Crack—
The teeth-grating sound of snapping bone erupted from Long Chen's arm. Excruciating pain swept through his body like a tide, nearly burning through his nerves. But he gritted his teeth, the pride he held as captain sustaining his trembling arm as he tried to push himself up from the crack-riddled ground.
"I... can't fall..."
Yet what answered him was not a helping hand from his teammates, but a skyful of falling fire and howling wind.
"Elemental Control, Firefall!"
"Wind Follow, Ten Thousand Blades!"
Gu Yue's cool voice sounded like the prelude to judgment. The sky turned crimson in an instant as countless millstone-sized fireballs hurtled down amid savage wind blades. The wind fed the flames, and the flames borrowed the wind's might. In a flash, several terrifying fire tornadoes formed out of thin air and swept straight toward Long Chen on the ground, carrying the power to burn all things to ash.
But that was not the deadliest threat.
The instant Long Chen looked up in despair, Tang Wulin moved.
The boy pushed off with his toes and closed in like lightning. Golden light flared along his right arm, and thick golden dragon scales instantly covered it, forming an incomparably domineering Golden Dragon Claw. As that claw swung down, terrifying pressure originating from the divine beast Golden Dragon King erupted, striking Long Chen's mind like divine thunder from the highest heavens.
It was absolute bloodline suppression!
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon bloodline within Long Chen trembled beneath that pressure, like subjects faced with their natural enemy, unable even to muster the thought of resistance. His eyes, once brimming with fighting spirit, filled with terror, and his body went limp beyond his control.
"Roar—!"
A golden dragon's cry resounded throughout the arena.
Boom—!!!
The Golden Dragon Claw slammed into Long