Chapter 569: Thunder Dragon Art and Ice Phoenix Art! Annihilation!

On the arena,

behind Xu Jingming the Blazing Thunder Ring spun wildly, and one ferocious yet dazzling lightning-type battle technique after another poured forth.

Thunder rumbled and crackled, golden Lei Guang splashed in all directions, and the tremendous sound made people's eardrums ache faintly.

This was still the sound after being weakened by the holographic projection; if one were truly standing at the edge of the arena,

this noise alone would be enough to deafen an ordinary person on the spot!

"Ah, this..."

"The Elementalist's Lei Di is actually this strong?"

"Even without that spear of his, even setting aside his Master-level spear art, he's still completely suppressing the opponent!"

"..."

The more than a hundred million spectators in the stadium were already completely dumbfounded.

They had originally assumed Xu Jingming was only fearsome in close-quarters combat.

But they never expected that an Elementalist's ranged spellcasting could likewise suppress ability users of the same tier!!

And the aftershocks of their battle made even some seventh-tier Masters feel a chill in their hearts.

Far too terrifying!

It felt as though any single battle technique the two of them casually unleashed could instantly kill an ordinary lower seventh-tier Master!

"Although Andrey is being suppressed by me, after all he is an ability user carefully cultivated by Bear Country to walk the Elementalist path.

Ordinary battle techniques simply have no way of cutting him down.

There's less than ten seconds left until the one-minute mark; since that's the case..."

Whoosh—

On the arena, the thunder and lightning in the sky converged inward.

A massive golden Lei Ting barrier, like a smooth eggshell, shielded Xu Jingming within.

"Hm? The attacks stopped?"

The sudden disappearance of pressure left Andrey somewhat unaccustomed, and he instinctively looked forward.

He saw Xu Jingming draw in the Lei Ting from his whole body, yet the golden ring behind him was spinning madly.

Wisps of golden Lei Ting crept outward, as though some terrifying power was brewing within.

"Preparing to use a killing move?" Andrey's expression darkened.

Now he had two choices: one was to take advantage of Xu Jingming's brewing battle technique and try to interrupt it.

If successful, it would establish no small advantage for himself.

The other choice was for him to likewise brew a high-tier battle technique and choose to clash head-on.

"Xu Jingming's Lei Ting Barrier, which has reached perfect mastery, is very troublesome; I'd need to unleash at least two or three battle techniques to break it.

But in the time it takes to release those two or three techniques, his advanced battle technique will very likely have already finished brewing.

Judging from the situation just now, the battle technique Xu Jingming is brewing should be SS-tier; its power is sure to be tremendous!

If I let him release it successfully, I will definitely be heavily wounded, or even die on the spot and be eliminated.

Since that's the case, then I'll just clash with him directly!"

Thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and Andrey, standing atop the frost tornado, quickly made his choice.

He was seen gently closing his eyes, while the ice staff floating behind him erupted with a bone-chilling cold, as terrifying energy fluctuations brewed within.

For a moment, the arena, which had just been deafening with sound, fell into utter silence.

All the spectators present also nervously held their breath without thinking.

Because they knew that the victor of this semifinal was very likely about to be revealed!

Under the gaze of one pair of eyes after another, the auras the two sides were brewing grew ever more terrifying.

After only two seconds, Andrey suddenly flung open his eyes, and a voice suppressing excitement rang out sharply across the arena!

"Looks like I'm one step faster!"

Clap—

Andrey slammed his palms together fiercely and bellowed viciously in the Bear Country tongue:

"Ice Phoenix Art!!"

Hum—

The ice staff behind him bloomed with light, and endless frost surged over.

In the blink of an eye, it gathered into an ice phoenix as large as a small hill!

To dare choose to clash head-on with Xu Jingming, Andrey naturally had his own trump card.

And that was this SSS-tier ice-type offensive battle technique — Ice Phoenix Art!

He had only mastered this Ice Phoenix Art not long ago either, and his release of it was not exactly practiced.

In the past, it had always taken him over three seconds to release it successfully.

But perhaps because the pressure Xu Jingming brought him was truly too great,

Andrey actually achieved a self-transcendence, successfully compressing the release time of this SSS-tier battle technique down to just over two seconds.

"Xu Jingming, you're done for!"

Whoosh—

The ice phoenix gently flapped its wings, and the air currents it raised directly formed several blizzards dozens of meters tall!

The entire arena became a vast expanse of white; apart from the area around Xu Jingming, everywhere else had transformed into a cold world of ice and snow!

"This is Bear Country's SSS-tier battle technique 'Ice Phoenix Art'! Too terrifying — it's directly altering the terrain."

"It's over, Lei Di's battle technique hasn't finished releasing yet; his Lei Ting Barrier definitely can't withstand this strike!"

Originally, Xu Jingming had been in the absolute upper hand, but as Andrey finished releasing his combat technique first—

The situation immediately took a sharp turn for the worse, and the entire audience erupted in an uproar.

Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan both nervously grabbed each other's little hands, staring fixedly at the holographic projection in midair.

But just then, within the entire white-blanketed blizzard world, a massive golden "sun!" suddenly rose.

"Roar—"

A low and majestic roar sounded, and only then did everyone realize this was no sun at all.

It was an Eastern dragon, coiled together, hundreds of meters long!

Deer antlers, golden scales, sharp claws......

Every part of this Eastern dragon's body was condensed from Lei Ting!

Crackle-crackle—

Wild golden thunder radiated outward from the thunder dragon like sunlight!

The originally white-blanketed world of ice and snow immediately melted away.

Those raging blizzards vanished, replaced by thick golden thunderbolts striking down one after another!

And beneath the golden thunder dragon, the tall Xu Jingming stood firm.

The light wheel behind him slowly rotating, he issued his command like a god: "Go!"

Rumble rumble~~~

The thunder dragon flew toward Andrey—merely swimming through the air, it could trigger thunder to rumble!

"Screech—" The ice phoenix spread its wings, and countless ice cones shot toward the thunder dragon like a rain of arrows!

As if feeling offended, the thunder dragon opened its massive maw, and a world-destroying Lei Zhu of annihilation thunder spewed forth!

Boom!!!

All the ice cones were obliterated, and the thunder pillar blasted a great hole through the ice phoenix, which had been like a small mountain!

"This is... an SSS-rank combat technique?!" Andrey was completely dumbfounded.

He could imagine Xu Jingming having mastered an SS-rank combat technique, but he had never once imagined that Xu Jingming had even mastered an SSS-rank combat technique.

After all, even he had only just learned it recently, and Xu Jingming was a full six years younger than him—there was no way he should have learned it!

Just as he was stunned, the thunder dragon's world-destroying thunder breath had already annihilated the entire ice phoenix.

Carrying terrifying energy, it came crashing toward him!

Feeling the thunderous fluctuation that seemed capable of piercing even spiritual force, Andrey could no longer muster any will to resist.

Rumble rumble!!

The golden thunder dragon swallowed him whole, and the terrifying thunder that spread outward tore his body to shreds.

This guy is really a freak......

Carrying endless grievance, Andrey's consciousness vanished completely from the arena of the Genius Tournament.