Chapter 1209: If you

"Charizard."

"Salamence."

The two voices full of gunpowder rang out. The next moment, two flying dragons flapped their wings and soared, and high-pitched dragon roars sounded in the firmament.

On the left was the Dragon-type pseudo-legendary—Salamence, with wings like blood and terrifying dragon might all over its body.

On the right, a sub-dragon—Charizard, with huge blue-green wings like a Western dragon, a more agile and slender body than an ordinary Charizard, and a touch of blue light faintly flashing in its dragon eyes.

Looking at their auras, both Pokémon were at the Heavenly King-level mid-stage.

Su Xu was a little surprised. It seemed that Long Tianxing's Salamence had an opportunity on the Champion's Road, advancing from the Heavenly King-level early stage to a small level in just a few months.

With such talent, when the current Four Heavenly Kings and Champions retired to take other positions, he might really have a chance to compete for the throne of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Finding that Su Xu's Charizard was still at the Heavenly King-level mid-stage, Long Tianxing's smile became more and more unscrupulous.

"This match is an official match recognized by the Shenzhou Alliance. If the winner's ranking is lower than the loser's, the ranking will be swapped."

"Now, Master Ball-level 63rd Trainer Su Xu challenges Master Ball-level 27th Trainer Long Tianxing. The battle... begins!"

The sharp whistle resounded through the sky, and both orders were issued at the same time: "Flamethrower!"

I don't know if it was intentional, but Long Tianxing chose to use Flamethrower, the signature move of Fire-type Pokémon, at the beginning, as if... provoking.

Two fierce fire pillars crossed the sky. The air along the way was slightly distorted due to the high temperature, and the audience in the arena felt a touch of dryness in this cold winter.

The moment the two fire pillars touched, the gap in firepower appeared.

The pillar of fire from Su Xu's Charizard only stalemated with the Salamence's pillar of fire for an instant before shattering the opponent's with an overwhelming difference in power, sweeping directly toward the Salamence.

Seeing this, Long Tianxing chuckled without surprise. It was just a small provocation just now. He never expected Salamence's Flamethrower to compete with Charizard, who kept this as its signature skill, and said quickly: "Dodge."

The Salamence's blood-colored wings flapped violently, instantly increasing its flight altitude to gracefully dodge this Flamethrower; then, the Salamence spread its blood-red wings and approached the Charizard at high speed like a gale carrying the scent of blood, clearly intending to engage in the close-quarters combat it excelled at.

Long Tianxing's voice rang out at the right time: "Dragon Claw."

The Salamence's forelimbs instantly condensed dense Dragon-type energy, transforming into a pair of massive dragon claws that slammed down toward the Charizard's head; the battle-hardened Charizard, without needing Su Xu's command, likewise used Dragon Claw to parry the Salamence's offensive.

Although it was better at using long-range moves for energy attacks, its close-quarters combat ability wouldn't be crushed by Salamence, it's just... not often used!

After a teeth-grinding friction sound, the two Pokémon engaged in several close-quarters clashes in the air. Between the clashing sounds of gold and iron, every strike from both sides could stir up air waves, and the shock waves were blocked by the energy barrier set up in the arena.

Limiting the battle between Heavenly King-level Pokémon to this arena, which was like a grain of sand compared to the vast wilderness, was a great test of the sturdiness of the equipment.

His angry Dragon Claw was blocked again by Charizard using a tricky method, and Salamence's mood gradually became irritable.

In terms of strength, he had an absolute advantage, but he could never take down this seasoned and cunning Charizard. Just realizing this was enough to make Salamence, who was in its prime, furious.

"ROAR！！！"

The spreading terrifying dragon might made the audience breathe rapidly. Salamence stirred up mighty air currents around its body, and the continuous Dragon-type energy turned into phantom light flames to cover it.

After a moment of stagnation, wearing the giant dragon phantom transformed by light flames, Salamence with blood-red eyes let out a wild roar and swooped down toward Charizard with an extremely violent posture.

Long Tianxing very much agreed with Salamence's choice. Even if it didn't use "that thing," Salamence's Dragon Rush was now not much different in power from the Dragon Rush that defeated Su Xu's Skeledirge before.

This was what they

gained from practicing on the Champion's Road, something Su Xu couldn't reach.

Wait until he used the Dragon Clan's relationship to obtain the power beyond the limits that the kid showed, the Heavenly King position... was within reach!

However, Su Xu's expression was not the shock or more unseemly panic that Long Tianxing imagined, but rather he squinted his eyes in disgust and shook his head: "It looks just so-so now. Charizard, Blast Burn!"

At home, he and Charizard and a group of Pokémon were dragged into the secret realm by that group of Articuno who were so idle they were about to grow hair, accepting the wheel battle invitations of that group of legendary Pokémon every day.

In the battle with that group of Articuno, his Charizard almost learned Ice Beam. Dragon Rush... felt not as good as that Champion-level Articuno's Brave Bird!

Charizard, who was hit every day, had long since developed extraordinary eyesight for flying objects, plus the powerful firepower that had been in the rising period after realizing the Blue Flame—

Charizard dodged Salamence's first impact at a tricky angle at the last moment. Taking advantage of the gap when the opponent turned, wisps of flame overflowed from its mouth, and in an instant, it turned into a huge red sun that was so hot it almost distorted the surrounding space, locking onto Salamence and smashing it down!

This set of actions was as smooth as if it had been practiced thousands of times, filled with the crystallization of the blood and tears of Charizard being beaten by those wolf-like Articuno.

And the past "suffering" now turned into power. The red sun accurately hit the high-speed flying Salamence, and the boundless sea of fire spread. In the high temperature, Salamence's painful roar was clearly audible!

Orange-red flames burned half the sky, and Salamence tossed and turned in this hell of fire.

In the silence, Su Xu's calm voice rang out: "What's wrong, aren't you going to release your trump card?"

"Just like before, use it quickly, after all... if you don't use it again, you will lose!"

Su Xu's voice was full of temptation. Long Tianxing, whose face was very ugly, still didn't understand why the battle situation had changed drastically in just a few breaths. He gritted his teeth with a gloomy face: "Then as you wish, Salamence, liberate the power from the ancient times!" ===== CHAPTER 1210 =====