Chapter 1189: Turnaround

With an impassioned dragon roar, Tang Lengxuan unleashed wave after wave of intense yellow light from his body. A thick earthen wall materialized out of thin air, completely separating Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu from each other.

He himself spun instantly. A spike erupted from the ground beneath him and slammed into him, accelerating his body a second time like a cannonball hurtling toward Bai Xiuxiu.

He knew Lan Xuanyu was also very fast, so while unleashing this fierce assault, he not only pushed gravity control to its limit—making both Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu’s bodies heavier and speeding up the meteor shower—but also lightened his own gravity to make his own burst even faster.

Earth spikes, gravity control, meteor shower, spinning body, earthen wall to block—in that single moment, Tang Lengxuan demonstrated split-minded multitasking and dominant command over earth elements. This explosive burst cost him a great deal of energy, but it also seized control of the situation instantly.

He was burning through his reserves to take down one opponent first. Naturally, he chose Bai Xiuxiu, the weaker of the two. He was convinced that without Dragon God Armor to defend herself, she absolutely could not withstand his chain of attacks. Once Bai Xiuxiu was dealt with, with the amplification of his Dragon God Armor and the replenishment of earth elements, he only needed to skirmish with Lan for a while. After recovering to a certain extent, one-on-one he would surely take down Lan, who had neither Dragon God Armor nor a dragon lance. He would not make the same mistake Xu Yanmo had made.

Seeing this, even the Dragon Knights seated atop the massive dragon force pillars nodded silently. Tang Lengxuan’s tactical choice was extremely sound—this was undoubtedly the best way to handle Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu.

In their eyes, Tang Lengxuan’s cultivation surpassed Lan’s, and with the amplification of his Dragon God Armor, his instantaneous burst power was definitely more than Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu could withstand. By pushing his abilities to the limit in an instant and choosing the optimal timing, Tang Lengxuan had clearly demonstrated his own exceptional caliber.

Now it came down to how Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu would respond—especially on Bai Xiuxiu’s side. Whether she could block Tang Lengxuan’s attack without sustaining an injury that would affect the match would likely determine the outcome. A full-force burst like this, delivered in an instant, would be hard for Tang Lengxuan to repeat a second time.

Tang Lengxuan’s gaze was fixed and determined. His dragon wings beat behind him, and as he watched Bai Xiuxiu, slowed by his gravity control, draw closer and closer, he did not let up at all. Through his earth-element field control, he could sense that Lan Xuanyu not far away was lagging behind—under the influence of his gravity, he could not possibly reach them in time.

Tang Lengxuan’s spiritual domain overlapped with his natural talent: enhanced earth-element perception. This gave him far greater control over earth elements than his younger brother Tang Yanxuan. Wherever there was earth, it could be said to be his home ground.

Divide the battlefield—that was his tactic. He had made the decision the moment he saw his opponent was this duo. He had always been a decisive person; once he set a tactic, he would execute it absolutely.

Just as everyone believed the collision was imminent and Bai Xiuxiu was likely to fall under Tang Lengxuan’s all-out assault, something happened that no one expected. Even among the five Dragon Knights, three stood up in an instant, and the other two widened their eyes in shock, staring at the arena.

Lan Xuanyu had indeed been blocked by the earthen wall. The powerful gravity control bore down on him, and with cultivation stronger than his own, it immediately shackled his forward speed. Meteors rained down from above, spikes thrust up from below—enemies surrounded him on all sides.

But at that moment, he gave his response.

The golden dragon scales covering his body shifted in an instant, transforming entirely from gold to a seven-colored radiance. A bloodline fluctuation completely different from before suddenly erupted. At the same time, a ring of four colors—red, blue, yellow, and cyan—expanded outward.

The gravity control on him vanished almost instantly. The earthen wall before him turned to particles and shattered in the air. The spikes from the ground, the meteors falling from the sky, and everything else related to earth-element attacks—in that instant, all turned to particles and fragmented in midair.

Where the four-colored ring passed, earth elements disintegrated, and their destructive force dissipated. The next moment, Lan Xuanyu’s speed skyrocketed, shooting like a multicolored arrow straight at Tang Lengxuan.

Tang Lengxuan’s dragon lance was now only three meters from Bai Xiuxiu. She met it with an ice spear, cold energy erupting alongside darkness, forming a vortex that wrapped around it.

A hint of delight had already appeared on Tang Lengxuan’s face. Though his opponent was not weak, he had great confidence in himself. He could also see that a massive meteor was already directly above Bai Xiuxiu. Even if she blocked this strike, she could not block the meteor’s fall—she would surely be severely wounded by his follow-up attack.

But those few short meters suddenly became an insurmountable chasm. A strange, peculiar energy silently descended upon Tang Lengxuan.

In that instant, Tang Lengxuan felt as though the earth elements that had been so densely packed around his body had all collapsed. Though not all earth elements dissipated—given his cultivation—the forms he had previously condensed shattered in an instant, and even the yellow Dragon God Armor on his body dimmed considerably.

Then he saw a layer of multicolored light sweep upward, passing over Bai Xiuxiu’s body and striking the meteor. The meteor shattered into particles that scattered in all directions, all swept up by the black light around Bai Xiuxiu. And in the next instant, a powerful presence appeared behind him.

Impossible? That was the only thought in Tang Lengxuan’s mind at that moment. In that instant, his brain went completely blank. He simply could not understand what had happened in that brief moment, or what that multicolored light was.

Just then, with the protection of the powerful earth elements gone and the defense from gravity control shattered, the black vortex engulfed his body. Abyssal Devouring froze him in place, sealing and draining him.

A fist shining with seven-colored light slammed into Tang Lengxuan’s back under these circumstances—Annihilation Shock, unleashed!

This was a solid, unblocked punch—a punch delivered after the earth elements had been largely stripped away!

“Boom—”

Blood sprayed from Tang Lengxuan’s mouth in an instant. But his Dragon God Armor was indeed remarkable—even under Annihilation Shock, delivered with Lan Xuanyu’s full power in Dragon God Transformation, it did not shatter outright. Only fine cracks appeared on its surface.

However, Tang Lengxuan was not sent flying by this punch. He would have liked to use the force to fly back, dissipate some of the impact, and adjust himself to keep fighting. But Lan Xuanyu and Bai Xiuxiu never gave him that chance.

Under Abyssal Devouring, he absorbed the blow completely. At the same time, everything around him turned dark. Intense cold and corrosion poured in along with the eruption of Annihilation Shock.

In an instant, he was frozen into an ice sculpture. Then Ice Explosion triggered, and the ice shattered.

Bai Xiuxiu flashed to Lan Xuanyu’s side. They clasped hands, and she poured her dragon force into his body. Under Dragon God Transformation, Lan Xuanyu’s resistance to Annihilation Shock’s self-damage was far stronger. Without hesitation, he threw a second punch.

Ice Explosion burst apart. The seven-colored fist slammed into Tang Lengxuan’s back once more.

“Boom—”

This time, Tang Lengxuan was finally sent flying. But his Dragon God Armor could no longer withstand the terrifying destructive force of Annihilation Shock. The armor scattered, his back caved in, and blood sprayed wildly. Cold, dark energy surged in, invading his body alongside Annihilation Shock.