Golden light exploded in the sky like the sun, illuminating the entire arena, and even the entire Major League Stadium.
Terrifying power enveloped every corner of the arena. The blue light was extinguished, and the golden lightning retracted.
It looked like they were evenly matched.
But immediately after, another golden light flashed, and the momentum was even stronger than before.
Boom--!
Bing Yu pointed her spear forward, but this time, she fell from the sky to the ground.
Golden lightning flashed around his body.
There was a trace of shock in her eyes because she felt a blazing heat, an indescribable heat.
This heat didn't come from the temperature of the outside world, but from within her body.
His opponent's lightning actually had a terrifying penetrative power.
The intensity of the energy wasn't too high, but it was extremely pure and had an extremely terrifying explosive power.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Golden lightning bolts rained down from the sky. Bing Yu brandished the spear in his hand and blocked the golden lightning strikes again and again.
In the blink of an eye, the nine strikes were over. Lan Jue's figure reappeared before everyone's eyes.
Bing Yu had blocked nine attacks, but her body was now covered in tiny arcs of golden lightning.
"It feels like Zeus's energy isn't as strong as Bing Yu's. That's the difference in cultivation.
But why is it so difficult for Bing Yu to block his lightning? "Mo Xiao asked in surprise.
The Terminator's voice was placid. "Pure Yang, Nine Solar Lightning.
Lightning is the righteous energy of heaven and earth. It is divided into yin and yang.
Yin lightning is soft.
Although the masked kid's cultivation isn't high, he has already comprehended the essence of Nine Solar Lightning.
His elemental advantage has allowed him to close the gap in cultivation.
There are no weaklings in the round-robin stage. "
Yes, Lan Jue had just used it.
It was the Nine Solar Lightning.
Under the extremely low temperature, he was also affected quite a bit. The difference between his Level Two Rank Nine cultivation base and Bing Yu's Level Seven cultivation base was still too great.
Only by combining lightning and lightning, using the Nine Solar Lightning to raise his elemental attributes to the limit, could he close the gap.
Bing Yu could block the energy of the lightning, but she couldn't block the infiltration of elemental energy.
He blocked nine times in a row.
She had suffered quite a bit.
"Peng!" The Ice Spear in Bing Yu's hand suddenly exploded, bringing with it many electric sparks as it scattered in front of him.
However, right at this moment, her entire body suddenly changed.
A soft white halo shone from her chest, and then her whole body seemed to become transparent.
He was like an ice sculpture.
The already extremely low temperature plummeted again, dropping from -100 degrees Celsius to -150 degrees Celsius in an instant.
The bone-piercing cold made Lan Jue feel as if her blood vessels were about to freeze.
Bing Yu took a step forward. Although the golden lightning around her body was still faintly discernible, her entire body had turned a translucent white. The entire stage suddenly trembled. Then, it rose from the ground to the sky.
The dazzling white light shone brightly, enveloping the entire competition stage, covering every nook and cranny.
The entire stage had turned incandescent.
Lan Jue felt a strange chill wash over him.
He couldn't move.
In his mind, it was as if the entire arena had become a giant block of ice, and he was frozen in this block of ice.
The Terminator's eyes lit up. "The true meaning of ice. Interesting."
"Your Majesty," Mo Xiao asked, "I've always had a question.
If you really want to have the ability of absolute zero, what kind of cultivation do you need to have? "
"That's difficult to answer," the Terminator replied.
"There's a difference between being able to do it and being able to use it.
A Paragon might be able to reach absolute zero for a short period of time, but to fully control it you'd need to be a Paragon.
There's no known Paragon with the element of ice, so I can't answer your question. "
"It looks like Zeus's going to lose," Mo Xiao said, her voice full of regret.
On the stage, the white light had already softened. Under the gentle white light, the lightning around Zeus' body had clearly weakened significantly.
His entire body was stiff and motionless.
Bing Yu didn't take advantage of this opportunity to attack. She hovered in the air, as translucent as white jade.
The white light continued, and the temperature dropped to a hundred and eighty degrees below zero.
The frightening temperature created a field of frost around the arena.
However, it was clear that Bing Yu wasn't having it easy. If she could move she would have continued to attack.
The arena was in a stalemate, but it was clear that Bing Yu had the upper hand.
Only the areas around Lan Jue's body were covered in a layer of golden lightning. It continued to weaken, a sign that she was protected by her Discipline.
Once the lightning completely disappeared, it would mean that his body would be completely frozen, and the match would be over.
The white light began to surge. Lan Jue had become its target. Ring after ring of white light converged on him.
This was a pure elemental attack.
This also revealed Bing Yu's absolute advantage in terms of cultivation.
All elemental abilities had their own True Meaning. Elemental ability users who comprehended True Meaning would have a higher chance of comprehending Laws in the future.
Elemental Laws were a step up from the True Meaning of Elemental Laws.
Lan Jue felt a strange chill enter his body. His lightning seemed to be completely frozen. His blood flow slowed, and even his heartbeat slowed.
The extreme cold forced his own energy to gather at his core. He tried his best, but because of the difference in their cultivation, he was being pressured by the cold.
He felt as if his soul was in a world of ice and snow. Even his thoughts were about to be frozen.
What a terrifying True Meaning of Ice.
Although Lan Jue was under immense pressure, no one knew that his heart was as calm as still water. He didn't feel any fear or panic.
Instead, he silently sensed the True Meaning of Ice pressing down on him.
His entire being was immersed in this sensation.
It was a strange feeling, at least to him.
His own energy was being forced back, and his body was being frozen.
All this time, his mind and body were focused on sensing the changes in his own lightning.
The Pharmacist had said that re-cultivating an Discipline was in itself a way to purify it.
Cultivating from the beginning, fusing a deeper understanding of his Discipline into his own.
Lan Jue and Zhou Qianlin had completed their fusion. Although his cultivation wasn't as strong as before, and his core had been compressed to a smaller size, he discovered that his lightning was more refined, more controllable.
Thunder and lightning contained a trace of law, a trace of law, and he was gradually comprehending it.
The immense pressure from the outside world could weaken the fluctuations of the lightning, allowing him to focus even more on sensing the changes within.
He was one step closer to completing the purification of his own lightning.
Lightning itself had no shape, but was there really no pattern to it?
Around Lan Jue's Core, bolts of golden lightning flickered. Because of the True Meaning of Ice, their speed was noticeably slower.
Under Lan Jue's control, his Core was now a pure gold. The Core itself, however, continued to shrink.
Compressing one's Core wasn't something any Adept would dare do.
One wrong move and the Core could collapse or break. That would be fatal to any Adept.
Lan Jue's Discipline was famed for its violent nature.
If the Driver knew that Lan Jue had dared to compress his own Core like this, his jaw would drop.
It was no different than suicide.
This was the benefit of re-cultivating. His will hadn't been weakened by his Discipline. In fact, it was stronger than before. The Silkworm of Ten Thousand Techniques had greatly increased his Latent Potential.
Compressing the Core meant compressing one's own energy.
There was a limit to how much the human body could store. Once the Core had reached a certain size, it couldn't grow any further.
It was necessary to increase the density of the Core in order to strengthen one's Discipline.
Generally speaking, once an Adept reached the ninth level, their Core's size was fixed. The next step was to increase its density and store more energy.
When the energy core was compressed, there would be more room for growth, and the energy that was cultivated would also be of high density.
It was the dream of all Adepts.
One of the most important aspects of the transformation from Adept to Paragon was the solidification of the Core. It solidified one's understanding of the protogenia of Adepts, and brought the protogenia to a whole new level.
When that happened, a Paragon would no longer be a human body, but a body of energy. To an elemental Adept, they were a part of the element.
After the Pharmacist's guidance, Lan Jue's thoughts on re-cultivating came to a sudden realization. He no longer thought of it as a bad thing. In fact, it was a good thing.
Over the last few days, he'd relied on his immense psychic power to purify his own Discipline and compress his Core.
(To be continued)