Chapter 78: Ice Armor Warrior With Supreme Martial Skills [2-in-1]
Big Willow jumped down from Ge Bai’s shoulder, and like the Ice Armor Warrior, transformed back to normal size in front of its Spirit Planter before rooting itself in place.
Unlike the previous matches where Big Willow directly rooted on the arena, Ge Bai had just reminded Big Willow and Qian Dai that this time’s opponent was a close-combat type, so they needed to always pay attention to evasion.
Big Willow immediately mobilized the Time Soil attribute power contained within its body and rooted itself on the Time Soil.
Although it looked like Big Willow was still standing on the arena surface, the effect was completely different. Not only would Qian Dai casting Spatial Teleportation Skill on Big Willow be more convenient under the Time Soil’s enhancement.
Big Willow’s main trunk could also move more smoothly in small ranges. Don’t underestimate such one or two steps of minor displacement in battle; sometimes it could really dodge fatal attacks.
Actually, Big Willow should put more effort into using the Time Soil, ideally always keeping the Time Soil power running, ultimately reaching the point of being accustomed to rooting in the Time Soil.
This would greatly benefit Big Willow’s hidden strength improvement. Many Spirit Plants that obtain Time Soil treat this as their top priority task.
But time was really too tight. Big Willow now had to hurry to improve skill proficiency while also finding time to increase Spiritual Power Value. Next, Ge Bai also planned to intensify practice on Big Willow and Qian Dai’s Combination Skill. These were the most direct ways to rapidly improve Big Willow’s combat strength, equivalent to the required questions on the exam.
Digesting and refining the Time Soil power belonged to the bonus questions on the exam. If the required questions weren’t even answered clearly, how could there be time for bonus questions? Wouldn’t that be counterproductive?
Helplessly, it could only be put off for now.
This could only be said to be Big Willow getting good stuff too early. Under normal circumstances, such Advanced Level resources—even Hegemon Level or Commander Level Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants would be thrilled to encounter even a little, and Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants stuck at high levels for years naturally had the time and energy to work on bonus questions.
The Referee saw both contestants in position and signaled the start, promptly blowing the whistle for the match to begin.
As soon as the whistle sounded, the Ice Armor Warrior instantly charged out from its spot, rapidly speeding toward Big Willow.
During the charge, the Ice Armor Warrior alternated pressing its left and right hands on its waist. As it raised its hand into a knife-gripping motion, ice-blue armor quickly materialized into a Warrior long knife at that position.
Just from this charge and starting motion, it was clear the opponent had put no little effort into martial skills.
Xiao La Jiao had also come to the arena competition venue today, sitting on the stands watching the match with great interest.
She arrived a bit late today and didn’t see Ge Bai’s previous match. She didn’t come alone either; beside her was a quiet and petite little girl.
“Cousin, this Ice Armor Warrior has very good training traces. It seems like I can see the shadow of Kai Yue Martial Arts School’s training. What do you think?”
The little girl was also an expert. Just from watching the Ice Armor Warrior’s starting charge, she could guess which martial arts school’s teaching it was.
Xiao La Jiao nodded in agreement.
“It looks a lot like that martial arts school’s Warrior Skill. Kai Yue Martial Arts School still has its merits.”
“By the way, next week I plan to invite their martial arts school contestants to Heng Ran for a few battle matches. If you’re free, come play too.”
The little girl shook her head.
“Not sure if I’ll have time. Next week we have the final exam.”
This little girl was in the same class as Ge Bai, Xiao La Jiao’s cousin, Fang Miaowen who had contracted the Ice Armor White Bear.
As she spoke, she grabbed the white bear fur of the Ice Armor White Bear sitting on the chair beside her.
This Ice Armor White Bear was clearly still in its juvenile period, and its Spiritual Power Level wasn’t high either—just Mortal Spirit Realm Intermediate Level.
But its size wasn’t small at all. Even in mini form, it was over half a person’s height.
Looking at the silly Big White Bear, Fang Miaowen sighed.
“White Fatty, you grew too fast. You’re not as cute as when you were small before! Can’t you be even smaller in mini form?”
This Ice Armor White Bear called White Fatty looked at its Beast Tamer with a hesitant expression, speaking in a deep and muffled voice.
“Miaowen, I’m a big bear! Being able to transform to this mini form is already very small.”
Hearing her cousin making things difficult for her Big White Bear again, Xiao La Jiao irritably knocked her head.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Ice Armor White Bear is a large Pet Beast, and in battle, it relies on size for advantage. I’ve only heard of complaining about small size, not disliking large size.”
“Once White Fatty matures in a couple years, the mini form will be even bigger.”
As she spoke, Xiao La Jiao pointed at King Kong sitting to her right for her cousin. “White Fatty should be much larger in size than King Kong.”
To Xiao La Jiao’s right, King Kong was squishing itself into one seat and still felt a bit cramped. From behind, it looked extremely burly.
Even King Kong in mini form looked much more robust than a burly man.
Fang Miaowen helplessly sighed and rested her head on White Fatty.
“But I really want a cute little white bear.”
White Fatty was somewhat helpless and quietly stuffed a fluffy white Bear Paw into Fang Miaowen’s arms, speaking in a grievance-filled tone.
“Miaowen, big bears are pretty cute too. Here, paw for you to squeeze.”
The little girl hugged the Bear Paw and rubbed her face fiercely against the back of the paw.
“Cute, cute. White Fatty is cute too.”
Xiao La Jiao looked at her cousin and the aggrieved Big White Bear beside her with speechless expression, shook her head, looked away, and didn’t forget to push her cousin.
“Watch seriously. The Ice Armor Warrior’s offense has reference value for White Fatty.”
“And its opponent is called Ge Bai, probably your classmate in the future. She’s a very strong Spirit Planter.”
“You might run into her during special recruitment. No harm in watching first.”
Hearing her cousin say this, Fang Miaowen looked up.
“The one that’s been really popular lately, the Spirit Planter who contracted a wild Spirit Plant and a space Spirit Plant?”
Xiao La Jiao nodded. “Talented, perseverant, fortunate, and Ge Bai is a really nice person too. You need to work hard too.”
Fang Miaowen glanced at her cousin and automatically skipped the last sentence, but noted her cousin praising Ge Bai.
She knew her own cousin well. Though she seemed carefree, her standards were extremely high, and she was always accurate in judging people, so her uncle felt at ease leaving the martial arts school for her to manage daily.
She rarely praised others, but when she did, it was fact, not exaggeration.
Moreover, if she said someone was good, that person was definitely very good.
Thinking of her cousin and then herself, Fang Miaowen felt like rolling her eyes. Having such an excellent cousin at home put a lot of pressure on her.
As her thoughts turned, she also settled down to focus on the match.
On the arena, Big Willow didn’t just watch idly as the Ice Armor Warrior charged toward it without doing anything.
A set of Wind Blades was smoothly unleashed, appearing effortless and proficient.
But the Ice Armor Warrior didn’t evade. It directly drew the Ice Blade Knife manifested from its armor at the waist, turned its stance, and stood firm in place.
Pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa.
Seizing the timing, it decisively swung the Ice Blade Knife, one slash after another, the knife technique flowing like water.
Intercepting all nine Wind Blades.
The Wind Blades clashed with the Ice Blade Knife, producing crisp sounds.
“Wind Weave Domain.”
Ge Bai decisively spoke. A barrage of Wind Blades couldn’t pose much threat to the Ice Armor Warrior proficient in martial skills.
From its stationary position to reaching Big Willow, that was enough time for Big Willow to fire another two or three rounds of Wind Blades or one full-power Wind Weave Domain.
From this round, a full-power Wind Weave Domain might achieve better attack results than Wind Blades.
“Liu Gu.”
While Big Willow infused Spiritual Power into the Willow Threads and fully prepared the Wind Weave Domain, it didn’t forget to randomly fire one or two Wind Blades.
The fired Wind Blades weren’t very powerful, nor aimed at the Ice Armor Warrior’s face or vital spots, but specifically at the legs.
The purpose was just to disrupt the Ice Armor Warrior’s steps, making its advance less comfortable.
Seeing Big Willow’s actions, Ge Bai nodded in satisfaction. The battles over these two days had been effective; Big Willow’s fighting style was much more flexible than at the start.
When the Ice Armor Warrior was about two zhang away from Big Willow, Big Willow’s Wind Weave Domain was aimed and released.
A sky-covering wind net carrying fierce winds assaulted the Ice Armor Warrior.
Seeing such a grand wind net for the first time, the Ice Armor Warrior found nowhere to evade, somewhat stunned, instinctively stopping and holding its knife horizontally in front to brace and hard-block the attack like it did the Wind Blades.
“Don’t stop, Warrior Charge.”
The Ice Armor Warrior’s Beast Tamer Li Ya Xin also saw the power of the Wind Weave Domain.
Seeing her Pet Beast stop, she clearly disapproved of this response and loudly reminded it.
At this moment, Li Ya Xin’s idea was correct. Rather than passively hard-blocking, better to turn into a sharp point and pierce the wind net.
Although still hard-blocking the attack, this way the damage taken would be less.
But her shout was a bit late. Even though the Ice Armor Warrior reacted and charged toward the wind net again, it was too late to build enough speed and momentum.
Ge Bai didn’t pay much attention to the Wind Weave Domain clashing with the Ice Armor Warrior, instead steadily giving the next instruction.
Expecting one Wind Weave Domain to settle a transcendent-level opponent was obviously unrealistic. This match still had a ways to go.
“Big Willow, Storm Willow Blade Hammer.”
“Qian Dai, after wind net contact, return carbine.”
On the venue, Ge Bai’s instructions were always concise, but this didn’t affect Qian Dai and Big Willow’s understanding.
Just as the two sentences were spoken, the Ice Armor Warrior collided with the Wind Weave Domain.
The full-body Ice Armor was battered by the fierce net, blasting out deep gashes visible to the bone, with armor fragments scattering everywhere.
In the instant of contact, the Ice Armor Warrior who raised its long ice knife to protect face and vitals looked ragged now, but actually its vitals weren’t badly damaged, not greatly affecting its combat strength.
With Spiritual Power circulating in its body, the Ice Armor Warrior timely summoned the Ice Snow Domain. In the Ice Snow Domain, the Ice Armor on its body underwent minor repairs.
“Continue, close in.” Though this round of exchange resulted in a small loss, Beast Tamer Li Ya Xin wasn’t worried.
She saw clearly that the opponent’s Weeping Ancient Willow preparing such a near-full-coverage, unstoppable high-intensity area attack required a lot of time and considerable Spiritual Power.
With her own Ice Armor Warrior’s speed, it shouldn’t encounter another Wind Weave Domain before reaching the Weeping Ancient Willow.
And once the Ice Armor Warrior got close to Big Willow, she was confident it could settle Big Willow within ten moves.
Hearing the Beast Tamer’s instruction, the Ice Armor Warrior adjusted its posture, preparing to charge again.
At this time, Qian Dai’s Spatial Teleportation Skill had already activated.
The wind net originally left behind by the Ice Armor Warrior reversed direction, assaulting it again from the side-rear.
“Armor Ice, behind!”
Seeing the suddenly turning wind net, Li Ya Xin’s pupils shrank, shouting loudly from behind the Ice Armor Warrior to warn it.
As it heard the Beast Tamer’s reminder, the Ice Armor Warrior also noticed the fierce winds assaulting from behind again, blankly turning back and instinctively raising its long knife.
It had to be said, this Ice Armor Warrior’s martial sense was exceptional. Even in such a sudden crisis, it could instinctively raise its knife to resist.
This showed it had trained muscle memory—though the Ice Armor Warrior seemed to have no muscles, this raised knife slash was the result of millions of refinements.
The blade edge met the wind net at the end of its power, enough to consume most of the wind net’s intensity.
The Ice Armor Warrior had just relaxed when it realized it was too late.
Qian Dai wasn’t that easy to deal with.
The wind net just torn by the Ice Armor Warrior split into two pieces, and Qian Dai smoothly flung both pieces back at the Ice Armor Warrior from two different angles.
The Ice Armor Warrior that raised its knife to handle one wind net completely exposed its back to the wind net coming from the other angle.
Although this twice-teleported wind net was spent, a high-tier skill fully unleashed by Big Willow wasn’t that easy to take.
The armor behind the Ice Armor Warrior didn’t just have ice chunks shattered; several extremely deep gashes were faintly leaking ice-blue liquid.
It was injured.
The Ice Armor Warrior was also pushed staggering forward two steps by the wind wave, nearly falling, and only managed to single-knee to the ground by propping with its long knife.
Whoa.
The single-kneed Ice Armor Warrior suddenly bowed forward, unable to hold back, spitting out half a mouthful of ice-blue blood.
Unexpectedly, this round of attack achieved such a good effect.
Ge Bai patted Qian Dai still in her arms.
“Well done.”
The ambushed and injured Ice Armor Warrior forcefully pushed off the ground, angrily smashing a heavy fist into the arena, wiped the blood from its mouth, abruptly stood, and its originally deep pupils seemed to ignite with chilling cold light.
“Armor Ice, calm down, charge again.”
The Ice Armor Warrior’s Beast Tamer also knew her Pet Beast was very angry right now.
The Ice Armor Warrior upholding Bushido spirit found such back attacks the most unacceptable.
But he couldn’t not see it. Standing behind him, Beast Tamer Li Ya Xin helplessly sighed.
Her contract with the Ice Armor Warrior was just over a year; in this short time, she’d focused on teaching it martial skills and tempering its Bushido spirit, perhaps overdoing it, making it a bit foolish from being swayed by Bushido.
Actually, on the arena, Ge Bai’s group’s attack was quite standard, at most tricky in angle—not even really an ambush. Li Ya Xin really didn’t dare imagine how her Ice Armor Warrior would fare against dark-type or nether-type assassins.
