While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

Chapter 185 The Dust Settles

Tianyan stood in the center of the ruins that had been plowed and shattered by the two domains. The Sumeru Cage was slowly dissipating, and the green cage walls were fading away from his body like melting thin ice.

His breathing was somewhat rapid. The Three Transformations of Heavenly Fire were still in effect, with blue-green flames slowly burning on his body, but the intensity of the burning was weaker than before.

His gaze pierced through the descending smoke and dust, landing on the still spirited figure.

Shi Liulong's hair was a bit disheveled. His exaggerated pompadour was no longer as straight as before after continuous output of magical power. A few strands of hair fell down from both sides, resting on his forehead and cheekbones.

But he stood firmly, his feet planted on the cracked gravel, his back straight, and his hands hanging naturally at his sides.

He ripped off the leather jacket that had been torn by the Heavenly Flame during the previous battle, and a blood-stained smile spread across his face:

That was a truly exhilarating battle!

He raised his right hand and struck his left chest heavily, producing two dull thuds: "Finally, let's face each other!"

Tianyan looked into his burning gaze, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded.

He raised both hands at the same time, with his left palm facing up. Blue-green seaweed flames surged from his palm, the flames carrying a calm luster like seawater, slowly churning in the air, like a frozen tide.

With his right palm facing upward, deep orange magma flames surged from his palm, carrying a chilling aura.

The temperature was like lava that had just surged from the depths of the earth.

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and exhaled a tiny pink flame. The flame floated from his lips, hovered in front of him, and spun silently.

Three flames ignited simultaneously—blue-green, deep orange, and pink—interweaving into a constantly shifting curtain of light in front of him.

Shi Liulong's eyes lit up for a moment. His gaze lingered on the three flames of different colors in front of Tian Yan for a moment, and then he no longer hesitated!

He crouched down, raised his hands, and grasped the sides of the tuft of hair on his head, his ten fingers tightly gripping the ends of the stray strands of hair, pouring all the remaining magical power in his body into the ends of the hair.

The energy wave of the spell cannon rapidly formed above his head!

It changed from blue to incandescent white, and then from incandescent white to a nearly solidified milky white, its surface gleaming with a magical luster that seemed to be compressed to the extreme!

In the void surrounding that ball of light, tiny, lightning-like fluctuations were leaping and crackling along its edge, like air ionization caused by an extremely high concentration of magical energy!

The three-colored flames of Tianyan converged and merged in the void in front of him.

Blue-green seaweed fire spreads out on the outermost layer, forming slender petals that flow like seawater. Deep orange magma flames surge in the inner layer, forming a denser petal structure. Pink flames seep out from the core, serving as a stabilizing layer, like tiny veins running through the heart of the flower.

The three-colored fire lotus slowly took shape in his palm. It was not large, only the size of a human head, but its surface was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it!

The fluctuations it emitted were in no way weaker than the Stone Flow Dragon's Cursed Power Cannon, which concentrated all its cursed power!

Although Shi Liulong's breathing was heavy, it couldn't hide his excited fighting spirit: "Don't disappoint me, little brother!"

The ball of light detached from his head, and the incandescent spell cannon shot out at an astonishing speed, accompanied by a heavy, metallic hum, like a battering ram released from a catapult, flying straight toward Tianyan!

Its flight trajectory was simple and brutal, without any fancy changes, just a straight line, a straight beam of light, carrying all the curse power in the Stone Dragon's body, turning into an overwhelming torrent of energy that crushed towards the ruins!

Tianyan thrust his palms forward, and the three-colored fire lotuses broke free from his palms to meet the huge pillar of light!

The spell cannon and the fire lotus collided in mid-air between the two!

At the moment of impact, the shock wave spread outwards from the point of contact, scattering rubble and causing the remaining building structures to shake violently in the blast wave!

The ground beneath their feet simultaneously caved in, as if struck from the middle by an invisible hammer!

Tianyan's feet slid backward half a meter from the impact, leaving two charred marks on the gravel ground with the soles of his shoes.

Traces were left on Shi Liulong's body, which was also slightly tilted back by the shockwave. His feet plowed two shallow furrows in the ground, but he held on.

Two forces clashed in the void!

Tianyan could feel the weight of that pillar of light; the violent curse power was surging continuously from the other end of the pillar, like a wall that was advancing forward.

His fire lotus was being slowly pushed back; although it was only a very small movement, the trend was real.

He heard Shi Liulong's laughter coming from behind the spell cannon: "You're strong! But I have more spell power left than you think!"

Tianyan remained silent, his gaze fixed on the point of contact where the two sides were locked in a standoff.

The pink flames on the surface of the fire lotus were climbing upwards along the surface of the torrent of magical power. They clung to the surface of the milky white pillar of light like tiny tongues of fire, and began to burn the layer of magical power that had been condensed to the extreme the moment they made contact.

Wherever the embers passed, the surface of the spell cannon began to peel away from the edges inward, layer by layer, piece by piece, like paper licked by flames, disintegrating from the outside in!

The burning momentum, relentlessly eroded by the torrent of cursed power, continued to spread towards the Stone Flow Dragon. The areas scorched by the pink flames resembled shells hollowed out by worms, with the cursed power constantly fueling the pink flames. Eventually, the flames could no longer withstand the ever-advancing fire lotus.

Tianyan took a step forward, and the Fire Lotus accelerated its advance in that instant, piercing through the very center of the Curse Cannon!

The pillar of light, now compressed with all its magical power, exploded from the middle, its remaining incandescent light surging to both sides and dissipating into countless tiny specks of light in the air.

The fire lotus, now smaller, still blasted head-on into Shi Liulong's chest!

"boom!"

The violent explosion produced a sky full of fire, engulfing the entire area!

With his body charred black, Shi Liulong flew backward like a cannonball. His back crashed through a stubby low wall, then through a second and a third, finally coming to rest on the rubble of a fourth wall, lying face up on the broken stones.

His exposed skin was covered with burn marks and countless dark cracks, the edges of which had pink embers slowly burning before gradually going out.

Shi Liulong's eyes were half-open and half-closed, his chest heaving slightly, and the bloodstains on the dried corners of his mouth were once again covered with bright red blood.

But the corners of his mouth were turned up, and that smile was still on his face, with a kind of satisfaction like that of someone who had finally eaten what they wanted.

His lips moved, his voice very soft, with a broken, hoarse quality: "—Sweet——So sweet—"

His eyes slowly closed. Tianyan squatted down and reached out to check his neck. His pulse was still beating, though somewhat weak.

He withdrew his hand and was about to stand up when his soul perception caught an unusual signal in that instant.

In the ruins behind him, the space showed a very slight fluctuation. The fluctuation was different from the power of the curse. It was more subtle and more hidden, like the aftershock of space itself slowly rebounding after being folded. If Tianyan's soul perception had not been constantly covering it, it would have been almost ignored.

He turned his head without pausing, but his left hand was already behind his back, palm facing outward, and a palm-sized pink fire lotus platform was rapidly condensing at his fingertips.

The lotus platform was extremely small, but the concentration of magical energy inside was extremely high, and the pink flames on its surface were compressed to the point of almost solidification.

From the shadows, a figure silently emerged. Wu Lu Hengzi poked her upper body out from under a shattered floorboard, her hands outstretched, fingers spread, aimed at Tian Yan's back!

The skin on her chest was slowly healing, and there were some fine burn marks at the edges of the wound, which were left by the stone dragon when the domain was shattered.

Unable to use her spells at the time, she took a solid hit from a spell cannon, but she held on until her spells and spell control were restored!

The reversal technique had been operating within her body, accelerating the repair of damaged internal organs and bones, and restoring most of her mobility.

And now, she has finally gotten her chance!

Shi Liulong has completely lost his fighting ability, and the handsome young man in front of us couldn't possibly have much remaining magical power after such a battle. So, the final victor of this barrier is...

It's yourself!

In that instant, she exerted her strength, and fine gray-white cracks reappeared in the void where her fingertips were pressed. Those cracks spread forward from her fingertips, covering the entire space behind Tianyan like a spider web!

"Umori Raidan!"

The powerful impact sent Tianyan flying forward, but as he was knocked away, he also threw the pink fire lotus in his palm backward!

The fire lotus exploded under the impact, without a huge roar or a dazzling flash, only a large ball of fine pink flames spewed out!

Instead of spreading outwards, the pink flames poured inwards along the cracks in the space, flowing along the folds of space torn by the black heron's fingers, like flames rushing into the enclosed space through the wind tunnel, spreading along the edges of the folds, and burning the black heron's hands in the opposite direction!

Uruhiko's pupils suddenly contracted, and her hands made a faint hissing sound when they touched the returning pink flames.

She thought she was injured. She had seen Shi Liulong burned before, and immediately tried to use the Reversal Technique to repair her burned skin!

However, the positive energy of the reversal technique was also ignited the moment it came into contact with the pink fire, and the skin and flesh tissue that were healing rapidly under the effect of the reversal technique suddenly began to bleed!

Moreover, not only that, the pink flames also spread to most of her body through the power of the reversal spell!

Startled, she had no choice but to release her grip on the spatial fold and stop chasing Tianyan. Instead, she shrank back and moved away from the pink flames that were burning towards her in the air, following the trajectory of her cursed power!

She landed in the pile of rubble and stumbled a couple of steps before regaining her balance.

She looked down at her hands and realized that although her body was covered in pink flames and the area was slowly expanding, she was not harmed except for the heat in her body.

She suddenly felt a void and realized that most of her magical power had disappeared without her noticing!

Wu Lu's pupils contracted, and he immediately understood the true purpose of the flame!

"Cursed power burning?!"

"You got it right! Here's a reward for you!"

Tianyan adjusted his posture amidst the momentum of being knocked away. He twisted his waist and abdomen in mid-air, and the Xuanzhong Ruler was pulled out horizontally from his side. A blade of energy drew an arc in the night sky and accurately slashed at Wulu!

"Flames Divide and Devour the Waves!"

Wu Lu's body instinctively tried to deflect the blade energy using her own technique, but the moment she distorted the space in front of her, the pink fire on her palm, like a shark smelling blood, directly burned the cursed power attached to the folded surface of space!

Then the distorted space shattered just like a mirror!

This scene is just like the heron trying to defend against the Stone Flow Dragon's attack after the spell melts, and even the result is the same!

The unblocked blade energy slashed diagonally from her left shoulder to her right rib, leaving a hideous wound!

In a flash of blood, Uruga Kenko's body fell backward and crashed into the pile of rubble, with blood splattering in all directions from where she landed!

Her eyes were still open, the light in her pupils rapidly fading, and a trickle of blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth: "Damn it..."

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The heron looked at the sky, as if it had countless things to say but could not utter a sound.

Tianyan, shirtless, got up from the pile of rubble, the stinging pain in his back making him grit his teeth involuntarily.

Although he had sensed and reacted to Wu Lu's Yu Shou Luo Bullet earlier, the aftershock of the spatial impact still tore open his not-yet-fully-healed back wound, and the tear in his back was slowly bleeding.

He took out another bottle of ointment, scooped out a dollop, and applied it to the wound on his back. The moment the ointment touched his skin, a cool, stinging sensation spread along his spine. He groaned, moved his shoulders to confirm that the wound was healing at a normal pace, then put the ointment back into his storage ring and looked at the two green humanoid figures beside him.

Shi Liulong lay on the left, his entire body covered in a light green healing medicine. He was severely burned, and stabilizing his injuries had consumed a lot of Tianyan's reserves.

Tianyan walked to Shi Liulong's side, squatted down, and slapped him across the face. Feeling the sensation like hitting a tire, Tianyan marveled at how strong Shi Liulong's body was.

Shi Liulong's eyelids twitched, and then his eyes reopened slightly, still slowly adjusting their focus. But after his gaze lingered on Tian Yan's face for a moment, his signature flamboyant smile reappeared on his lips.

"Still alive?"

Shi Liulong's voice was hoarse, as if it had been sanded on sandpaper: "You can't do this. You're being too merciful to the enemy."

"If you're alive, don't waste your breath."

Tianyan sat down on the broken bricks next to him, turned to look at him: "You said before that you had a perfect score?"

Shi Liulong's smile froze, and he fell silent for a moment. Then he turned his head to look at Tian Yan, and grinned, "It's a pity, I only got seventy-seven points. I only focused on fighting, so I didn't accumulate many points."

Tianyan:?

Not a single word of truth comes out of your mouth?!

Tianyan gave him a disdainful look for a few seconds, then turned his gaze to the other side.