Douluo: Martial Soul Iron-Eating Beast, Never Be a Slave

In the stands still sat the three Education Committee Members: Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin.

As Meng Shenji formally announced the start of the Selection Tournament, all participating students summoned their Martial Souls or underwent Martial Soul Possession. Compared with the first match, their speed had clearly improved.

The reason Zhao Mu had been able to instantly defeat everyone so easily was not only due to the gap in raw strength. Many participants had also been unprepared at the time, allowing Zhao Mu to catch them off guard and achieve such overwhelming results.

But this time, they absolutely would not make that mistake.

After Meng Shenji announced the start of the match, Dugu Yan immediately released her Martial Soul and Soul Rings as well.

The Calamity Poison Dragon soared into the air, coiling around Dugu Yan. Its purple dragon scales gleamed beneath the sunlight.

As one of Heaven Dou Royal Academy's star students, the academy's students naturally knew Dugu Yan's identity and were aware that her Martial Soul was the Jade Phosphorous Snake.

Yet as they looked at the purple Jiaolong rising before them, many recognized that it was clearly not a Jade Phosphorous Snake.

What drew even greater attention and shock from everyone was Dugu Yan's Soul Rings.

Yellow, yellow, purple, white, red!

Five?!

She even had one more Soul Ring than Zhao Mu had in the previous match.

A genuine Soul King?!

And there were the colors of her Soul Rings.

Apart from the normal arrangement of the first three Soul Rings, the white fourth Soul Ring and red fifth Soul Ring shocked everyone once again.

Red?

Could it be a 100,000-Year Soul Ring?!

Shock spread rapidly through the crowd, soon engulfing every participant.

"Such a familiar sight."

After a long while, a participant muttered those words, and everyone else immediately recalled that unreal scene from not long ago.

The same suppression in Soul Power Level, the same unusual Soul Rings—then what would the outcome be this time?

"It is not a 100,000-Year Soul Ring. A 100,000-Year Soul Ring carries a special pressure, but Dugu Yan's fifth Soul Ring does not possess that unique pressure." In the stands, Zhilin stared intently at Dugu Yan.

Meng Shenji also gazed deeply at Dugu Yan. "Before Dugu Yan left the academy, her Soul Power Level seemed to be only around level thirty-five. In such a short time, her Soul Power has risen by at least twenty levels?!"

Zhilin nodded as well. "Indeed. Her current Soul Power Level should be around level fifty-four."

Bai Baoshan followed up, "That would be impossible through normal cultivation. It should be due to the changes in her Martial Soul and those two unusual Soul Rings."

Meanwhile.

On the Soul Fighting Arena's stage.

The third, fourth, and fifth Soul Rings circling Dugu Yan lit up simultaneously.

With a wave of her hands, Dugu Yan scattered more than ten walnut-sized balls into the air.

As Dugu Yan spun around, she let out a soft shout. "Explode!"

The dozen or so balls exploded almost simultaneously.

Under the blast's impact, purple poison mist instantly filled the entire Soul Fighting Arena.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

In a mere instant, the sounds of more than a dozen students collapsing could be heard, and they continued to fall.

Bai Baoshan lightly sniffed, as though he could smell the poison mist from so far away. "What potent poison. What exactly did that girl experience during this period for her toxins to strengthen to such a degree?"

"This poison is far beyond what these children can withstand. The match should be stopped immediately so Dugu Yan can treat the poisoned students," Zhilin said urgently.

Yet Meng Shenji did not interrupt the match. He was calmer than Bai Baoshan and Zhilin. "Dugu Yan seems able to control the poison very well. She should know what she is doing."

With the three committee members in the stands choosing not to intervene, purple poison mist continued to spread across the Soul Fighting Arena. With their vision obscured, they could only hear more and more people collapsing.

By then, only a handful of people were still holding on.

Among them, Yu Tianheng was gritting his teeth in agony. Although he wielded the power of lightning and could somewhat suppress the poison, he still could not withstand the rapid activation and amplification of the Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison under the Snowy Swan Kiss.

Within a few breaths, Yu Tianheng felt his head grow heavy and his vision blur.

It was one thing for that kid to be strong, but after not seeing her for a while, even his girlfriend had become this powerful?

Before losing consciousness, what Yu Tianheng felt most was still unwillingness.

It had been two matches already, yet he had not gotten a single chance to make a move.

Could they stop instantly wiping out the entire field at every turn? He wanted to fight! He wanted a fierce, man-to-man battle of fists against flesh.

Just like when Yu Tianheng fought Dai Mubai in the original story.

Yu Tianheng had prepared for the Selection Tournament for quite some time, only to end up like this. He was unwilling to accept it.

As Yu Tianheng fell, no one besides Dugu Yan remained standing in the arena.

After taking down everyone, Dugu Yan waved a hand. The Calamity Poison Dragon immediately opened its great mouth and sucked all the poison mist back inside.

The changes had taken less than a minute, yet everyone seemed to have been frozen in place.

The students watching from the audience gradually began to look at Dugu Yan with fear in their eyes.

Poison had always been something people dreaded and feared.

Gulp.

In the silence, they could even hear someone swallow.

After quite a while, even the referee, stunned senseless by the shock, could only helplessly look toward the stands.

How was he supposed to announce the results this time?

"Again? The entire field was crushed with a single move again. Are we supposed to hold a third match?" Bai Baoshan asked.

Zhilin also furrowed his brow. "How should these results be announced?"

From the academy's perspective, they should have been pleased to produce such outstanding students one after another. Yet at that moment, those very students left them in a difficult position time and again.

In the end, Meng Shenji made the decision. "This match differs from Zhao Mu's. During Dugu Yan's use of poison, the students collapsed in a particular order. We will use that as the basis for ranking."

"As for the captain of the Second Team, Dugu Yan will take the position."

Bai Baoshan and Zhilin exchanged a glance and had no objection.

"That is the only way."

"Given time, the continent may gain another Poison Douluo with a fearsome reputation!"

Before this, although Dugu Yan used poison, she had not deserved such an assessment.

But the current Dugu Yan already possessed the potential to achieve a title.

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After the Selection Tournament ended, simply detoxifying all those students was enough to keep Dugu Yan busy, and she had to be quick about it.

The Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison enhanced by the Snowy Swan Kiss grew stronger with every passing second.

Thus, Dugu Yan could be seen darting swiftly among the poisoned students, personally detoxifying them one after another.

The frantic and busy process soon left Dugu Yan sweating. The hair on her forehead became soaked and stuck to her skin, giving her a unique charm.

Amid her work, Dugu Yan recalled that Zhao Mu seemed to have said realgar mixed with strong liquor, followed by high heat, could neutralize the Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison.

But where was she supposed to find strong liquor now?

That damned alcohol ban at the academy!

While Dugu Yan busily detoxified the poisoned students, Meng Shenji and the other two committee members had already finalized the candidates for the Second Team.

By coincidence, they were Yu Tianheng and several other members of the original Heaven Dou Team.

In that case, however, the original Heaven Dou Second Team members would have no chance to participate in the Soul Master Tournament. But that was fine—it saved them from being humiliated later while serving as experience for some no-name academies.

Zhao Mu did not pay much attention to the Second Team's selection tournament. At that time, he spent more of his days traveling between the academy and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the academy's Mimicry Cultivation Grounds to train the properties of his attributes.

Among them, his water and fire attributes showed the most obvious progress, steadily improving under the enhancement of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

In Ice-Fire Form, Heibai's water-attribute and fire-attribute attacks were now thirty to forty percent stronger than before.

One day, after Zhao Mu returned to his academy dormitory and was preparing to tidy up before heading to the Mimicry Cultivation Grounds for lightning-attribute cultivation—

Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling to Zhao Mu's dormitory.

"Second Grandfather, I brought Lingling over."