BATTLE OF THE FIVE GODS.

But this oncoming attack could be too much for her to withstand as well but she needed to do her best, at that moment she unleashed her first soul ring again but this time she also unleashed her second soul ability, Xuanwu Quake and Xuanwu formation worked in tandem to increase her defensive capability, you need to know that she was still in Xuanwu amplification so her abilities would also be buffed up by 50 percent, at that time she knew this wouldn't be enough so her fifth soul ring lit up at that moment, it was her strongest ability of yet and it carried with it an adequate amount of attacking capability, it was called Cascading waves domain, when triggered the surrounding area turned into dark water, this domain extended to cover the entire competition platform and within the waved with her as the center rings of dark water waves as high as two meters were generated and they also carried with them the waking ability of her first soul ring, 

The waves moved and carried a great erosion power, Jiang Chen was also covered by the dark water domain and although the holy flames were purifying the dark water it also weakened him and impacted his spirit, the waves landed on the sword line and although they were purified they also weakened the attacking power of the line albeit slightly, the line just kept attacking, then a second wave was generated just as the first one was vanishing hence the name of cascading waves, but by this time the size of the platform became a problem as the second wave didn't have enough time to generate enough height, or power so it was easily purified and before a third could form the line had arrived on the shields, 

The outer dome delayed the line for all but a second before it was shattered, the revolving shields delayed and weakened the line slightly but all that came into contact with it were melted and eventually the whole formation shattered, although the line was weakened but when it arrived at Longyue she still sensed danger, at that time her shield on the left hand came into play, when designing it it was engraved with some core circuits that gave it an ability called Xuanwu shield, it draws on her Xuanwu bloodline to generate energy shields before it. At this time it generated five energy shields before it covering her body from head to toe but when the line came into contact with the shields they shattered one after the other, 

Although the shields also weakened it slightly they still didn't stop it and it finally landed onto the shield on her hand, as it landed this time the line finally exploded releasing massive power that blew Longyue to the protective shields at the end of the platform, as she slid to the ground blood appeared at the sides of her mouth and nose, even after the line had been weakened by several of her moves it still injured her body, don't forget that she now has battle armor and her third soul ring amplification, as she regained her bearings suddenly there was a sword on her throat, Jiang Chen had already appeared, with reluctance she announced her yield. 

She felt bad that she hadn't even forced him to use his fifth soul ring ability, apart from closed fights with Ming Yan, no one else had ever seen him utilize this fifth soul ring ability and even after going all out she still couldn't force him to use it, at the same time she also knew this was the effect of his heavenly artifact, if the final attach had been unleashed by a regular sword it never would have been that dangerous but the heavenly artifact made the sacred fire line all the more dangerous making it above her endurance,

At that time Jiang Chen retrieved his sword as it vanished back into the sigil and he have her a hand carrying her back on her feet, he had defeated her but he knew it wasn't so easy, if it weren't for the divine artifact perhaps she would have forced him to use his fifth ring ability or perhaps his battle armor this was a great improvement from her usual performances meaning she was getting stronger and he was pleased with it. After getting her back to her feet he nodded to her and walked away, the cheers were numerous at this time, and she too walked off,

As Jiang Chen came down to the rest area he stood beside Ming Yan and said "you're next," to this Ming Yan simply smiled, he couldn't deny that Jiang Chen had displayed overwhelming strength on the competition platform before,he realized that although he had become stronger he wasn't certain he could successfully defend against that sacred fire line, that was also a self generated ability of his that relied on his fourth soul ring ability of heavenly fire.

But he was still certain he could surpass Longyue's achievements, at least he was. certain he could force Jiang Chen to use all his abilities, as for whether he could defeat him, that was still to be observed, there were twenty students in the finalist class meaning there were ten matches a day, it also meant everyone needed to fight 19 matches in 19 days, With Ming Yan's return the draw of the previous day was canceled and their match was rescheduled for the end of the competition meaning they were one match behind everyone and at present Ming Yan was among the bottom 10, these were people that haven't won a single game since the competition started, today his match was the tenth meaning it was the final match of the day,

He had to watch the others fight first, before he could participate, the matches for this competition lasted a long time because the strength between the team members wasn't so far apart so it took some time for someone to lose, Jiang Chen and Xue Longyue's match was the shortest and even that took almost ten minutes, if it was anyone else the time would have been much shorter, this was because although Longyue wasn't comparable to Jiang Chen in strength, she also wasn't so far off, in the whole class and the whole academy she was ranked third in strength and had the nickname king of defence, normally not many people could get through her defence, Jiang Chen was nicknamed the Sacred king while Ming Yan was called the King of thunder, 

The top five strongest members of the academy all had makeshift titles and among them Ming Yan had the weakest cultivation even after reaching the fourth ring, the competition lasted for a while and about five hours later it was time for the final match, Thunder king Ming Yan was facing off against Unicorn king Long Ya, like his title suggests Long Ya's martial soul was the Starlight unicorn, he was the fifth strongest in the academy and also the fifth soul king at twelve years old, although his strength was just at rank 51, it was still powerful and most importantly he was also a one word battle armor master, facing him, Ming Yan didn't need to waste any more time, he needed to defeat him quickly and go focus on the creation of his battle armor, he needed to generate more pieces before the final two fights, 

After observing his schedule he realized that what would have been his final contestant is Xue Longyue and now she is his second last and his final contestant will be Jiang Chen, to face those two people although he was certain of defeating Longyue he didn't want to show all his hole cards so soon so he needed more strength to defeat her faster so he could prepare for the final match, at this time they were already on the stage and the instructor was counting down, he prepared himself for the fight the moment it was time to start Long Ya unleashed his martial soul instantly, a light and shadow condensed behind him and took the appearance of a beautiful show white winged horse with a spiral golden horn, then the light and shadow fused into him and the golden horn grew on his forehead along with the white wings appearing on his back, 

At the same time his battle armor lit up but before he could fuse with it suddenly a massive shock impacted his spiritual sea making it tremble violently and even develop many cracks, in that momentary frozen state he instantly felt a great danger to his life and he believed he would be dead, by the time he regained his bearings he was on the edges of the competition platform and he had already lost the match, he didn't even know how he lost it he simply lost the match, meanwhile on Ming Yan's side, the moment the match started he instantly jumped into the air for several meters, during his rise the skies rumbled and turned dark purple the air got electric and in that instant the bracelet on his right wrist glowed as a beautiful white spear with bright purple spearheads on both sides appeared in his hands, 

The moment it appeared suddenly a massive spear intent was released, his spear intent appeared in the form of purple lightning which surrounded him, at that very moment he realized that Long Ya wanted to wear his battle armor, and although he would still win it would take significantly longer than he was planning, fortunately he had just broken through to the spirit abyss realm of spirit power so he triggered his purple demon eyes and released a spirit shock, purple light tinged with lightning shot from his eyes landing on Long Ya's head stunning him instantly and making blood seep from the sides of his eyes, and from his nose. The next moment the spear intent gathered together at the tip of his spear and he unleashed it into a beam of concentrated purple lightning straight at him,

This was one of his self generated spear skills called the path of kings, he didn't know where this skill came from it just appeared one day in his mind when he was trying to comprehend his spear intent and when he mastered this ability, his spirit intent was also born, like its name suggests it was the path of kings, the king's path was unstoppable and so was this ability, all defences would be broken by this attack as long as they weren't three times stronger than Ming Yan's full explosive output, to someone who had been prevented from wearing his battle armor, this king's path was a killing blow, 

After unleashing it, the attack travelled at lightning speed making it almost impossible to evade, the instructor reacted a little too late and he realized he would be able to arrive on time, suddenly there was a clap of thunder and someone magically materialized before Long Ya carrying him to the side of the competition platform, the attack landed on the protective shield tinting it with a purple hue but luckily the shield held and dissolved the attack, one must know that this shield was set to withstand the attack of a titled douluo, although Ming Yan was strong, he still wasn't there yet, when all the light died down the instructor was on the center of the competition platform alone, meanwhile Ming Yan was already beside Long Ya at the edge of the competition platform, 

The blur that had saved Long Ya was Ming Yan himself, he finally had the ability to run almost as fast as his abilities but the true reason he was able to arrive on time was that he hadn't released the king's path to its true strength, if it had been at it's true strength, e evn at his new speed he wouldn't have been able to stop it, however even if this attack was at half its strength it was still enough to permanently injure Long Ya if not kill him. That wasn't the goal of this competition at all, so he mainly displayed that attack ability to discourage those that thought they stood any chance against him,