Gu Yue: You Can Even Anger Me Back to Life After Death!

The moment Wang Jinxi was sent flying, a dark shadow silently bypassed Tang Wulin, surging toward Gu Yue while wreathed in a dense aura of darkness.

This was none other than Zhang Yangzi's second soul skill—Shadow Clone.

This clone condensed a full fifty percent of Zhang Yangzi's strength, and the power of darkness acted like a maggot in the bone; once it struck, it would frantically erode soul power, causing it to constantly dissolve and disintegrate.

At the critical moment, Xie Xie pulled Gu Yue into his arms by pure instinct, turning his back completely toward the incoming Shadow Clone.

"Pfft--!"

The Shadow Clone dissipated the instant it made contact with Xie Xie.

The ink-black power of darkness surged into his body like a venomous snake, rampaging wildly and frantically eroding his meridians and soul power.

Xie Xie's body jolted violently; he squeezed his eyes shut and furrowed his brows.

"Xie Xie!" Gu Yue's expression changed drastically, and she staggered back a step while holding Xie Xie before finally steadying herself.

Seeing that Xie Xie had been hit, Zhang Yangzi laughed triumphantly from within the Dark Canopy: "Hahaha! It's a hit, you're finished now!"

"Your soul power will be slowly eroded away by me, and even your own body will suffer the corrosion!"

"Xie Xie?!"

In terms of speed and combat technique, Tang Wulin was far inferior to Xie Xie, and the shadow had appeared so suddenly that even Tang Wulin hadn't been able to react in time.

Seeing Xie Xie's condition, a clear sense of rage surfaced in Tang Wulin's eyes as golden light flickered across them.

The next moment, he poured his soul power out at full capacity, and strands of Blue Silver Grass suddenly surged, dancing through the dark light screen.

The Blue Silver vines lashed out like whips, striking directly at Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi.

Zhang Yangzi, having let his guard down slightly due to his successful sneak attack, was struck directly by a strand of Blue Silver Grass, leaving a bloody welt on his body.

Gu Yue looked at the limp Xie Xie leaning against her, and a flash of blood-red light flickered through her originally purple eyes in an instant.

She said nothing, her left hand resting on Xie Xie's hair in a soothing gesture.

Immediately following, Gu Yue raised her right hand, and red, blue, and cyan lights swirled around her palm; clusters of fireballs and streaks of Ice Spikes shot out toward the trio, covering the sky and earth.

At the same time, the cyan light on her body began to grow increasingly intense, and her eyes became brighter and brighter.

After the first round of fireballs erupted, Gu Yue's hands had turned completely ice-blue, and those Ice Spikes shattered in mid-air, merging into the cyan light.

"Ice and Snow Storm--"

With a sharp cry, a massive ice tornado suddenly took shape.

The gale roared like a beast as it swept across the arena, ice blades dancing within the storm, freezing every inch of the air to the extreme.

The blizzard, carrying the force of a thousand armies, slammed fiercely into Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi.

Zhang Yangzi certainly had a bit of skill, but he had a penchant for taunting during battle; well, now he had triggered the blood-rage of Tang Wulin and Gu Yue.

No, make that three of them.

Even Wu Zhangkong, who was watching from the sidelines, furrowed her brows.

When she saw Gu Yue unleash the Ice and Snow Storm, she felt nothing was amiss, and even thought the girl had gone a bit too easy on them.

Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi's expressions changed simultaneously.

Wang Jinxi took the lead to block the front, and Zhang Yangzi hurriedly channeled his soul power to protect his body.

At this moment, they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

Because the wind elements within the Ice and Snow Storm carried an inherent gravitational pull, causing their speed to drop by half instantly, making it impossible for them to escape the storm's range.

Long Hengxu was left dumbfounded on the competition platform.

Another elemental combination skill; the power of this was comparable to a thousand-year soul skill!

Ye Yingluo's eyes had already gone vacant.

"Hehe... elemental combination skill... hehe..."

After being struck by the Shadow Clone, Xie Xie clearly felt his soul power being continuously melted and dissolved by that strange, dark force.

Even his limbs and bones were wracked with waves of bone-chilling numbness and sluggishness.

But this discomfort lasted for only a single instant.

That dark, corrosive force that had just invaded his body and was rampaging arrogantly was instantly bitten, swallowed, and crushed by a violent Shadow Dragon power!

The power of darkness didn't even have room to struggle before Shadow Cub; in the blink of an eye, it was devoured completely.

Shadow Cub smacked its lips twice, a clear look of disdain appearing in its dragon eyes.

Almost simultaneously, Light Cub gently unfurled its light-attribute energy.

Warm, gentle golden light flowed slowly through Xie Xie's body, softly wrapping around his meridians and soothing the stinging pain left by the darkness, allowing his previously sluggish soul power to become smooth and supple once more.

In less than half a breath, the corrosion that was enough to dissolve soul power had been completely neutralized by the combined efforts of the two dragon cubs.

Just as he felt he had recovered, a sudden chill from behind made Xie Xie sneeze, and the moment he opened his eyes, he was so terrified by the scene before him that he blurted out a curse.

"Holy crap, what is going on?!"

Looking at the massive Ice and Snow Storm before him, Xie Xie's brain crashed on the spot.

To prevent Gu Yue from going berserk and forcing Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, he had specifically taken the hit from the Shadow Clone for Tang Wulin.

But this living nightmare, why was she going berserk again?!

Xie Xie's mind was a tangled mess. The violent, howling Ice and Snow Storm before his eyes occupied his entire field of vision, and his ears were filled with the deafening roar of gale-force winds and ice blades tearing through the air.

But in the next second, the figure of Gu Yue in his arms suddenly went limp.

Her originally cool and aloof little face instantly turned as pale as paper, even her lips drained of all color, and the elemental light surrounding her body dimmed abruptly.

Even for someone as gifted as Gu Yue, unleashing an elemental combination skill as large-scale as the Ice and Snow Storm drained her soul power in an instant, leaving her body teetering and on the verge of collapsing to the ground.

"Gu Yue!"

Xie Xie's pupils constricted, his brain, which had been lagging just a moment ago, instantly snapping back to clarity.

Almost subconsciously, he tightened his arms, firmly pulling her entire body into his embrace.

With one hand, he steadied her lower back, and with the other, he gently supported the back of her head, carefully shielding her against his chest.

Tang Wulin, standing to the side, saw this scene and his eyes flickered slightly.

He stepped forward a few paces, placing himself in front of Xie Xie and Gu Yue, vigilantly watching the battered and bedraggled Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi amidst the Ice and Snow Storm.

The violent Ice and Snow Storm continued to rage in the center of the arena, ice blades whistling as they relentlessly sliced through the air.

The Ice and Snow Storm lasted for a full dozen seconds before it finally began to dissipate.

Wang Jinxi's bone armor was covered in frost, his body shivering uncontrollably, his soul power almost completely exhausted.

Zhang Yangzi was in an even more wretched state; his black eagle wings were slashed with several gashes by the ice blades, his body suffered from multiple frostbites, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and the arrogance and smugness in his eyes had vanished completely.

"Big sister, are you still alive?"

"Hello? Can you hear me? If you're alive, please make a sound."

"Did you really kick the bucket? Do you need me to get you a Resurrection Armor? I'll give you a special price, 2080 Federal Coins each."

"..."

Xie Xie looked at Gu Yue, who hadn't moved for a long time in his arms, and couldn't help but let his mouth run wild.

Gu Yue, who just wanted to rest quietly and recover her soul power: ...

Having her head ache from the noise, Gu Yue slowly opened her eyes, looked up, and snapped, "Can you shut up?"

Xie Xie's eyes lit up. "She's alive, she's alive! Tang Wulin, look! Gu Yue is alive!"

"I was never dead!"

Even if I had died, you would have annoyed me back to life!!

If it weren't for the fact that her soul power was too depleted, Gu Yue would have already greeted him with a fireball.