Before Xu Xiaoyan stood a Soul Beast over five meters long, its body as robust as a male lion's.
It had three identical massive heads, each over a meter in diameter. Its terrifying fangs gleamed with a crimson-gold luster.
Xu Xiaoyan knew that this was Scarlet King's true form—the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff.
As a pure Control System Soul Master, she had no offensive power, yet individual combat strength was extremely important in this competition.
Therefore, she had built her own God-Tier Mecha. With its power, even if she encountered a Limit Douluo, she could still flee if she could not win.
Scarlet King, with three hundred thousand years of cultivation, possessed strength roughly equivalent to a human Rank 97 Soul Master. Xu Xiaoyan was a Super Douluo and a Four-Word Battle Armor Master, so her cultivation was by no means inferior to his.
With her strength, mecha, and battle armor, she should have been fully capable of defeating Scarlet King. However, from the very beginning, every attempt she made to transform her mecha into a Soul Tool Cannon had failed, even though there was clearly nothing wrong with the mecha.
Because of this, she had discovered a rule currently in effect in this competition: weapons were forbidden!
This weighed heavily on her. Worse still, although Tool Martial Souls had not been prohibited, it remained uncertain how much power her Star Staff Martial Soul could display amid such dense fog.
Under these circumstances, confronting him head-on would be reckless. Rejoining her teammates was the correct choice.
With that thought, her mecha rapidly shifted shape, quickly transforming into a sports car.
Scarlet King naturally had no intention of letting her go. Just as he was about to give chase, chains condensed from starlight suddenly wrapped around his limbs. His body pitched