192: Chapter 192 Ji Youyou vs Xie Fuyao

Inside the virtual battlefield, on the random map: Sunset Ancient City.

The setting sun, like blood, dyed this dilapidated ancient city a grim, orange-red.

Senior Ji Youyou stood on a collapsed section of the city wall, her black high-slit long dress snapping in the wind.

She looked down at her empty wrist and curled her lip in annoyance:

"Tch, how boring."

"To think they wouldn't let me bring my pet? Now my little Bai has to just watch from the outside."

She lifted her head, a strange purple glow rising in her peach-blossom eyes as she looked at the figure sitting cross-legged and playing the zither on the opposite watchtower:

"Chief Xie, it seems it's just the two of us playing today."

Opposite her, Xie Fuyao was dressed in white as pristine as snow, an ancient zither resting across his knees.

He was not in the slightest bit perturbed by Senior Ji Youyou's teasing; his slender fingers merely pressed lightly against the strings. His voice drifted over with the evening breeze—gentle, yet carrying an irresistible authority:

"Since this is a peak duel, it must naturally rely on one's own raw strength."

"Junior Ji, I have long heard of your great reputation."

"Please, enlighten me."

"Zheng—"

The zither music began, and with it, the killing intent emerged!

Without any superfluous chatter, the battle exploded in an instant!

"Since you're in such a hurry, Senior, then I won't stand on ceremony!"

Senior Ji Youyou let out a charming laugh and suddenly threw her hands open.

Boom!

A thick, nearly viscous purple poisonous mist erupted from her, spreading wildly in all directions like a tsunami!

This was no ordinary poison gas; it was her SS-rank Supernatural Ability, Source of Gu Poison!

Wherever it passed, the bricks of the ancient city were instantly corroded into black pus, and even the air was poisoned, emitting a "hissing" wail.

"Gu Poison: Purple Luo Heavenly Net!"

Senior Ji Youyou flicked her ten fingers in succession, and the sky-filling purple mist instantly coalesced into thousands of purple venomous snakes. Baring their fangs, they swarmed toward Xie Fuyao, blotting out the sky!

This scene made the scalps of the audience outside tingle.

Is this a friendly sparring match? This is clearly an attempt to melt someone!

Facing this overwhelming tide of venomous snakes, Xie Fuyao's expression remained unchanged.

His fingertips moved slightly, and the zither music changed abruptly, shifting from its original clear, high-pitched tone to something deep and heavy, like a rushing great river.

"Weak Water, rise."

Splash—

In the void, black water surged forth from thin air.

The water was as pitch-black as ink, yet it did not flow with the agility of ordinary water; instead, it gave people a sense of immense weight, as if it weighed a thousand jun.

SS-rank Supernatural Ability, Weak Water Three Thousand!

Not even a goose feather can float, and birds struggle to cross!

The black Weak Water instantly formed a water wall dozens of meters high in front of Xie Fuyao.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!"

The sky-filling purple venomous snakes struck the Weak Water wall like clay oxen entering the sea. They didn't even stir up a wave before being instantly swallowed and decomposed by that terrifying gravity and corrosiveness!

"Hmph, you certainly have some tricks."

Senior Ji Youyou saw this, and her fighting spirit grew even stronger.

Her figure flashed, and she actually merged directly into the sky-filling purple mist, disappearing from sight.

Immediately afterward, the ground of the entire ancient city began to tremble violently.

"Glug... glug..."

Countless purple bubbles emerged from underground. Xie Fuyao discovered with surprise that the watchtower beneath his feet was actually starting to soften!

"Gu Poison: Bone-Eroding Spirit Transformation!"

Senior Ji Youyou's voice came from all directions, drifting and elusive:

"Senior Xie, your Weak Water may be heavy, but as long as I turn the place you're standing on into a poisonous swamp, let's see where you can hide!"

This move was extremely ruthless!

She had directly altered the terrain, turning the entire battlefield into her poisonous domain!

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

The black Weak Water and the purple poisonous swamp collided frantically, eroding each other.

For a moment, the entire virtual battlefield was divided between black and purple. The terrifying spiritual energy fluctuations made the audience outside feel suffocated, even through the screen.

"Too strong..."

"Is this the peak combat power of Pool 1?"

"I feel like either of them could kill me a hundred times over with just a single skill!"

Outside the arena, both students and teachers held their breath as they watched.

Up on the highest viewing platform, Principal Pang Ban stood with his hands behind his back. A flash of approval passed through his weathered old eyes, but it quickly turned to gravity.

"Things aren't looking good."

Principal Pang Ban sighed and commented in a low voice to Director Wang beside him:

"Although it looks evenly matched on the surface, with blows being traded back and forth,"

"in reality, Senior Ji Youyou is already being suppressed."

He pointed to Xie Fuyao, who was as steady as Mount Tai on the screen:

"Xie Fuyao's [Weak Water] is too steady; it's like a flawless circle. No matter how devious or ruthless Senior Ji Youyou's poison attacks are, they can never break through his core defensive perimeter."

Meanwhile, in the lounge.

Jiang You was sprawled on the sofa, a half-eaten biscuit dangling from his mouth. Deep within his half-lidded, dead-fish eyes, a ghostly blue light was flickering at an extremely subtle frequency.

He wasn't analyzing tactics or the situation like Principal Pang.

In his [Eye of Tianshu] vision, the world had become a sketch made of lines and points of light.

The human-shaped cluster of light representing Xie Fuyao was currently surrounded by an impenetrable black energy shield.

"So tough..."

Jiang You chewed up the biscuit in his mouth and muttered to himself:

"Is this guy surnamed Xie a turtle?"

"There isn't even a single red dot on his whole body?"

"I've been looking for ages and couldn't find a single flaw... This turtle shell is several times harder than that Zhang Kuang's was."

Although he didn't say it out loud, Jiang You was taking it a bit more seriously in his heart.

With previous opponents, he could see red dots everywhere at a glance, and they would die wherever he hit.

But this Xie Fuyao...

"This is a bit tricky."

Jiang You licked the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth, his eyes focusing on the hands Xie Fuyao was using to play the zither:

"If I absolutely had to find a gap to slip into..."

"It would probably only be that 0.01 second when he switches the zither music, where the spiritual energy flow pauses for a split second, right?"

"But for Senior Ji Youyou, that's too hard to catch."

Just as Principal Pang Ban and Jiang You had anticipated.

Inside the battlefield, fine beads of sweat had already seeped out on Senior Ji Youyou's forehead.

She had pushed [Source of Gu Poison] to its limit, even condensing a gigantic poisonous python manifestation to bombard Xie Fuyao.

But Xie Fuyao was like a reef by the seaside.

Let the wind and rain beat upon me; I remain unmoved.

His zither music grew faster and faster. The Weak Water around him not only didn't decrease, but grew more abundant, even showing signs of counter-encircling her!

"Damn it... is this guy's spiritual energy endless?"

Senior Ji Youyou gritted her teeth, a sense of powerlessness rising in her heart.

Although both were at the mid-Fourth-Order, Xie Fuyao's spiritual energy reserves were simply unfathomable!

"I can't drag this out any longer!"

A trace of determination flashed in Senior Ji Youyou's eyes.

"Gu Poison: Death's Whisper!"

Boom!

The sky-filling purple mist instantly contracted, all gathering in Senior Ji Youyou's palm, transforming into a purple-black sphere of light only the size of a thumb, yet radiating an aura of destruction.

This strike concentrated all her poison power and was enough to poison and kill any creature of the same rank!

"Go!"

Senior Ji Youyou flicked her finger.

The sphere of light tore through the void, piercing straight toward the center of Xie Fuyao's forehead in the split second before the Weak Water could close in!

This was a killing blow!

An unavoidable killing blow!

However.

Just at this moment of life and death.

Xie Fuyao, who had been sitting cross-legged the whole time, suddenly pressed down on the strings.

The zither music stopped abruptly.

He slowly lifted his head, looking at the incoming poison sphere. For the first time, a trace of kingly ferocity appeared in his calm eyes.

"Junior Ji, you really are strong."

Xie Fuyao's voice echoed over the ancient city:

"You've forced me to use my trump card."

"But this match... I will win."

"BOOM!!!!"

The moment his words fell.

Xie Fuyao's vital energy exploded without warning!

It was no longer the lukewarm water of the mid-Fourth-Order, but a volcanic eruption, skyrocketing all the way!

65... 70... 75...

Finally, it settled on a number that made everyone despair: 87.2!

Peak Fourth-Order!

It was not far from being a Tier 5 Grandmaster!

"What!"

Senior Ji Youyou's pupils constricted sharply.

"He... he was hiding his strength the whole time!"

"Weak Water: Heavenly River Inversion!"

Xie Fuyao grabbed the air with one hand.

The black Weak Water that had been circling him instantly boiled and roared, transforming into a black dragon a hundred meters long that let out a roar toward the sky!

That purple-black sphere of light, capable of poisoning and killing a mid-Fourth-Order, was like a tiny speck of dust in front of this black dragon.

"ROAR!"

The black dragon swallowed the sphere of light in one gulp without even making a sound, and then, carrying an earth-shattering momentum, it smashed down toward the already exhausted Senior Ji Youyou!

That was absolute power suppression!

That was a dimensional strike from a higher realm!