"Holy shit..."
Xie Xie rubbed his face. He felt as though he had seen a ghost today.
Li Zha, a mere Soul Grandmaster, had actually attacked a Soul Emperor first?!
Spear in hand, Li Zha thrust at a vital spot on Guang Biao's abdomen.
"You have a death wish!"
Guang Biao truly saw red. His Ironclad Dragon martial soul manifested, and a purple soul ring rose. A long whip covered in vicious iron spikes appeared in his hand, and he lashed it at Li Zha.
A Soul Emperor's attack was blindingly fast. Li Zha only had time to split off another Fire-Tipped Spear to block before he was sent flying.
Fortunately,
Li Zha flipped in midair to dissipate the force and landed unharmed.
Guang Biao was bewildered. Although he had not intended to kill Li Zha with that lash, it should have crippled the brat's ability to fight. Yet it had actually been blocked.
Suddenly, Guang Biao noticed something strange around his abdomen. He looked down and discovered a hairline crack in the iron armor protecting it.
"This brat... his spear can counter my martial soul?!"
Guang Biao was even more shocked.
A child who was only a Soul Grandmaster had a martial soul capable of countering him, a Soul Emperor?
Then, if they were at the same level, wouldn't his Ironclad Dragon martial soul be like a helpless son before this child's Fire-Tipped Spear?!
In an instant, Guang Biao realized how his younger brother Guang Long had died.
Above the clouds,
Leng Yaozhu hovered in the air, watching everything unfold on the ground.
Na'er had contacted her the moment Li Zha killed Guang Long.
Leng Yaozhu had arrived even before Guang Biao, but after a moment's consideration, she had chosen not to intervene immediately. She wanted to use this opportunity to remind Li Zha that he needed to learn restraint.
But now, it seemed,
Li Zha had not changed his Demon Pill nature in the slightest. A Soul Grandmaster had actually dared to fight a Soul Emperor.
"...Back in the Phantom Brain dreamscape, this child dared to fight the level 98 Dark Bell with only one ring..."
Remembering what had happened three years earlier, Leng Yaozhu sighed.
"I hope this teaches you both a lesson."
Leng Yaozhu continued to watch.
She hoped Li Zha and Na'er would learn from this that without strength, they had to exercise restraint.
After all, no matter how gifted they were, geniuses who had yet to mature were nothing at all.
On the ground,
Having blocked that attack, Li Zha shook his hand slightly.
Even though he had blocked the Soul Emperor's attack, its force had left the web between his thumb and forefinger numb.
"Senior brother! I'll help you!"
Na'er jumped down from the table with the Silver Dragon Spear in hand, and a purple soul ring lit up.
"Third Soul Skill: Silver Dragon Plays with the Pearl!"
A silver dragon phantom coiled around Na'er's spear, while a white pearl condensed at its tip.
This was the manifestation of the Silver Dragon King's elemental power compressed to its utmost limit into a single point.
Gripping the spear with both hands, Na'er stabbed down at Guang Biao's forehead.
"You little brats really think you can do whatever you want!"
This time, Guang Biao truly intended to kill. With a wave of his hand, a dense array of sharp iron spikes appeared and shot toward Na'er.
Na'er gritted her teeth and held her spear firm. The dense barrage of iron spikes hammered into the Silver Dragon Spear, producing astonishing recoil.
The repeated impacts actually held Na'er suspended above Guang Biao's head, leaving her unable to thrust any farther down.
The power of the white orb at the Silver Dragon Spear's tip rapidly dwindled. The orb soon shrank, and Na'er's expression changed drastically.
"Oh no!"
Sure enough, the next instant,
The Silver Dragon Spear's white radiance dissipated, and Na'er was blasted away toward the building behind her.
"Heaven-and-Earth Silk!"
Li Zha hurriedly beckoned. The Heaven-and-Earth Silk flew into the air, wrapped around Na'er's calf, and snapped taut.
He finally managed to save her before she struck the building.
Na'er landed, cuts from the iron spikes marking her pale arms and calves.
Na'er gritted her teeth.
"Senior brother, sorry. This guy is too strong..."
"Damn it, why isn't Teacher here yet?! I already contacted her!"
Li Zha glanced up at the sky.
He could not sense Leng Yaozhu's presence, but he knew she had definitely arrived.
Li Zha chuckled.
"Forget it. Teacher won't show herself until we're beaten flat. She's probably trying to use this opportunity to temper our personalities."
Na'er stood up with her spear. "But what does this have to do with whether we're arrogant? If we'd left earlier, Guang Biao would definitely have taken his anger out on everyone else."
"Hmph! If Teacher really won't come out, she's a big meanie!"
Na'er spat out the complaint, then quickly grimaced in pain. There were wounds all over her body.
If Na'er and Li Zha had not spent the past three years experiencing real combat, they probably would have wanted to flee by now.
Guang Biao was also finding this rather troublesome.
"These two brats... whose children are you, anyway? Where are your elders? Are they still refusing to come out?!"
He had not used his full strength precisely because he was waiting for whoever stood behind these two children.
Yet almost half an hour had passed, and no one had appeared.
At that thought, suspicion suddenly stirred in Guang Biao's heart.
A possibility occurred to him, and he immediately asked,
"You two brats didn't sneak out without telling your families, did you?"
Na'er said, "Bullshit! Just you wait! When my teacher gets here, she'll beat you to death!"
But Na'er's words sounded exactly like an empty bluff.
Guang Biao's eyes immediately lit up.
"So that's it. You really did sneak out."
"In that case, I doubt your elders will find out you're here anytime soon..."
"Then don't blame me for being ruthless! Once I kill you, at worst I'll quit being a mecha captain and spend the rest of my life hiding my name!"
Ironclad Dragon scales covered Guang Biao's right hand, and a spear of iron spikes condensed.
"I'll have you torn apart by five horses as an offering to my brother's spirit in heaven!"
Holding the spear in his right hand, Guang Biao abruptly unleashed his long-suppressed killing intent.
Tang Wulin immediately rose and charged forward, unleashing Golden Dragon Claw. "Oh no! Run, both of you!"
Gu Yue's gaze instantly hardened as well.
Na'er held thirty percent of her power. She absolutely could not let anything happen to her here!
Tang Wulin rushed out in an instant, blocking Guang Biao's path of attack.
"Golden Dragon Claw! Blue Silver Entanglement!"
Tang Wulin erupted with power. Blue Silver Grass appeared out of thin air and wrapped around Guang Biao's feet, trying to buy some time.
However,
Guang Biao tore his Blue Silver Grass apart in an instant.
"Get out of my way! I'll deal with you later!"
Without even looking, Guang Biao kicked Tang Wulin and sent him flying.
"Wulin!"
Xie Xie looked toward Tang Wulin. His body slammed into the wall, and he fell to the ground covered in blood, unable to rise.
"You motherfucker! Fuck your mother!"
At this life-or-death moment, adrenaline surged through Xie Xie. Holding the Light and Shadow Dragon Dagger, he stabbed at Guang Biao's head.
Yet his attack only struck a few sparks off Guang Biao. Iron armor covered Guang Biao's entire body, and even though that single strike drained all of Xie Xie's soul power, he could not break through its defenses.
Seeing Guang Biao about to reach Na'er, Gu Yue focused her gaze. The elemental power around her immediately seethed, and a spatial binding force appeared around Guang Biao.
"What the hell is this?!"
Guang Biao felt as though something had bound him, and he struggled fiercely.
Gu Yue gave a muffled groan, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. She turned toward Na'er and Li Zha.
"Why aren't you running? Are you waiting to die?!"
Guang Biao roared furiously, "Run? Where do you think you can run?!"
Unable to break free immediately, Guang Biao simply hurled the iron spear in his right hand at Li Zha and Na'er!
With the full force of his attack behind it, the iron spear actually broke through Gu Yue's restraints and flew straight toward Li Zha's head.
"Senior brother, what do we do...?"
The reflection of the approaching iron spear grew larger and larger in Na'er's beautiful silver eyes. She truly panicked.
Li Zha said nothing and drove his soul power to its limit.
The Fire-Tipped Spear's Spear Ray instantly blazed with dazzling brilliance. Na'er gritted her teeth and activated the Silver Dragon Spear at the same time, unleashing a burst of white radiance.
Li Zha and Na'er exchanged a glance, a ruthless light entering both their eyes.
Running now meant death. Their only choice was to fight!
"You think I'll shrink from your edge?!"
The next instant,
Li Zha and Na'er thrust their spears in uncanny unison. Red and white light burst from the two spears as they met the iron spear's tip together.
Boom!
Terrifying waves of energy spread outward.
The full-powered strike of a Soul Emperor made Li Zha and Na'er bleed from the recoil the instant they touched the iron spear.
Up in the sky,
Leng Yaozhu's figure flickered. Feeling that they had learned enough of a lesson, she prepared to rescue them.
She crossed a hundred meters of empty air in an instant and appeared beside Li Zha.
Just as she was about to act,
Leng Yaozhu stopped, her gaze filled with shock. "This is... a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?!"
Right before Leng Yaozhu's eyes,
The light from Li Zha's and Na'er's spears intertwined, red and white converging. Their spears suddenly became illusory, then fused into one!
Faced with a life-or-death crisis,
Their surroundings transformed into a sea of fire, and a silver dragon phantom let out a long cry within the flames!
"Dragon's Cry in the Burning Silence: Dragon King's Lament!"
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