Victory Decided in a Flash!

"Half a month ago? What did you say to me?" Lei Bao first muttered in confusion, then suddenly remembered and said in astonishment, "That thing... you finished it?!"

Yu Tianlin smiled and nodded, confirming his guess.

"Uncle Lei Bao, you should go down first. The students under the arena can't wait any longer."

Indeed, Lei Bao's sudden appearance had stopped the fight. Though no one dared shout and yell because of his status as vice dean, the students below the arena were whispering among themselves, not knowing what was going on.

"Fine, then. You two continue. Let me see what exactly you've come up with."

Lei Bao also sensed the atmosphere and shook his head helplessly. Then he stepped down from the arena and returned to the nearby rostrum.

Only after seeing that Lei Bao had no further issue did the referee teacher announce the start of the battle again.

"You said you wouldn't use your Martial Soul?" Although the referee teacher had announced the start, Hu Yan Shi did not act immediately. Instead, he looked at Yu Tianlin with a cold smile and said, "Kid, aren't you being a little too arrogant?"

Yu Tianlin and Lei Bao had not deliberately lowered their voices just now. The students below the arena had not heard because of the distance, but it could not escape the ears of those on the platform. Hu Yan Shi had naturally heard it.

"Don't think you can act so full of yourself just because you're a disciple of the Upper Three Sects!" Hu Yan Shi roared. "It's not as if I've never defeated one before!"

Along with his roar, Hu Yan Shi once again entered the state of Martial Soul Possession. His nose immediately stretched out, two foot-long tusks grew from the corners of his mouth and curled outward, his body abruptly swelled, and the surface of his skin was covered in a dark-yellow Keratin Layer that gleamed like metal under the sunlight. At the same time, two yellow Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet.

As Hu Yan Shi summoned his Martial Soul, all kinds of voices immediately came from below the stage.

"Tsk, tsk, as expected of one of the Seven Great Sects. That Diamond Mammoth really looks imposing!"

"Hu Yan Shi just defeated a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. That new Thunderbolt Academy student definitely won't be his match either!"

"You know shit! A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon can't use Dragon Transformation below Level Thirty. Otherwise, he'd have smashed that bastard's head in!"

"Huh? Why hasn't that Thunderbolt Academy guy summoned his Martial Soul yet?"

"Chidori!"

Automatically ignoring the noisy voices below the arena, Yu Tianlin's gaze sharpened as he urged his Soul Power toward the palm of his right hand.

"Bzzzt, bzzzt, bzzzt..."

As a mass of blue-white lightning suddenly bloomed in Yu Tianlin's right hand, a sound like a thousand birds crying out together rang forth. For a moment, its momentum was extremely terrifying.

"What is that?"

"There are no Soul Rings flashing on his body. It's not a Soul Ring skill... Could this be a Self-Created Soul Skill?!"

Seeing this scene, the students below the arena all cried out in alarm.

"Good kid, little Tianlin really did create a Self-Created Soul Skill!" Lei Bao, who was on the rostrum, also revealed a shocked expression. "And from the looks of it, it's a powerful single-target electrical attack."

"What a pity. With only a current of this level, he still won't be able to defeat that Hu Yan Shi."

Earlier, that student with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul had used his Second Soul Skill, Thunderbolt of Ten Thousand Jun, to bombard wildly, yet it had not done much damage to Hu Yan Shi. After Hu Yan Shi entered Martial Soul Possession, the Keratin Layer covering the surface of his body could isolate that kind of electrical attack very well. If he then stacked on the defensive boost from his First Soul Skill, the effect would be even better.

"Hmph. It's just a bit of electricity. All flash and no substance!"

When Yu Tianlin used Chidori, Hu Yan Shi was also full of shock. However, he quickly reacted and realized it was only a mass of powerful electric current. He immediately stopped taking it seriously and strode toward Yu Tianlin.

"Interesting. Looks like Chidori is being underestimated." Watching as Hu Yan Shi did not even use a Soul Skill and just swaggered toward him like that, the corner of Yu Tianlin's mouth split into a grin, and his gaze suddenly turned sharp. "Underestimating your opponent comes at a price!"

Arena battles required the two sides to start twenty meters apart. At this moment, Hu Yan Shi had crossed nearly half the distance in just a few steps, and the two of them were now a little over ten meters apart.

Only when Chidori's thrusting distance was over ten meters could its power be raised to its maximum level, so Yu Tianlin was ready to move!

Amid the dazzling lightning, Yu Tianlin bent slightly, then suddenly launched himself forward, turning into a streak of lightning as he charged at Hu Yan Shi. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the ten-meter distance and arrived before him!

"This speed... so fast!"

Hu Yan Shi lost focus for an instant. Then his pupils abruptly contracted, shocked by the speed Yu Tianlin had erupted with. At the same time, from such a close distance, he could sense a faint feeling of danger coming from Yu Tianlin's right hand.

This was definitely not a simple electrical attack!

Stimulated by that sense of danger, Hu Yan Shi subconsciously lit up his First Soul Ring. Outside the Keratin Layer on the surface of his skin, another layer of enamel abruptly covered him.

First Soul Skill—Bronze Wall Iron Fortification, increasing defense by fifty percent!

"It's useless! Break for me!"

Although he saw the changes on Hu Yan Shi's body, Yu Tianlin did not care. His right hand, gathered with powerful electric current, slammed fiercely into Hu Yan Shi's body.

Boom!

With a tremendous crash, Hu Yan Shi's three-hundred-jin body was actually blasted straight away. After drawing an arc through the air, he smashed heavily onto the arena ten meters away.

"Wah! You, you..."

Unable to stop himself from spitting out a mouthful of blood, Hu Yan Shi weakly pointed at Yu Tianlin. Then his head lolled to one side, and he fainted.

The referee teacher was the first to react. He hurriedly flashed to Hu Yan Shi's side and checked his current condition.

When Hu Yan Shi was sent flying, the voices below the arena came to an abrupt stop. Now, following the referee teacher's movements, an uproar suddenly erupted.

"I didn't see that wrong, did I? The one who flew out was... Hu Yan Shi?!"

"What exactly happened in that instant just now? I didn't even react, and the match was already decided! Hu Yan Shi was actually one-shotted?"

"That move... so fast, and so powerful!"

Because Yu Tianlin and Hu Yan Shi had decided the outcome in a flash, with Hu Yan Shi defeated instantly, the students who had not focused their attention and watched carefully had no idea what had happened.

At this moment, after the referee teacher finished checking Hu Yan Shi's condition, he found that his injuries were not serious and that he had only fainted for now. He could not help but let out a breath of relief and waved for the professional medical staff to carry him away for treatment.

"The victor is Thunderbolt Academy's student Yu Tianlin." The referee teacher made the announcement and, following convention, asked Yu Tianlin, "Student Yu Tianlin, do you choose to leave the stage or continue?"

Yu Tianlin smiled confidently. "I choose to continue!"