The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 242 - 227 A Battle of Attrition_1

Chapter 242: Chapter 227 A Battle of Attrition_1

"Sssss!"

Broad strokes of lightning erupted from the suddenly returned wings of White Crane, enveloping Pang Jian, who was in a state of surprise and delight.

Pang Jian’s face changed dramatically.

He keenly sensed that the lightning coming from White Crane was more terrifying than the natural kind, so he hurriedly summoned his Cyan Shining Spiritual Power Strong Shield.

This time, he mixed Star Power, Moon Energy, and Extreme Cold Power together.

"Whoosh!"

The newly formed strong shield was significantly more robust in its defensive power than the child’s play-like one he had fashioned before.

Knowing that White Crane sought to kill him and smelling the tumultuous power within the thunder and lightning that could shake the earth and heaven, Pang Jian no longer dared to deliberately absorb the lightning into his body.

The exploding lightning fell like dazzling waterfalls!

"Boom!"

Within the strong shield, stars twinkled, ice shattered, and streaks of cyan divine brilliance sprayed out, several meters long.

Pang Jian let out a muffled grunt, as if struck squarely by countless thunder hammers, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"You’re not dead yet?"

The sinister White Crane suddenly spoke in a sharp, human voice.

"You can still talk?"

Pang Jian, his mouth stained with blood, was immediately astonished.

Then, he saw even more blinding erupting lightning, furiously shooting out from White Crane’s blade-like wings, covering half of the sky above him.

A sea of thunder surged into being.

"I’ve tolerated you for a long time!"

White Crane’s shrill voice tore through the silent night sky.

It stirred the tidal wave of thunder and lightning from the forbidden land, gathering lightning from all around this special location it had chosen.

"Crack!"

The ground beneath Pang Jian’s feet suddenly emitted cracking sounds, as if it could no longer bear the burden.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

With Pang Jian as the center, lightning flashed and thunder roared within a hundred yards; the ground was ravaged by lightning strikes until it was scarred and pitted.

Pang Jian, protected by the Qingying Gang Shield, was repeatedly hammered by the dense falling lightning, his body sinking downwards.

In a short time, the powers of the shattered stars above his Spiritual Sea and the energy hidden within Bright Moon were all but squandered!

And this time, he dared not abandon the strong shield, nor did he dare to withstand the assault of thunder and lightning with his "Phantom Bone Realm" body.

The malicious White Crane clearly intended to kill him, and his body could not endure such violent thunderbolt strikes.

He felt that even the spot under his feet had been meticulously chosen by White Crane beforehand, a place where nearby thunderbolts could converge.

"Rumble!"

Seeing more thunderbolts approaching, accompanied by ominous and astonishing booms from all directions, he hurriedly altered his Spirit Spell.

"Power of Earth Flame, Power of the Sun!"

Before the Cyan Shining Spiritual Power Strong Shield could shatter, another deep red shield enveloped his body, releasing intense light and heat.

"Aah! He, he’s still not dead!"

The sinister White Crane flapped its wings furiously, soaring through the Thunderous Lightning sea, cursing the entire family of Pang Jian.

It had never anticipated that Pang Jian would refine a completely new Spiritual Power Strong Shield at the moment the first one shattered, stubbornly standing as firmly as ever.

"Whoosh!"

As the second shield, infused with a different power, manifested, Pang Jian threw out the Meteorite Bead he had received from Liang Ying to resist with a screen of starlight that the bead released.

Within just moments, the mid-grade Spiritual Artifact was ground to dust by the thunder and lightning.

Through gritted teeth, Pang Jian simply summoned the Star-shattering Umbrella, and thrusting it above his head, tossed it into the air.

With the life-and-death crisis upon him, he didn’t care about hiding his identity anymore. He seized whatever he had to ensure that he would survive the slaughter led by the evil White Crane.

"Aaah! Dammit! He even has a high-grade Spiritual Artifact, it’s driving me crazy!"

The foul-mouthed and vicious White Crane, dancing deep within the sea of thunder and lightning, was so enraged that it actually spit out blood.

The droplets of blood it expelled transformed into small beads of lightning, making the thunder within the sea even more fierce and intense, and causing the surface of the Star-shattering Umbrella to flicker blindingly with electric light.

"I can’t kill him, damn it, I can’t kill him!"

"This bastard has so many magical treasures, even two bodily protection shields, and he’s proficient in Special Bodily Refinement Skills. Dammit, what do you want chasing me? I just conjured up some lightning and you’re rushing in there risking your life, are you insulting Lord Crane?"

"I’ve blasted so many to death, but why won’t you die!"

"..."

The White Crane cursed heaven and earth as it vilified Pang Jian.

A man and a crane were attacking and defending at a special site chosen by the White Crane.

One crane, displaying many Divine Secret Techniques, wished to put the other party to death.

One man, his life-preserving magical treasures and shields appearing endlessly, stubbornly held his defensive line.

It’s unknown how much time had passed.

The White Crane fell from the sky, frothing at the mouth, and with a weak gesture of one wing towards Pang Jian, its eyes were filled with sorrow and resentment, "Despicable human lad, Lord Crane will definitely butcher you. Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, this is Lord Crane’s treasured and blessed land; no one shall get their hands on Lord Crane’s fortune!"

Ten zhang away, Pang Jian sat exhausted, breathing heavily.

The Star-shattering Umbrella had already fallen from the void, its spiritual glow faded, lying not far from his side.

His skin, glowing with a silvery luster, was still splattered with fine bolts of lightning, and his mouth, nostrils, and ears were bleeding tainted with the power of lightning.

Since leaving the Solitude Mountain Range, Pang Jian hadn’t felt as depleted of all his strength as he did today.

Star Power, Moon Energy, the power of sunlight, the powers from the Ice Pool and Flame Pool, and even the blood vitality from his Creation Divine Pool were all empty.

His vast Spiritual Sea had already been drained once due to the Mysterious Turtle in Panshi Fragment Land, which drew upon nature’s spiritual energy.

Now, as the White Crane finally calmed down, his Spiritual Sea began to generate a mist of spiritual energy again.

Mysterious Turtle, being forced to awaken from its slumber, provided him with a constant stream of Spiritual Energy support, enabling him to withstand until now.

The Sapling in Cloud Marsh contributed its five glowing green leaves continuously injecting Life Vitality, healing his wounds.

With the White Crane at the end of its strength and he himself nearly out of the light, the tumultuous clash came to a weary standstill.

A man and a crane, both in a tight predicament.

Watching the White Crane fall from the sky, Pang Jian, with the help of the Mysterious Turtle and the confluence of Spiritual Power in his Spiritual Sea, first stored the Star-shattering Umbrella into his storage ring, then summoned the Astonishing Spear.

"Is that all you’ve got?"

He taunted with a cold voice, as he unsteadily got to his feet.

He planned to wait until more Spiritual Power gathered before infusing it into the Astonishing Spear and wielding the art of spear manipulation to launch a distant attack at the vicious and extremely ferocious White Crane.

"I can still fight, but you look like you’re about to die."

The tip of the Astonishing Spear shone with a cyan cold light.

"Luo Yuan, I must have slept with your mother, to have birthed such a monstrous son like you!"

White Crane struggled to flap its wings.

It wobbled back into the air, its eyes filled with a fierce yet frail evil light, and said, "Lord Crane still has business to attend to, I’ll come find you again later!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"

Flapping its leaky wings, the White Crane flew off, gathering the vacuum Thunderbolt as it sped up its departure.

"Luo Yuan, you’d better not run away! In the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, in my territory, I’ll definitely slaughter you!"

"Luo Yuan, I’ll remember you!"

"Luo Yuan, I’ll [expletive] your mother, you despicable cur!"

"..."

The White Crane gradually disappeared into the distance.

Pang Jian, who had just stood up, listened to its resentful cursing and sat back down on the ground, filled with annoyance.

"Its territory, it knows the fake name I made up, and it can freely summon the Thunderous Lightning of the Forbidden Land..."

Pang Jian’s face showed an uncertainty.

Suddenly, he felt that this peculiar White Crane might, just like himself in the Panshi Fragment Land, have a kind of authority that only an Integrationist could possess.

When he was speaking with Lu Xiangyi and the others, the White Crane was clearly not present, yet it knew his "Luo Yuan" name.

What did this imply?

The out-of-sight White Crane could, just as he had in the Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands, hear movements a hundred miles away and discern anomalies throughout the entire Fragment Land.

The White Crane had taken notice of him back then!

"And it calls me despicable?"

Pang Jian snorted coldly.

"Woosh!"

Having put away the Astonishing Spear and taken out the Spirit Jade, Pang Jian deliberately moved to another location to recover his energy.

A bucket of Red-eyed Demon Wolf’s Beast Blood was "gulped" down by him as he swiftly filled his Creation Divine Pool with the blood’s vitality and the Power of Earth Flame into the Flame Pool.

His Spiritual Sea was also enveloped in spiritual mist, which he refined slightly with the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell," turning it into a pure Spiritual Rain falling down.

It was at this time that Pang Jian saw a small Thunder Vortex, about the size of a fist, quietly floating above his Spiritual Sea.

Scattered and sparse Thunder and Lightning coalesced into a nest-shaped Thunder Vortex, creating a magnetic field capable of attracting Thunderous Lightning, capturing some of the lightning still coursing through his body.

"It worked!"

Pang Jian was elated.

He hadn’t expected that his death struggle with that malevolent White Crane would unexpectedly spur the formation of the Thunder Vortex, giving birth to a new wonder in his Chaos Sea.

"Sea of Consciousness, Divine Sense!"

He focused his mind and sensed quietly.

He saw several strands of Divine Sense, which were most closely aligned with him, obediently moving to designated locations at the command of his thoughts.

"Mid Hollow Profound Realm!"

Pang Jian was filled with joy for having overcome his challenges, feeling that even the previous dire defense battle didn’t seem like much in hindsight.

"Never mind the ingenious uses of Divine Sense for now, no rush to trigger more, I must recover the power of my Spiritual Sea as quickly as possible!"

He set about restoring his power with determination.

Several hours later.

Once half of the Spiritual Power in his Spiritual Sea had been restored, he replaced the Red-eyed Demon Wolf’s Beast Blood with the Beast Blood of several sixth-level cold creatures collected by Jiuyuan.

The Ice Pool began to fill with Extreme Cold Power.

"Not forgetting the sun, moon, and stars either."

He took out the silver spear and carved a several zhang deep pit on the spot.

After climbing in, he unscrewed the Copper Box, covered the entrance with some withered grass, and lay down to refine the Power of Stars.

Just a day passed.

The White Crane, with overwhelming momentum, came back wielding the vast Thunder and Lightning. With a flap of its wings, it exposed Pang Jian who was hiding in the pit, "You cur Luo Yuan, you think by hiding in a pit, Lord Crane can’t find you!?"

With the help of the Mysterious Turtle and the Corrosion Boundary Vine, his Spiritual Power fully replenished and his injuries healed, Pang Jian burst out of the box and shouted, "Enough talk, let’s fight if you want to fight!"

After another equally intense battle.

"Luo Yuan, you actually recovered in just one day, damn your mother!"

"In my Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, how can you recover faster than me!?"

"The heavens are unjust! I’m done living!"

"..."

The cursing White Crane, with blood dripping from its wings, fled the place for the second time.

The look it gave Pang Jian as it turned back was filled with bitterness and venom, and now, fear had crept into it as well.

The first battle ended in a draw, which made it firmly believe that a second-round revenge would assure a complete victory. Just when it thought Pang Jian was a goner, Pang Jian gave it a huge surprise.

——Pang Jian once again withstood the Thunderstorm unleashed by it!

And this time, he appeared far more at ease than the first.

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