Chapter 80: Head-on Clash! [2-in-1]
“La!”
Qian Dai had long been impatient, constantly waving her Flower Sword in Ge Bai’s arms. Upon hearing the command to act, she immediately used Spatial Teleportation and appeared high in the sky, occupying a favorable position.
The Ice Armor covering its entire body was already cracked. The entire Ice Armor Warrior looked battered and broken. Even a careful comparison showed that this charge was much slower than before.
But the Ice Armor Warrior in motion still carried its own momentum.
Big Willow stared intently at the Ice Armor Warrior, not firing a single Wind Blade, silently gathering strength to prepare its strongest Storm Willow Blade Hammer.
10 meters, 8 meters, 5 meters, 3 meters.
Li Ya Xin frowned. This charge was too smooth.
She suddenly saw that Thousand Generations Spring Sword Orchid in Ge Bai’s arms had disappeared, and she understood.
“Ice Armor, watch the surroundings.”
At this moment, the Ice Armor Warrior had already rushed into attack position, body steady and lowered, eyes slightly closed, Spiritual Power circulating.
He wasn’t planning any fancy moves either, preparing to unleash his strongest slash with the Ice Blade Knife.
At this point, Qian Dai was still looking for the right moment and hadn’t teleported Big Willow away. Big Willow was still standing in place, gathering strength.
According to Ge Bai’s original plan, winning this match wouldn’t be difficult.
As long as Qian Dai seized the opportunity to spatially teleport Big Willow to the Ice Armor Warrior’s attack blind spot, one Storm Willow Blade Hammer would end it.
Seeing the Ice Armor Warrior also stand steady and gather strength, Ge Bai’s heart sank. It was over.
Sure enough, Big Willow’s voice came, flat and steady, without any particular tone.
“Bai Bai, Qian Dai.”
Although Big Willow only called their names, everyone understood his meaning.
He didn’t want Qian Dai to help with Spatial Teleportation; he wanted to take this final strike himself.
Using his own strongest close-combat strike to meet this opponent’s final strike after fighting the whole match.
Qian Dai was a bit anxious but didn’t speak, facing Ge Bai and waiting to see what Ge Bai would do.
Little Orchid couldn’t quite understand why Big Willow suddenly changed his mind in a situation where they could win easily.
Ge Bai understood.
Through repeated direct clashes, the Ice Armor Warrior had earned Big Willow’s respect. He genuinely liked this opponent from the bottom of his heart.
So for this final strike, Big Willow wanted to meet it head-on, to win straightforwardly or lose straightforwardly.
She didn’t care about winning or losing; it was just an Arena Competition audition. She was just worried Big Willow would be seriously injured.
Since Big Willow insisted so strongly, what else could she do but go along with it?
That Hegemon Level Peach Blossom Jellyfish’s Healing Spell should be pretty powerful too.
“Okay.” Ge Bai sent a mental message to Big Willow and Qian Dai.
Qian Dai pouted but didn’t return to Ge Bai’s side, just floating in mid-air, overlooking the entire venue.
She wasn’t at ease. If Big Willow ended up taking a big hit at the end, she definitely wouldn’t just watch.
Hearing Ge Bai agree, Big Willow felt settled in his heart and focused entirely on the Ice Armor Warrior, who was also gathering strength.
At this moment, the entire venue seemed to fall silent.
The Ice Armor Warrior suddenly opened its eyes, ice attribute Spiritual Power flowing along the blade, making the entire Ice Blade Knife look like it had just been pulled from a millennia-old cold pool.
Its hands lightly twisted on the tightly gripped Ice Blade Knife, and the Ice Armor Warrior exerted force from its whole body, swinging the Ice Blade Knife in a full circle.
On Big Willow’s side, the momentum was no less. Several clusters of Willow Threads from branches to tips were all wrapped in Spiritual Power glow, gathering together, with wind momentum that seemed to tear everything apart.
Boom.
Ice Blade Knife collided with Storm Willow Blade Hammer.
Frost condensed on the Willow Threads starting from the tips, and cracks appeared on the Ice Blade Knife from the storm.
In the standoff, neither retreated a single step.
The Ice Armor Warrior took a step back with its right leg and added more force to its arm.
Big Willow’s roots Entangled, standing even steadier.
The Ice Blade Knife trembled, and the Willow Blade Hammer condensed from Willow Threads was also covered in ice crystals.
Big Willow felt he was almost at his limit, while the Ice Blade Knife was still adding force.
This couldn’t go on. He mobilized every last bit of Spiritual Power in his body into the Willow Blade Hammer.
Spiritual Sense mobilized, actively dispersing the woven and condensed Willow Threads of the Willow Blade Hammer.
The Storm Willow Blade Hammer that had been clashing with the Ice Blade Knife exploded instantly, every Willow Thread tough and resilient.
The Ice Armor Warrior took the full force of this strike right in the face.
Crack.
The Ice Blade Knife, unable to hold on any longer, shattered completely.
The Ice Armor Warrior was once again blasted away by the exploding Willow Threads.
In the audience seats, which had been quietly silent with bated breath watching this final strike on the field.
Seeing the Ice Armor Warrior blasted away again, cheers erupted simultaneously from all over the venue.
“No way! It can even go head-to-head like that?”
“As long as the Ice Armor Warrior isn’t countered by flying or long-range Pet Beasts, even in the Transcendence Realm, it’s a contender that can battle across levels.”
“Does Storm Willow Blade Hammer have a second form?”
“This Weeping Ancient Willow has Wind Blade and Wind Weave Domain for long-range, Willow Whip and Storm Willow Blade Hammer for close-range—totally an attack Turret!”
……
Xiao La Jiao stood straight up from her seat, leaning over the chairs of the row in front, stretching forward to see more clearly.
Storm Willow Blade Hammer—she had seen it before but didn’t remember it having this final explosive second-phase damage!
Getting point-blank exploded like that—who could withstand it? It was almost like getting hit by dozens of full-power Willow Whips at close range.
Even her King Kong wouldn’t get any advantage against it, let alone the First Order Transcendence Realm Ice Armor Warrior.
“Cousin, this Weeping Ancient Willow is so terrifying. I can’t beat her.”
Fang Miaowen, who had clearly seen this strike, was still clutching Big White Bear’s Bear Paw, huddled in her seat, speaking timidly.
Xiao La Jiao rolled her eyes and glanced back at her cousin.
“You know you can’t beat it, so why aren’t you hurrying off for extra training?!”
Fang Miaowen swore she saw burning battle lust in her cousin’s eyes and quickly shrank her neck.
This Spirit Planter named Ge Bai—she couldn’t beat her, and her cousin definitely couldn’t either.
She prayed in her heart that her battle-lust-ignited cousin wouldn’t drag her back to be a punching bag.
Her little eyes were already spinning, preparing to find a chance to slip away first.
——
On the venue.
The blasted-away Ice Armor Warrior lay motionless on the ground after landing.
“Ice Armor!”
Li Ya Xin couldn’t care less and rushed straight to the Ice Armor Warrior’s side.
Seeing its eyes tightly closed, the chest armor cracked almost to nothing, with many fissures deep enough to expose bone, and blood from the wounds that couldn’t be stopped.
Not just external injuries—the Ice Armor Warrior had ice-blue blood at the corner of its mouth, clearly with serious internal injuries too.
This broke Li Ya Xin’s heart. She prepared to call for a Healer, but she still wasn’t willing to concede defeat. She suddenly looked up fiercely at Big Willow.
She didn’t believe Big Willow was feeling great either—maybe it was a draw.
On Big Willow’s side, its condition was indeed very poor too.
The originally lush Willow Threads, after an intense battle, were broken all over the ground, with basically none intact. The wounds on the branches were also oozing dark green liquid.
The main trunk, though not directly slashed, had large patches of frost condensed on it.
The whole tree looked wretched and ashen, roots unsteady, teetering on the verge of collapse.
Ge Bai stared at Li Ya Xin, steadily walking to Big Willow’s side, one hand supporting Big Willow’s main trunk to help it stand.
“Well done, Big Willow.”
She softly encouraged Big Willow, but her gaze didn’t leave Li Ya Xin.
A draw? In her dreams.
Never mind that Qian Dai hadn’t even acted.
Even just looking at the Ice Armor Warrior lying down and Big Willow standing, there was no way she’d accept a draw.
The Referee had also entered the venue, silent, seemingly waiting for one side to speak.
Qian Dai teleported over, blocking in front of Big Willow.
Li Ya Xin bit her lip, right hand clenched into a fist, unwilling—completely unwilling no matter how she looked at it.
“Cough cough.”
The Ice Armor Warrior lying on the ground suddenly coughed lightly and spat out another mouthful of blood.
“We concede! Healer!”
Seeing her Pet Beast truly couldn’t hold on, Li Ya Xin panicked and shouted concession.
No need for active judgment—the Referee saved a lot of trouble and directly waved to call Healers onto the field.
Lika clicked in on her little high heels, rushing into the venue with several Healers, her steps very steady.
The Peach Blossom Jellyfish floated beside her. As soon as they entered, without even turning, it drifted straight toward Big Willow.
It seemed Big Willow and Hua Jiao had gotten along pretty well just now.
As expected of a Hegemon Level healing Pet Beast. In the deep pink glow, Big Willow’s broken Willow Threads rapidly grew and recovered, and the frostbite on the trunk receded at a visible speed.
When the deep pink glow treatment was halfway done, Hua Jiao thoughtfully added a light pink glow. The first glow treated injuries, this one restored Spiritual Power.
The bare willow tree on the field regained vitality.
The effect was really good.
Ge Bai watched enviously. When would Little Peach’s Fruit have such an effect?
On the other side, three or four Pet Beasts were casting Healing Spells around the Ice Armor Warrior.
But whether due to the severity of injuries or the Healing Spells.
The Ice Armor Warrior’s recovery effect looked far worse than Big Willow’s.
Over there, the Ice Armor Warrior was still lying on the ground with eyes closed, while Big Willow had already shapeshifted back to mini form and was bouncing toward Ge Bai.
“Niao.”
After finishing treating Big Willow, the Peach Blossom Jellyfish retracted the healing glow. It had been happily drifting toward Big Willow, ready to play with the Willow Threads a bit more, when it saw Big Willow heading to Ge Bai.
It looked somewhat dejectedly toward Ge Bai and Big Willow.
Lika first glanced at the Ice Armor Warrior’s side, assessed that she didn’t need to help over there, and walked to Hua Jiao’s side.
She pinched the jellyfish’s head, held one of its tentacles, and walked lightly toward Ge Bai. The two returned to the Waiting Area together.
Big Willow had no time to pay attention to Hua Jiao right now and was excitedly nagging around Ge Bai.
“Bai Bai! Wasn’t I super awesome!”
“Did you see my Willow Whip? Was it airtight when I swung it!”
“And, and Storm Willow Blade Hammer! Wasn’t that final exploding Willow Blade Hammer super cool?”
For the first couple of nagging sentences from Big Willow, Ge Bai didn’t dampen his excitement and smiled along.
After all, Big Willow had truly performed well in this match.
But when it came to the Storm Willow Blade Hammer exploding, Ge Bai couldn’t smile anymore.
“Big Willow, let me tell you, this move hurts the enemy a thousand and damages yourself eight hundred.”
She instantly pulled a stern face, yanked the mini-form Big Willow who had been nagging at her ear from her shoulder, held it in front of her at eye level with both hands.
Gravely telling him, “No using it without permission in the future!”
“Ah?!” Big Willow immediately prepared to whine upon hearing that.
Such a powerful move—how could she not let him use it? It was just a little injury; he, Big Willow, could take it!
On this matter, Ge Bai’s attitude was exceptionally firm.
“You forget the pain once the wound heals! What a mess you were in right after the fight—it’s only been a few minutes, and you’ve forgotten? Are you a goldfish? 7-second memory?”
Ge Bai held Big Willow, speaking as she walked, voice not low, not avoiding anyone.
A Curly Haired Boy nearby happened to hear Ge Bai scolding Big Willow and couldn’t help but look over, staring at them with a constipated expression.
Ge Bai glanced at the boy, found it odd, but thought correcting Big Willow’s mindset was the priority, so she didn’t pay much attention and kept walking forward.
The Curly Haired Boy saw Ge Bai ignore him and didn’t say anything more.
Silently pulling a little red goldfish from his pocket and soothingly petting it.
The little goldfish puffed up angrily, blowing bubbles. Don’t think just because she was in the Beast Tamer’s pocket she didn’t hear clearly!
Someone else was badmouthing goldfish intelligence!
She wasn’t just 7-second memory, okay!
She was smart!
“Li Zai, don’t be mad. She’s ignorant; we won’t stoop to her level.”
“Lu lu, lu.”
The little goldfish raised its head, glaring in the direction Ge Bai left, bubbling to signal its Beast Tamer to follow. She hadn’t seen Ge Bai’s face clearly and had to remember it well—to beat her Pet Beast soundly on the arena next time.
“Okay, okay, it’s our turn to go on.”
The Curly Haired Boy didn’t want trouble and tried his best to soothe his petty little goldfish.
His Li Zai not only didn’t have 7-second memory but could hold grudges too.
Ge Bai had no idea that her offhand remark had earned her a grudge from a little goldfish.
She really said it casually. If she knew the little goldfish was upset, she would sincerely apologize to it.
Right now, Ge Bai was still earnestly educating Big Willow—her own bratty kid was no less trouble.
“This is an Arena Competition! With Hua Jiao on-site casting Healing Spell on you, that’s why you can be bouncing around right after the fight.”
“What if there was no Hua Jiao?”
“Liu Gu!”
Big Willow muttered softly. Wasn’t there still Little Peach? He remembered clearly—Tao Yao Niang’s Fruit could heal, so Little Peach should be able to too.
“Little Peach? Spirit Recovery Peach? Can heal? If I call Little Peach out now, ask her if she has healing Skills!”
Seeing Big Willow still wanting to argue, Ge Bai got annoyed. This brat really loved this violent output style that much.
But she didn’t actually summon Little Peach from the Spiritual Consciousness Space.
Not afraid of anything else, but afraid that if Big Willow asked and Little Peach tilted her head saying yes, then plop—produced a Golden Powder Peach.
First, the Waiting Area had too many people, eyes everywhere; if the Golden Powder Peach had some special fragrance or phenomenon, it would be hard to explain. Second, if Little Peach did that, Big Willow would get even more excited.
After yelling that, Ge Bai had to backtrack her own words.
“Even if Little Peach develops healing Skills later, what Spiritual Power Level is Little Peach? Mortal Spirit Realm! Hua Jiao is already Hegemon Realm!”
“Here’s the deal: when Little Peach reaches Hua Jiao’s healing level, I’ll agree to you using the explosive phase of Storm Willow Blade Hammer in daily practice.”
Lika and Hua Jiao had been following nearby the whole way, listening to Ge Bai scold Big Willow, and couldn’t help covering their mouths laughing.
Originally really planned to have Qian Dai help Big Willow win this round, but as writing went on, felt it should be a head-on clash.
