The Thapa clan cultivator had already seen the second move of the Heavenly halberd technique and fully knew its power. If he got counterattacked like the last time, there was no way he would be able to survive. Even if he had the wound healing pill, it wouldn’t do him any good. They both became ready to clash in a second and rushed towards each other.
The Thapa clan cultivator was still using the Black Swan returns sword technique. He was rushing towards Amrit and this time the color of qi covering him was almost pure black contrary to the previous color. Amrit also ran using nine nether steps and as they were mid-way, Amrit felt a strong sense of crisis.
He didn’t know where it had come from and he didn’t have time to care about it. He swerved a bit to the left side slowly canceling the nine nether steps and immediately changed his stance. This was the benefit of mastering the martial techniques. If someone aborts their martial techniques in the midst of using it, the qi would backfire and cause internal injuries. Amrit would have been injured seriously for aborting the martial techniques had he not reached beyond the mastery stage on the verge of perfection.
Even then he was injured a bit internally. Although the injury didn’t seem grave, it somehow limited him in unleashing his power to the full extent. But due to his mastery of both the nine nether steps and the heavenly halberd technique, he didn’t lose much of the momentum generated by the nine nether steps when swerving and when he changed the first step to the second step of the heavenly halberd technique, the transition was almost flawless. There was not much loss of energy, except for slight internal injuries, he was perfectly fine and ready to continue the battle.
But the danger Amrit felt previously hadn’t passed. His instincts were still screaming telling him to leave the area. This all happened in an instant, the Thapa clan cultivator was looking at Amrit with a gaped mouth. He had actually prepared a talisman to attack Amrit so that the talisman could counter Amrit’s last move and he could swoop in and kill Amrit when he was out of his qi. When he had recovered the wound healing pill from his storage bag, he had also brought out a talisman whose attack was equivalent to the peak of the foundation-building realm cultivator.
When he was about to activate the talisman, Amrit felt the danger and changed his direction a bit. But since things were already in motion, the Thapa clan cultivator injected the qi on the talisman and threw it towards Amrit. The talisman was the same as the one the golden core formation realm cultivator had used but only at the second-grade peak tier. Even then, it was very powerful and Amrit was getting dangerous signals from it.
As if it had a homing function, the golden light flashed towards Amrit in an instant locking onto his position. Amrit had already predicted danger and had deployed his second move of the heavenly halberd technique. He rooted his feet on the ground firmly and took a wide stance. The crimson reddish colored aura was making a whirlwind around him. This whirlwind was denser than the previous one and more crimson colored.
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As Amrit was almost finished, the golden light approached him. Everything that happened here happened within a span of three seconds. The golden light collided with the whirlwind and there were sparks created at the place where they collided. The golden light was way stronger than what the Thapa clan cultivator had thrown at Amrit previously. Even after Amrit had increased the output in the second move of the heavenly halberd technique, the golden light persisted greatly.
It was as if a maggot was stuck in the bone. Even after a few seconds, the situation was at a stalemate. The Thapa clan cultivator couldn’t decide whether to attack Amrit at this moment. Although the golden light was grinding down Amrit’s move, it was also blocked outside by the whirlwind and was gradually losing its power. The loss of power in the golden light was insignificant and it would take a few minutes to completely grind it down, few minutes were game changers for any battlefield and it was unknown if Amrit could hold on for so long.
He was already strained for using an unequal amount of aura and qi not to mention transitioning between moves abruptly had left some internal injuries. Amrit knew this could not go on otherwise he would be on the losing end and even if he withstood this move, the cultivator from the Thapa clan was ready to use his sword. In fact, Amrit could resolve this move completely in an instant but he didn’t do so because his instincts had not calmed down and the sense of danger ringing through his ears hadn’t calmed down a bit.
He became even more confused because the danger he had sensed was not from the sword of the Thapa clan cultivator. He couldn’t sense anyone nearby and it was driving him crazy. The Thapa clan cultivator was also getting anxious because the more time passed, there was more possibility of another cultivator from the Rijal clan interfering. So he used another trump card. This was reserved for emergencies and was the last one he had left.
The moment he decided to use this trump card, Amrit felt the danger he had sensed previously from the cultivator before him. This time the bells were ringing like crazy and the hair on his body was standing up. The cultivator from the Thapa clan used a talisman similar to the previous one and the same golden light was seen emitting from the talisman. The only difference was that this golden light was stronger, not as strong as the one golden core formation realm cultivator used but its strength was equivalent to those at the half core realm.
The moment golden light was released, the whirlwind around Amrit sucked the golden light clashing with it and it assimilated it in an instant. The golden light dissolved and the whirlwind around Amrit got even dense with golden colors flashing occasionally. In the next second, the golden light from the talisman reached the whirlwind and was about to clash when the whirlwind assimilated into the halberd and the halberd glowed with golden crimson light.
Amrit struck the halberd towards the golden light and there was a great explosion. Amrit was pushed back a few meters with dirt reaching up his ankles leaving two tracks on the ground. When clashing the halberd was bent into a crescent moon shape and it nearly snapped. It was due to precision and quality control while crafting the halberd got away with a few hairline fractures. But this would not hamper Amrit for now.