Meng Xinghe laughed. "Brother Li, impressive techniques. Next, I'll change moves—Vortex Swallows the Tide!"
He rotated both hands inward at once, and the raging torrent that had been building beneath the sea, poised to burst through the surface, instantly changed form under his control.
All the scattered undercurrents converged and spun toward the center at the same moment, transforming into an enormous vortex dozens of zhang wide beneath the sea.
The vortex's pulling force was incomparably fierce, sweeping all of Li Bufan's Thousand Silk Water Bind threads scattered through the water into its center. The Spirit Force threads were churned into a chaotic tangle by the vortex's rapid rotation, and Li Bufan instantly lost control over them.
Li Bufan remained unruffled at the sight. He had encountered countless such tactics of countering every move with another since beginning his cultivation. He pressed the fingers of his right hand together and gently pushed down at the sea beneath his feet. "Frost Sky Snow Burial!"
This was one of the new moves he had comprehended from Icicle Seven Killings over the past two months. Icy Spirit Force spread from his palm and instantly expanded across the sea's surface.
The instant the enormous vortex spinning madly beneath the water was tainted by the cold air, it began freezing from its center. Icy-blue crystals spread outward at a visible speed, and within mere breaths, the entire vortex and dozens of zhang of surrounding seawater had frozen into one massive block of ice.
The ice block then shattered into countless chunks of varying sizes that floated across the sea. Carried by the surging waves, they slowly drifted away, refracting fractured crystalline radiance beneath the sunlight.
Meng Xinghe laughed. "Excellent move. Again—Vast Sea Surges!"
With two consecutive moves broken by Li Bufan, Meng Xinghe knew there