Soul Land IV (Douluo Dalu) : Ultimate Fighting-Novel

Chapter 461 – Controlling The Battlefield

In a flash, he actually bent his body to the side and avoided the ice mist. So, he only felt that the air had suddenly become much colder. But his body didn’t stop at all and in a flash, he appeared at Dong Qianqiu’s side.

Dong Qianqiu struck out with her left hand, and another cloud of ice mist gushed out. Yuan Rui didn’t take the risk to take it head on and instead circled around once again, drawing a purple electrical arc in the air. In the next moment, he arrived at Lan Mengqin’s side.

This time, he didn’t wait any longer. The second soul ring on his body flickered and a purple light burst forth from his chest. Thousands of lightning bolts surged out from that purple light and struck Dong Qianqiu and Lan Mengqin at the same time.

He moved extremely quickly and burst forth in an instant. His speed and elemental explosion reached its peak.

But what welcomed him was...

An ice shelter.

An ice shelter suddenly appeared without any warning and completely enveloped Lan Mengqin and Dong Qianqiu. Bolts of lightning landed on the ice shelter and immediately formed a large electrical net outside, but they were unable to penetrate it.

Pure water could not conduct electricity, what could be purer than water elements? This ice shelter was formed from water elements.

Yuan Rui was stunned for a moment, but his hands didn’t slow down. The purple ball of light in his chest shot out and flew towards the ice shelter.

Thunder had explosive power and was one of the most explosive elements. If he couldn’t electrocute the other party, he would explode their defense.

But right at this moment, the ice shelter exploded.

Amidst the violent explosion, snow and ice flew everywhere, bringing with it an extremely cold temperature. It exploded into ice flowers that filled the sky and dispersed the surrounding lightning. When the purple ball of lightning flew in, it exploded under Yuan Rui’s control. But when the explosion resounded, it lost its target.

The ice and snow flew everywhere and didn’t stop. Instead, it expanded rapidly in an instant and turned into a snowstorm that went straight for Yuan Rui.

Yuan Rui furrowed his brows and quickly retreated. With his speed, the ice and snow storm naturally wouldn’t be able to catch up. At the same time, he adjusted his body and prepared to look for the next opportunity to attack.

However, he quickly realized that he was in trouble because not only did the ice and snow storm not have any intention of extinguishing, it instead continued to expand. The area it covered was also getting bigger. The air started to cool down as the snowstorm came, and it even covered the entire competition grounds.

The venue was huge, but from the way the snowstorm was spreading, it seemed like it was about to engulf the entire place. The temperature kept dropping, and the extremely dense water element kept lowering the ambient temperature in the air.

Yuan Rui stared at this scene with his mouth agape. How was this possible? They should all be four-ring soul masters, right? But why was their soul power so strong when two four-ring soul masters worked together?

One had to know that this was a huge arena with a diameter of 1,000 meters. It was a mecha training ground. Even six-ring Soul Emperors might not be able to cover such a field. Although the ice and snow felt weak, he was unable to lock onto them. If he couldn’t lock onto them, how could he attack? Once he entered the ice and snow to fight, would he fall into the opponent’s trap?

Lan Xuanyu had done a detailed analysis before the battle because he judged that Yuan Rui, who had the Berserk Lightning Leopard Martial Soul, was the most likely to participate among the second years. Hence, he was very thorough in elaborating their tactics against him.

Yuan Rui’s strongest point was his speed and explosive power. His Berserk Lightning was different from Bingliang Tian’s Lightning God Puppet. The faster he was, the stronger his electricity would be through the friction between his body and the air. If he really charged forward and swept across the battlefield, it would be difficult to restrain him. It was almost impossible to even lock onto him.

Hence, to deal with such an elite, the most important thing was area of control abilities and not give him a chance to charge forward. By weakening his speed, it would have the greatest impact on him. Also, as the conductivity of his electricity, be it the ice or water elements, they were pure and pure water elements did not conduct electricity. Therefore, in this snow and ice filled sky, Yuan Rui’s electricity could only produce damage within the range of its explosion but could not be conducted.

More importantly, he couldn’t even find the two girls in this world of ice and snow. How could he attack them?

After consuming the Ice God Twin Lotuses together, Dong Qianqiu and Lan Mengqin’s ice elements had evolved, especially when the two were working together. They had an ability that was close to a Martial Soul Fusion skill and complemented each other. With their current cultivation alone, it was obviously impossible for them to cover such a large battlefield in ice and snow in an instant. However, if they were given enough time, Dong Qianqiu’s Ice Tide soul skill and Lan Mengqin’s Snowstorm would be able to continue spreading.

This was because a blizzard would cause the temperature of the battlefield to drop. The lower the temperature, the easier it was to produce a blizzard.

This was a match that the first years couldn’t afford to lose, so from the start, Lan Xuanyu’s plan for this battle was to win in the safest way possible.

He was not in a rush for this battle, nor did he use any odd tactics. How much of a difference could there be between first and second years? Both parties were soul masters with four soul rings, so the difference in soul power by a few ranks was not big. Furthermore, Lan Mengqin had twin Martial Souls. Other than not having a One-Word Battle Armor, she and Dong Qianqiu were truly stronger than the other party.

Hence, the first step was to set up the battlefield and turn the entire battlefield into their home ground. Then, they would slowly deal with Yuan Rui.

Faced with this blizzard, Yuan Rui felt like he was looking at a porcupine and didn’t know where to start. He also knew that the other party were four-ring soul masters and that there wasn’t a huge gap between them. He had also watched the video of Lan Xuanyu’s seven vs seven battle against the third years.

But his problem was that in his opinion, the ones that should have fought in this battle were Yuanen Huihui and Lan Xuanyu’s duo. Lan Xuanyu would buff Yuanen Huihui, so he had planned his strategy accordingly.

But who would have thought that his opponents this time were actually these two Ice Goddesses. Their fighting style was completely different from what he had imagined.

The temperature was dropping and he was starting to feel cold. The cold would undoubtedly affect his speed.

‘What should I do?’ Yuan Rui hesitated.

This was a real battlefield, not a simulation pod. The pain would be 100% felt, different from a simulation pod. This also caused him to hesitate. If he was injured or severely injured, he would not heal immediately after the competition, and really be injured. He still wanted to challenge the third years.

His emotions were in turmoil and his actions naturally became hesitant.

The second years’ main teacher, Zhang Yujun, got anxious when he saw this! When he saw the blizzard, he knew that something was wrong. At this moment, Yuan Rui’s best choice should have been to rush into the blizzard at the first possible moment, unleash his Battle Armor, and use his strongest attack to fight. Who knows, he might be able to defeat the enemy.

But as time went on, that blizzard became stronger, and it even seemed like it was about to cover the entire battlefield. In this battle, Yuan Rui was already at an absolute disadvantage because if he charged in again, even if he unleashed his full strength, where would he go? The bigger the blizzard, the harder it was to find those two people!

Zhang Yujun looked at the calm Xiao Qi. “Who came up with this treacherous move ? You?”

Xiao Qi glanced at him and said indifferently, “What do you mean by treacherous move? This is a brilliant move. Even if you knew, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Actually, there wasn’t a need to go through so much trouble. You guys wouldn’t have a chance even in a head-on confrontation.”

“Are you going to die if you don’t brag?” Zhang Yujun retorted.

“Facts speak louder than words,” Xiao Qi said. “The second years are just our first step. It’s just the beginning.”

While they were talking, Yuan Rui finally couldn’t take it anymore. He also realized the problem. If he really waited for the blizzard to cover the entire place and envelop him, he might not have a chance anymore.