Immovable as a Mountain

"Boom—!"

The stomp looked light, yet it seemed to strike upon the pulse of the earth itself! A muffled roar, like an ancient giant beating a war drum, rose from deep underground! Centered on Li Longyue, the arena floor dozens of meters ahead surged upward as though a massive boulder had been cast into a tranquil lake! A wave of earth over half a meter high erupted and spread at high speed! Rather than advancing in a straight line, it radiated forward in a perfect fan shape, carrying violent tremors and immense lateral crushing force as it precisely and tyrannically sealed off every possible landing point and path along Whale Fall's gliding trajectory!

So you could glide unpredictably, making your path impossible to read? Then I'll crush skill with force—shake the earth and raise raging waves until this "shark of the deep sea" has nowhere to glide and nowhere to flee!

A sharp light flashed through Whale Fall's eyes. He was faintly startled by his opponent's swift reaction and precise response. At the critical instant, his gliding path suddenly shifted. Like a true fish in water, he relied on his extraordinary control over his body and Soul Power to narrowly brush past the sharpest, most turbulent edge of the rising earth wave! Gravel flung up by the wave struck his dark-blue scale armor with clear clinks, yet failed to break through it. At the same time, using the momentum of his glide and the centrifugal force of his turn, he curled the fingers of his right hand into a claw. Dark-blue Soul Power compressed and gathered at his fingertips, forming five incomparably sharp water blades gleaming with a sinister luster. With a piercing shriek that tore through the air, they shot straight for Li Longyue's undefended throat! The claw strike