The massive mechanical creature, Dun Shan, came into view.
With heavy footsteps, it slowly walked up before everyone.
"Beep—"
Dun Shan emitted a strange mechanical sound.
Then, it raised the two enormous shields in its hands.
A pale blue energy barrier instantly unfolded.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
The Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison, potent enough to corrode stone, struck the energy barrier as though it had crashed into a Wall of Sighs.
It was all blocked outside!
Not a single trace leaked through.
"Blocked... blocked?"
Dugu Yan was dumbfounded.
Her prized Poisonous Fog had been stopped so easily?
It had not even scratched the paint on that giant thing?
What kind of monster was that?!
The other members of the Imperial Dou Team had completely lost their fighting spirit.
Even the Nine Heart Begonia in Ye Lingling's hand was trembling.
The Shi Family Brothers had even forgotten to summon their Martial Souls.
How was this a Friendship Match?
This was clearly a one-sided slaughter!
A crushing defeat!
An absolute, thorough crushing defeat!
Gongsun Li looked at the group of "heaven-blessed geniuses" across from her, who had already been frightened out of their wits, and yawned boredly.
The Flower Parasol in her hand spun gently once.
"How boring."
"I thought they'd be stronger."
Gongsun Li turned to Lu Ming in the stands and winked at him playfully.
"Everyone, stop playing around. Let's end this quickly."
"I'm still waiting to go shopping in the city with Brother Lu Ming!"
As soon as Gongsun Li finished speaking,
several more figures appeared.
"Hey."
Kuang Tie, the one-eyed youth standing beside Sikong Zhen, impatiently slammed the massive mechanical hammer resting on his shoulder into the ground.
Boom!
The ground shuddered violently.
Even the specially made self-repairing stone tiles cracked under the blow.
"Is that all you've got?"
Kuang Tie rolled his neck, producing a series of loud cracks.
"Since you're done, doesn't that mean it's our turn now?"
Before his words had even faded,
an incomparably violent aura burst forth from his body.
It was an electrical fluctuation brimming with raw power.
Buzz!
Rings of light shone beneath Kuang Tie's feet.
Purple, purple, black, black, black!
Five Spirit Rings!
Another Soul King!
Moreover, his Spirit Ring configuration was exactly the same as Sikong Zhen's!
It had completely shattered the Soul Master world's ironclad rule that Two Yellow, Two Purple, One Black was the optimal Spirit Ring ratio!
His first two Spirit Rings were thousand-year purple rings!
The final three were all ten-thousand-year black rings!
That deep black radiance was like three black holes, madly devouring the surrounding light.
A terrifying pressure surged toward the Imperial Dou Team like a tidal wave.
"Another... another Soul King?!"
Qin Ming's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
If there had only been Sikong Zhen, he could still have comforted himself by saying that he was a monster painstakingly cultivated by Jixia Academy.
But now, some random youth carrying a giant hammer was also a Soul King with such an absurd configuration?
Was Jixia Academy some factory mass-producing monsters?
Yet this was merely the beginning.
"This level of battle really doesn't get me excited."
Yun Ying, dressed in red and holding a spear, idly spun her weapon.
"Plundering Fire!"
She gave a soft shout.
Crimson flames abruptly surged from the spear.
Purple, purple, black, black, black!
Another five Spirit Rings!
The same limit-breaking configuration!
The same suffocating Soul King pressure!
Immediately afterward,
Wang Zhaojun, who had remained silent the entire time and possessed an icy temperament like Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice, lightly tapped her staff against the ground.
Crack!
Centered on her, the ground within a hundred meters instantly froze beneath a thick layer of frost.
The bone-piercing cold made the Imperial Dou Team members shiver uncontrollably.
Purple, purple, black, black, black!
The fourth Soul King!
"Heehee, don't be so fierce, everyone."
The little girl Cai Wenji sat atop her Hu Jia Qin, swinging her short legs with an innocent smile on her face.
"Come listen to my song~"
As she plucked the strings,
the Martial Soul that should have been meant for support and healing now emitted a heart-pounding fluctuation.
Five Spirit Rings rose beneath her tiny body as well!
Even Dun Shan, the mechanical giant who had remained silent, flickered with the same five rings of light.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Other than Gongsun Li, who had yet to reveal her Spirit Rings,
there were six Soul Kings in total!
And every one of them possessed an unreasonable Spirit Ring configuration that surpassed all limits!
The six powerful auras gathered together, forming a Soul Power storm visible to the naked eye.
The once-clear sky seemed to turn gloomy and oppressive.
The Imperial Dou Team members were now like small boats adrift amidst raging waves.
Their faces were as pale as paper.
Their bodies trembled beyond their control.
Yu Feng in particular, who had once looked so elegant, had no idea where his folding fan had flown off to. He shivered as he hid behind the Shi Family Brothers.
"This is... an illusion, right?"
Osler swallowed, his voice dry as someone who had been thirsty in a desert for three days.
"How could there be a Spirit Ring configuration like this?"
"The first Spirit Ring is a thousand-year ring? How could their bodies possibly endure it?"
This completely overturned everything they had believed for more than a decade.
Not even Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, not even Pope Bibi Dong, could possess such an outrageous configuration!
Xue Qinghe, standing to the side, was also deeply shaken.
Though she maintained the Crown Prince's composure on the surface, the hands hidden within her sleeves trembled slightly.
This was not merely a display of strength.
This was foundation!
A terrifying foundation capable of overturning the entire Soul Master system of Douluo Continent!
She stared fixedly at the young men and women in the arena.
They all looked quite young.
Some were even younger than the Imperial Dou Team members.
Yet their strength was enough to crush their peers by several levels!
"Lu Ming..."
Xue Qinghe took a deep breath and turned toward the man beside her, who still wore an indifferent expression.
"Is this Jixia Academy's strength?"
"And these are only... students?"
"..."
There was also Lan, the Titled Douluo who had slain Zhao Wuji in a single strike.
Jixia Academy ran far deeper than she had imagined!
Lu Ming merely idly played with the Jade Thumb Ring in his hand, turning a blind eye to the shocking sight in the arena.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince flatters us."
"These are merely children who have only recently enrolled. They still need much more training."
"Please forgive the poor showing."
Poor showing?
Xue Qinghe's lips twitched slightly.
If this was called a poor showing, then what was Heaven Dou Royal Academy?
A kindergarten?
Just as everyone thought this was the limit,
Gongsun Li, the rabbit-eared girl who had been holding her parasol and looked completely harmless, finally moved.
She rubbed her eyes sleepily.
"Alright, alright."
"Don't scare the guests too badly."
"Let's finish this quickly so I can rest too."
"..."
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