One person: Starting with the Snow Drinking Blade

Chapter 309 Combination Attack Technique?

In just one exchange, or more precisely, in Nie Lingfeng's second attack, Zhang Chulan and Zhang Lingyu were both injured! And judging from Nie Lingfeng's calm and composed demeanor, he clearly hadn't used his full strength at all!

"Too strong..." Xu Si, who was watching the battle, put away his playful expression and became solemn. He knew that Nie Lingfeng was strong, but he did not expect him to be this strong. That feeling of effortless and casual, yet deadly move by move, was a complete crushing defeat! Zhang Chulan and Zhang Lingyu had already shown considerable strength in their sparring earlier, but in front of Nie Lingfeng, they seemed so clumsy and powerless.

Xu San adjusted his glasses and said in a deep voice, "It's not just a difference in strength, it's a crushing defeat in terms of realm and experience. Ling Feng's movement techniques, timing, and application of power far surpass theirs. Moreover, he seems to be able to easily see through all their intentions."

Chen Duo held Xiao Yun, who seemed very interested in "fighting." She waved her little hands and shouted, "Papa! Fight! Fight!" Chen Duo had to gently cover her eyes, even though Xiao Yun herself was watching very intently.

In the arena, Zhang Chulan slid down the wall, wincing in pain as he clutched his bleeding shoulder, hissing in agony. Zhang Lingyu also struggled to his feet, his Daoist robes frosted over, his lips turning blue, his body writhing in cold energy, and the flow of Yin Thunder extremely sluggish.

The two exchanged a glance and saw in each other's eyes horror and... a hint of defiant fire.

"Damn it... this is too insane..." Zhang Chulan spat out the blood in his mouth, his eyes hardening. "Junior Uncle, it seems that if we don't get serious, we won't even last ten seconds, let alone an incense stick's worth of time!"

Zhang Lingyu nodded silently, forcefully circulating his Qi to dispel the chill within his body. The black lightning Qi slowly rose again, but it was much dimmer than before. He said in a deep voice, "Senior Brother Chu Lan, we can no longer fight individually. Brother Nie's movements are ghostly, and his attacks are fierce. Any one of us would have no chance of winning against him alone."

"I know!" Zhang Chulan took a deep breath, and white lightning flashed again. But this time, he didn't rush to attack. Instead, he lowered his voice and spoke rapidly, "Brother Nie's movements are too fast, his predictions are too accurate, and area attacks are only so effective against him... We need to limit him! Junior Uncle, use your Yin Lightning, at its maximum range. Whether you hit it or not, just cover this area! Create an environment that's advantageous to you! I'll feign an attack to attract his attention. You find an opportunity to use that 'Water Dirty Lightning - Swimming Worm' or some other underhanded trick to entangle him! Even if it's just delaying him for a moment!"

After a moment's thought, Zhang Lingyu understood Zhang Chulan's intention. His Yin Five Thunders excelled at controlling, eroding, and creating advantageous terrain, while Zhang Chulan's Yang Five Thunders were fast and explosive, suitable for harassment and containment. This was indeed the best cooperative strategy the two could think of under the current circumstances.

"Alright!" Zhang Lingyu said no more, slamming his hands onto the ground! More, thicker, and deeper black lightning energy surged from his palms like ink, spreading wildly across the entire training ground! This time, he no longer pursued the refinement and aggressiveness of the lightning energy, but rather maximized the characteristics of Yin lightning—slowness, erosion, and perception! He wanted to temporarily transform this area into his own "Northern Azure Pool" domain!

Nie Lingfeng stood not far away, watching the blackness rapidly seep into the ground. He didn't immediately stop it; instead, a hint of approval appeared in his eyes: "Not bad. Using a domain to counter my speed? Then, Chu Lan, what are you planning to do?"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Chulan's figure had already transformed into a streak of white lightning, rushing towards him from the flank! This time, Zhang Chulan didn't push his speed to the limit, but instead advanced along an unpredictable trajectory, while simultaneously flicking his hands, sending countless tiny white lightning orbs flying like machine gun bullets towards every part of Nie Lingfeng's body! He wasn't aiming to injure the enemy, but only to disrupt and draw his attention!

"Thunder Talisman - Scattering Blossoms!"

Faced with the dense barrage of lightning beads, Nie Lingfeng moved slightly, his figure like a willow catkin in the wind, weaving through the gaps between the lightning beads with a seemingly slow but actually exquisitely precise movement, the beads not even touching the hem of his clothes. His gaze was mostly fixed on Zhang Lingyu, who was fully expanding her Yin Lightning Domain.

"The idea is good, but..." Nie Lingfeng shook his head slightly, his figure flickered, as if he was about to break free from Zhang Chulan's harassment and go straight for Zhang Lingyu.

However, in the instant he shifted slightly, the black lightning energy spreading from beneath his feet suddenly seemed to come alive, erupting into several thick streams of black lightning that coiled around his legs like pythons! At the same time, Zhang Lingyu's tightly closed eyes snapped open, and he hissed:

"Bound by the turbid current!"

Nie Lingfeng paused slightly. The binding force of this Yin Lightning was indeed much stronger than before, and it carried a strong corrosive quality, attempting to penetrate his protective aura. But that was all. He struggled slightly, intending to shatter the binding force.

But in that brief moment of delay, Zhang Chulan's attack arrived! He didn't launch a frontal assault, but instead somehow circled around to Nie Lingfeng's blind spot, crouching low, almost touching the ground. On his right fist, the white lightning was highly compressed, but it didn't have the astonishing power of the previous "Spiral Bone-Piercing Drill." Instead, it was incredibly condensed, carrying an extreme penetrating force, and silently slammed towards Nie Lingfeng's lower back!

"Thunder Magic - Concealed Needle!"

This attack combines speed, stealth, and penetrating power to the extreme! It's a treacherous killing move that Zhang Chulan honed through countless life-or-death battles!

"Good timing." Nie Lingfeng's voice rang in Zhang Chulan's ears like a ghost! He had turned around at some point and was now facing Zhang Chulan. He lightly stomped his foot, which was wrapped in black lightning!

"The waves are crashing against the shore!"

A vast and boundless force erupted from him! It was not the Cloud-Dispelling Palm, nor the Wind God Leg or the Heavenly Frost Fist, but the purest and most powerful palm force! Like a tsunami, it surged and swept indiscriminately in all directions!

Puff puff!

The black lightning bolts binding his legs were the first to be struck, instantly shattering into pieces by the violent force! Zhang Lingyu groaned, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, and the expansion of his domain was forcibly interrupted!

Zhang Chulan's insidious "Hidden Needle" strike was like hitting an invisible wall of air. The lightning, compressed to its limit, collided with the immense palm force, producing a teeth-grinding friction sound before exploding with a deafening roar! Zhang Chulan himself was struck as if by a heavy blow, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and his entire body was thrown backward like a kite with a broken string!

"Chu Lan!" Zhang Lingyu exclaimed, forcibly suppressing his surging blood and qi, and slammed his hands together! On the ground, the black lightning qi that had been scattered but had not completely disappeared, as well as the lightning qi that surged out from his own body, suddenly condensed into dozens of lightning spikes like black spears, shooting towards Nie Lingfeng from all angles!

"Water-Soaked Thunder - Thorn Forest!"

This is one of the strongest area attacks he can currently unleash; each lightning bolt contains extremely strong penetrating power and the corrosive properties of Yin Lightning!

Despite the black lightning spikes attacking from all directions, Nie Lingfeng remained calm. He didn't even move, merely raising his right palm and making a vague gesture in front of him.

"Flowing water and drifting clouds".

A supple yet overwhelming palm force rose up like an invisible wall. The sharp black lightning bolts crashed into this "wall of energy," making muffled "plop" sounds, their speed decreasing sharply, as if they were sinking into an invisible quagmire, making it extremely difficult to advance, and finally dissipating when they were about a foot away from Nie Lingfeng's body.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened!

Zhang Chulan, who should have been knocked away and seriously injured, losing his fighting ability, suddenly had the previously dim white lightning on his body suddenly shine again just before he landed! Not only that, but within that lightning, there was also a faint but real trace of gold!

"Hey... Brother Nie... you've fallen for it!" Zhang Chulan, still in mid-air, revealed a sly, blood-splattered grin of triumph. "That last attack... was intentional!"

He wasn't completely defeated at all! He endured most of the palm strike, creating the illusion of being severely injured and sent flying backward, all for this unexpected attack! And that wisp of golden lightning... was his attempt, in his desperate situation, to combine the almost negligible Golden Light Mantra within him with the Yang Five Thunder! Although weak, it allowed him to break through his limits in that instant!

"Thunderbolt - Full Power - Overload!"

His figure twisted abruptly in mid-air, turning back at a speed three times faster than before! His target was not Nie Lingfeng himself, but rather—the ground beneath Nie Lingfeng's feet, which was tainted by Zhang Lingyu's Yin Lightning and shaken by Nie Lingfeng's own palm force, and was in a delicate and unstable state!

"Junior Uncle! Now! Maximum output! Bomb him at his feet!" Zhang Chulan roared with all his might!

Although Zhang Lingyu didn't understand why, he chose to trust Zhang Chulan without reservation in the opportunity he had created by risking his life! Almost at the same time that Zhang Chulan shouted, he squeezed out the last bit of Qi in his body and pressed his hands down hard!

"Northern Azure Pool - Devouring Abyss!"

It wasn't an attack on Nie Lingfeng, but rather the complete and utter infusion of all his Yin Lightning power into the ground beneath Nie Lingfeng's feet, a ground already churned up by various forces! What he wanted wasn't an attack, but—extreme interference and delay! Even, to cause instability in the ground beneath his feet!

A genuine look of surprise finally flashed in Nie Lingfeng's eyes. He hadn't expected Zhang Chulan to be so valiant, trading injury for momentum, and he certainly hadn't expected the two of them to achieve such tacit understanding in such a split second! The corrosive power of the Yin Lightning beneath his feet, combined with the chaotic earth energy, indeed made him feel as if he were trapped in quagmire, causing his body to freeze for an extremely brief, almost imperceptible moment.

And it was this moment of stagnation!

Zhang Chulan's desperate counterattack arrived! He didn't attack Nie Lingfeng's upper body, but instead concentrated all the white Yang lightning into his right foot and kicked it hard at the ground beneath Nie Lingfeng's feet! No, he kicked the area filled with Yin lightning and chaotic earth energy!

"Bomb it, you bastard!!"

Boom!

The white Yang lightning and the thick, viscous black Yin lightning below collided violently in the unstable area beneath Nie Lingfeng's feet! These two forces, which were originally mutually repulsive and annihilating, reacted more violently than ever before under Zhang Chulan's reckless stomp and the explosion of chaotic earth energy!

It was neither a simple cancellation nor an orderly fusion, but a near-explosive, out-of-control conflict and... a brief, violent intertwining!

Sizzle—!!!

Amidst indescribable, bizarre sounds, a region of thunderstorm, a mixture of black and white, constantly twisting and exploding, suddenly erupted from Nie Lingfeng's center! Its power far surpassed either Zhang Chulan's or Zhang Lingyu's individual attacks! It even faintly approached the level of their previous clash of ultimate attacks!

In the chaotic thunderstorm, Nie Lingfeng's figure seemed to be swallowed up.