Chapter 43: Seeing Through the Attack
With the help of the smoke and dust that had not yet dispersed around his body, Tian Jihong hurriedly applied the ointment that had been prepared to the wound on his back; When the dust settled, when he cast his gaze in the direction where he was flying again, he found that the Rabbit King had disappeared from view again. At this critical juncture, Tian Jihong suppressed the anxiety in his heart and forced himself to calm down. I had already concentrated all my attention in the confrontation just now, but still couldn't predict the opponent's actions, so I had to change my thinking. Since he can't find a way to prevent the other party from flashing behind him to make a move, he might as well use the geographical advantage to cover his body as much as possible, and expose the non-fatal parts as bait and wait for the rabbit king to strike again. After suffering a loss, this time he had experience and must first figure out how the opponent attacked, so that he could come up with a strategy to deal with it.
So after quickly looking around at the rocks on his side, Tian Jihong picked a stone cliff a few meters away from him at a glance, this stone cliff was formed by the interweaving of towering stone walls on the left and right sides, after confirming that there was no enemy around him for the time being, Tian Jihong flew to the corners of the two stone walls and pressed his back tightly to the center of the gap. At this time, with the help of barriers several feet high on both sides, he could ensure that he would not be attacked from behind, and the strength of the Rabbit and Rat King was not enough to break through the stone wall from behind him and launch an attack before he found it; He only needs to pay attention to the movement in front of him and at a small angle on the left and right sides, and this time the opponent can launch an attack in a small area in front of him, so this time he has a much greater grasp of defending than just now.
Tian Jihong, whose eyes widened, couldn't help but have a strong desire for spiritual power cultivation once again ignited in his heart. If it is in front of a real monk, the speed of this Rabbit Rat King may not be comparable to the former, but under the detection of his soul sense, it is obviously impossible for the Rabbit Rat King to use his speed to launch a sneak attack by surprise like just now, which is probably the reason why this Rabbit Rat King has not been able to retrieve the spirit fruit from the snake turtle before. However, this ghostly body method that came and went without a trace was used to deal with mortals like Tianjihong, and it could indeed play a very effective suppressive role.
At this time, the only thing Tian Jihong could do was to hold his breath and concentrate, not daring to slack off at the stone walls in front of him, he had no soul sense to find the whereabouts of the opponent and could only rely on his own vision. Another half a minute passed, and the cold sweat on Tianjihong's forehead was slowly rolling across his cheeks, and in this uninhabited wilderness, it was really a torment and torture to concentrate all his attention on guarding against possible attacks from all directions. On the one hand, he was worried that the other party would make a thunderous attack like before, and he wouldn't even have the strength to parry; On the one hand, I have to worry about whether the other party will really wake up, and I have been secretly delaying with myself, so that my situation may be more dangerous. You must know that time is not on the side of Tianjihong, even if the Rabbit Rat King has a little wisdom and chooses to wait for the opportunity in secret, and when the rats behind him are swarmed up, then he may really be unable to escape today; Therefore, at this time, Tian Jihong, who was preoccupied, not only had to watch out for the opponent's elusive attack, but also had to take the initiative to find a fighter as much as possible.
Seeing that in the direction of the grassland when he came, there were already scattered rabbits and rats on the rocky road at the end of his vision, and he kept moving closer to this place before the rat tide, and now he couldn't delay for a moment. Tian Jihong finally decided to break the boat, picked up a few small stones on his side again, and threw them in all directions in the area in front of him, thinking that he would make a big move like at the beginning to provoke the Rabbit King and let the opponent attack first, so as to reverse the situation of the battle that made him feel suffocated.
Sure enough, after throwing four or five stones in a row, a huge figure suddenly sprang out from the rubble in the sky in front of his left and moved towards him. The next situation was exactly the same as two minutes ago, in Tian Jihong's sight, the giant beast that was obviously attacking from his left side with a claw appeared in his right hand like a flicker the moment it touched his body. Fortunately, at this time, the advantage of geographical advantage played a role, unlike the last attack that appeared behind him, so that Tian Jihong had no time to react at all, at this time, the sharp claw that attacked his right temple was subconsciously blocked by Tian Jihong, who had stimulated his fighting instinct. I saw that driven by the powerful impact generated by the opponent's running, the sleeve of his right arm was torn apart in an instant like the clothes behind him, and two clear blood wounds appeared on his forearm. However, under this resistance, the impact on Tianjihong's body this time was alleviated a lot, and it was only in the shock of the remaining strength that his left shoulder was embedded in the stone wall beside him, leaving a huge crack on the three-zhang high stone wall.
Tian Jihong, who was injured again, unexpectedly showed a satisfied look at this time, and this time, after making sufficient preparations in advance, he finally found the clue from the actions of the rabbit and mouse. At this time, the scene was exactly the same as when he was attacked at the other end just now, and at the moment when he collided with the rat's claw, the remnant of the Rabbit Rat King, who had been running to his left from a distance, was still clearly visible, and it was not until his body was firmly embedded in the center of the stone wall that this afterimage gradually dissipated. It is not difficult to guess that the Rabbit King in the two attacks definitely did not rely on his astonishing speed alone to completely reverse the perception of Tianjihong's vision, and there must be other mysteries in the process. According to his deference, this Rabbit Rat King must have used one, or even more natal skills, to achieve the effect of almost teleportation just now, and the actual Rabbit Rat King must not be able to appear in two locations at the same time.
Tian Jihong's guess was not wrong at all, what he didn't know was nothing more than the name of the skill that the Rabbit Rat King cast. In this seemingly unbelievable series of raids, the Rat King used a total of two natal talents - Latent Shadow and Phantom Body. It is not difficult to understand that the moment he launched his dash from a distance, the Rabbit King had already activated the skill of the phantom body, imitating his moving body and conjuring an identical afterimage. In fact, the skill of phantom body is quite common among spirit beasts that are known for their speed, but generally speaking, this kind of skill still needs to be performed through spiritual power, and most of them are released in the escape of spirit beasts, so as to confuse the perception of natural enemies and help them get out.
However, the Rabbit King chose to find a different path. It has inherited this natal skill from its bloodline, and has transformed this seemingly non-lethal life-saving skill into a means to hide its own attack methods. The most commendable thing about this illusion is that the afterimage it conjures will continue to follow the trajectory of the real body for a short period of time and will not easily dissipate; It is precisely because of this that this skill has a fairly good deceptive ability and can disrupt the opponent's perception. And the duration of the phantom body is often determined by the amount of spiritual power when the spirit beast is cast, and the phantom body that can be maintained without the urging of spiritual power like the Rabbit King can only be maintained for one or two seconds, and if it is used to escape the hit, it may be really quite chicken. But at this time, the Rabbit King used it as a combination of another latent skill, and when the two were combined and used in the attack, it produced an incredible effect.
As the name suggests, another latent skill, as literally described, can hide the figure of his own body in space in an instant, and it is also the second magic skill that the Rabbit King has learned from elsewhere. What is certain is that this kind of skill is definitely not a skill inherited from the bloodline of rabbits and rats, and most of them are spread among spirit beasts that are good at hiding and retreating, and even their appearance can be combined with changes in the environment. As for where the Rabbit King learned this skill, no one knows, but judging from the current situation, combining this hidden form magic skill with the natal skill of releasing the phantom makes the Rabbit King like an assassin in the shadows have an uncertain attack effect. Of course, such a surprise attack can only be achieved against mortals like Tian Jihong who have no soul sense perception, once facing a real monk or spirit beast, the other party can identify his true body in advance through perception, then these two skills will lose most of their effect.
After basically seeing through the opponent's moves, Tian Jihong, who crawled out of the cracks between the stone walls, was ready to launch a counterattack. While the second blow failed to achieve the expected effect, the Rabbit Mouse King had once again used the advantage of speed to widen the distance between the two sides, and it was definitely unwilling to engage in hand-to-hand combat with his opponent. However, this time, under the concentration of Tianjihong, he had already roughly locked on the direction of the opponent's escape with his gaze, and then directly got up and jumped to the top of the stone cliff. Above, with the help of the advantage of vision, Tian Jihong accurately spotted the Rabbit King who was still moving in the distance, trying to find the angle of the next attack. At this point, he had already figured out how to deal with the enemy in his mind, and he had regained his previous self-confidence, just waiting for the next round to completely eliminate the opponent.
But at the same time, in the afterglow of Tianjihong, a worrying scene in the distance also sounded the alarm for himself again. At the edge of the rocky slope, he could already see swarms of rabbits and rats beginning to move in his direction. Although the rat tide that had lost the sonic control of the Rabbit King was not as uniform as before, and the rat colony in the area divided by the rocky terrain from a distance seemed slightly scattered, it still did not prevent a large number of rabbits and rats from spreading among the rocky slopes, constantly sniffing their whereabouts. This journey to Tianjihong only took ten minutes, and it would only be shorter if it was placed in the rat tide, if the next move still failed to solve the rabbit and rat king hidden not far away, the rat tide chasing behind him might have to arrive in the battlefield, and at that time the balance of victory would probably be tilted to the opposite side again.