unbearably heavy—detached from the Dream Emperor Sword and drifted lethargically toward the evil weapon and Tang Qianqiu.

Upon releasing the evil energy sphere, Lou Yun’s arms dangled weakly to the ground, even lacking the strength to lift them now, as the sphere’s heft drained him entirely.

Observing the hovering evil energy sphere’s form filled Lou Yun with shame; he intended it to condense into a mountain shape, but accomplishing that proved severely arduous. Forming its current bloated, grotesque shape pushed him to his bounds.

Yet Lou Yun remained unaware that his concept of absorbing evil energy to create a mountain had inadvertently touched a higher tier of manipulating heavenly energy… shaping the formless into form!

The sphere advanced at a sluggish pace, so fragile a breeze might disperse it, but it steadfastly progressed toward its target!

Contrasted with the evil weapon’s formidable, tornado-wrapped momentum, the sphere paled vastly in presence. Even Chang Feng and Mo Bingju doubted Lou Yun’s strike could yield significant force!

Finally, the evil weapon collided with the evil energy sphere!

Still, utter silence ensued, but the outcome stunned everyone!

Despite the evil weapon’s grandiosity and might, striking the sphere felt like ramming an indestructible, towering peak!

The evil-energy tornado crumbled rapidly; the evil weapon catapulted backward nearly twice as swift!

Having effortlessly shattered Tang Qianqiu’s assault, the sphere continued drifting steadily toward Tang Qianqiu, unbothered!

As the evil weapon was flung back, Tang Qianqiu—its master—felt the impact. An enormous shock ravaged his dantian, shaking his innards violently; he spat black blood mist from his mouth!

Now, the sphere hovered above Tang Qianqiu. Albeit merely two meters above ground, it loomed directly over him.

Internally grievously wounded, Tang Qianqiu’s mind fogged over. Though aware he must evade the sphere, his feet rooted to the earth, immovable.

The sphere descended without mercy, unerringly pinning Tang Qianqiu beneath!

"Boom!"

When the sphere struck the ground, a deafening explosion erupted with shuddering tremors—genuinely like a mountain plummeting from heaven to earth!

Now, Chang Feng and Mo Bingju’s expressions shifted; only now had they grasped the sphere—seemingly cotton-candy light to them—bore such colossal weight!

Yet Lou Yun’s expression abruptly changed: he never foresaw the sphere causing such upheaval on impact. He feared it might rouse Tang Qianqiu’s master, concealed somewhere unknown!

Thus, Lou Yun couldn’t spare time to check Tang Qianqiu pinned beneath the sphere. Urgently, he shouted to the stunned Chang Feng and Mo Bingju, "Hurry, leave!"

After shouting, Lou Yun inhaled deeply, stomped the ground firmly, and charged toward the manor gate. Before Tang Qianqiu’s master materialized, he must extract his two disciples or forfeit this irreplaceable chance!