Soul Land IV (Douluo Dalu) : Ultimate Fighting-Chapter 1386: Unrivaled Dominance

The Sky Horse Sect Leader said indifferently, "Since they’ve set foot on the arena, let the matters of the arena be resolved within the arena. Whatever happens, we can only watch. Everyone relies on their own abilities and accepts the will of Heaven."

On the arena, their objective was obvious—to take down the Golden Dragon Princess. For this purpose, the Eight-Armed Demon Clan was already resorting to self-detonation tactics in combat. Whether or not the self-detonation succeeded is another matter, but at least they acted that way. So, can you really blame others for playing dirty in return?

The Dragon Clan, after all, is the largest clan in the Dragon Horse Star System. Don’t let the absence of the Sky Dragon Leader fool you—if something truly went wrong, that individual would likely arrive in an extremely short amount of time.

The Sky Dragon Leader may have a stubborn personality, but to say he lacks strategic insight? The Sky Horse Sect Leader wouldn’t dare make such a claim. On the surface, he appears quick to anger, often losing control of his emotions. However, having climbed to the summit as the number one person in the Dragon Horse Star System, could he really fail to control himself? That’s hardly convincing!

Precisely because of this, no one is more wary of the Sky Dragon Leader than the Sky Horse Sect Leader. He has never dared to truly challenge him.

The Sky Horse Clan’s development to this point is not merely due to their strength—but also a reliance on steadiness.

The competition continued, and the second representative of the Sky Horse Clan stepped onto the stage.

Combat time was far shorter than rest time, at least in the earlier matches, and this one was no different.

Without anything particularly flashy, the Golden Dragon Princess showcased astonishing combat skill—speed, strength, bloodline—a complete overwhelming display. The opponent’s Sky Horse Battle Qi mainly remained defensive under such pressure. In the end, they were forced out of the arena by sheer power, and the match concluded. The fight lasted one minute and thirteen seconds.

After each match, Lan Xuanyu would return to the center of the arena, standing motionless with closed eyes, as if meditating. Today’s four matches progressed much faster than the preceding nine and noticeably faster than yesterday’s contest.

It even gave people the impression that "she" was constantly at rest, revealing her power only occasionally.

Neither Xing Haotian nor Li Menglong had any choice now but to defy despair by sending one challenger after another from their respective clans to confront Lan Xuanyu. Yet the formidable combat prowess she displayed left no opponent able to last beyond three minutes.

Yes, not even three minutes.

The strongest Sky Horse warrior, after taking a head-on strike of Lan Xuanyu’s Light and Dark Divine Thunder, left severely injured and nearly blasted to death.

It wasn’t that they weren’t powerful; it’s just that at this level, Lan Xuanyu was simply far too overwhelming.

Last night’s enlightenment allowed him to glean insights into destruction and creation beyond the Seven Major Elements. This proficiency made him handle the Light and Dark Divine Thunder with the precision of an arm commanding a finger, even discovering rudimentary derivations.

In today’s battles, he’d already begun initial experimentation, with surprisingly effective results, especially against the Eight-Armed Demon Clan.

The time was winding down as the eighth contestant from the Eight-Armed Demon Clan stepped up today.

Prior to this, six members of the Eight-Armed Demon Clan had fallen. None had survived—they died one after another in battle. On the Sky Horse Clan’s side, six had been defeated, with two severely injured and four sustaining lighter wounds.

Now, this was the final match of the day.

Standing in the middle of the arena, Lan Xuanyu hadn’t even shown a hint of fatigue throughout today’s matches, giving Li Menglong and Xing Haotian a profound sense of despair.

They never anticipated that Lan would conceal his strength so deeply. At this point, how could they not realize? Lan’s state had likely recovered to its peak—at least very close to it. Furthermore, during yesterday’s matches, she’d clearly held back in displaying her full capacity. Her true strength was not only greater but terrifyingly so.

The other five arenas had long become sparse in their challenges. Even the five other arena leaders were mainly watching the battles on this side.

Xu Yanmo’s face was pale as ash. Unprovokable, it’s just unprovokable. Right now, he wished he could say those three words to Lan Xuanyu. He understood clearly that the current Golden Dragon Princess, at this level, was entirely beyond his reach.

Qi Tianlong felt the same way. Yesterday’s matches had left him puzzled—why was Lan struggling so much? The strength "she" displayed yesterday seemed only comparable to her state during the Ascending Dragon Contest! Yet the problem was that this time out, he could tell plainly that "she" must have made significant progress.

Today, Qi Tianlong understood. It was strategy—every move carefully thought out and executed.

Just like what had happened to him in the past, once again, he found himself outmaneuvered by her tactics. This cold, aloof girl possessed a mind as sharp as a seven-orifice exquisite heart. His defeat wasn’t unjust—it wasn’t merely strength he lost to, but to wits as well.

At this moment, Qi Tianlong felt a sense of disheartenment. When the gap reaches a certain extent, it becomes difficult to even muster a spirit of competition. Although the actual difference in their abilities wasn’t particularly vast, Lan’s progress was simply too rapid. The payment barrel—how many Heaven Crystal Stones were in there? The very air above it seemed close to turning into solidified Life Energy Stones. If Lan absorbed all the life energy from these Heaven Crystal Stones after returning, her strength would likely improve another step further. Upon breaking through to God Rank, who knows what terrifying level she’d reach?

With a light sigh in his heart, Qi Tianlong shook his head silently. It seemed he was destined to exist forever in her shadow.

After the contest that day, his teacher had fiercely rebuked and even alienated him, yet in truth, this was more of a blow to his psyche, meant to provoke his awakening. Only later, when his teacher reappeared, did he realize this. Over the subsequent days, he dedicated himself to relentless cultivation, striving to calm his mind. Under his teacher’s guidance, he suppressed his Cultivation deliberately in hopes of eventual explosive growth. However, from how things looked now, his teacher’s hopes for him paled in comparison to Lan’s self-realized understanding. Talent, at times, could truly drive someone mad with envy.

In Arena One, the enormous figure of the Eight-Armed Demon seemed as though it might shiver uncontrollably at any moment.

From appearance alone, the over-ten-meter-tall Eight-Armed Demon compared to the roughly one-meter-nine Golden Dragon Princess was completely out of proportion, evoking the imagery of a beauty standing before a beast.

The problem, however, was that in the preceding battles, this seemingly fragile beauty had already slaughtered six such giants in succession—leaving no remains. The psychological pressure on the Eight-Armed Demon was staggering. To have the courage to step onto the stage was already an impressive feat. Now, staring at Lan, his breathing turned ragged.

Standing on the battlefield, Lan Xuanyu had entered a mysterious state. In the ongoing bouts, as he collected one Eight-Armed Demon body after another, he continuously sought insight from the destructive energy emanated by their corpses and the dense life energy hovering above the payment barrel.

The celestial laws of creation and destruction lingered in his mind, faintly fluctuating within his awareness.

Even the operation of his Dragon God’s bloodline slowed slightly. Yet during its processes, faint law-related fluctuations emerged intermittently, altering his perception of every element.

He discovered that as he began to attune himself to the energies of creation and destruction, the other energies within his being, especially the Seven Major Elements, seemed to have found their source, becoming unexpectedly obedient and easy to control.

Even the spatial property and time property responded in kind. In other words, destruction and creation—these two forces—were indeed a higher-order existence compared to them, representing the true origins within the universe.