Chapter 161: Maze
It was as if both Snake and Song Junwan had reached an understanding as they both began to fight directly. Their blades collided with each other, sending sparks flowing and producing a metalic sound.
The speed of the battle was so high that even the Elders of Core Formation Realm were having difficulty keeping up with it. Most of the time they only saw blur before a huge lightning bolt or a Earth spike would fall in the stands.
Song Junwan smiled as she used all three of her daggers to fight Snake. But she didn't dare let down her guard. Even with three daggers and lightning as her core, Snake was able to keep up with her.
A slight slip could result in her defeat and she wouldn't let that happen.
Snake was feeling the same as he rolled to the sides, dodging the purple lightening and immediately used hus Earth Elemental Qi to erect a Earth wall.
He clicked his tongue and once again dashed towards Song Junwan. He was getting annoyed and frustration welled up in his heart.
Song Junwan was clearly younger than him and even her Cultivation base was lower than his, yet she had pushed him so much. Even in melee combat she was keeping up with him and had almost injured him in many occasions.
He couldn't take it, even though his mind was trying to be calm. He was the man who had maintained a lofty postion and authority for decades, so now that a person from younger generations caught up to him, he felt sour.
He would have been fine if it was just Cultivation base but even in terms of battle IQ, Song Junwan showed herself to be more than capable.
In frenzy state, he roared and slammed both of his hands on the ground after deflecting a attack coming at him. He had been preparing this while fighting all this time and it was finally put to use.
The ground began to tremble as several walls rose from the ground and instantly trapped Song Junwan inside. The walls towered over them and stood at almost a hundred metres height.
Snake backed away as his face paled, obviously because of overuse his skills. However, when he looked at the maze he made, he felt it was worth it.
Now, he would be able to kill her easily.
The thoughts of his freedom had already left his mind as he knew even if he defeated Song Junwan, Shen Yu would just kill him. That was how their business worked.
Now, he was only fighting to kill Song Junwan, to show that experience mattered more than talent.
"Let's see how you survive this!"
Song Junwan, who was inside the maze, gritted her teeth as she looked at the towering dark walls around her. She spread her Spirit Sense and realised it couldn't get past the walls.
Raising her head, she looked in the sky and was going to fly out but something within her told it wasn't a good idea. Trusting her instincts, she didn't jump and focused on the walls around.
She raised her hand as a lightening spear formed above her hand. Then, with a wave of hand, she sent the spear crackling with lightening towards one of the world all.
The spear travelled as if it was a Blur and reached the wall in a matter of moments. However, something unexpected happened when it was going to hit the wall.
The wall caves in and soon opened up a hole just enough to let the spear pass. After the lightening spear passed through it, the hole closed itself and returned to how it was before.
Song Junwan narrowed her eyes and tried to focus on the sound. Sure enough, she heard the sound of explosion some distance away but there was something off.
She had thrown the lightening spear in front of her but the sound of explosion came from her left side, which left her baffled.
She dropped on her knees and put her head on the ground, listening to every sound very closely. Her senses were already enhancer because of having a Nascent Soul but the walls were preventing even her senses to work properly.
Only now she understood why. The whole maze was rotating randomly meaning even if she spread her sense, it wouldn't work properly. Of course, the walls probably had been modified for this very purpose.
'This old man is too crafty. However, this alone doesn't guarantee him a win...'
Song Junwan thought, but then her hair suddenly stood up in alarm as she jumped away. Her reaction was lightening fast and it saved her from being skewered the Earth spikes coming out from the place she knelt.
But she was also a veteran so she soon calmed down and began to think things properly. Of course, Snake wasn't going to sit idly and give her time to break free from the maze.
He quickly actived all the traps in the made which made Song Junwan run around the whole maze while blasting off many walls. Unfortunately, they were constantly changing and healing so even after destroying many walls.
She began to grow frustrated as even after so long, she couldn't think of anything or rather she wasn't given time to think properly. She was on edge all the time as many traps were actived randomly.
She wouldn't die in them but she would surely be injured and she couldn't afford that.
"Aghh! Fuck it!"
She cursed as she commanded her blades to rotate around her like a wheel and she also coated them with her most potent lightening which held power to even poke a hole in bodies of Tier 4 Spiritual Creatures easily.
Naturally, the cost of it was high and that was why she wasn't using it till now. However, at the rate the battle was progressing, she would surely lose so she decided to rise it all.
She took a deep breath, relaxing her fast beating heart as she looked at her daggers destroying everything in their wake. Satisfied, she closed her eyes and began to hover in the air.
She knew she shouldn't go too high so she kept some distance from the walls and began to pour all of her strength into one last attack.
She had her hand on before her, with palm facing each other but not touching either. Soon, a spark of purple lightning appeared between her palms.
It didn't stop there as the sparks of lightning continued to increase and slowly began to shape of a sphere. The pressure around her began to increase as the sphere of lightening began to get denser.
However, Song Junwan didn't stop at that as she continued to pour her Qi in the Qi or to be precise, it was Lightning Elemental Qi.
Song Junwan suddenly coughed up blood, making her Qi unstable and even the lightning sphere began to waved. But she quickly calmed down and focused on the sphere once more.
Blood oozed out from her hand as her fingers began to take a dark colour.
However, she didn't stop.
The pressure continued to build and the air itself began to crack as the sphere of lightning manifested in her hands. Finally, she stopped pouring the Qi as she knew she couldn't handle more.
She spent some more time to stabilize the sphere of lightning and began to laugh. Her maddening laugh sen chills down Snake's spine, who was standing some distance away from the maze.
He had detected the danger the sphere of lightning possessed and had tried to stop her many times using the traps. However, her golden blades were like the scythe of death reapers and allowed nothing to get close.
After fending off so many traps, their obviously lost their potent lightning but by then Song Junwan had already made the sphere.
He couldn't even step in himself to stop as he would have to make a weak spot to enter the maze, and he wasn't willing to give an edge to Song Junwan. He believed in his creation and was confident it would be able to tackle whatever Song Junwan prepared.
There was also the fact that Song Junwan herself was inside the maze so if she used high destruction level technique, even she would be injured heavily.
Unfortunately, he underestimated the madness inside Song Junwan's head.
Hearing her laughter filled with madness, and coupled with the terrifying aura the sphere of lightning gave, he knew he was done for so he quickly abandoned the control over maze and backed away.
Song Junwan looked at the sphere in her hand with happiness shining in her eyes. Sadly, she couldn't admire this for long as her hand was already showing signs of giving up. They were completely numb and were barely able to resist the sphere of lightning's influence.
Knowing that she didn't have much time left, Song Junwan threw the sphere at nearby wall and ducked down, fully prepared.
Then, the whole Coliseum shook.