Chapter 48: Ultimate Power
"A soul attack? A mere parlor trick!"
Lin Yu sneered. The newly acquired power of Water and Fire surged through his body. The recovery from his injuries brought not only health but an unprecedented sense of spiritual wholeness and clarity.
His spatial power and his initial elemental affinity were undergoing a marvelous resonance.
At the exact moment Ye Xishui's mind wavered due to the failure of her soul impact, Lin Yu moved!
He reached out with his right hand, and within his palm, spatial power collapsed and condensed frantically. In an instant, it formed a fist-sized "Spatial Singularity," its interior flickering with countless silver sparks and radiating a terrifying suction force.
Simultaneously, he spread the fingers of his left hand. The newly acquired Water and Fire elemental powers were perfectly partitioned and guided.
What danced at the tips of his left fingers was no longer the gentle flame used for demonstration, but a violent, blazing crimson fire that seemed capable of incinerating the very void!
What swirled around his right fingertips was a bone-chilling, deep-blue cold current carrying the intent of Absolute Zero!
"Taste this!"
Lin Yu barked low and slammed his hands together!
That Spatial Singularity, containing destructive energy, was instantly enveloped and injected with the violent flames and the ultimate cold current!
Crimson and deep blue—two diametrically opposed elemental forces that should have annihilated each other—were forcibly kneaded together under the terrifying binding field of the Spatial Singularity! An extremely unstable destructive energy, seemingly ready to tear through all laws, brewed and expanded frantically inside the singularity!
In the next instant, Lin Yu thrust both hands forward!
"Water-Fire Spatial Annihilation Bomb!"
A spiral beam of red and blue, only as thick as a baby's arm but condensed to the absolute limit, shot out silently!
Everywhere it passed, space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass, leaving behind a pitch-black trail. The dense, cold death-energy of the Death Swamp was instantly evaporated and purified!
The speed of the beam reached the extreme. Almost the moment it left his hand, it crossed space and appeared directly at the core area where the giant blood-soul claw had exploded—the place where Ye Xishui's true body was hidden!
The red-blue beam plunged into the churning blood mist.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
There was only a heart-palpitating silence.
Immediately after, the scene in that area became extremely eerie. Space became like a water surface with a stone thrown into it, twisting violently, folding, and then collapsing inward!
The crimson flames and the deep blue ice streams clashed and annihilated each other frantically at the core of the collapse, releasing terrifying energy sufficient to tear apart atomic structures!
"Ah—!! What kind of devilry is this?!"
From deep within the blood mist came Ye Xishui's cry—a sharp scream of shock, fury, and even an unbelievable hint of pain!
The thick crimson mist in that area, along with the space itself, was brutally erased by the "Water-Fire Spatial Annihilation Bomb"!
It revealed a void of nothingness, its edges flickering with red and blue fragments, its interior pitch black, constantly leaking an aura of destruction!
A disheveled figure was forced out of her hidden state within the void!
It was a figure shrouded in a large black robe, surrounded by soul power as viscous as a sea of blood. Countless distorted vengeful souls wailed and flew around her, forming a powerful defense.
However, at this moment, a corner of her black robe was clearly torn, the edges bearing traces of being scorched by ultimate fire and frozen by absolute ice.
Although her physical body did not seem heavily wounded, that strike had clearly made her feel an unprecedented threat—she had even suffered a small loss!
Beneath her hood, Ye Xishui's gaze locked onto Lin Yu. The malice in her eyes had almost solidified into a physical substance, but deeper within, for the first time, gravity and a trace of undetectable suspicion surfaced.
This mysterious youth not only possessed peak spatial mastery, but he could actually control such pure, violent Water and Fire elemental forces that could perfectly integrate with space?! This was simply unheard of! Who exactly was he?!
Standing in the void, Lin Yu watched the exposed Ye Xishui. Feeling the wondrous enlightenment regarding the fusion of elements and space from that strike, the roguish smile reappeared on his face. Only this time, the smile was filled with a cold, murderous intent:
"Warm-up is over!"
Ye Xishui stabilized herself at the edge of the void hole torn open by Lin Yu's attack. Her viscous blood-colored soul power surged, quickly repairing the scorched and frozen corner of her robe. However, the eyes hidden in the shadows of her hood were filled with unprecedented doubt and gravity.
"Who exactly are you?!"
Her voice was no longer just malicious; it carried an even sharper tone of disbelief.
The bizarre attack just now—a mixture of violent fire, ultimate ice, and terrifying spatial tearing force—had a purity and destructive power that far exceeded her expectations. This was definitely not something an ordinary Titled Douluo could possess. More importantly—
"The Old Man knows every Titled Douluo with a name and reputation on the entire continent! The spatial attribute is already as rare as phoenix feathers or unicorn horns, and to simultaneously control such pure, ultimate elements of Water and Fire is unheard of!"
Ye Xishui's withered fingers twitched slightly as she stared intently at the golden figure in the void. "What is your Martial Soul? With such methods, you cannot be a nobody! Why have you made an enemy of my Holy Ghost Church?!"
She suppressed her impulse to strike again, trying to make sense of this sudden calamity. The Holy Ghost Church acted ruthlessly and had many enemies, but their core foes were nothing more than those self-righteous "Inspection Teams" from Shrek Academy.
Those people suppressed the Holy Ghost Church and killed its members indiscriminately under the banner of "carrying out heaven's will." But the person before her had a strange aura and bizarre methods—completely different from those Shrek people!
"Is there some misunderstanding between us?" Ye Xishui's voice carried a hint of subtle probing.
Facing an opponent of unfathomable strength and unknown origin, even she, the infamous Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Ghost Church, had to act with caution.
What if... he was a new reinforcement invited by Shrek? Or some ancient monster living in seclusion? If it could be resolved, paying a small price would be better than fighting to the bitter end.
However, Lin Yu's reaction caused her heart to sink.
"Misunderstanding?" The roguish smile on the corner of Lin Yu's mouth suddenly became dangerous and excited. His golden pupils burned with an eager flame. "I just got some new toys and I'm having a great time. The excitement hasn't even worn off yet! You're saying we should stop fighting? On what grounds?"
His fingertips danced again. Crimson sparks and deep blue cold currents intertwined and hissed like two spirit snakes. Violent Water and Fire elemental power gathered frantically around him. The surrounding gray mist was instantly evaporated, then frozen into ice crystals that fell rustling to the ground.
"Ye Xishui, show me some real skill! Let me see if you, the so-called Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Ghost Church, are worthy of being the whetstone for my new power!"
Before his voice finished, Lin Yu's figure blurred. Space rippled, and he appeared instantly above and to the side of Ye Xishui