High above, the battle between Ye Qiyan and Sima Jiuyi continued.
But as the battlefield shifted into the sky.
Here, on home ground where the Calamity Cards could unleash their full power.
Sima Jiuyi had no way to put his martial skills to use.
Freezing, thunder, all manner of vicious plants released by Ye Qiyan from the Nether Moon Garden in every direction-plants that only behaved themselves around Mingming-and the destabilizing tides from Imaginary Number Space made it impossible for him even to get close to Ye Qiyan.
He could not evade calamity, even though he had long since performed Combat Analysis using past footage of Ye Qiyan and believed he had already treated him as an equal opponent.
Yet only once the fighting actually began did Sima Jiuyi discover that he still seemed to have underestimated this newcomer.
"You really are strong."
Sima Jiuyi clenched his fists.
Beneath the pitch-black flames, his frozen arm gradually recovered.
The imaginary number tides made the distance between him and Ye Qiyan fluctuate. Sometimes, even when he charged forward, he would be sent in another direction in the blink of an eye.
That sense of spatial disorientation was what Sima Jiuyi found hardest to adapt to.
"You're not weak yourself."
Faced with attacks from all sides.
His opponent truly lived up to being a Top-Level Train Conductor.
Without using the Demon Card, having Eve and Hunt join the fight, or using his many other trump cards.
Relying on Giant Eagle, White Bear, and Augustine, who resonated with calamity.
He had actually failed to crush his opponent outright with the power of calamity.
Ye Qiyan was quite pleased about this.
After all, if a Top-Level Train Conductor really were as weak as those two he had encountered at the previous station.
That would have