Sensing that the battle ahead had already begun, the first thing Wu Ling did was drink a speed-enhancement potion. Then he drank a defense-enhancement potion. After that, he swallowed a Spirit Power recovery potion, a mental-enhancement potion, a presence-reduction potion, and more than ten other potions. Only then did he leap onto an extremely tall tree and look out over the distant battlefield.
To be honest, as long as the current Wu Ling made enough preparations, he could interfere in a Spirit Emperor's battle. Even so, there was still a gap between him and a Titled Sage. For once, Wu Ling had become somewhat "idle" in this fight.
Of course, sitting back and waiting to reap the benefits was not Wu Ling's style. As he watched the battle in the distance, he reached into his storage ring and took out a gun.
It was a gun known in Wu Ling's previous life as the king of sniper rifles: the Barrett.
Of course, Wu Ling's Barrett only had the outward form. Medea was a witch from the Age of Gods. Talking physics with her was like talking Type-Moon Magecraft with a modern person. In truth, this was a soul tool with the exterior of a Barrett.
That was right. As the nominal owner of the Soulcraft Shop, how could Wu Ling not have weapons? Rose had created weapons like this but had not released them. Her main concern was that if attack-type soul tools were released, they could destabilize Spirit Hall. After discussing it with Bibi Dong for a while, Wu Ling decided to hide them for the time being.
The Barrett in Wu Ling's hands was a weapon Rose had created using a grand Magecraft-class magical cannon as the foundation, then adding enhancements such as compression and explosion. At maximum power, it could kill an unguarded Titled Sage with one shot.
Wu Ling raised the Barrett to his eye. A Magecraft array replaced the scope and appeared before his gaze. Then he loaded into the gun a Spirit Power block carrying Lucius Cross's full Spirit Power.
Dozens of Magecraft arrays across the gun gradually lit up. Enormous Spirit Power compressed continuously at the muzzle, while several Magecraft arrays hid the Spirit Power fluctuations it created. Then, under the effects of potions and Magecraft, Wu Ling's own aura vanished as well.
Looking through the Magecraft array before his eye, Wu Ling smiled faintly.
"Now this is assassination."
While Wu Ling waited for his chance, at the lake and along its shore, a giant serpent with a bull's head and a massive ape were being surrounded by five people floating in the air. They were the Sky Azure Bull Python, the Titan Giant Ape, and Spirit Hall's five Titled Sages.
Through the aura spreading from Bibi Dong, Wu Ling confirmed that she had now reached level ninety-five. In other words, three level-ninety-five Titled Sages and two level-ninety-six Venerates were working together to besiege two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
"Human, last time you were the one who killed Auntie. And now you still dare come here!"
"A monkey and a little snake. Why would I not dare?"
Boom!
While the Sky Azure Bull Python confronted Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Ghost, the violent Titan Giant Ape had already traded several punches with Magic Bear Sage, who had manifested his Martial Soul True Form.
"Roar!"
With a pained roar, the Titan Giant Ape, which had just exchanged a punch with Magic Bear Sage, had three bloody claw marks torn across its neck by Ghost Leopard Sage.
"Er Ming!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python's attention scattered for a brief moment when the Titan Giant Ape was injured. Yue Guan and Ghost, who stood behind Bibi Dong, suddenly attacked.
"Ninth Spirit Skill, Infinite Ghost Shadow Devouring!"
"Sixth Spirit Skill, Thousand Trees, Ten Thousand Trees, Blossoms Unfurl!"
Above the Sky Azure Bull Python, a huge black hole condensed into being. Countless ghosts and evil spirits flew out from within it, bringing both mental and physical damage.
Below it, all the great trees turned purple. Countless clusters of leaves shot from the trees toward the Sky Azure Bull Python. The damage was not high, but as harassment, it was very effective.
Caught off guard, the Sky Azure Bull Python took some injuries from Yue Guan and Ghost. But it was, after all, a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast with dragon blood. In the next moment, it endured the injuries and attacked Bibi Dong.
"Slowing Divine Claw!"
In the original story, that claw had shattered the two elders' Spirit Power wall in one strike. This time, with no extra burdens to protect, the three of them easily avoided it.
When the Sky Azure Bull Python's claw fell, the earth tore apart in great sheets as if an earth dragon were turning over. The purple trees attacking it were all reduced to dust beneath that claw.
Wu Ling tilted his head aside and avoided the stone fragments shooting toward him. After sighing again at the power of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, he continued aiming at the Titan Giant Ape.
The Titan Giant Ape was now covered in wounds. Every one of its attacks was either dodged or blocked by Magic Bear Sage. It had wanted to win through attrition, but the human before it recovered so quickly that even it, a Soul Beast, felt shocked.
While all of its attacks failed to land properly, Ghost Leopard Sage's claws kept striking its body. Each mark was not deep, but there were too many of them. By now, nearly a hundred claw wounds had appeared across the Titan Giant Ape's body.
As its injuries increased, the beastly nature of the Titan Giant Ape was stirred awake.
After another clash of fists with Magic Bear Sage, this time it directly grabbed Magic Bear Sage's hand. Then it opened its huge mouth.
"Titan Sky Cannon!"
Sensing the terrifying Spirit Power gathering right in front of him, Magic Bear Sage's expression changed.
"Eighth Spirit Skill, Magic Bear Earth Armor! Ninth Spirit Skill, Demonic Piercing Light Cannon!"
As he used his eighth and ninth Spirit Skills, Magic Bear Sage's entire body became wrapped in a layer of black stone. Vast Spirit Power condensed inside his mouth.
Ghost Leopard Sage instantly appeared behind the Titan Giant Ape. Several attacks tore toward its back, trying to interrupt its strike. But even with blood spraying from its back, the Titan Giant Ape still gripped Magic Bear Sage tightly and refused to let go.
Several seconds later, sensing that the attacks were about to erupt, Ghost Leopard Sage looked toward Magic Bear Sage with concern, then quickly withdrew.
A heartbeat later, two enormous roaring beams collided at extremely close range. The tremendous impact was so great that even the Sky Azure Bull Python, Bibi Dong, and the others, whose battle had reached a fever pitch, turned to look.
Hearing the deafening explosion, Wu Ling quickly closed his eyes to avoid the blinding light. Then he turned and jumped toward a tree farther away.
When Wu Ling hid himself again, the light had finally scattered. After sensing the center of the explosion, he sighed softly.
Magic Bear Sage had lost. In the end, he still had a human body. Even with the support of Spirit Skills, his physical body could not compare to the Titan Giant Ape, which possessed the Titan bloodline.
Of course, although Magic Bear Sage had lost, he was only heavily injured and not dead. The damage he had dealt to the Titan Giant Ape was also considerable. At the very least, the ape would not be using that Titan Sky Cannon again anytime soon.