Elemental Burst: Starward Sword!
However, just as Dai Mubai's tiger claw was about to cross the five-zhang distance.
Zhu Zhuqing, who had been standing motionless, finally moved.
Two deep, bright yellow Hundred-Year Soul Rings quietly appeared beneath her feet. Immediately afterward, Soul Power far more condensed than that of an ordinary Soul Grandmaster, mingled with the destructive presence of raging lightning, erupted from her delicate body!
[Hell Thunder Shadow Cat], possession!
Fine, dazzling arcs of dark purple lightning instantly spread across Zhu Zhuqing's slender limbs. Two cat ears wreathed in purple electricity rose from her black hair, and sharp claws flashing with a cold, ghostly lightning gleam sprang from her fingertips.
Showing no intention of dodging or retreating, Zhu Zhuqing faced Dai Mubai, who had activated his thousand-year third Soul Skill. A cold gleam flashed in her dark purple lightning eyes, and her figure left a purple-black lightning afterimage in place, too fast for the naked eye to discern!
"So fast?!"
Dai Mubai's pupils contracted to pinpoints as he charged forward!
He had no time to see Zhu Zhuqing's path. He saw only a flash of purple, and the girl who had been five zhang away vanished from his field of vision as if she had teleported like a ghost!
How was that possible?!
He was a level thirty-seven Battle Soul Elder, and he had activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation! How could a Soul Grandmaster in her twenties be so fast that he couldn't even catch her shadow?!
"First Soul Skill, Hell Stab!"
An icy, bone-chilling cry rang out without warning right beside Dai Mubai's left ribs!
Dai Mubai was scared out of his wits. He hurriedly tried to pull back his right arm to block, but he was a full half-beat too slow!
The cat claws, wrapped in raging dark purple lightning, tore through the double defense of Dai Mubai's prized "White Tiger Protection Barrier" and "White Tiger Vajra Transformation" as easily as if they were cutting tofu!
Violent lightning power surged wildly into his body through the wound!
"Argh!!"
Dai Mubai let out a piercing scream. His entire left arm was instantly scorched black and paralyzed by the electricity, and his massive body staggered and fell to the right!
"I told you, you weren't even qualified to make me take a single step back!"
Zhu Zhuqing's gaze was cold as frost. Without pausing after her successful strike, she tapped the ground lightly with her toe, and her Second Soul Ring suddenly lit up!
"Second Soul Skill, Netherworld Hundred Claws!"
Swish, swish, swish, swish!!
In midair, purple-black lightning claw shadows filled the sky, pouring down like a furious storm!
Every claw was fast to the extreme, and every claw carried the piercing power of lightning that tore through muscle!
With half his body paralyzed, Dai Mubai had no chance to mount a counterattack. He could only raise his right arm in despair, trying to protect his head and face, but in an instant he was completely swallowed by dozens of sharp lightning-shadowed claws!
"Bang! Psh! Crack!"
Amid a rapid series of muffled impacts and cracking bones, Dai Mubai's clothes shattered inch by inch, and his protective Soul Power broke apart completely!
For the final blow, Zhu Zhuqing's long, shapely leg, clad in black silk, traced a fierce purple lightning whip through the air and lashed heavily across Dai Mubai's chest!
Bang!!
"Pfft!!"
Dai Mubai threw back his head and spat out a great mouthful of blood. His body flew more than ten zhang through the air like a ragged sack with its string cut, then crashed heavily onto the bluestone floor at the edge of the Soul Fighting platform. His whole body twitched, and he could no longer get up!
Silence!
The tens of thousands of spectators stared at the scene, their eyes nearly falling out of their sockets!
From the first exchange to the end, less than three breaths had passed!
Dai Mubai, a level thirty-seven White Tiger Battle Soul Elder who had activated his thousand-year third Soul Skill, had actually been defeated in an instant in a head-on clash by the level twenty-nine Zhu Zhuqing, her overwhelming speed and attack power sweeping him aside like rotten wood?!
In the spectator area, Flender's glasses nearly slipped from his hand, while Zhao Wuji's mouth fell open, his face bearing the expression of someone who had seen a ghost:
"Th-this Zhu Family girl's Hell Spirit Cat-how can it carry such overbearing lightning power?! She's faster than even an agility-attack Soul Ancestor!"
"Brother Dai?!"
On the other side, Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were charging toward Keqing, heard the scream. Catching sight of Dai Mubai lying in a pool of blood, his life or death unknown, both were shaken to the core!
Neither had expected Dai Mubai, the main assault fighter on whom they had pinned such high hopes, to suffer such a miserable defeat without even lasting three seconds!
"Xiao Wu, forget Brother Dai for now. Take down the one in front of us first! As long as we can control her, we still have a chance!"
Tang San had lived two lives, after all. Despite his shock, he quickly forced himself to calm down. He activated Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track at full force, his hands instantly turning a smooth, jade-like white as two yellow Hundred-Year Soul Rings lit up beneath his feet at the same time!
"First Soul Skill, Entanglement! Second Soul Skill, Parasite!"
Rustle!
Dozens of thick, tough Blue Silver Grass vines, their surfaces covered in spikes, shot wildly from the gaps between the bluestone slabs beneath Keqing's feet like a nest of snakes bursting from their den. From every direction, they sought to bind her long legs and slender waist tightly!
That was not all. Tang San knew full well how terrifying Keqing's swordsmanship was and dared not hold anything back.
At the very moment he released the Blue Silver Grass to block her movements, his ten fingers brushed across the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges at his waist like butterflies flitting among flowers. Driving the internal power of Mysterious Heaven Skill to its limit, he used "Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers," a Tang Sect Hidden Weapons technique!
Dozens of Bone-Piercing Needles and Flying Locust Stones, coated in a paralyzing poison, along with several extremely well-concealed Dragon Whisker Needles, hid behind the shadows of the countless Blue Silver Grass vines. Divided into high, middle, and low paths, they shot toward Keqing from all sides in a sky-filling barrage!
Xiao Wu followed close behind. Her pink Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul possessed her, and her First Soul Ring lit up as she leaped high into the air, ready to use Waist Bow in midair and throw Keqing off the platform the moment the Blue Silver Grass and Hidden Weapons forced her to leap up and dodge!
It had to be said that Tang San's combination of Blue Silver Grass control and a Hidden Weapon sneak attack, followed by Xiao Wu's close-quarters assault, would very likely have spelled a bitter end for any native Soul Master of level thirty or even forty caught off guard.
The spectators in the stands saw only the sky full of blue grass and cold gleams completely surrounding the purple-haired girl. Many could not help holding their breath.
Yet in the center of the storm of Blue Silver Grass and Hidden Weapons, not even the slightest ripple appeared in Keqing's amethyst-like eyes.
"Paltry tricks, and you dare show them off before a master?"
A cool, pleasant-sounding snort rang out.
Facing the tough vines twining toward her feet and the dense volley of poisoned needles flying at her, Keqing did not even take a step.
She merely raised one slender hand. Her one-handed sword, the Lion's Roar, rang out with a clear dragon's cry, and a diamond-shaped Lightning Stiletto flashing with brilliant purple-gold lightning was instantly projected into the air three zhang above Tang San's head!
"Star Dou Restoration!"
Boom-crack!!
Just as the Blue Silver Grass vines closed in and dozens of Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were about to touch the hem of Keqing's clothes, her graceful figure suddenly became a bolt of dazzling purple-gold lightning and vanished into thin air!
"What?! Teleportation?!"
Tang San's pupils contracted sharply, and towering waves rose in his heart!
His Blue Silver Grass Entanglement and the Hidden Weapons filling the sky all struck empty air. Even the Parasite seeds he had planted beforehand were useless, having lost their target!
Before Tang San could look up to find Keqing, a terrifying pressure of lightning and sword power, as though the heavens were collapsing and heavenly might descending, thundered down from directly above him and Xiao Wu!
There in midair, Keqing's figure appeared, having teleported to the Lightning Stiletto.
She looked down from on high at Tang San and Xiao Wu below. Her purple hair flew freely in the raging Electro currents, and her long, beautiful legs, wrapped in deep purple stockings, traced an arcane star-step in the air. She gripped her sword hilt with both hands, and the Electro Vision within her, reshaped by Chu Yuan, erupted!
"My sword shines as I do, cutting through all that is impure!!"
Elemental Burst: Starward Sword!!
Rumble!!
In an instant, the entire central main Soul Fighting Arena was transformed into a dazzling sea of purple-gold lightning!
Keqing's figure became a blurred streak of lightning in midair. At a terrifying speed beyond the limits of mortal eyes, she unleashed an incomparably violent succession of slashes across the Soul Fighting platform within a radius of thirty zhang!
One, ten, a hundred!
Dense purple-gold lightning sword gleams crisscrossed like a net of heaven and earth, completely covering the center of the Soul Fighting platform!
"Oh no!! Xiao Wu, retreat!!"
Tang San was scared out of his soul, his scalp prickling!
Before this lightning sword formation that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth, his prized Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track were nothing more than a joke!
Crack! Crack! Clang, clang, clang-!!
Wherever the interwoven purple-gold sword gleams swept, every Blue Silver Grass vine Tang San had released was chopped into countless scorched fragments like fragile dry grass, unable to last even half a breath!
The Bone-Piercing Needles, Flying Locust Stones, and Dragon Whisker Needles flying through the air were ground into iron powder on the spot by the all-pervasive lightning Sword Qi!
Because the Blue Silver Grass was linked to Tang San's mind, the backlash from having it all chopped apart in an instant made him grunt, and a thread of blood immediately seeped from the corner of his mouth!
Xiao Wu, who had leaped into the air, bore the brunt of it. Swept by the aftershocks of the raging purple-heaven Sword Qi, her protective Soul Power shattered instantly. She cried out in alarm and fell from the air!
At the final instant, the sword shadows filling the sky suddenly converged into one!
Boom-!!
A brilliant purple-gold cross of lightning sword light, ten zhang long, descended from the sky and struck the bluestone ground in front of Tang San and Xiao Wu!
A violent lightning shockwave erupted. Countless deep, spiderweb-like cracks split the incomparably hard surface of the Soul Fighting platform. Unable to withstand the terrifying blast of lightning, Tang San and Xiao Wu were both sent flying backward and landed in a sorry heap at the edge of the platform!
The dust cleared.
Keqing landed lightly in the very center of the Soul Fighting platform, the Lion's Roar in her hand pointing diagonally toward the ground. Lightning flowed over its blade, and not even the hem of her skirt had picked up a speck of dust.