Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Bang! Another fireball was destroyed.

The muscular man kept closing in, so Qin Xiaochuan had no choice but to keep retreating.

"Struggle harder, little chick," the muscular man said with a sneer. "I love watching people struggle to their death. It gives me a special kind of pleasure, especially someone like you who struggles desperately even when there's no hope at all, as if that's how you survive."

At this point, the muscular man couldn't help but chuckle with satisfaction. He walked slowly, but always a little faster than Qin Xiaochuan, probably to watch Qin Xiaochuan's death throes. This way, with each step he took forward, the other man's fear would intensify.

Qin Xiaochuan continuously unleashed fireballs to attack his opponent, while simultaneously contemplating how to counter them. If he wanted to eliminate his opponent, he had to deliver a fatal blow in one strike; once the opponent became wary, it would be difficult for him to succeed.

"Besides your struggle, I also want to see you beg for mercy." The muscular man continued with a grotesque grin. "If your pleas can move me, I might consider letting you suffer less."

One step, two steps, the muscular man got closer and closer to him. He felt his heart beating faster and faster, and even his hands began to tremble slightly involuntarily.

The muscular man noticed his trembling and smiled excitedly. "Yes, that's it. I love seeing you tremble."

"Now!" Qin Xiaochuan told himself. At this distance, it was almost impossible for the opponent to dodge. After casting a normal fireball spell, he immediately channeled the level 8 spiritual power from his magic ring into his body. A deep red fireball appeared in front of him and shot towards the muscular man.

"Tremble harder, little fledgling!" the muscular man shouted excitedly, barely glancing at the fireball as it hurtled towards him before striking it again.

Crack! A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out as the muscular man's fist met the fireball. The fireball instantly shattered his arm. Not only that, the fireball's momentum didn't diminish; instead, it struck his chest again. The muscular man only had time to cry out in pain before being knocked to the ground by the fireball.

Of course, this was not the end of the story. Even under the circumstances of a sneak attack, the fireball spell could not kill the muscular man. So when the muscular man fell, Qin Xiaochuan immediately formed several hand seals.

"Ice Spike!" he shouted in his mind, and a huge ice spike immediately emerged from under the muscular man.

"Ah!" Amidst the muscular man's heart-wrenching scream of pain, the icy spike pierced through his body from behind, lifting him off the ground and suspending him a meter above the ground.

One strike, one kill!

Blood flowed continuously from the muscular man's body, then down the ice spike to the ground, staining the entire ice spike red. The sharp point at the top of the ice spike was even more glaringly blood red. Qin Xiaochuan stared intently at the bloody scene before him, unable to help but gasp for breath.

"Did I kill someone?" He was in a daze as the strong smell of blood rushed into his nostrils, making him feel nauseous.

"Did I kill someone?" That was the only thought in his mind. For a moment, he forgot where he was and didn't know what to do next.

Bang! A loud noise suddenly rang out, making his heart tremble and finally bringing him back to his senses.

He looked in the direction the sound came from and saw Guo Shiyi and the short, fat level 6 spiritual power user opposite her engaged in fierce combat.

Guo Shiyi's wood-type skills turned almost half of the research lab into a forest. The short, fat guy opposite her created black monsters in the forest, attacking Guo Shiyi from all directions, but Guo Shiyi blocked them all with plants. The scene looked like a great battle between plants and animals.

As for the black-clad man with level 4 spiritual power, he stood aside, constantly using shockwaves to assist the short, fat man, preventing him from falling behind.

The muscular man's dying screams caught the attention of three people on the left side of the battlefield. When the short, fat man and the man in black saw the muscular man pierced in mid-air by an ice spike, they couldn't help but show expressions of shock.

Guo Shiyi was both surprised and delighted, because Qin Xiaochuan had completely reversed the situation that was originally extremely unfavorable to them.

After the initial shock, the man in black decisively abandoned his attempt to assist the short, fat man and instead turned and ran towards Qin Xiaochuan. Because shotguns are invincible at close range, he could only inflict fatal damage by getting close enough to his opponent.

However, this is exactly what Qin Xiaochuan wants, because his skill casting range is limited, and if he wants to attack the opponent, he must first close the distance with the opponent.

Several gunshots rang out as the man in black approached him, firing several shots at him. Several shockwaves shot towards him.

This is where the benefits of his physical training came into play. Without the threat of the muscular man, it wasn't difficult for Qin Xiaochuan, with his agility, to dodge the shockwaves from the man in black. He quickly dodged several shockwaves while continuously moving closer to the man in black.

Although shotguns don't have the same firing range as pistols, their attack range is still greater than Qin Xiaochuan's. Perhaps the death of the muscular man made the man in black extremely cautious, so he always maintained a certain distance, a distance that allowed him to attack Qin Xiaochuan, but Qin Xiaochuan couldn't attack him.

Whenever Qin Xiaochuan tried to get close to the other party, the other party would fire several shockwaves in succession to block his way.

Even though he was very agile, he couldn't dodge all the shockwaves. In the end, he could only use his silver shield to block the remaining shockwaves. Although the huge impact didn't hurt him, it still pushed him away.

This puts Qin Xiaochuan in a very passive position. If he can't get close to his opponent, he will always be on the defensive and get beaten.

"It seems the only option now is to create some distance and hold them off until Guo Shiyi takes care of the short, fat guy. Then dealing with this man in black will be a piece of cake," Qin Xiaochuan thought to himself.

"Lightning Serpent!" The man in black opposite him roared, and at the same time a silver serpent-shaped bolt of lightning struck him from mid-air. He immediately retreated to create distance between himself and the man in black, but the lightning serpent followed him relentlessly. Helpless, he had no choice but to raise his silver shield again.

Lightning skills are the nemesis of metal skills. Even though he retreated outside the black-clad man's attack range, he still felt a slight numbness when he used his silver shield to block the lightning bolt.

What followed was a tug-of-war between him and the man in black. Since the man couldn't keep up with his speed, he posed almost no threat to him, and he also had the opportunity to observe the situation on Guo Shiyi's side.

In contrast to the increasingly peaceful battle on Qin Xiaochuan's side, the battle on the left side of the battlefield had truly reached a fever pitch. Without the assistance of the man in black, the short, fat man immediately fell into a disadvantageous position. The vines in the forest had already trapped all the shadows he had created, and Guo Shiyi only needed to trap him himself.

"Wooden Cocoon Binding!" Guo Shiyi shouted, and countless vines immediately weaved around the short, fat man, binding him in the center like a cocoon.

After completely enveloping him, the vines contracted inwards, shrinking smaller and smaller until they gradually formed a huge wooden cocoon.

"Looks like we've already won," Qin Xiaochuan thought to himself, no longer paying attention to the situation there, but focusing his attention on the man in black.

The next step is to consider how to cooperate with Guo Shiyi to win over the other party in one fell swoop.