Li Jiancheng was obviously not the type of refined gentleman. A powerhouse's intuition told him that he had indeed been underestimating his opponent before.
This delicate-looking beauty actually possessed such formidable strength that even the arrogant Li Jiancheng felt a faint sense of crisis stirring within him.
That sense of danger made him dare not act rashly again, and the so-called agreement to "yield three moves" was thrown completely to the winds.
He reached out with both hands into the void, and a massive spear materialized in his grasp.
The spear was over three meters long. The moment it appeared in Li Jiancheng's hands, boundless killing intent surged forth as if it were a demonic weapon freshly drawn from the eighteen layers of hell.
The disciples of the Asura Grand Emperor's lineage cultivated the Asura Killing Path, and their most defining quality was a terrifying, all-consuming aura of killing intent.
During the earlier Glazed Pagoda Assembly, another of the Asura Grand Emperor's disciples, Gao Zhan, had fought a fierce battle against Jiang Chen. Gao Zhan had also been a genius who cultivated the Asura Killing Path.
Public opinion at the time had even suggested that Gao Zhan's talent in the Asura Killing Path surpassed Li Jiancheng's.
But now, with the three-meter spear in hand, Li Jiancheng looked like a demon god charging through the depths of hell itself, radiating a suffocating killing aura.
"Such terrifying killing intent!" The spectators below the stage were shocked by Li Jiancheng's awe-inspiring murderous aura. They had never seen Li Jiancheng like this before.
Even those City Lord-tier geniuses from the Glazed Royal City who had once fought Li Jiancheng were pale with shock at this moment.
They suddenly realized that in their previous challenges, Li Jiancheng had not been using his full strength at all.
Could this present Li Jiancheng be his strongest version?
Jiang Chen was also quite shocked to see Li Jiancheng reveal his true prowess.
However, when his gaze turned to Huang'er and saw her composed expression, his heart immediately calmed down.
Huang'er had made up her mind and held no more hesitation.
Li Jiancheng's various acts appeared almost transparent in her eyes.
The more indifferent Huang'er's reaction was, the more unfathomable she appeared in Li Jiancheng's eyes.
Even the Asura Grand Emperor felt a faint sense of worry upon seeing Huang'er's reaction on the arena stage. What exactly was going on with this girl?
On the arena stage, at such close range, Li Jiancheng's Asura killing aura was so overwhelming—could it truly have no effect on her whatsoever?
If that was the case, then this girl was far too terrifying!
Just as the crowd was filled with doubt, Huang'er's right hand gave a gentle pull, and a streak of jade-green light swept out from her sleeve.
As the jade-green glow shimmered, a whip appeared in Huang'er's right hand—slender as a bamboo strip, marked with distinct joints one after another.
The whip looked like nothing more than a long, elegant stalk of bamboo, only without a single leaf on any of its joints.
"What is that?" Seeing the whip in Huang'er's hand, the crowd was thoroughly baffled. It looked like nothing more than a handcrafted fishing rod.
Even Jiang Chen had never seen Huang'er wield a weapon before. Now, seeing a bamboo-like whip appear in her hand, he felt a flicker of curiosity as well.
Li Jiancheng let out a cold snort, slamming his long spear against the ground. The spear tip pointed toward Huang'er from afar. "Hmph, does Miss Huang'er perhaps intend to use that piece of bamboo against my Asura Divine Spear?"
"Against you, a piece of bamboo is more than enough." Huang'er's tone was utterly detached.
"How arrogant! Then take my spear!" Li Jiancheng was furious beyond measure. His feet slid across the ground, and he was already airborne.
The tip of his spear lunged forward, unleashing a tide of spear force comparable to a raging fire dragon, hurtling straight toward Huang'er.
On the surface, this thrust appeared unadorned, but its true strength lay in its overwhelming momentum.
Li Jiancheng's martial path had always been renowned for its domineering brutality. Against any opponent, he relied on these crushing, overbearing offensive techniques, hammering away until his foe broke and surrendered.
The spear swept through the void, stirring up a mass of crimson energy that churned ceaselessly around the spear tip, forming a terrifying devouring force that warped the space on all sides. The sealed domain expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it had engulfed the entire arena. The spear tip was already piercing toward Huang'er's face.
Huang'er stood rooted in place, utterly unmoved, as still as a meditating monk. Then, in a flash, her right hand gave her whip a gentle wave. Before her, a green ripple of energy coalesced into a vortex of force.
The vortex functioned like an invisible shield, intercepting the incoming Asura Divine Spear head-on. The powerful thrust plunged into nothingness, as though it had pierced into an empty void — hollow and vacant. Li Jiancheng felt as though every ounce of his strength had struck empty air.
"Hm?" Li Jiancheng was startled. How could this be? That single coiling motion from her had simultaneously deflected and neutralized his spear force entirely?
This truly set Li Jiancheng's heart pounding. He knew the woman before him would not be easy to deal with — but he had not expected her to be quite this formidable.
What Huang'er had done with that coiling, undulating motion was in fact an extraordinarily sophisticated spatial technique. She had scrambled the very space around the zone of Li Jiancheng's attack, causing his strike to lose its target and his offensive momentum to fall into disarray, rendering it entirely incapable of threatening her.
Put simply, Li Jiancheng had never encountered a fighting style like this before, and he was completely caught off guard.
If one were a master of spatial Divine Abilities, or even merely had some understanding of them, after missing the first spear strike, they would likely have been able to guess something was amiss.
However, in an arena duel, there was simply no time for Li Jiancheng to think that deeply.
The surprise in his heart had only just flashed by when Huang'er's long whip suddenly swayed once more. In that single oscillation, countless phantom images of the whip seemed to materialize out of thin air.