Chapter 817: Admitting Defeat?

"Jiuyou, you have gone too far!"

Hearing Jiuyou's words of defiance, Luo Ming's expression immediately turned ugly.

Everything here could be heard and seen by those outside, yet Jiuyou was exposing his scars right to his face!

Having been defeated in public twice in succession was already humiliating enough; now, this Jiuyou, as a member of the Youyun Holy Land, was actually refusing to obey him!

If this were to spread, he, the number one prodigy of the Youyun Holy Land, would likely become a laughingstock for everyone!

"No matter how many times Luo has been defeated by others, I am still the leader of the Disciples of the Youyun Holy Land, and I am still stronger than you!"

"Since you insist on defying the orders of the Holy Land, then Luo shall help you recognize your own place!"

"I will make you understand that you are not worthy of replacing me!"

As soon as the words fell, the Spiritual Power within Luo Ming's body erupted instantly.

Rolling black energy surged out from his body, transforming into the head of a malevolent ghost that opened a mouth full of fangs and bit toward Jiuyou.

He used his full strength from the very first move.

Jiuyou's gaze was calm, and a hand as slender and delicate as jade brushed past gently.

A blood-colored vortex appeared before her, and a powerful devouring force erupted from within it.

That malevolent ghost head was instantly twisted and deformed, being sucked into it.

"How is this possible!"

Seeing that Jiuyou had neutralized his full-strength strike so nonchalantly, Luo Ming's expression turned to shock.

He then revealed a ruthless look and pointed at the center of his brow.

A drop of essence blood emerged, transforming into a streak of blood-red light that merged into his body.

In the Battle Space, one simply would not be wounded by an enemy.

But if one burned essence blood, the loss was real and would not immediately recover after leaving the Battle Space.

During the First-tier of the Spirit Ranking Battle, Luo Ming had burned quite a bit of essence blood while entangled with "Wan Guiyuan," and he had not fully recovered even now.

Continuing to burn it at this moment would very likely damage his foundation.

But this battle concerned his reputation, and he could no longer care about such things.

After burning the essence blood, his aura surged instantly.

"Jiuyou, you cannot defeat me!"

He roared and attacked Jiuyou once again.

Blood-red light surged within Jiuyou's eyes; in an instant, it was as if Luo Ming had arrived in a sea of blood and mountains of corpses.

Under a dark red sky dripping with blood.

A hideous, massive shadow that blotted out the sun hovered above.

It was an Asura!

The moment Luo Ming looked at the Asura, the Asura turned its head, and a pair of blood-red eyes landed upon him.

Boom~

A roar suddenly echoed in Luo Ming's mind, and his consciousness became blurred for a moment.

Outside.

The moment Jiuyou's eyes flashed with blood-red light, blood suddenly spilled from Luo Ming's mouth and nose, and the Spiritual Power on his body became chaotic.

Swish!

A ghostly light flashed before him, and Jiuyou appeared like a phantom.

With a light tap of a slender, jade-white finger, Luo Ming's head instantly exploded.

The next moment.

A wave of teleportation force appeared, and Jiuyou was teleported out of the Battle Space.

"Jiuyou!"

Just as she appeared in the outside world, a suppressed, angry roar reached her ears.

Hearing this voice, Jiuyou looked at Luo Ming.

At this moment, Luo Ming's complexion was extremely pale because he had burned another drop of essence blood.

Sensing the fury revealed in Luo Ming's expression, Jiuyou remained calm.

Her gaze lingered on him for a moment, and then, without a word, she looked away.

That dismissive manner caused Luo Ming's anger to strike his heart, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Luo Ming looked extremely wretched at this moment, yet no one dared to underestimate him.

This person was, after all, the third place of the previous Spirit Ranking.

His defeat only meant that his opponent was strong, not that he was weak.

That Jiuyou could defeat Luo Ming in a head-on battle, and appear to have energy to spare while doing so.

In terms of the impression of the battle, this level of strength was not a bit weaker than Xuan Che.

Among those who could enter the top thirty in the Spirit Ranking Battle, which one was not a top-tier Monster from their respective faction and region?

In their daily lives, which one of them was not incomparably arrogant?

Yet now, when facing Jiuyou and Xuan Che, everyone had to admit.

These two were likely the two strongest people in this Spirit Ranking Battle.

The first place of the Spirit Ranking would definitely be born from these two!

……

Time passed.

The battles continued round after round.

When the twenty-sixth round of the ranking matches ended.

Only Wang Jianqiang, Xuan Che, and Jiu You remained with perfect winning records.

Among them, Xuan Che and Jiu You relied on their strength.

Whereas Wang Jianqiang relied on his financial power.

Fighting all the way here, Wang Jianqiang could be said to have never forgotten his original intention, consistently employing a strategy of crushing opponents with his wealth; not a single person could last a single round in his hands.

Except for Xuan Che and Jiu You, who had never seen Wang Jianqiang fight because their match times always overlapped with his.

Everyone else was already speechless.

Among those present, who didn't have some sort of background?

Who didn't have a large family and extensive business?

Yet not one of them dared to say they could be as wealthy as Wang Jianqiang.

To say nothing else.

The value of the Ancient Arrays that Wang Jianqiang had blown up alone was far beyond what everyone present could muster, even if they pooled their net worths together.

This wasn't fighting at all; this was burning money!

It was just too damn inhumane!

"Next, the twenty-seventh round of combat begins."

"Number 1 versus Number 3."

"Number 2 versus Number 4."

"Number 5 versus Number 7."

As that emotionless voice sounded once again.

Wang Jianqiang entered the Bubble Space for the twenty-seventh time.

This time, he faced the strongest opponent since the ranking matches began.

Jiu You!

Facing Jiu You, Wang Jianqiang did not immediately make a move as he had before.

A gentle smile appeared on his face, "Wan has watched every one of the Fairy's previous battles; to be honest, Wan admires the Fairy very much and does not wish to hurt the Fairy."

"How about..."

"How about the Fairy voluntarily concedes?"

After those beautiful eyes beneath Jiu You's mask fixed on Wang Jianqiang for a moment, she nodded, "Fine, I concede!"

Wang Jianqiang was stunned.

He was only just running his mouth; was this Jiu You really so easy to persuade?

How come he hadn't noticed that when she was fighting Luo Ming?

The next moment.

Both were simultaneously teleported out of the Bubble Space.

The crowd looked at Jiu You, stunned.

No way...

Although the explosive power of that shameless scoundrel's Array Disk was strong, Jiu You wasn't weak either, right?

Why did she voluntarily concede?

Could there be some unknown story between them?

Thinking of this, the eyes of those with a strong sense of gossip immediately lit up, their gazes scanning back and forth between the two.

"Damn it!"

Luo Ming stared at Jiu You, his fists tightly clenched.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to acknowledge that Jiu You's strength was far greater than his own.

Especially that Soul attack method, which was the best countermeasure against Wan Guiyuan, who relied entirely on blowing up Formations to fight.

In his view, if Jiu You were to face Wan Guiyuan, her win rate would be at least eighty percent.

And that was only if Wan Guiyuan had enough Ancient Array disks to blow up; otherwise, Jiu You would definitely win.

However...

Jiu You had conceded without even making a move!

She refused to concede to him, a fellow sect member, yet instead conceded to an opponent she could almost certainly defeat!

This was clearly meant to spite him!

Could it be.

That Jiu You knew of the grudge between him and that bastard Wan Guiyuan, and wanted to use this to anger him?

Thinking of this, his heart grew even more furious.