Lu Guan let out a low shout.
The dark crimson baleful aura gushing from him spread rapidly in every direction, turning into dense fog in the blink of an eye and completely shrouding an area dozens of meters across.
Nine Li War Fog!
The instant the Battle Mist enveloped Gu Yue, her breath caught.
The fog carried an immense oppressive force. Not only did it obscure her vision, it severely disrupted her spiritual perception as well.
"Cheap tricks."
The first yellow soul ring beneath Gu Yue lit up as her hands rapidly formed seals.
Elemental Tide!
The power to manipulate elements!
"Wind!"
Azure light gathered between her hands.
A gale roared forth, turning into a small tornado that charged straight at the surrounding dark crimson fog.
She wanted to blow this troublesome fog away.
But the gale plunged into the Battle Mist like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
The dark crimson fog merely churned a few times, showing no sign of dispersing!
This fog had strength of its own.
Whoosh!
A streak of dark crimson light tore through the fog, shooting straight toward Gu Yue's face.
Lu Guan had struck!
The Long Spear cleaved down at her head with a shriek that split the air.
Gu Yue reacted swiftly.
She thrust both hands downward.
"Earth!"
Yellow light flashed.
A thick stone wall instantly rose from the ground, blocking Lu Guan's path.
Bang!
The Long Spear struck the stone wall, sending fragments flying.
The wall failed to last even a second before Lu Guan's terrifying strength cleaved it in two.
But in that brief instant, Gu Yue had already slid back more than ten meters with the wind element's aid.
"Fire!"
"Ice!"
Still in midair, Gu Yue swung both hands at once.
A blazing fireball formed in her left hand, and more than a dozen sharp icicles in her right.
Ice and fire rained down on Lu Guan, blanketing the sky.
Lu Guan neither dodged nor flinched.
Five weapons whirled before him, forming an impenetrable curtain of silver light.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!
The ice and fire were all shredded.
"Is that all you've got?" Lu Guan flicked the weapons in his hands and advanced with long strides.
Gu Yue gritted her teeth, alternating between the Wind Element and the earth element beneath her feet.
She knew perfectly well that she could never let an opponent with such strength and terrifying close-combat prowess get near her.
She could only keep him at a distance!
Stone pillars and spikes constantly erupted beneath Lu Guan's feet.
Wind blades and fireballs harried him from every direction.
Wind's Lightness and Earth's Wave carried Gu Yue through her evasive maneuvers.
Gu Yue pushed the advantages of Elemental Control to their utmost, keeping her distance from Lu Guan as firmly as though she were flying a kite.
Lu Guan hacked through more than a dozen stone pillars, his advance slowing slightly.
He stopped and looked at Gu Yue, who was still constantly shifting positions nearby.
"You're pretty quick on your feet."
Lu Guan grinned. "But I don't like it."
As he finished speaking, his first soul ring lit up beneath him!
Purple light blazed.
Bloodbone Demon Wings!
The bone wings on his back snapped open, their razor-sharp edges slicing the air with a hiss!
The bone wings behind Lu Guan beat down hard.
Boom!
The tremendous reaction force blasted two deep craters into the ground.
Like a cannonball fired from its barrel, Lu Guan launched straight off the ground and shot into the air!
He moved so fast that he left a dark crimson afterimage trailing through the air.
Gu Yue jerked her head up.
Lu Guan had already risen more than ten meters into the sky.
With the sunlight behind him, his enormous Demon Body resembled a demon god descending upon the world.
Above!
Gu Yue pressed her palms together, preparing to form seals again.
But Lu Guan gave her no time to prepare.
He reversed direction in midair, folding his bone wings as he flipped headfirst.
His five weapons came together, forming a gigantic drill.
With a piercing sonic boom, he hurtled toward Gu Yue like a falling meteor!
Friction warped the air.
The dark crimson drill was about to strike the top of Gu Yue's head.
At that hair's-breadth moment.
A strange silver halo suddenly shimmered around Gu Yue.
The space element!
BOOM!!!
Lu Guan slammed viciously into the ground.
The entire training ground shuddered violently.
The specially made, hardened stone slabs cracked instantly. Centered on Lu Guan, a crater seven or eight meters wide and half a meter deep blasted open.
Rubble and dust shot into the sky.
The dust cleared.
Lu Guan stood at the bottom of the crater, his five weapons buried deep in the ground.
But there was no one before him.
He had missed.
Lu Guan pulled out his weapons, straightened, and brushed the dust from his arms.
He turned his head and looked more than ten meters away.
Gu Yue stood there unharmed, though her chest was heaving.
Gu Yue stared fixedly at Lu Guan, towering waves already raging in her heart.
What kind of monster was this guy?!
The power of that strike had shaken her. It was sheer brute force!
She had only escaped by revealing her space element!
At that moment, a thousand meters above, Leng Yaozhu was watching the show with Na'er.
Seeing Gu Yue use her spatial ability to evade Lu Guan's attack, Na'er pouted. "Ugh."
Leng Yaozhu's reaction was the opposite. Her eyes lit up. "The four primal elements and space... Of the nine great elements, just how many have you mastered..."
Back on the training ground, the moment Lu Guan's strike missed, his second soul ring lit up beneath him!
The purple light looked especially eerie within the Battle Mist.
Second Soul Skill, [Shadow Trace]!
Wherever shadows lay, all was the king's domain.
And throughout the king's domain, nowhere was beyond his reach!
At that moment, the nine li war fog blotted out the sky and sun.
Beneath the dense dark crimson fog, the entire battlefield lay in shadow!
Lu Guan's body suddenly sank downward.
As though falling into a pool of ink, his entire body merged into the shadow beneath his feet and vanished into thin air!
Alarm bells rang in Gu Yue's heart.
The next instant, Gu Yue keenly sensed the shadow behind her twisting strangely.
Behind me!
Gu Yue spun around, silver light blazing from both hands as she prepared to teleport again.
But she was too late.
Though it took time to describe, the move happened in a single instant!
Lu Guan had already burst out of her shadow.
His six thick arms held the Five Weapons like an enormous iron net, sealing off every route of escape.
"Got you."
Lu Guan's low voice sounded beside Gu Yue's ear, accompanied by his scorching breath.
His six arms closed in instantly!
Like iron bands, Lu Guan's six arms locked down every inch of space Gu Yue had to move.
He was too close.
Gu Yue could even smell the intense Blood Fiend Aura emanating from Lu Guan.
An ordinary person caught by this monstrous six-armed Demon Body would already have been scared out of their wits.
But not Gu Yue.
In her normally cool eyes, a hint of madness actually ignited.
If there was nowhere left to retreat, then she wouldn't retreat!
Humm-
Gu Yue slammed her palms together before her chest.
Azure wind.
Crimson fire.
Yellow earth.
Blue water.
Four utterly different elements, yet faintly resonating with one another, gathered wildly in her palms.
The violent elemental forces repelled one another, but her terrifying spiritual power forcibly kneaded them together.
A four-colored orb of light, only the size of a fist yet radiating an aura of destruction, instantly took shape.
It looked just like a lotus bud about to bloom.
Lu Guan raised an eyebrow.
This thing... looked a little familiar.
Buddha's... Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus?!
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