C138 Now It's Your Turn!

"Why not?"

Yang Ming faced Kei Ichi with a faint smile and brought his hands together in a seal.

In an instant, a massive cage sprang from the earth, ensnaring him within its confines.

"Wood Escape: Four Pillar Prison Technique!"

This cage could serve to ensnare enemies or act as a shield for protection.

"Boom!"

Just then, Kei Ichi slammed his twin blades into the ground, unleashing a ferocious surge of lightning between them. The sky's lightning echoed the fury, and together they formed a colossal ring of electrical explosion spanning ten meters.

The lightning seemed to stretch for 90,000 miles, as if the Milky Way itself had plummeted from the heavens!

At that moment, the fearsome lightning aimed to obliterate Yang Ming within its wrathful storm.

The relentless lightning pummeled the four pillars, the intense electrical energy cascading down like a tempest upon a tiny boat amidst the ocean's waves.

The cage shuddered violently, on the verge of shattering.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The relentless lightning barraged the prison, shaking it to its core until, at last, it splintered apart.

Unable to endure the lightning's fearsome assault, it shattered.

Yang Ming was then laid bare to the storm's fury.

"Boom!"

Struck by the lightning, Yang Ming was engulfed in its glow; amidst the relentless storm, his body disintegrated, reduced to dust.

"Good, he's dead, he's dead!"

Kei Ichi exhaled in relief at the sight.

Beside him, Tuoba Yi snickered with sheer delight.

The once haughty youth before them was no more.

But as he laughed, a sudden cough cut him short.

A wooden fork had impaled his body!

The fork spread rapidly, branching into more Wood Escape techniques.

His body was torn apart by the expanding wood, scattering blood, organs, and flesh across the ground.

"This... This..."

Struggling, he tried to turn his head, but it was too late. His life force ebbing away, death was imminent.

And in that moment, an icy voice pierced the air beside his ear.

"Wood Escape: Piercing Shard Technique!"

"How... How can this be possible..."

"Now I see, it was a Wood Escape clone!"

At the sound of that voice, he shuddered, initially puzzled and unable to grasp why Yang Ming was still alive. He had clearly struck him just moments before, but then, noticing the wooden prongs embedded in his flesh, realization dawned on him.

He had been deceived. The Yang Ming in the cell was merely a Wood Escape clone, so lifelike that he hadn't been able to detect the ruse. Meanwhile, the real Yang Ming had maneuvered behind him while he was fully engaged in unleashing his Lightning Escape, calling forth the thunder and lightning from the heavens. In that instant, Yang Ming had used Wood Escape to deliver a fatal blow!

"My death is not unjust; the Wood Escape Ninja Technique is formidable indeed, a signature move of the great master himself!"

Kei Ichi managed a wry smile, then his head lolled to the side, and he breathed his last.

His body was thoroughly impaled; not even a deity could save him now!

"You've actually slain Lord Kei Ichi, how could you? How did you evade the Lightning Escape earlier? It makes no sense!"

Tuoba Yi stood by, utterly astounded. He couldn't fathom how Yang Ming, who seemed certain to die, was unscathed and had even managed to take down Kei Ichi.

"Your turn has come!"

Having dispatched Kei Ichi, Yang Ming's gaze shifted to Tuoba Yi.

Kei Ichi's attack had been formidable, indeed, stirring the very heavens, and Yang Ming knew better than to face it directly.

Without mastering Wood Escape, death was inevitable.