The Final Battle

After leaving the Fire God Temple, Lin Li stepped off the Stone Platform and saw that the battle outside was still ongoing.

He had no idea how long it had been going on, but the five-person encirclement from the beginning had become a two-person encirclement. He did not know whether the three who had disappeared were dead or had withdrawn with serious injuries.

Lin Li wondered whether he should go up and help.

When the Fire God had sent him away, she had conveniently replenished his completely depleted Soul Power.

At this moment, Lin Li had 95% immunity to the Fire Attribute, along with the speed, strength, and other attributes of a Soul Saint.

The only difference between him and a Soul Saint was that Lin Li's total Soul Power was very low. If he truly joined the battle, he could not last long. At most, he estimated he could be a real man for ten minutes.

"The Fire God really is a good person!"

Lin Li sighed, then charged toward the Flame Demon Skeleton without hesitation.

By saving this high-level Spirit Douluo, Lin Li would no longer be someone with no backing at all. He would owe him a favor.

A favor that cost him nothing.

At the very center of the battlefield.

"It seems that our academy will fall here today." Huo Tianquan held the Blazing Long Blade horizontally before his chest. When he opened his eyes again, blazing flames seemed to burn within them.

"But before I fall, I will kill you!"

The black-as-ink Eighth Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly began rotating rapidly, and massive Soul Power condensed within his Martial Soul.

However, just as Huo Tianquan embraced the resolve to die and was about to swing his blade, a Soul Grandmaster with only two Soul Rings beneath his feet suddenly charged over.

"A Soul Grandmaster?"

Huo Tianquan looked again in disbelief, confirming that this really was a Soul Grandmaster.

Bang!!

While he was stunned, Lin Li's fist had already struck the Flame Demon Skeleton, sending it flying.

The enormous skeleton crashed backward into the mountainside, unleashing a rumble like the collapse of the heavens and the earth.

"...This, this is a Soul Grandmaster?!"

Huo Tianquan's worldview was being reshaped...

"Dean, help me watch out for the Fallen Soul Masters. I saw them when I came over."

Lin Li turned his head and called out a reminder amid the battle. Then his figure vanished from where he stood and shot toward the Flame Demon Skeleton.

The other Soul Saint still capable of fighting was the one from Spirit Hall, named Han Yi.

He rubbed his eyes, then opened them again and looked toward the Soul Grandmaster entangled in battle with the Flame Demon Skeleton.

"Lin Li?"

He confirmed that it was that special Martial Soul, and confirmed that the two Soul Rings were one yellow and one purple.

This was the Soul Grandmaster he had rescued earlier that day!

Not long ago, he had wiped out a team of Fallen Soul Masters that included a Soul Saint. Now he was fighting the Flame Demon Skeleton?

Whose Soul Grandmaster had this kind of combat strength?

"Old Han, you know him?"

Han Yi reluctantly shifted his gaze away from Lin Li and nodded at Huo Tianquan, then told him what he knew.

"Damn!"

After hearing this, Huo Tianquan could not help cursing. He had never expected such a monstrous genius to exist in the world.

No, Han Yi clearly had ulterior motives. He absolutely had to keep Lin Li here!

Although the Blazing Academy's admission requirements were firm, allowing only Fire Attribute geniuses to join, Huo Tianquan suddenly felt that the rules were somewhat old-fashioned.

As the dean, Huo Tianquan felt that some reform was necessary.

"Someone's coming."

Huo Tianquan and Han Yi, still shocked, came back to their senses at the same time. They focused their minds and looked around.

Before long, they saw two familiar faces. They were the Fallen Soul Saints they had encountered earlier!

"I was wondering which rats had come. So it's you."

The Soul Saint whose Martial Soul was the Black Qi Pagoda frowned deeply.

He had already calculated the timing. By rights, this should have been the moment when the Flame Demon Skeleton and the experts from Blazing City suffered mutual losses. Why did the situation look wrong?

And where was that old Blood Skull? Could he have gone into the city to take all the benefits for himself?

His cold gaze swept across the surroundings, and then his eyes, which were usually tightly shut, suddenly opened wide.

What had he seen?

The Fallen Soul Saint reached out with his withered-wood-like fingers and rubbed his eyes before looking again.

It was still the same scene.

A two-ring Soul Grandmaster was actually suppressing the Flame Demon Skeleton and beating it?

The Flame Demon Skeleton had fought back, but why had it failed to cause any damage at all?

The scene fell silent for a moment. Huo Tianquan was the first to react. The Eighth Soul Skill he had not released earlier was now about to be unleashed at the two Fallen Soul Saints.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Blazing Heaven Splitter!!"

The surging Fire Attribute giant blade carried tremendous force. It expanded violently in their field of vision, occupying their entire view within a few breaths!

"Old Lu! Resist it together!"

The two Fallen Soul Saints immediately activated their Martial Soul Avatars. One enlarged the pagoda in his hand and held it before him, while the other transformed into a Three-Eyed Eagle and used its wings to block. There was no time to release any additional Soul Skills, so they could only rely on their Martial Soul Avatars to withstand this mighty strike.

Before the blade had fully descended, the flames carrying its fierce blade force had already sliced wounds all over their bodies.

It was as though they were being subjected to a thousand cuts. The sweat pouring from them and part of the Soul Power they released were burned away by the raging flames!

Han Yi also acted decisively. He was already in his Martial Soul Avatar state, and now the Sixth Soul Skill beneath his feet lit up.

"Long winds break the waves as distant sails rise; a Startling Swan Sword buries itself in the thick earth. Sixth Soul Skill, Startling Swan Sword!"

A gray-white sword light tore open a gap in the flames, bringing with it even fiercer and seemingly endless Sword Qi.

"You old bastard! You claimed to have planned for everything! I'm going to die because of you!"

The eyes of the man called Old Lu were filled with resentment. He directly pierced the chest of the person before him with one palm from behind, absorbing the Soul Power and Life Force within his body into his own.

"You!!"

"Don't blame me. At least this way I can survive... I remember everyone here. One day, I will kill all of you!"

After Old Lu finished speaking, he spread his wings and flew straight into the sky.

"After him!"

Huo Tianquan immediately tried to follow, but his injuries were too severe. The moment he leaped into the air, he fell back down.

"I'll pursue him. Get some proper rest."

Han Yi spoke, then transformed into a gray-white streak of light and fled forward.

Huo Tianquan could only stop and turn to look in Lin Li's direction.

It would have been fine if he had not looked, but once he did, Huo Tianquan discovered that Lin Li had not merely avoided being suppressed. He had already dealt with the Flame Demon Skeleton!

Although they had fought for several hours and the Flame Demon Skeleton had already been greatly weakened by them, it was still absurd for a Soul Master to have dealt with it!

Lin Li rose from the Flame Demon Skeleton's body. He could sense the divine power remaining within the Flame Demon Skeleton being drawn toward him.

He did not know whether it was because of the Fire God Trial or something else, but Lin Li discovered that a Flame Mark had appeared in the palm of his right hand.

Similar to an External Soul Bone, this mark also contained a Soul Skill, named: "Flame Demon Scorching Kill"!

He had yet to test its power, but based on Lin Li's perception, an ordinary Soul Ancestor probably could not withstand it!

Its only drawback was not really a drawback.

The drawback of this Soul Skill was that it would disappear once its Fire Attribute divine power was depleted. Even if it was not used, it would slowly vanish.

But who was Lin Li?

He still had the Fire God Nine Trials Mark between his brows!

As for Fire Attribute divine power, he could just ask the Fire God for some.

After all, although that Fire God's tone suggested that her temper was not very good, she was still quite generous.