Xu Sanshi set aside the casual attitude he had shown against Tang Wulin. Holding the Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield, he looked solemnly at Gu Yue. "Little girl, come on."
Gu Yue said nothing and slowly raised both hands.
"Elemental Control!"
In an instant, the space within the great hall seemed to fall under her command.
"Wind!"
Invisible currents immediately swirled beneath Xu Sanshi's feet, whistling sharply as they tried to slip through gaps around his shield.
"Earth!"
The floor suddenly shook. Several sharp stone spikes thrust up beneath Xu Sanshi's feet without warning, forcing him to adjust his stance slightly.
Before Xu Sanshi could steady himself—
"Fire!"
"Water!"
"Ice!"
Three entirely different elemental energies erupted at the same instant. Scorching fireballs, icy water arrows, and sharp ice cones slammed toward the blind spots in Xu Sanshi's defenses from every direction, following trajectories that defied all reason.
"And light!"
A dazzling burst of light exploded right in front of Xu Sanshi. Though it could not hurt him in the slightest, it briefly disrupted his vision.
Relying on his instinctive combat experience, Xu Sanshi blocked most of the attacks with an airtight defense from his Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield. Yet Gu Yue's methods were simply too bizarre. Her soul skills seemed to follow no fixed pattern, sometimes sending vines bursting from the floor to entangle him, sometimes bringing lightning down from thin air.
Under this dizzying assault of countless different attributes, even Xu Sanshi, an ancestor who had weathered a hundred battles, found himself losing his bearings. His proud defense seemed clumsy against this ever-changing elemental bombardment that slipped into every opening.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Although Gu Yue's attacks did not break through his Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield, their relentless impact still forced him half a step back to dissipate that strange,