Chapter 1672: Extinction
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Three full minutes.
Time trickled slowly past amid booming explosions of soul power, shrill howls of vines, and muffled impacts.
The blood that had boiled in the audience of a hundred and twenty thousand at the throne's descent gradually cooled amid this dull, seemingly endless struggle.
The initial roars of astonishment had long since dwindled into scattered, feeble comments or weary silence.
No matter how spectacular a duel was, when destruction and restoration played out over and over in the same meat grinder for too long... even surging hot blood would eventually congeal into a dull scab.
In the stands, some began rubbing their stiff, aching necks, while others quietly turned their eyes elsewhere.
A high-intensity, suffocating equilibrium... was its own kind of tedium.
The roar of the audience gradually subsided amid the suffocating standoff, whispers rustling like broken leaves:
"That powder-faced chick! Who does she think she is?!"
"I thought that no matter how overbearing the Banished Immortal was, she'd still end up with her halberd broken and buried in the sand before the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou. I never expected it to be this one-sided."
"I wasn't expecting such a crushing defeat either. I thought we'd see a dragon clash with a tiger. Who could have guessed... the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou would be squeezed into this state, with nothing left but this tiny patch of space to maneuver in and defend?"
"Exactly. Sixth, tenth, and fifteenth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking... even working together, the three of them can barely hold on inside the prison those vine walls have made."
"One person, surrounding a whole group of Heavenly Prodigies."
"A sea of vines made from five