"Rumble..." Just then, the Purple-Gold lightning serpent opened its gaping maw and lunged down at Li Yichen.
Li Yichen's eyes flashed. He thrust out his right hand and grasped at the air, and a black-and-white spear formed entirely from flames appeared in his hand.
The spear had a long, slender shaft, with black and white flames coiling around it like two flood dragons, giving off a faint, low hum.
Then he stamped hard against the air and shot toward the lightning serpent like a meteor.
"Aah... break!"
With a low shout, Li Yichen swung his spear and thrust it savagely into the lightning serpent's gaping maw.
Boom! The instant the spear tip collided with the lightning serpent, time seemed to stand still.
Then a ring of force erupted from the spear tip, surging outward in every direction.
"Crack... rumble..."
Wherever the shock wave passed, mountains crumbled and the earth split.
Within nearly a thousand meters, huge boulders shattered into fist-sized pieces, and towering ancient trees snapped halfway up their trunks. Splinters flew from the breaks, while branches and leaves whirled through the sky on the blast.
The entire mountaintop shook violently under the blow. Broken rocks and branches rained down from the summit, striking the ground with a dense barrage of dull thuds.
Will he win? That was the thought in every spectator's mind.
A series of cracks rang out as fractures spread across the Purple-Gold serpent's head like cracks in glass.
With a bang, the Purple-Gold lightning exploded around him into hundreds upon thousands of electric serpents, each opening its jaws to bite at every part of Li Yichen's body.
In the past, Li Yichen would certainly have been at a loss, but after receiving Great-Grandpa's Flame Control Art, everything had become simple.
"Cheap tricks." Li Yichen curled his