Champion

Bang, bang... bang!!!

Azure light streaked through the air, repeatedly colliding with Xiao Xiao's Three-Life Soul Suppressing Cauldron. With every collision, the cauldron perfectly blocked Nanmen Yuner's path. She simply could not break through the protective circle formed by the three small black cauldrons.

Without Huo Yuhao's support, Xiao Xiao would have been fortunate to block even twice. At the same cultivation level, whether Assault System Soul Masters or Control System Soul Masters, few could keep up with the rhythm of an agility-type Soul Master.

But Huo Yuhao's first soul skill, Spiritual Detection Sharing, was practically the nemesis of all agility-type Soul Masters. Every movement trajectory was laid bare within Huo Yuhao's soul skill.

Meanwhile, Xu Jie rapidly closed in on Wu Feng, while Wu Feng also advanced toward Xu Jie. As the distance between them steadily shrank, the temperature of the unremarkable Sun Martial Soul above Xu Jie's head began to rise sharply. A sense of unease suddenly surfaced in Wu Feng's heart.

Whoosh!

At the instant they were about to touch, the temperature of Xu Jie's martial soul climbed to its peak. A golden beam shot into the sky, and scorching heat instantly filled the arena. Wu Feng, standing at its center, felt it most keenly.

Their palms met. Just as before, Xu Jie seized Wu Feng's wrist. But unlike before, the moment Xu Jie touched her wrist, the dragon scales on Wu Feng's body began to fade away, and her soul rings retreated back into her body.

This was the suppression of an Ultimate Martial Soul over an ordinary martial soul. Even though one was a beast martial soul and the other a tool martial soul, with matching attributes, Xu Jie was the king of fire-attribute martial souls.

The claim that Ultimate Martial Souls were invincible among those of the same rank was no idle boast.

The look on Wu Feng's face changed the moment her martial soul dispersed. Her arrogance turned to disbelief, then her disbelief to fear. At such close range, she could feel that Xu Jie could take her life at any moment.

Xu Jie did not take her life as she had imagined. Instead, just as before, he raised a hand and threw her out of the arena. The proctor flashed forward and caught Wu Feng in one swift motion.

Xu Jie immediately turned around. Rather than looking at Ning Tian, he faced Nanmen Yuner. His first soul ring lit up, and a fireball appeared in his hand. This fireball was as hot as the earlier one, nearing a thousand degrees. If it struck someone, it could very well be fatal.

At that moment, Ning Tian's calm voice rang out. "We concede."

"Huo Yuhao's group wins." The proctor immediately announced.

Hearing this, Xu Jie promptly dispersed the fireball in his hand and smiled as he walked toward Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.

"Wait." The calm voice rang out again. Xu Jie turned to look at Ning Tian, whose face was filled with conflict.

"What is it?"

"I come from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. My sect has a rule passed down through the generations, so..."

"Stop." By this point, Xu Jie already understood what Ning Tian wanted to say and immediately interrupted her. "I know what your rule is. I suggest you wait three days before deciding whether to say it out loud."

He knew the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's rule as well. Wasn't it simply that female auxiliary-system Soul Masters could not marry auxiliary-system Soul Masters? If they married, it could only be a battle Soul Master. Ning Tian certainly had good taste. If he were Ning Tian, he would choose himself too. After all, his martial soul was excellent and he was handsome. For Ning Tian, the young mistress of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he was undoubtedly an exceptional choice.

"Alright." Ning Tian's calm voice sounded again, and a relieved expression immediately appeared on her face. For a girl barely in her teens, some things were still difficult to say aloud. Although she had not said it, at least Xu Jie had not explicitly rejected her.

Xu Jie glanced at Ning Tian, then at Wu Feng below, who was glaring furiously at them. He shook his head, said nothing more, and smiled as he walked toward Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.

"Brother Jie, what is the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's rule?" Though Ning Tian had not spoken loudly, Huo Yuhao had still heard their conversation.

"I'll tell you tonight." Xu Jie shook his head rather than answering directly. He looked up at the sky, and his urge to destroy Destroying Heaven and Earth, Asking Clear Valley intensified once more.

Xu Jie did not know much about the characters from the original work. But after hearing about Tang someone-or-other's bizarre stunt of deciding that two girls being together violated human ethics and turning one of them into a man, Xu Jie had specifically sought out the relevant scenes to read.

He had been shocked once he read them. Ning Tian was a straight girl with a perfectly normal sexual orientation, yet Wu Feng had always been hopelessly in unrequited love with her. Ning Tian had rejected Wu Feng many times along the way.

Then, after a series of manipulations, one of them was turned into a man. Did you ask her parents? Their perfectly fine daughter went out and came back as their son. Just because Wu Feng had always loved Ning Tian, did that mean Ning Tian had to love her back?

And violating human ethics? No matter how much that violated human ethics, could it compare to Tang San, a product of violating human ethics?

As the elimination tournament came to an end, the news that Huo Yuhao's group had won the championship spread throughout Shrek Academy. At the very least, everyone in the lower grades knew about it.

After the match, Xiao Xiao had barely returned to the classroom before the girls she was close with pulled her aside. As for Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao, although they did not have many friends, the boys in the class all came up to congratulate them.

Having never experienced such a scene before, Huo Yuhao was somewhat at a loss. Fortunately, the crowd gathered quickly and dispersed just as quickly. In the end, Dugu Lu was the only one left by their side.

He really had it rough. After he and his two teammates had painstakingly made it through the round-robin stage, their first elimination match was against those twin sisters with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He used poison, while one teammate was a controller and the other an auxiliary. They had been utterly crushed by their opponents.

As long as they did not encounter someone cheating, Soul Masters with Martial Soul Fusion Skills undeniably held an enormous advantage over others of the same rank. If Wang Dong's group had encountered those sisters with the Martial Soul Fusion Skill from the start, they too would have been stopped in the round of sixty-four. But who told them to be so lucky? They had actually fought their way all the way to the semifinals.

"By the way, what are you planning to do tonight?" Dugu Lu asked, fiddling with his hair, whose color had deepened another shade.

"Cultivate," Xu Jie replied.

"Huh? Seriously? You won the championship and you're not going out to celebrate?" Dugu Lu was somewhat dissatisfied with Xu Jie's decision.

"Ahem, we don't have money." Xu Jie coughed lightly and bluntly stated the real reason they were not going to celebrate.

"Tsk, tsk." Dugu Lu blinked as if hesitating over something. "Forget it, forget it. I'll treat you two to a big meal. I have money."

"Alright." Xu Jie did not refuse. Though the Dugu Family had declined, the inheritance it had left behind was still beyond what two paupers like Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao could compare to.

"Maybe not, Brother Lu. Let's go catch fish by the river instead. It's been a long time since we had grilled fish," Huo Yuhao suddenly suggested.