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“Phew...” Leonard heaved a sigh as he lowered his sword.
...It’s been a while since I’ve felt this exhausted.
In just a matter of seconds, his once-vast dantian felt as empty as a dried-up ocean. His meridian points, overexerted to the point of scraping the bottom, were now throbbing painfully. If not for his celestial energy that minimized energy consumption, Leonard would have been forced to draw upon his Innate True Qi.
Even his Dragon Heart had been unable to keep up with the rapid depletion, pulsing dozens of times per second as it struggled to replenish his energy. Under normal circumstances, a few deep breaths would have restored more than half of his internal energy, but now, it felt like trying to fill a bottomless jar—no matter what he did, his energy wouldn’t recover.
The internal injury from Boreas’ attack was part of the problem, but it was also the reckless use of the Sky Splitting Cross Slash to stop the sandstorm that had pushed him to this state.
“You pushed yourself too much,” Wade remarked, immediately gauging Leonard’s condition. “It’s already a heavy burden to use conceptual martial arts at the Transcendence Tier, but to use it twice in succession without any rest… Of course it’s going to take a toll.”
“I had no choice,” Leonard replied.
“I know. If it wasn’t for you and Commander Uluka, we would’ve lost at least one sector of the Barricade Train.”
Wade might have been the one to deliver the finishing...
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