This is the Real Battle!

Gu Yuena lowered her head and glanced at her shoulder. On the light armor, where the golden thread had grazed it, a deep cut had been left behind. The edges of the cut were as smooth as a mirror, and it had nearly sliced through the armor. A fine layer of cold sweat seeped across her forehead. If she had been even a fraction slower just now, that golden thread would have cut through her body.

Situ Xuan stood where he was, slowly withdrawing his sword fingers. His chest heaved violently. That strike just now had drained a great deal of his strength, and even more blood poured from the wound that pierced through him. But a smile still hung at the corner of his mouth, and flames still burned in his eyes.

"Again."

His legs stomped the ground hard. He drove Violent Foot to its limit, and his body turned into a blood-colored streak of light as he charged toward Gu Yuena.

The battle erupted once more.

Only this time, Situ Xuan truly had to endure the assault of two Gu Yuena.

The Energy Avatar held the seven-colored Dragon Spear and fought him up close without fear of death. It was formed from the pure energy within the Dragon God Dragon Soul itself. It had no life, no sense of pain, no fear. Even if its limbs were severed and its head shattered, it could reconsolidate in a single breath. Its spear techniques were sharp and ferocious. Every thrust carried the power of the seven elements, stabbing, sweeping, lifting, smashing—every move aimed straight for Situ Xuan's vital points.

Gu Yuena, meanwhile, warily kept her distance, wielding elemental power as she pleased. Her hands waved again and again, and fireballs, ice spikes, wind blades, light arrows, and all sorts of