Sound Falls, Stone Shatters: Unyielding Even in Defeat

The moment Zhou Yan unleashed his dying counterattack, Earth-Shaking Tremor: Jade-and-Stone Destruction, the entire Azure Dragon Arena trembled!

Across an area more than thirty meters in diameter in the front half of the arena, the Blacksteel Rock floor seemed to be viciously kneaded by an invisible giant hand, collapsing, splitting apart, and heaving upward with a thunderous roar! Countless thick, sharp grayish-brown stone spikes, each several meters long, shot madly from the shattered ground like fangs thrusting out from hell. Dense and layered, they carried the resolute killing intent of Zhou Yan's burning Soul Power and will, about to utterly devour the unsteady, Soul Power-depleted Li Tianyin in an instant!

The range was enormous, the coverage all-encompassing. There was nowhere to dodge!

"Tianyin!" Everyone in the Li Family's spectator area cried out. Li Huayu immediately rose to her feet, the glow of Life's Dew already gathering in her palm as she prepared to rush onto the arena at any moment. Li Xuansheng's gaze sharpened abruptly, and his body leaned slightly forward, but he trusted the referee—and he trusted that Li Tianyin would not be defeated so easily.

On the arena, facing that deadly forest of stone, no despair appeared on Li Tianyin's pale little face. Instead, under the crushing pressure of the immense danger, her eyes, slightly dim from mental injury, burst forth with an unprecedented brilliance!

She knew her condition well. Neither her Soul Power nor her mental strength could support a complex response or a powerful counterattack anymore. Forcing herself to evade or defend would only exhaust her remaining strength faster and lead to an even more miserable defeat.

Her only option was to use offense as defense—to use her last reserves of mental strength to disrupt the caster and throw the core of this deadly strike into