To be honest, the elemental control Long Na'er showed was not something a normal Spirit Master should have.
After all, Spirit Masters with attributes were already a minority. A normal Spirit Master with attributes usually had only one or two at most.
Those who could use spiritual power to affect multiple attributes were even rarer, almost like something out of legend. Moreover, people with multiple attributes generally had the flaw of being broad but not refined.
If one wanted to achieve something in elemental control, they had to spend a huge amount of time on it.
That would naturally leave weaknesses in close combat.
Being able to do so much in such a short time was already unlike a human.
It was not that the other students of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy were weak. It was that Long Na'er's skill was far more refined than that of normal people, even more refined than a normal Titled Douluo.
Fortunately, Chen Ming was not exactly normal either.
The dragon scales on Chen Ming's body quickly swelled and turned red. As he suddenly shook his body, those awakened dragon scales shot out like countless arrows.
He knew very well that the dragon scales on his body were things formed from a mix of Spirit Power and skin.
They existed somewhere between energy and real matter.
Something like this had far more room to be controlled than ordinary matter.
After the scales shot out, they quickly burned and shone, turning into blazing points of light filled with heat and brightness as they struck toward Long Na'er.
"First Spirit Ability, Dragon Light!"
Long Na'er felt she could not dodge them, so she simply stopped trying.
The Silver Dragon Spear lit up.
The whole spear suddenly extended, turning into something closer to a long lance. Its tip also became energy-like.
Under Chen Ming's gaze, the Spirit Power he had released was actually being rapidly absorbed by the Silver Dragon Spear.
Most of the energy turned straight into nothing, while the small amount of remaining power was blocked by Long Na'er's own Spirit Power.
The identity she was currently pretending to have was that of a close-combat Spirit Master using the Silver Dragon Spear, not the elemental-type Spirit Master from Douluo 3 who possessed an elemental envoy Martial Soul. Their fighting styles were completely different.
What she called her Martial Soul was actually the Silver Dragon Spear with several seals placed on it. What she called Spirit Abilities were, in truth, not Spirit Abilities at all. They were simply the unlocking of parts of the Silver Dragon Spear's seals.
As the Silver Dragon King's accompanying treasure, the Silver Dragon Spear was not a super divine weapon, but it was a main divine weapon very close to one. Even with several seals applied, its essence remained extraordinary.
"Elemental attacks are almost completely nullified. Attacks that contain Spirit Power will have their Spirit Power directly extracted and destroyed? That's really exaggerated."
Looking at Long Na'er, who had already charged right in front of him, Chen Ming clicked his tongue slightly.
Then his arms suddenly swelled, becoming disproportionately large compared to his body and turning into a pair of almost real dragon claws. He brought both claws together and smashed them down toward Long Na'er with heavy, powerful force.
He didn't need too many techniques. He didn't need too many variations. Chen Ming was simply pushing his dragonification to a high degree in a pure way, giving his arms the strength of one dragon before smashing them down.
With the collision between the dragon arm and the Silver Dragon Spear, Long Na'er's body was sent flying backward uncontrollably, as if she had been struck by a large truck.
She let out a muffled groan, nearly spitting out blood. Even though she stabbed the Silver Dragon Spear into the ground to stabilize herself, she was still nearly smashed away and embedded into the rock.
"As expected of the combined power of the Mountain Dragon and Earth Dragon. This strength is probably not inferior to a true Golden Dragon. But in this world, besides the Golden Dragon King, where else would there be a true Golden Dragon?"
Feeling the blood essence churning inside this body, Long Na'er was both shocked and unsurprised.
The Mountain Dragon's individual battle power was the strongest among the Nine Dragon Kings.
Their bodies, as huge as mountains or even continents, along with the law of stability, gave them nearly invincible bodies and overwhelming strength.
Aside from the Golden Dragon King, no other Dragon King could compare with the Mountain Dragon King in physical power.
Even her true body, the Silver Dragon King, was the same.
After all, she had only inherited the Dragon God's elemental abilities. The physical side had been inherited by the Golden Dragon King.
After slightly steadying herself, Long Na'er adjusted her state of mind. The Silver Dragon Spear in her hand continued to shine.
"Second Spirit Ability, Dragon Darkness."
"Third Spirit Ability, Dragon Fire."
"Fourth Spirit Ability, Dragon Water."
Four types of energy coiled around the Silver Dragon Spear, turning the entire spear into a half-energy state that flickered with light.
Light, Darkness, Water, and Fire — four energies that should have restrained each other — were combined under her control in a special way. They cycled and transformed into one another while mutually enhancing.
This scene made Chen Ming's eyes light up. He felt an itch in his heart.
This was not his method of gathering other elements with stabilizing force as the core. Instead, it was a path of resonance between elements. Although it looked similar on the surface to the path he was walking, in reality it was completely different.
Among these four energies, none was the main one, yet each one was the main one. The other three energies could all enhance the main energy, and that main energy could be freely switched among the four.
In other words, all four energies were simultaneously the main body. They enhanced the other three while being enhanced by the other three at the same time.
Under Long Na'er's gaze, Chen Ming's eyes began to glow. His left eye flickered with the power of light, while his right eye flickered with the power of darkness. The energies of both eyes flowed into each other. A third eye between his brows slowly opened — it carried a weak but real power of time.
This power of time was not affecting the outside world. It was affecting Chen Ming himself. At this moment, his eyes became bright, and the world he observed began to slow down.
His mind, or rather his soul, was thinking at a multiplied rate due to time distortion. Everything happening outside started to slow down for him.
Under this time distortion, Chen Ming could see the previous movement trajectory of a person and could also predict their future attacks.
However, because Chen Ming's time attribute was not strong, and because predicting the future was extremely difficult in itself, this kind of future prediction was very hard to use. It could only be used as a strategic move that combined guessing, speculating, and taking risks.
Chen Ming would simultaneously see several possible scenes that could happen in the next second, with each scene being a fragment.
Some fragments were not real, while some fragments might overlap with others. The difference was only in the gap between certain particles. It was also possible that all the fragments he saw were real, but in different orders — one thing happening one second later, another ten seconds later, and another half a second later.
Once Chen Ming took certain actions based on the future, the future would also be interfered with and change. This ability could be used in battle. But using it in battle was, truthfully, somewhat unsuitable.
After all, using time observation ability to watch an opponent's attacks was essentially like using a high-grade astronomical telescope to smash walnuts. It couldn't be said that it was impossible, but it was definitely unprofessional and definitely not suitable.
He was using this ability not to see what Long Na'er would do next, but to see what she was doing right now and how she had done it just now.