Chapter 632: Chapter 256: Warfare is Deception, Tactical Master

Lin Ye’s heart skipped a beat.

The "beacon" was gone.

Right now, inside the massive, seven-colored cocoon of light, the elemental energy had reached an extreme state of Frenzy. It had formed a chaotic turbulence, completely severing his lock on the Gravity Field within Xia Lianxue’s body.

It seemed the same trick only worked once against a truly strong opponent.

Once they were prepared for it, trying the same move again was a fool’s errand.

At the same time, Lin Ye could clearly feel Xia Lianxue’s aura inside the cocoon skyrocketing exponentially. Its intensity had long since surpassed the limits of the Divine Realm!

This was reality, not a turn-based game.

There was no chivalrous "I’ll wait for you to power up and use your ultimate move" nonsense here.

A murderous glint flashed in Lin Ye’s eyes. He didn’t hesitate for a second.

He suddenly raised his right hand. In his palm, a deep energy core instantly coalesced.

A beam from his Energy Cannon, thicker and more solid than any before, shot out. It carried a terrifying aura of annihilation as it ruthlessly blasted toward the massive, seven-colored cocoon!

BOOM!!!

The terrifying torrent of energy struck its target perfectly. The moment it made contact, the cocoon was completely devoured and vaporized, and even the space for several hundred meters around it twisted violently.

However, when the light dissipated, the spot was completely empty.

There was nothing there.

Xia Lianxue had vanished into thin air.

Lin Ye’s brow furrowed. His immense Spiritual Power swept across the several-kilometer radius like a flood, but he couldn’t detect the slightest trace of Xia Lianxue’s life force.

Just then, a sudden, extreme palpitation seized his heart without any warning!

’Something’s wrong!’

He felt the temperature of the blood in his veins plummeting at an unbelievable speed!

PSH!

Lin Ye looked down to see the skin on his right arm suddenly burst open. Needles of his own blood, instantly frozen into ice shards, had pierced through his blood vessels and muscles, jutting out!

A bone-chilling cold was spreading wildly up his arm through his veins!

And above that was his heart!

And, even more importantly, his brain!

’It’s Xia Lianxue!’

’She hasn’t been eliminated. She didn’t even leave the battlefield!’

’This battle isn’t over yet!’

Lin Ye’s pupils contracted. He didn’t dare to be careless for even a moment.

Phase Shift!

VMMM!

His figure instantly became illusory as he entered a one-second state of intangibility, making him untargetable.

It was only in that nick of time that the terrifying chill, potent enough to freeze all the blood in his body, finally stopped spreading.

Lin Ye could feel that if he had been just a tenth of a second later, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

This was no longer a simple elemental attack.

Xia Lianxue’s control over the elements had reached a terrifyingly exquisite level, allowing her to directly interfere with and control the elements inside another person’s body!

One second is a very short time.

But in a clash between experts, it was more than enough!

Lin Ye’s gaze darted around like lightning, and he pushed his Spiritual Power to its absolute limit.

Yet, he still found nothing.

He couldn’t see Xia Lianxue’s figure.

But in his perception, the wisp of her divine will that belonged to Xia Lianxue herself had grown unprecedentedly powerful throughout this part of the world. It was like a radiant sun—everywhere at once, yet its specific core was impossible to locate.

’Where on earth is she?’

The next moment, a bold, almost absurd, guess flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.

’Xia Lianxue... didn’t disappear.’

’Instead...’

’She’s everywhere!’

...

「Meanwhile, in the Longyin Academy conference room.」

Everyone stared at the screen, their faces filled with confusion and bewilderment.

"Where is she?"

"Where did Xia Lianxue go? How did she just disappear like that?"

"Lin Ye’s attack couldn’t have just vaporized her! The terminal didn’t send an elimination notice!"

As everyone was caught up in discussion, Vice Principal Hou Guanghe slowly sat up straight. A sharp glint flashed through his seemingly cloudy old eyes.

"Soul-Burning Battle Shadow..."

"That girl... she not only crippled her Spiritual Artifact Celestial Decree to release the massive reserve of elements stored within, but she also activated Soul-Burning Battle Shadow inside that cocoon—a desperate, life-risking trump card of the Divine Realm."

Hou Guanghe’s expression became more serious than ever before.

"Her current state... is very dangerous."

"She is burning her own Primordial Spirit to forcibly push her spirituality to the fifth stage, ’Apex,’ attempting to temporarily become the omnipresent..."

"Elements themselves!"

At these words, even Yi Jiugao’s eyes showed utter shock.

Zhu Mingyi’s face changed drastically, and he suppressed his anger as he said, "Reckless!"

"The elements themselves are a primordial, chaotic existence! If her own consciousness gets lost in the vast sea of elements, she will truly assimilate with the world. There will be no more Xia Lianxue in this world!"

Yi Jiugao immediately spoke up as well, his voice laced with urgency, "Stop this battle at once! This has gone beyond the scope of the selection and is about to spiral out of control!"

...

The boundaries of time and space blurred at this moment.

This was a vast, boundless ocean.

An ocean not of water, but of endless, multicolored, pure elements.

Sometimes they were as gentle as flowing water, other times as violent as thunder, forming the most fundamental scenery of this universe.

Xia Lianxue’s consciousness was sinking, sinking, sinking in this ocean...

The whites of her eyes were showing, and she felt her thoughts being assimilated and broken down by this ocean.

Countless chaotic and primitive forces, like the gentlest of mothers, were calling to her, embracing her, urging her to abandon thought, to abandon self, and return to this eternal peace.

’Who am I...?’

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