The Southern King’s daughter?
It wasn’t particularly surprising, after all, the previous signs had already proven this.
However, Bai Shuanglian wasn’t particularly bothered by this.
After all, when it came down to it, wasn’t she also a high-born young lady?
Watching the layers of Blood Fiend Qi emerging around Su Taosheng, Bai Shuanglian took a light step forward.
As the tip of her foot landed, the surrounding air suddenly turned cold.
The hot breath she exhaled turned into water vapor, and frost formed on the ground.
Bai Shuanglian’s figure blurred for a moment, and when she reappeared, she was already in front of Su Taosheng.
She slightly raised her sword, its edge gleaming with cold light.
She slashed down with a single strike, but that one sword strike seemed like countless sword shadows overlapping, all slashing down at Su Taosheng simultaneously.
But immediately, the Blood Fiend Qi around Su Taosheng seemed to sense her approach and reacted in an instant.
One after another, blood-colored hands abruptly reached out from the Blood Fiend Qi, grabbing at the ice-blue longsword, but they were ruthlessly severed.
But the blood hands seemed inexhaustible.
As soon as one was severed, a second and third would take its place.
And those severed hands would once again turn into Blood Fiend Qi, returning to the surrounding mist of Blood Fiend Qi, waiting to be condensed into form again.
Seeing this, Bai Shuanglian narrowed her eyes.
The ice-blue longsword erupted with intense cold, freezing all the surrounding blood mist.
However, even though her reaction was timely, Su Taosheng, who was being attacked, reacted even faster!
The moment Su Taosheng saw Bai Shuanglian’s figure disappear, she spun her Fangtian Huaji and swung it behind her, aiming directly at Bai Shuanglian’s neck.
Feeling the fierce wind approach, Bai Shuanglian regretfully withdrew her longsword, allowing the frozen blood mist to break free moments later, and raised her sword to block Su Taosheng’s counter-swing.
The two exchanged several rounds of blows, but if only considering combat techniques, they were evenly matched, so no winner was decided.
In the audience, Ling Xiaoyou watched the exchange without blinking, straining her eyes to follow their movements.
Fortunately, her speed had been raised to the limit of the Soul Gathering Stage, and with effort, she could just barely keep up.
Su Lihua beside her, however, was not so fortunate.
She also wanted to follow their movements like Ling Xiaoyou, but her eyes were already blurring, and she couldn’t catch up.
She could only sigh softly and continue cheering for her own older sister.
Bai Xiqing and Miao Miaomiao, on the other hand, were completely immersed in the battle.
They never imagined that among their peers, there could be two people this powerful.
Even if they faced some long-established veteran performers, they probably wouldn’t be at a disadvantage, right?!
The longsword danced, changing from a lift to a thrust.
Yang Flame burned on Bai Shuanglian’s ice-blue longsword, and the supremely righteous and yang aura it emitted made the surrounding Blood Fiend Qi restless, as if it wished to flee as soon as possible.
But Su Taosheng did not let them escape.
Her eyes revealed a fighting spirit, and the aura from her body became increasingly terrifying.
As a Blood Fiend Battle Method that the Southern King had specially created and continued to perfect and improve, it certainly had spells that could resist Yang Flame, which was a special counter against spirits.
Suddenly, blood-colored flames burst out from Su Taosheng’s body, but those flames were not real fire; they seemed more like an improvement upon ghost fire.
The Fangtian Huaji and the ice-blue longsword clashed.
Yang Flame and Blood Flame made contact, producing a massive explosion at the center of their battle.
This explosion of opposing attributes sent both flying dozens of meters and left a huge crater in the ground.
The surrounding dust and smoke perfectly illustrated the principle that “where there’s smoke, there’s no injury.”
A glow interwoven with white and gold surrounded Bai Shuanglian, blocking the explosion and its aftermath.
As for Su Taosheng, the blood-colored dress she wore was itself a manifestation of a powerful defensive spell.
Seeing that both were unharmed, many of the audience who had been worried about their safety collectively breathed a sigh of relief, including Ling Xiaoyou and the others.
However, even though they were somewhat worried, they trusted Bai Shuanglian and Su Taosheng, believing that they would not be defeated that easily, and the results were exactly as they expected.
“Couldn’t get a one-hit kill.”
Ling Xiaoyou glanced at Su Taosheng, who seemed completely unharmed, then looked at Su Lihua and said in a slightly provocative tone.
“Heh, same to you!”
Su Lihua also glanced at her, her eyes full of disdain.
The looks they exchanged seemed to spark with crackling electricity, filled with tension.
Seeing this, Miao Miaomiao and Bai Xiqing exchanged a glance, inexplicably feeling a strange sense that there was a competition on the field and also a competition in the audience stands.
But the two didn’t spar verbally for long, because a new round of combat began on the field.
If the previous exchange was one of martial techniques and battle methods, then this was a contest of magic arts.
Su Taosheng stomped the ground heavily again.
That earthquake-like step created cracks spreading across the surrounding ground.
Immediately, a pair of blood hands shot out from the cracks, grabbing the edges and climbing out.
It was a soldier, a blood-colored soldier wearing tattered armor, holding a long knife, and covered in cuts from blades.
Then a second pair of hands emerged from the cracks, and a second soldier appeared.
Then a third, a fourth…
There was no sign of stopping.
In the blink of an eye, soldiers covered half the arena, but they continued to increase.
And Su Taosheng had somehow mounted a warhorse condensed from Blood Fiend Qi, holding the Blood Fiend War Banner in her left hand and the Fangtian Huaji in her right.
She had fully transformed into an invincible female general commanding an army!
Su Taosheng waved the war banner, which flapped loudly in the fierce wind.
The character “South” on it looked so striking.
After seeing this war banner, many audience members who were curious about Su Taosheng’s identity immediately understood who she was.
The Southern King’s daughter, the Eldest Princess of the Feng Nan Domain in the Underworld!
After understanding her identity, many spectators finally understood why this suddenly appeared young lady could fight Bai Shuanglian of the Bai Family to a standstill.
Ling Xiaoyou glanced at the war banner in surprise.
Although she couldn’t claim to be especially familiar with the forces of the Underworld, she had heard of the Southern King.
“I didn’t expect Su Taosheng to be that rumored Eldest Princess who was said to be participating. I thought the Eldest Princess had already been eliminated.”
But…
Ling Xiaoyou glanced at Su Lihua and couldn’t help falling into deep thought.
‘Even though they were both princesses, why did Su Lihua seem so cheerful and silly?’
‘Could it be that Su Taosheng had absorbed all the good genes before birth?’
As Ling Xiaoyou was lost in these wild thoughts, she then saw the situation on the field change again.
Bai Shuanglian raised her hand and traced in the air, drawing dozens of talismans in midair, which bloomed with wondrous colors.
Then with a flick of her slender hand, she threw those talismans into the sky, and all kinds of powers burst forth simultaneously!
In an instant, dark clouds gathered, thunder and lightning flashed, giant boulders fell, the ground trembled, floodwaters surged, the sun erupted with apocalyptic flames, and several enormous fireballs hung in the sky like impending disasters.
These scenes resembling natural disasters made many people tremble, each thinking about how they would fare if they faced such a situation.
And they quickly reached a conclusion.
No hope.
Just wait to die.
But Su Taosheng did not come to the same conclusion.
She stared at Bai Shuanglian, and the latter stared back at her, like a deity who delivers divine punishment and a general who rebels against the deity, locking eyes.
Then, the battle began again.