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What a troublesome opponent, one might even say... highly restrictive of me!

This was what Zhang Zhiyun thought after experiencing the so-called West Sea Secret Technique from the other party.

Indeed, the thread was formed from condensed wind, relying on a sophisticated Barrier Technique involving space.

He had guessed the principle somewhat: it involved using some means to compress a fragment of space with high Spiritual Power, turning it into thread-like forms, and then infusing it with a large amount of wind elements.

When the thread was revealed, employing extremely skilled techniques allowed the wind to flow out, creating a high-speed cutting edge.

Upon closer observation, one could see that what clung to those threads was rapidly circulating wind!

The wind flowed out of the space threads and was then drawn back into the threads by some kind of runes, much like a magnet, forming a high-speed cutting edge that brought the destructive power of these threads to their peak, even capable of directly cutting through space in the current spatial plane!

Truly extravagant...

Even Zhang Zhiyun, who had inherited the wealth of the Sorcerer Dynasty, marveled at how lavish the opponent’s methods were at this moment.

Yes, this is indeed a technique that crazily burns money.

First of all, the vast amount of threads was formed from high-level space fragments.

Nowadays, high-level space in various places is an incredibly precious resource, such as the Yin Land in Capital City and the water spirit land created by the Flood Dragon in the Southern Sea.

The opponent’s intensity of wind could naturally only be supported by high Spiritual Power spaces.

To create such densely packed threads, at the very least, thousands of square meters of Yin Land-class space would be needed.

And then there was the exaggerated wind energy!

This kind of compressed wind that could cut through ordinary space almost equated to the wind energy required for tens of thousands of wind blade techniques. If such wind energy were to burst forth in the current plane, it could easily create a hurricane that could destroy a city.

That’s not even counting the vast space fragments where barrier runes were set up to compress the wind energy...

In this era when energy resources are precious, investing so much in one person just to create this one technique, even Zhang Zhiyun had to exclaim, Jiangnan... truly goes all out. Where did they get so many resources?

Amid his indignation, under the relentless assault of countless threads, Zhang Zhiyun could only continuously retreat, finding himself in quite an embarrassing predicament.

It has to be said that the opponent’s technique, though wasteful of resources, was genuinely tricky.

It could cut through space, which meant it could disrupt all the elements that had been initially organized around it, making it nearly impossible for him to draw energy from the few space fragments available.

After all, any technique requires the arrangement of elements, needing to gather a bunch of necessary elements together before proceeding to the next step. But the opponent had tightly sealed off this very first step!

Whenever he tried to draw some energy in that space, the opponent would immediately use the threads to split that space.

Once split, the originally gathered Spiritual Power would disperse, leaving him no chance to proceed to the next step.

Whether it was the Thunder Technique or any other kind of Technique, anything even slightly large-scale, he could hardly perform now.

Such a vexatious method!

Zhang Zhiyun could only use low-energy-demanding techniques like the Thunder Walk Technique to dodge, but this wasn’t a long-term solution.

The opponent’s threads could split space and elements alike.

If it was a small-scale technique, it would hardly be lethal to him.

If it was a large-scale one, he couldn’t even complete the first step.

Even if relying on a Warrior’s approach to charge through such densely packed threads, if he wasn’t careful, he feared the outcome would be getting sliced into pieces.

This West Sea Dragon Palace, when did it develop such a shameless secret technique?

As Zhang Zhiyun retreated and observed, Shen Yuan was also intently watching his opponent’s movements.

West Sea’s Skywind Thread was only particularly formidable during this time; when Shen Yuan first started learning, Chen Qing had warned him that the current strength of nature’s spiritual energy had not yet reached the intensity of ancient times.

The Skywind Thread could directly cut through relatively fragile spaces; if in later stages, if there were no higher-grade spatial fragments for you to use as materials, the threatening power of your technique would be far less than it was now.

It could be said, on paper, that his current technique was nearly invincible.

Of course, the conditions were very harsh; it first required being in a very narrow space, and also, if the opponent did not choose to flee, this technique became nearly unsolvable.

And just this time, all the conditions matched.

The competition rules were not to leave the boundary of the White Tiger Palace, which meant no matter how much the opponent prepared, they could only perform within the confines of the White Tiger Palace.

Thus, he was a better choice than Yunke’er under these conditions, holding a significant advantage.

Shen Yuan stared intently at his opponent, his heart beginning to tense up. This was his first time using this technique in actual combat, and he was unsure of the effect it would have, and also... although the technique held a significant advantage, it was not guaranteed to secure a win.

The downside was clear: it was not without substantial consumption!

Controlling tens of thousands of threads at once, each thread’s barrier had been prepared in advance but still required activation by spiritual power.

Not much power was needed per thread, but with the vast number used, the necessary spiritual power also increased significantly.

The opponent only needed to use a minor technique like the Thunder Walk Technique to avoid, and if Shen Yuan could not lock down his opponent in a short time, there was no need to wait for an offensive move; he would exhaust his strength first.

Sounds pretty lame, right? Consuming such vast resources and the technique only needing avoidance to be countered...

When first hearing of this drawback, Shen Yuan thought Chen Qing was insane, to spend such considerable resources on a technique with such apparent flaws, must be seriously ill.

But Chen Qing had explained that firstly, this technique was not meant for single combat; its best use was to counter strong techniques from the opponent, meaning it was originally meant for the battlefield.

Those types of large-scale techniques that combine dozens or even hundreds of techniques could be countered seamlessly with this one move, making the benefit per expense clear to anyone.

And this time, using it for single combat was purely because, in this narrow space, against a magician, this technique was most suitable.

After all, facing Zhang Zhiyun, who was potentially close to Ghost King Level, not to mention ordinary students, even Chen Qing in person may not be entirely confident. It was only a sneaky trial.

But perhaps even Chen Qing had not anticipated that Zhang Zhiyun, a magician, would have such strong physical capabilities...

Chen Qing also frowned from the sidelines; of course, he could never have imagined that, before coming, who would have guessed that behind the Heavenly Master Mansion was an Ancient Demon?

However, even with the Ancient Demon and even possessing the physique of an Extraordinary Martial Warrior, with the Skywind Thread, Shen Yuan was the one with the greatest chance of winning.

It all depended on the performance now...

"Phew..." Shen Yuan took a deep breath, there was no time to complain now; he knew that the opponent being driven to this point, if he was not careful, he might end up surrendering his life here.

His mother was still waiting for him to return, and without him, his indifferent brother and father, where would they treat her well?

Now they were waiting in Jiangnan, offering various courtesies, he knew that although his mother appeared cold on the surface, she had already started to soften inside, even knowing those gestures were false, she could not help but want to accept them.

It was not that he necessarily wanted to stop it, but all this depended on one premise: his position in Jiangnan must not decrease by an iota.

This battle must be won, and he himself... must return alive!