Battle of the Wager!

Three hundred miles east of the Imperial Capital, Rocky Wasteland.

This place was devoid of human life, filled with jagged rocks and utter silence.

Two figures faced each other from afar at the center of the wasteland, their invisible confrontation making even the air seem to freeze.

Queen Medusa wore luxurious red-and-gold robes, making her appear all the more bewitching and dazzling against the desolate backdrop.

Her golden eyes were as cold as ice, fixed tightly on Lu Heng across from her. Yet even she had not noticed the trace of panic hidden beneath that coldness.

She wanted to defeat this man with her own hands, to tell him with the purest strength that the dignity of the Snake-People Tribe's queen could not be challenged.

Yet deep in her heart, another voice told her that she did not truly want to hurt him.

"Here will do."

Medusa spoke first, her voice calm yet naturally authoritative.

Lu Heng's expression remained tranquil as he nodded. "Mm."

The Five Elements spiritual energy around him circulated on its own, his aura as steady as a mountain, without the slightest tension before a great battle.

Medusa wasted no more words. The vast Seven-Colored Dou Qi around her erupted with a bang!

That surging Dou Qi did not leak out in the slightest. Instead, it gathered entirely in her palm in an instant, forming a slender Snake-Patterned Longsword.

The blade was blood-red throughout, adorned with dense gilded scale patterns. Each segment was tightly connected, resembling a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

Light flowed across the sword as an ancient, primordial pressure spread outward. Its sword intent was razor-sharp, as though it could tear apart space.

Yet within that overwhelming sword intent, she had ultimately restrained thirty percent of its killing power.

Lu Heng neither dodged nor retreated.