Chapter 15: The Bitter Battle
After Lu Yan easily won the first battle, most of the next competitions were of equal strength between the two sides, which made the spectators feel the excitement of the Demon Spirit Academy competition even more.
Lu Ling, who participated in the competition for the first time, also stared at the fierce fighting players on the stage with his eyes shining brightly, and his heart had unconsciously ignited a raging battle intent, and he couldn't wait to know which of his demonic qi was stronger or weaker compared to the elemental power of those students.
It's just that the fiery atmosphere created by several fierce battles has cooled down briefly in one of them, and it is Yuan Shan who caused this phenomenon.
He also defeated his opponent with one blow and presented the spectators with a boring contest. However, before he left the game, he glanced at Lu Yan with a cold gaze, which also made more people look forward to the second decisive battle between the two tomorrow.
When the competition lasted until the afternoon, it was finally Ye Jingrou's turn to play, the girl already had a pure and lovely appearance, and her strength was not weak, so it attracted the attention of many people, but it also added a little tension to her.
Fortunately, the strength of her opponent this time was close to her, and the former did not choose to launch too strong an offensive because the opponent was a girl, so he began to fall into disadvantage under Ye Jing's soft and light attack, and it didn't take long for him to reluctantly choose to admit defeat.
The girl straightened her somewhat messy hair, although she was very tired, her white and tender face was full of joy, and she was even more happy after hearing Lu Yan's praise, which made the surrounding students unable to take their eyes off.
"In the next battle, Shen Qianran will face Lu Ling, please invite the two students to the battle stage. The referee on the stage seemed to glance at Lu Ling, and then said in a loud voice.
After hearing the referee's voice, everyone almost turned their eyes to the two people who slowly stepped onto the stage, I have to say that the duel between these two people should be the most watched battle today, on the one hand, Shen Qianran, who has a lot of fame in the Demon Spirit Academy and whose strength is close to Lu Yan and Yuan Shan, and on the other side is Lu Ling, who suddenly entered the "Yunqi Realm" and became famous in the battle yesterday, they all want to know, what will be the result of the battle between these two people?
However, obviously, more people are inclined to Shen Qianran, after all, he is also the top three students of the Demon Spirit Academy, and his strength has already reached the middle stage of the Yun Qi Realm, and in the eyes of those people, his opponent Lu Ling has just entered the Yun Qi Realm not long ago, and the difference in strength between the two is really a bit big.
"Can Brother Lu Ling win?" Ye Jingrou, who had recovered after the hard battle, also asked with some concern, Lu Yan frowned: "It's difficult." "That Shen Qianran's advantage is not only the foundation of the middle stage of the Yun Qi Realm, but also the many spells that he has cultivated that are not of low grade. On the other hand, Lu Ling's cultivation spell was only "Devil Claw", and this gap was difficult to fill through with flexible and vigorous skills.
"It's okay, there's no shame in losing, if you continue to cultivate like this, maybe next time he will have the strength to enter the top five." Lu Yan comforted, Ye Jingrou nodded, Lu Ling's demonic qi was already very strong, even if he was defeated, he would only lose in a short cultivation time.
However, Jiu Ye on the side rolled her eyes, and her coquettish appearance made some young students who secretly looked at her red, obviously this young lady made them feel the feeling of heartbeat.
Jiu Ye looked at Lu Yan with a smile, his big bright eyes flashed with light, as if to say: Didn't you say that you would go to the Immortal Clan with me, where did you come from next time?
The latter hurriedly shrunk his neck in embarrassment, of course he hadn't forgotten, but he hadn't figured out how to tell Ye Jingrou about it, if Lu Ling wanted to go to the Immortal Clan, he would definitely go with him, which meant that he would have to be separated from Ye Jingrou for a while, and the girl would definitely be sad if she knew.
While they were talking, Lu Ling and Shen Qianran had already stepped onto the battle platform.
Shen Qianran saluted lightly to Lu Ling and said, "I didn't expect that the opponent this time would be you." From his tone, it could be heard that he was still a little surprised that Lu Ling suddenly chose to participate in the academy competition this time.
"There are so many things I didn't expect. Lu Ling said.
"Huh. Shen Qianran smiled, "But I'm curious, have you been hiding your strength, or did it really take only a few days to advance to the Yun Qi Realm? β
Lu Ling shrugged his shoulders, not intending to explain, these people forcibly wanted to include him in the Yun Qi Realm, and he had no way to refute it.
However, Shen Qianran didn't delve deeper, he stretched out a white palm, and a fist-sized blister emerged from his fingertips and floated in his palm, and at the same time, a cold breath began to spread.
"In that case, let me see how big the gap is between you and Lu Yan. β
Lu Ling pursed his lips, and soon his eyes began to glow with scarlet light because of the high-spirited battle intent.
He clenched his fists: "Then come on." β
"Let's go!" With the referee's order, under the expectant eyes of countless people, this battle is about to break out!
Lu Ling's eyes were sharp, his hands were dyed purple and black by demonic energy, and under the exclamation of everyone, he actually chose to take the initiative to attack and rushed towards Shen Qianran.
He knew very well that he did not have the upper hand in either the elemental realm or the essence of spells, and if he wanted to defeat Shen Qianran, he naturally had to rely on the advantages he had, that is, the skills and physical skills that had been tempered over the years and were difficult for ordinary people to reach.
Shen Qianran smiled calmly, the blister in the palm of his hand swelled in vain, and in just a few breaths, it swelled into a huge water ball the size of a zhang, and he smashed the water ball on the battle platform, and the water gushed out, and even the entire battle platform trembled.
The tide surged around Shen Qianran, and then turned into a cold ice barrier within a few meters of him, and for a while, even the temperature around him dropped slightly.
Lu Ling's footsteps stopped suddenly, his fists clenched, his eyes staring at the ice barrier surrounding Shen Qianran, it seemed that as Jiu Ye said, the cultivators of the water element could easily turn water into ice and fight with people.
The cold was pressing, and if he wanted to get closer, he would have to break through these barriers, otherwise he wouldn't be able to use his last advantage.
Then smash them up!
Lu Ling's eyes were even more scarlet, and the demonic qi rose from his arm, and soon condensed into a dark purple demonic claw on his palm.
Seeing that Lu Ling was about to make a move to break the layers of ice barriers, Shen Qianran snorted coldly, he was not worried that Lu Ling would get close to his side for the time being, so he sat cross-legged on the ground, waving his palms, water droplets jumped on his slender fingertips, and in less than a moment, several sharp ice picks with the thickness of an arm appeared in his palms.
"Go. Shen Qianran picked his fingers, and those ice picks swept towards Lu Ling with lightning speed, the sharp and piercing fluctuations made Lu Ling feel shocked, he hurriedly dispersed the demonic qi in his palm, converging into a simple dark purple light shield, and the ice picks stabbed fiercely on the light shield, after all, this light shield was only condensed by Lu Ling in a hurry, and it was not a spell at all, so several ice picks quickly pierced it, but fortunately, the demonic energy had a strong corrosive effect on the elemental power, and those ice picks were melted away by the demonic energy surging on the light shield not long after, turning into liquid droplets and falling to the groundγ
Shen Qianran's pupils shrank, and he couldn't help but glance at the demonic qi floating on Lu Ling's body, and secretly said in his heart: This dark element of different colors is really not simple!
So he suddenly got up, and endless cold air erupted from his body, and even some of the people who were close to the battle platform were so cold that their faces turned blue and hurriedly retreated.
I saw that the cold qi around Shen Qianran quickly condensed, turning into more ice picks, and even the size was much larger than just now, and at the same time, he even mobilized those cold qi that had not condensed into ice picks to rush towards Lu Ling like a blizzard, adding a point of speed to those ice picks that shot away.
The overwhelming extreme cold offensive rushed towards Lu Ling, and at this time he was unable to retreat, and even many viewers thought that Lu Ling could not block Shen Qianran's attack this time.
The storm mixed with ice picks was approaching, and the biting cold wind made Lu Ling's hair appear a little ice chips, but he didn't care, but the light in his scarlet pupils flashed rapidly, as if he was thinking about countermeasures.
A moment later, a hint of ruthlessness suddenly appeared on his immature face, and he actually ran directly towards the storm in front of him.
Since you can't dodge, let's go through!
Lu Ling roared angrily, the demonic qi around his body became more and more turbulent, and both palms had already condensed into the claws of the Devil Erosion, and he rushed straight into the cold storm, and for a while, the biting cold poured into his body from all directions, as if to freeze his blood.
Lu Ling's face turned blue, and he felt that his whole body was about to freeze, and then he gritted his teeth, urging the demonic qi in his body to frantically resist the cold qi invading his body, and at the same time waved his claws to smash the flying ice picks one by one.
The surrounding students looked at this scene with twitching corners of their mouths, and they couldn't help but sigh as ice chips flew all over the sky: This Lu Ling is too fierce! Shen Qianran's strong offensive can't help him, and Lu Ling even approached Shen Qianran step by step in the storm, and the ice barrier around the latter also began to melt slowly because of the gradually surging demonic energy.
Shen Qianran's face was also full of shock, the strength of this "dark element" in Lu Ling's body was far beyond his cognition, you know, this guy had just entered the Yun Qi Realm! Even the water element in the middle of his Yun Qi Realm could be eroded.
Because of the shock in his heart, Shen Qianran even forgot that his sky-wide offensive was being dissolved by Lu Ling step by step, although it was only a short moment, but Lu Ling quickly grasped the opportunity, he looked up to the sky and roared softly, and almost all the demonic qi in his body burst out, sweeping out like a black-purple whirlwind.
"Break it for me!"
Lu Ling's howl fell, and the black and purple whirlwind soon collided with the surrounding blizzard, and the two quickly merged and spread, and the violent wind affected almost the entire battle platform, and at the same time blocked the sight of the people around them, they hurriedly opened their eyes wide, trying to find the figures of the two in the storm.
Rumble!
Soon the white and dark purple storm dissipated, and everyone couldn't help but catch their breath, and then looked nervously at the battle platform.
Shen Qianran and Lu Ling were still standing on the stage, the former was disheveled, and his face did not have the same calmness and calmness as before, but looked a little unbelievable. And Lu Ling's situation seemed to be a little worse, his face was pale, and shallow blood marks had appeared on his body because of the sharp ice chips in the storm, and the residual chill in his body made him tremble.
However, Lu Ling's eyes did not languish at all, but became more and more excited, even he didn't expect that he could break through the offensive that Shen Qianran had painstakingly arranged just by relying on the strength of his demonic qi, and moreover, in the raging storm just now, the ice barrier set up by the latter around him had been shattered.
So Lu Ling no longer hesitated, his body moved, and he rushed towards Shen Qianran again, the latter's face changed at first, but when he reacted, he gritted his teeth and said, "Do you really think that I will be afraid of you in close combat?!" After speaking, two sharp ice blades appeared in his hand, and they also attacked Lu Ling.
Looking at that, the two finally plan to fight at close range!
Lu Yan and Ye Jingrou and others on the field were also staring nervously at the battle platform, Lu Yan clenched his fists and looked at Lu Ling, who was bloodstained but did not flinch, he knew Lu Ling's character very well, with his arrogance, it was impossible to retreat, but in this case, Lu Ling would inevitably become bruised all over his body, which he did not want to see.
In contrast, Jiu Ye was much calmer, she thought that Lu Ling would not be defeated so easily, not only because he had demonic energy, but more importantly, because of the momentum that became more and more courageous in the face of strong enemies.
Perhaps, he will become a good commander like those people in the future.
Thinking of this, Jiuye's pretty face couldn't help but show a beautiful smile.
Suddenly, Jiu Yeqiao's face changed, and she turned her head suddenly, and at that moment she seemed to sense a special fluctuation like a man's back, and it felt like someone was spying on them somewhere.
She meditated on the source of the fluctuation, raised her head slightly, and set her eyes on the top of a peak outside the cultivation ground.
There, a young man in white with a long figure and a majestic spirit was standing with his hands in his hands, a pair of blood-red pupils were locking on Lu Ling on the battle platform, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Jiuye's delicate body suddenly stiffened.
He ...... How did you ...... here?"