Chapter 25: Movement and Stillness

Zhou Heng's golden needles were truly too dense; even though the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master tried his best to dodge, he could not fully evade them and was still struck by two of the needles.

Several pinholes were left on the scales covering his body.

These pinholes did not cause much damage to the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master; Zhou Heng used the golden needles to shoot at these two people simply to test whether his attacks could inflict damage upon them.

Now it appeared that neither of them could ignore his attacks.

Zhou Heng manipulated the metal element to transform into flying swords around him, shooting toward these two opponents, while at the same time, his Second Soul Ring flickered with light, and the power of the water element was controlled by Zhou Huan.

Seeing Zhou Heng's attack, the Spirit Master holding the Ice Treasure Staff saw the Second Soul Ring on his staff flash with a ray of light, and streams of cold gas appeared out of thin air around him.

Subsequently, in a mere moment, this cold gas converged into a ten-meter-tall cyan-blue tornado; the next instant, the tornado rushed toward the incoming flying swords.

This tornado, wrapped in the power of the ice element and wind element, sought to sweep the flying swords of Zhou Heng's attack into the tornado and break his assault.

However, just as the tornado and the flying swords were about to make contact, the tornado abruptly stopped.

Immediately following, the tornado began to dissipate; the flying swords easily passed through the stopped tornado and then rushed toward the Spirit Master holding the Ice Treasure Staff.

In the blink of an eye, the flying swords tore through the air, leaving behind trails of afterimages in mid-air, and aggressively pierced the chest and head of the Spirit Master holding the Ice Treasure Staff, piercing right through him before the flying swords dissipated on their own.

Afterward, outside the arena, the figure of the eliminated Spirit Master appeared once more; after his figure appeared, this Spirit Master immediately reached for his own chest and head.

Upon discovering that he had not truly died, he let out a long sigh of relief and relaxed.

Zhou Heng paid no mind to the person who had already left and turned to look at the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master, the golden flying swords appearing once again by his side.

Looking at the twenty-plus flying swords that had appeared by Zhou Heng's side this time, the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master's expression was extremely ugly, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Had he committed a heavenly crime?

Was it necessary to condense so many swords?

The Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master also knew that his own strength was absolutely no match for the opponent, but if he dared to admit defeat directly, he would definitely be trained to death by Lin He.

Thinking of this, the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master no longer hesitated and charged directly at Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng waved his hand, and the twenty-plus flying swords flew out directly, attacking toward the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master.

Facing Zhou Huan's attack, the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master released his First Soul Skill directly; a red flame could be seen circling around the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master's body.

This was the strongest ability of the Blood Flame Snake martial soul—Blood Poison Flame; this type of flame not only had the burning damage of the fire element but also the corrosive ability of the poison attribute.

It was precisely this special dual-attribute ability that allowed the Blood Flame Snake, a martial soul not strong in terms of physical constitution, to occupy a middle-to-upper quality.

The moment the Blood Poison Flame appeared, a pale red poisonous mist began to permeate the arena, making the entire arena a blur; people outside the field could not see the situation inside the arena at all, only seeing blurred light and shadows.

Seeing this, Lin He's Third Soul Ring lit up, and above the arena, a crystal-clear light screen appeared, perfectly reflecting the situation inside the arena.

It could be seen that a layer of water-blue water curtain had appeared around Zhou Heng; Zhou Heng was covered within it, blocking all the poisonous gas outside the water curtain.

The Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master also saw the water curtain covering Zhou Heng; regarding this, the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master was not discouraged, as his goal was not to poison Zhou Heng in the first place.

These poisonous gases were the ability of his First Soul Ring, named Blood Poison Gas; it was simply the poison element power that stimulated the Blood Poison Flame, released directly in the form of poisonous gas.

If a Spirit Master inhaled the Blood Poison Gas, as long as that Spirit Master did not exceed his own soul power by ten levels, that Spirit Master would begin to succumb to the poison in about ten minutes, slowly being corroded by the toxins until they turned into a puddle of flesh.

Now, although the poisonous gas could not cause damage to Zhou Huan, his goal had been achieved.

The Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master's Second Soul Ring lit up, and his Second Soul Skill: Blood Poison Fire was released.

The Blood Poison Flame ignited all the Blood Poison Gas, and the entire arena turned into a sea of fire; consequently, a massive high temperature rapidly evaporated the water curtain covering Zhou Heng.

However, the benefit was that in this high temperature, even the Blood Poison Gas could not function, and Zhou Huan did not need to worry about the possibility of being poisoned.

Feeling the evaporation of the water curtain, Zhou Heng focused his mind to control his soul power, releasing both his First Soul Skill and Second Soul Skill simultaneously.

Around Zhou Heng, the blue water element and the golden metal element intertwined and fused together.

In the process of fusion, with the metal element as the primary and the water element as the secondary, Zhou Heng manipulated these two elements to begin blending, forming a new type of element; this was a method of ability usage that Zhou Heng had conceived.

Because, in the Yin and Yang Five Elements theory that Zhou Huan knew, metal could generate water; Zhou Heng wanted to fuse the metal element and the water element to form a liquid-like metal element.

That is, the Xin Metal Power of the Yin and Yang Five Elements in *Wine God*; in a book on Taoist philosophy that Zhou Heng had read in his past life, Xin Metal symbolized metal or jewelry that had been carved and polished.

Its nature is soft and its quality is warm and moist, flexible yet spiritual, hiding its edge within; its attack method is based on flexibility and change, and the Xin Metal element appears golden to the naked eye.

However, orthodox Xin Metal should be true gold refined by fire, using fire to melt metal, rather than a special element derived from the combination of the water element's yin-soft characteristic and the metal element's sharpness and plasticity.

This special element could only be called Xin Metal Power that possessed partial characteristics of Xin Metal Power.

Zhou Heng was only using this special element as a transition, not truly treating it as Xin Metal Power.

Just before the high temperature brought by the Blood Poison Flame was about to completely evaporate the water curtain, a special element intertwined with cyan-blue and gold appeared around Zhou Heng, transforming into a light shield that completely covered Zhou Heng, isolating all the high temperature.

After several breaths, the sea of fire on the arena completely vanished, and that high temperature also disappeared.

Zhou Heng did not dispel the light shield; through the shield, Zhou Heng looked at the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master, and with a wave of his hand, that special element converged and transformed into blades and swords intertwined with cyan-blue and gold; counting carefully, there were fully over thirty of them.

Compared to the flying swords Zhou Heng had condensed by purely using the metal element before, these blades and swords were sharper, and on the tips and edges of the blades, a sharp and cold gleam flickered.

Looking at Zhou Heng, who was inside the light shield and completely unharmed, and then looking at the thirty-plus blades and swords intertwined with cyan-blue and gold, the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master could not help but swallow his saliva.

The next instant, Zhou Heng waved his hand, and the thirty-plus blades and swords tore through the air, whistling as they rushed over.

They pierced directly through the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master's body, pinning him to the ground of the arena, and he died instantly.

At the moment the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master died, Zhou Heng only felt himself lose focus for an instant, and then he appeared outside the arena.

Zhou Heng glanced at the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master standing not far in front of him, and that Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master also looked at Zhou Heng.

Their gazes collided, and the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master instantly recalled the feeling from before, when his body was pierced by the thirty-plus blades and swords—cold and bone-chilling, freezing his heart—and he subconsciously shivered.

The two gazes collided, and the Blood Flame Snake Spirit Master instantly recalled the feeling from before, when his body was pierced through by more than thirty blades and swords; it was bone-chilling and heart-freezing, and he subconsciously shuddered.