160: Chapter 160: You guys cheated first!

The magic concentration above the arena climbed crazily.

Layers upon layers of magic arrays nested within each other.

Elemental, spatial, spiritual, summoning, enhancement, healing, and defense.

The combined battle array, which had originally been pierced through by the Stand, was reconstructed after the second card was added.

If the battle array just now was a net.

Then now—it was a fortress!

A war fortress composed of twenty-three top national talents and forty-six high-tier cards!

Qin Ye watched this scene.

She did not stop them.

Nor did she strike immediately.

Her gaze slowly shifted from the three-layered lenses in front of Han Ce to the other contestants.

Then she tilted her head slightly.

The movement was very small.

She seemed to feel that something was not quite right.

On the other side.

Master Mage Chen Taixu finally walked down from the sand dune.

He held his wooden sword vertically in front of him and pulled out a second card from his Taoist robe with his left hand.

The card face had no pattern.

It only had eight lines of different colors: wind, fire, water, earth, thunder, wood, light, and dark.

"Ancestors above."

Master Mage Chen Taixu looked at the dark golden Stand and sighed softly.

"I originally did not want so many people to gang up on one young lady."

"But this young lady, it seems, cannot really be counted as just a young lady."

The card landed on the spine of the wooden sword.

The eight-colored lines spread instantly.

Tier 5 SSS-rank Elemental Support Card—[Myriad Phenomenon Array]!

Whoosh—wind blew across the arena.

It was not ordinary wind.

Every speck of dust, every wisp of water vapor, and every trace of temperature change in the wind became part of Master Mage Chen Taixu's perception at this moment.

The wind was flowing.

The flames were breathing.

The earth elements deep within the ground were trembling.

The light remaining on the glass ground was also broken down into countless extremely fine perceptual nodes.

Master Mage Chen Taixu closed his eyes.

The entire arena—became his eyes!

Finally.

Everyone's gaze fell on Wei Xiaoyu.

Wei Xiaoyu held her battle axe with one hand.

She looked at the second card in her hand, then looked up at Qin Ye.

She was silent for two seconds.

She inserted the card into the end of the battle axe.

Click.

The sound of mechanical structures meshing came from inside the battle axe.

The nine furnace cores turned red simultaneously.

Dark golden steam gushed out from behind Wei Xiaoyu, forming nine thick energy pillars behind her.

Tier 5 SSS-rank Amplification Card—[Titan Furnace: Extreme Overload Protocol]!

40,000 RPM.

60,000 RPM.

80,000 RPM!

The engine speed was still rising!

The air around Wei Xiaoyu was distorted by the high temperature.

The ground beneath her feet quickly turned red, melted, and sagged downward.

War Emperor Wei Potian suddenly took half a step forward.

"Extreme Overload."

Wei Tianlong's expression also became serious.

"She is going to get serious."

On the arena.

The three-layered lenses in front of Han Ce locked onto Qin Ye simultaneously.

The vision of all twenty-three people was connected to the mental network.

"Do not chase her."

"Do not predict her."

"Do not try to be faster than time."

Han Ce's voice rang out in everyone's minds.

"Turn the entire arena into a perception zone."

"Wherever she returns—"

"That is the attack point!"

The Stand behind Qin Ye moved.

It took a step forward.

Its figure flickered.

Disappeared!

In this instant.

The wooden sword in Master Mage Chen Taixu's hand trembled slightly.

The wind did not change.

The fire did not change.

The ground did not change.

Then—

The southeast corner of the arena.

A speck of glass dust, only the size of a hair, shifted less than a tenth of a millimeter to the left.

Master Mage Chen Taixu opened his eyes.

"Southeast."

The mental network did not need sound to transmit information.

Even before Master Mage Chen Taixu had the thought, Han Ce had already captured that trace of elemental change through high-speed calculation.

"Coordinate transmission!"

The spatial-type contestant closed their hands.

Twelve transparent long nails disappeared instantly!

Ding ding ding ding ding—!

They did not attack Qin Ye.

Instead, they nailed themselves around that empty space!

The twelve long nails connected to each other.

Forming a spatial cage only three meters square.

The next frame.

Qin Ye appeared inside.

She had just returned to reality.

The twelve spatial nails lit up simultaneously.

Crack!

Space solidified!

Qin Ye's pupils moved slightly.

"Lock successful!"

"All defenses shift to traction!"

"Gravity stacking!"

"Time return node confirmed!"

"Wei Xiaoyu—"

"Now!"

Boom—!!!!

The ground beneath Wei Xiaoyu completely collapsed.

The Titan Furnace speed exceeded 90,000 RPM!

The nine cores entered extreme overload simultaneously.

Dark golden steam sprayed out from every joint of her body.

She gripped the battle axe with both hands, and her whole body turned into a dark red meteor piercing through the arena!

It was not Tier 4 speed.

Nor was it Tier 5.

The movement speed that erupted in that instant had already touched the realm of a Tier 6 warrior!

The Stand behind Qin Ye turned around.

Its arms crossed.

Wei Xiaoyu arrived.

The battle axe fell!

"Titan—Collapse Slash!"

Rumble—!!!!

The dark golden axe blade collided with the Stand's arms.

The entire arena sank suddenly.

It was not an illusion.

The impact force generated by the collision passed through the ground, forcibly pressing the entire arena half an inch lower into the ground!

All the vitrified sand on the arena shattered simultaneously.

The shockwave formed a translucent air wall over three hundred meters in diameter, sweeping out in all directions!

The first crack appeared on the dark golden armor on the Stand's arms.

Crack.

Then the second.

The third!

The cracks spread along the arms all the way to the shoulders.

The ground beneath the Stand collapsed.

Qin Ye's body shook simultaneously.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

The next second.

She, along with her Stand—flew backward!

Boom!

Qin Ye crashed through the first sand dune.

Boom!

The second.

The third!

She flipped her body in mid-air and landed on her feet again.

Her soles scraped violently against the glass ground, sliding back nearly a hundred meters, plowing two dark red molten trenches into the ground.

Until her back was less than ten meters away from the protective barrier.

She finally stopped.

The whole audience was dead silent.

Immediately after—

Tens of thousands of spectators stood up at the same time!

"She hit her!!"

"For the first time! Qin Ye has been hit head-on for the first time!"

"It wasn't Sun and Moon in Palm! It wasn't a normal attack! It was twenty-three top talents working together to capture the Time Stop node, and then Wei Xiaoyu completed the final blow!"

"She was knocked back!!"

Chief Commentator Lu Ming threw himself to the very front of the commentator's booth.

"They succeeded!"

"Eye of Omniscience was responsible for calculations! Myriad Phenomenon Array captured the Time Stop return node! Spatial nails fixed the coordinates! Six defense-type warriors provided reverse traction! Finally, Titan Furnace completed the attack!"

"They didn't break Time Stop!"

"They made it so that the moment Qin Ye returned from time—she had nowhere to run!"

Wei Xiaoyu stood at the point of impact.

Her hands were still gripping the battle axe.

The web between her thumb and index finger had split open, and blood flowed slowly down the axe handle.

The nine furnace cores were all glowing red, and overload steam kept gushing out from her joints.

But she did not smile.

She stared fixedly at Qin Ye a hundred meters away.

Because Qin Ye was still standing.

Although the armor on the Stand's arms had cracks, it had not collapsed.

Twenty-three top talents.

Forty-six high-tier cards.

Seeing through the mechanism, locking the node, sealing the coordinates.

Plus an axe strike from the Titan Furnace at 90,000 RPM extreme overload—

It only knocked her back less than two hundred meters.

Qin Ye raised her right hand.

She wiped the trace of blood from the corner of her mouth with her thumb.

She looked down at her fingertips.

Then she looked at the card that was still glowing at the end of Wei Xiaoyu's battle axe.

She was not angry.

She was not unconvinced.

Instead, a faint trace of confusion rose in her eyes.

She turned her head and looked at the referee.

"They used more than one card."

The referee was stunned for a moment.

"Yes."

"Is that allowed?"

"..."