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In an instant, Dugu Bo accelerated, appearing right in front of Ye Lan, intending to knock him out with a swift hand chop.
But before his hand could fall, his lower jaw slammed violently into his upper jaw.
Thud!
Ye Lan planted his left foot on the ground, his right leg shooting upward in a "Sky-Piercing Kick" that smashed brutally into Dugu Bo's chin.
Caught completely off guard and thinking the fight was won, Dugu Bo was launched thirty meters straight into the air from that single kick.
"Blue God's Oracle!"
Ye Lan shed his Blue Silver Armor and the fully manifested Blood Armor, freeing his combat-form Blue Silver Grass.
As Dugu Bo ascended, ten massive Blue Silver Priests erupted from the ground, surrounding him.
Just as he reached his peak height and began to fall, one Blue Silver Priest finished charging its power.
CRACK!
With a sonic boom, Dugu Bo was swatted toward another Blue Silver Priest.
The moment before he crashed into it, that Priest—already prepared—unleashed another "Tree Whip," batting him toward the next.
And so, Dugu Bo became a human football in midair, volleyed back and forth between the Priests who had him encircled.
Worse still, their teamwork was flawless, giving Dugu Bo no chance to gain purchase or push off. Whenever he was about to make contact with one, a nearby Priest's whip would intercept him, sending him flying again.
Each strike produced a deafening sonic boom that echoed through the skies. Every time the sound rang out, Dugu Bo's figure blurred into an afterimage as he was flung toward another Priest.
Each whip from a Blue Silver Priest carried the power of Ye Lan's "Meteor Strike." In just a few seconds, Dugu Bo endured over a dozen of these blows.
Watching Dugu Bo get batted around, Ye Lan muttered to himself, Even when he's only using Spirit Elder–level power, is his body really this tough?
Xue Beng stared at the brutal spectacle, his throat tightening as he swallowed hard in fear. He was already beginning to regret provoking Ye Lan. If he had known, he never would have gone to his uncle, Xue Xing. The last time Ye Lan summoned these giant plants, they hadn't attacked him. If they had whipped him like this yesterday, he would have been smashed to pieces.
Meanwhile, Dugu Bo—still being flung through the air—was beginning to question his very existence. What the hell is this? Why am I flying around like this?
He drew upon his Soul King–level spirit power, raising his defense to its peak for that tier and almost completely nullifying the damage from the whips.
Although his body no longer hurt, his face burned with humiliation. Just moments ago, he had been confidently demanding Ye Lan's surrender.
So he wasn't actually paralyzed? He just pretended to be, baiting me into letting my guard down?
This brat is even craftier than I am!
Dugu Bo felt that fighting Ye Lan was more mentally taxing than his battles with Chrysanthemum Douluo.
Though still being whipped about, his focus returned, and his eyes sharpened. Locking onto Ye Lan below, he aimed his mouth. A thousand-year spirit ring on his body lit up, and he roared:
"Ye Lan, you brat! Surrender now if you don't want to die!"
"Jade Scale Purple Poison!!"
A massive torrent of violet poison poured downward like a waterfall, heading straight for Ye Lan.
After being hit with the paralysis toxin, Ye Lan knew he wasn't completely immune. He couldn't be sure how much of Dugu Bo's thousand-year skill would affect him, and he had no desire to find out. But he wanted to surrender even less.
"Sacrifice!"
The ten Blue Silver Priests vanished instantly. In their place, a vast surge of ultimate light energy flooded Ye Lan's body—this was the Blue Silver Grass in its Radiant Form.
"Feel the serenity of light!"
"Origin of Light!!"
Ye Lan extended his right palm upward, fingers pointing at Dugu Bo.
In the next instant, everything within a hundred-meter radius dissolved into pure white light, the space devoid of any other color. At the center of it all, a golden-white sphere pulsed in Ye Lan's palm—a miniature white hole.
The moment it formed, the Origin of Light shot upward, meeting the violet poison waterfall.
In the blink of an eye, they collided. The purple torrent vanished like willow fluff meeting a white flame, instantly transformed into a waterfall of pure light.
Through his Golden Eyes, Ye Lan watched the beautiful sight and breathed a sigh of relief. As expected of a spirit ring from the Sun-Annihilating Tree. Its sun-chasing property not only grants my Blue Silver Grass the ultimate light attribute but also imbues it with the essence of flame.
Poison mists feared fire, and an ultimate attribute could cancel out a non-ultimate one. With both effects combined, Dugu Bo's poison was annihilated.
A few seconds later, the blinding light began to fade. The three academy elders, Xue Xing, and Xue Beng finally opened their eyes, blinking repeatedly as their vision adjusted. The world was still washed in white; they hadn't fully recovered.
Through their bleached vision, they saw Dugu Bo float slowly down from the sky. He had taken the full brunt of the attack and was temporarily blinded, navigating purely by his senses. Yet he landed before Ye Lan as if nothing had happened, carrying the air of a transcendent master.
"Good lad," he said. "This match is your victory."
"Thank you for your mercy, Senior Dugu. I was merely fortunate." As Ye Lan spoke, his Golden Eyes faded; he no longer had the spirit power to sustain them.
"No need for false modesty. I doubt there's a stronger Great Spirit Master on the entire continent. I used one hundred percent of my Spirit Elder–level strength and still couldn't defeat you. That isn't mere luck." Recalling Ye Lan's various self-created skills and his "Plant Spirit Possession," Dugu Bo knew that while Ye Lan's spirit rank was low for his age, his combat power had already surpassed his peers.
Wanting to understand, he asked, "Boy, can your flash step technique be used twice in a row? It took me considerable effort to figure out its weakness, yet you turned the tables on me in a single exchange."
"Senior Dugu, my movement skill can't be used twice consecutively. I actually used two different techniques: one is called 'Shunpo,' and the other is 'Resonance Shift,'" Ye Lan explained.
By now, the others had fully recovered. Meng Shenji burst out excitedly, "Young friend Ye Lan, you have two different movement-type spirit skills? That's incredibly rare! Most talented individuals only focus on creating offensive skills. To think you've developed two entirely different movement techniques is astonishing."
(End of Chapter)