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There was only one chance to win!

After Bai Su tested the defenses of the opponent, despite her reluctance, she realized the fact was just as Master Shen Le had predicted yesterday...

She thought she could crack Black Tortoise Sorcery by finding loopholes, but she was indeed too arrogant. The Mortal World’s Four Saints Techniques have prevailed for so long precisely for good reason.

Since she couldn’t break through the technique head-on, her only choice was to follow Master Shen Le’s advice and engage in psychological warfare!

Bai Su’s eyes narrowed, and her aura surged dramatically. If previously she resembled a dagger hidden in the fog, now she was like an arrow shooting through the ranks, with the aura of taking the enemy’s head amidst thousands of soldiers.

This powerful aura made Murong Ziyi take a cautious step back, and her expression turned serious.

There were two methods to crack the Black Tortoise Sorcery—the first was simply to overpower it, which was nonsense since any technique in the world could be broken with sufficient force.

No matter how intricate your technique, even a Spatial Technique, if the attack’s force is great enough, anything can be deciphered.

Just like Black Tortoise Sorcery, absolute defense only matched against equal level opponents. But if the adversary’s focused power far exceeds your technique’s defensive strength, then no matter how formidable the defensive technique, it would be broken.

The momentum displayed by the opponent now suggested that she could indeed shatter her technique...

This feeling was vague, and it somewhat troubled Murong Ziyi.

The advantage of the Black Tortoise Sorcery was that it required minimal Spiritual Power to defend against significantly more consuming attacks from an opponent.

However, if the opponent focused all their power into one strike, it could still be defended against even if they were of equal level—and especially now, the opponent’s demonstrated power clearly exceeded her own!

Of course, an attack that concentrated power was obvious.

It wasn’t as casual as a regular strike; it had a significant tell, so she had enough time to react, amp up her defense, and resist this move, even if the opponent’s power surpassed her own.

Even a full-force strike, bolstered by Black Tortoise Sorcery, could be defended against if she herself focused.

This was no big deal, but if she misjudged, then it was a serious issue.

This led to the second method of cracking Black Tortoise Sorcery: Deception!

Yes, facing a technique that could stop your full-powered strike with less than half of your Spiritual Power, what should you do?

Use brute force?

That would clearly indicate a problem in thinking.

To win cleverly and simply meant deceiving the opponent into a focused defense, wasting their Spiritual Power!

Defenders, no matter how strong, are always passive—a downside of defensive spells. Defenders must prepare earlier than attackers, thus engaging in a judgment gambit with one another.

To someone proficient in intimidation, this poses a severe threat to a defensive practitioner, even a top tier Black Tortoise Practitioner!

"Indeed..." Inside Qiankun Hall, Chen Qing smiled again as he watched the scene.

In his previous life, when Black Tortoise Practitioners first appeared, they were harshly criticized, leading several major guilds, including the Shenwu Guild, to jointly demand the officials weaken Black Tortoise.

From the start, Chen Qing, as a designer, refused to comply, clearly aware of the technique’s weakness and trusting in the abilities of Huazhong players to find it soon enough.

Sure enough, just three days later, online emerged a player who defeated a Black Tortoise Practitioner solo.

It was all... a bluff!

The Shenwu Guild, being one of the dominators of this world, how could they not grasp such a method?

However, Chen Qing was curious the simple-looking Serpent Demon, could she successfully bluff her opponent?

On the other side, Murong Ziyi was rapidly pondering; was the opponent... bluffing her?

As a Black Tortoise Practitioner, why did she always rank below Zhang Zhiyun? The reason was simple; she had never won against Zhang Zhiyun, not even with the Black Tortoise Sorcery. He always succeeded in intimidating her, depleting her Spiritual Power.

Under the tutoring of Zhang Zhiyun, she clearly understood the weak spots of her technique. Hence, she guessed that the opponent probably knew them as well.

But this intimidation... it really was frightening...

Murong Ziyi’s whole body tensed, she had spent her entire life in Yundu, and although she had been trained from a young age, she had never really engaged in a life-or-death fight.

But her opponent was clearly different, and under the burst of momentum, that terrifying oppressive force emerged, clearly one who had fought his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

Under such oppressive force, she truly struggled to judge whether this guy was planning to strike with all his might or just bluffing.

While she was still contemplating, the opponent moved!

With an unmatched speed, her eyes, just as before, could not keep up, but a terrifying premonition suddenly arose in her heart, and she hesitated no further to initiate her technique.

Green runes lit up around her, and the spiritual body of a gigantic turtle appeared; under the turtle, amidst a swathe of black, a pair of extremely terrifying pupils observed the situation—clearly, hidden within that blackness was the most fearsome snake shadow from the Black Tortoise Sorcery.

Seeing this scene, Bai Su slightly smiled and immediately retreated more than thirty feet away, distancing herself from the opponent!

Her action was incredibly lifelike, consuming quite a bit of her vitality, but it seemed the opponent’s consumption was even greater; as long as she continued this a few more times, preventing the opponent from meditating, her techniques naturally could not be maintained.

But just as she had moved back thirty feet, she suddenly felt numbness overcoming her, Bai Su was shocked to her core and quickly turned back, only to discover, unknown when, the periphery was encircled with a web-like layer of lightning!

Not only did this paralyze her whole body, but the muscle contractions it induced created a strong suction force, leaving her momentarily unable to escape!

Her heart was stricken with terror, wondering when had this lightning net been set up?

Such power must have consumed an immense amount of spiritual power. If the opponent had made any movements, why hadn’t she noticed?

What had she done?

Wait... could it be?

Bai Su struggled to look up, seeing Murong Ziyi slowly approaching with a grim expression on her face.

"You..."

"Sorry..." The opponent approached, under the huge shadow of the spiritual turtle, that swath of blackness slowly crept out. Compared to the immense size of the turtle, the snake in the darkness was incredibly tiny, but the oppressive force it exuded was grossly exaggerated.

A chill ran through Bai Su’s heart, a trace of fear appearing in her typically indifferent pupils. As a snake herself, she sensed the danger from the opponent. The giant snake under the turtle was terribly venomous, probably far more poisonous than the Celestial Serpent, which primarily used venom!

No wonder it was said that the Black Tortoise’s snake had the most fearsome attack. Indeed, every cell in her body was screaming at her that even the slightest touch from that snake would leave her body devoid of a single drop of water!

"How daring, girl!!"

Outside Qiankun Hall, both Chen Baifeng and Shen Qi couldn’t help but click their tongues, they both immediately understood the situation.

The electrical net covered the surrounding area beyond thirty feet, forming a circle, almost blocking all of Bai Su’s paths of retreat.

The spiritual power consumed was immense, considering Murong Ziyi’s own spiritual power, it was impossible to set up such a massive lightning net while also initiating the maximal defense of the Black Tortoise Sorcery!

She could only choose one, meaning this girl was so bold that she hadn’t used any spiritual power on defense techniques at all—the manifestation of the spiritual turtle was just to bluff the opponent!

The opponent was bluffing her, and she was bluffing the opponent. She was betting that the opponent wouldn’t go all out the first time!

Why hadn’t Bai Su noticed the electric net behind her?

Because she felt the use of immense spiritual power from the opponent, but subconsciously she thought that the opponent had activated the immense spiritual power for defense techniques, probably never imagining that the opponent would use all the spiritual power on the periphery, setting up such a thing!

Truly audacious to the extreme.

But it had to be said... this gamble paid off!

Meanwhile, inside the Azure Dragon Palace, Zhang Xiaoyun couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration: "Not bad, this girl..." she said mockingly, glancing at Zhang Zhiyun: "She’s got far more guts than you!"

The Old Celestial Master also nodded slightly, almost everyone could see that the battle was decided!

Only Chen Qing looked towards Master Shen Le once more.

Murong Ziyi was indeed ruthless and full of courage, but had she truly won?

Did Master Shen Le really have no contingencies left?