“What do you mean?!”
Mr. Wend clearly hadn’t reacted yet, his gaze swept over Su Jiu’s fingernails. Although he was holding a weapon, he had a feeling of being under pressure. He then took a breath and leaned back towards the Priest. He said with a calm smile, “You don’t think I’d be foolish enough to let you have a chance to attack my Priest.”
Seeing that Su Jiu didn’t reply, Mr. Wend stroked the exotic longsword in his hand, feeling the sword body formed by several “S” shapes. He said with confidence, “I know you are a Swordsman. Without a sword in your hand, you can’t exert even 40% of your strength.”
“Swordsman? Heh, I’ve never considered myself a Swordsman.”
However, facing Mr. Wend’s words, Su Jiu shook her head and chuckled. A crimson light flashed in her eyes, and she silently recited “Elegy”. The aura around her continued to surge, rising continuously.
“You still want to use a secret technique… Do you think I’m an idiot? – Scarlet Flame Sword Qi!”
Mr. Wend squinted his eyes and sneered. He stomped his foot heavily on the ground, and his body shot towards Su Jiu like an arrow. The exotic longsword in his hand had already flared with fiery brilliance, and the air seemed to be burning, creating ripples.
This was also a transcendent flame!
At this moment, the temperature in the arena had risen to nearly sixty degrees. Even with the Energy Shield blocking, everyone felt sweat trickling down their backs. Clearly, the transcendent flame of the opponent was not simple. Those in the arena were already curious how this female Swordsman from Dragon Country would deal with Mr. Wend, who now had a sword in hand.
Did she use her second Beast Pet?
But there was no Beast Pet beside her at all.
“Butterfly Blade!”
The next moment, in Mr. Wend’s eyes, Su Jiu’s body actually let out a “Bang!” sound and exploded, turning into a cluster of golden butterflies.
“Butterflies! She’s ascended to become a butterfly? This is a top-tier skill similar to the Blood Clan!”
“Bang! Bang! Bang!!!”
While everyone was astonished, the butterfly swarm swept past Mr. Wend like a [Dragon Star Cluster] and rushed towards the Priest behind him. Immediately, the sound of a golden shield being broken erupted from the center of the arena, lingering for a long time.
The audience in the stands looked at the fiery spectacle and listened to the sound of the air being torn apart. Then, they saw the outermost Energy Shield being smashed with spiderweb-like cracks by the falling butterflies. Immediately, they gasped in shock and drew a cold breath.
They were eager to see how the female Priest was doing. If the outermost layer was so severely damaged, what about the inside?
“Damn, without a sword, her damage is still so high…”
Soon, Mr. Wend on the field reacted. He turned to look in Su Jiu’s direction, his face flushed. He rushed forward, wanting to defend the Priest against Su Jiu’s relentless assassination.
“The amplification is gone…”
But at a distance of half a meter from the smoke, his steps suddenly stopped. His aura slightly faltered, followed by his pupils slowly widening and his throat constricting. Suddenly, as if sensing something, he looked up and met a pair of blood-red eyes. He could only reluctantly raise the sword in his hand to block.
“Clang! Clang! Clang!”
The bright sparks illuminated the figure in the black dress. A face with a sinister smile, accompanied by fingernail clippers carrying thin ice, lunged forward, and snowflakes flickered like fireworks from childhood.
In the instant their weapons crossed, Su Jiu, like a true Blood Clan member, wielded the fingernail clippers with great agility, causing the exotic sword to be knocked out of his hand. Mr. Wend’s arm also went completely numb at this moment.
Without the Priest’s amplification, he was completely unable to contend with Su Jiu. The more they fought, the more shocked Mr. Wend became. He realized that almost all of Su Jiu’s basic attributes surpassed his. Even his proud top-tier transcendent fire attribute was crushed by Su Jiu’s peculiar green ice.
He was about to bend down to pick up his sword when a blood-red slash flashed before his eyes. He felt a sharp pain in his left arm, and then he looked in horror as blood splattered. He tried to reach for his left hand, only to find his tattered battle suit empty.
And not far away, an arm that was still twitching because it contained external qi lay on the ground…
Feeling the stinging pain in his arm, Mr. Wend quickly used flames to stop the bleeding. He couldn’t afford to care about anything else. He rolled a few times, creating distance between himself and Su Jiu, and gasped for breath.
Losing an arm was a small matter; a War God Level Priest could reattach it perfectly. If he were to lose in this World Championship that he had prepared for so long, his family would definitely investigate his deliberate targeting of Vivian.
Mr. Wend looked at the Priest sleeping like a baby on the ground, then glanced at the sky where the activity seemed to have diminished. He gritted his teeth and thought, “I must summon Lu Si back. I can’t delay any longer. This Frost Blade is not a Swordsman at all, but…”
“Didn’t I tell you? She’s an assassin…”
On the judge’s bench, Mr. Green looked at the US representative, whose face had darkened. He suddenly smiled, as she was an Shadow Walker from that place after all.
After Mr. Wend was defeated, their country’s Morin could basically secure second place. That martial arts enthusiast was no match for Morin.
The US representative’s gaze remained fixed on the stage, his face expressionless. Mr. Wend’s team was their country’s leading team. If Mr. Wend were to be defeated here, according to his gestures, they might be eliminated within the top six.
“Mr. Wend’s arm… was severed.”
On the stage, the lightning-fast exchange finally slowed down abruptly. When the audience in the stands saw Mr. Wend with a severed arm, they were all stunned. This favored son was known as the “Son of the Red Dragon,” yet he was pushed to such an extent by the weaponless Frost Blade.
Just as Mr. Wend was about to summon the Red Dragon Lu Si, a slightly cold voice suddenly rang out. His face changed abruptly, and he turned his head sharply, only to be met with a gentle smiling face and two fangs below those peculiar thin lips.
“Blood Clan… Ah! My leg!! You actually cut off my leg!!”
He suddenly froze, his pupils slowly widening. He even hesitated for a moment when his left foot was severed before letting out a horrified scream, barely regaining his balance with external qi.
“Hehe, shush!”
With a light chuckle, Su Jiu flicked the blood beads from her fingernails and walked towards the one-legged Mr. Wend. She slowly raised a finger, then placed it on her lips, making a gesture to keep quiet, which had a somewhat devilish beauty.
At this moment, Mr. Wend no longer had his initial arrogance. He gritted his teeth and kept looking towards the sky. The battle up there was still at a stalemate. After a moment of silence, he spoke with great difficulty to Su Jiu, “I surrender…”
It’s fine, I’ll fight in the losers’ bracket and conserve my strength…
Not far from the edge of the arena, the referee suddenly realized that Su Jiu was acting strangely. He exchanged glances with the surrounding referees. Four War God Level referees walked into the four corners of the arena, but since Mr. Wend hadn’t surrendered yet, they didn’t stop the match.
“Don’t be in a hurry to surrender…”
When Su Jiu was more than three meters away from Mr. Wend, she suddenly stopped and smiled, waving her hand. Her rose-red eyes seemed mysterious and deep, as if hiding a mischievous elf within them.
“I won’t defeat you directly. Do you want to wait for the battle in the sky to end, and then we can decide the victor?”
Mr. Wend, who was about to surrender, suddenly froze. Although he didn’t know why she said that, the advantage was clearly with him. As long as Lu Si defeated that mixed-blood dragon, and they teamed up, it wasn’t impossible to fight back.
“Okay, I hope Miss Frost Blade abides by the rules.”
He then swallowed hard, forced a smile, and nodded. However, he didn’t notice the slight curve of Su Jiu’s lips, as if her plot had succeeded.
In mid-air, two figures clashed fiercely. Both of them held flaming weapons. The energy ripples from their collision caused the space around them to twist and shimmer slightly.
Another sword mark slashed across Lu Si’s body. She was panting heavily and could only wait desperately for Mr. Wend’s rescue. She tensed her facial nerves and looked at E Huo, dressed in Dragon Country attire. Her gaze swept over the Scarlet Flame Dagger in his hand, and she had a guess. She then said in Dragon language, “You have the aura of my kin on you. You devoured him… Which one of the Four Veins Eastern Dragon Clan is it? Is it the Sacrifice lineage or…”
“What Eastern or Western… E Huo is just E Huo!”
Listening to the muddled Dragon language, E Huo glared at Lu Si and turned into an afterimage. He appeared behind Lu Si and slashed diagonally at her arm. The blade light flashed, cutting through the incredibly hard dragon scales. Scalding dragon blood heavily struck the ground with a “thud!” sound…
E Huo didn’t understand much. She was different from ordinary dragons. She had lived with Su Jiu since birth. In fact, she could speak Chinese the best…
Her fair white arm transformed into a huge and ferocious dragon claw and fell heavily onto the arena. Mr. Wend, who had been looking forward expectantly, slightly changed his expression. The falling object was clearly the front claw of a Red Dragon. He could feel Lu Si’s aura on it.
“I can’t let her make the first move!”
Lu Si’s defeat caused a savage look to appear on Mr. Wend’s face. He waved his hands wildly, and the Energy Shield was filled with countless black smokes, obscuring the scene from the outside.
It seemed that the last shred of his sanity wanted to go all out. He considered himself a favored son, yet not only was he inferior to others in person, but even his pet was inferior…
This made him unable to resist using the potion he had saved for the finals!
“Lu Si can’t even defeat a mixed-blood dragon. Instead of enduring, it’s better to use a potion to enhance my strength, and then let Lu Si transform into a sword. Maybe I can still…”
He then took out a vial of potion from his pocket, used external qi to propel himself backward, and slid more than ten meters on the ground before looking up at the previous spot. His eyes trembled – where was she?
“Stop looking – I’m right here. Using a temporary potion, you brought this upon yourself.”
Seeing this, Mr. Wend was slightly stunned. Just as he was about to look around, he suddenly heard a cold laugh from behind him. The laughter was like a death knell. Suddenly, he realized that his sword-wielding hand had lost all sensation.
Just like before when it was severed…
“What’s going on…”
Just as he was about to say something, his body suddenly started bleeding profusely, unable to stop the flow. His body became increasingly weak.
“Classmate Mr. Wend, what’s wrong with you! Ahhh! Referees, hurry! He took a forbidden potion – his blood can’t be stopped!”
He could only hear the sinister female voice suddenly become like a frightened little girl in his ear, shouting at him. But why was the voice getting fainter and fainter, and why was he becoming more and more sleepy?
At this moment, a referee’s angry roar seemed to come from his ear, which was the last sound he could hear: “Quick! Hurry and get a War God Level Priest! He may have absorbed too much energy, and his blood is being continuously squeezed!”
“How dare you touch my woman… Heh heh.”
Step by step, Su Jiu emerged from the black smoke, her fingertips still faintly glowing with a weak crimson light. She looked at the gigantic figure that had fallen heavily onto the arena in the sky and smiled with satisfaction.
“Mom, I want ice cream!!” a crisp voice rang out.
She glanced at E Huo, who had returned to her side, and then stuffed the giant dragon’s front claw into a ring. She then carried E Huo on her back and said with a soft smile, “Let’s go, Mommy will buy you some delicious food when we get back.”
