Pressing Down with "Aura" (4,000 words; please vote)

In three days, the Recommendation Battle would begin.

To make sure he beat Lu Yu, Li Xiuwen went to the Martial Arts Hall every day to "update" his data on her true cultivation.

With her status, getting hold of a few Great Elixirs would be no problem.

Sure enough, just as he had expected, Lu Yu had entered the Flood Dragon Muscle Pinnacle Realm yesterday.

Both the quality and quantity of her qi and blood were a notch above his.

Yesterday, he had fought Lu Yu ten times in the Grand Void Illusory Realm and won only six. Every victory had been narrow, won because his battle instincts and Combat Method were better than hers.

How could that be enough?

What was the difference between a win rate below ninety-nine percent and certain defeat?

Li Xiuwen wanted to use his Martial Way Aura to raise his chances.

Otherwise, he would have to play his trump card, the Binding Armor Skill.

He crooked a finger, and Lu Yu charged.

Her Flood Dragon Muscle Pinnacle qi and blood erupted. The Thousand-Illusion Entwining Silk Hand became a thousand-armed Guanyin, its endless palm shadows enveloping him.

Li Xiuwen's eyes blazed as he summoned the Red Whale Momentum. Behind him, a magnificent, dazzling vision stretched across the air like a mirage.

In Lu Yu's pupils, a Crimson Giant Whale was reflected, burning the heavens and boiling the seas, its vast splendor pressing down on heaven and earth!

Then she froze.

Only for an instant.

But Li Xiuwen clearly felt her attack rhythm falter.

He seized the opening and followed with his legs. His consummate leg technique unleashed a continuous flurry of blade-like kicks against Lu Yu's raised arms.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Circles of white spray rippled out from their collisions. The Second Floor sounded like