Yan's Creation Magic, Master and Disciple's Battle (Part One)

"Martial Soul Possession!"

"Martial Soul Possession!"

The moment master and disciple completed their Martial Soul Possession at the same time.

Yan raised his right hand slightly, and a cannon barrel formed from magma took shape instantly.

With a muffled bang, a dark crimson magma fireball shot out at an utterly terrifying speed.

Yan's Creation Magic—Fire God Cannon! Hell Lava Bullet!

Yan had cultivated the Shape Transformation of his second and third soul skills, but he had not abandoned his first soul skill either.

This Self-Created Soul Skill was created by relying on his proficiency in Shape Transformation, while incorporating the effects of Hell Lava Surge!

The original Hell Lava Surge was simply a soul skill that fired magma energy at high speed. With the cannon barrel's focused compression, its speed had at least doubled!

Although, due to how he had allocated his time, his mastery and transformation of Hell Lava Surge were far inferior to those of his second and third soul skills, causing the purity of its magma energy to fall short of directly using his first soul skill.

Yet with the boost in speed, its power had not diminished but increased instead.

Most importantly, as his mastery of "Nature Transformation" and "Shape Transformation" improved, the power of this soul skill would continue to rise!

Depending on the Nature Transformation of the shells, he could fire all kinds of projectiles with different characteristics and levels of power!

In the future, it could very well become a soul skill whose minimum output matched a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring skill, while its maximum output reached ten-thousand-year or even hundred-thousand-year soul skill levels!

Making the Fire God Cannon truly live up to its name!

"Your movements are too obvious."

As You Chen casually commented, he sidestepped and dodged the Hell Lava Bullet.

With a thunderous boom, an explosion like a small charge detonating rang out behind him.

The speed of this Hell Lava Bullet had already reached the level of a thousand-year soul skill, while its power rivaled the upper tier of a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring skill from the Strength Attack System. Excluding the consumption required to construct the cannon barrel, the magma energy consumption alone was still at the level of a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring skill.

This was undoubtedly a qualified, even excellent, Self-Created Soul Skill.

But against You Chen, a level-fifty Soul Ancestor who leaned toward the Agility Attack System, it was still not enough.

Even though You Chen had suppressed his Soul Power to Yan's level thirty-six, causing his Martial Soul's enhancement to naturally drop to the Soul Elder level, his physical constitution would not weaken.

His physical condition had long since reached the level of a Soul King. Even though there was a difference in the quality of their Martial Souls, You Chen still held the advantage in overall physical strength alone.

Reacting to such a straightforward shot was effortless for You Chen.

However, that advantage was not especially obvious, because Yan's physical constitution also far surpassed those of his rank. You Chen only completely suppressed Yan in the speed attribute.

Facing You Chen's assessment, Yan said nothing and continued firing.

With the consumption of a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring skill, he could fire over a hundred shots like this.

Watching Yan enter rapid-fire mode, You Chen kept dodging while already seeing through his intentions.

Other than the first shot, which maintained the power of a four-hundred-year Spirit Ring skill, the subsequent magma shells barely contained the energy of a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring skill. They only looked impressive.

Yet even a hundred-year soul skill, when fired in the form of the Fire God Cannon, was only slightly weaker than the original Hell Lava Surge. It was enough to inflict considerable damage on an Agility Attack System Soul Elder.

Though it was called a battle between master and disciple, You Chen's goal was to inspect Yan's progress, so he naturally held himself to the standards of an Agility Attack System Soul Elder.

But Yan's true goal was not to weaken him.

It was to use long-range attacks to restrict the area around him, then—

The third dark-purple soul ring circling Yan suddenly lit up.

Third Soul Skill, Yan Prison Cage!

If this landed, it would be a death sentence for an Agility Attack System soul master of the same rank!

Yet almost at the same instant Yan's Third Soul Ring lit up, You Chen's second soul ring lit up as well!

Because of his advantage in physical constitution, You Chen had restricted his third and fourth soul skills, allowing himself to use only his first and second soul skills along with the Martial Soul's own power.

This was an unspoken understanding master and disciple had reached without needing words.

You Chen's second soul skill was called Force of Gale, a soul skill that purely enhanced wind-element power.

As his wind-element power increased, You Chen's speed naturally soared!

After the Hell Lava Bullets exploded, the magma energy scattered across the ground was about to form a cage. But the instant Yan saw You Chen accelerate, he realized he could not bind his teacher. To prevent all that Soul Power from being wasted, he could only cancel the soul skill midway.

Even so, it consumed half the Soul Power required to fully unleash the skill.

Even with the residual energy in the environment reducing the consumption, it was still equivalent to nearly a quarter of the Soul Power normally needed to cast it—a normal thousand-year soul skill's expenditure!

Yan's Soul Power abruptly dropped by a significant amount.

"Your tactics aren't bad, but you're using them too rigidly. You're too eager to establish an advantage, so it's easy for others to see through your real intentions."

You Chen's voice came from the wind, but his figure had already closed in before Yan.

Yan focused his gaze and saw a pair of snow-white dragon wings with a span of over two meters unfurl behind You Chen, dotted with starlight that glittered like motes of dust.

Their dazzling beauty was secondary. With the support of those dragon wings, You Chen's already impressive speed rose sharply once more.

In a flash, You Chen's fist smashed toward Yan's face.

The speed was astonishing. Yan could only instinctively raise his arm to block.

Again and again and again.

At such incredible speed, even though Yan was stronger than You Chen, he could only frantically dodge and block under the sudden assault. Even so, he still took quite a few hits head-on.

And while throwing punches, You Chen did not forget to be merciless with his words. "See? Once your plan fails, you have no choice but to endure the predicament of being at a Soul Power disadvantage. I can just keep wearing you down like this, using my speed advantage to make it hard for you to fight back, and drag things out until you're defeated!"

Yan felt rather aggrieved. He really wanted to say that not everyone could seize a chance like that to launch an attack the way his teacher could, but You Chen's offensive was too fierce, leaving Yan no opening to speak.

If this continued, defeat was the only outcome!

Yan understood that deeply without You Chen needing to say more.

In their past sparring sessions, he had lost far more than once or twice.

But this time, as a farewell duel with his teacher, he wanted his teacher to see how much he had grown. He... absolutely did not want to lose!

"Aah—!"

Yan roared. Even You Chen had not expected the sudden shout, and his attack stalled for an instant.

Seizing that instant of opportunity, Yan forcibly constructed a pair of armguards over his forearms.

Yan's Creation Magic—Yan Armor!

Bang!

The armguards strengthened Yan's defense and lessened the impact of You Chen's attacks, giving Yan time to regain his footing.

"Not bad!"

As You Chen loudly praised Yan, his first soul ring suddenly lit up.

Yan's unexpected response had indeed won him an opportunity, but was You Chen the kind of person who would be happy at his disciple's growth and then conveniently let up!?

No! Absolutely not!