<h4>Chapter 770: A Difficult Foe</h4>


    Fang Yi''s spear arced through the air like a meteor before stabbing into the ck eye at the top of the pyramid. Fang Yi deactivated the frozen world of gray, and the eye continued shooting out its purpleser—but a peak-grade armament-type soulshard was now embedded in its opening.


    Theser exploded, causing a purple explosion at the top of the pyramid.


    Fang Yi smiled as the pyramid began to sh with red light, as though some alert had begun to sound. ck smoke poured out of the pyramid and rose into the sky. Fang Yi recognized this smoke as the same smoke that had emerged from the corpses of the ck spirits.


    Arge flock of ck spirits emerged from the smoke, and purple mes lit up all around the desert. Tens of thousands of ck spirits appeared in the air and surrounded Fang Yi, as though they were a huge battalion of soldiers tasked with killing him.


    Fang Yi raised his arm up high. The peak-grade spear which he had thrown was now summoned back into his palm. He imbued his spear with the power of wind and lightning. Then, with a low shout, Fang Yi dashed forward with his spear in hand,


    Fang Yiunched his spear, crackling with wind and lightning, with incredible force. It sent wind howling and lightning shing through the skies. Fang Yi thrust his spear forward, so quickly it left dozens of afterimages in all directions.


    ck bandages filled the air as Fang Yi''s surroundings red with light.


    Gusts of ck sand filled the air. Lightning crackled at the center of the ck spirits, but when the smoke and sand cleared, Fang Yi was nowhere to be seen. A figure darted among the ranks of ck spirits, generating wind and lightning where he went.


    Huge swathes of ck spirits were pierced through by lightning, causing them to dissipate into ck smoke.


    "[Tiger''s Howl, Dragon''s Bellow]!"


    Fang Yi''s spear took on the aspect of a dragon of the winds and a storm tiger as he charged forward. The dragon of winds stirred up an entire cloud of ck sand and turned into a ck dragon. The storm tiger lit up the entire desert with lightning.


    The two beasts tore apart the spirits and made a path forward. Fang Yi ran into the distance, killing his way toward the ck pyramid.


    Another change urred as Fang Yi grew closer to the pyramid. Red light shone from its base, like a protective cordon that connected straight into abyssal depths. Huge ck bandages emerged from beyond the red light and shot into the skies as though they were feelers of the ck pyramid. The bandages deflected Fang Yi''s attacks and shot toward him.


    "[Heaven''s Judgment]!" Wind howled and lightning shed through the skies. The purple lightning lit up the ck desert, and the wind blew ck sand into the sky. Thebination of wind and lightning generated a frightening force that seemed to be able to prate space.


    Fang Yi tore a hole in the bandages that shielded the pyramid even as the bandages mmed against the ground, generating huge waves of sand that shook the entire desert.


    Swathes of ck spirits, unfortunate enough to be caught up in the attack, were smashed into the sand; the pyramid''s attacks didn''t distinguish between allies and enemies.


    The remaining bandages struck at Fang Yi, who evaded the attacks with [Floating Clouds]. Using the t side of the bandages as tforms, Fang Yi continuously jumped, dashed, ran, and kicked off the bandages, slicing them apart even as he dodged their attacks.


    The ck bandages corkscrewed toward Fang Yi, who dove between the gaps in the pyramid''s attack with [Floating Clouds], simultaneously changing his direction abruptly in mid-air and striking at the attacking bandages to deflect their blows.


    Lightning sparked around him as the corkscrewing bandages drew close.


    Fang Yi continued to spin in the air as the nearby bandages gathered together and formed a huge corkscrew, which shot straight at Fang Yi.


    "[Floating Clouds]!" Fang Yi morphed into lightning for mere moments, and the wind swelled around him.


    The ck corkscrew''s attack barely missed Fang Yi''s true body and struck at his afterimages.


    Fang Yi had constructed mirrors of wind, which reflected light from his lightning to generate false illusions of himself, a technique he had developed after his fight with Zhang Lie.


    During that fight, Zhang Lie had made use of illusions to great effect, and Fang Yi swore that he wouldn''t fall prey to such tricks again. As a result, he worked hard on developing this extension to his footwork technique in order to understand the basis behind what Zhang Lie had done, and then to emte it with the tools avable to him. That would grant himprehensive knowledge of such techniques, which he would be able to use against Zhang Lie in the future.


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    With this technique, Fang Yi shot even closer to the ck pyramid. He thrust forward with his spear, generating sparks as it struck the surface of the pyramid. All Fang Yi''s spear managed to do was leave a faint scratch on its surface, causing him to frown. He stepped on the smooth outer wall of the pyramid, wind and lightning gathering by his feet.


    Fang Yi dashed up the pyramid. The exterior of the pyramid was hard and sturdy, and Fang Yi''s spear was unable to do much damage against it.


    However, there was a crack in that exterior: at the very top of the pyramid, where the eyeser had been. Fang Yi''s attack had left a gaping hole from which he could enter.


    The ck bandages naturally tried to stop him, but they were unable to do so. No matter how they attacked, Fang Yi was able to evade with [Floating Clouds]. Just as he was about to reach the apex, the sand in the desert began to shift. ck sand gathered near the base of the pyramid, forming a gigantic whirlpool.


    Sand suddenly burst out of the tip of the pyramid, and a gigantic lifeform emerged from its midst. It was a peak-grade sand scarab—no, from the aura it gave off, it had to be no less than disaster-grade!


    The disaster-grade scarab was over ten times the size of the peak-grade variety, with eight beady eyes that gave off light in the night. All eight were staring straight at Fang Yi. The scarab scuttled quickly up the exterior of the pyramid. Even though it had just been at the base moments ago, it caught up to Fang Yi in a sh...