Chapter 210: Domain (1/2)
After Liu Xiaoyun was Han Chong, Astral-2’s leader…
...His battle ended in a similarly relaxed manner.
The fourteenth match made the crowds perk up. On one side was Sha, and on the other was Hart Phoenix, the genius of the Phoenix clan who had defeated an Area Master as a Melder.
Every Melder who had reached the fourth round of matches was a freak. The few Melders still in the tournament were Lu Yin, Liu Shaoqiu, Xia Luo, Silver, and lastly, Hart Phoenix. Also, Hart had a brother who dominated the universe: one of the Ten Arbiters, Serati Phoenix.
Ever since Hart had been defeated by Lu Yin, he had vanished, only reappearing now. Lu Yin was very curious as to what the young man had experienced during his time away and how he had grown so powerful. Hart’s entire temperament seemed to have changed, becoming much more refined.
Many were waiting to see how Hart would fare in this battle and only a few were concerned about Sha, such as Lu Yin or Silver. Only those two knew that Sha was from the Neohuman Alliance, an incomparably frightening organization.
For Hart, Sha did not even qualify to enter his eyes. Hart was like Jared and was of the opinion that only those who he had targeted were worth his attention, such as Lu Yin or Bonny Phoenix.
Sha had a calm expression, as if he did not care about anything in the world. His entire body gave off an icy-cold impression, as if he were a block of ice. After all, he was the Ice Domain’s Area Master in the Dao of Slaughter.
Hart finally looked at Sha and then immediately frowned—he hated the cold. Hart didn’t even speak before making a move. Following a high pitched whistling sound, gigantic golden flames engulfed the entire arena plains. No one thought that Hart would cause such a huge spectacle with his first move, and many students retreated in fear, not even daring to touch the golden flames. These flames had already burned an Area Master to a crisp once before.
The golden flames surged as they wrapped around Sha. Hart reckoned that this guy would not be able to cope with the intense heat, but reality shocked everyone. The golden flames gradually froze over and were encased with ice. Then, the blue layers of ice started extending outwards, slowly but steadily freezing any and all golden flames that it came into contact with. Eventually, a marvelous display of golden flames encased in blue ice that covered the entire plains was formed.
Hart’s pupils constricted. He knew better than anyone how terrifying his golden flames were. It shouldn’t have been possible for this person to seal them.
Hart felt furious at this development, as this was his stage. He could not allow himself to be suppressed by anyone.
In the next moment, the clarion call of a powerful bird shook heaven and earth. From within the sturdy ice, the golden flames roiled and quaked. Its sudden liveliness shattered the ice before rising into the skies to assume the form of a golden Undying Bird. It spread its wings, and the high temperature that it released caused the void to twist and rupture. This scene was much more horrifying than Arikar’s Endless Darkgold palm, as it felt that a real astral phoenix had been born before their very eyes.
Lu Yin leaned forward expectantly; Hart’s Undying Bird had changed once again, and it was even more majestic and powerful than before. The golden flames of the Undying Bird practically evaporated everything that they touched, overwhelming many students who continuously retreated from the arena.
But no one noticed that the extreme cold beneath Sha never stopped spreading. The star energy in his body exploded out, triggering his blue ice to suddenly sweep out and seal everything within a thousand meters, which included the golden Undying Bird and Hart Phoenix.
Nobody had even comprehended what had just happened when Sha raised his hand and caused a sturdy ice spear to form in it. He then thrust it directly through Hart’s body and into the ground, instantly killing him.
With Hart’s death, the golden flames vanished, leaving only an icy-blue world in the arena plains.
No one thought that even the Undying Bird could be frozen. The confrontation between ice and fire had resulted in a complete landslide victory.
Up on the highest peak, all the student leaders had somber faces.
“What a strong domain. So even the Phoenix clan’s Undying Bird was frozen by it. Xue Liuyun, did you know that this Area Master below you was this powerful?” Feng Shang asked with a strange expression. The others also shifted their gazes towards Xue Liuyun.
Xue Liuyun calmly stared at Sha, but there was a rarely seen glimmer of shock in his eyes. He really had no idea that this person was this strong.
Outside the arena plains, Xia Luo’s brows creased in frustration. He hated this Sha purely because his aura was similar to Silver’s; it was extremely disgusting.
Off in the distance, Silver’s smile was splendid. He was standing alone as most of the surrounding students had avoided him out of fear that he would go crazy with his butterfly knife. This person had killed almost two hundred people by himself during the Three Academies Guarding the Gate stage, after all.
The next two matches were battles between Area Masters. Normally, these battles would be attention-grabbing, but they were not dazzling in the slightest on the current stage. Wu Da could not even be bothered to record them. While these battles were taking place, his small eyes were scanning all the other competitors, and nobody knew what he was thinking.
The seventeenth match was a long-anticipated one. Before their screens, countless people in the Innerverse cheered when they saw the appearance of their goddess, Yue Xianzi.
Yue Xianzi was another student who had only recently joined the Astral Combat Academy. Although she was pretty, many students still regarded her as an outsider since she had also snatched the Blackwater Lake inheritance not long after she joined. Hence, many students did not like her. Facing her was her opponent, Charon.
Lu Yin smiled when he saw Charon walk out; this was a sure victory.
The only thing that the spectating audience knew about Charon was that he was a powerful Area Master. Otherwise, he would not have been able to occupy Whitebones Gorge. Among everyone, only Lu Yin knew about Charon’s true strength; between his mastery of a domain, his star energy control, and his Unveiled Sword, he was more than qualified to roam the universe unhindered. He was definitely the ideal candidate to challenge a Realm Master, but he had not yet revealed his power. Additionally he could not bring his sword into the Lifeseek Realm either.
Yue Xianzi slowly bowed as she faced Charon. “Senior, forgive my impropriety.”