Chapter 462: Fire Element Shift
On the martial stage, Lin Huang and Che Xuelo quickly negotiated the gambling terms.
After signing a contract, they retreated to opposite sides and prepared to fight.
"Fellow Daoist Lin may not know but I come from a top-grade world." Che Xuelo said.
Hearing this, Lin Huang rolled her eyes.
Before she agreed to Che Xuelo, she knew that the fight would not be easy.
She suspected that Che Xuelo’s background was not simple and her means would be difficult to deal with.
However, Lin Huang was not afraid of difficulty.
As a dignified phoenix, she did not allow herself to lose against a mere firebird.
At this time, Che Xuelo’s revelation only filled in the gaps for Lin Huang but did not frighten her.
"Knowing this, do you still want to fight?" Che Xuelo asked with a cunning smile on her lips.
When she heard this, Lin Huang sneered and a fiery whip appeared in her right hand.
"Fellow Daoist Che talks too much." She said and her eyes narrowed.
Hearing this, Che Xuelo laughed in good humour.
Soon after, her laughter morphed and a cruel smile curled her lips.
There were four major families in the Ten Thousand Beasts world.
These families were the Dragon Clan, the Phoenix Clan, the White Tiger Clan, and the Black Tortoise Clan.
The Dragon clan ruled the East, the Phoenix clan ruled the West, the White Tiger clan dominated the South, and the Black Tortoise clan reigned in the North.
As a mixed descendant of the Phoenix clan, Che Xuelo belonged to the West of the Ten Thousand Beasts world.
Her family was a major branch of the royal family and most of her relatives were surnamed ’Feng’.
However, Che Xuelo’s blood purity was not enough to awaken the phoenix heritage.
Because of this, she was denied the ’Feng’ surname and was often bullied by her clansmen.
When she saw an opportunity to purify her bloodline, she naturally wanted to take it.
Most importantly, she wanted to humiliate Lin Huang.
In the clan, Che Xuelo couldn’t deal with the proud descendants of the Phoenix clan.
However, Lin Huang was different.
Although she awakened the phoenix bloodline, she was from a low-level world and had no connection to the royal family in the Ten Thousand Beasts world.
When she thought she could humiliate a proud phoenix without suffering any consequences, Che Xuelo couldn’t help but be excited.
A moment later, a fan appeared in her right hand and an almost manic expression appeared on her face.
"Is something wrong with fellow Daoist Che?" A female cultivator subconsciously shivered.
"Her face is a little scary." Another said.
"Her expression is a little like Bai Hua." Someone observed.
"Now that you mention it..., does she also dislike beautiful people?"
"Maybe it’s the blood. Maybe she dislikes cultivators with better bloodlines."
"Fellow Daoist Lin will soon be in trouble." Someone said and sighed.
At the same time, the fight started.
Without a word, Lin Huang flung her whip and a line of red fire flew towards Che Xuelo.
In reaction, Che Xuelo used her fan and directly blocked the line of fire.
A moment later, Che Xuelo frowned and then smiled.
"As expected, phoenix fire is powerful." She said and tenderly looked at a black spot on her red fan.
Seeing this, Lin Huang frowned.
For some reason, the look in her opponent’s eyes filled her with a sense of crisis.
She felt like she was being stared at by a venomous snake and was on the verge of becoming its prey.
’Calm down.’ She told herself and forcibly suppressed her unease.
In the next moment, Lin Huang increased her firepower and attacked Chen Xuelo.
However, the result was the same.
Che Xuelo easily deflected Lin Huang’s whip and her fan barely had any damage.
"Are you sure you don’t want to surrender?" Che Xuelo said and waved her fan.
Less than half a breath later, a fire pillar rushed towards Lin Huang, forcing her towards the edge of the martial stage.
’My fire is better than hers but her flame control technique is better than mine.’ Lin Huang observed.
Since she had only awakened a small part of her phoenix bloodline, she had yet to receive an advanced bloodline inheritance.
Without such an inheritance, the purity, hotness, and control of her flames would remain mediocre.
’I don’t know when I can receive a bloodline inheritance...’ Lin Huang sighed and frowned.
From the looks of it, Che Xuelo was already practising an advanced fire control technique.
Fortunately, she was still at the first level of the reincarnation realm and Lin Huang could just barely deal with her.
"It’s impossible to surrender." Lin Huang said and continued to increase the intensity of her flames.
"Okay." Che Xuelo said and waved her fan in a strange pattern.
A moment later, twelve pillars of fire appeared in front of her.
The pillars were about half a metre wide and ten metres long.
In the blink of an eye, the pillars disappeared and almost instantaneously reappeared around Lin Huang, trapping her in the centre of a circle.
"What just happened?" A spectator couldn’t help but shout in shock.
"This..." Another started and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
"Did the fire pillars... teleport?" Someone asked.
"How is that possible? Even with a formation disk, it’s impossible to teleport pillars of fire."
"Did the pillars move so fast that it looked like teleportation?"
"I think so."
"I practice a vision-related technique. It’s impossible to deceive my eyes."
"What did you see?"
"The fire pillars definitely disappeared before they reappeared."
"I still don’t believe that fellow Daoist Che teleported the fire pillars."
"What about space contraction? Maybe she folded the space between them and allowed the fire pillars to surround fellow Daoist Lin in an instant." Someone suggested.
"Space folding? Do you know what you are talking about?" Someone sneered.
"This fellow Daoist is too hasty." Another cultivator couldn’t help but admonish the person who suggested space folding.
Unlike teleportation, space contraction and folding couldn’t be done without a profound understanding of the law of space.
At the very least, it couldn’t be done by a cultivator at the first level of the reincarnation realm.
"Could it be time?" Another cultivator suggested.
"Time?"
"Fellow Daoist Che is a descendant of the legendary phoenix. From ancient records, the phoenix clan can control time."
"This fellow Daoist is taking things too simply." Someone said and the surrounding people turned to him for an explanation.
"The people of the Phoenix clan have an innate understanding of time and fire. However, they can only control the time within their bodies and not the external time. Even then, this control is limited to rebirth every ten thousand years." The knowledgeable person explained.
"If it’s not time or space, how did fellow Daoist Che move the fire pillars?" the spectators couldn’t help but be confused.
However, among the millions of spectators, there was a small number that understood.
"Element shift." Someone said excitedly.
"It’s really an element shift." Another agreed with barely concealed admiration.
Heaven and Earth qi was divided into many elements qi.
According to ancient records, there existed a kind of teleportation technique called element shift.
This technique allowed similar elements to communicate with each other to facilitate the transfer of people or things across short distances.
In this case, Che Xuelo used the fire elements in the martial stage to transfer her twelve fire pillars from in front of her to around Lin Huang.
"Isn’t the element shift a lost art?" Someone queried.
"How many lost arts have been discovered in the Burial Province? Maybe fellow Daoist Che was lucky."
"You may be right." The person said and then continued.
"Even in ancient times, cultivating the element shift was not easy. Fellow Daoist Che’s talent is not bad."
"Her talent is not bad but can she keep the art?" Someone sneered.
"Fortunately, she is from a top-grade world. If she contributes the art to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, other cultivators won’t dare to think about it."
"Since she dares to use the element shift in such an open way, she should be prepared to hand it over to her world mountain."
As the spectators were speculating, Lin Huang was in a tough situation.
Originally, she thought she could deal with whatever her opponent threw at her.
Unexpectedly, twelve fire pillars suddenly surrounded her and she had no way out.
’I can’t go down, up, or sideways. I am trapped.’ She thought and a trace of panic appeared in her heart.
However, the panic was momentary.
Barely a moment later, she forcibly suppressed the panic and carefully observed the approaching fire pillars.
As a fire cultivator, she was least afraid of fire but the approaching pillars gave her a bad feeling.
Although they didn’t feel hotter than her phoenix fire, she always felt she would be heavily injured if she didn’t find a way out.
’What can I do?’ She wondered and thousands of thoughts flashed in her mind.
