As soon as Ivan finished speaking, he opened his mouth wide, and the disgusting long tongue shot out like a venomous snake, continuously lengthening and skillfully rushing toward Lin Xunrou under his control.

Faced with such an attack, Lin Xunrou found it repulsive and didn't even want to touch that strange thing. Her body leapt into the air, confronting the long tongue that relentlessly pursued her, and with two fingers together, she aimed a Source Qi Slash downward.

Blood splattered as the Source Qi Slash effortlessly severed the long tongue upon contact, yet Ivan did not scream in pain from his injured tongue. The bloody severed tongue swiftly withdrew into his mouth, and simultaneously, he struck the ground hard with the scepter he held, causing the earth to start trembling slightly.

Floating in mid-air, Lin Xunrou quietly observed the changes in the situation, preparing for the next round of attack while watching her opponent's every move. Just then, the ground began to tremble more fiercely and unnerving Source Qi emanated from beneath the stage, momentarily catching her attention. As she shifted her gaze to the ground, a foul wind suddenly attacked from behind.

Lin Xunrou didn't have time to turn around to see what was attacking her. She quickly lunged forward to dodge the strike, then spun her side and lashed out with a long whip.

Turning back, she was hit with a nauseating stench, and a venomous snake with its jaws wide open and hissing tumbled into her whip mid-air. The whip, wrapped in Source Qi, struck the snake solidly, successfully severing it in half. Despite this, the severed half of the snake still flew forward with inertia, spitting out a series of clear venom streams with a hiss.

Lin Xunrou had no interest in testing the strength of this venom with her own Source Qi. She never chose to withstand such attacks when they could be avoided, and tilted her neck to dodge the venom. Just as she prepared to strike the severed snake with Source Qi, the trembling ground suddenly cracked open, and four huge black dogs, drooling and fierce, erupted from the ground towards Lin Xunrou, who was evading attacks in the air.

The sudden assault caught Lin Xunrou off guard. She had no time to deal with the flying severed tongue, and with a palm strike, she used the force of Source Qi surging out to spin herself in the air. In the midst of adjusting her posture, the long whip in her hand swung with her body's movement, tracing a perfect arc in the air, aiming at two attacking dogs from one side, and she struck down. Two tragic dog howls erupted from the throats of the struck dogs, which were ripped open and fell from the air.

Next, Lin Xunrou, now descending, stepped on void air rising a bit higher. Her long whip was thrown aside, and she spun around to deliver an elbow strike accurately to the chin of the dog that attacked from behind. The loss of three vicious dogs gave the last one time to breach Lin Xunrou's defenses, and it lunged at her from the front, knocking her from mid-air.

Standing nearly two meters tall like a pony-sized fierce dog, it pressed down on her like a small mountain. Lin Xunrou did not panic like ordinary people. Instead, she moved her arm freshly after elbowing its companion, punching directly at the dog's head with her fist. A fierce gust of wind followed the punch, and the dog instinctively sensed danger, tilting its head to bite at the fist. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The dog's gaping maw did not deter Lin Xunrou. Her fist didn't retreat or dodge but went straight into the open mouth. Before the dog's mouth could close, a condensed Source Qi Group exploded from Lin Xunrou's fist, journeying down the dog's throat into its body, followed by a dull explosion sound. The dog, its abdomen blown open by the Source Qi, splattered Lin Xunrou with blood before falling to the ground with a whimper, its body ending in spasms as it turned into a nauseating bit of flesh.

This string of counterattacks was completed in the blink of an eye. Landing on the ground, Lin Xunrou hadn't even caught her breath, feeling a pain in her ankle. She looked down to see the snake she had earlier severed in two had jumped up again after hitting the ground, biting her ankle while she wasn't paying attention.

The sharp venomous fangs corroded the outer Source Qi but couldn't penetrate further. Lin Xunrou looked at the snake with disgust, then glanced back at her original standing place, where the severed long tongue was no longer present. Apparently, this venomous snake was transformed from the tongue, making Lin Xunrou feel even more repulsed. An explosion of Source Qi erupted from her steps, blasting the snake's head into pieces, then she kicked the snake's body far away.

From afar, Ivan bent over to stroke the heads of the three dogs, limping towards him after the beating. Under his touch, the dogs' wounds immediately healed and seemed to strengthen. The already large bodies expanded again, regaining the courage to face Lin Xunrou with mouths wide and paws tearing open ground, just waiting for their master's command to launch another attack.

"Quiet, quiet!" Ivan tapped the ground with his scepter, and the fierce dogs immediately stopped their howling, obediently lying at his feet. Then he turned to the angry, blood-stained Lin Xunrou and smiled, "You're even more charming than before now, though you seem to dislike this state."

"Humph, you're all lunatics with the Blood Sect!" Lin Xunrou snorted disdainfully, "You don't intend to rely on such attacks in this match, do you? Besides making me feel sick, they pose no threat in my eyes."

Ivan shook his head sorrowfully, feigning disappointment, "As a lady, how can you be so vulgar? My children would be hurt listening to you say that."

Saying this, he bent down and whispered into the ear of one vicious dog, "Did you hear that? The woman says you're disgusting and worthless. My children, do you want to teach this arrogant woman a lesson for me?"

Growl! Growl! Growl! Low roars and the thumping of paws hitting the ground echoed from the fierce dogs as an answer. Ivan nodded in satisfaction, stood up, patted one dog's head, and softly commanded, "Go!"

No sooner were the words spoken than the three dogs darted out like lightning. As they ran forward, each time their paws hit the ground, more vicious dogs erupted from the soil, howling and chasing behind them. By the time the leading three dogs reached Lin Xunrou, hundreds of vicious dogs were following, rushing at her in a tide.

"No matter the number of ants, they're still ants!" Such a massive force was nothing but a joke in Lin Xunrou's eyes. She grabbed the whip in one hand, rewrapped it around her waist, took a deep breath as a cold glint flashed through her eyes, and charged into the dog pack with both palms swinging, killing without mercy.