"This battle should end now. There's no shame in losing to me." Qin Wan'er swung her spear and was about to pursue when she suddenly sensed something. The ground beneath her feet shattered, and a vast radiance erupted from within. Spiritual Power flowed, tracing the shape of an illusory lotus that enveloped her.
"Is that a Spiritual Array? This boy is a Spiritual Array Master too?" some of the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe's elders exclaimed in surprise.
"He only just ascended to the Great Thousand World, so he probably doesn't know how to set up Spiritual Arrays yet. But this formation should be powerful enough to rival some high-grade earth-rank Spiritual Arrays. I imagine it's a technique he brought from that Lower Plane," Patriarch Tianhuang said, discerning what was happening in the arena at a glance. "Still, setting up a formation without even Qin Wan'er noticing shows truly exceptional cunning."
They were not worried about Qin Wan'er. High-grade earth-rank Spiritual Arrays were indeed powerful, enough even to threaten Sixth-Rank Supremes, but Qin Wan'er was a peak Seventh-Rank Supreme. Defeating her with a single earth-rank Spiritual Array was far too fanciful.
"Lesser Divine Art, Spirit-Shattering Divine Finger!" As the illusory lotus closed around her, Qin Wan'er thrust out a finger. A beam only as thick as a finger shot from her fingertip, blasting toward the center of the Demonic Lotus Formation. Xiao Yan swiftly activated the formation, and dazzling light bloomed at the lotus's heart, turning into a gray pillar of light that rushed to meet it.
Just as Patriarch Tianhuang and the others had judged, the Demonic Lotus Formation created by the Demonic Lotus Burial Step posed little threat to Qin Wan'er. After only a few breaths of stalemate, the illusory lotus formation was forcibly shattered, dissolving into countless motes