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The figure of Gu Yuena shimmered like a mirage, splitting in two before slowly fading into nothingness.
Within Ye Lan's sensory range, her presence reappeared twenty thousand meters away—on the polar opposite edge of his sealed domain. The "Dragon God Claw: Ultimate Ice" strike had hit the "Infinite Frost" barrier, but it caused no structural damage. Instead, the icy energy further reinforced the domain's walls. This was exactly why Ye Lan had chosen his strongest ice-attribute attack: to seal the cage even tighter.
Seeing that Gu Yuena had chosen to dodge rather than tank the strike, Ye Lan confirmed a vital fact: as powerful as she was, she could not currently withstand the raw power of his Dragon God Claw. However, her spatial manipulation was simply too broken to deal with through conventional means.
Ye Lan's mind raced through tactical simulations before landing on a solution.
Golden light erupted from the mecha's chassis, and his right arm pulsed with a blinding glacial blue. "Overclock Mode: Full Power!" He locked onto the flickering spatial coordinates where Gu Yuena was jumping, and then, he began to spam. The "Dragon God Claw: Ultimate Ice" strikes were unleashed like a torrential downpour, hunting the Silver Dragon King across the domain.
Under the relentless pressure of these claw strikes, Gu Yuena responded with practiced ease. She jumped through space with fluid grace, condensing various elemental orbs to strike back at both the domain walls and the massive Blue Silver Life Mecha.
She noted with growing intrigue that whenever her elemental attacks hit the mecha, they were intercepted by golden geometric cubes—the AT Field. Any impact triggered a reactive defensive pulse. Though the cubes dimmed with every hit, she noticed a critical flaw in her plan: whenever she diverted her fire to try and break the "Infinite Frost" domain, the golden cubes on the mecha would slowly regain their brilliance. She estimated they would fully recharge in about a minute if left alone.
As time bled away, the silver dragon and the starlit colossus danced through the sky. Icy claw marks and elemental explosions lit up the interior of the frozen domain like a chaotic aurora.
Gradually, Gu Yuena's expression turned grave. She realized the "Infinite Frost" domain was becoming impossibly sturdy. Every time Ye Lan missed her and hit the barrier with his "Ultimate Ice," he was effectively welding the cage shut. The temperature inside the domain plummeted to a point where even the air seemed to crystallize into blue light.
Ye Lan stopped his pursuit. He stared at the slightly panting Gu Yuena and spoke, his voice booming through the icy air: "Gu Yuena, your spatial mastery is terrifying. In this form, I truly cannot catch you."
"But... do you think you can survive what comes next?"
Gu Yuena halted her spatial shifting and scanned the mecha. Suddenly, a cold chill that had nothing to do with the temperature crawled up her spine. Her sixth sense—refined through eons—was screaming. Her body tensed as she braced herself to see what Ye Lan was planning.
In their exchange, she had acknowledged his terrifying attack and defense, but she viewed his speed as a relative weakness. She didn't know how he was maintaining constant teleportation-like movement (his soul skills), but she was confident that her base speed could still crush him if he ever stopped using them.
Ye Lan ignored her scrutiny. Deep within the mecha's "Destruction Lungs," a cataclysmic amount of energy was being compressed.
In an instant, a black energy sphere, thousands of meters in diameter, manifested at the tip of the Super-Aggregation Energy Cannon on his left arm. It looked like a miniature black hole, greedily expanding. Simultaneously, every other weapon port on the mecha began condensing spheres of Ultimate Light, Fire, and Ice.
Within seconds, hundreds of these gargantuan energy orbs filled the entire Infinite Frost domain, leaving no empty space.
Gu Yuena's eyes widened in horror. "You lunatic!!"
She realized his plan: a suicide saturation attack. He was filling the entire sealed space with volatile energy. In such a crowded environment, there was nowhere to warp to. Even if she jumped, she would just land on another bomb. But by the same token, Ye Lan had nowhere to hide either.
She glanced at the walls of the "Infinite Frost" domain. Because of Ye Lan's earlier "misses," the barrier was now virtually indestructible. This hadn't been a failed pursuit; it was a setup. Once those hundreds of energy orbs triggered a chain reaction, the pressure inside this reinforced space would be enough to make even a God bleed.
As the orbs grew, the silver-haired figure was obscured from view. The moment the "Canglan Sea" orb touched the "Lava Sun" orb, the reaction began.
A flash of steam and shockwaves ignited the rest. The chain reaction exploded with a light so bright it threatened to blind the world. In that split second, Ye Lan activated the "Spirit of Xuanwu: Turtle Soul," granting himself three seconds of absolute invincibility to weather the initial peak of the blast.
BOOM—!!
A terrifying shockwave of black energy engulfed everything for tens of thousands of meters. Anything caught in the blast radius—air, moisture, debris—was instantly vaporized. The explosion reached down to the ocean surface far below, boiling away millions of tons of water instantly. The massive displacement of the evaporating sea triggered a localized mega-tsunami that began to roll outward.
At the center of the inferno, the Blue Silver Life Mecha stood glowing with emerald-gold light. Ye Lan exhaled. The invincibility had held, and the subsequent "Xuanwu Value" was now fully stacked from the residual damage.
As the light dimmed, Ye Lan used his Golden Dragon Eyes to find Gu Yuena.
She had finally revealed her true form: a 1,500-meter-long Silver Dragon King. Her scales were like meticulously carved works of art, shimmering with a divine luster. Her seventh and eighth soul rings were glowing with golden light. It was clear: against an attack of that magnitude, even she had to reveal her full power to survive.
While she was still smaller than the mecha, her four-thousand-meter wingspan made her a visible, majestic force. But what shocked Ye Lan most was his spiritual perception. The Silver Dragon King was flickering—vanishing and reappearing in his mind like a dying lightbulb.
He activated "True Vision" and realized it wasn't a stealth technique. She was actually disappearing from this world. She was shifting her existence into a different spatial dimension, only dipping back into this reality for fractions of a second.
"That was an impressive attack, Ye Lan," Gu Yuena's voice echoed from the void. "But unfortunately, you are still just a Soul Saint. You do not understand the mysteries of space."
"Now, it is time to say goodbye. Ye Lan, I'll see you in the new world!!"
Ye Lan steeled himself, expecting a final ultimate move. But seconds passed, and nothing happened. He looked at Gu Yuena, only to see her wearing an expression of utter frustration.
What was going on? Where was the ultimate move?
Gu Yuena was staring at the mecha, her teeth clenched. She couldn't lock onto him! In her spiritual world, Ye Lan simply didn't exist, even though she could see him right in front of her.
Through the "Dragon God Core," her mental strength had recovered to the level of a First-Class God. While her physical body was capped by the Douluo Continent's laws to the limit of a Quasi-God to avoid being rejected by the world, her mind was unrestricted. She had intended to use a high-level mental compulsion to force Ye Lan into a deep sleep until her plan was complete.
But she couldn't target him. He was a ghost in the mental realm.
She didn't realize that the AT Field—a fusion of "Intangible Form," "Perfect Shield," and "Flash"—was the ultimate hard counter to mental interference.
Gu Yuena felt a headache coming on. That golden geometric field was shielding his mind. To use her First-Class God mental powers, she would first have to shatter that field. But she knew from experience that her elemental attacks weren't enough to break it. Furthermore, the emerald light now radiating from the mecha told her his defense had somehow increased again.
To her, Ye Lan had become a "Golden Iron Tortoise." She couldn't sense him mentally, and she couldn't break him physically.
She took a deep breath. "Ye Lan, you've forced my hand. This will only take a moment. It won't hurt much!"
From her silver claws, she flicked an "Invisible Blade." Ye Lan couldn't see it with his naked eyes, but under "True Vision," he saw the fabric of reality being unzipped.
It was a Wind Blade that could sever space itself!
The mecha's thrusters roared, dodging the thousand-meter-long invisible rift by a hair's breadth. As he banked to the side, he sensed a spatial ripple in his path. Gu Yuena was warping in to release another blade.
Ye Lan didn't wait. He threw a "Starlight Meteor Punch" at the coordinates before she even fully appeared. Gu Yuena, shocked by his reaction speed, barely managed to warp away again, but the shockwave of the punch caught her.
Pfft!!
Though the fist only grazed the space she had occupied, the residual force caused her to cough up a spray of silver blood.
Ye Lan's gaze remained cold and determined. "Gu Yuena, your state is indeed broken. But to attack me, you must bring your existence back into this dimension."
"Which means: the moment you attack is the moment I strike!"
"Furthermore, you have to return every five seconds. I imagine you need to resync your spatial coordinates with this reality to avoid getting lost in the void, don't you?"
The Silver Dragon King's pupils constricted. She hadn't expected him to figure out the mechanics of her spatial flickering so quickly. She did indeed have to return; if she stayed in the temporal cracks too long, she risked losing her tether to the Douluo Star forever. If she got lost, the Myriad Beast Empire and Di Tian would be left defenseless against Ye Lan.
Seeing her reaction, Ye Lan knew he was right. He stopped playing defense. Despite the threat of the spatial blades, he lunged forward.
The mecha went into total overload. "Starlight Meteor Punches" and energy volleys were unleashed in a frenzied blur, targeting the unstable spatial ripples where she was flickering. For a few seconds, the silver-colored fists and beams seemed to pass right through her thousand-meter dragon body as she danced between dimensions.
Realizing he wouldn't let up, Gu Yuena began firing her "Spatial Wind Blades" from the cracks themselves, surrounding Ye Lan in a web of invisible death. If even one hit that ten-thousand-meter field, she was sure she could end this.
(End of Chapter)