The collapse of the platform at the feet of the Earth Demon was already an irreversible fact.

Wang Xiaole's footsteps just now were actually a kind of proactive attack; he was not attacking the target, but rather directly locking down the venue, as if he had uprooted the entire tree before chopping it down.

Since the elevated platform itself was not built poorly, even if it cracked open completely from the edge, there wouldn't be much dust or debris pouring onto the ground.

At most, in the next second, the Bone Demon, who hadn't figured out how to respond, would fall without any resistance, along with the small half of the platform...

Bang!

This time, the tragic fall did indeed stir up a lot of dust on the ground; it seemed that the royal staff, before the start of the match, had watered the area to prevent air pollution.

But no matter what, the Bone Demon was indeed blasted out of the arena and fell into the area outside the duel range.

"T...Ah, no! Your Highness, the opponent has gone out of bounds. Can this match be considered my win?"

This was Wang Xiaole's question, and also the question that many people in the audience were anxiously waiting to be answered.

If Liu Caihua acknowledged this, then today's duel would be considered over; although this judgment had a somewhat "anticlimactic" feel, no one could object, after all, the final interpretation of this match belonged to the organizers.

Liu Caihua became the focus of attention from the entire audience. She looked at Wang Xiaole and then lowered her head to struggle with her thoughts.

Based on her usual reactions, she would definitely nod in agreement with the result.

But not now, this was in a public setting, and Liu Caihua still needed to play the role of the queen, she couldn't expose her flaws in front of everyone.

After hesitating for a while, she finally decided to speak up:

"I really want to say 'yes,' but in fact... just throwing the opponent off the stage doesn't count as a victory; we must determine whether the opponent has no ability to fight back or no will to fight back in order to be considered the winner."

This was an unwritten rule that Liu Caihua mentioned.

After all, when Sister Glasses formulated the plan, the goal was to weaken the power of the Elder Council as much as possible by having each member lose their lives in the arena.

But for participants like Wang Xiaole, they just wanted to quickly determine the winner and get their reward.

When the different intentions of the participants and the organizers clashed for the first time, Liu Caihua could only choose to apologize to the person she liked and announce to the audience with a serious tone:

"Don't worry, your efforts won't be in vain. The result of the previous match doesn't count; from now on, the duel will be..."

"Wait!"

The only person who dared to loudly interrupt the queen in front of tens of thousands of people was Wang Xiaole.

He couldn't understand:

"Since the stage doesn't serve as a boundary, and since falling off the stage doesn't mean losing, why bother setting up the stage? Why not just find an open space for the duel?"

"Um, actually, this wasn't my idea. It was my subordinate, Sister Glasses, who strongly recommended it, saying that building a stage would create a better atmosphere. I thought it made some sense, so..."

"You just agreed to it?"

"Is..."

"You wasteful person, why aren't you saving any money?"

Wang Xiaole held her head high, while the Empress lowered hers, as if she had done something that made it impossible for her to lift her head.

Not only the common citizens, but even the lords were dumbfounded.

Their eyes widened, and their eyeballs rolled upward, as if they had lost their souls.

"So this is her true personality?"

"She shouldn't be like this. I heard that the Empress is typically cold and poker-faced. Why does she look like her twin sister standing on the stage now?"

"Did I see it wrong from afar? Wasn't the Empress just twisting her fingers? That doesn't seem like a characteristic action for her!"

Foreign women chattered and discussed.

If Sister Glasses were present, maybe she could have noticed some flaws, but unfortunately, she was squatting in the dungeon, facing the wall and contemplating life.

Those who had the opportunity to be present were people who didn't know the Empress well or had insufficient knowledge of her. Although they also felt "surprised," their main emotion was still "curiosity."

After making her apprentice realize the mistake of extravagance and waste, impoverished master Wang Xiaole allowed the duel to resume.

For a while, even Ledux was puzzled:

Who really has the final say in this country?

The Bone Demon, having had its fill of dust, returned to the stage and couldn't help but itch with hatred.

He no longer cared about the strategy of "stillness in motion." At the moment, he only thought in his mind:

He must kill his opponent before the humans on the opposite side cause trouble again!

With a flick of his foot, the Bone Demon darted forward.

Using his body's high-speed movement as a starting point, a burst of air in front of the Bone Demon was torn apart as a result of this ambush, creating a fissure.

It seemed as if the air in the middle of the field was completely sucked out, creating a vacuum zone.

The rushing wind from both sides, mixed with vast and majestic magic power, penetrated and solidified the surrounding space, forming a unique passage. The Bone Demon aimed directly at the target ahead.

In just a breath's worth of time, the detestable figure appeared in front of Wang Xiaole.

The former revealed a twisted smirk and converged his withered fingers into a palm to strike at the latter.

If it were just a palm infused with magic power, it wouldn't be particularly noteworthy. However, the reality was not so simple.

At the moment the Bone Demon pushed out his palm, a rolling green toxic gas surged and swirled around the periphery of his hand, like a landslide, fiercely slamming towards Wang Xiaole.

Indeed, two demon races had already died at the hands of this human in front of him, but the Bone Demon didn't think too highly of his opponent because of it.

After all, even if the now-out-of-commission Old Seven and Old Six were standing in front of him, exerting their full effort to block, once hit, they would still instantly meet their demise.

As someone involved in the situation, Wang Xiaole understood the current predicament well. To be safe, he treated it seriously and exerted only one-sixteenth of his power!

The water vapor in the air condensed into large amounts of ice crystals and froze on both sides of Wang Xiaole's right hand.

The Bone Demon's attack enveloped and loomed overhead;

At this moment, Wang Xiaole raised his arm, completely covered in frost, and used an ice-made fist to meet it head-on.

Boom!

After the first collision, Wang Xiaole's legs were stuck in place, but the body of Bone Demon retreated backwards;

The clash between Ice Fist and Poison Gas + Palm Strike resulted in some ice fragments falling from the right fist;

At the same time, the roaring poison gas followed its master and retreated in an instant like a wild beast.

"Human, do you think it's over?"

The withered palm of Bone Demon saw a few veins swell;

Immediately, the poison gas that covered nearly half of the field retreated and transformed into a huge green worm, irregularly gnawing with its sharp teeth.

Wang Xiaole responded with a counterattack, releasing the clenched ice fist and instead using his right arm, with fingers closed, to form a "hand blade" and swung it down at the worm.

As soon as the "hand blade" made contact with the worm, its appearance changed.

Because it was originally transformed from poison gas, it had a malleability similar to gas, so when it was attacked externally, several pus-filled bumps immediately appeared on the surface of the worm.

After a few throbs, the bumps extended and thickened.

From the outside, it looked like erect arrows, strangely standing on the surface of the worm's body with the arrowheads facing upwards.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

After the first arrow made of poison gas shot out, the rest quickly followed, forming a curved arrow rain that pierced through mercilessly.

"So scary, so scary."

Wang Xiaole uttered a few sentences of unsure feelings, but his actions did not slow down at all. He immediately removed the layer of frost wrapping around his right hand and instead created an ice wall in front of him.

Immediately, the audience below the stage witnessed several holes appearing in the ice wall after being subjected to a dense attack of poison gas arrows. It seemed like the wall was about to be penetrated.

---- At first glance, it did seem like that, but all of this was within the expectations of the party involved.

In an instant, the sides of the ice wall became elastic and soft, like softened ice cream, bending inward;

Just before the arrows pierced through the wall, the softened icy wall transformed into a wrapped cylinder, completely enclosing all the arrows.

"Ah, my heart, it's pounding... can't stop at all!"

As Wang Xiaole covered his heart and exclaimed, the cylindrical ice wall continued to change its shape. Under the gaze of numerous almost frozen eyes, it transformed into a heavy single-handle iron hammer.

The person suddenly closed his hands, and to the beat brought up by the hammerhead, the hammer joyfully descended towards the poison gas gathered in front of Bone Demon, as if starting a happy dance.

Tick, tick, tick, boom!

This was the sound of the hammerhead hitting the ground, which could also be understood as a clumsy yet cheerful dance step.

The size of the poison gas and the size of the hammer seemed to be worlds apart, but when they collided, an indescribable storm swept through;

Parts of the arena were torn apart, creating deep and crisscrossing ravines that were just as destructive as the destruction caused by a thousand swords.

The Bone Demon's eyes flickered repeatedly, and the killing intent in his eyes intensified;

In the next moment, using the Bone Demon's head as the release point, even more gloomy green poison gas erupted into the sky, turning into numerous dazzling toxic lights;

The Bone Demon attempted to use these means to block the descending heavy hammer.

The poisonous light swept through the void, corroding even the air, turning into a faint poison gas that spread out.

However, these petty tricks cannot withstand the might of the hammer's descent!

As the snow-colored light pressed down, both the poison gas and poisonous light dispersed, and the skeletal demon quickly realized the danger and dodged.

His evasion speed was fast, but still not fast enough!

In the blink of an eye, the cold glow carried by the falling hammer grazed past the side of the skeletal demon, "slicing" through flesh and causing blood to burst and splatter.