Battle - 91

As Anna released her Ice QI, the entire battlefield transformed. The ground froze and snow started to fall from the sky. Giant spikes of ice pointed outwards, blocking the surrounding area from coming in contact with the battle taking place.

Zhou Fan paused in the air for a moment and let her play out her move. Anna stared him dead in the eyes as the snowflakes reached lower and lower. Just as they were 10 feet above where Zhou Fan floated, the snowflakes transformed. Each and every one of the hundred thousand snowflakes turned into icicles that pierced towards Zhou Fan and the area around him.

The power contained in each icicle could kill a level 1 nascent soul realm cultivator, but Zhou fan merely slammed the bottom of his scythe on the ground and created a shockwave that blew away the first group of icicles. The first round contained 10,000 icicles and another wave of the same amount shot at him again.

This time, Zhou Fan raised a barrier with his finger that bounced the icicles back. The barrier lasted against three rounds of icicles before it started to crack, naturally due to the fact that Zhou Fan was holding his strength back immensely.

In the middle of the 5th round of icicles, the barrier shattered into pieces. Instead of forming another barrier or making a shockwave send the icicles back, Zhou Fan continued to supply the broken barrier fragments with Qi and turned them towards Anna before he shot them towards her similar to the way the icicles were shooting at him. Due to that, he had to take the icicles with his body which caused some minor damage to his robe.

Anna was surprised by the sudden and unexpected attack and had to cancel her attack in order to dodge. Even so, she still got hit by a few pieces and even started to bleed from a cut on her arm.

From the moment she released her Ice Qi to the moment she got cut, only a few seconds had passed. Just as Zhou Fan was going to attack during Anna's moment of weakness, she started to attack with another martial art. Zhou Fan moved towards her in an attempt to cancel the martial art, but she finished just as he was about to make contact.

His scythe was inches away from Anna's head, but a strong wind followed by an icy chill blew him backwards a couple meters. When he looked up, he saw a raging blizzard hundreds of meters in size approaching him rapidly. Zhou Fan only had enough time to put up a barrier before it hit him.

The attack was similar to her early icicle attack, but it was more constant and much more powerful. Zhou Fan had to use a large amount of strength to maintain the barrier as he started to make up a move to counter the attack.

In moments, the black barrier started to crack. Zhou Fan's mind moved much faster as he continued to think of a new move that 'Death' could use. Just as the barrier was about to break, he finally formed an idea.

He raised the scythe he had been carrying with his right hand to the right and up a few degrees. He then raised his left hand in a similar way and formed another scythe with Death Qi. Anna saw his unusual movements and prepared for anything unexpected, but wasn't prepared for what Zhou Fan did next.

He held the position of the scythes until the moment the barriers broke down and the wind started to pour in. In that very instant, Zhou Fan slashed out with his scythes in an x-shaped fashion. From the scythes, a deathly red and black wind started forming, then spinning. Right as the blizzard attack was about to come into contact with Zhou Fan, the spinning Qi enlarged and what seemed like a hurricane made of Black and Red Qi started pushing back against the blizzard attack.

From a distance, it looked like two different colored tornadoes were pushing against each other. Anna's eyes widened with shock as she started to pour all her Qi into the blizzard attack, making it stronger than before. However, Zhou Fan's attack wasn't weak enough to be defeated so easily.

What seemed like screams started to sound out from the center of Zhou Fans tornado of death Qi. The cries weren't that of a baby or of a person getting a jumpscare, but sounded more like the scream of a man getting his skin peeled off. The screams were filled with terror, fear, and pain.

The attacks pushed back at each other for around five minutes before they both started to weaken and eventually disperse. As the raging storms calmed down, Anna was seen panting on the ground from exhaustion. As for Zhou Fan, or 'Death', he was standing still without a sign of fatigue.

"Is that all you've got?" He asked with a tone of disappointment. "I expected so much more from you."

As he walked towards her and gathered Death Qi in his hand in order to finish her off, Anna reached behind her back and pulled out a green bottle. She popped the lid off with a finger before raising her head and emptying the contents in her mouth. Zhou Fan said nothing and hopped back a couple of meters. With his sight, he could clearly see that those were grade 5, or soul formation, recovery and stamina pills.

Although a single one wouldn't be able to help her much, a bottle that size would be enough to fully refill her strength. Unfortunately, taking so many had side effects. Therefore, she would only be able to use one bottle before they nearly completely lost their effect on her for a while.

Not to mention the fact that she probably only had one. After all, soul formation pills were quite difficult to make with the Zhou World's current resources.

Anna stood up and briefly stretched before she readied herself. Her next move would likely be her most powerful and her last in this battle.