"Look, Junior Brother Li!" Wang Xuanyu said to Li Xiaoya, pointing at the downward-sloping edge of the Dueling Formation.
"What's that?" Li Xiaoya looked in the direction Wang Xuanyu indicated. The recessed edges all around the Dueling Platform were inscribed with extraordinarily profound Magic Formations and Spell Script. The magic power spilling out from the two disciples' duel was visibly being absorbed by these Magic Formations.
"The disciple using wind techniques is going to lose!" Wang Xuanyu suddenly said.
"Huh? Aren't they evenly matched? How could he lose?" Li Xiaoya snapped back to attention. The two disciples still looked like worthy opponents meeting across a chessboard.
"Look closely, Junior Brother!" Wang Xuanyu said with a mysterious smile.
At her words, Li Xiaoya carefully studied their duel, and sure enough, he spotted a few clues. Though their cultivation and Dharma Artifacts were much the same, making them appear evenly matched, the Blue Robe disciple was firing Ice Spikes at the white-robed disciple with his Dharma Artifact while secretly casting spells onto the ground with his other hand. Small white balls of ice dropped onto the arena floor one after another. The white-robed disciple, meanwhile, was focused solely on firing blue-green whirlwinds to block the Ice Spikes and casually sending Wind Blades at openings in the Blue Robe disciple's defenses, all of which the Blue Robe disciple seemed to dodge.
"What are those little balls?" Li Xiaoya asked Wang Xuanyu curiously.
"That's Senior Brother Liu's Ice Explosion Technique. They may only be little balls, but once you step on one..."
Bang! Before Wang Xuanyu could finish, a low explosion sounded within the Dueling Formation. At some point, the white-robed cultivator had stepped on a little ball of ice, and it burst apart, sending fine shards through his foot. Though the injury was