Xiao Yan’s light and spiteful sneer was like pouring a pot of cold water into boiling oil. Instantly, a blood-red, vast Dou Qi surged out overwhelmingly from Fan Lao’s body, whose face was twisted in rage. His withered hand clawed out suddenly, swiftly forming an eerie seal. The surging blood-colored Dou Qi churned, and a blood spear, as thick as a calf, completely dark red in color, quickly solidified and appeared under everyone’s gaze. As the blood spear solidified, Fan Lao grasped it tightly. He raised his head towards Xiao Yan, his mouth moving to reveal slightly sharp and bone-white teeth. His wings behind him shook violently, and a sharp roar of fury mixed with boundless killing intent blasted out from Fan Lao’s mouth. In this loud sonic wave, his figure seemed to glide through the air, turning into an extremely blurry blood shadow. He rushed towards Xiao Yan like lightning, the long spear in his hand drawing a chill wind, viciously stabbing straight at Xiao Yan’s heart. After using the so-called “Blood Transformation,” Fan Lao did not show any signs of an explosive increase in Dou Qi, but his speed had improved greatly. When he moved, many people could only see his body trembling slightly, and when they looked again, they were shocked to find that the figure had become increasingly illusory. Clearly, this was due to reaching a certain speed limit, leaving only such a residual image. Previously, when Xiao Yan had displayed the Thousand Thunder Dynamic to its first layer’s maximum, he could barely leave a faint afterimage. However, that afterimage was incomparable to what Fan Lao had created. Of course, at that level, Xiao Yan’s strength was at best at the Dou Spirit rank, and creating an afterimage that even ordinary Dou King-level experts found difficult made him proud.
Fan Lao’s displayed speed left countless people in awe, but the expression on Xiao Yan’s face, who was confronting him, remained unchanged. In his pitch-black pupils, a beam of blood-red light rapidly magnified. In the next instant, the blood-red light suddenly turned into a ferocious face. The sharp, peerless energy-blood spear pierced through the air, carrying a chill wind, and shot directly at Xiao Yan.
*Clang!*
A wide, dark shadow suddenly appeared, its thick back resembling a shield, standing straight in front of Xiao Yan. The blood spear struck heavily on it. Instantly, a strong gust of wind, like a hurricane, swept out, carrying a faint sound of wind and thunder.
Behind Xiao Yan, the blue fire wings flapped vigorously, and he took two steps back. He shook his arm hard, finally parrying the enraged strike from Fan Lao. Lifting his eyes, he looked through the Heavy Xuan Ruler and saw Fan Lao’s sinister, grim face, a pair of blood-red irises exuding boundless killing intent and cruelty.
“Little bastard, I’ll pierce countless bloody holes in you!” Fan Lao gave a chilling, sinister laugh. Holding the blood spear, his hand suddenly twisted, making the spear on the ruler twist. A blood-red arc of light appeared, and the spear thrust out explosively again!
“You’re not qualified for that now,” Xiao Yan smiled. A hint of silver lightning flickered beneath his feet. His body moved, and he instantly dashed out like a ghost along the path of the blood spear. With his five fingers tightly clenched, green flames surrounded them, and with a blazing heat, he smashed straightforwardly at Fan Lao’s face.
Fan Lao, enraged by the slippery Xiao Yan, also had blood Qi swirling around his right palm. His nail, sharp as a blade, trembled lightly, producing a faint tearing sound, as if space itself was being torn.
His five fingers closed together, like a sharp blood sword, directly aiming for Xiao Yan’s fist. The piercing wind produced a sound like a sharp blade slicing through thin paper, sending a chill through one’s body.
Sensing the keen force contained in the peculiar blood sword formed by Fan Lao’s nails, Xiao Yan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. The sharpness of those nails was likely no less than the blood spear. Directly clashing with them would be quite disadvantageous for him.
In a flash, his thoughts raced, and his arm suddenly quivered. The green flames enveloping his fist separated, forming a green flame ball, shooting explosively at Fan Lao.
The released flame ball, like a bullet, erupted with the suppressed heat, turning the color deeper. The flame ball distorted space, making it look warped and illusory.
Xiao Yan’s attack changed in an instant. By the time Fan Lao detected the deep blue flame ball, it had already arrived, the intense heat making his skin burn, even with a Dou Qi barrier protecting him.
At this close distance, dodging was impossible, so Fan Lao did not retreat. Streams of fierce blood-colored Dou Qi gushed out from his body, and a blood-colored membrane quickly solidified around his palm.
“Explode!”
Pulling back, Xiao Yan looked at the deep blue flame ball near Fan Lao. As he spoke, a sudden burst of intense light erupted from the flame ball, followed by a deafening boom. The scorching flames spread out, engulfing everything.
With a light wave of his sleeve, Xiao Yan dispersed the heat waves reaching him. Through narrowed eyes, he watched the expanding flames, knowing an attack of this intensity wouldn’t harm a powerhouse like Fan Lao.
As Xiao Yan watched, a blood-colored light column suddenly shot out from the spreading flames. Within the column, Fan Lao’s figure rose slowly. His face still grim, he held aloft the thick, sharp blood spear, his body in a half-turn, and the blood-colored Dou Qi around him continuously flowed into the spear.
As more and more Dou Qi poured in, the blood spear became darker and more blood-soaked, emitting a stronger stench. At the tip of the spear, a cold, blood-red light arc gleamed, its sharp point seeming to possess the power to pierce all defenses.
Xiao Yan’s face grew solemn as the blood spear condensed. He could clearly feel that Fan Lao’s attack had reached its peak, the full might of a Battle Emperor being enough to shatter a mountain. Even with the Elder’s support, Xiao Yan dared not underestimate it.
He slowly raised the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and surging green fire Dou Qi gushed out, flowing in ceaselessly. The two, separated by less than a hundred meters in the sky, fell into a strange silence. But everyone knew that beneath this calm, a frightening collision was brewing, ready to erupt at any moment.
Under the watchful, awed gazes of many, Fan Lao’s blood spear finally stopped absorbing Dou Qi. At this moment, a slight twist of the spear could cause a spatial ripple, the energy contained within reaching a terrifying limit.
Gripping the blood spear, Fan Lao’s face paled, his blood-red eyes fixed on Xiao Yan. A bizarre laugh echoed through the sky: “Little bastard, it’s all over.”
As the laughter faded, Fan Lao didn’t give Xiao Yan a moment to gather Dou Qi. His arm quivered, and the blood spear, imbued with his full power, was released!
“Great Blood Spear Devour!”
As the spear left his hand, a powerful, blood-tinged aura spread. Under the blazing sun, the crowd felt as if they were in a deep abyss, the once clear sky now shrouded in a hazy, blood-tinged aura, desolate and eerie.
This sudden change in the sky momentarily halted the battles in other areas, curious glances thrown at Fan Lao and Xiao Yan. Particularly when they saw the blood spear shoot from Fan Lao’s hand, many Black-Corner Region powerhouses burst into exclamations.
“Is that the Great Blood Spear Devour?”
“Fan Lao has been forced to use such a Dou Technique by that young man.”
“This old fool is truly driven mad, even using a Ground Rank Dou Technique. It seems that black-robed youth is in trouble. Many Battle Emperors who died by Fan Lao’s hand met their end here…”
As the exclamations spread, a blood-red bolt of lightning breached the space, appearing in front of Xiao Yan in a blur, bringing with it a nausea-inducing, bloody aura.
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan raised the black, heavy ruler high above his head. The black ruler’s surface turned deep red, like a ruler covered in flames. The terrifying force of the blood-red lightning caused Xiao Yan’s pores to tighten, his eyes fixed on the blood-red streak.
In an instant, a furious shout erupted, and the heavy ruler descended with a powerful slash, as if it would split the entire earth!
“Flame Division Wave-Scale Ruler!”
As the cold, sharp shout fell, a huge, green energy whip instantly shot from the top of the Heavy Xuan Ruler, tearing through space, distorting it, as if it were shattered glass.
In the gaze of countless onlookers, the green energy whip collided with the blood-red streak, like meteorites, in a momentous explosion, the true, earth-shattering collision finally born!
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