Wang Rui slammed heavily onto the edge of the arena, his aura feeble, seemingly without the strength to fight again.
Many in the crowd below breathed sighs of relief, believing the outcome of the duel had been decided.
However, the power of the Yang Pupil flashed in Lin Ke's eyes, and he did not lower his guard.
He could clearly see an extremely faint yet viciously sinister aura spreading from deep within Wang Rui's seemingly shattered body.
Wang Rui was about to unleash his full strength!
"Cough, cough..."
Sure enough, shortly after falling, Wang Rui struggled to raise his head.
Instead of the despair of defeat, his face wore a twisted, crazed smile, which looked especially hideous mingled with blood.
"Senior Brother Lin Ke... you truly... live up to your reputation. But I... can't accept it ending like this!"
Before his words had faded, he struck his own chest fiercely, spitting out a mouthful of heart's blood essence.
At the same time, his hands frantically formed seals at a nearly self-mutilating speed, and his hoarse roar rang across the arena:
"Ten Thousand Spiders Devour the Heart... Spirit Fusion!"
As his words fell,
Boom!!!
A dark blue pillar of Spirit Power, many times more violent and chilling than before, erupted from Wang Rui's body.
He had used Spirit Fusion, one of the Golden Wing Sect's inherited secret techniques.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-
At Wang Rui's shout, the filthy ground beneath him, formed from Dark Blue Spider corpses and venom, seemed to answer a summons.
Countless broken spider corpses and streams of sticky venom flowed upward like living creatures, surging madly toward his body.
Crack, crack-
The teeth-grating sounds of bones shattering and reforming rang out one after another.
Wang Rui's body swelled and twisted violently in defiance of all reason.
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