Boom!!!
World-destroying dragon breath poured straight over Wu Ku's body. Lu Ling dared not slacken and had no intention of letting Long Zhanye stop.
He wanted to kill him in one strike!
"Who are you?!" Wu Ku's furious voice came from within the flames.
Seriously? He had been burning in dragon breath that embodied destruction for over ten seconds, and he still wasn't dead?!
Dragon breath was currently his most powerful means of attack, even stronger than Advanced Level magic!
Lu Ling was startled, but soon understood why.
A spherical, transparent barrier was slowly expanding. Beneath the dragon breath, Wu Ku's figure gradually emerged.
The string of water prayer beads floated in midair before Wu Ku. Presumably, this was his means of defense.
Lu Ling had not expected Wu Ku to still be able to control the water prayer beads after they had left his hand.
"Who are you?" Wu Ku panted heavily. His right arm lay on the ground, blood flowing without end. His oil had run dry, his lamp burned out.
"Just someone passing by... forget it."
Lu Ling casually waved his hand, and an emerald Star Map was drawn in an instant.
"Zhu Nan, enhancement!"
Blessed, the white dragon's breath abruptly grew fifty percent stronger, yet it still failed to break through the water prayer beads' defense.
"Is the Water Element Calamity really this absurd?"
He had clearly cut off Wu Ku's hand first, yet his defense was still holding firm.
"Killing me won't be that easy..." Wu Ku gave a relieved laugh and increased his output of water elemental magic energy.
"Hmm... if I can't break through, why not just go around it?" Lu Ling inwardly cursed himself. He should never have wasted words with this fellow.
"Go around it?" Wu Ku did not understand what he meant.
But once again, he saw this unfamiliar white-haired youth drawing a Chaos Element Star Map.
"Chaos Domain."
"Chaos Vortex."
Two identical vortices manifested in the void, one outside the transparent defense, the other... right in Wu Ku's face!
"What?!"
The Heavenly Star White Dragon's destructive breath poured entirely into the vortex. Wu Ku sensed an aura of death slowly approaching. Terror gradually overtook his expression.
"Please, have mer-"
"He burned for a full minute. There shouldn't be so much as a bone left."
"He's definitely dead!" Long Zhanye declared confidently.
Having her dragon breath blocked by that damned baldy had made her lose face.
When the lingering dragon breath dispersed, only a string of charred prayer beads remained where Wu Ku had been. Everything else that could prove his identity had ceased to exist.
"...Forget it. I can only kill enemies by leaving not even their bones behind anyway."
"You cut off his hand just now, right? Why didn't you cut off his head instead?" Long Zhanye lowered her head and asked in puzzlement.
"...I have my own ingenious plan." Lu Ling looked embarrassed.
"Idiot." Long Zhanye gave a soft snort.
Lu Ling grew even more embarrassed.
Damn it, why hadn't he thought of that just now? Next time he killed someone, he should open with a decapitation.
Lu Ling picked up the water prayer beads containing the power of calamity-the scorched version. Although he had not cultivated water magic, he could still sense the immense power within them.
"Wait..."
His mental world shook again!
Was it here? This familiar feeling! Two years had already passed. Lu Ling had almost thought his talent had finished awakening.
Within his mental cosmos, a new expanse of azure had appeared. Its seven newborn stars were still extremely weak, but Lu Ling could sense it clearly.
This azure expanse of water was in no way inferior to his other magic elements, which had long since become nebulas!
Water Element Calamity!
A true Water Element Calamity bearer!
Could this be... plundering?
In the real world, Lu Ling stared with a complicated expression at the azure stardust that had appeared over his hand. He had never expected to use this as a catalyst to awaken the Water Element.
Looking again, he found that the immense power within the water prayer beads had vanished without a trace, leaving a perfectly ordinary string of prayer beads.
"The rain hasn't stopped yet."
Lu Ling closed his eyes and carefully sensed the water elements present in this world. Then ripples spread, an azure ring of water centered on him.
"Domain."
The water elements Wu Ku had sent high into the sky were absorbed in their entirety, becoming energy within Lu Ling's water domain.
The blazing sun concealed by rain clouds emerged, piercing the clouds and bringing light to Bo City once more.
But...
The Winged Azure Wolf?
Lu Ling saw an incongruous little speck atop the Yinmao Building.
"I didn't expect the Winged Azure Wolf to arrive so quickly." Lu Ling leaped onto the Heavenly Star White Dragon's back.
"Long Zhanye, let's go kill it."
"Still holding it for an instant burst?"
"Uh... do as you like this time."
Long Zhanye seemed to have learned some formidable sort of "ploy."
Without another word, the human and dragon soared high into the sky, flying toward the Winged Azure Wolf at top speed.
Atop the fortress.
Zhan Kong and the others saw an unfamiliar white dragon invading and were instantly alarmed.
The white dragon's aura seemed no weaker than that Winged Azure Wolf's!
Was heaven determined to destroy Bo City?!
The distance between Lu Ling and the Winged Azure Wolf shrank steadily. Suddenly, his Ice Element nebula trembled faintly, its forty-nine stars shining brilliantly.
Was this... Mu Ningxue here? Lu Ling looked toward the Mu Family Manor.
Because he had killed a wave of demon beasts on the outskirts while touring Bo City a few days earlier, and because this rain had been falling for less than an hour, Bo City's streets remained quite intact. He estimated that fewer than twenty demon beasts had successfully invaded Bo City.
Even if handling them put some pressure on the City Demon Hunting Squad, it was not beyond their ability.
He sensed it. Mu Ningxue was still inside the Mu Family Manor.
"I haven't had a chance to test it, as it happens." Lu Ling chuckled and raised a hand, grasping at empty air.
"Ice Crystal Bow."
Freezing ice dust swirled around Lu Ling, centered on his hand, rapidly forming an ice crystal bow, exquisitely beautiful yet brimming with murderous intent.
Endless water elements gradually condensed, forging this arrow of slaughter. The instant the ice arrow took shape, even Lu Ling's long white hair danced wildly.
Condense water into ice, use ice as an arrow!
All the water elements intercepted when he stopped the rain earlier condensed into this one arrow!
"Long Zhanye, don't attack yet!"
"All right." Sensing the ice elements gathering nearby, Long Zhanye understood that Lu Ling was preparing a terrifying killing move!
It whistled past, freezing the earth.
Extreme cold erupted within this arrow, like a sudden blizzard, striking the Winged Azure Wolf's heart without the slightest arc.
The ice arrow exploded instantly. Endless, extreme cold spread, swiftly freezing the Winged Azure Wolf together with the Yinmao Building!
At the Mu Family Manor, Mu Ningxue seemed to sense something.
She looked toward the Yinmao Building and saw the white dragon confronting it. The ice crystal within her soul imprint resonated faintly, until the ice crystal erupted.
"This is... Mom's."
Mu Ningxue folded both hands over her heart. Suddenly, she felt the extreme cold that had plagued her for two years vanish, replaced by an inexplicably familiar warmth.
Just like two years ago.
"Is that you? Lu Ling."