Douluo Jueshi: Picking up Firefly at the Beginning

Chapter 274 Night Demon Spirit
Xing Yan raised his head and roared, a deafening dragon roar came out of his mouth, and the sound waves rolled and spread. At the same time, his right hand, which had turned into a dragon claw, was wrapped in tremendous soul power and grabbed Nana with the force of thunder.

This grab was incredibly fast, causing gusts of whistling wind and leaving five eye-catching red claws in the air, like five burning lines of fire, cutting through the void and heading straight for Nana's face.

Nana was not afraid at all. She danced her hands quickly, holding the Flame Blade and the Wind Spirit Blade respectively. With a flip of her wrist, she unleashed a sharp sword technique.

In an instant, two brilliant sword beams, one red and one green, shot up into the sky. The red one was like the blazing sun, and the green one was like the biting wind. With completely different but equally powerful forces, they rushed towards the five claw beams.

The blade light and the claw light collided violently in mid-air. For a moment, soul power overflowed and light flashed.

The powerful energies collided and annihilated each other, making a series of "crackling" sounds, like a grand fireworks display.

Immediately afterwards, Nana's flaming knife and Xingyan's dragon claws crossed each other fiercely in the air. The flaming knife slashed on Xingyan's iron-hard red scales, creating dazzling sparks, like a meteor blooming in the night sky, short but brilliant.

The figures of both sides crossed each other like ghosts, and separated in the blink of an eye.

Nana reacted extremely quickly. Taking advantage of the moment of twisting her body, she unhesitatingly activated the powerful soul skill of the flaming sword in her hand.

Suddenly, a blazing flame ignited on the flaming knife. The flame was so fierce and the temperature was so high that even the surrounding air was distorted.

Nana gripped the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands, quickly compressing the surging power of fire, making the energy contained in it even more terrifying.

"Red Flame Slash."

Nana let out a delicate cry, and an extremely huge red blade light shot up into the sky, instantly cutting through the space, tearing through the air, and slashing towards Xing Yan fiercely.

Wherever the knife light passed, the space seemed to be torn apart, leaving a distorted mark.

Xing Yan also turned around quickly and faced Nana steadily.

He crossed his hands in front of him, and the second soul ring on his body suddenly shone, emitting a dazzling light.

Xing Yan shouted in a low voice: "Second soul skill, Red Dragon Tyrant Body!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a lifelike shadow of a fire dragon suddenly appeared behind Xing Yan. The fire dragon roared to the sky, flames swirling around its body, and it exuded a terrifying dragon power.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow of the fire dragon transformed into a ferocious-looking crimson dragon armor, which was instantly draped over Xing Yan. Wherever the dragon armor covered, soul power flowed, emitting a powerful defensive force.

At the moment when the dragon armor was attached to the body, the fierce red sword light had already slashed towards it.

With a loud "bang", the knife light hit Xing Yan's arms heavily. The huge impact force caused Xing Yan's body to slide backwards involuntarily, leaving a long groove on the hard ring.

The rocks on the surface of the ring were forcibly plowed open, with gravel flying everywhere and dust rising up, which shows how powerful this blow was.

Xing Yan managed to steady his body with great difficulty, his feet firmly nailed to the ring, trying to dispel the shaking caused by the huge impact.

At this moment, he subconsciously looked at his arms, and saw that the armor attached to his arms had left a shocking deep knife mark.

Wisps of white smoke were constantly rising from the knife marks, as if silently telling of the enormous force it had just endured.

Xing Yan's face instantly turned extremely ugly. He was secretly annoyed in his heart. After all, he underestimated Nana's seemingly ordinary attack.

You know, the weapon in Nana's hand is a seventh-level soul guide. Once the soul skills it possesses are fully unleashed, they are enough to rival a Soul Saint's fatal blow with all his strength.

Although Nana's attack had not yet reached the terrifying level of a Soul Saint, it had actually broken the domineering defense built by his second soul skill, which made Xing Yan, who had always been confident, feel unprecedented pressure.

However, Nana would not give Xingyan a chance to breathe.

While Xing Yan was still unstable, Nana's second soul ring shone brightly, instantly activating her second soul skill.

In an instant, Nana's body suddenly split into three, turning into three ghostly black lights, rushing towards Xing Yan at lightning speed.

These three faint lights were extremely fast, leaving blurry shadows in the air, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. This was Nana's second soul skill - ghost clone.

"Bam—"

A glimmer of fire flashed in Xing Yan's eyes, and a pair of broad red dragon wings suddenly grew out from behind him. When the dragon wings were spread out, they were more than ten feet long and covered with a thick layer of scales, sparkling with a metallic luster in the sunlight.

At the same time, a raging flame ignited on Xing Yan's body. The flame was red and extremely hot, burning the surrounding air and causing it to distort.

Xing Yan, drawing on the power of his dragon wings, soared into the sky like an arrow, instantly rising into the air. Then, he adjusted his posture in mid-air, concentrating all his strength on a single point, transforming into a dazzling fire meteor, charging towards Nana with terrifying kinetic energy.

At this time, Xing Yan's third and fourth soul rings were shining at the same time, obviously he had used two soul skills in succession.

The third soul skill, Red Dragon Wings, increases defense and attack power. The fourth soul skill, Dragon Meteor, is a meteor impact with flames.

"Boom——" With a deafening sound, a red fire meteor, carrying the momentum of destroying the world, slammed down from the sky.

This powerful impact caused a violent airflow, and a terrifying shock wave spread out like ripples with the impact point as the center.

Wherever the shock wave passed, the air was violently stirred, making a sharp whistling sound.

The sturdy arena could not bear the impact of this force, and a deep hole appeared. The edges of the hole were jagged, and broken stones flew everywhere, raising a cloud of dust.

The ghost clone that Nana cast was like a fragile piece of paper in front of this extremely strong shock wave. It was shaken to pieces and finally dissipated into the air and turned into nothingness.

However, just when everyone thought the situation was settled, something unexpected happened.

A green tornado swept in from one side of the stadium without warning, like a raging green dragon, pouncing towards Xing Yan who was trapped in a pit with bared fangs and claws.

The tornado came extremely suddenly, and Xing Yan had no time to react at all. He could only watch it approach.

In Xing Yan's astonished eyes, the tornado instantly swept him into it.

The tornado contained countless sharp wind blades, which, like assassins hidden in the darkness, slashed frantically at Xing Yan's body. The wind blades collided violently with Xing Yan's armor and dragon scales, emitting a series of crisp "ding-dang-dang" sounds.

Although Xingyan's armor was extremely hard and his dragon scales were unusually tough, scars still gradually appeared on it under the violent attack of the wind blade.

The scars varied in depth, and in some places the flesh underneath was even exposed. Blood oozed from the wounds and was blown by the strong wind, turning into blood mist that floated in the air, adding a bit of tragic atmosphere to this fierce battle.

After finally breaking free from the tornado, Xing Yan dragged his scarred body in a mess and stood staggering on the ring.

When he looked up and saw Nana, who was light and unharmed not far away, his eyes were full of disbelief and he blurted out: "How is this possible? How on earth did you dodge my Dragon Meteor?" His voice was a little hoarse and mixed with shock.

Nana's lips curled up slightly, revealing a confident smile. She said calmly, "It's okay to tell you. My third soul skill, Ghost Body, makes me immune to physical attacks and some elemental attacks. So, your Dragon Meteor only destroyed my ghost clones."

Xing Yan subconsciously looked at the Wind Spirit Sword in Nana's hand, which was still shining with green light, and suddenly he understood. Without asking any more questions, he already understood what the powerful tornado had just done.

Nana shook her head slightly and said with a hint of emotion, "As expected of a top-tier beast spirit, you're truly resilient. My Wind Spirit Blade's inherent spirit skill clearly hit you completely, yet you still managed to fight on."

Nana was also a little speechless. The soul skill of the Wind Spirit Sword completely hit Xingyan, but Xingyan obviously still had the strength to fight again. Top-level beast martial souls are so troublesome. Not only do they have amazing attack power, but their defense and endurance are also top-notch.

"I admit that I underestimated you."

Xing Yan gritted his teeth and his face turned very ugly. Thinking back to the beginning of the battle, he was indeed too careless. He underestimated his opponent just because Nana looked like a weak girl. As a result, he suffered a great loss in the battle. This made him, who had always been proud, full of regret.

However, Xing Yan was not discouraged. It was not too late to give it his all at this moment. There was still powerful soul power surging in his body, and he had enough combat power.

Thinking of this, Xing Yan's eyes focused, and the sixth soul ring on his body suddenly shone. He decided not to hold back anymore, to decide the outcome with one strike, and directly used the sixth soul skill.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Dragon's Burning Flame."

As soon as he finished speaking, crimson flames, like a surging tide, began to spread rapidly from Xingyan's feet. The flames drew a neat circle along the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they tightly surrounded Nana.

Then, the flames continued to rise and gradually turned into a wall of fire several feet high. The wall of fire was so majestic that even the air was tightly wrapped up.

From the audience's perspective, the entire arena seemed to have turned into a sea of ​​fire in an instant. An extremely huge fireball appeared in front of everyone, completely enveloping Xing Yan and Nana.

The blazing flames emitted billowing heat waves, and even from a distance, the audience could feel the high temperature coming towards them.

Nana's face instantly became solemn. She knew that although her ghost body could be immune to some elemental attacks, it was not absolutely immune. Facing such a powerful fire attack, she would still be hurt.

Moreover, she was not good at defense. If she forced her way out of the flames, she would probably suffer serious injuries.

However, Nana would naturally not sit still and wait for death. She tightly grasped the Fengling Sword in her hand and swung it violently. A sharp green sword light instantly flashed out.

Wherever the knife light passed, the air was torn apart, making a sharp "hissing" sound. The green knife light rushed straight towards the wall of fire and sank into it.

Unfortunately, this powerful sword light only tore a small hole in the wall of fire. In an instant, it was ruthlessly swallowed by the raging flames. The small hole also healed in an instant, as if it had never appeared.

"It's useless. My Dragon's Burning Flame is not so easy to break."

Seeing this, Xing Yan showed a sneer on his face. Then, he took a deep breath, mobilized all his soul power, and the flames began to gather towards his mouth like a lively elf.

At the same time, his fifth soul ring began to shine.

"Fifth Soul Skill, Dragon Bomb!"

Xing Yan used all his strength to suddenly spurt out an extremely huge fireball forward. The fireball was wrapped in extremely high temperature and swept towards Nana fiercely.

Faced with the terrifying dragon bomb, Nana no longer held back.

She gritted her teeth, and the sixth soul ring on her body instantly lit up with a circle of deep black light, emitting a heart-pounding aura.

Nana growled, "Sixth Soul Skill, Night Demon Spirit."

In an instant, a biting cold wind suddenly appeared without warning on the arena where flames were originally raging. The cold wind was so fierce that it seemed to deprive all warmth.

As the cold wind blew, the temperature of the entire arena dropped sharply and the coldness soared. Even the fierce wall of fire that Xing Yan had previously released dimmed a little under the invasion of this coldness. The flames swayed, as if retreating step by step under the pressure of the cold wind.

Behind Nana, a huge black shadow slowly emerged. The shadow had a human-like outline, but no feet, like a ghost floating in the void.

Its eyes were like two balls of burning blood, emitting a creepy chill and endless malice. Just one glance at it made people feel as if they were in an ice cellar, and their souls trembled.

The Night Demon's huge body leaned forward slightly, and its hands slowly clasped together in front of its chest. Between its hands, a black ball of light quickly took shape and began to expand wildly.

The black ball of light contained endless ghostly power and chill, as if it was going to swallow up everything around it. Then, the black ball of light was compressed at an astonishing speed, its volume becoming smaller and smaller, but the energy contained in it became more and more terrifying.

Finally, the Night Demon pushed his hands forward suddenly, and the extremely compressed black light ball instantly turned into an extremely thick black light, like a black lightning, breaking through the air and attacking the dragon bomb sprayed by Xing Yan.

Wherever the black light passed, the coldness surged like a surging tide, and the surrounding air was instantly frozen, forming pieces of crystal clear ice crystals.

These ice crystals flashed with strange light under the reflection of the black light. At the same time, along with the black light, there was a terrifying whistling sound. The sound seemed like the roar of evil spirits from hell, which made people's scalps numb.

"boom--"

Under everyone's breathtakingly tense gaze, the Dragon Bomb and the thick black light finally collided. In an instant, an incomparably powerful energy spread wildly in all directions with the collision point as the center.

The dazzling light instantly illuminated the entire ring, and the strong shock wave stirred up chaos in the surrounding air, making a deafening roar.

In the sky-high flames caused by the explosion, the entire arena was illuminated as bright as day.

(End of this chapter)