"Check in!"
Lin Yinuo roared inwardly, pinning all his hopes on this special opportunity in his desperate predicament!
[Ding! Special check-in successful! Congratulations to the host for unlocking your potential in a life-or-death crisis. Rewards obtained: [Divine Ability: Thunder Shadow Void Escape (Basic)] and [Soul Recovery Potion (High Efficiency) ×1]!]
A vast flood of information instantly poured into his mind! [Thunder Shadow Void Escape] was no mere flight technique, but a movement ability that combined the Laws of Lightning's profound mystery of "Lightning Quickness" with the Laws of Space's profound mystery of "Pulsation" at a basic level! It could briefly unleash speed beyond his limits, making his figure move like thunder and lightning, and even allow short-range spatial blinks within a small area!
At the same time, a cool, immense surge of soul energy emerged within him, rapidly repairing the damage his soul had suffered from confronting the soul attack head-on. This was precisely the effect of the [Soul Recovery Potion]!
Thunder Shadow Void Escape! Just in time!
All of this happened in a flash. Outside, the radiance in Golden Eyes' golden pupils had already reached its peak, and he was about to unleash a second, even stronger "Light-Soul Finger"!
At that critical instant, Lin Yinuo's tightly shut eyes snapped open! The earlier calm was gone from his eyes, replaced by a burst of dazzling lightning and silver light!
"Thunder Shadow Void Escape!"
With a low shout, his figure instantly blurred! It was no longer a simple spatial distortion; he became a phantom wreathed in silver lightning!
Whoosh-!
His speed suddenly soared! In the sliver of time before impact, he narrowly evaded Golden Eyes' lethal finger strike! The golden blast skimmed past his afterimage and pierced a hole in the arena barrier behind him!
"What?!" Golden Eyes' golden pupils abruptly contracted, and disbelief appeared on his face for the first time! How had his opponent suddenly become so much faster?! And that trajectory contained the dual profundities of space and lightning!
An uproar erupted in the stands as well!
"So fast!"
"Was he hiding his strength earlier?"
"No! He broke through in the middle of battle!"
Lin Yinuo did not pause for an instant. Using Thunder Shadow Void Escape, he moved around Golden Eyes at high speed like a ghost, leaving trails of lightning afterimages. Although Golden Eyes still held the advantage with his light speed, he could no longer lock onto Lin Yinuo's true body as easily as before!
"Is dodging all you can do?!" Golden Eyes snapped coldly. Soul radiance blazed in his golden pupils, and invisible soul impacts spread outward like a tide in an area attack!
However, the potion had already restored most of Lin Yinuo's soul, and the power of his will protected it as well, greatly reducing the effectiveness of the area soul attack. Relying on Thunder Shadow Void Escape's extreme speed and blinking ability, he could always find weak points in the soul tide and evade it.
The speed gap is gone! Now it's my turn to strike back!
He stopped merely dodging. The instant another lightning-shadow blink brought him behind Golden Eyes' flank, he forcibly blended the Destruction Rule's "Annihilation" intent, the Fire Elemental Laws' "Profound Mystery of Explosion," and a trace of the lightning "Lightning Quickness" intent he had just incorporated, pouring all three into the mass of [Lowgod Artifact Embryo] he had been nurturing within his body!
"Form!"
At the urging of his will, the embryo, like liquid starlight, instantly took shape! It became a longsword about four feet long, dark purple throughout, its blade wreathed in tiny silver lightning serpents and inky-black destruction patterns! The instant the sword formed, an incomparably sharp aura shot skyward, as though it could sever rules themselves!
The Destruction Thunderblade!
This was his alone-a growth-type divine artifact that fused the intents of multiple laws and rules!
"Slash!"
Gripping the Destruction Thunderblade, Lin Yinuo moved with his sword. Man and blade seemed to become one, transforming into a dark streak of purple lightning that tore through space. With Thunder Shadow Void Escape's utmost speed, he slashed fiercely down at Golden Eyes! Wherever the blade passed, it left black cracks in space that lingered long afterward!
This strike contained speed, destruction, and explosive force! It was the ultimate culmination of all the potential and insights he had unleashed in his desperate predicament!
Golden Eyes' expression changed drastically. He sensed a lethal threat from this strike! With a furious roar, he drove his profound mysteries of light speed and soul to their limits, pressing his palms together to form an incomparably brilliant golden shield before him, seemingly made of soul light!
"Light Soul Guardian!"
Boom-!!!
The Destruction Thunderblade struck the golden shield with savage force!
This time, there was no silent annihilation, but an earth-shaking explosion! Destructive energy, violent lightning, and rending spatial power collided madly with that resilient soul light, eroding and exploding!
The dazzling light instantly silenced the entire arena, and everyone instinctively closed their eyes!
Once the light faded a little, everyone eagerly looked toward the platform.
An enormous crater had appeared in the center of the platform. At its edge, Lin Yinuo knelt on one knee, supporting himself with the Destruction Thunderblade. His face was as pale as paper, blood kept spilling from the corner of his mouth, and his aura was utterly feeble. He was clearly at the end of his strength.
Opposite him, Golden Eyes was still standing. But his shield of soul light had shattered, his hands were mangled and bloody, his clothes were in tatters, and his golden pupils were dull. He stared fixedly at Lin Yinuo and opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something.
Crack...
A faint cracking sound came from within his body.
The golden light in his eyes went out completely. His body toppled backward stiffly and hit the ground with a thud, all signs of life gone. A hair-thin fissure quietly spread across the center of his brow.
Lin Yinuo's supreme strike, which combined multiple powers, had not only cleaved through his defenses. At the final moment, a trace of destructive sword energy had invaded his soul and annihilated it completely!
The ninth-ranked powerhouse, "Golden Eyes," with eighty-nine consecutive victories, had fallen!
Silence. Deathly silence.
Then cheers and shouts erupted like a volcano, almost lifting the roof off the entire arena!
"7741! He won! He beat Golden Eyes!"
"Dragonblood Asura! Invincible!"
"Ninety-nine consecutive victories! He only has one match left!"
Everyone went wild! They had witnessed a miracle! A newcomer had broken through in the midst of a desperate battle, turned the tables, and slain a supreme powerhouse who had nearly reached a hundred consecutive victories!
Lin Yinuo raised his head with difficulty and looked at the referee.
Only then did the referee recover from his shock and announce loudly, "The winner is number 7741, Lin Yinuo! Consecutive victories: seventy-five!"
According to the rules, defeating a fighter with a high winning streak allows him to inherit some of their victories... His streak should jump straight to...
The token vibrated, and its information updated: victories: ninety-nine!
Defeating Golden Eyes had allowed him to directly inherit twenty-four of his eighty-nine consecutive victories. Added to his own seventy-five, his winning streak instantly reached ninety-nine! He was just one step away from a hundred consecutive victories!
Immense joy and exhaustion surged through him at the same time. Lin Yinuo could no longer hold on. His vision went black, and he collapsed unconscious on the platform.
When he woke again, he found himself lying in a private healing chamber provided by the Asura Arena, with rich life energy nourishing his body and soul. That battle had drained him far too much, almost exhausting him completely.
But he could feel that, after this life-or-death tempering, his magic power had become purer. With the aid of his will's power and the potion, his soul had gained a blessing from misfortune and seemed to have grown a little stronger. His understanding of several laws and rules had also become clearer and deeper. The Destruction Thunderblade in his hand conveyed a sense of intimate connection, as though it were an extension of his body.
Ninety-nine consecutive victories... Just one final match left. This last match will probably be harder than anything before.
He knew that a hundred consecutive victories was a legend in the Asura Arena, and countless powerhouses had fallen at this final step. The true big shots within the main city would never easily allow a newcomer, especially one beyond their control, to qualify for a hundred consecutive victories so effortlessly.
The final battle would no longer be a simple fight on the platform. It would very likely involve a deeper struggle.
But he feared nothing.
After resting for several days and restoring himself to peak condition, Lin Yinuo took the initiative to submit an application to the Asura Arena-
To fight his hundredth battle!
The moment the news broke, the entire Zijing Main City was shaken! Countless eyes focused on this event, waiting for the final battle to arrive.
Could Dragonblood Asura create a miracle and reach the summit of a hundred consecutive victories?
The storm was about to reach its peak.
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