CHAPTER 567 THE GALE TORRENT STRIKE

Like an intricate dance, the ninety-nine green swords started to spin around inside the Star Moon

Sword Array. Luna watched as the swords devoured the brimming energy in the air like a beast

starved.

With every second that passed, they absorbed more and more force from the surroundings. There was

no end to their hunger. The green swords grew sharper and bigger, as if to make room for the power

collected.

Standing inside the mouth of the Star Moon Sword Array, Ricky felt a strong wave of murderous intent.

He felt his skin prick with boundless icy rays.

'I regret agreeing with Luna's plan. This Star Moon Sword Array makes me feel threatened, ' Ricky

thought to himself. His fingers clenched as he realized both his desperate situation and his resolve.

The die was cast. It was his own rotten luck that he managed to roll snake eyes. 'My immediate priority

is to break through the Star Moon Sword Array, even if I have to fight my way out.'

With that thought in mind, Ricky activated the four zones. They swept forward and then upwards,

blazing a path across the ninety-nine green swords that now covered the sky. However, Ricky only had

a second to glimpse at the clouds around them. The swords continued their dance. They moved to

avoid his attack before slotting back in place. In other words, they had him surrounded to the point

where he couldn't even find the center of the array. All he knew was that the Star Moon Sword Array

was still active for the ninety-nine green swords to work.

To break through the Star Moon Sword Array, Ricky needed to crush the ninety-nine green swords first.

"Russell, you agreed to let me deploy my Star Moon Sword Array. And now, I want to repay you for

that," Luna said in a soft tone. She looked down on him, hovering as she did above him and the Star

Moon Sword Array like the God of War.

Her eyes narrowed, as sharp and cold as the blades she controlled. "Now, I'll activate the most

powerful sword array attack. If you can survive it, you will win."

"Ha-ha! Luna, thank you in advance. But I have the ability to break through this sword array," Ricky

said. Apparently, he was very confident of himself.

"You seem quite sure of yourself. Let's both save some breath and start our contest!" Luna growled.

The rumbling in her throat echoed through the array as they glowed in time with her anger.

Like a foreboding heartbeat, Luna's body was enveloped by the same light. She controlled the

enlightening power of the stars and moon. It surged up and spread across the air quickly in reaction to

her call. The action was as easy as holding out one's own hand.

In more ways than one, it was an extension of Luna at this point. She had cultivated the enlightening

force as religiously as she trained her body. Deploying the Star Moon Sword Array had the same

sensation as releasing a long-held breath.

The enlightening force grew palpable as it spread across her body and the air surrounding her.

Hundreds of visible rays of green light wrapped around her body in the shape of makeshift armor.

"Attack!" With a delicate shout, Luna thrust her hand upwards to the sky. The dark rays of green light

followed the path of her extended arm and went further, reaching out to where she couldn't. They met

the light of the Star Moon Sword Array and the rays mingled in perfect harmony.

Then, just as quickly, the wind whined as the green swords whizzed past Ricky's ear.

It would have been mesmerizing if it wasn't also a truly terrifying scene. The swords moved in a wild

but precise pattern around him, needles under the hand of an expert weaver. His head jerked left and

right as Ricky tried to follow the movement of each blade. Within seconds, the threads wove into their

masterwork: the shape of the Eight Trigrams.

Suddenly, the electric sound of lightning piercing through the sky reached his ears. Instead of static,

however, a gigantic sword pierced the center of the Eight Trigrams. It shot out of the light that

contained it and began moving rapidly towards Ricky.

"What a powerful array force! Although the Luna's enlightening power is weaker than that of Garrett,

the force of the sword array that she has launched is stronger than Garrett's," Ricky mumbled to

himself as he watched the giant sword's murderous trail.

"How powerful and strong it is! It must be more powerful than Garrett's!" Just as Ricky did, the warriors

around him could also sense the sheer power emanating from the sword. They watched incredulously,

unable to help the exclamations that spilled from their lips.

"Let's see if Russell has the ability to withstand this attack."

Hearing his men's words, Garrett's face grew darker as he too recognized that Luna's sword array was

stronger than any attack of his. Fearing the bile that bubbled up in his chest, he bit the inside of his

cheek to compose himself.

"Russell, seeing is believing. Show me that you can withstand this attack," Garrett said to himself

coldly.

All eyes turned to watch Ricky. Each pair waited eagerly to witness either his victory or his inevitable

demise.

Ricky sneered at their doubts and ill will. Half of him felt like entertainment on a show, but the other half

heard the challenge in their voices. His eyes blazed, reflecting the intensity of his determination and

fighting spirit.

He was tempted to launch his Ultimate Golden Body and crush the Star Moon Sword Array, right then This belongs to : ©.

and there. But it was too early to expose his true identity and his strength.

"It seems that the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula is the best choice here," he sighed and

shrugged in resignation.

In the next breath, he activated the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula decisively. As though it was

nothing but a game of tug of war, the massacring runes that enveloped him withdrew and were

replaced by gale runes as Ricky strengthened his body. The mere action seemed to strengthen his own

control of the situation.

Within the span of a flutter of the eyes, Ricky's body transformed into the manifestation of a violent

storm.

His eyes, golden as they were, painted the picture of a wheat field ravaged and thrown asunder by

intense wind.

"Gale Omnipotent Skill—Gale Torrent Strike!" Ricky howled. He jumped high up into the air and

charged at the oncoming huge sword.

The Gale Torrent Strike was another Omnipotent Skill that Ricky had perceived in the Gale Zone,

following the Gale Strike.

The Gale Strike was mainly the embodiment of the Cloud Enlightenment. Harnessing the power of

sadness, it could infect the feelings of living creatures and ruin them.

Contrary to the Gale Strike, the Gale Torrent Strike was mainly the embodiment of the Wind

Enlightenment. It could build and collect the most violent forces of wind to attack the enemy.

Boom! Boom!

A second later, the boundless gale runes wrapped around his weapon, sharpening it to lethality. Ricky

thrust the Iron Destroyer forward, his eyes focused on the target in front of him.

The gale runes collected at the tip of the saber and followed the weapon's shape to form a spiral

windstorm. It reached the hilt and extended further to wrap around Ricky's arm before it shot a straight

path towards the giant sword.

The Gale Torrent Strike collided with the giant sword, forming a wall of force at the point where they

met. Ricky felt a solid tension in his hands before the windstorm surrounding him overwhelmed the

force of the giant sword. When the tension gave way, the spiral windstorm made a sharp turn in the air

to strike at the sword itself, the tip of its spiral and sharp as the point of a weather vane.

This was a strange peculiarity of the Gale Torrent Strike!

The Gale Torrent Strike could not only launch a powerful and violent strike, but it could also make use

of the opponent's force and make it attack the opponent.

It was only a small change in the route of the force. But, in a fight between master cultivators, even the

smallest advantage could greatly affect the outcome and the victor.

Boom! Boom!

So, it came as no surprise when the giant sword, mighty as it pierced clouds, shattered into pieces

upon collision with the Gale Torrent Strike.

If it was only a question of sheer force and power, then Luna's Star Moon Sword Array was on par with

the Gale Torrent Strike. Unfortunately for her, when the force changed course, the tables turned in

Ricky's favor.

Everyone was stunned into silence by the sudden and unexpected scene.

"I can't believe it. How could this enigmatic young man defeat Luna by making her force attack her?" All

the warriors around were in stunned disbelief.

"Russell, you have won another contest with surprise tactics! Russell! Who on earth are you? Are there

so many geniuses in the world?" Garrett murmured to himself. His face turned sour.

He was devastated by Ricky's mind-blowing performance.

At the same time, Garrett paled further when he realized that Ricky had pulled his punches. He pulled

on his sleeve, suddenly feeling uncomfortable in his own clothes, his own flesh, and way out of his

depth.

The windstorm continued on its path of destruction above them. The second the giant sword shattered,

the ninety-nine small swords appeared in their places among the glittering sea of shards.

Ricky waved his Iron Destroyer as the gale runes spread across the sky. The power of the windstorm

crushed the ninety-nine small swords in one fell swoop.

The Star Moon Sword Array that once loomed over the whole square followed in its wake. Within a

second, maybe two, any trace of the monstrous display of force vanished into thin air.