readsfreenovel Chapter 263 The Challenge Concluded
Chapter 263 The Challenge Concluded
Guan Xun's eyes flashed with thorns as he crossed his two daggers in front of him. Amidst the crisp sound of the spiritual weapons clashing and the sparks flying, he used the momentum to turn to the side. The ice also rushed rapidly along the long daggers, freezing the tips of the demon fox's claws with white frost.
"I've been intercepted again!" Yu Liuhua gritted her teeth, and the instant Guan Xun made his move, she used the momentum to leap, her body slicing through the air and landing behind him. Then, she slammed her fox claw down on his back!
Although the opponent moved quickly, Guan Xun's senses and alertness were so sharp that almost the instant Yu Liuhua made a move, she touched the ice with her toes and spun around like a butterfly.
With a backhand slash, the cold light of the dagger pierced straight at the fox's claws.
This time, Yu Liuhua did not retreat; she slammed her claws down, closing in step by step.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
Wherever it passed, ice shards shattered, and the shockwaves from the constant collisions of the magical artifacts caused large areas of ice to break apart.
The traces of the two figures' battle shifted left and right, up and down, seemingly indicating a back-and-forth struggle.
Only Yu Liuhua herself knew how much effort it took for the fox claws and the long dagger to open and close each time.
Although the two dodged to different positions when they clashed, Guan Xun's steps and figure remained as steady as Mount Tai at the moment of impact, while she was repeatedly knocked back.
"Is this all you've got?" Guan Xun slammed his twin daggers down, nearly breaking Yu Liuhua's fox claws.
Ice flowers condensed wherever she stepped. As the ice flowers bloomed, the black mist dissipated. Her tone was filled with undisguised contempt: "You spent so much effort to create this illusion, and in the end, all you have left is this trick. It's truly disappointing."
Before she finished speaking, she spun around again, her two daggers, chillingly cold, thrusting out in a counterattack. In the instant that Yu Liuhua was forced to retreat hastily, she closed in.
Immediately afterwards, the long dagger vanished, and a sharp sword flashed out of its hand, stabbing fiercely into the gap between its claws!
Yu Liuhua's pupils contracted sharply. In her panic, she suddenly clasped her hands together, her sharp claws clenching tightly as she tried her best to clamp the sword!
At the same time, she accelerated her retreat. The black mist was originally her cover, and this action was just an attempt to use the black mist to create distance and avoid the attack.
However, she underestimated Guan Xun's strength and the speed of his sword. As soon as her claws touched the sword, she was numb by a powerful spiritual force, and the strength between her fingers instantly dissipated!
The sword, sharp as ice, struck her several inches above her abdomen without hesitation, narrowly avoiding a vital spot but still reaching the bone.
"what……!"
A piercing scream tore through the black mist, and warm blood gushed out instantly, dripping down the fox's claws and staining the hem of her skirt red.
She staggered, her steps becoming increasingly awkward as she retreated, her face filled with disbelief.
She's bleeding... She's bleeding! How could this person have hurt her?!
Guan Xun's attack was swift and fierce. The moment his sword pierced Yu Liuhua's chest and blood gushed out, he suddenly pulled the sword out!
With incredible speed, her figure closed in on Yu Liuhua as the blade drew a crimson arc of blood. At close range, her cold, menacing black eyes sent chills down Yu Liuhua's spine.
Before Yu Liuhua could recover from the excruciating pain in her chest, Guan Xun suddenly bent his elbow, held his long sword horizontally in front of him, and then slashed out fiercely.
The force, unstoppable and carrying a chill, hurtled straight toward his face!
Yu Liuhua was shocked. In a panic, she instinctively raised her hands to block. Her fox claws were shrouded in black mist, enough to block the falling sword blade.
"Hmph." Guan Xun's eyes flashed with even more ferocity. He abruptly changed the direction of his longsword and slashed fiercely at the arm that was blocking his way!
"Pfft-"
The crisp sound of bones breaking and a piercing scream exploded at the same time!
Yu Liuhua's arm fell to the ground with a thud, and blood gushed out from the severed wound like a fountain, staining a large area of ice in front of her red.
The color drained from her face, leaving only a deep-seated terror. She staggered, nearly falling, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
"How could this happen! Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" She clutched her bleeding severed arm, staring intently at Guan Xun, her voice trembling with pain and panic, her words broken and fragmented.
Guan Xun looked at the scarlet blood dripping from the longsword, grinned mockingly, and flicked his wrist, splashing all the blood droplets on the sword onto the ice, turning them into dark red ice crystals.
"You only realize it now? Too late," she said coldly.
Upon hearing this, Yu Liuhua shuddered violently, the pain almost causing her to faint: "You...you're also level 90?"
She asked, clinging to the last shred of hope, her voice filled with fear.
“Level 90? You guessed wrong.” Guan Xun’s brows furrowed slightly, his dark eyes filled with mockery. After a pause, he added, “I am level 92.”
"Wh...what?!" Yu Liuhua was shocked, her pupils contracted sharply, and she froze on the spot as if struck by lightning. The excruciating pain in her severed arm was overwhelmed by the shock of this overwhelming event.
At just over twenty years old, he's already reached level 92?!
At this age, with this level of cultivation, it's truly astonishing.
She had lived for so long and barely crossed the threshold of level 90, considering herself exceptionally gifted, yet the person in front of her was two whole levels higher than her!
From level 90 onwards, each level is like climbing to the heavens; the difference between these two levels is like an insurmountable chasm, making all her previous arrogance and scheming a huge joke.
No wonder he dared to sign a death warrant...
Overwhelmed by despair, Yu Liuhua's vision went black, and she nearly collapsed to the ground, her eyes brimming with the urge to break down.
She felt a sweet taste in her throat, and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. Under such a severe blow, the last shred of clarity in her mind was completely replaced by madness.
She stared intently at Guan Xun, letting the blood trickle down her lips, a chilling smile playing on her lips.
"Since our path to survival is blocked and we have no chance of survival, let's all perish together! Hahahaha!"
Yu Liuhua screamed, and with her remaining arm, she suddenly formed a hand seal. The black mist around her immediately surged rapidly, transforming into a hideous fox-head phantom that hovered and howled above her head.
The moment the fox head appeared, the spiritual power within her body burned wildly, and her aura instantly became violent and eerie.
A series of eerie winds swept across the entire venue.
"I will sacrifice myself to the fox, gathering all spirits into... uh?!"
The eerie wind had just risen, the fox's head had not yet taken shape, and Yu Liuhua's words had not yet completely faded when Guan Xun's figure flashed in front of her as if by teleportation...
With the longsword held horizontally at his wrist, his eyes blazed with an intense ferocity that seemed almost overflowing. Then, with a sudden twist of his wrist, the longsword, sharp and bloodthirsty, slashed outwards with deadly force! It aimed precisely at Yu Liuhua's neck.
"Pfft! Sizzle!"
Blood instantly burst forth from her snow-white neck, shooting out in a fan shape, splashing across Guan Xun's chin and landing on her clothes.
"To die together? You have no chance." She seemed oblivious, her eyes filled with only bloodlust and coldness. Before his head was completely severed from his body, she raised her sword and slashed down again.
The sword light fell like lightning in a dense barrage, the cracking sound of bones breaking echoing continuously. Yu Liuhua's body was torn to pieces by the continuous slashes, with only a few bits of flesh and bones barely connecting them. She was covered in blood and looked like a gruesome sight.
Such a scene was extremely bloody and horrifying, drawing attention from all quarters.
The vast black mist dissipated amidst her death screams, and the phantom of the fox demon, struggling and twisting, suddenly exploded into the air.
Inside the competition arena, visibility instantly improved.
Guan Xun stood holding his sword, the blood on the blade gathering at the tip and dripping to the ground, a strong stench of blood spreading through the air.
Her expression remained completely unchanged, as if she had merely crushed an ant.
Just as she gently raised the back of her hand to wipe the blood from her face, a faint, helpless sigh quietly reached her ears.
She paused slightly while wiping.