Chapter 74: Give the Flame a Drive!

Since Yan Wuchen nodded in agreement, Xu Zhengyang naturally would not be polite with him.

He immediately kept taking out various tools from the Jade Gourd and began setting up formations right in front of him!

……

Yan Wuchen still wore that calm and carefree expression on the surface.

But secretly.

He used the corner of his eyes to observe and took in all of Xu Zhengyang’s movements, trying to determine from them what kind of formation Xu Zhengyang was setting up.

However……

When Yan Wuchen saw Xu Zhengyang’s actions, his heart was filled with doubts, thinking to himself, 【Why are the formations this boy set up so strange?

Each one is……

A broken formation?】

For example, the Swift Wind Spirit-Binding Formation closest to him was originally a trapping formation used to restrict an opponent’s movement.

But Xu Zhengyang only set up one-third of it.

He left behind the basis of the formation, the 【Swift Wind】, but did not arrange the core part, the 【Spirit-Binding】.

Not only that.

The other formations Xu Zhengyang set up were all similar to this Swift Wind Spirit-Binding Formation, keeping only partial functions.

Yan Wuchen could not understand it no matter how hard he thought.

He really could not see through Xu Zhengyang’s intention, so he could only make a reasonable guess in his heart:

【Could it be that this boy is making a diversion, using these broken formations to distract my attention?】

But at that very moment.

Yan Wuchen immediately recalled not long ago, when he played against Xu Zhengyang.

That seemingly inexplicable move that turned out to be a crucial foreshadowing, which made him lose miserably—“Point Three-Three”!

The moment he thought of this.

Yan Wuchen’s heart tightened.

He silently committed to memory the functions and locations of all the formations Xu Zhengyang had set up……

A short while later.

When Xu Zhengyang had surrounded Yan Wuchen with a large mess of broken formations, he clapped his hands in satisfaction and put the remaining spiritual materials back into the Jade Gourd.

Then he asked Yan Wuchen, “I’m ready. What about you? Can we start now?”

While Xu Zhengyang was setting up formations, Yan Wuchen had also figured things out.

So what if there were mysteries hidden within broken formations?

A duel was different from a game of Go.

No matter how much you scheme, I can break through with sheer force!

Thinking this.

Yan Wuchen smiled faintly at his words and replied with confidence, “Then please enlighten me!”

“You’d better be careful then!”

Xu Zhengyang said, and suddenly pressed both palms onto the arena.

The spiritual energy inside his body surged like a flood breaking through a dam, rushing completely into the formations he had just set up!

In an instant.

As some formation patterns lit up with an earthy yellow light, dust rose violently from the arena.

Yellow sand filled the air, completely shrouding the entire arena!

“Hahahaha!”

When Yan Wuchen was enveloped by Xu Zhengyang’s Blinding Sand Formation, not only was he not anxious, he instead laughed heartily.

“Brother Xu just set up formations openly right in front of me, without any concealment at all……

Don’t you think you’re underestimating me a bit too much?”

The moment his voice fell.

Yan Wuchen’s hands formed a shield of Mixed Origin.

His spiritual energy carried a wisp of illusory yet real fate, condensing in his palms into a small cyan whirlwind.

This was clearly just an ordinary Tier 1 technique—Whirlwind Technique.

But with that trace of fate augmenting it, its power increased tenfold!

It could actually contend equally against Xu Zhengyang’s Blinding Sand Formation, directly blowing away the yellow sand in the middle of the arena and creating a vacuum!

Seeing this, Yan Wuchen smiled and shook his head.

“A mere Tier 1 formation, I still don’t put it in my eyes.”

As he spoke.

Yan Wuchen was preparing to unleash full strength to scatter all the sand, find Xu Zhengyang’s position, and end the duel in one strike!

But at that moment.

Yan Wuchen suddenly noticed that within his Whirlwind Technique, some porcelain bottles of various sizes had been mixed in.

His heart instantly sounded an alarm!

Though he did not know what those porcelain bottles contained, he knew he could not allow Xu Zhengyang’s plan to succeed!

Thinking this.

Yan Wuchen was just about to cast a spell to fling those bottles away, but at that very instant, they all exploded simultaneously!

In an instant.

Clusters of yellow-white flames appeared within the whirlwind!

Xu Zhengyang had already added oxidizers into the White Phosphorus Bombs.

Now that those bombs were within the whirlwind, the flames burned even more fiercely!

Fire borrowed the momentum of the wind!

In just a blink.

The yellow-white flames connected into a whole, forming a heaven-piercing fire tornado that enveloped Yan Wuchen!

【Not good!】

Yan Wuchen’s heart jolted, secretly thinking, 【He predicted I would use the Whirlwind Technique to break his Blinding Sand Formation.

So he had prepared these flames in advance?】

As he thought this.

His hands quickly formed seals, stopping the Whirlwind Technique.

At the same time, water columns rose out of nowhere, surging toward the flames in an attempt to extinguish them!

“Wind, come!”

Xu Zhengyang shouted loudly.

His spiritual energy instantly rushed into the broken Swift Wind Spirit-Binding Formation he had set earlier, summoning wind to further fan the flames!

Immediately after.

Xu Zhengyang also activated the Nine-Turn Mysterious Flame Art, condensing the scattered flames into one!

In an instant.

A yellow-white fire dragon with scales and claws appeared above the arena!

The fire dragon was lifelike, its vertical pupils flickering as it looked coldly down upon Yan Wuchen in the arena!

In comparison.

The water columns Yan Wuchen had just summoned seemed laughably childish under the gaze of this fire dragon!

“Arrogant Dragon Has Regret!!”

The moment the fire dragon formed, Xu Zhengyang shouted loudly.

The fire dragon immediately carried overwhelming force and pounced straight at Yan Wuchen in the arena!

Yan Wuchen’s pupils shrank.

The calm expression on his face disappeared instantly!

Faced with such an attack, even Yan Wuchen dared not be careless!

He hurriedly waved his hand to drive the water columns to block, while at the same time quickly pulling out a blue veil from his Storage Pouch and throwing it upward!

Under normal circumstances.

The temperature of White Phosphorus Bombs was generally between 800~1200 degrees Celsius.

But when in full contact with oxygen, their temperature could even reach 1500 degrees Celsius!

So in just a few breaths.

The water columns Yan Wuchen had summoned were completely vaporized by the fire dragon and dissipated entirely!

Fortunately, those water columns had bought Yan Wuchen a few breaths of time.

The blue veil he had just offered up stretched and grew in the wind.

In the blink of an eye.

A water sphere with a diameter of a hundred zhang suddenly appeared, instantly engulfing Xu Zhengyang’s fire dragon within!

Seeing this, Yan Wuchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Pointing at the water sphere in the sky, he smiled at Xu Zhengyang on the arena.

“My Flowing Cloud Water Veil was refined from heavy water, it has no fixed shape and changes endlessly!

Though your fire dragon is strong.

Once swallowed by my Flowing Cloud Water Veil, within just a few breaths, it will turn into nothing but smoke!”

At this moment.

Yan Wuchen’s spiritual energy surged, and the faint smile once again returned to his face.

He said to Xu Zhengyang, “If Junior Brother Xu has no other means……

Why don’t we end the battle here, so you won’t suffer unnecessary pain?”

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh……”

Before Yan Wuchen’s words finished, dozens of Ice Spikes shot at him at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow!

“Petty tricks.”

Yan Wuchen shook his head when he saw this.

He waved his hand, and in an instant, a net of wind blades formed, completely shattering those Ice Spikes!

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