Su Yun narrowed her eyes, secretly alarmed. The opponent’s strength far exceeded her expectations. That head-on clash just now had left neither of them with the slightest advantage.
“Impressive recovery ability. Is that your golden finger?” The male Su Yun shook his numbing arm, a hint of admiration in his voice. The law fluctuations around him remained as powerful as ever, with no sign of weakening.
‘I understand now,’ Su Yun thought. ‘He and I walk completely different paths.’
‘I max out burst power, even at the cost of blowing my body apart to activate high-rank magic. I rely on law completeness and the Three Realm Framework to fight head-on.’
‘But he’s got an absurdly tough physique. A high-resistance warrior in a magic world. As expected of another version of me—so wild in style.’
Su Yun couldn’t help but complain inwardly. Why were all the parallel timeline versions she’d met male? Was she the only unlucky one who turned into a loli and ran into that demon Mo Qingqing? Was she the only one destined to go through tribulations?
When the male Su Yun asked his question, Su Yun kept her mouth shut, not even a flicker in her eyes. She dared not gamble—the top of the Trial Tower might be livestreamed. Even more, she dared not gamble that Mo Qingqing might be watching from some corner. If she said one wrong word and gave that unpredictable madwoman a handle, her days ahead would be anything but peaceful.
To avoid complications, Su Yun wanted a quick victory. But the moment she exerted force, she knew this battle would not end quickly.
She stomped her right foot hard on the ground. The originally empty blank space instantly solidified into a thick layer of earth. The next moment, it exploded with a roar. Debris glittered as four elements of high-grade stone flew in all directions, smog and dust billowing.
Su Yun cast spells in complete silence. In the spiritual world, the law patterns of Earth, Fire, Lightning, and Wind interwove without any hindrance, merging together.
The ground transformed into a giant, ancient red pottery cauldron, swallowing the other Su Yun. Runes flowed across the cauldron’s body. Lightning crackled and danced within, both amplifying its power and acting as a binding chain. The Fire Law ignited a prairie blaze, wrapping the cauldron until it glowed red-hot.
The Wind Law stirred chaotic air currents, pulling in broken stones and energy fragments into the cauldron. The Lightning Law turned into silver serpents dancing wildly.
[High-Rank Magic: Small Bagua Furnace]
Inside the cauldron, wind, lightning, fire, and earth raged wildly, a terrifying pressure sweeping through the entire space. Even the air sizzled and hissed.
“Interesting! A fusion of four laws magic?” The male Su Yun’s eyes sharpened. He could clearly sense the power inside that cauldron, yet his fighting spirit blazed even higher.
“Watch me break it! Emperor Seal • World Suppression!”
A golden Emperor Seal solidified to about a zhang in size. The words “World Suppression” shimmered brilliantly. Carrying the force to suppress heaven and earth, it smashed down toward the red pottery cauldron.
Boom!
The deafening roar shook the entire space violently. The clash of wind, lightning, fire, and light exploded, shattering space inch by inch only to have it reconstruct instantly. The residual energy surged in all directions.
Su Yun was forced back three steps by the recoil, her blood and qi churning, a trace of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. The male Su Yun also stumbled back several steps, his arms numb. The Emperor Seal’s light dimmed for a moment, then recovered as if nothing had happened. The injuries on his body remained negligible.
The golden Emperor Seal split into multiple copies. “Again!” the male Su Yun shouted as his hand seals changed. “Emperor Seal • World Shatter!” Countless seals rained down on Su Yun, each carrying the power to break space.
Su Yun’s expression remained unchanged. She lifted a finger slightly, and in her spiritual world, the Space Law and Rule Law activated simultaneously. The space around her twisted, dodging several Emperor Seal copies. At the same time, the cauldron flipped over, and the wind, lightning, fire, and earth inside turned into four torrents of energy, each meeting a seal.
Su Yun’s attacks grew fiercer. Sometimes she drove the Force Law to unleash a million-ton punch, tearing space with its wind. She used Ice Spike techniques to disrupt her opponent while constantly repairing her own body damage. A series of explosions followed, and a sea of light from the energy collisions flooded most of the space. The two figures shuttled and clashed within the light, unable to gain the upper hand.
Outside viewers watched with shattered worldviews.
“This is a low-rank mage? Then what am I? A preschool mage?”
“Don’t say that. I feel like I’m actually an Elemental Knight now…”
Su Yun’s magic remained silent but every move was vicious. She mobilized her 245 law patterns as needed, combining them with the Three Realm Framework to exert maximum power.
The male Su Yun was fiercely bold. His Emperor Seal techniques came nonstop: Emperor Seal • Sky Burner, Emperor Seal • Soul Lock, all in succession. His body was terrifyingly tough—even when struck by wind and lightning or grazed by heavy punches, he barely took damage. He relied on high magic resistance to withstand Su Yun’s fierce assault and countered with Emperor Seal smashes, each move overwhelmingly domineering.
The two exchanged blows for a long time. Law turbulence raged through the blank space, and the runes on the royal throne flickered dimly, but neither could claim the upper hand.
Su Yun’s energy was heavily drained. Every time she cast a spell across levels, the pain of law backlash assailed her repeatedly, sustained only by her powerful mental strength. The male Su Yun, despite his amazing resistance, was exhausted by Su Yun’s endless law techniques. The power of his Emperor Seal also weakened slightly with prolonged consumption.
“Your law usage is too insane!” the male Su Yun gasped, his eyes full of admiration. “But I won’t lose! Emperor Seal • Return to One!”
All the Emperor Seal copies merged into a single golden spear. The spear tip condensed all the law force, aiming straight at Su Yun with unstoppable momentum.
Su Yun’s eyes sharpened. She held nothing back. In her spiritual world, the Three Realm Framework operated at full power. The Rule Law acted as the heavenly decree, commanding all laws. All 245 law patterns lit up simultaneously. The red pottery cauldron expanded several times, absorbing over a dozen laws—Earth, Fire, Lightning, Wind, Water, Soul Force, Death Force—into itself.
[High-Rank Magic: Cauldron Stew]
Its power soared several times. She raised her hand and the huge cauldron directly covered the golden spear. The laws inside the cauldron madly ground and tried to devour the spear’s power.
The male Su Yun gritted his teeth and forced more power. “Break for me!”
The golden spear pierced through layer after layer of law obstacles and stabbed hard into the cauldron. The cauldron trembled violently, its runes flickering, but it did not shatter. The law force inside surged back, wrapping around the golden spear.
One person thrust the spear fiercely, the other controlled the cauldron to grind it down. Two terrifying forces deadlocked in the center of the space, radiating boundless light and extreme pressure. Yet neither could break the other’s technique.
“Hoo… this will never end like this.” The male Su Yun pushed Su Yun’s attack away with a palm, and the two figures instantly separated by several zhang. He gasped for breath, his black martial outfit soaked with sweat, his chest heaving violently. Even with his amazing recovery, this high-intensity tug-of-war had drained him enormously.
“Let’s decide the winner with one charged move.”
“Good!” The male Su Yun’s battle intent only increased. “I’ve never officially used this move since I mastered it. Using it on you isn’t a loss.”
He wiped the blood from his mouth, and the law fluctuations around him began to internalize. He steadied his horse stance, closed his eyes, and formed complex hand seals. “This move takes a long time to charge—don’t sneak attack!”
“Same to you,” Su Yun replied flatly. Her figure suddenly shot backward, instantly pulling a distance of hundreds of zhang, facing him in a standoff.
She dared not be careless. His trump card must be extremely powerful. This was the ultimate battle between two “selves”—no room for luck.
As the words fell, both entered charging states.
The male Su Yun planted his stance firmly. Instantly, the heavenly and earthly magic power of the entire blank space, as if drawn by an invisible force, surged toward him madly, forming a magic vortex that blotted out the sky.
His aura rose at a visible rate. From the initial sharpness, it gradually became heavy, vast, carrying a kind of ancient majesty. Golden dragon scale phantom images began to appear around his body.
On the other side, Su Yun closed her eyes and entered inner vision. She did not draw in external magic power. Instead, she ignited her own life force. The life energy of her entire body burned at a terrifying speed, turning into pure magic power, which was then repeatedly purified and compressed through the 245 law patterns in her spiritual world via the Three Realm Framework.
The vast ocean of low-rank mana, tempered by the laws, turned into high-rank mana like white mist, lingering around her, radiating a cold, clear light. During this process, the mana inside her body several times approached the breakthrough threshold. A strong urge to advance surged in her heart, but it was forcibly suppressed by the Trial Tower’s rules. After all, if she advanced to mid-rank now, this low-rank limit battle would lose its meaning.
‘I only have this one chance,’ Su Yun murmured in her heart.
In the spiritual world, the Life Law pattern suddenly expanded, emitting a gentle yet powerful energy to support the burning of life force. At the same time, the Ice Element Law began to condense madly, intertwining with the purified high-rank mana and Life Law to form an extreme cold that caused even the surrounding space to produce fine frost crystals.
She carefully hoarded the high-rank mana while splitting a thread of her mind to lock onto the male Su Yun’s movements, not daring to relax for a moment.
Outside, countless eyes inside and outside the Trial Tower stared intently at the two.
After some unknown time—perhaps an instant, perhaps an eternity—they both seemed to sense some invisible connection and opened their eyes simultaneously.
“Heaven—Derivation—Decree!” The male Su Yun bellowed, his voice shaking the universe with a dragon’s majestic roar.
As the shout fell, the golden dragon scale phantoms around him fully solidified. His form expanded, transforming into a giant golden dragon that blotted out the sky.
Dragon horns proud, dragon whiskers drifting, scales shimmering brilliantly in the light. Each scale contained terrifying law power. Wherever the dragon might passed, space trembled slightly, as if even heaven and earth had to bow.
At the moment the divine dragon appeared, Su Yun slowly opened her mouth. Her voice was no longer the soft, sticky tone of before, but carried an unassailable authority, like a heavenly sovereign overlooking the mortal world.
“Where is the Chang’e Fairy?”
The moment the words fell, a cold moonlight appeared beside Su Yun out of nowhere. The moonlight condensed into a breathtakingly beautiful figure.
She was a woman dressed in a pure white flowing celestial dress with wide sleeves. The hem was embroidered with fine silver patterns that seemed to flow like moonlight as she moved. Her skin was fairer than snow, nearly transparent, yet with a cold luster, like millennia-old ice.
Her brows were like distant mountains brushed with light ink, her eyes like autumn water with rippling waves. Her long eyelashes, like butterfly wings, fluttered slightly. Her eyes carried a faint, melancholy air, as if bearing a thousand years of loneliness and longing. Her hair, without elaborate decorations, only held a single white jade hairpin. Her jet-black hair fell like a waterfall, shimmering with a faint glow.
Around her lingered a clear, cold aura, but not biting—instead, it carried an ethereal, pure breath that made one dare not desecrate.
“Chang’e is here.” She nodded slightly, her voice as clear and cold as jade striking, with a distant charm. Her gaze fell on Su Yun, carrying absolute reverence.
“Slay this villain!” Su Yun’s voice remained majestic. With a slight point of her finger, she indicated the golden divine dragon.
“As the Heavenly Sovereign commands,” Chang’e replied. As her words ended, her figure turned into a cold moonlight, drifting toward the golden divine dragon.
With her movement, an extreme cold erupted. It was not ordinary frosty chill, but a terrifying low temperature that could freeze time and seal laws. Wherever it passed, space solidified into ice, magic stopped flowing, and even light seemed to freeze. The entire blank space instantly became a frozen world.
[God-Level Magic: Three Feet of Pure Jade]
This was a forbidden magic Su Yun cast at the cost of her life, using the dharma projection from her spiritual world. The vast majority of the cost was paid by the temporary life form, Chang’e.
“Roar!” The golden divine dragon felt a lethal threat and let out an earth-shaking roar. Its claws, carrying world-destroying power, reached for Chang’e.
Its scales were indestructible, its dragon breath could incinerate everything. But facing the extreme cold brought by Chang’e, it felt a dread for the first time.
Chang’e’s wide sleeve gently waved. The cold that could freeze all instantly wrapped around the golden divine dragon.
The dragon claws solidified into ice mid-air. The dragon breath, before it could spew, turned into ice crystals. The massive dragon body was visibly frozen from head to tail, becoming a lifelike golden ice sculpture. The dragon’s eyes still held their last look of unwillingness.
Then, Chang’e extended her long, slender white fingers and gently tapped the ice sculpture.
Crack!
The crisp sound of shattering rang out. The golden ice sculpture instantly collapsed into countless tiny ice crystals, dissipating into the air.
The male Su Yun’s presence vanished completely.
With the dragon’s dissipation, Chang’e’s figure began to grow transparent. Like shattered moonlight, she slowly faded away into the air.
And Su Yun, the moment the magic was completed, was fully drained by the Law of Life’s backlash.
She collapsed limply to the ground, curling into a ball. Her face was pale without a trace of blood, her lips cracked, her breath so faint it seemed about to extinguish. The excessive burning of life left her in excruciating pain, every inch of her skin screaming in agony.
Her life force was on the verge of depletion. But in her eyes, there was relief.
Because she had won.
She didn’t even have the strength to move a finger, only able to feel the empty mana and the fading life within her.
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