Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 480 - 76: Leap through the Flames
Chapter 480: Chapter 76: Leap through the Flames
Zhou Hongyu employed the Art of Godly Movement, her speed swift as the wind as she flew through the long corridor, leaving behind only the faintest sound of her footsteps.
Though the sound was slight, the narrow corridor acted like an echo chamber, allowing the sounds to be clearly transmitted into the distance.
The speed of sound is about twenty times that of the speed of Godly Movement. Thus, even though she had not yet appeared within Yan Yu’s Divine Sense detection range, the sound had already traveled ahead through the space within the corridor.
Yan Yu was all too familiar with the footsteps of the Shifting Technique. In his previous life, he did not possess the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step but relied solely on the Shifting Technique and Cloud Ascension Technique for high-speed movement, so he quickly deduced that someone was approaching using Shifting Technique.
He silently hid inside an adjoining side room. Not long after, he saw Zhou Hongyu’s figure sweep past the entrance.
Yan Yu waited for a moment, then left the side room. His feet had just stepped onto the corridor when he suddenly dispelled his Invisibility Technique and swiftly dodged to the side.
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A Flame Spear from the Great Bright Fire whizzed past him, then concentrated at the far corner of the corridor, exploding into a small sea of fire, completely sealing off Yan Yu’s escape route.
Yan Yu quickly turned his head and saw Zhou Hongyu had already turned back, facing him, half her face exhibiting an icy, emotionless intent to battle, while the other half seemed to be… suppressed excitement and thrill?
“Found him!” yelled Xu Dongming from the outside broadcasting room, “Zhou Hongyu has not neglected to scan with her Divine Sense while moving with Godly Movement. She had already seen through Yan Yu’s Invisibility Technique! She just pretended she hadn’t noticed him, deliberately passing by the doorway before suddenly turning to launch a counterattack! That was the surprise attack of the legendary Guan Yu!”
“Too bad Yan Yu was also scanning with his Divine Sense the whole time and discovered Zhou Hongyu turning back before he even stepped out!” shouted Zhou Erhe, “The confrontation between top cultivators, with no exposed flaws! One mistake means defeat!”
With a shot of the Flame Spear, Zhou Hongyu sealed the path behind Yan Yu, then revealed a suppressed yet excited cold and stunning smile.
You have no escape!
Come on, face me! Yan Yu!
In a flash of lightning, Yan Yu had assessed the situation:
With the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step or Sword Flight, he could risk getting hurt to force his way through the blockade of the Great Bright Fire.
But it wasn’t necessary.
He turned to look at Zhou Hongyu, then suddenly his body was enveloped in sword light.
You want me to take you on head-on, I’m on it!
The Sword Flight wasn’t as flexible as the Cloud Bagua Step, but its speed was certainly superior, and in the blink of an eye, he had closed half the distance.
But Zhou Hongyu had practiced the Great Bright Fire countless times. The speed at which she formed the Taoist Incantation and directed her True Yuan was even more exaggerated; she quickly condensed a massive amount of scorching True Yuan between her nose and mouth.
Starfall!
Although Starfall was slower in flight, its spell volume and bombing range were both larger than the Flame Spear. Yan Yu could dodge a Flame Spear at the last moment, but it was impossible to dodge Starfall—because as soon as Zhou Hongyu expelled it, it quickly transformed into an enormous fireball that blazed upward, filling the entire corridor like a hot and intense wall of fire, leaving Yan Yu no room to evade!
The surging heat wave rushed forward! Scorching! Exploding! Zhou Hongyu’s Divine Sense followed the Starfall forward, passing over the sea of fire left after the explosion, but failed to find any sign of Yan Yu.
Did he dodge it? How? Wall-Penetration Technique… No, that’s not it, Wall-Penetration Technique can’t be used within the Underground Palace of this Mysterious Realm, I’ve already confirmed it!
Zhou Hongyu had no time for further thought. She was not Zhang Huaide, nor did she prefer to plan before acting; she rather used her own eyes to verify.
She quickly rushed to the end of the corridor near the corner, and with a soft intake, she sucked the residual burning flames at the scene into her mouth, then exhaled it as a white smoke.
There were no holes or secret doors on the surrounding walls and floor, so he couldn’t have escaped in another direction. He must have been forced to turn back and forcefully pass through the sea of fire left by the Flame Spear under the pressure of Starfall.
Even with the speed of Sword Flight, forcing through the sea of fire would result in severe burns from the high temperature.
Chase!
Zhou Hongyu, without a second thought, advanced again with Shifting Technique, and just as she turned the corner of the corridor, she was met with a sword light coming straight toward her.
Good timing!
She simply tilted her head slightly, and even brighter flames poured out from her mouth and nostrils, instantly drawing a gigantic fan shape with a radius of three meters in front of her! Within it swirled intense heat and light twisted, flames rose and roared as if Chi You was swinging his axe, or as if Zhu Rong was wielding his blade!
Phoenix Sword!
The Liang Yi sword light hastily retreated but couldn’t completely avoid the lethal range of the Phoenix Sword. The blade turned red-hot in an instant, and, propelled by the blast wave of the erupting flames, flew back in reverse.
Yan Yu’s hands rapidly formed a sword technique, pulling back the Liang Yi sword to the rear and then sending the Huang Tingjian forward to attack.
Zhou Hongyu suddenly realized something was amiss and could only hurriedly block with her Chi Yu Sword, her heart filled with both shock and suspicion.
Under her tactical judgment, if Yan Yu had been burned by the Great Bright Fire and fallen into a disadvantaged position, he would surely have had to quickly turn the tide with a surprise attack. The Speed and lethality of the Sword Flying Slash are superior to the Sword Control Technique, and he should have used the Sword Flying Slash.
But Yan Yu had used the Two-handed Sword Control Technique… It was only then that Zhou Hongyu saw clearly he had not been injured at all!
In the live broadcast room, the audience was in a state of fervent excitement.
The director switched to the usual split-screen mode, with the real-time duel between Yan Yu and Zhou Hongyu on the right, and the replay of the thrilling scene just now on the left—what was shown was none other than Yan Yu’s exquisite technique as he passed through the sea of flames.
One could see him commanding the Huang Tingjian to forcefully cleave forward, with the help of the Heavy Sword Spin Slash’s rapid airflow, the still-flaming fire was blown to both sides.
He himself used the Shifting Technique to sprint, leaping up with his back almost against the ceiling, rapidly skimming over the sea of flames below.
The flames, split by the Huang Tingjian, merely tilted to the sides for a moment before quickly returning to their original place. But in the instant the flames parted, Yan Yu had already swept over from above, the timing and trajectory all grasped with impeccable precision, he even didn’t allow the rebounding flames to singe even a corner of his clothes.
“Such consummate skill!” Zhou Erhe was utterly impressed, “Exceedingly brilliant!”
“This is the judgment and technique of a top Cultivator!” Xu Dongming also shouted, “Walking through fire and water without a single hair harmed!”
In the hospital room, dressed in a patient’s gown Li Minghu, holding a Pad, watched Yan Yu streak across the sea of fire with “such consummate skill” and couldn’t help but reveal a gentle and beautiful smile.
Still so powerful, this person…
“Old Yan must belong to the bird family, right?” Li Zhaojiang, who was lying on the edge of the bed, teased, “How could his trajectory leaping over the sea of fire be so precise?!”
Thanks to the playback in the broadcast, which had been shown several times, everyone could see Yan Yu’s trajectory jumping over the sea of fire, not only just during the instant when the flames parted to both sides, but also precisely skimming close to the ceiling.
If the trajectory had been even a little lower, the flames that were tilted and flickering would inevitably have scorched him; but if it had been a little higher, he would have hit the ceiling, the friction would have impeded his flying speed, and he might not have been able to cross before the flames closed back in.
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No matter how much Li Zhaojiang objected to this brother-in-law, he had to admit that the live commentator’s description of “such consummate skill” was indeed apt, without any superfluous words.
Inside the Shengjing team’s base, the members of the Long Flight team watching the live broadcast did not show as much amazement or admiration.
“Damn it,” Liu Longtao fell silent for a moment, finally unable to suppress a click of his tongue, “How can such a precise leap over the sea of fire be humanly possible?”
“I pointed it out long ago,” Ai Lu picked up after him, flattering, “Yan God is not human, he is a deity.”
“From the perspective of a deity, everything can be explained.”
“Stop it,” Ye Jun, sensing Liu Longtao was in a foul mood, hurriedly interrupted the oblivious Ai Lu, “Let’s continue watching the match.”
Coincidentally, Netflix, which had paid a hefty sum for the broadcasting rights from Lu Country’s Ministry of Commerce, also noticed that the broadcast channel from Lu Country had seen an explosive growth in viewership in just the past few minutes.
The reason was quite simple: The leap over the sea of fire had turned into a video clip within 10 minutes of the live broadcast, and while it was being furiously shared across major social media platforms within the country, it was also posted to the foreign student groups following the competition, eliciting widespread praise and exclamations.
With the sword splitting the sea of fire and the flames dividing, he made a leap, and then the fire closed back again, much like the Biblical Moses raising his staff high, and the boundless waves of the Red Sea parting to the sides upon his call, allowing him to pass through untouched… Even for foreigners with cultural understanding barriers, in front of such an extremely shocking and aesthetically pleasing image, there was no resistance.
Soon, a vast number of foreign viewers, drawn by the news, flooded into Netflix’s live broadcast room to begin watching this internal cultivator simulation match of Lu Country.
Not surprisingly, they were all discussing the recent “Moses parting the sea.”
Red Sea, the sea of red flames.
