Chapter 215: The Name of a Prodigy

Sun Sun Zhengfang's expression was extremely grim as he said in a deep voice, "No, Night Charm's momentum is too fast."

"Da Long, intercept her!"

Clearly, Sun Sun Zhengfang still did not fully trust Lu Ran.

If Deng Deng Yuxiang were the main attacker, Sun Sun Zhengfang would not dare to act rashly.

After all, the North Wind Believers possessed incredible speed; if the Qiu Mo Believers attacked recklessly, it would likely cause inconvenience for Deng Deng Yuxiang.

"Clatter-clatter..."

Amidst the curtain of rain, numerous blood-colored chains suddenly materialized, attempting to halt Night Charm's momentum.

"Hiss!"

Night Charm, usually silent and reserved, suddenly let out a sharp hiss.

It was evident she had flown into a true rage and wanted to thoroughly torment that little lamb.

Anyone who obstructed her would bear the brunt of her fury.

"Whoosh!"

Night Charm strode forward with great strides and suddenly flung her hand upward.

A wild wind erupted instantly, blowing outward toward the front.

With this move, the situation across the entire battlefield changed.

Night Charm had naturally stirred up the wild wind to charge and kill Lu Ran, yet Lu Ran, soaring in the night sky along with his three teammates, was also blown away by it.

"Careful!" Wei Long, while carrying Sun Sun Zhengfang and plummeting rapidly toward the lower diagonal, raised one hand.

Countless chains materialized out of thin air.

In the blink of an eye, a massive net woven from blood-colored chains abruptly blocked directly in front of Night Charm.

Qiu Mo Shen Fa: Blood Chain Barrier!

Night Charm did not stop her steps, appearing as though she were throwing herself into the trap.

However, just before plunging into the blood chain net, her figure abruptly split into three.

Night Charm proved herself one step superior; two clones had already appeared on the other side of the blood chain net.

Among them, one alluring and seductive body suddenly trembled lightly: "Mm~"

The clone transformed back into the main body and continued charging toward the lower diagonal.

Borrowing the force of the wind, the Phantom Shadow's speed suddenly accelerated!

Sun Sun Zhengfang stumbled upon landing, lifted his head again, and could not help but freeze with a stiff expression.

Night Charm's forward momentum had not been slowed; instead, it had become even more fierce?

If she were allowed to drag out a long blade mark, leveraging such momentum, the consequences would be disastrous!

"Whoosh~"

Jiangjiang Ruyi landed behind Lu Ran, her feet stepping onto the stone-paved path of the park.

With one hand supporting Lu Ran's back, she slid backward together with him, reducing their momentum.

"Go!"

The young girl's face was expressionless, her voice unusually cold.

She raised one hand beside Lu Ran's face, and from within the wide sleeve of her rain robe, a black-ice long sword suddenly flew out.

The Cool Night Sword shot straight toward Night Charm, slicing rapidly across the night sky!

Strangely, stuck at the junction between the sword hilt and the blade was a piece of white jade token?

Lu Ran's backward sliding momentum halted abruptly; he lifted his head to watch Night Charm killing her way toward him.

He saw that mid-charge, Night Charm suddenly changed direction, shifting horizontally by one meter.

The Cool Night Sword swept past rapidly, failing to pierce the evil spirit, but...

"Crack!"

The white jade token stuck at the sword hilt exploded directly.

In an instant, countless blue-purple electric currents spread out, resembling numerous madly darting little snakes crawling chaotically through the night sky.

Yu Fu Shen Fa: Electric Shackles Talisman!

Night Charm had indeed dodged the long sword, yet she still remained within the attack range of the Electric Shackles Talisman.

"Hiss—"

Night Charm's body trembled; she had been ambushed squarely.

Lu Ran raised his eyebrows slightly; amidst the curtain of rain, fine blue-purple electric currents crawled about, brilliant and dazzling.

Jiangjiang Ruyi likewise watched this scene, her fingertip pointing vaguely.

The Cool Night Sword instantly reversed its tip, stabbing straight at Night Charm who was immobilized in the night sky.

"Impressive, my little Jiang Ruyi," Lu Ran murmured in his heart.

He had originally thought this would be a tutorial match.

He never expected Goddess Jiang to intervene so dominantly, with no intention of letting Lu Ran risk his life.

"Good!" Sun Sun Zhengfang's eyes lit up!

A Yu Fu Believer could fly and control, with devastating offensive power.

Augmented by the Black Ice Divine Sword, Jiangjiang Ruyi's combat strength was truly astonishing!

This young girl who had always stayed by Lu Ran's side was no mere flower vase.

When at Yumen Pass, she had not been in closed-door cultivation the entire time; rather, she had frequently accompanied her senior brothers and sisters down into the demonic caves to fight and kill.

Upon the battlefield, she had adopted a cold expression, her eyes carrying threads of killing intent.

Elegant, yet lethal!

"Zzzt~ zzt~"

Night Charm's delicate body trembled, covered head to toe in electric currents, on the verge of being sanctioned by the Cool Night Sword.

Suddenly, a surge of energy churned.

Night Charm once again split into three!

Truly, one trick works everywhere.

"Pfft~"

The Cool Night Sword pierced through the lightning zone, instantly impaling Night Charm's body.

But the other two Night Charms appeared outside the lightning sphere.

Among them, one was clearly the true body!

Night Charm, burning with rage, flicked a hand casually.

A string of Night Charm Blades rushed toward the pair.

"Baa~~~"

Lu Ran suddenly let out a sheep's bleat; by this method, he firmly drew Night Charm's aggro onto himself.

"Hmm." Jiangjiang Ruyi emitted a faint nasal sound, and the fire in her heart whooshed up in an instant.

The bleat exploded right beside her, and moreover, her heart harbored killing intent toward Night Charm.

Jiangjiang Ruyi's hand, resting on Lu Ran's back, unconsciously tightened slightly, her knuckles turning somewhat white.

"I'll handle it."

Lu Ran left behind a thick trail of immortal mist as he shifted sideways.

Jiangjiang Ruyi's hand grasped at empty air: "Lu—"

She had fallen for it; there was no doubt about that.

But relying on both reason and emotion, she quickly suppressed the desire to harm Lu Ran.

The girl raised her eyes, seeing only that string of incoming Night Charm Blades following Lu Ran.

The Night Charm sprinting through the night sky had also turned to pursue Lu Ran.

At this moment, Jiangjiang Ruyi recalled the bits and pieces from half a year ago.

Back when she was still a small fry in the Mist Realm and Stream Realm, Lu Ran was just like this, always drawing the evil spirits away.

Drawing danger away from her side.

Whether on the night of the fifteenth or during the trials in the Demon Cave, it had always been Lu Ran protecting her.

Now, Jiangjiang Ruyi also wanted to protect Lu Ran, but her hand, raised halfway in the air, froze in place.

Under its master's command, the Cool Night Sword also halted in the night sky, not daring to strike at Night Charm.

Because Lu Ran and Night Charm were simply too fast!

If the Cool Night Sword rushed over now, it would very likely cause friendly fire and would inevitably disrupt Lu Ran's rhythm.

The renowned Night Charm clan was famous for its speed and agility.

And this little lamb cub, Lu Ran, was no less formidable!

The moment the human and the spirit clashed at close quarters, it seemed as though everyone froze.

Sun Sun Zhengfang, Wei Long, Jiangjiang Ruyi, and the Moon-Gazer Team regrouped by the lakeside all stared intently at the two entangled figures on the stone-paved road.

Everyone's expressions shifted repeatedly, as if they had forgotten to breathe.

And beneath the lenses of countless cameras, thousands upon thousands of people from across Great Xia witnessed a peak showdown with their own eyes!

A peak showdown of movement techniques and blade arts!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!!"

"He's really killing at point-blank range?!"

"Huh??"

"I, Laozi, have fought for thirty years, killing my whole life! Never have I been this close to a Night Charm!"

"I'm gonna die, gonna die, gonna die—Ah! Did a blade just fly past my face a moment ago?"

"One blade? Eight blades, okay! Switch to the captain's camera feed, look at that perspective!"

"Shocked..."

In the first-person perspective, Night Charm's black veil fluttered as she wielded her blade, slashing horizontally, cutting toward the myriad people of Great Xia.

"Ding~"

The Silent Night Blade flicked upward at an angle, deflecting Night Charm's attack.

After succeeding, Lu Ran did not advance but retreated instead!

His Xie Fa·Evil Awareness was already pushed to the limit, hearing in all directions; his upper body abruptly leaned backward.

"Whoosh~"

A sharp Night Charm Blade, carrying a terrifying sound of tearing air, stabbed past Lu Ran's face once again.

Similarly, it swept past the faces of countless Great Xia citizens.

"Whoosh!"

Lu Ran suddenly tilted his head; another Night Charm Blade stabbed in from the rear diagonal, grazing past his ear and thrusting into the night sky.

Lu Ran, of course, was mentally prepared.

But the thousands of viewers before their screens broke out in a cold sweat from shock.

This level of combat intensity was truly beyond the scale for ordinary people.

This experience of brushing past death time and again was something people rarely felt with other contestants.

Liangye Jian Yi's believers directed a sky full of flying swords darting chaotically, like a precise killing machine.

The Wu Sheng believers, with command flags swirling behind them and wind, fire, thunder, and lightning intermingling, bombarded the evil demons relentlessly.

One by one, the powerful god-believers unleashed their full capabilities, displaying magnificent prowess and casting terrifying divine arts.

As for the believers of the Ninth-Rank God, Xiang Xiang Xianyang.

Close-quarters combat, face-to-face killing!

The Xiang Xiang Xianyang believers, renowned throughout the world for their weakness and cowardice, displayed intense bloodthirstiness before everyone's eyes!

Even more, they demonstrated incredibly terrifying skills!

Those watching the battle through Sun Sun Zhengfang's perspective were utterly dumbfounded.

A full six or seven Zhan Ye Dao blades, just like butterflies, entwined around one person and one Mei Shi He Jing, fluttering gracefully.

Every single blade was far swifter than a butterfly, gleaming with horrifying blade light as they stabbed wildly in chaos!

Within the great formation of flying blades,

the Mei Shi He Jing's attacks were sinister, vicious, and poisonous, its figure drifting unpredictably.

Lu Ran's attacks were swift and fierce, thrusting left and advancing right, flashing, turning, leaping, and dodging!

This one person and one demon were faster than each other!

More ruthless than each other!

"Wh-what is this?"

"So many blades, so very many blades..."

"Purely insane, damn it!"

"He's betting his life on this; he really doesn't care about dying..."

"Kill! Kill! Kill-kill-kill!!"

Suddenly, a piercing sound echoed through the live stream.

"Crack!!"

The Xia Guang Dao, trailing brilliant red rosy clouds, instantly swept across the Mei Shi He Jing's waist and abdomen.

The River Realm-grade Mei Shi He Jing garment was instantly torn apart!

Where the blade tip passed, it left behind a trail of blood.

What Lu Ran held in his hand was a divine weapon, and let us not forget, he was still activating the Xie Fa: Power of Soul-Splitting!

With such terrifying power bolstering him, aided by a divine weapon and sharp blade, how could the Mei Shi He Jing garment withstand it?

"Hiss!"

The Mei Shi He Jing let out a miserable scream and violently retreated backward.

"Hiss—"

Mist churned beneath Lu Ran's feet, his pupils having long since transformed into horizontal slits.

Within those pair of lifeless, dead sheep eyes hid a wisp of faint black fire.

Black Lamp Xie Fa: Fire in the Cage (Yin)!

This Ci Xie Fa was a single-target control technique capable of slowing a target's movements or even freezing them in place.

Lu Ran's own Little Li Hua had already been frozen countless times.

But regarding this Mei Shi He Jing before him, Lu Ran could not freeze it.

After all, the Mei Shi He Jing was of the River Realm, and in terms of minor stages, its realm was even higher than Lu Ran's.

In fact, Lu Ran could not even slow the Mei Shi He Jing's movements.

Yet under the combat intensity between this one person and one demon, even if the Mei Shi He Jing were affected merely a tiny bit, it would be fatal!

"Whoosh~"

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Lu Ran, who was bent on killing the enemy, abruptly halted his forward momentum while simultaneously raising his right elbow.

"Whoosh~ Whoosh!"

Two Zhan Ye Dao blades crossed each other in front of Lu Ran, while another Zhan Ye Dao stabbed past from under his armpit.

"Hiss—"

The Moon-Gazers present were dumbfounded; they could not even get a word in to warn him, let alone join the fight.

Seeing Lu Ran stop abruptly then surge forward again, thrusting once more!

"Hiss!" The Mei Shi He Jing cried out in alarm.

Danger!

An aura of extreme danger!

The Mei Shi He Jing's heart trembled heavily, and consequently, she instinctively activated the Xie Fa: Mei Shi He Jing Shadow.

"Hum~"

In an instant, the Mei Shi He Jing split into three.

Lu Ran instantly pierced through the target, yet the demonic body penetrated by the blade shattered into mist.

He immediately turned around, his sliding halt ceasing abruptly as he darted rapidly toward the front-right:

"Baa~~~"

Divine Art: Sound of Grief and Fear!

The two Mei Shi He Jing on the left and right immediately fell victim, rushing forward to kill at high speed.

Lu Ran flicked the Xia Guang Dao in his left hand toward the front-left, while wielding the Silent Night Blade in his right hand, heading straight for the Mei Shi He Jing on the front-right.

"Pfft~"

As the Xia Guang Dao passed, another Mei Shi He Jing shattered.

The only remaining Mei Shi He Jing suddenly dragged its blade, leaving a long trail of blade marks!

"Careful!"

"Lu Ran!"

"Watch the blade marks." Voices filled with concern rang out one after another.

Lu Ran, however, showed not the slightest reaction, continuing to charge forward recklessly.

This scene before his eyes, he had witnessed countless times already at the Night Demon Devil Cave by Yueyahu.

Lu Ran knew what the Night Demons would do.

When his blade, Guan Guan Yiren's sword, and Niu Niu Zhengzheng's great axe struck the Night Demons time and time again...

The choice made by every single Night Demon was astonishingly similar!

Come to think of it, they were all crafted from the statue of the Night Demon's true body, so their combat logic naturally followed the same lineage.

One human and one demon drew infinitely close, both raising their blades.

To decide victory and defeat, and life and death?

No!

"Hum~"

As expected, the Night Demon's figure trembled once more, splitting into three.

The experienced Lu Ran made a decision that would be hard for an ordinary person to accept.

The moment the two sides were face-to-face, Lu Ran halted his figure and did not attack the Night Demon before him at all.

Lu Ran simply turned around!

Regarding the two Night Demons behind him, he even ignored the one on the left, thrusting directly at the one on the right!

Lu Ran admitted that there was an element of gambling in his actions.

But out of ten times, the Night Demon's true body appeared here seven times, rather than being the other one.

This was a prediction.

It was also a judgment made based on experience forged through real blades and real spears!

"Baa!!!"

Lu Ran opened those gloomy, sinister dead-sheep eyes of his, desperately urging the Xie Fa: Caged Fire, while his Silent Night Blade moved from bottom to top.

Lifting the veil, piercing the head, smooth as flowing water and drifting clouds.

"Hiss!"

The sharp blade instantly pierced into the Night Demon's brow.

"Pfft~ Pfft~"

The two Night Demon clones quietly shattered.

They were clones, not substitutes.

Even taking a step back, even if they were substitutes, if the true body suffered a fatal wound, the substitute could not take its place.

Just like back in Evil Dog Village; if that Jiang Jing: Evil Dog had bitten not the crow's wings but the torso, Team Leader Zhou Tian would have already been torn apart.

Even with the Ti Shen Zhi Fa, there would be no room for operation whatsoever.

"See you next time."

Lu Ran whispered softly, withdrawing his blade and stepping back.

Droplets of blood trickled down along the blade.

By the lakeside, all was silent.

Only the night rain fell with a pitter-patter.

"Pfft~"

The Night Demon shattered into mist.

Lu Ran activated the Divine Power Bead hanging around his neck, tilted his head slightly, and absorbed the mist.

Naturally, the first-person perspective was covered by the mist, while another layer of viewer comments scrolled across it:

"See you next time? Why is he even chatting with the Night Demon?"

"Hard! A real man! Damn too hard!"

"This close combat, this bloodthirstiness! Could this be a believer of Xiang Xiang Xianyang? I don't believe it!"

"Did he win? I didn't dare to look, is Lu Ran okay?"

"No wonder he's only 18 and still in high school yet can rank among the Great Xia's Top Hundred Prodigies! What kind of monster is this?"

"What! Call him TMD! A Prodigy!!"

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