Chapter 86: Fierce Battle (I)

  The two of them simultaneously took on a fighting stance, and after a brief stalemate, Nian Jue made the first move, shouting "Liu Huo Ji" as he struck out with his hand. A fierce flame shot out at an extremely fast speed towards Du Fei's position, and upon seeing the rapidly approaching flames, Du Fei was slightly taken aback. The temperature of the flames was still quite high, and the intense heat emanating from them was immediately sensed by Du Fei, who also felt the heat and knew that this flame attack was not to be underestimated. He quickly reacted, swiftly executing several sideways flips to evade Nian Jue's flame attack. However, Nian Jue did not give Du Fei any chance to catch his breath, and just as Du Fei had narrowly avoided Nian Jue's first flame attack, multiple flames of the same intensity followed in rapid succession. Du Fei understood that Nian Jue intended to kill him, but what he didn't know was that Nian Jue had recorded his characteristics from the several matches Du Fei had participated in, and knew that Du Fei was a close-range control-type master with extremely high melee combat skills, rarely using martial techniques in actual combat. Therefore, Nian Jue adopted corresponding tactics, engaging Du Fei in a long-distance elemental martial arts battle, not giving him any opportunity to get close.

  Du Fei looked at the incoming flames, blocking his escape route. Du Fei quickly reacted, his hands swiftly forming a seal. Just as he finished, the flames engulfed him completely. "Boom boom..." The explosion sounds echoed, and the audience saw a massive fire erupting where Du Fei was standing. The onlookers gasped in shock at this sudden turn of events. Meanwhile, Yan Jue, the one who started the flames, stood on the stage with a smug smile: "Hmph, I thought you were more formidable, but it seems you're nothing special. You got defeated as soon as you stepped onto the stage. It looks like your loss was well-deserved." The flames continued to burn, and Yan Jue assumed Du Fei had been incinerated by his own flames, preparing to turn around and leave the stage.

  "What? Are you afraid?" A somewhat labored voice came suddenly, and Nian Jue heard it and immediately turned his head around, with a surprised expression looking at the burning flames. At this time, the flames slowly became smaller, and finally seemed to be absorbed by something, until the flames completely disappeared beside Du Fei. At this moment, another burst of exclamations erupted from the scene, and many spectators saw Du Fei reappear on the stage, also cheering to express their joy.

  "How is this possible?" Nian Jue pointed at Du Fei in disbelief, but soon calmed down and took a fighting stance, looking at Du Fei. Du Fei was struggling at the moment because he had suffered greatly from Nian Jue's flames earlier. Others didn't know what had happened, only Du Fei understood it himself.

  Just as Nian Jue's flames were about to hit him, Du Fei quickly finished his hand movements, and the technique he used was indeed the Crazy Dragon Fire Slash. The effect of this technique was that it could absorb some powerful flame weapons, and how much power it could absorb depended on the user's strength.

  Originally, Du Fei's strength was only at the third level of nuclear gathering, while Nian Jue's strength was far superior to Du Fei's. However, due to various reasons, Du Fei had managed to narrow the gap between their strengths, but there was still a significant distance between them. The fact that Du Fei had absorbed Nian Jue's flame technique earlier was also a forced absorption, and if it weren't for the power of the Crazy Dragon Fire Slash, Du Fei would have been reduced to a charred corpse by now, rather than standing in front of Nian Jue with this posture.

  Du Fei was on his knees, panting heavily as he stared at Nian Jue. Nian Jue saw Du Fei's state and didn't give him any chance to catch his breath. With a smooth motion, Nian Jue made another hand gesture and launched another attack at Du Fei. "Take this, Rock Fist!" Nian Jue said, throwing out a punch that seemed to condense into a rock pillar that shot towards Du Fei's position with incredible speed, leaving Du Fei shocked and struggling to dodge the attack by rolling on the ground multiple times. Nian Jue saw Du Fei's disheveled escape from his rock pillar attack and sneered at him, saying "You little scum, you're going to die!" before throwing another punch at Du Fei. Du Fei saw Nian Jue's attack coming and rolled on the ground multiple times again to dodge the stone pillar's assault. Nian Jue, seeing Du Fei rolling around on the ground, had a mocking expression on his face as he continued to strike out with the rock pillars, clearly enjoying the scene of Du Fei being toyed with. The audience watching the scene let out a chorus of gasps and murmurs at Du Fei's pathetic attempts to dodge.

  "Haha, look at that idiot's face, it's hilarious! He actually thinks he can be a match for Young Master Ye. But Young Master Ye is a first-class expert in the Condensed Yuan realm! Now you know how big the gap between you and Young Master Ye is. But it's too late, let Young Master Ye send you to hell!" At this time, the one speaking was none other than Wan Lin, the woman who had gone with Nian Sheng to cause trouble for Du Fei that day. Seeing Du Fei's appearance now also made Wan Lin extremely pleased. Because after Du Fei defeated Nian Sheng a few days ago, Wan Lin had shifted all her resentment onto Du Fei. Now seeing Du Fei in a sorry state, Wan Lin was naturally overjoyed. The several people with Wan Lin who heard her words also revealed smiles on their faces, standing together with Wan Lin, after all, Nian Ye held an idol-like position in their hearts.

  After attacking for a while, Nian Jue stopped his attack on Du Fei, revealing a playful expression as he looked at Du Fei. At this time, due to rolling around on the ground several times, Du Fei's body was already dirty and disheveled, with dust all over his face and body, looking very dirty. He slowly got up, panting heavily, and looked at Nian Jue.

  "Alright, I'm done playing with you too. Your time of death has also arrived." Nian Jue's smiling expression quickly changed into a cold and stern one. As soon as he finished speaking, Nian Jue made a swift hand gesture, and the dust around him rapidly gathered in mid-air, quickly forming several sharp, spear-like shapes.

  Du Fei saw the look on Nian Jue's face and his pupils constricted, knowing that this time Nian Jue was really going to make a move against him. He also quickly condensed into a gesture, and suddenly a fireball appeared in front of Du Fei, more than one person high. Nian Jue was also shocked when he saw the fireball appear in front of Du Fei, but he immediately reacted, swinging his arm violently, and the rock spear that formed beside him shot rapidly towards Du Fei's position. Du Fei also felt the incoming rock spear and quickly launched a fireball with his body strength, shouting: "I'll double your flames back at you right now!"

  Only to see the rocks and fireballs on the field colliding together, the rock spears released by Nian Jue also became dark and charred after being burned by Du Fei's fireball, but they did not stop attacking Du Fei. The rock spears pierced through the fireball and rushed towards Du Fei, who jumped high to avoid the attack. At the same time, Du Fei's fireballs also attacked Nian Jue, who reacted by jumping high to evade the attack. Just as Nian Jue jumped up, Du Fei quickly arrived at his position and kicked him with great force, like a gust of wind sweeping towards Nian Jue. Nian Jue saw Du Fei's kick coming and raised his right hand to block it, but Du Fei's kick was too powerful, fueled by his anger.

  A loud "thud" was heard, and the young master was seen being kicked to the ground by Du Fei with a speed as swift as flowing light. At this moment, some slight dents appeared on the surface where the young master fell, clearly caused by the force of the attack earlier. The young master lay on the ground, his face twisted in pain and anger, staring at Du Fei who had landed steadily. He wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand, quickly scrambled to his feet, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and glared at Du Fei, his eyes revealing a hint of surprise but mostly anger. This young master was originally one of the top geniuses in Zhong De Province since he was a child, and before the age of twenty, his strength had already reached the Condensed Origin Realm. Among his peers, few could strike him down so miserably with just one blow. Du Fei's kick had shattered his decade-long pride and arrogance, and it was done in front of tens of thousands of people. The atmosphere on the scene was completely turned around by Du Fei's previous kick. After all, the most talented person in Zhong De Province wasn't someone ordinary people could match up to. And yet, not only did Du Fei remain unscathed by the young master's attack, but he also counterattacked and struck him down. The scene erupted with gasps of surprise and cheers.

  "Hmph, I thought you were more formidable, but it's just this much." Du Fei said disdainfully to Nian Jue. Nian Jue's anger intensified after hearing Du Fei's words and he bellowed: "Bastard, I'll kill you!" At this moment, Nian Jue's face was twisted in a fierce scowl, his eyes bloodshot as he launched into a martial technique. Du Fei also made preparations to counterattack, quickly circulating the vital energy throughout his body, forming hand seals. The two of them simultaneously formed their hand seals once again.

  "Condensing Fire, Chasing Stars." "Crazy Dragon Fireball" The two of them shouted out their martial art names at the same time. Suddenly, on the stage, from the spot where the two were standing as the center point, two powerful flames rapidly rose up, and at the same time, fireballs shot towards each other in attack. "Boom Boom" At this moment, another deafening explosion sound rang out on the scene, the two people's martial arts collided once again, and at this moment, the scene was a blaze of light, the shockwave produced by the explosion also caused the surrounding Yuan Qi walls to continuously ripple. The light lasted for about a few seconds before stopping, and at this time, the two people on the stage were not greatly affected, they just had some shocked expressions.