Translator: CinderTL
At that moment, a thunderous laugh erupted.
"Hahaha!"
"Magnificent!" A resounding laugh echoed as Zhou Kun suddenly soared into the sky, stepping on empty air.
"Jiang Ye, you are indeed formidable," he boomed, his voice like a thunderous bell as he gazed down at Jiang Ye below. "But alas, this farce must end!"
As his words faded, a formless power surged through heaven and earth. Boundless energy coalesced, transforming into a colossal tidal wave phenomenon towering a thousand meters high.
In an instant, everyone felt as if they were caught in a tsunami. The towering waves crashed down, painting a scene of world-destroying devastation.
"The mysteries of water!" Song Gang's face paled.
"Jiang Ye, your mysteries of fire are impressive," Zhou Kun's voice thundered. "If it were anyone else in the top ten, they might struggle against you. But my mysteries of water are your bane!"
Zhou Kun stood atop the crest of the tidal wave, his white robes billowing like a sword god, his aura overwhelmingly majestic.
Rumble!
He suddenly swung his longsword.
As the sword flashed, the boundless tidal wave erupted, instantly extinguishing Jiang Ye's sea of fire. The endless tsunami surged toward Jiang Ye, engulfing him completely.
Hundreds of miles away, on a mountain peak, Li Shiyue, clad in purple robes, gazed intently toward the battlefield.
"Jiang Ye is actually holding his own against Zhou Kun?"
"His strength is truly extraordinary." Li Shiyue gazed at the battlefield, her realm allowing her to see with perfect clarity even from a hundred miles away.
"What a pity."
"The mysteries of water counter the mysteries of fire." Li Shiyue sighed. "That outcast from the Li Clan is destined to lose."
If Jiang Ye's mastery of fire mysteries had completely overwhelmed Zhou Kun's water mysteries, he could have defied the elemental counteraction.
But Jiang Ye's fire mysteries clearly hadn't reached that level yet.
Li Shiyue wasn't the only one watching.
Several top ten powerhouses from the Great Stellar War Ranking, including Chu Yu and Qi Guibei, were also observing the battle.
"Jiang Ye is going to lose."
"Look for an opportunity to steal the kill."
"We can't let Zhou Kun take all of Jiang Ye's civilization fire."
"Wait for the right moment." These peak seventh breakthrough experts remained patient, watching from hundreds of miles away.
For these powerhouses, a distance of hundreds of miles was merely a fleeting moment.
"This is going to be troublesome."
"Can Jiang Ye withstand this?"
"Probably not. Water counters fire—it's a fundamental law of nature."
"Bets are open! Bets are open! I'm betting on Zhou Kun to win!"
"I'm betting on Zhou Kun too! Ten million! This time, I'm going to win back everything I lost."
Outside the arena, countless spectators watched the projection with bated breath.
Qiu Cang sat up straight, a rare look of tension on his face.
If Jiang Ye lost this battle, all his previous gains would be wiped out.
On the battlefield:
"Jiang Ye!" Chen Zilu called out, a silver long spear materializing in her hand, her delicate face etched with anxiety. She was ready to reinforce Jiang Ye at a moment's notice.
In the sky:
Jiang Ye gazed at the thousand-meter-high tidal wave, his expression unwavering.
Whoosh! Gripping his flaming spear, he thrust it forward, unleashing a crimson spear radiance in a desperate attempt to halt the tsunami.
Rumble!
The tidal wave crashed down, swallowing Jiang Ye's spear radiance without the slightest resistance.
Worse still:
Hiss~ Under the influence of the boundless mysteries of water, the flames of Jiang Ye's spear began to flicker and threaten to extinguish.
"Ha ha!"
"Water counters fire—it's the law of nature!"
"Jiang Ye, abandon your futile struggle! You've already lost!" Zhou Kun roared with laughter, then slashed down with his sword.
Boom!
As if a sword god had unleashed his fury, a blade of light over a thousand meters long descended upon Jiang Ye, infused with the boundless mysteries of water.
The terrifying aura instantly suppressed Jiang Ye's mysteries of fire.
"Mysteries of water?"
For the first time, Jiang Ye witnessed the elemental clash of the five elements.
It was truly extraordinary.
After Zhou Kun unleashed his mysteries of water, Jiang Ye's mysteries of fire lost their previous potency.
"Excellent."
"It seems you're worthy of me using my spear." Jiang Ye's gaze turned cold as the fiery long spear in his hand dissipated.
Immediately afterward—
Whoosh!
A silver-black long spear materialized abruptly.
The Black Divine Spear!
In previous battles, Jiang Ye had never used this demigod weapon, relying solely on long spears formed from his mysteries of fire.
Partly, this was to hone his mastery of the mysteries of fire.
But more importantly, he simply hadn't faced an opponent worthy of drawing the spear.
Now, however—
Boom! As Jiang Ye gripped the Black Divine Spear, an astonishingly sharp aura erupted skyward, as if tearing through heaven and earth.
This demigod weapon, when wielded by Jiang Ye at his current realm, finally began to reveal its true power!
"Kill!" Facing the kilometer-long sword radiance hurtling toward him, Jiang Ye didn't retreat. Instead, he swung his long spear, unleashing a world-shattering spear radiance that pierced straight forward.
A single point of spear radiance against a kilometer-long sword radiance!
It seemed utterly insignificant.
But in the next instant...
BOOM!!! A deafening collision shook the heavens as the two opposing energies clashed head-on.
An earth-shattering shockwave erupted, instantly collapsing mountains across hundreds of kilometers and shattering countless peaks.
Under the spear radiance, a crack appeared in the kilometer-long sword radiance. The fissure spread like a spiderweb, rapidly widening.
Crack!
With a crisp snap, the kilometer-long sword radiance shattered explosively, dissolving into countless motes of light that scattered across the sky.
"He actually blocked it?"
"How is this possible?" Zhou Kun froze in shock. His full-power sword strike should have instantly suppressed Jiang Ye.
Water counters fire, and with his superior realm, he should have completely overwhelmed his opponent!
Suddenly...
"That's wrong!"
"What was that just now? It doesn't resemble the mysteries of fire!" Zhou Kun's mind raced, his pupils contracting sharply.
The spear strike had clearly contained a trace of the mysteries of heaven and earth.
But it was definitely not the mysteries of fire!
The battle was too intense for Zhou Kun to observe closely, and now he felt uncertain.
"I can't hold back any longer."
"I need to end this quickly and force him to reveal all his trump cards," Zhou Kun thought to himself.
In this battle, victory or defeat didn't matter to him.
For Zhou Kun, achieving his goal meant forcing Jiang Ye to reveal all his methods.
Once that was done, Zhou Xingkong could easily defeat Jiang Ye.
"Heaven-Earth Domain: All Rivers Return to the Sea." With a thought, Zhou Kun unleashed an invisible wave of energy from within his body.
In an instant, the entire world transformed.
Whoosh!
Countless majestic rivers surged from all directions, converging toward this point.
In the blink of an eye, they formed a massive, sky-obscuring water shield, resembling an inverted sea bowl pressing down from above.
Boom!
The Heaven-Earth Domain had been established!
"Within my Heaven-Earth Domain, even if you truly possess peak seventh breakthrough combat power, I will suppress you!" Zhou Kun declared with unwavering confidence.
Seventh breakthrough experts merge their Innate Domain with the world around them, transforming it into a Heaven-Earth Domain. This domain grants them unparalleled control over the natural elements.
Zhou Kun's Heaven-Earth Domain, forged from the boundless mysteries of water, could suppress an opponent's strength by a staggering fifty percent.
Moreover, within this domain, Zhou Kun's own mysteries of water would be amplified severalfold. With this advantage, he was confident he could even contend with transcendent beings.
"Sword of Water."
Zhou Kun swung his longsword once more.
In an instant, tens of thousands of water droplets materialized, each instantly transforming into water sword qi that shot toward Jiang Ye like a torrential downpour.
(End of the Chapter)
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