C52 Conclusion

Kyle shut his eyes off for a minute and focused on himself.

*DUUG DUUG!*

*DUUG DUUG!*

*DUUG...*

*DUUG...*

A strong pulse gradually sounded inside his body as a vibrating sensation started to appear in his surroundings.

The child wanted to see Kyle's prowess, so he didn't interrupt him and waited for him.

Kyle knew the child's intention, so he happily took the time and activated his *Pulse Gear*

---

Moments later...

He opened his eyes and said:

"Let's go!" As he runs towards the child.

Every step he took, created small craters below him, so his running figure gave off quite an impression to the child that was observing him.

Kyle arrived in front of him in a matter of seconds as he initiated his attack.

He thrusts his WorldShaker towards the child in a stabbing motion.

The child blocked with his scale-infested arms.

He wanted to test Kyle's power, so he defended with his body and did not use any defensive skills.

Seeing that the child was underestimating him... Kyle took the opportunity and attack with all his might in this single thrust.

He wanted to deal as much as possible damage since the child wasn't going all out in defending.

He activated his Busoshoku and his whole arm hardened along with his soul-weapon. The friction between his hardened arm and the vibration caused by the *Pulse Gear* caused his arm to heat up as smoke started to come out from him.

The heat flowed to his WorldShaker as his weapon started to burn slightly.

This multiplied the power of his attack and gave the WorldShaker a burning effect as it landed on the child's scale-infested arms.

*crack*

*crack*

*crack*

*crack*

Multitudes of overlapping cracks appeared in between Kyle's thrust and the child's arms.

*BOOM!*

The crack exploded and it generated a strong force that blew the child away

The scales on the child started to break down as blood was dripping down from his body while he was getting blown away through the air.

He wasn't expecting Kyle's attack to have that kind of power.

The child knew, that Kyle only had a 3rd Xiantian body, yet the power that he had shown, clearly surpassed his body strength, such as, he injured him; whose body was limited to 5th stage Xiantian.

It might only be a two-stage gap, however, crossing the difference between the 3rd and 4th stage was a huge margin, especially to him; who was at the 5th stage.

His body might be limited to the 5th stage Xiantian, however, even normal 5th stage attacks couldn't harm his scales, yet, a 3rd stage Xiantian successfully injured him.

Such as, this intrigued the child, yet what piqued his interest the most, are those cracks that appeared in between them.

He had already seen them beforehand; when Kyle attacked him in mid-air.

At first... He had thought that it was some kind of martial skill or some space laws.

However, now that he had a clearer look at it, he felt that it was something different from martial skills.

Obviously, it was not from the space laws since Kyle was only an Early Xiantian, so having some understandings about laws; especially from one of the four sacred laws, was close to nil.

So, he could only guess that this must be a bloodline technique, or something similar.

However, he had never seen his master use this kind of technique, so he was intrigued by this scenario.

"3rd stage Xiantian body, yet your power had already peaked the 5th stage Xiantian. Impressive!" The child praised while slowly walking back towards him as the broken scales on his body started to heal up and recover. (Just imagine it like how those titans in AOT recovers.)

Seeing his insane recovery speed made Kyle's face darken.

Even when he was using one of his strongest attacks, he could only injure the dragon slightly, and he could even recover and heal himself in a matter of seconds.

This made Kyle really dread, but at the same time, impressed by the body of the child.

But, he did not lose hope and thought: "No worries, I only need to last for a couple of minutes before the time limit ends."

He comforted himself and initiated another attack.

He wanted to be the one to initiate an attack, so he could control the pace of the battle; so he acted immediately.

"Dragon's Steps" He muttered and two huge-dragon heads appeared on both of his feet.

When he broke through the Xiantian Realm with his Dantian, Kyle's training with his Heaven-Grade Martial skill improved, hence he had already mastered it up to the Veteran Stage.

He then waved his WordShaker as he closes his eyes and focused on it. Seconds later... The sensation around him started to sharpen and the glint on his eyes changed.

*one with the halberd* four months of training finally enabled him to step on this state.

Since they are gonna battle in close quarters, he activated this state since this could increase his close combat battle efficiency.

Kyle vanished on the spot as a dragon roar was heard. He arrived in front of the child in the blink of an eye.

He then slashed his halberd from above, downwards toward him.

His speed might be multiplied due to the *Dragon's Step*, however, it wasn't enough to surprise the child.

Such as, when the child saw his slash, he reacted easily and parried it.

A halberd was a long weapon, so the child used his backhand and swiped the halberd's head to the sides while it was slashing downwards to him.

This threw the WorldShaker's head to the sides and destroyed the balance of Kyle who was holding it.

However, Kyle wasn't some newbie on using the halberd, so when his WorldShaker was thrown to the sides, he quickly switched the shaft to his opposite hand to reduce the inertia of the force and he uses this momentum to counter-attack.

Achieving *one with the halberd* state means you are already a master in using the halberd, so his control on the halberd was already close to perfect, such as doing this complicated action was very easy for him.

The three stars behind the axe blade successfully hit the child's scale-armored body.

Kyle then proceeded to grind it on his body as he draws his halberd back.

This injury was nothing to the child as the injured part immediately recovered once Kyle drew his halberd back.

However, Kyle was relentless.

He continued to attack without giving the child any time to adjust; He thrust, cut, stabbed, slashed, swiped,

*swoosh*

*swoosh*

*swoosh*

But, the child was already wary of his skills.

So he failed to successfully land his blows and deal another damage on the child.

After a couple of strikes, the child found an opening and retreated back for a few meters.

"My turn!" The child spat as he waved his scaly arms in front of him.

Two water portals then appeared above him.

*Dragon Pillar* he said as two water dragons came out from those portals

These water dragons were widely different from the azure-dragon that the child used while battling against Feng Yexue.

The azure-dragon from before had an energy-like body while these water dragons were clearly composed by a watery substance.

The water dragons directly headed for Kyle once they stepped out from the portal.

When he saw this, he intensified the vibrations around him.

Once the dragon came near him, they clashed with the tremors surrounding Kyle's body and they slowly disintegrated. As if there was a deadly force field around him.

"Hmmm... Intriguing." This piqued the child's interest and he waved his hands again.

Similar looking portals appeared above him, but this time... There were dozens of them.

Dozens of water dragons came out of it and headed for Kyle.

Kyle did not get fazed by this while he stretched his halberd back and gained momentum.

Once the water dragons arrived before him, he struck his WorldShaker in front of him and hit the space in the air.

*CRAACK!!*

A huge crack that towered up to 10 meters appeared in front of him; followed by a strong shockwave that destroyed all the incoming water dragons.

The strength of the shockwave was so strong, that it blew the specks of dust and destroyed rubbles around them.

"Really interesting... So long range doesn't work on you huh?" The child said with a smirk as energy wings sprouted from his back.

Kyle knew the child's speed will increase due to this, so he focused intensely, but at the same time; he prepared to use his new move.

*Ziing!*

Moments later...

The child appeared behind him as his feisty claws were clawing its way towards his back.

Kyle was aware of this, so he already knew that the child will arrive behind him.

He then put the shaft of his WorldShaker on his shoulders as the head of the halberd, hit the space behind him.

He then muttered: "*Gravitational Field*"

*Diriringg!!!* (intense pressure sounds, sorry for the bad sfx.)

The area behind him where the child appeared, got a sudden heavy increase in gravity.

The force of the gravity was only 10x as the normal, but due to the surprise execution of this gravity, the child lost his balance and slipped to the ground abruptly.

Kyle did not waste this opportunity and he suddenly turns around and prepared to strike with his halberd.

He slashed his WorldShaker downwards to the fallen child on the ground.

Seeing this... The child did not just stand and watch.

The child then lifted his hands and he draws a perpendicular circle above him as he muttered: "*Heavenly Reflection*"

*Ziiing!*

Kyle saw the outcome of his attack, so he abruptly stopped while in mid-air.

However, he didn't want to waste this opportunity, so he let go of his WorldShaker in mid-air and he used his foot to kick the child from down below to avoid the child's *Heavenly Reflection*.

It took time to explain this scenario, but all of this happened in a single breathe.

The abrupt change in the attack of Kyle was so fast, hence the child failed to defend against it and got kicked away.

"Aaaahggh..." The child escaped a yelped as he got blown away.

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The child got blown away again due to Kyle's kick.

He was really amazed and impressed by his master's offspring.

Even without knowing any laws, or having low cultivation, he was able to battle and last against him.

True... He was just playing around all this while, but that was a given since going all out against this younglings could just ruin his face.

However, the child dragon might be happy for his young master, but ever since the start of the battle, he was the one getting pummeled every time.

Bullying the younglings was one thing, but losing against one was something much worse.

Such as, when he recovered...

He stood up and shouted:

"Admirable... Admirable... But you're still a hundred years younger before you could defeat me, kid!" He threatened as he roared.

Then, he used his Soul Attack.

Kyle face paled when he heard this roar from the child.

This was the soul attack that defeated Feng Yexue, even with her charms and pills on.

But since he couldn't do anything, he could only grit his teeth and activated his Haki.

He wanted his Haoshoku to clash with the soul attack before it came near him to at least lower the burden on his mind.

....

The soul attacks and his Haoshoku clashed!

*creak creaak*

*creaak creaak!*

The energies clashed and caused distortion on the space.

His Haoshoku was clearly on the losing side, but it didn't want to lose, so it battled fiercely.

The clash lasted for minutes and it caused a lot of destruction.

However, moments later... His Haoshoku finally lost and the soul attack headed directly towards him.

The Soul Attack of the child successfully hit as Kyle's body fell on the ground unconsciously.

The child then arrived in front of the unconscious body of Kyle and smiled.

"HAHAHAHAH, I won... I won." he laughed maniacally.

He was really happy since he won the battle, but also because he discovered his young master was someone who had great potential in the future.

He then looked at the time and said:

"Hmmm, you're one hour past the time limit. It seems like you passed the trial.

He then looked at the unconscious body of Feng Yexue and said: "Should I let her pass too?"

He asked himself confusedly.

"Mmmm might as well let her pass and accumulate karma. Who knows? She might become someone helpful in the future. Besides, there's no use in accepting any outsiders inside this pagoda anymore since the young master has finally come back."

He muttered as he sat on a cross-leg position while waiting for the both of them to wake up.