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Chapter 25 - #25Chapter 25 The Swordsman

The moment Lu Jun's Ice Abyss Sword struck, hundreds of ice shards suddenly condensed around the blade.

These ice shards were not static; instead, they continuously exploded along the trajectory of the strike, like living things.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Dense ice explosions erupted around Huo Yuhao, each burst unleashing sharp ice crystal fragments.

Huo Yuhao's body barely managed to evade the ice explosions.

He turned his head to avoid the main sword edge, but his left shoulder was grazed by three bloody marks from the splashing ice crystals.

By the time Huo Yuhao retreated to dodge the ice spikes protruding from the ground, his pant leg was frozen into ice dregs by the explosive cold air.

"His mental force detection is being interfered with?" someone exclaimed in the observation room.

"It seems that against this type of Spirit Master, large-scale Spirit Abilities are indeed more effective."

Indeed, these erratic ice explosions were disrupting Huo Yuhao's predictions.

Whenever he tried to avoid a certain ice shard, a new icy trap would suddenly explode in an adjacent area.

Lu Jun continuously swung his Ice Abyss Sword, each time aiming at Huo Yuhao's vital points, making it even harder for Huo Yuhao to defend himself.

A person's physical functions have limits.

The number of evasions is also limited.

As long as Lu Jun's attack frequency exceeds Huo Yuhao's evasion count, there is a probability of hitting Huo Yuhao.

Just as Huo Yuhao was about to retreat to the edge of the battlefield, an eerie blue light suddenly flashed in Lu Jun's eyes.

He also mobilized his mental force and unleashed his most proficient move on Huo Yuhao.

Mental Impact!

An invisible Mental Impact struck directly at Huo Yuhao's glabella.

This attack came too suddenly, coupled with having to dodge Lu Jun's sword and various environmental ice spikes and ice shards.

This left Huo Yuhao with no time to dodge, and he took the full force of the blow.

"Hmm."

Huo Yuhao grunted, and blood began to trickle from his seven orifices.

Lu Jun's mental force was not weak.

After all, he was a sword cultivator who seemed to wield a sword but was actually a mage.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth.

What was worse, his breathing began to grow heavy, each exhalation bringing out fine ice crystals.

Frost gathered on his eyelashes, and his fingertips were slightly blue.

This was a sign of the cold poison having penetrated deep into his bones.

The cold air lurking in his meridians was eroding the circulation speed of his spirit power.

The longer he stayed within Lu Jun's Domain, even with mental force detection, he sensed that more and more cold poison was accumulating in his body.

Once the cold poison accumulated to a certain extent, he would die directly.

Huo Yuhao had just checked his physical condition when he saw Lu Jun had already pulled back to the furthest distance from him.

Clearly, Lu Jun's strategy was simple.

You can use mental force detection, can't you?

Perfect, cover the entire battlefield with the Domain; even with mental force detection, there's nowhere for Huo Yuhao to hide.

Moreover, the cold poison, along with the cold air, invades all existence within the Domain; even if you know it, it's difficult to avoid.

Someone like Huo Yuhao simply couldn't last long.

If he dragged it out any longer, the cold poison would erupt, and that would be his time of death.

So Lu Jun just had to drag it out.

Huo Yuhao switched his Spirit back to the Spirit Eyes; without the protection of the Ice Jade Scorpion, his body began to accelerate its freezing condition.

However, the golden light in his eyes flickered in and out of the ice mist; the cold poison in his body had already invaded his heart meridian, and any further delay would undoubtedly lead to defeat.

"I can only gamble on one last strike."

He suddenly stood still, no longer dodging the sky-filled ice shards.

He pressed the tip of his right index finger against his temple, veins bulging on his forehead, and the golden light of the Spirit Eyes Spirit instantly surged to a dazzling degree.

At this moment, the entire virtual battlefield trembled.

The mental force erupted by Huo Yuhao then compressed into a solid golden light pillar, which shot violently towards Lu Jun.

This was a desperate, all-out attack, abandoning all defense.

A full-power Mental Impact.

"Bring it on!"

Lu Jun had anticipated this; he plunged his Ice Abyss Sword into the ground, and his third spirit ring fully bloomed for the first time. A dragon-shaped phantom condensed from ice crystals soared from behind him—that was his Ice Dragon Soul Spirit, fighting alongside him.

The Ice Dragon Soul Spirit closed its translucent dragon wings, enveloping Lu Jun in an ice-blue cocoon.

At the same time, his mental force also condensed into a shield at his glabella, a double defense against the destructive golden light.

The shockwave from the collision of the two mental forces blasted a giant pit ten meters in diameter in the center of the battlefield.

The Ice Dragon phantom let out a painful roar, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on its dragon wings.

Huo Yuhao's Mental Impact actually penetrated the Soul Spirit's defense, and the aftershock struck Lu Jun's forehead like a heavy hammer.

"Pfft."

Having endured Huo Yuhao's full-power strike, blood spurted from all seven of Lu Jun's orifices simultaneously, but a wild arc formed on his blood-stained lips.

His right hand never left the Ice Abyss Sword plunged into the ground.

The moment the mental forces collided, the second spirit ring on the sword had already been lit for a long time.

"I won."

The moment the Spirit Ability was released, Huo Yuhao's body suddenly stiffened. He looked down at his chest, only to see countless ice-blue patterns rapidly spreading beneath his skin.

All the long-dormant cold poison now transformed into sharp ice blades, piercing out from within his body.

His entire skin cracked inch by inch; Huo Yuhao's right arm was the first to burst into ice flowers, followed by his left leg, abdomen, and finally, even his neck was pierced by crystalline ice spikes.

He tried to suppress the cold poison with his last mental force, but found that what flowed in his meridians was no longer blood, but solidified ice dregs.

Lu Jun staggered to his feet, wiped the blood from his face, and watched Huo Yuhao die.

The outcome was decided.

Huo Yuhao's chest began to explode, and a long sword made entirely of condensed ice pierced out from his heart.

"Battle over, winner: Lu Jun."

The moment the electronic voice fell, the entire observation hall fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone's expressions froze on their faces, eyes wide open, mouths slightly agape, but unable to utter a sound.

Even the sound of breathing seemed to have disappeared.

Even Leng Yulai, at this moment, had her red lips parted, her chin almost dropping to the ground, her pupils contracting violently, and her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

And in the monitoring room on the top floor of the Spirit Transfer Pagoda, Tower Master Qiangu Dongfeng suddenly stood up from his seat.

This usually composed Tower Master of the Spirit Transfer Pagoda now pressed his hands tightly on the table, his knuckles white from the force.

His eyes stared unblinkingly at the screen, and the muscles in his face twitched slightly.

"In ten thousand years… the first to defeat a peer-level Spirit Ice Douluo…"

His voice trembled slightly.

Tower Master Qiangu Dongfeng had originally only intended to see how his grandson performed in the triennial assessment.

He ended up discovering that there was actually a master.

The one-ring Huo Yuhao could be ignored, as he was not counted.

But after the two-ring, this artificial AI version of Huo Yuhao was incredibly abnormal. He was personally created by Ancestor Huo Yuhao from ten thousand years ago, who converted all his lifelong experience and techniques into data, preserved to this day.

The purpose was to train more talents within the Spirit Transfer Pagoda and pass down his experience and techniques.

But ten thousand years had passed, and no one had been able to defeat Ancestor Huo Yuhao from two-ring to eight-ring.

Not even with battle armor.

Other staff members in the monitoring room were also frozen in place; some didn't even notice their coffee cups tilting, and brown liquid dripped along the edge of the table.

It took a full ten seconds for Tower Master Qiangu Dongfeng to suddenly snap back to attention. His eyes instantly became incredibly sharp, and he said sternly:

"Seal all combat data, store all of this, and furthermore, everyone must maintain strict secrecy, no one is allowed to expose this matter!"

"This child, Lu Jun, must not be known by others."

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