The whistle blew.
"Flame Charge!"
"Volt Attack!"
The flames on Ya Bao's wings, which had long been poised to strike, suddenly surged and swept over her entire body. Power exploded from her limbs as she transformed into a dazzling streak of fire and charged forward.
At the same time, electric arcs danced wildly over the Electric Cutter Beast's body. Its figure was instantly shrouded in yellow electric arcs, like a flash of lightning, appearing in the middle of the field dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.
The firelight and lightning were inches apart, about to collide head-on, and the audience instinctively held their breath.
No matter the level of the competition, clashes of strength against strength could always stir the most primal emotions in everyone.
Yet the fierce collision they had imagined never came. Just as the two were about to clash head-on, the lightning abruptly changed course and curved around the oncoming firelight.
The firelight vanished outright and reappeared high in the air over ten meters away.
The flames around Ya Bao had already dissipated.
She hovered in the air, raised her head, and a scarlet energy ball containing terrifying power shot upward with a whoosh.
On the other side, the Electric Cutter Beast stopped as well, yellow electric arcs darting across its body.
"Electric Cutter!"
It threw back its head and cried out, and a bolt of lightning shot straight into the sky.
The next second, the sky darkened.
The audience fell silent for a moment before an uproar broke out.
"I'm dying, did these two plan this beforehand? They both threw out feints right from the start."
"A diversion? I don't get it. If they wanted to use another move, why not just use it? Someone explain."
"Isn't it obvious? They both wanted