Yan Ling's gaze continued to move between her right hand and Liang Chen, the corners of her lips twitching with a rapidly increasing frequency. Suddenly, her mouth curved into a grin so wide it almost seemed to go from ear to ear, Yan Ling bursting into loud and boisterous laughter while pointing at Liang Chen.
"HAHAHA, did you SEE that? Did you? Did you? You're not the only one who gets to have something like that, I can have it too! HAHAH...!"
Qin Nuan's foot crashed into Yan Ling's abdomen and knocked all the air out of her before she got to finish her laughter, her body bending forward for a short moment before she was sent flying backward. She crashed into the stage a short distance away, the skin on her abdomen burnt black and bubbling slightly, blood leaking out from the corners of her mouth.
Liang Chen arrived next to her with the sound of thunder, his spear sweeping upwards in a diagonal line and knocking aside the follow-up stomp that Qin Nuan was trying to perform. After sweeping away her right foot and destabilizing her body, Liang Chen took a step forward and gathered all his strength in his left hand, delivering a strong punch to Qin Nuan's waist, which was exposed after he knocked aside her foot.
She quickly placed her two halberds in front of the punch, but a fierce blast of wind was unleashed the moment Liang Chen's fist touched the weapons, blasting the unstable Qin Nuan backward and giving him and Yan Ling some room to breathe. Liang Chen quickly pulled back his hand and grabbed onto Yan Ling's wrist, pulling her up from the ground.
"You gotta pay attention during a fight, that wasn't like you."
If Yan Ling had just been paying proper attention earlier, there would have been no way for Qin Nuan's kick to actually hit her. Yan Ling covered her burnt stomach with her left arm, using her law of water as well as her strong body to quickly heal the wound before it got too bad. It clearly hurt quite a bit, but her face was still split open in a wide grin.
"Nihihi, sorry sorry, I was just a bit too happy and lost my focus, won't happen again."
Right now, above anything else, Yan Ling felt truly happy. Liang Chen had a supreme bloodline and a supreme law, both would allow him to drastically increase his strength, especially his law of time, it made it virtually impossible for normal people to ever catch up to him. Because of this, Yan Ling had tried to grasp onto every chance she could get to become stronger, all so that she could make sure to keep up with him and not drag him down. He had helped her acquire a supreme bloodline, but that was not enough, not when he too had a supreme bloodline.
But now, now she too had a supreme law, the embryo of the law of space, the sister law of the law of time. With her supreme law and her supreme bloodline, as well with her ceaseless effort, she was now certain that she could keep up with him no matter what, she would never become a burden. And that knowledge alone was enough to make her ecstatic enough to burst out laughing and forget all about the battle around them. Liang Chen made sure that Yan Ling was able to stand on her own before carefully letting go of her.
"Alright, I can't really say anything, seeing as I got cocky earlier and got smacked for it. But congrats, it may just be an embryo for now, but it's still the law of space, that's not something just everyone can acquire. Now, how about we beat down her and then go celebrate it somehow?"
Yan Ling turned her gaze onto Qin Nuan, who was currently stabilizing her body, and nodded her head while still grinning brightly. Liang Chen held his spear at his side, the tip tapping the stage once before his body suddenly vanished, the stage where he had just been standing shattering from the force of his movement.
He appeared next to Qin Nuan and stabbed his spear upwards, aiming for the gap in her ribs that should lead to her heart. When you fought someone who could regenerate like those from the Fiendgod race, it was best to make every wound a lethal one, it would drain their energy far faster. Qin Nuan quickly reacted by flexing one of her left arms, Liang Chen's spear stabbing through the crimson scales covering her body and stopping when it reached the bone in her elbow.
Qin Nuan lashed out with the shortsword in her upper left hand and the halberd she was holding in her two lower right arms, the halberd aiming for Liang Chen while the sword aimed for his spear. Just as she moved her halberd, Yan Ling arrived in front of Qin Nuan, the only sign of her arrival a faint gust of wind.
Qin Nuan furrowed her brows slightly and sent out a kick with her right foot, slashing out with her other shortsword at the same time. With Liang Chen's spear stabbed into the elbow of one of her left arms, her second halberd was currently unusable. Yan Ling jumped up slightly, stepping onto Qin Nuan's foot and using the force of her kick to propel herself upwards at a rapid pace.
She slashed out with her sword while being propelled upwards, slicing one of Qin Nuan's right wrists into ribbons by using her law of wind and her law of slicing, mixing in a tiny bit of her law of space just to be certain. Qin Nuan's grip on her halberd weakened for a short second thanks to one of her wrists becoming incapacitated, Yan Ling quickly taking advantage of it.
She grabbed onto the halberd with her left hand and once again slashed out with her sword, cutting deep wounds into the other hand that was holding onto the same halberd. Qin Nuan was forced to let go of the halberd, for a single second, but that was more than enough time for Yan Ling. She returned her sword into her interspatial ring and snatched the halberd away from Qin Nuan, giving her entire body a quick spin while still being propelled upwards thanks to Qin Nuan's kick.
She lashed out in a sideways manner with the halberd while spinning, the axe-like blade slicing into her left shoulder and causing the arm that was currently swinging a sword at Liang Chen's spear to turn limp for a second while it was regenerating. Yan Ling channeled as much of her law of space, slicing, and crushing into the halberd as she could, the blade shattering when it dug halfway into Qin Nuan's shoulder as a result.
One halberd had been taken away and broken, one of her shortswords and the other halberd were currently unusable due to wounds, only her last sword was still performing its attack, a sideways slash coming directly for Yan Ling's waist. But Liang Chen took advantage of the chance she bought him before the sword could even reach Yan Ling's waist.
He pumped his spear full of poison, rot, and time, flooding Qin Nuan's body with the three elements. The tissue in her left arm started to rot and wither away, her soul was attacked by the poison, and his law of time slowed down her Qi and mind so much that she was unable to immediately put up a proper resistance, temporarily weakening her defenses as her Qi became somewhat unsteady when her soul was attacked.
Liang Chen took this chance to slide his right hand down the handle of his spear, letting go of it and pulling his arm back as far as he could. He gathered all his power in his right hand and then punched out, his fist colliding with the butt of his spear and forcing it forward, a low mutter sounding within his mind.
"Second step splits the waterfall."
He instantly unleashed his strongest attack, a faintly brown bolt of lightning and a light purple ethereal energy bursting out from the tip of his spear, an incandescent light engulfing the stage. A thunderous roar and a sizzling sound rang out from within the incandescent light, the bolt of lightning tearing through the stage and tearing a finger-width gash across the entirety of it, even cracking the energy shield surrounding Qin Nuan's nine puppets, stopping just before it managed to actually touch the puppets.
The ethereal energy affected the stage in a far more noticeable manner, the stone slowly turning more and more porous, eventually withering away into dust and blowing away in the wind. Within three seconds, the stage had been split in two and there was now also a nearly one-kilometer wide empty area at the center of the stage, all the stone there having turned to dust.
When the light vanished, Yan Ling and Liang Chen stood at the center of the empty spot in the stage, Liang Chen somewhat pale and his breathing somewhat ragged. He cast a sideways glance at his spear, the top half of it was currently disintegrating, turning to dust just like the stage had. It had served him dutifully, but now it was no longer able to keep up with his strength and his laws, falling apart after supporting him and his final attack one last time. Liang Chen let out a breath and cast his gaze onto Yan Ling, a low voice sounding out.
"Sorry, I broke your gift."
The spear had been the first gift Yan Ling had given him, it had been a makeup gift after she had completely ignored him due to him accidentally using an aphrodisiac on her during a battle in the sect. Yan Ling gave a light shake of her head to tell him not to worry about it, a faint smile on her head. Both of them cast their gazes onto the mangled body lying in front of them, the body of Qin Nuan.
The final attack had torn directly through her torso, tearing it apart and splitting her body into two pieces, both of which were quickly eaten away at by the poison and rot. Liang Chen thought this would be the end, but her body started to regenerate as he was looking at her, tendrils of meat stretching out from the two pieces and connecting them together.
Qin Nuan's eyes shot open as the tendrils of meat connected her lower body and torso. Her eyes were bloodshot and somewhat unfocused, her pupils drifting around as she shouted out in a voice so garbled it was hard to make out what she was trying to say.
"I PRaayua ThHAAttyu AlllLLIi YOOUUUOO WisHHHSSSW TTTIIOOO PROttteCcattt BbBUURRNnnggss!!!"
His poison and rot were specialized in dealing with souls, her soul had been strengthened by the array but under the amplification of his strongest attack, the strengthening was not enough to properly protect her soul. Even if they did nothing to her now, she would forever stay like this, unable to form coherent sentences and with a severely hampered thought process. If there was one thing regrettable about her current state it would be that they could no longer ask her about who it was that had sent her, they wouldn't be able to understand her.
Yan Ling pat Liang Chen on the shoulder, beckoning for him to step back so that he could get some rest. Qin Nuan was no threat in her current state, Yan Ling alone would be enough to waste away her energy and seal away her life. Liang Chen nodded his head and stepped back, proceeding to quietly watch as Yan Ling focused her attacks on Qin Nuan's brain and heart, forcing her body to waste massive amounts of energy to regenerate them. She occasionally slashed her body into smaller pieces, preventing her from fully regenerating and moving.
The array truly strengthened her a great deal, it took another half hour of slashing away at her before the last sliver of life finally vanished from Qin Nuan, the stage falling silent. After killing Qin Nuan, Yan Ling furrowed her brows slightly, using her body to carve open her body, inspecting some of her bones as well as the horns that had grown on her head. After inspecting her insides for a bit, Yan Ling stored the body, as well as the nine pupptes, into her interspatial ring and walked over to Liang Chen, whispering quietly to him.
"I know that her strong body would be useful for our body cultivation, but mind if I take it? That egg we picked up from the Rot Dragon Nest is reacting to the Demonic beast parts and blood she used to cultivate, I might be able to make it hatch if I can feed her to it."
The egg they had picked up back then had forcibly absorbed the bodies of one Rot Dragon and several tigers that had the bloodline of the White Tiger, for it to react to Qin Nuan's Demonic beast parts, she had clearly used some very high-quality parts. Liang Chen didn't hesitate to nod his head, he was very interested in seeing what would pop out from that egg.
Yan Ling smiled and somewhat shyly wrapped her arm around Liang Chen's, holding him close while doing her best to prevent a blush from creeping up on her face. She wasn't good with public displays of affection, but right now she was too happy to really care too much. Both of them only cast a glance at the judge, who could only swallow his saliva before nodding his head and letting them leave, the battle ending in their victory.
Yan Ling's gaze continued to move between her right hand and Liang Chen, the corners of her lips twitching with a rapidly increasing frequency. Suddenly, her mouth curved into a grin so wide it almost seemed to go from ear to ear, Yan Ling bursting into loud and boisterous laughter while pointing at Liang Chen.
"HAHAHA, did you SEE that? Did you? Did you? You're not the only one who gets to have something like that, I can have it too! HAHAH...!"
Qin Nuan's foot crashed into Yan Ling's abdomen and knocked all the air out of her before she got to finish her laughter, her body bending forward for a short moment before she was sent flying backward. She crashed into the stage a short distance away, the skin on her abdomen burnt black and bubbling slightly, blood leaking out from the corners of her mouth.
Liang Chen arrived next to her with the sound of thunder, his spear sweeping upwards in a diagonal line and knocking aside the follow-up stomp that Qin Nuan was trying to perform. After sweeping away her right foot and destabilizing her body, Liang Chen took a step forward and gathered all his strength in his left hand, delivering a strong punch to Qin Nuan's waist, which was exposed after he knocked aside her foot.
She quickly placed her two halberds in front of the punch, but a fierce blast of wind was unleashed the moment Liang Chen's fist touched the weapons, blasting the unstable Qin Nuan backward and giving him and Yan Ling some room to breathe. Liang Chen quickly pulled back his hand and grabbed onto Yan Ling's wrist, pulling her up from the ground.
"You gotta pay attention during a fight, that wasn't like you."
If Yan Ling had just been paying proper attention earlier, there would have been no way for Qin Nuan's kick to actually hit her. Yan Ling covered her burnt stomach with her left arm, using her law of water as well as her strong body to quickly heal the wound before it got too bad. It clearly hurt quite a bit, but her face was still split open in a wide grin.
"Nihihi, sorry sorry, I was just a bit too happy and lost my focus, won't happen again."
Right now, above anything else, Yan Ling felt truly happy. Liang Chen had a supreme bloodline and a supreme law, both would allow him to drastically increase his strength, especially his law of time, it made it virtually impossible for normal people to ever catch up to him. Because of this, Yan Ling had tried to grasp onto every chance she could get to become stronger, all so that she could make sure to keep up with him and not drag him down. He had helped her acquire a supreme bloodline, but that was not enough, not when he too had a supreme bloodline.
But now, now she too had a supreme law, the embryo of the law of space, the sister law of the law of time. With her supreme law and her supreme bloodline, as well with her ceaseless effort, she was now certain that she could keep up with him no matter what, she would never become a burden. And that knowledge alone was enough to make her ecstatic enough to burst out laughing and forget all about the battle around them. Liang Chen made sure that Yan Ling was able to stand on her own before carefully letting go of her.
"Alright, I can't really say anything, seeing as I got cocky earlier and got smacked for it. But congrats, it may just be an embryo for now, but it's still the law of space, that's not something just everyone can acquire. Now, how about we beat down her and then go celebrate it somehow?"
Yan Ling turned her gaze onto Qin Nuan, who was currently stabilizing her body, and nodded her head while still grinning brightly. Liang Chen held his spear at his side, the tip tapping the stage once before his body suddenly vanished, the stage where he had just been standing shattering from the force of his movement.
He appeared next to Qin Nuan and stabbed his spear upwards, aiming for the gap in her ribs that should lead to her heart. When you fought someone who could regenerate like those from the Fiendgod race, it was best to make every wound a lethal one, it would drain their energy far faster. Qin Nuan quickly reacted by flexing one of her left arms, Liang Chen's spear stabbing through the crimson scales covering her body and stopping when it reached the bone in her elbow.
Qin Nuan lashed out with the shortsword in her upper left hand and the halberd she was holding in her two lower right arms, the halberd aiming for Liang Chen while the sword aimed for his spear. Just as she moved her halberd, Yan Ling arrived in front of Qin Nuan, the only sign of her arrival a faint gust of wind.
Qin Nuan furrowed her brows slightly and sent out a kick with her right foot, slashing out with her other shortsword at the same time. With Liang Chen's spear stabbed into the elbow of one of her left arms, her second halberd was currently unusable. Yan Ling jumped up slightly, stepping onto Qin Nuan's foot and using the force of her kick to propel herself upwards at a rapid pace.
She slashed out with her sword while being propelled upwards, slicing one of Qin Nuan's right wrists into ribbons by using her law of wind and her law of slicing, mixing in a tiny bit of her law of space just to be certain. Qin Nuan's grip on her halberd weakened for a short second thanks to one of her wrists becoming incapacitated, Yan Ling quickly taking advantage of it.
She grabbed onto the halberd with her left hand and once again slashed out with her sword, cutting deep wounds into the other hand that was holding onto the same halberd. Qin Nuan was forced to let go of the halberd, for a single second, but that was more than enough time for Yan Ling. She returned her sword into her interspatial ring and snatched the halberd away from Qin Nuan, giving her entire body a quick spin while still being propelled upwards thanks to Qin Nuan's kick.
She lashed out in a sideways manner with the halberd while spinning, the axe-like blade slicing into her left shoulder and causing the arm that was currently swinging a sword at Liang Chen's spear to turn limp for a second while it was regenerating. Yan Ling channeled as much of her law of space, slicing, and crushing into the halberd as she could, the blade shattering when it dug halfway into Qin Nuan's shoulder as a result.
One halberd had been taken away and broken, one of her shortswords and the other halberd were currently unusable due to wounds, only her last sword was still performing its attack, a sideways slash coming directly for Yan Ling's waist. But Liang Chen took advantage of the chance she bought him before the sword could even reach Yan Ling's waist.
He pumped his spear full of poison, rot, and time, flooding Qin Nuan's body with the three elements. The tissue in her left arm started to rot and wither away, her soul was attacked by the poison, and his law of time slowed down her Qi and mind so much that she was unable to immediately put up a proper resistance, temporarily weakening her defenses as her Qi became somewhat unsteady when her soul was attacked.
Liang Chen took this chance to slide his right hand down the handle of his spear, letting go of it and pulling his arm back as far as he could. He gathered all his power in his right hand and then punched out, his fist colliding with the butt of his spear and forcing it forward, a low mutter sounding within his mind.
"Second step splits the waterfall."
He instantly unleashed his strongest attack, a faintly brown bolt of lightning and a light purple ethereal energy bursting out from the tip of his spear, an incandescent light engulfing the stage. A thunderous roar and a sizzling sound rang out from within the incandescent light, the bolt of lightning tearing through the stage and tearing a finger-width gash across the entirety of it, even cracking the energy shield surrounding Qin Nuan's nine puppets, stopping just before it managed to actually touch the puppets.
The ethereal energy affected the stage in a far more noticeable manner, the stone slowly turning more and more porous, eventually withering away into dust and blowing away in the wind. Within three seconds, the stage had been split in two and there was now also a nearly one-kilometer wide empty area at the center of the stage, all the stone there having turned to dust.
When the light vanished, Yan Ling and Liang Chen stood at the center of the empty spot in the stage, Liang Chen somewhat pale and his breathing somewhat ragged. He cast a sideways glance at his spear, the top half of it was currently disintegrating, turning to dust just like the stage had. It had served him dutifully, but now it was no longer able to keep up with his strength and his laws, falling apart after supporting him and his final attack one last time. Liang Chen let out a breath and cast his gaze onto Yan Ling, a low voice sounding out.
"Sorry, I broke your gift."
The spear had been the first gift Yan Ling had given him, it had been a makeup gift after she had completely ignored him due to him accidentally using an aphrodisiac on her during a battle in the sect. Yan Ling gave a light shake of her head to tell him not to worry about it, a faint smile on her head. Both of them cast their gazes onto the mangled body lying in front of them, the body of Qin Nuan.
The final attack had torn directly through her torso, tearing it apart and splitting her body into two pieces, both of which were quickly eaten away at by the poison and rot. Liang Chen thought this would be the end, but her body started to regenerate as he was looking at her, tendrils of meat stretching out from the two pieces and connecting them together.
Qin Nuan's eyes shot open as the tendrils of meat connected her lower body and torso. Her eyes were bloodshot and somewhat unfocused, her pupils drifting around as she shouted out in a voice so garbled it was hard to make out what she was trying to say.
"I PRaayua ThHAAttyu AlllLLIi YOOUUUOO WisHHHSSSW TTTIIOOO PROttteCcattt BbBUURRNnnggss!!!"
His poison and rot were specialized in dealing with souls, her soul had been strengthened by the array but under the amplification of his strongest attack, the strengthening was not enough to properly protect her soul. Even if they did nothing to her now, she would forever stay like this, unable to form coherent sentences and with a severely hampered thought process. If there was one thing regrettable about her current state it would be that they could no longer ask her about who it was that had sent her, they wouldn't be able to understand her.
Yan Ling pat Liang Chen on the shoulder, beckoning for him to step back so that he could get some rest. Qin Nuan was no threat in her current state, Yan Ling alone would be enough to waste away her energy and seal away her life. Liang Chen nodded his head and stepped back, proceeding to quietly watch as Yan Ling focused her attacks on Qin Nuan's brain and heart, forcing her body to waste massive amounts of energy to regenerate them. She occasionally slashed her body into smaller pieces, preventing her from fully regenerating and moving.
The array truly strengthened her a great deal, it took another half hour of slashing away at her before the last sliver of life finally vanished from Qin Nuan, the stage falling silent. After killing Qin Nuan, Yan Ling furrowed her brows slightly, using her body to carve open her body, inspecting some of her bones as well as the horns that had grown on her head. After inspecting her insides for a bit, Yan Ling stored the body, as well as the nine pupptes, into her interspatial ring and walked over to Liang Chen, whispering quietly to him.
"I know that her strong body would be useful for our body cultivation, but mind if I take it? That egg we picked up from the Rot Dragon Nest is reacting to the Demonic beast parts and blood she used to cultivate, I might be able to make it hatch if I can feed her to it."
The egg they had picked up back then had forcibly absorbed the bodies of one Rot Dragon and several tigers that had the bloodline of the White Tiger, for it to react to Qin Nuan's Demonic beast parts, she had clearly used some very high-quality parts. Liang Chen didn't hesitate to nod his head, he was very interested in seeing what would pop out from that egg.
Yan Ling smiled and somewhat shyly wrapped her arm around Liang Chen's, holding him close while doing her best to prevent a blush from creeping up on her face. She wasn't good with public displays of affection, but right now she was too happy to really care too much. Both of them only cast a glance at the judge, who could only swallow his saliva before nodding his head and letting them leave, the battle ending in their victory.
