Gu Ding VS Scarlet

In the virtual world, there are fewer than 150 people with over 10,000 points. Furthermore, this 10,000-point limit means that many people, after losing once, cannot attempt a second time.

In less than two hours, Gu Ding and Futu had challenged almost all of the people who had enough points.

Of the remaining less than twenty strong individuals who did not participate in the challenge, half were truly powerful individuals ranked in the top ten of the Ranking List, while the other half had witnessed Gu Ding and Fu Tu instantly defeat their opponents and felt that there was no need for them to challenge, since they would be instantly defeated no matter what.

Seeing that no one was challenging them, Gu Ding and Futu had no choice but to lower the score requirement to 30,000. Many people who had originally challenged Gu Ding approached Futu; even with their scores halved, they still had over 10,000 points, and many even exceeded 30,000, so they naturally didn't want to miss this opportunity. Similarly, many of those who had challenged Futu first now had enough points to challenge Gu Ding.

Two more hours passed, and the challengers took turns being thrashed by different opponents, but they didn't feel frustrated; on the contrary, they were quite happy. Some even sought out Liliath group to continue their challenges, since Liliath and her group had set a challenge threshold of 10,000 points. Gu Ding and Futu were far ahead, with Gu Ding leading by a wide margin with 800 million points, followed closely by Futu in second place with over 100 million points. After Futu, a gap in points appeared, with Liliath surpassing Dokter to become the third-ranked person on the leaderboard, but her points were only slightly over 900 million, less than 100 million. Dokter, Elsa, and Scarlet followed closely behind. In tenth place was Na Luo, Shi Jia's senior brother, with over 100 million points.

However, after tenth place, another gap appeared in the points rankings. The eleventh-place player only had a little over 60,000 points; this guy was originally ranked outside the top 100. But as many people ahead of him challenged Gu Ding and Futu, their points plummeted to less than 30,000, making his 60,000 points a significant amount. Besides him, there were eight others with over 10,000 points. Starting from nineteenth place, another gap appeared, with points falling below 30,000. His original 30 million points would only have placed him in the top 200.

Just as Gu Ding and Futu were about to lower the challenge restrictions again, Scarlet stepped out and finally withdrew from his challenge arena, walking towards the direction where Gu Ding was.

Everyone, including Futu, looked at Scarlet. "Let's carry out our agreement here." Scarlet walked up to Gu Ding and stopped less than ten meters away.

"Aren't we going to wait for the challenges of the Real World?" Gu Ding asked with a grin. He naturally knew that the promise Scarlet was referring to was the one about joining his Pirate Crew.

"I didn't expect to meet you again in the virtual world. I didn't have time to go to the War God Arena, so I asked you to fight me in the Real World. Since we've met, let's fight here. In fact, our battle will be more enjoyable in the virtual world because we don't have to worry about accidentally killing our opponent with forbidden moves." Scarlet's words clearly showed that she had great confidence in herself.

"So, this time it's for real?" Gu Ding raised an eyebrow. He and Scarlet had encountered each other in this virtual world before and sparred once. Neither of them used their full strength, and the battle ended in a draw.

"That's right, we're serious." Scarlet looked very serious.

The onlookers, though unaware of what had transpired, were eager to know just how strong Scarlet truly was, especially since many of them were top-tier warriors who had lost to Gu Ding. A few knew that Scarlet had previously lost to Gu Ding in the War God Arena, and that their strengths were roughly equal at the time. However, they were completely ignorant of the agreement between Scarlet and Gu Ding.

Aside from Scarlet and Gu Ding Team, Gu Ding only revealed this to Karrot.

Seeing Scarlet challenge Gu Ding, Karrot also came out and shrugged helplessly at Scarlet, "I didn't expect you to beat me to it. In that case, I'll challenge Futu."

After saying that, he walked towards the pagoda.

Karrot has more points than Scarlet, with over 900 million, ranking fifth on the Ranking List, behind only Liliath and Dokter.

This battle is also one that we look forward to.

Scarlet glanced at Karrot before looking away, gripping the hilt of her sword, and slowly drawing the black longsword. Even before she made a move, the sword already emitted a buzzing sound in the air.

A Scarlet tinge rose in his pale blue eyes, quickly turning them bloodshot, while his hair began to turn white rapidly from the roots, like frost spreading. His hair tie snapped on its own, his waist-length white hair moved without wind, and his blue robe strangely faded to a pure white.

Seeing this change, many onlookers were speechless for a long time; most of them were seeing Scarlet undergo such a transformation for the first time. But seeing this, even a fool would know that Scarlet wasn't going to hold back in the slightest.

Gu Ding and the others had naturally seen Scarlet in this state before, because Scarlet had used this move in the War God Arena.

Gu Ding was also somewhat surprised. He had originally thought that Scarlet might make a move first to test his strength, but he didn't expect her to transform right away, clearly not intending to waste time testing his power. Back in the War God Arena, Scarlet had only used this move at the very end.

Her Scarlet lips curled slightly, but she did not immediately make a move. Instead, she said, "After losing to you last time, I not only obtained a more powerful sword soul, but my Sword Dao Domain also reached the minor completion of the Spiritual Affinity Realm. My strength is incomparable to what it was half a year ago."

"Perfect timing. I'm not the same person I was half a year ago when I first stepped into the Universe Sea." Gu Ding didn't hold back at all. He activated the Asura World Extinction technique at full power, and a powerful aura surged from his body.

The terrifying aura emanating from Gu Ding's body shocked many onlookers, as Gu Ding's aura gave off a terrifying sense of killing intent, like a cold-blooded Grim Reaper descending to earth.

Even Futu, who was facing Karrot's challenge, was somewhat distracted and looked towards Gu Ding's location, his brows furrowed slightly, seemingly quite displeased with the aura emanating from Gu Ding.

Opposite Gu Ding, the Scarlet right hand holding the sword slowly rose, the tip of the sword pointing directly at Gu Ding.

Gu Ding suddenly felt as if he had been locked onto by something. The next instant, he saw the Scarlet sword tip tremble slightly, and a black ripple carrying a terrifying power that made one's heart tremble spread outwards.

He immediately retreated, and the black ripples silently sliced through the nearby volcanoes, boulders, and icebergs, almost instantly severing them as if cut by a sharp blade. Even the terrifying lightning and gales that connected heaven and earth were forcibly cut off by this ripple and then dissipated into the void.

The terrifying power of this strike left all the onlookers utterly shocked. The gale and lightning were nightmares that many present would avoid at all costs. But now, it had been so easily severed, leaving many with their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

"After the Scarlet Transformation, it has become this powerful!"

"That attack was terrifying; it was so powerful that it could cut through anything."

"It seems that the top ten on the Demigod Prodigy Ranking are all monsters."

As Gu Ding retreated, he clenched his fist and unleashed a powerful punch from a distance. The force of the punch exploded like the roar of a world-destroying cannon, and a pillar of Black Radiance surged out like a tidal wave, instantly colliding with the ripple.

Then the ripples shattered, and the Black Radiance dissolved automatically.

Just as everyone was still wondering who had the upper hand in this attack, Scarlet suddenly moved. His figure was like a phantom as he thrust out his black longsword. The longsword created fine cracks in the void, as if space itself had been torn apart.

Gu Ding, on the other hand, leaped up again as soon as his feet touched the ground, but this time he didn't retreat; instead, he charged towards Scarlet. Black mist swirled around his right fist, emanating a chilling aura.

A moment later, a loud "boom" was heard as the two attacks collided violently.

Gu Ding punched the Scarlet sword tip directly, and two streams of black energy of different nature surged out wildly, constantly annihilating each other. A strange balance was formed between the two, creating a black energy sphere.

After maintaining their stance for a moment, the two figures were forced to retreat. The energy sphere, having lost its energy source and support, exploded instantly, its terrifying energy shockwaves rippled outwards, turning the ground within a radius of hundreds of kilometers into ruins.

Many of the powerful onlookers were in a rather disheveled state.

No one expected that Scarlet would be so powerful, able to hold her own against Gu Ding in a direct confrontation.

But this was within Gu Ding's expectations. Scarlet and Liliath were at the same level of power, and Gu Ding occasionally sparred with Liliath, so he was very familiar with the strength of experts at their level. He also knew that even he would have difficulty suppressing them without using his trump card.

After this exchange, Scarlet realized that Gu Ding's progress was far greater than she had imagined, as her own progress over the past six months had reached an astonishing level. Gu Ding, however, hadn't fallen behind at all; she even vaguely sensed that Gu Ding seemed to be holding back, not using his full strength.

"Let me see just how strong you really are!" With a flick of Scarlet wrist, the crimson-haired woman sent the black longsword flying out at an even faster and more fierce speed.

Meanwhile, the battle between Karrot and Futu has also begun...