The sudden turn of events left everyone stunned. Soon, one of Ye Lengzhan’s lackeys exclaimed in shock, “Bloody hell! Senior Brother Ye has been teleported away!”
“Smack!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, someone beside him slapped him on the forehead.
“Stop spouting nonsense. What do you mean ‘teleported away’? Anyone hearing that would think Senior Brother Ye had passed on!”
“Quiet down. Look at the arena array ahead. It is that waste who challenged Senior Brother Ye!”
Someone remained quite calm, pointing towards the competition array in front. He then crossed his arms, displaying an expression of someone ready to enjoy a good show.
Upon hearing this, the crowd of cultivators all turned to look. Only Lu Qianqian appeared utterly astonished. She had never imagined that Senior Brother Zheng would immediately challenge Ye Lengzhan.
However, upon thinking of Ye Lengzhan’s ranking on the Earth List, worry filled her heart. She grew anxious on Mo Fan’s behalf.
Mo Fan had indeed challenged Ye Lengzhan. This caught Ye Lengzhan off guard as well, but when he saw “Zheng Dao” opposite him, a grin spread across his face.
“Waste, you actually dare to challenge me?”
Ye Lengzhan sneered viciously. In his impression, Zheng Dao had always been merely a bottom-ranker on the Earth List, someone who had luckily made it onto the list ten years ago through sheer dumb fortune.
Moreover, because Zheng Dao had some competitive rivalry with him, Ye Lengzhan had always paid considerable attention to him. He naturally knew that the opponent had only broken through to half-step Core Formation over half a year ago.
Although he was unclear how this fellow had consecutively defeated those two Core Formation cultivators just now, since he had encountered him, it naturally would not be so easy!
After all, he was Ye Lengzhan, the grandson of one of the twelve core elders, Ye Kongcheng!
Though he was only at early Core Formation, he ranked prominently on the Earth List, in the twenties. Apart from powerful techniques, he also had numerous formidable treasures at his disposal.
Thus, upon seeing that the challenger was Zheng Dao, Ye Lengzhan immediately laughed inwardly.
He decided to give this fellow an unforgettable experience!
At this moment, the twelve core elders in the sky all displayed intrigued expressions. One even smiled at Ye Kongcheng and said, “Elder Ye, it seems your grandson has some personal grudge with this Zheng Dao!”
“This has become quite interesting!”
The group of elders all smiled. After all, this Elder Ye had just been one of the most eager contenders for taking Zheng Dao as a disciple. Yet in the blink of an eye, his grandson was about to fight the opponent to the death. This was naturally extremely amusing.
“That confounded brat!”
Ye Kongcheng’s face turned green with anger, but soon he gradually calmed down. He too wanted to see just how strong his grandson had become.
Zheng Dao was indeed a very good opponent!
Faced with Ye Lengzhan’s provocation, Mo Fan did not grow angry. Instead, he smiled faintly and said, “Do you remember what I just said?”
“What words?”
Ye Lengzhan was slightly taken aback, but soon his face turned livid. He remembered that Mo Fan had just called him trash.
“You are courting death!”
Ye Lengzhan flew into a rage instantly. With a raise of his hand, he unleashed a series of fireball techniques.
As a Core Formation cultivator specialising in fire techniques, Ye Lengzhan’s fireball technique was naturally extraordinary.
Though called fireballs, they were actually massive fire spheres with diameters of several zhang, like streaks of fiery meteors whistling directly towards Mo Fan.
In the sky, Elder Huang Dao furrowed his brows slightly, for he had not yet even announced the start.
However, after glancing at Ye Kongcheng, Huang Dao sighed and then declared the match to begin.
The instant Huang Dao’s words fell, Mo Fan once again deployed his counterfeit Great Five Elements Treasure Technique.
In a flash, a light wheel appeared above his head, but this time the colour of the wheel had changed to a transparent hue, rippling with watery light, like a well without a rim.
“This move again?”
“Unfortunately, I have already seen through this technique of yours. It might work against Wang Long’s sword qi, but my fireballs embody the power of the five elements. No physical attack can affect them!”
Seeing Mo Fan deploy the same technique used in the previous round, Ye Lengzhan was not alarmed but delighted. His hands formed seals repeatedly. In the void before him, dense clusters of massive fireballs instantly condensed!
“This… is this still the fireball technique?”
“Ye Lengzhan is indeed the grandson of a core elder. Just this fireball technique alone is enough to shock the world!”
“Those are clearly fire meteors. You call that fireball technique?”
Outside the array, the watching cultivators were all stunned by Ye Lengzhan’s technique.
In contrast, the twelve core elders in the sky shook their heads slightly. Ye Kongcheng’s face was especially grim as he cursed in frustration, “What an idiot. The opponent is clearly about to use a water-based technique, yet he still attacks with fireballs! All these years spent cultivating, and his brain has not grown at all!”
Although these core elders did not recognise Mo Fan’s counterfeit Great Five Elements Treasure Technique as any specific method, they could clearly sense that this time it differed from the previous pure mana attack. It had changed in attribute.
In the eyes of the elders, vast water power was frantically gathering around Mo Fan at this moment.
In contrast, Ye Lengzhan was entirely enveloped in fire power.
With a wave of Ye Lengzhan’s hand, the countless massive fireballs all surged towards Mo Fan at once.
Seeing this, the corners of Mo Fan’s mouth curled up. He similarly pointed forward.
The watery light wheel rotated. Massive water spheres emerged and flew forward in the same manner.
Boom! Boom! Boom… Boom!!
In an instant, water spheres collided with fireballs, producing endless steam. Almost immediately, it shrouded more than half of the competition array.
“How can this be!”
“Your technique clearly is not a water-based one!!”
Ye Lengzhan was somewhat dumbfounded. He had never expected that the technique Mo Fan deployed would differ from the last time, almost completely countering his fireball technique!
“Fool, this secret technique of mine is called the Great Five Elements Treasure Technique. That means it can transform among the five elements. How could a fool like you understand it?”
Mo Fan sneered coldly, deliberately saying this to provoke the fellow.
In truth, how could he know any five-element transformation?
It was true that the secret technique was a counterfeit Great Five Elements Treasure Technique, but the key was that Mo Fan’s clone did not possess complete five-element power.
The reason he could transform the counterfeit Great Five Elements Treasure Technique into a water-based technique was because this clone inherently had a water spiritual root!
In other words, his spiritual qi was predominantly water spiritual qi. Although cultivating the Sun Heaven Scripture had converted a large portion of his spiritual qi into fire spiritual qi, what Mo Fan truly wielded with ease was still water-based techniques!
Thus, the scene before them unfolded.
“That damned fellow. He merely got lucky by chance, with spiritual power that happens to counter mine. Does he really think he can win against me with just a few water spheres?”
“The prerequisite for water to overcome fire is having enough water!”
“Today, I will show you, this waste, how fire overcomes water!”
Ye Lengzhan roared in fury. He then formed hand seals and deployed his strongest fire-based technique.
Sensing the increasingly dense fire power on Ye Lengzhan’s body, Mo Fan’s brows raised slightly. He similarly urged all the water spiritual power within his body. The light wheel above his head slowly rotated.
“Fire Dragon Shines the Heavens. Die for me!!”
With Ye Lengzhan’s furious shout, a fire dragon dozens of zhang long instantly appeared before him, pouncing directly towards Mo Fan.
Rumble—
At the same time, the void above Mo Fan trembled. An enormous spear slowly emerged from the light wheel, its light flowing!
This was a spear of water, vast as a mountain!
Boom—
The spear and the fire dragon ultimately collided, producing a deafening roar. Immediately after, endless steam spread, instantly shrouding the entire competition array.
