Bai Ning Bing against Yan Tu

Each had investigated the other before the day. Bai Ning Bing sets the primeval essence recovery speed of A grade aptitude against a rank four cultivation, as Fang Yuan reads it from the crowd, and Yan Tu, at rank four with B grade aptitude, is spending on fire pellet Gu as fast as she is spending on icicles. She is an offense type Gu Master whose Gu set puts attack first, which leaves the primeval essence allotted to movement and defence lower, so the movement Gu and defensive Gu she assembled are the ones that consume less and are correspondingly less effective. Yan Tu can use his mind to do three tasks at once, his combination of fire pellet Gu with fiery snake Gu was refined and perfected over hundreds of battles at the battle stage, and his fighting style is hit and run, which he does not abandon when she calls him to close combat and he judges he would be in trouble there. His plan for winning is to prolong the match, on the knowledge that ice crystal Gu cannot be used for long without turning its user completely into an ice sculpture and that vitality Gu only extends the time it can be held. ^{ch. 313}

Both sides bring out their killer moves, and the stage is divided into two terrains, the majestic ice blade storm standing in the one place that is frozen rather than burning, and the orange sea of fire over the rest. Bai Ning Bing’s revised ice blade storm has her doing five tasks at once, which narration calls the talent of the ten extreme physique, and it carries a fault this first battle use finds: the tornado has become too dense to move forward, it can only rotate on the spot, and her mind is already at its limit with nothing spare for the movement Gu that would fix it, so the kiting Wei Yang says she should be doing is not open to her. Yan Tu’s fire sea twin dragon kill is built out of the grassland itself: fuel oil Gu covers the whole stage in a swamp of oil, fiery snake Gu sets a sea of fire that the snakes return into to recover their power, and four fiery claw Gu merge into the two snakes to give them claws and a portion of the might of rank five fiery dragon Gu. Through this battle the people recognise Bai Ning Bing’s battle strength as third strongest in the battle stage, behind Yan Tu and Ju Kai Bei, who have fought dozens of battles there without a clear winner. ^{ch. 314}

The weakening of the ice blade storm was a pretense, and the explosion out of it freezes the fiery claws and engulfs most of the fiery dragon’s body, costing Yan Tu a fiery snake Gu and two fiery claw Gu in an instant. With the storm dispersed, ice crystal Gu revoked and her aperture completely dry, Bai Ning Bing coldly announces that she admits defeat, which the audience had not expected; Fang Yuan reads it as her spending everything she had left on that last explosion to inflict heavy losses first. A formless force presses down from above on the furious Yan Tu and holds him where he stands, which narration names as the ability of the battle stage, and the hosting Gu Master walks onto ground changed beyond recognition and announces the result. By the rules the winner has the right to demand a Gu of the loser, Yan Tu says with hatred that he wants her ice crystal Gu, and the two complete the transfer on the spot; it was her vital Gu, and blood flows from her seven orifices the moment she loses it. He had chosen it to teach her a lesson, and narration puts his own losses much above it, a rank three ice crystal Gu not covering them, and says that after this battle Bai Ning Bing might have lost but her fame was established. ^{ch. 314}