Neither side immediately organized their next wave of attack; it was a wordless understanding.
After some discussion, Team Deities suddenly raised their hands and, one after another, threw their Grade 8 Artifacts into the Surrender Zone!
“From now on, let’s fight fair and square without the Grade 8 Artifacts. How about it?” Shi Yue said, even using his arms to push himself out of his wheelchair.
He gave the wheelchair a shove, sending it rolling into the Surrender Zone, then sat on the ground, smiling at Jiang Ke’er.
“Thanks to my master’s pity, I was fortunate enough to have two Grade 8 Artifacts all to myself… This chair is also a Grade 8 Artifact. Counting it, it’s five for five. You’re not at a disadvantage.”
Jiang Ke’er seemed to have anticipated such a request from the other side.
She didn’t take advantage of the moment when her opponents were disarmed to launch an attack.
Instead, she decisively threw the Great Thousand Sword into the Surrender Zone as well.
Grade 8 Artifacts were like nuclear weapons.
If one side had them and the other didn’t, the side with them could trample the other with impunity. But if both sides had them, their significance diminished greatly.
Using Grade 8 Artifacts to bombard each other would introduce too many variables into the battle, easily causing heavy casualties.
Whichever side won wouldn’t look graceful, and it would be a dishonorable victory.
“Qing Yi…” Gan Ruanruan clutched the Meteor Dagger reluctantly, clearly unwilling to play by the other side’s rules.
She felt that if she held the Meteor Dagger, even though her probability of death would be far higher than in a normal fight, she could still be of considerable value, narrowing the strength gap with the opponents…
Even if she died, she could be of more help.
Without the Meteor Dagger, she feared she wouldn’t be able to intervene in the fight, leaving Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiaoxian under greater pressure.
“Protect yourself,” Jiang Ke’er smiled reassuringly. “Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”
Gan Ruanruan hesitated, words on the tip of her tongue, but ultimately threw the Meteor Dagger away.
It was true. If they used Grade 8 Artifacts to bombard each other, she would die even faster, which might actually bring more pressure to Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiaoxian.
With the rules set, both sides discarded their Grade 8 Artifacts.
“Come on, enjoy this battle. It will be your swan song!” Shi Yue’s gaze sharpened, and he pressed his claw-like hands against the ground.
His pupils turned dark green.
The arena rumbled, and a vibrant, life-filled energy mixed with the fragrance of damp earth after rain suddenly permeated the battlefield.
Jiang Ke’er’s expression changed. “Underfoot!”
Bamboo spikes that had burst from the ground pierced through the spot where Jiang Ke’er had just been standing.
Countless emerald bamboo shoots sprouted from the earth, growing rapidly, threatening to engulf the entire battlefield in an instant!
So strong!
Really strong!
In just a moment, the entire battlefield was sealed off by dense bamboo. The towering green bamboo blocked out the sky and sun, completely obstructing Jiang Ke’er’s vision and Divine Sense perception, plunging the Bagpipe Squad into a situation where each had to fight alone!
The bamboo grew in bizarre, twisted ways, crisscrossing and hindering movement.
Stimulated, it could undergo secondary changes at any moment, its stalks hard and sharp…
This was the first time Jiang Ke’er had encountered such a powerful Bamboo Control battle technique in a match!
It was like the Crystal Maze they faced against the Wasteland War Team yesterday, but more flexible and dangerous than that labyrinth!
Ding—
Swinging her sword to deflect a sneakily shot bamboo spike, Jiang Ke’er felt frantic.
Her strengths lay in agility and speed, and this kind of area control ability could neutralize most of her agility and speed advantages.
If only she could utilize air currents to the utmost like the System Dummy, then no area control could hinder her…
But she had no clue about that technique!
There weren’t that many dramatic, mid-battle epiphanies. She wasn’t a Dragon-Aotian protagonist; Qiao Xiaoxian was.
And in this blind state, if the opponents targeted the Bagpipe Squad’s weak points and broke them down one by one, the consequences would be unthinkable!
Calm down.
This kind of area control obstruction was also troublesome for the enemy.
If they wanted to traverse the bamboo forest to attack, Shi Yue would need to manipulate the bamboo to open a path.
So, as long as she could predict the bamboo’s manipulated movements in advance, she could predict the direction of the enemy’s attack.
With both Divine Sense and vision restricted, all she could rely on were hearing and smell…
Twenty meters southeast!
A sword light from Jiang Ke’er shot through the air, its vast Sword Qi tearing through the bamboo forest like rotten wood, arriving at the target location in an instant.
Clang—
The female assassin who cultivated in the Yin Dragon Vein suddenly halted, dodging the Sword Qi, and glanced at Jiang Ke’er in surprise, forced to interrupt her offensive.
Her target had originally been Jie Shui, but Jiang Ke’er’s preemptive sword strike had also caused her to miss the opportunity to instantly kill Jie Shui.
Coming to his senses, Jie Shui lunged explosively towards the female assassin, but she, in turn, gave him a charming smile.
Mid-air, Jie Shui’s figure froze. In that split second, he seemed to lose his soul, his brain aching and his thoughts stopping.
A mental attack!
By the time he regained his senses, the spot where he was about to fall was already covered in bamboo spikes. It looked like he was about to be skewered!
Whoosh—
Both Frost Shadow and Qing Cheng left her hands simultaneously, one attacking the female assassin, the other scooping up Jie Shui and sending him to a safe area.
“Oh?”
The female assassin turned her head, smiling as she looked at Jiang Ke’er, meeting her eyes.
It was as if a massive, sharp spiritual blade shot from her eyes towards Jiang Ke’er’s brain. However, before it had traveled halfway, it was rebounded.
“Ah—”
The female assassin screamed, clutching her head as she retreated violently into the bamboo forest, trembling all over with a face full of terror. “Just what… are you, monster?”
When her spiritual power made contact with Jiang Ke’er’s, she had thought she could easily shatter the other.
Yet, in that instant, her own spiritual power felt like it had crashed into an iron wall!
She was immediately battered and broken.
What was more terrifying was that in that brief contact, she felt as if she had fallen into the depths of hell!
That immense fear emerging from the very source of her soul, that unopposable majesty… nearly made her unable to wake up!
“Could it be…”
Her eyes widened, and she cried out in agony, “This terrifying spiritual power… yes, master was right… indeed, it’s you!”
Jiang Ke’er’s heart sank. She took a powerful step forward, charging at full speed, trying to catch up to the female assassin.
She couldn’t let her reveal her identity! Otherwise, the consequences would be unthinkable!
Ignoring the bamboo spike that pierced through her abdomen from the side, Jiang Ke’er didn’t stop for a moment.
The hurricane she unleashed with all her might roared, snapping every bamboo branch in its path, exploding towards the female assassin’s back!
But at the same time, the bamboo forest beside Jiang Ke’er suddenly parted.
A pair of fists let out a tremendous dragon’s roar, launching a sudden, completely unexpected attack aimed at Jiang Ke’er’s side!
An ambush?! So patient! Jie Shui was just there earlier, and they didn’t attack…
He was waiting for me! His target from start to finish has only been me!
A chill ran through Jiang Ke’er’s heart.
“Fox Demon! Die!”
Boom!
Jiang Ke’er was struck squarely on the left side.
Her entire body bent sideways like a bow under the immense force, her ribs completely caved in, and she was sent flying into the bamboo forest like a cannonball.
And within the bamboo forest, spikes were already densely packed.
A spike pierced through Jiang Ke’er’s chest. Her eyes widened, and blood uncontrollably gushed from her throat.
Fox Demon? He called me Fox Demon?
So, from the very beginning, the target was only me…
A match? No.
It’s an assassination.
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