As the crack appeared, Chen Jiu Jun, who was still arranging the Thunder Strike Seal, underwent a dramatic change in expression, while Fang Kun, who had just rushed up close, ready to swing his blade at the Earth Element Beast, also hurriedly halted and quickly retreated!
"It's Crack Earth Gorge!"
Both of them remembered that this was another Green Skill of the Earth Element Beast, which involved injecting Star Power into the earth and accumulating energy in the form of a gorge before bursting forth—Crack Earth Gorge!
Crack Earth Gorge involved channeling a large amount of energy underground, resulting in a delay of two to three seconds upon activation, but this trade-off allowed for a far more terrifying power.
Now, Su Yuan, controlled by the Earth Element Pressure, obviously had no way to dodge!
"Quick, press the distress button... Damn it!" Fang Kun cried out in alarm.
Previously, Fang Kun had seen a few students press the SOS button, which once pressed, would activate a pre-set Star Power Barrier in the locator to temporarily protect the student in distress.
However, Fang Kun quickly realized that Su Yuan was immobilized by the Elemental Magnetism Pressure, and simply couldn't press the distress button.
Chen Jiu Jun also frowned and said, "Thought he had some ability from those few moves just now, but is this it? Daring to wade into these waters, he really has a death wish!"
Not far from the battlefield, Xiao Yong, who was hiding his presence, had tense muscles and highly concentrated spirit, ready to intervene at any moment! If it wasn't because he knew that Su Yuan had Instant Movement, Xiao Yong would have already taken action.
After all, these three, especially this Su Yuan, could not afford to make the slightest mistake!
"Boom!!"
Accompanied by a thunderous roar, surging black light flame burst forth from the ground crack, instantly rising several meters high, like a terrifying wall of Star Power!
The fearsome power of this strike made even Fang Kun, who had retreated in another direction, feel his soul shake!
After two seconds, the black light flame dissipated, leaving a huge gorge over seventy or eighty meters long on the ground.
"This power... is truly terrifying!" Fang Kun swallowed, suddenly looking into the distance, "Right, where's that guy...?"
"Really dangerous..."
As Fang Kun was pondering, a faint voice suddenly came from behind him.
Fang Kun was taken aback, turned his head to look, and saw that Su Yuan had unexpectedly appeared behind him at some point, looking calm and completely unharmed.
"How could he be here! Is it an illusion, a Substitute Technique, or..." Looking at Su Yuan's eyes shining with a silver glow, Fang Kun suddenly thought of something, and his pupils constricted, "Could it be... Instant Teleportation?!"
Su Yuan stepped forward and said to Fang Kun, "Move back a bit."
Fang Kun frowned and asked, "Hm? What do you mean?"
Su Yuan looked up and gestured towards the distance; within several tens of meters around the Earth Element Beast, there were already fifteen silver Thunder Marks.
"I didn't expect Su Yuan to also have Instant Movement?!" Chen Jiu Jun's face was filled with disbelief, and finally, with an ugly sneer, he said, "So what? This Earth Element Beast is mine! I am the number one trial participant, Guangchuan's top prodigy!"
Chen Jiu Jun raised his hand to lay down the final Thunder Strike Seal, then quickly began forming seals with both hands.
Addressing Fang Kun, Su Yuan said, "He's about to complete it, and we can't stop him. Do you still want to help the Earth Element Beast share some of the damage?"
Fang Kun's brow furrowed deeply: "He's arranged it so quickly, are we really going to let him take the Earth Element Beast just like that?"
Su Yuan, however, appeared calm: "You and I have both personally experienced the defense of the Earth Element Beast; don't you have a bit of confidence?"
Fang Kun was startled; remembering that even his full-strength slash in his normal state could only leave a superficial wound on the body of the Earth Element Beast, his heart settled down a bit.
Su Yuan said slowly, "After this strike, we shall see who is working for whom."
Su Yuan was confident in the defense of the Earth Element Beast, having tested it with Perfect Steel Flame Finger.
Even if Chen Jiu Jun had a powerful Green Skill, as long as it was not Perfect, it was not necessarily going to kill the Earth Element Beast in one blow!
The Earth Element Beast had just unleashed Crack Earth Gorge, when silver thunder marks lit up from all directions.
The Earth Element Beast, feeling the ominous presence of the rich Thunder Element around it, gave no further consideration to anything else and hurriedly charged outwards.
Having set up for so long, Chen Jiu Jun wouldn't let the Earth Element Beast escape; two Thunder Snakes flew out from his body, and linked up head to tail, transforming into the Silver Electric Magic Chain that bound the body of the Earth Element Beast.
Killing a Bronze-Level Earth Element Beast would certainly rank among the top in the Wanzhou special recruitment!
Chen Jiu Jun's eyes sparkled with excitement, his heart surged, and he shouted with hands forming seals, "Sixteen Layers, Thunder Strike Array!"
Countless bolts of Thunder Attribute Star Power burst from the Thunder Seals, with thunder exploding and lightning roaring! The dismal Thunder Light engulfed the Earth Element Beast in an instant!
To such prowess, even Fang Kun couldn't help but admire, "This move is strong!"
"Indeed a shocking strike!" Su Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, "But perhaps, it's still lacking a bit."
Hearing this, Fang Kun's gaze flickered, and as the Thunder Light gradually dissipated, he tightened his grip on the broadsword.
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
The hissing of the thunder and lightning was incessant to the ear, and as the silver light vanished, everyone could clearly see the situation in the center.
The Earth Element Beast, originally of a gray-black hue, now appeared even more charred black.
After using the hugely consuming Crack Earth Gorge, and now being struck by the Sixteen Layers Thunder Strike Array, the Earth Element Beast's breath had weakened considerably.
Nevertheless, even so, it still stood steadfast in place, glaring deathly at the three people outside!
"How can this be?!"
Chen Jiujun's eyes were full of disbelief.
How is it possible, that the Sixteen Layers Thunder Strike Array, which could even blast to death a Bronze Middle Stage Huangyan Armadillo, failed to kill this Earth Element Beast?!
Chen Jiujun had after all underestimated the ferocity of an Elite Star Beast.
In fact, Star Apprentice-level students rarely have the opportunity to encounter Elite Star Beasts, hence even Su Yuan and Zhuang Xun had nearly suffered a great loss initially.
Moreover, Su Yuan's Steel Flame Finger and Fang Kun's strike with the Black Tiger Strong Strike had both caused effective damage to the Earth Element Beast, which led to Chen Jiujun's misjudgment about the beast's defense.
Fang Kun was one thing, but in Chen Jiujun's view, Su Yuan was just an Eighth Stage who had just awakened!
Therefore, Chen Jiujun felt that although the defense of the Earth Element Beast was strong, it was at most comparable to the Huangyan Armadillo he had previously killed.
"That's why you can't rely on others; how the opponent really is, you have to try it out for yourself..."
Watching the dazed Chen Jiujun, Su Yuan shook his head slightly.
And at this moment, Star Power surged violently in front of him; it was Fang Kun holding a broadsword, bursting forth with full strength and transforming into a black line charging towards the weakened Earth Element Beast.
Su Yuan chuckled lightly, "Such an impatient guy..."
Star Power swarmed out from within his body, and in an instant, flames and gold elements burst forth on Su Yuan's right arm, intertwining black and red colors. In just a moment, his entire right arm turned into a violently burning, red-hot metal!
"Instant Movement..."
With a flash of silver in his eyes, Su Yuan vanished from his spot and appeared in an instant next to the Earth Element Beast, his burning metallic right arm, shaped like a knife, slashing at the beast's neck.
"Golden Burning Hand!"
Su Yuan uttered a low shout, and his right arm, a mixture of golden fire, severed the Earth Element Beast's neck after only a slight resistance!
"Thump thump..."
The head of the Earth Element Beast fell to the ground like a basketball, rolling to the feet of Fang Kun who had just charged forward.
The Earth Element Beast, dead!
With a slightly pale face, Su Yuan dissipated the Star Power on his arm, and intense pain and burning sensations immediately filled his entire right arm, as if even the bones were cracked.
Given his current physical condition, using this move was indeed a bit of a struggle...
This move was an inadvertent insight Su Yuan gained after he had perfected the Hardened Iron Armor and combined it with the Steel Flame Finger.
The two skills, both above perfect level, intermingled and seemed to react at a deeper level, further tapping potential and unleashing a force that transcended limits!
Su Yuan named it "Golden Burning Hand."
With Su Yuan's two skills both at the Transformation Realm, if he went all out, the power of the Golden Burning Hand should be above the Green Skill of Great Success and quite close to Perfect.
Tens of meters away, Xiao Yong, who had been closely watching this side, saw this scene, his mouth twitched, and it took him a while to squeeze out a sentence:
"Why are you being so fierce with your skills?"
As Su Yuan powerfully struck down the Earth Element Beast with a single blow, both Fang Kun and Chen Jiujun were left standing in place.
Chen Jiujun finally realized that even in Guangchuan City, there were geniuses far beyond him, and he was just a Star Apprentice Eighth Stage!
Thinking back to what Su Yuan had said earlier, Chen Jiujun suddenly had an epiphany and couldn't help but mock himself, "Six of one, half a dozen of the other... Turns out I'm the six, and you're the dozen."
As for Fang Kun, at this moment he was staring wide-eyed at the Earth Element Beast's head that had rolled to his feet, not sure how to describe the astonishing lethality of the Golden Burning Hand—it was definitely a notch above his own Hu Ben's Heart transformation plus a powerful strike!
This was the attack of a Star Apprentice Eighth Stage with bare hands?!
Looking up at Su Yuan, Fang Kun smiled wryly and shook his head, cursing inwardly.
Zhuang Xun you d*mned liar, saying "he might be stronger than us?" This guy is a freak!
We're all specially recruited students from Shuzhou, future classmates, and since you knew how amazing he was, why didn't you give me more intel?
Oh, I get it, you wanted to make a fool out of me, right? Wishing me great success, emerging at the top? Alright, just you wait, we'll settle this when we get to Shuzhou College!
"Achoo... Achoo!"
At Qingye High School, Zhuang Xun, who had been dozing off during his language class, suddenly felt a chill down his spine and couldn't help sneezing.
"Goodness, who's cursing me behind my back!"
Zhuang Xun scratched his head in confusion and went back to dozing off...