"You... you know earth magic too?"
Shen Hui didn't answer.
He formed a hand seal with his right hand, and a Fire Ghost, nearly ten feet tall, sprang out from behind him and lunged straight at the struggling youth on the ground.
"Boom!"
Flames surged into the sky, and shattered rocks flew everywhere.
The youth didn't even have time to scream before he was swallowed by the flames.
When the fire died down, only a charred pit remained. Magma trickled across its bottom, bubbling away.
The youth had vanished without a trace. Not even a bone remained.
Shen Hui turned his gaze to the woman.
The skeletons had already climbed over the first earthen wall and were surging toward him in a frenzy.
He raised a hand and released a sea of fire, engulfing several skeletons at the front.
The flames crackled as they burned, but the skeletons seemed unafraid of fire. Though their bones glowed red from the heat, they continued to clatter and press toward him.
Shen Hui furrowed his brow slightly, withdrew the flames, and changed his hand seal.
He raised his left hand, and one low earthen ridge after another sprang from the ground, tripping the skeletons so they pitched forward and backward. Their bones clattered across the ground.
He raised his right hand again, and a tall wall burst up from among the skeletons, sending several of them flying.
Then he thrust his palm forward. The wall crashed down, crushing the skeletons beneath it.
He repeated the motion.
Raise a wall, knock it down; raise another, knock it down again.
After three or five rounds, the skeletons were buried beneath layers of earthen walls. Only a few skulls still showed above the ground, the ghostly flames in their eye sockets flickering uncertainly as they struggled