Strength vs Defense

Tang San's hand trembled. The ant's strength was immense even after being dissipated being pushed away.

The ants separated the three of them, forcing them to fight 1vs1, worrying Tang San for his lover and cousin. He needed to finish this quickly and help them.

Blue vines shot from Tang San. The vines curled around the ant, binding it. The ant stood in the same position looking at Tang San down, seemingly to smirk at him, completely ignoring the vines.

"Crrr" a black aura curled around the ant, the grass instantly weakening and rotting. The ant flapped its wings and charged towards Tang San. However, it didn't try to attack, it simply stood 3 meters away from him, its black aura slowly affecting Tang San. It seemed that the ant was playing with him.

From Tang San's back, 8 golden spider legs arms surged. It was his external spirit bone, Eight Spider Lances. Tang San thrust his lances towards the ant. Golden lances vs the ant's golden carcass.

"Clink!" It didn't matter Tang San's strength or multiple thrust, after a barrage, the lances were unable to even dent the ant's carcass that seemed like new.

"Crrrrrr!" The ant laughed. Like its brothers, it also specialized in an attribute, in his case being defense. Not only its carcass was the hardest of all of them, but even its aura confided by their sister was the strongest of the brothers. He was confident that the human in front of it couldn't break its defense and it was sure that its brothers would win against the other humans. If that was the case, why not enjoy the moment and slowly enjoy it? It would let the human attack until he exhaust himself. Then, it would finish him when he was desperate, knowing that victory was impossible.

Moreover, the ant could sense that the spider's legs were from a Human-faced Demon Spider. They were the counter of all insect types, suppressing their strength. Since receiving her sister favor, the ant brother had long surpassed any meaning of suppression, even having won over the Beast God. But, winning against, surpassing that beast that suppressed them countless of times, showing them their weakness, the ant liked the feeling.

Tang San's lances didn't stop, if they could make even a crack, its poison invading the ant, maybe it could create an opportunity to win. Tang San lifted his trident and thrust towards the ant. The Seagod Trident 54.000 Kg of weight crashed with the ant who simply crossed its arms seeing the trident approach.

"Clink!" Like with the lances, the trident was rebounded, only being able to push the ant 1 meter away while Tang San was pushed 5. His hands were trembling, it might only weight 540 kg for him, but receiving the reaction of the ant's body had numb his arms.

Tang San could sense that Xiao Wu and Chenxiang wasn't much better than him, he needed to help them. But even with the ant in front of him playing around, it wouldn't let him ran away. Moreover, Tang San had the feeling that if the ants could cooperate well between them, even better than his group, joining them being a bad option. If it weren't that the ants were mostly playing around, they could have quickly finished them.

Tang San's eyes shined with a blue glow, his eyes strong and decided. He wouldn't last long with the ant's aura devouring his strength, he would use his strongest attack.

Tang San clenched his trident. He pointed towards the ground, water waves surged from the trident "<First Form: Unfixed Storm>" The waves went towards the ant surrounding it and blocking its movements in their torrent. Unfixed Storm could block the rival 8 seconds if affected, the strength of the rival only affected the hit rate, with a static ant who didn't try how could the ant evade the attack?

Tang San blocked the ant because he didn't want it to change its mind and try to evade his attack. With this, he was sure that it would be unable.

Blue aura shot from Tang San. Blue-silver Emperor Grass curling around his trident, its black color changing to a golden blue, boosting the weight and vitality of the weapon to a new level. This was the result of his train with Mei. She taught him to use the incredible vitality of his Blue-silver Emperor to empower himself, his strength doubling. In the case of his trident, the effects were even stronger, the trident being able to boost more the vitality, creating a reciprocating effect between both, its strength multiplying to 5.

Tang San clenched his trident, focusing all his strength in swinging it. For the first time, the ant's eyes showed worry, it tried to move evading Tang San, but it was unable due to being blocked by the waves.

Tang San thrust his trident forward "<Third Form: One Goes Without Return>!" A half-illusion golden-blue light shot from the trident towards the ant. It cut open the air, cutting across the waves, obliterating everything in its path.

"CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" The ant shouted madly, black and purple aura exploding from its body as its shell shined with a golden light, boosting its defense at maximum.

The golden-blue light clashed with the ant, the ant trying to resist its might, both clashing and stopping in a stale.

Tang San clenched his trident, more Blue-silver Emperor Grass curling around it, almost exhausting himself. Tang San's attack glowed even brighter with strength.

"Crack!" The ant's shell started breaking. The ant was engulfed by the golden-blue light. The light dispersed leaving a shredded ant's body, some extremities cut, the carcass all cracked and the light of its eyes gone.

Tang San kneeled exhausted, using his trident as a support to keep standing. He used more spirit energy than he thought. However, he could rest, he needed to help Xiao Wu and Chenxiang. He turned towards the other fights seeing how they cope it.

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Xiao Wu knew that she would be unable to win against the ant. Its reaction speed, attack, defense, and speed were too overbearing for her. However, this didn't mean that victory was impossible. She had complete faith in her companions, knowing that they were much stronger than her, they would have the opportunity to win against the ants.

Xiao Wu made up her mind. She needed to keep busy the ant in front of her. Tang San and Chenxiang might be able to face an ant, but against two at the same time, it would be impossible even for them. Thankfully, Xiao Wu was confident in keeping it busy. The ant might be able to defend against her, but most of her skills were focused on diversion and defense. She would wait until help arrive from her companions.

The long-arm ant jumped towards her flapping its wings, boosting even more its speed, with its claws charging at her. Xiao Wu's body disappeared, just appearing behind the ant. The ant's eyes glinted, it twisted one arm, punching it towards Xiao Wu's new position, an air blast shotting at her

Xiao Wu was already prepared for it, her legs glowing with a pink light. She hit the air blast. Instead of directly kick the blast, she opted to hit a side. She twisted her body running across the blast, effectively diverting the attack and evading it using the minimum energy possible. This attack was weaker than the one before. Even if the ant could attack at its back, the strength used couldn't be the same.

If she wanted to keep it busy, she couldn't waste her spirit energy or spirit skills. Her Golden Paragon Body had a limit of uses, so she couldn't calmly use it. Moreover, her teleportation was incredibly difficult, the ants' aura and strength affected the space around it, making harder to teleport, needing much more spirit energy than usual.

The ant turned towards Xiao Wu "CRRRRRRRRRRR!" Black aura shot around it, engulfing Xiao Wu. Fortunately, most of Xiao Wu's skills were internal, so she was not greatly affected by the devouring nature of the aura, but she would have even more difficulties to teleport again.

"CRRRRRR!" The ground under the ant cracked, its feet piercing the ground. Then, the ant started continuously hitting the air, its arms creating after images due to its speed, shooting a barrage of air blast towards Xiao Wu.

Seeing the barrage, Xiao Wu kept her calm. Her 7th ring shined, 6 clones of Xiao Wu appearing surrounding her. This was Xiao Wu spirit avatar, 6 clones with the 70% of Xiao Wu's strength, even able to use her under the 7th spirit skills. These clones weren't controlled by Xiao Wu, they moved instinctually to protect her. The clones had their own limited spirit skill uses that didn't affect Xiao Wu's own skills.

The clones shined with a pink glow as they positioned in front of the true Xiao Wu, protecting her from the attacks. Even if they were shot away from an airstrike, they would teleport again in front of Xiao Wu when the other clones needed a relay.

Seeing that its attack was suppressed, the ant stopped its barrage and charged directly towards Xiao Wu.

The clones reacted launching themselves towards the ant, trying to stop it. The ant punched at two clones, these clones shined with a golden light using their <Golden Paragon Body>, stopping the attack while the other 4 clones glowed with pink light as they hugged the ant's arms and feet, using their <Soft Bones Lock>, locking down the ant.

The two clones that blocked the attack charged towards the ant, immobilizing the two extremities left, completely blocking any movement from the ant.

"Buff!" Xiao Wu panted. She was tired, she needed to keep using to keep in fight and due to the ants' aura her consumption skyrocket. She knew that her attacks would be ineffective against the ant, even when it was locked down. Rather than futilely attack the ant, and risk breaking the lock, she decided to focus on recovering her strength while her clones spirit energy could keep the ant in check.

"CRRRRRRRRRR!" The ant shouted madly, the black aura condensing around it, targetting Xiao Wu's clones. In questions of seconds, the clones spirit energy ran out and they disappeared, releasing the ant.

The ant flapped its wings and charged to Xiao Wu, instantly appearing in front of her. At this distance, Xiao Wu found it impossible to teleport due to the ant's close aura. Her 6th red ring shined brightly, <Nullity>, her body becoming ethereal.

The ant punched forward, its punch passing through Xiao Wu, her face turning paler. Nullity made her immune to physical strikes that should be perfect against the ants that didn't have any spirit skills. However, she found herself affected by the ant's aura, her spirit energy being drained by it.

Xiao Wu's 4th ring shined. Knowing that she couldn't last with Nullity, she activated her Golden Paragon Body, stopping the ant's next attack.

"Crrrrrr!" The ant seemed to smirk. It lifted its right leg, standing with only one leg. All the right extremities combined, creating a thick and strong arm with long claws. The ant thrust its claws towards Xiao Wu.

The claws clashed with Xiao Wu's Golden Body, spark running along with the collision as the ant tried to thrust forward.

"Crack!" For the first time, Xiao Wu's Golden Paragon Body was broken, her invulnerability broken. The claws tore apart her flesh, piercing her stomach. This was the ant's plan. It knew that she had the greatest defense of the humans' groups. It wanted to show its incredible strength forcing her to defend and destroying her strongest defense.

Having been impaled by the claw, Xiao Wu weakly lifted her hand resting over the ant's chest, her 8th ring shined brightly, her palms shining with a strong pink light "<Reject>!".

"BOOOM!" A shockwave surged from Xiao Wu's body towards her hand, expanding over the ant's body. The ant's carcass cracked under the pressure, the ant's body shooting 100 meters away, slamming towards a wall, black blood surging from its mouth.

Xiao Wu fell to the ground. Her face was white, her body turning cold. She pressed her wound trying to stop the blood lost, but if this continued she would die.

"CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" The ant shouted madly, destroying its surroundings in his awakening. Its shell was cracked all over, it was greatly injured by Xiao Wu, but at final, the attack wasn't enough, not accomplishing killing it.

The ant charged towards Xiao Wu thrusting its claws, its eyes bloodshot while glowing with a strong purple light.

Seeing the attack coming, Xiao Wu closed her eyes knowing that she would be unable to put any defense "At least I will have gained some time for you. Xiangxiang, third brother, live" She said weakly waiting for the final attack.