Above a dense forest within the Magical Beast Mountain Range, two figures—one cyan, one purple—came to a halt in midair, one after the other.
"Brat, you're not running anymore? There's no one here who can save you," Queen Medusa said coldly, her eyes narrowing slightly.
She had not sensed any powerful aura in the area. Originally, she had thought Lin Yuan had stopped here because he had some hidden backup prepared, but from the looks of it, there were only the two of them present. Could it be that this man believed that, relying on himself alone, a mere Nine-Star Dou King, he could survive under her hands?
Ignoring Queen Medusa's probing words, Lin Yuan silently made his calculations. 'At this distance, those old monsters of the Snake-People Tribe won't be able to come to her aid in time. I can safely deliver this 'gift' to Queen Medusa.'
Lin Yuan placed great importance on the Snake-People Tribe. Aside from Queen Medusa herself, the tribe still had four old monsters at the peak of the Dou Emperor realm as its foundation, and they were quite adept at combined attack techniques. Because of this, Lin Yuan had not chosen to fight Queen Medusa in the desert. Instead, he had deliberately lured her far away to this location, cutting off any possibility of others intervening in this battle.
Lin Yuan looked at Queen Medusa with keen interest, the fighting intent in his heart beginning to burn. To his current self, Queen Medusa was a perfectly suitable opponent—one who could test his level in human-versus-human combat. Previously, although he had defeated quite a few Sixth-Rank Magical Beasts at the Dou Emperor level, fighting humans and fighting Magical Beasts were ultimately very different. He believed this battle would bring him considerable gains.
With a wave of his hand, boundless green flames gathered together. A green-flame long spear condensed in Lin Yuan's grasp. Holding the spear and pointing it obliquely at Queen Medusa, he said proudly, "There's no need to test me. There are only the two of us here. If you want to live, then bring out your full strength and try to defeat me."
"Arrogant! A mere Dou King dares to speak so brazenly," Queen Medusa's beautiful eyes turned icy as she lashed out with a fierce streak of energy, shooting straight toward Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan neither dodged nor retreated. His right hand held the spear behind his back, while his left hand shimmered with green light as he placed it before him, perfectly "receiving" the incoming energy streak. Immediately after, his Dou Qi and blood energy erupted.
"Crack!"
The energy streak shattered as if it had been crushed by hand, dispersing into the air.
"Such petty tricks are useless. Bring out your full strength. Otherwise, you'll regret it," Lin Yuan said indifferently as he looked at Queen Medusa, his calm voice sounding as though he were stating an unchangeable fact.
Queen Medusa did not say anything further. Arrogant she might be, but she was not foolish. From the extreme Dou Qi control Lin Yuan had just displayed, she understood that the opponent before her was by no means easy to deal with.
Queen Medusa took a deep breath and waved her hand. Seven-colored energy gathered in her palm, forming a multicolored long sword.
Their gazes met, and in the next instant, both figures vanished from their original positions.
In the sky, cyan and purple streaks of light intertwined. Spear and sword collided again and again, accompanied by crisp clashing sounds, while violent energy shockwaves swept in all directions.
After exchanging blows for some time, Queen Medusa discovered in surprise that she was unable to suppress her opponent in direct combat. Clearly, his cultivation was an entire realm below hers, yet the refinement of his Dou Qi, the strength of his physical body, and the terrifying destructive power and explosive force of the Heavenly Flame allowed him to forcibly hold his ground against her in frontal exchanges.
"This brat must be cultivating an extremely High-Tier technique. Otherwise, his Dou Qi wouldn't be so refined, nor would his endurance in prolonged combat be this strong. If I could obtain it…"
After several dozen close exchanges, Lin Yuan's gaze sharpened. His right hand holding the spear rotated slightly, and threads of green-flame Dou Qi split into three, spiraling upward along the long spear in a crisscrossing pattern. They transformed into a spiraling force that clung to the green-flame spear. As the spear swung, low howling sounds echoed through the surroundings as Lin Yuan launched a fierce assault on Queen Medusa.
When spear and sword clashed once more, Queen Medusa felt a strange force tugging at and interfering with her attacks. As a result, she found herself faintly falling into a disadvantage in frontal combat. Under Lin Yuan's unending offensive, she was gradually being suppressed.
"This is bad!" Realizing she was slowly losing ground, Queen Medusa prepared to withdraw and reorganize her stance.
"Trying to retreat? Too late! Cloud Dragon Seven Manifestations." Sensing her intention to pull back, Lin Yuan fully activated his modified Cloud Dragon Movement Technique, which he had deliberately refrained from using since the start of the battle. Several afterimages appeared, and amid the interweaving of true body and phantoms, it was as if multiple Lin Yuans were attacking Queen Medusa at the same time. At the same time, he unleashed his formidable soul power to interfere with Queen Medusa's perception.
Lin Yuan's close-range assault clung to Queen Medusa like a bone-burrowing parasite, forcing her into a difficult defense. Before long, the spear's sharp edge and the searing heat of the green flames repeatedly broke through her defenses, inflicting injuries of varying severity upon her body.
"This can't continue!" Never having expected her opponent's close-combat strength to be so overwhelming, and having fallen into such a dire situation from just a single mistake, Queen Medusa acted with extreme decisiveness. She directly detonated the multicolored long sword in her hand, which had accumulated vast amounts of energy. Instantly, a massive energy shockwave blasted the two of them apart, sending both flying backward.
Lin Yuan activated the Cloud Dragon Movement Technique and instantly completed his force dispersal, regaining control of his backward-flying body and stabilizing himself in midair. His aura had not weakened. For someone who had already brought the Hundred Beasts Tempering Spirit Art to great completion, inadequately refined energy attacks were very difficult to pose any real threat to him.
Looking at Queen Medusa's somewhat disheveled figure opposite him, Lin Yuan inwardly sighed in regret. Human-versus-human combat truly was very different from fighting Magical Beasts. While humans were far weaker than Magical Beasts in terms of physical bodies, their agility and variety of combat methods were generally far superior.
After paying a price to break free from close combat, the look in Queen Medusa's eyes as she gazed at Lin Yuan carried a hint of wariness. Her hands rapidly formed several complex seals.
"Snake-People Secret Art: Five Serpent Slaying Spirit Seal."
With a light shout, five serpent-shaped energy bodies were released from her, while Queen Medusa's enchanting eyes remained fixed on Lin Yuan, waiting for the precise moment to strike a killing blow. Under her control, the five agile serpent-shaped energy forms darted through the sky, heading straight toward Lin Yuan with lethal intent.
"A long-range killing attack? This happens to be my specialty," Lin Yuan observed. With a gentle wave of his sleeve, he transformed his Qi into fire, and then condensed it into spears. Five cyan flame spears, containing massive amounts of Green Lotus Core Flame, formed and, under the guidance of his formidable soul power, shot toward the five serpent-shaped energy bodies.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Spears and serpents collided, triggering a series of massive explosions. Under Lin Yuan's precise control, each flame spear struck a serpent-shaped energy body directly. The enormous Green Lotus Core Flame within each spear obliterated the five serpent-shaped energy bodies, while the explosive winds from the blasts obscured both combatants' vision and sent cyan flames scattering across the sky.
Seeing the five energy bodies collapse, Queen Medusa's lips curved into an intoxicating smile. Changing her seals, she caused the shattered serpent-shaped energy strands to recombine, forming a massive energy giant serpent instead of dissipating.
The giant energy serpent surged through the explosive winds and lunged toward Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan was about to dodge, but the moment his gaze met Queen Medusa's enchanting eyes, a strange glow flashed within them, sending a wave of dizziness crashing into his mind.
Seeing this, Queen Medusa's smile widened further, as if victory was already within her grasp.
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