Divine Emperor of Death

While Sophie and Mu Bing began a chilling, heated, and illusive battle, Niera stood up as she saw that her injuries had healed a bit, but the wounds were still left, leaving a gruesome scar that made her narrow her brows in worry.

Nevertheless, the torn part of her robes was regrown with her martial energy before she flew up and began looking around, finding what she wanted.

Without any hesitation, she located the door where she had seen Mu Bing leave and took a step forward, arriving before it before she opened the door.

When she entered, she found no one as she looked around carefully, leading her to sigh, realizing that Mu Bing could've moved away.

'Or maybe... the rooms are moving while we are inside every turn?'

Niera even had this thought, but unfortunately, it wasn't the case.

"...!"

Niera suddenly flinched and summoned her fiery crimson essence energy to protect herself as she saw the scene in front of her.

[For delaying sufficient time, you have to choose another door to take before the turn ends or risk being bombarded by an offensive formation that would weaken your energy considerably or probably even eliminate you.]

"Huh?"

Niera became taken aback by the message that appeared in front of her. Feeling suspicious, she turned to look at the doors and saw that they had all turned green before she employed her senses to make sure that there was no one hiding or making her see an illusion before finally perceiving that it truly was the consequence of wasting time to heal herself.

"I see..."

She flicked her sleeves and disrupted her fiery defense, making the blazing wings in the vague shape of a golden crow disperse.

Nevertheless, not knowing where Mu Bing left towards made her confused about which door to take, but outside, the crowd was screaming for her to move up so that she could meet up with her so-called sister and save her.

However, they momentarily became silent as someone reminded them that two people could not team up to battle, making them all blink.

If so, what would actually happen if three people ended up in a single room?

They were all curious.

However, as though dashing their hopes, Niera headed straight, making the people sigh in exasperation as it was an empty room on the other side. However, Niera suddenly stopped, looking contemplative and hesitant before she started to descend, choosing the door below as she stood before it, contemplating again before she opened it.

Many people suddenly understood why she did that because the more one moves straight, the more the chances for them to push themselves out of the spatial formation. As long as the people inside didn't know where they were at, moving a third time in a straight direction might prove to be fatal most of the time.

Niera opened the door below and became pleasantly surprised to see Tanya Frostblight while the latter also appeared to become shocked, not really expecting to see Niera arrive because her doors still shone red, except the one behind her which had turned green because Niera entered, giving Tanya Frostblight an advantage to escape.

"I'll talk to you later, Pia..."

Tanya Frostblight's voice resounded in her soul sea before she opened her mouth.

"You're injured?"

She could still see Niera's bloodied robe, although she didn't know if it was her blood or someone else's.

"A little."

Niera giggled, "But not that much as I healed myself a bit."

"Niera, I admit that you're strong, but I don't think you'll be a match for me in this state."

"I think so too..." Niera giggled, "However, defeating Kara Moonridge, who possessed two Perfect Domains, was more than enough for me to prove that I'm stronger than you at my peak."

Tanya Frostblight's eyes went wide as she recalled that woman, the wife of the man from the Dual Lotus Manor who was said to be Davis's friend.

She was that strong?

"No wonder you're injured..." Tanya Frostblight's eyes narrowed while a smile emerged behind her veil, "Still, I don't think you have enough energy to battle after battling Kara Moonridge, but even if you have most of your energy left, your injuries are going to cost you your attack speed and movement speed."

Niera's lips couldn't help but twitch as Tanya Frostblight was right on the mark. Her energy would flow slower since one of her hands has been pierced, ruining her meridian points and cutting off a pathway, not to mention the damage done to her shoulder and also her thigh that would make her movements and reaction time slower.

She wondered how she was going to face a sword cultivator like Tanya Frostblight. Perhaps, she could overdo and not care about the limitations of the current state of her meridians, but that would just end up making her injuries worse. For a competition, who would make their bodies become worse unless they had a special reason?

This was not the wicked path where almost every battle is a life and death battle. Moreover, most of the time, using blood essence to fuel strikes meant battling to kill in the righteous path, so unless they had no choice, they wouldn't use it either.

No one in their right mind would ruin their potential to win a single battle.

'I think I'm going to be murdered when I return...'

Niera could imagine all their worried yet angered faces for her reckless behavior before she wryly smiled.

"In any case, let's battle. You don't need to worry about offending anyone just because I'm his and that I'm already injured, making it an unfair battle because it's not because I'm the one challenging you, Tanya."

Niera's flames burst ablaze, filling the surrounding space as her five-kilometer Perfect Domain enveloped a part of the upper side while Tanya Frostblight's bosoms heaved, taking a deep breath before she took out a silvery sword and conjured both her Perfect Ice Domain and Supreme Sword Domain, the combined might of ice and sword made Niera feel a piercing chill despite the protection of her fiery domain.

The two of them looked determined as they pointed at each other.

"Watch out!"

Tanya Frostblight's figure faded as she flashed towards the side, causing Niera's eyes to narrow as her pupils tried to follow her movements. However, she quickly lost track of the icy figure using the famed Nethersnow Mirage Steps.

Tanya was just too fast, making Niera completely concentrate on defense.

"Offense is the best defense!"

With an enthusiastic cry, Niera unleashed extremely hot flames from her body as they filled her entire domain. She was overusing her energy, knowing that she would not last long against Tanya Frostblight if she used little amounts of energy to attack because one of her hands was injured.

Moreover, it was best not to let a sword cultivator close since their piercing prowess will allow them to destroy most obstacles.

*Puchi!~*

A vertical icy cut emerged on Niera's flames, creating a widening path to her.

In that path, Tanya Frostblight no longer used the concealing technique of the Nethersnow Mirage Steps but tried to bolster the speed of her movements, allowing her to swiftly make her way towards Niera.

Niera's left hand twitched in pain, but she had already placed her right hand before Tanya Frostblight's narrow pathway surrounded by her flames, opening her mouth.

"Nine Hell Sky Palm - Eight Waves!"

She unleashed eight superimposed palm strikes against Niera, the crimson flames turning into a concentrated mass of a palm as it mightily rushed towards Tanya Frostblight, looking as though it was going to crush her to death.

However, Tanya Frostblight curled up in her flight and suddenly bolstered her speed even more as she waved her sword-holding hand in an arc.

*Puchi!~*

Her sword cleaved through the fiery crimson palm as it made a hole before her figure rushed out of it while the edges of her robes became engulfed in flames.

Niera was taken aback by the sheer sight of it. However, she didn't let her guard down and struck out with her injured left hand.

'Nine Hell Sky Palm - Six Waves!'

With the utmost speed, she unleashed another attack at the foreboding Tanya Frostblight, whose eyes revealed intense concentration. The six waves' palms emerged with a tremendous might from Niera's palm, rushing towards her. However, she jumped to the side and disappeared into an icy mirror amidst the edge of the overflowing flames, making Niera's eyes widen.

"...!"

Niera flinched towards her side, where she sensed an anomaly and hurriedly moved her right hand, but it was already too late that an icy sword was right before her throat, cornering her into a defeat.

The blazing crimson essence energy brewing in Niera's right hand, ready to be unleashed, dispersed before she wryly giggled at Tanya Frostblight.

"I should have really learned some leg techniques..."

Tanya Frostblight's robes were in flames. However, the icy chill emanated by her caused the crimson flames to recede, making her icy-white figure look scorched black but uninjured. However, her arms trembled as her eyes looked complicated.

"I didn't want to win against you like this..."

Niera couldn't help but blink before her eyes sharply narrowed.

"If you feel so frustrated, why not face it head-on like a true sword cultivator?"

"..."

Tanya Frostblight's expression wavered as her eyes went wide.

"You-"

"I surrender."

Niera interrupted before a white light flashed on her entire figure, eliminating her from the competition, leaving a dumbfounded Tanya Frostblight to wonder if she meant what she meant.