"No, I still prefer my own appearance."
Gu Yuena shrugged her shoulders and curved her lips into a smile, seemingly indifferent to the ten percent bonus that came without any cost.
Of course, the real reason wasn't that; Gu Yuena only wished to maintain her original appearance when standing in front of Lin Yi, rather than looking like another woman.
Since there were few opportunities for interaction, she naturally wanted to stand before Lin Yi as herself, Gu Yuena.
"Don't need it? A ten percent damage increase might not mean much to others, but it would significantly enhance your abilities."
Lin Yi said from an extremely objective perspective, but Gu Yuena still shook her head firmly, so he said no more.
Gu Yuena didn't waste any further words and quickly began her attack.
After integrating the bonus from elemental reactions, unlike in the game, she could precisely control the timing of the elemental reactions, like deciding when an evaporation reaction or a melting reaction should occur... instead of the immediate reaction between any two contacting elements like in the game.
This flexibility allowed Gu Yuena to smoothly use her "Elemental Mixture."
This time, Gu Yuena only used three elements, still the two Elemental Mixtures—Fire Pistil Ice Lotus, with the addition of the wind element.
Although it was a direct contact between fire and ice elements, once the ice element melted into water, the water could undergo another evaporation reaction with fire, effectively gaining her another fifty percent damage increase for free.
This scenario of "fire melting ice into water causing an evaporation reaction" didn't exist in the game, so this was the flexibility of reality.
Gu Yuena raised her hands, her slender and fair fingers dancing elegantly in mid-air, so supple as if they were boneless.
Quickly, two white Ice Lotuses condensed in mid-air, and two streaks of burning red Fire Pistils shot out with a "swoosh," dancing upon the Ice Lotuses. Though small in size, they contained an immense amount of energy carefully condensed by Gu Yuena—something not to be underestimated—a fact that even Di Tian felt inferior to.
Gu Yuena raised her right hand again, sweeping it upwards, unveiling green wind petals slowly around the Ice Lotuses, with the dense wind element flowing out and unfolding itself.
She then looked up at Lin Yi, her eyes, one gold and the other purple, suddenly changing to vertical pupils, with a sharp aura emanating from around her body.
With a push of her palm, the two Ice Lotuses, supported by the wind element, accelerated towards Lin Yi.
To this point, the attack method of this skill was the same as before, but the next moment, a distinction finally emerged.
Upon the shattering of the two Ice Lotuses on Lin Yi's body, his body was instantly encased with a layer of ice, and the fiery red flames immediately engulfed him. As the melting reaction occurred, the green wind element abruptly whipped up a gust, facilitating the dispersion of the melting reaction, and after the wind had swept by, Lin Yi's body was enveloped within a layer of water film.
The flame persisted, still undiminished; fire serpents breathed out, sweeping once more towards Lin Yi, evaporating the outer layer of water. Throughout this process, the wind element raised another gust, continually spreading.
The entire process was well-defined and was executed in an instant. The effect didn't seem as exaggerated as before, so the audience even stayed close to the stage this time.
Lin Yi realized that the range of the spell had indeed shrunk from the entire stage to only around him personally, which was another form of damage increase in its own way.
As the attack concluded, without a doubt, the most terrifying damage rebound was quick to sweep over.
Gu Yuena looked somewhat stern, her instinct urging her to use the space element and then open the Gate of the Divine Realm, but remembering what had happened the night before, she decided against the idea.
Although she had Lin Yi by her side, giving her the capital to not fear the gods, Lin Yi couldn't always be with her at all times. The gods were always cunning, and Gu Yuena would never trust their promises.
In a state of urgency, Gu Yuena once again condensed an Ice Lotus Fire Pistil, but due to the considerable energy consumption of the Elemental Mixture, this time she only managed to form one. However, she added an Earth Element "shell" on the outside, creating what was essentially an "Elemental Bomb Egg".
The Elemental Bomb Egg flew towards the Damage Rebound. The Melting reaction and Evaporation reaction, two spreading reactions, were successively completed. Yet, a single Fire Pistil Ice Lotus clearly wasn't enough to block the Damage Rebound caused by two Fire Pistil Ice Lotuses. To Gu Yuena's surprise, just as Lin Yi had said, the Earth Element formed crystals with the other three elements!
Gu Yuena immediately touched the three kinds of crystals and was quickly covered by three different colored Shields!
The Damage Rebound that was not blocked by a single Fire Pistil Ice Lotus continued to assault her, shattering upon impact with Gu Yuena's Shields. At that instant, the Shields broke, and the Damage Rebound disintegrated as well.
The whole process actually happened in a very brief moment, which was why many people suffered severe injuries from Damage Rebound, and this was Gu Yuena's first time directly resisting Damage Rebound head-on.
Lin Yi looked at the panel.
[Blood Loss: 913467]
[Remaining Health: 883060743647]
[Damage Level: Gold (High Level)]
[Random Reward: Dragon God Experience Card *24 hours (Can be split into segments, each at a minimum of five minutes)]
[Host Reward: Dragon God Experience Card *1 month]
Deity Experience Card!
My god, how long has it been since this reward appeared!
A Deity Experience Card could appear in any reward pool with good luck. It first showed up in the Black Level pool, but the Black Level only offered five minutes of experience time.
This time, it's a Gold-tier advanced reward. Gold-tier advanced is the highest level of reward below Platinum Level, with damage ranging between 900,000 and 1,000,000.
It's unexpected that a Gold-tier advanced could grant 24 hours of experience time. Of course, that's not the most exaggerated part. The most unbelievable is that the time can be segmented, each segment being at least five minutes!
This means Gu Yuena could split a 24-hour Experience Card into 288 five-minute Experience Cards!
The setting of the Deity Experience Card is that once usage begins, time cannot be paused mid-way, and the card will expire as soon as the time ends.
This time, it's as though Gu Yuena can use the power of the Dragon God at will 288 times, each time merely using a five-minute Experience Card.
That's the depth of a Gold-tier advanced reward, simply incomparable to other rewards.
Lin Yi said to Gu Yuena, "Damage of 913467, Gold-tier advanced, this is the first Gold-tier advanced reward to emerge in regular attacks, and it's also the highest damage record in regular attacks so far."
Of course, Son Goku's strike doesn't count as a regular attack. If that strike had led to a reward, it might have been included in the regular attacks.
Gu Yuena was very satisfied with the result, which was even within her expectations. She asked, "What about the reward?"