novelraw Chapter 400: Have You Had Enough Playing?
Chapter 400: Have You Had Enough Playing?
Su Zhan still stood with his hands behind his back, a faint silver gleam flashing through his eyes once more.
Future Vision, activate!
In his sight,
every attack route from the nine adversaries unfolded like patterns on the palm, crystal clear!
Su Zhan moved.
Amid the rainlike barrage of ice shards, the surging waves, the razor-bright metal light, the searing flames, the warped gravity fields, the eerie shadows…
Between the gaps of those assaults, he danced in a way that surpassed ordinary comprehension.
At times he drifted like willow catkins on the breeze, missing a sweeping tide by the tiniest margin.
At times he slipped like a fish, threading cleanly through intersecting nets of fire.
At times he seemed to know in advance, leaving the area before a gravity field even manifested.At times he used the tips of his feet to tap a rushing ice spear, borrowing its momentum to alter its course, causing two once-coordinated attacks to collide.
Su Zhan’s movements flowed like clouds and water, full of aesthetic beauty.
It felt less like a life-or-death fight and more like a carefully choreographed dance.
The nine prodigies became nothing more than his playmates.
“How can he possibly be this fast?”
“It’s like he knows how we’re going to attack!”
“Seal! Tighten the encirclement!”
Chu Zhou barked sharply, evolving a trapping formation with Myriad Forms.
Su Zhan always found that single thinnest weak link the instant before the formation completed, slipping out like an eel.
Shui Wuxin’s Vast Sea Power tried to entangle him, but Su Zhan felt like an ungraspable dragon.
Xue Wuhen’s extreme cold domain couldn’t even freeze the hem of his clothing.
The cracks cleaved by Jin Sha’s Gengjin Metal Body attacks always lagged behind, appearing a beat too late at Su Zhan’s rear.
The nine threw everything they had.
Their trump techniques.
Seamless teamwork in rotation.
They turned the entire arena into a chaotic elemental death zone.
Explosions never ceased.
Spiritual lights flickered, ice fragments scattered, waves towered!
Yet at the eye of that storm, Su Zhan remained untouched!
One minute passed, then three…
The nine prodigies were already panting, their spiritual energy heavily drained, faces paling.
Su Zhan, however, remained calm and collected; not even his long hair had been ruffled.
The audience had moved from shock to numbness, then to a near-worshipping frenzy.
The live chat was flooded with words like “monster,” “immortal,” and “dimensionality reduction strike.”
This was not a battle.
It was a perfect solo mockery of nine people!
With absolute speed and prediction, Su Zhan toyed with these nine representatives of Daxia’s youngest elite.
He rendered all their pride ridiculously pale and powerless.
The spectators erupted in wave after wave of cheers.
“My god, he’s dancing! He’s dancing on the blade’s tip!”
“Nine against one and they can’t even touch his hem?!”
“This isn’t a fight anymore, this is art—the art of combat!”
“All prediction! How the hell does he do it?”
Many stood up, waving their arms, faces flushed.
As if they themselves were the figure mocking the world in the arena.
The chat had gone completely insane, dense lines covering the stream:
“What the hell did I just see?”
“All nine big moves missed? This must be scripted!”
“Reporting, Su Zhan is cheating!”
“My mom asked why I’m kneeling to watch the stream!”
“Chu Zhou, don’t cry! Get up and swing! (Though you probably can’t)”
“So the clowns were the nine prodigies themselves!”
“Total domination! Absolute all-around domination!”
“I can’t even find words to describe my shock…”
…
At the judges’ platform,
the senior officials were ashen, unable to utter a word.
The more terrifying Su Zhan’s strength revealed itself to be, the more ridiculous their previous obstruction looked, like buffoonish antics.
The heads of the Five Great Academies had grown completely numb.
An Ocean Realm powerhouse facing early Abyss Realm opponents was a fight without suspense.
In the Vermilion Bird Academy area,
Feng Jue, Xu Hao, and Liu Ziming were completely frozen in place.
Xu Hao murmured, “I now believe that when Old Su fought us back then, he definitely used a whole ocean…”
Liu Ziming swallowed: “How… how do you fight this? It’s impossible!”
Feng Jue’s eyes were knife-sharp as he tried to capture every one of Su Zhan’s moves, only to despairingly find he could barely watch, let alone imitate or counter.
A deep sense of gap had been branded into him.
Wang Mingyuan’s eyes were full of shock too.
His student had found a Reforge Fruit, and moreover, had procured one for himself.
It was really… moving.
Mo Yuan stood with his hands behind his back in midair, watching appreciatively.
He was increasingly convinced that Su Zhan was Daxia’s future.
On the arena, the nine prodigies being toyed with were having their mental states collapse.
A despairing powerlessness rose in each of them.
Su Zhan, by himself,
without throwing a single offensive move, relying only on footwork and prediction, had shredded the pride of nine top prodigies into tatters.
“Have you had enough playing?”
Su Zhan’s flat voice rang clearly into the ears of the nine, who were gasping for breath. “If this is all the strength you possess…”
For the first time, his figure deliberately stopped.
He halted at the exact center of the nine-person encirclement.
His deep eyes swept over every face written with disbelief.
“Then you are not worthy of me using my full strength.”
Su Zhan simply stood there in the center of the ninefold storm, like the eye of a hurricane.
A completely different aura began to slowly awaken from within him.
It was no longer the deliberately maintained third tier of the Abyss Realm, nor the elusive air he’d used while toying with them. It was a kind of vastness… like the opening of an immense starry sea.
An invisible force field spread outward from him with a thunderous presence.
Those once-torrential nine assaults—
the evolved Myriad Forms, the surging Vast Sea Power, the freezing extreme cold domain, the razor Gengjin killing intent, the fiery blaze, gravity, shadows…
The moment this majestic aura appeared,
they trembled as if subjects before a sovereign, then…
crumbled inch by inch!
Annihilated!
Relentlessly dissolved to nothing!
The chaotic energies rampaging the arena were forcibly suppressed by this power.
“This… this is…?”
Chu Zhou’s face showed unprecedented horror.
He felt that terrifying pressure as if life itself were being crushed, his voice trembling.
Shui Wuxin lost composure.
Her Vast Sea Power trembled in the face of that pressure.
Like a brook meeting an endless ocean: “Sea… Ocean Realm? Impossible!”
Xue Wuhen’s surrounding cold was shattered by the vast aura.
He stared at Su Zhan to confirm he wasn’t hallucinating.
Jin Sha’s violent killing intent was doused like water poured on a blaze; he gaped, unable to form a single word.
The other prodigies and the two dark horses stood rigid, minds blank.
Only the shudder that rose from the depths of their souls told them, clearly, that this was real!