After several exchanges, his mighty brute strength was firmly restrained by the sound cultivator's techniques. In the end, his spiritual power ran dry, and an immensely powerful sound wave jolted his blood and qi into turmoil. His giant hammer nearly slipped from his grasp as he staggered back to the edge of the arena...
Seeing this, You Xi slowly descended onto the arena. With a turn of her wrist, she tucked her jade flute into the belt at her waist.
The referee announced loudly, "Fifth match, You Xi—victory!"
Jiang Lu's gaze had remained fixed on the arena. When she saw You Xi's sound waves, her expression turned solemn.
What formidable strength. Her opponent truly was powerful, but in Jiang Lu's eyes, she was not without flaws to exploit.
Sound could not travel without a medium. Air was the vessel through which sound waves spread. When sound waves launched an attack, they constantly collided and rubbed against the surrounding air, causing extraordinarily subtle fluctuations in the airflow.
As long as she caught that nearly imperceptible disturbance in the air currents, she could accurately predict the direction and path of the sound-wave attack.
She immediately sat down cross-legged. Her Divine Sense sank into her mind as she replayed every detail of You Xi's previous moves again and again, breaking down the paths of the sound waves and silently deducing a way to counter them.
Just then, the steward's loud announcement rang out from the arena once more, interrupting her thoughts. "Sixth match, Desolate Qian Domain's Gu Tong versus Crimson Reed Domain's Fu Yao."
Both were at the fourth level of the Golden Core Realm. As a pill cultivator, Fu Yao specialized in spiritual power endurance and bodily resilience. Her accompanying spirit artifacts were a pair of sharp curved blades.
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