Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 567 The Gale Torrent Strike

Like an intricate dance, the ninety-nine green swords started to spin around inside the Star MoonSword Array. Luna watched as the swords devoured the brimming energy in the air like a beaststarved.

With every second that passed, they absorbed more and more force from the surroundings. Therewas no end to their hunger. The green swords grew sharper and bigger, as if to make room for thepower collected.

Standing inside the mouth of the Star Moon Sword Array, Ricky felt a strong wave of murderousintent. He felt his skin prick with boundless icy rays.

'I regret agreeing with Luna's plan. This Star Moon Sword Array makes me feel threatened, * Rickythought to himself. His fingers clenched as he realized both his desperate situation and his resolve.The die was cast. It was his own rotten luck that he managed to roll snake eyes. "My immediatepriority is to break through the Star Moon Sword Array, even if I have to fight my way out.’

With that thought in mind, Ricky activated the four zones. They swept forward and then upwards,blazing a path across the ninety-nine green swords that now covered the sky. However, Ricky onlyhad a second to glimpse at the clouds around them. The swords continued their dance. They movedto avoid his attack before slotting back in place. In other words, they had him surrounded to thepoint where he couldn't even replace the center of the array. All he knew was that the Star Moon SwordArray was still active for the ninety-nine green swords to work.

To break through the Star Moon Sword Array, Ricky needed to crush the ninety-nine green swordsfirst.

"Russell, you agreed to let me deploy my Star Moon Sword Array. And now, I want to repay you forthat," Luna said in a soft tone. She looked down on him, hovering as she did above him and the StarMoon Sword Array like the God of War.

Her eyes narrowed, as sharp and cold as the blades she controlled. "Now, I'll activate the mostpowerful sword array attack. If you can survive it, you will win."

"Ha-ha! Luna, thank you in advance. But I have the ability to break through this sword array," Rickysaid. Apparently, he was very confident of himself.

"You seem quite sure of yourself. Let's both save some breath and start our contest!" Luna growled.The rumbling in her throat echoed through the array as they glowed in time with her anger.

Like a foreboding heartbeat, Luna's body was enveloped by the same light. She controlled theenlightening power of the stars and moon. It surged up and spread across the air quickly in reactionto her call. The action was as easy as holding out one's own hand.

In more ways than one, it was an extension of Luna at this point. She had cultivated the enlighteningforce as religiously as she trained her body. Deploying the Star Moon Sword Array had the samesensation as releasing a long-held breath.

The enlightening force grew palpable as it spread across her body and the air surrounding her.Hundreds of visible rays of green light wrapped around her body in the shape of makeshift armor."Attack!" With a delicate shout, Luna thrust her hand upwards to the sky. The dark rays of greenlight followed the path of her extended arm and went further, reaching out to where she couldn't.They met the light of the Star Moon Sword Array and the rays mingled in perfect harmony.

Then, just as quickly, the wind whined as the green swords whizzed past Ricky's ear.

It would have been mesmerizing if it wasn't also a truly terrifying scene. The swords moved in a wildbut precise pattern around him, needles under the hand of an expert weaver. His head jerked leftand right as Ricky tried to follow the movement of each blade. Within seconds, the threads woveinto their masterwork: the shape of the Eight Trigrams.

Suddenly, the electric sound of lightning piercing through the sky reached his ears. Instead of static,however, a gigantic sword pierced the center of the Eight Trigrams. It shot out of the light thatcontained it and began moving rapidly towards Ricky.

"What a powerful array force! Although the Luna's enlightening power is weaker than that ofGarrett, the force of the sword array that she has launched is stronger than Garrett's," Rickymumbled to himself as he watched the giant sword's murderous trail.

"How powerful and strong it is! It must be more powerful than Garrett's!" Just as Ricky did, thewarriors around him could also sense the sheer power emanating from the sword. They watchedincredulously, unable to help the exclamations that spilled from their lips.

"Let's see if Russell has the ability to withstand this attack.”

Hearing his men's words, Garrett's face grew darker as he too recognized that Luna's sword arraywas stronger than any attack of his. Fearing the bile that bubbled up in his chest, he bit the inside ofhis cheek to compose himself.

"Russell, seeing is believing. Show me that you can withstand this attack,” Garrett said to himselfcoldly.

All eyes turned to watch Ricky. Each pair waited eagerly to witness either his victory or his inevitabledemise.

Ricky sneered at their doubts and ill will. Half of him felt like entertainment on a show, but the otherhalf heard the challenge in their voices. His eyes blazed, reflecting the intensity of his determinationand fighting spirit.

He was tempted to launch his Ultimate Golden Body and crush the Star Moon Sword Array, rightthen and there. But it was too early to expose his true identity and his strength.

"It seems that the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula is the best choice here," he sighed andshrugged in resignation.

In the next breath, he activated the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula decisively. As though it wasnothing but a game of tug of war, the massacring runes that enveloped him withdrew and werereplaced by gale runes as Ricky strengthened his body. The mere action seemed to strengthen hisown control of the situation.

Within the span of a flutter of the eyes, Ricky's body transformed into the manifestation of a violentstorm.

His eyes, golden as they were, painted the picture of a wheat field ravaged and thrown asunder byintense wind.

"Gale Omnipotent Skill—Gale Torrent Strike!" Ricky howled. He jumped high up into the air andcharged at the oncoming huge sword.

The Gale Torrent Strike was another Omnipotent Skill that Ricky had perceived in the Gale Zone,following the Gale Strike.

The Gale Strike was mainly the embodiment of the Cloud Enlightenment. Harnessing the power ofsadness, it could infect the feelings of living creatures and ruin them.

Contrary to the Gale Strike, the Gale Torrent Strike was mainly the embodiment of the WindEnlightenment. It could build and collect the most violent forces of wind to attack the enemy.Boom! Boom!

A second later, the boundless gale runes wrapped around his weapon, sharpening it to lethality.Ricky thrust the Iron Destroyer forward, his eyes focused on the target in front of him.

The gale runes collected at the tip of the saber and followed the weapon's shape to form a spiralwindstorm. It reached the hilt and extended further to wrap around Ricky's arm before it shot astraight path towards the giant sword.

The Gale Torrent Strike collided with the giant sword, forming a wall of force at the point where theymet. Ricky felt a solid tension in his hands before the windstorm surrounding him overwhelmed theforce of the giant sword. When the tension gave way, the spiral windstorm made a sharp turn in theair to strike at the sword itself, the tip of its spiral and sharp as the point of a weather vane.

This was a strange peculiarity of the Gale Torrent Strike!

The Gale Torrent Strike could not only launch a powerful and violent strike, but it could also makeuse of the opponent's force and make it attack the opponent.

It was only a small change in the route of the force. But, in a fight between master cultivators, eventhe smallest advantage could greatly affect the outcome and the victor.

Boom! Boom!

So, it came as no surprise when the giant sword, mighty as it pierced clouds, shattered into piecesupon collision with the Gale Torrent Strike.

If it was only a question of sheer force and power, then Luna's Star Moon Sword Array was on parwith the Gale Torrent Strike. Unfortunately for her, when the force changed course, the tables turnedin Ricky's favor.

Everyone was stunned into silence by the sudden and unexpected scene.

"I can't believe it. How could this enigmatic young man defeat Luna by making her force attackher?" All the warriors around were in stunned disbelief.

"Russell, you have won another contest with surprise tactics! Russell! Who on earth are you? Arethere so many geniuses in the world?" Garrett murmured to himself. His face turned sour.

He was devastated by Ricky's mind-blowing performance.

At the same time, Garrett paled further when he realized that Ricky had pulled his punches. Hepulled on his sleeve, suddenly feeling uncomfortable in his own clothes, his own flesh, and way outof his depth.

The windstorm continued on its path of destruction above them. The second the giant swordshattered, the ninety-nine small swords appeared in their places among the glittering sea of shards.Ricky waved his Iron Destroyer as the gale runes spread across the sky. The power of the windstormcrushed the ninety-nine small swords in one fell swoop.

The Star Moon Sword Array that once loomed over the whole square followed in its wake. Within asecond, maybe two, any trace of the monstrous display of force vanished into thin air.