Chapter 190 — A Friend from Afar Must First Have His Resolve Tempered

"A special-category talent, White Lightning—a type of special lightning. Not only can he manipulate white lightning himself, but he can also let a beast compatible with lightning master the super-tier skill 'White Lightning.'"

It was precisely because of white lightning's inclusive, affinitive nature and its compatibility with the light element that he had been able to begin contracting and training a high-tier King-species Thunderlight Beast while still at the trainee stage!

White lightning burst from Fu Di'an's entire body, its might immense.

"Holy crap."

As Fu Di'an's words landed, the students present erupted.

Where did this freakish talent come from?

The Thunderlight Beast already had one super-tier skill, the Trample of Sanction—and now White Lightning too? Two super-tier skills?

Its species rank was already near quasi-overlord; with its talent fortified, did its combat power now approach that of a low-tier overlord species at commander level?

At this moment, even Shi Jin could not help but show surprise.

This Fu Di'an was strong.

It seemed the other side had run out of patience and decided to finish him in a single blow.

But would it be that simple?

"Wrooo~~~!!!!" At that moment, high in the sky, the Thunderlight Beast stamped upon the air and threw back its head with a shrill cry.

Its entire body bloomed with peerless radiance, a light that seemed able to dispel all darkness and sanction all evil, carrying a wave of incomparable sublimity and holiness.

Buzz!!

The blazing radiance burst forth as though joining heaven and earth. A dimensional ripple opened in the sky, and higher still, the massive hoof and leg of something like a Thunderlight Beast emerged slowly in the form of a luminous pillar's phantom, descending.

Light-element super-tier skill: Judgement Stomp!

Zzzzzt!!!

It was not merely a single super-tier skill. Around Judgement Stomp now coiled white lightning, as though the hoof of the stomp had been clad in a suit of thunder-armor, making it all the more destructive.

White Lightning plus Judgement Stomp?

How was anyone supposed to block that?

The members of the Battle Club stared blankly at the massive pillar of light in the sky.

BOOM!!!

In an instant, a terrifying suppressive force enveloped Little Eleven where it floated in the sky, pinning it so completely that it could not move at all, only watch as the enormous hoof, several meters across, fell from above, settled over it, and crushed it down!

At this moment, beside White Lightning Judgement Stomp, Eleven's body seemed utterly insignificant, plummeting rapidly as the descending stomp drove it down!

Eleven tried to resist.

"Awooo!!!" The crowd watched the little Iron-Eating Beast strain with all its might against the stomp, yet its strength was more than a notch too weak, and it kept falling. They swallowed hard.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap." Hong Xiao and the other senior Battle Club members were numb.

"Shi Jin is done for, isn't he."

"How do you block this? He's invincible in a one-on-one."

At this moment, every senior member of the Battle Club wore an expression of profound gravity.

Yet just then, Yu Shu and his group—whether they could no longer sit still or simply felt like taking a stroll—had somehow wandered over to the seniors' side.

Hands clasped behind their backs, they gazed up at the arena sky and said, "Easy, seniors."

"A move of this caliber—how could it possibly trouble Shi Jin?"

The seniors: ???

They turned to look at Yu Shu, Wang Ling, Miao Dongdong, and the others, all perfectly calm.

Have you all lost your minds? You have no sense of what power means.

Even Vice President Xu Ze of our club, in a one-on-one, might not be able to take this move!

Can't you see the Vice President's grim expression?

"Don't you see how calm Director He still is?" Wang Ling said.

"Hm?" At his words, everyone finally noticed that Director He, the referee, was even calmer than Yu Shu and the rest. His expression did not look at all like Shi Jin was on the back foot.

What was going on?

Things had already come to this...

A moment later, they realized that the most composed person here was Shi Jin himself!

"Then let's skip the warm-up." Shi Jin.

In its restrained state, Eleven would likely struggle against a double super-tier skill. Though the two super-tier skills could hardly be called a combo technique—they had not reached the effect of one plus one equals two—they were still greater than one, and Eleven truly could not hold out.

"Hm?" Fu Di'an, wreathed in white lightning, could not understand why Shi Jin was still so composed at a time like this!

But soon enough, he understood.

In the sky, Eleven, driven rapidly downward under the enormous hoof, saw that no amount of force could withstand the thing. The attack was about to crush it fully to the ground and deliver its most devastating judgement—and so Eleven stopped warming up.

"Evolve, Eleven."

Shi Jin gave the order.

"Awoo!" In an instant, midair, Eleven's whole body blazed with light.

The source of stamina within it spun madly, and together with the light of evolution, its body erupted with dazzling blue-white lightning.

It stood in immediate contrast to the white-lightning-wreathed Judgement Stomp.

At this moment, everyone made a startling discovery: the Judgement Stomp falling from the sky had suddenly slowed.

In the sky, beneath Eleven's feet, a far more intensely concentrated electromagnetic levitation ripple appeared, granting Eleven greater power!

"What is this...?"

Watching the sudden transformation of its body and the abruptly slowing descent of Judgement Stomp, every senior member of the Battle Club rose to their feet, their gazes fixed.

What had Shi Jin just said?

Evolution?

Could it be...

By now Fu Di'an had sensed something was wrong too. Staring at Eleven, wreathed in the light of evolution, he wore a look of blank disbelief. "Impossible! How can it evolve mid-battle..."

Yet no matter how this Beast Tamer from Rongguang refused to believe it, evolve Eleven did. An invisible white blaze of light, like surging thunder, burst forth from Eleven's body steeped in white radiance. Within that enormous pillar of flame, several meters tall, blue arcs of electricity crackled with a "zizz-zizz" sound, stunning everyone.

And through this process, Eleven's body was still rapidly expanding. In mere moments it had swelled to a height of ten meters, and with a descending cry of its hooves, the giant Eleven's feet slowly met the ground.

The white light dispersed, and the scene on the field became clear to every eye.

A colossal beast encased in black armor—though its head and torso were clad in silver-white—stood upon the earth, its right arm raised, supporting the descending Trample of Sanction with a single hand.

The blue arcs around its right palm and the white lightning of the Trample of Sanction twined about each other, unleashing a savage fluctuation.

But in this instant the Trample of Sanction could not descend another inch; it seemed frozen. The giant beast stood steady upon the earth, mysterious, domineering, regal—lifting its head, fixing its lightning-blue eyes upon that mighty strike.

Everyone watched, shaken to the core.

"The Nine Li... Battle Beast...?"

"But that stance..."

At this moment the veterans of the Battle Society seemed to stop breathing, eyes wide, unable to believe what they saw on the field.

When had Shi Ying's Iron-Eating Beast evolved?

It had already completed its evolution?

But wasn't the Nine Li Battle Beast black all over?

Right now the energy surging from Eleven's body was so intense that the Battle Society veterans could scarcely breathe.

Watching the incomparably powerful White Thunder: Trample of Sanction held up by the giant Nine Li Battle Beast with one hand, every face registered disbelief.

Concealed Edge + Gigantification + Hardening + Thunder Palm!