Ling Nan: "..."
The next moment, a blazing golden radiance erupted from the center of Zheng Li's brow, shining like a miniature sun.
A stunning, graceful figure stepped out from within, resembling a Goddess of Light!
Though the light was blinding, it did not affect Huo Yuhao and the others, who possessed Spirit Detection.
On the spectator platform, almost all the teachers were stunned at this moment.
Yan Shaozhe watched this scene with great interest.
"The full manifestation of a Spirit of Light? Pure, yet not absolute light..."
Beside him, Qian Duoduo's eyes were wide as eggs.
"An Angel Martial Soul? No, that's not it... what the hell is this?"
Although Wang Yan had learned of it yesterday, he was still astonished to see it now.
The proctor was the most awkward; seeing a fourth person appear on the field, he had intended to call a foul, only to realize it was the contestant's Martial Soul.
Fortunately, Du Weilun had sent a voice transmission just in time.
After Xiao Nai appeared, she grabbed Zheng Li's hands and began to spin, using her lithe body to keep them suspended in the air for those few seconds.
After one rotation, Xiao Nai aimed directly at Huo Yuhao and threw Zheng Li toward him!
In that instant, the yellow spirit ring on Zheng Li's body flashed repeatedly.
Locking onto Huo Yuhao, the Light Sword was fired!
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao stepped into his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and moved toward Xiao Xiao; he could not block the Light Sword on his own.
Cui Yajie reacted at this moment as well.
She wanted to use Charm, but the opponent simply wouldn't look at her.
Charm required eye contact to activate, a limitation that was truly troublesome.
The Light Swords quickly surrounded Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.
Because the two were standing too close, the Light Swords naturally enclosed the other person as well.
"This spirit skill is such a pain!"
Try to find an angle to dash out? Forget it; just look at their own size. The gaps between each Light Sword were not that large.
"Xiao Xiao, watch out!"
Huo Yuhao took out his Silent Sleeve Arrow, used his Purple Demon Eye to aim at several Light Swords, and triggered the mechanism of the Silent Sleeve Sword.
"Understood."
Xiao Xiao released her first spirit skill, Cauldron Suppression. The large black cauldron shook, black light flared, and the air seemed to distort.
It must be said that the Light Sword was worthy of being a system-granted spirit skill; it was not significantly affected, only slowing down slightly.
Xiao Xiao had no choice but to split the Three-Life Soul Suppressing Cauldron into three, rotating them rapidly around the two of them to knock the Light Swords away!
Above them, Huo Yuhao continued to parry with his Silent Sleeve Sword and other hidden weapons.
But the one they really needed to be careful of was Xiao Nai!
Xiao Nai also used her first spirit skill, but strangely, no Light Swords emerged from the golden ring.
Upon closer inspection, the golden ring had grown much larger, with a massive cluster of golden light shining at its center. Soon, a gigantic sword tip emerged, followed by the blade and the hilt!
The sword was over three meters long and twenty centimeters wide!
The entire blade radiated a golden glow and carried a sharp, piercing aura, as if it were about to cleave the entire arena in two!
Yan Shaozhe frowned: "This is... a modified first spirit skill? Has she fused all the light swords from a single spirit skill into one? But this increase in power is a bit excessive; it's no worse than a thousand-year spirit skill of an assault-type Spirit Grandmaster! Perhaps even better..."
Of course, there were limitations; it had changed from a multi-angle attack to a single-angle one, and although the locking ability remained, it was easier to dodge.
However, that was impossible for Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao in their current situation.
Looking back at the field, Xiao Nai extended her delicate jade hand and waved it through the air. The sword followed her movement, hanging high above Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao's heads before slashing down fiercely!
Wang Dong's pupils constricted sharply. He had already broken through the blockade of the Light Swords, but he was being held back by Ling Nan.
Ling Nan's attacks were not powerful, but he was slippery; Wang Dong's speed was not faster than his, and he couldn't deal with Ling Nan for the time being.
Now, he was anxious.
"Ling Nan, get out of my way!"
"Not a chance! You're thinking quite wishfully."
"Are you going to move or not!" Wang Dong shouted in anger.
"No!"
"You..."
Without further ado, Wang Dong lit up his second spirit ring. The light patterns on the wings of his Goddess of Light Butterfly flickered, condensing into small orbs of light that bombarded Ling Nan.
This was the Butterfly God's Light.
"Holy crap! Going straight for the ultimate move without a word..."
"But do you really think I don't have a few trump cards tucked away?"
Ling Nan's gaze sharpened. He activated Godspeed Movement, concentrating the majority of his Spirit Power into his wings and limbs. He crouched in a feline posture and launched himself in an instant!
It was unclear what principle he was using, but Ling Nan's figure wove through the clusters of light, leaving behind a trail of afterimages while never once being struck! His pair of sharp Cat Claws drew ever closer to Wang Dong.
As the young master of a sect, Ling Nan was naturally not that simple.
Every time Wang Dong tried to seize an opportunity to charge forward, Ling Nan acted like his shadow, intercepting him every single time. He wouldn't get bogged down in a prolonged struggle, choosing instead to harass him and retreat, refusing to let Wang Dong advance even half a step.
Wang Dong was annoyed, yet helpless.
Why had he never heard of this type of Martial Soul?
On the other side, Xiao Xiao's pupils constricted sharply. She felt the sharp aura carried by the blade as if it were about to cleave her in two. Even though the massive Light Sword had yet to descend, the keen aura alone made her feel a dull ache all over her body!
Gritting her teeth, Xiao Xiao glanced at the many Light Swords still lingering in the surroundings and said, "Class monitor, I'm counting on you guys!"
"Xiao Xiao, you..."
Huo Yuhao was also in a bind. Possessing the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, he could sense the danger of the massive Light Sword even more acutely. There was absolutely no way Xiao Xiao would have a good outcome if she took this hit head-on.
"Xiao Xiao, call for the teacher. Don't try to tank it."
Xiao Xiao was a smart girl and understood what Huo Yuhao meant, immediately shouting, "Teacher, save me!"
As her voice fell, the middle-aged teacher who had been prepared all along leaped into the air. He channeled his Spirit Power into his palms, and a water-blue halo rippled out, slamming into the massive Light Sword.
Crack!
The massive Light Sword shattered.
Xiao Xiao was eliminated.
Since she was destined to be eliminated, why suffer a grievous injury on the way out?
Huo Yuhao understood the reason behind what Xiao Xiao had just said; it was because of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill between him and Wang Dong...
But...
Huo Yuhao stepped into his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and unleashed a barrage of Silent Sleeve Swords, blocking the final few Light Swords.
His and Wang Dong's situation was far from optimistic!
At this moment, a pair of fox tails from Cui Yajie lashed out toward Huo Yuhao just in time.
But Huo Yuhao trod the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, leaving behind a series of afterimages, causing the fox tails to miss him entirely.
Cui Yajie was somewhat stunned.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao cursed his own carelessness. He should never have separated from Wang Dong from the start; if they had stayed together, they could have used the Power of Hao-Dong to execute their Spirit Skills with much greater force.
But why did it seem like Zheng Li and the others had intentionally separated him and Wang Dong? Could it be...?
At this moment, Zheng Li was half-kneeling on the ground, his face pale.
That massive Light Sword was something Xiao Nai had researched while bored in the Sea of Consciousness, completed just a few days before the Freshman Assessment.
Before his first Spirit Skill was fully unleashed, he would contain all the Spirit Power required to cast the Light Sword within the ring, forming the massive Light Sword that appeared.
The massive Light Sword just now had utilized more than just the Spirit Power of a single Light Sword skill; otherwise, it wouldn't have made Xiao Xiao feel like she couldn't withstand it.
One had to remember that Xiao Xiao also possessed a national treasure-level skill, the Cauldron Oscillation ring-fusion technique, which significantly boosted her defensive capabilities at that time.
The cost of executing it was exactly what Zheng Li looked like now.
The platinum outfit on his body had become somewhat translucent, as if it were about to dissipate at any moment.
Meanwhile, Xiao Nai's body had become ethereal.
Once the Spirit Power was completely exhausted, Xiao Nai would return to the Sea of Consciousness.
Xiao Nai stepped forward and supported Zheng Li.
"Xiao Li, are you sure about this?"
"At this point, what does it matter if I'm sure or not?" Zheng Li said helplessly. "Besides, I'm not the one losing out."
"I only just realized you actually have a shameless side," Xiao Nai said flatly.
"..."
"You do it? Or I do it?" Xiao Nai asked.
"Let's do it together." Zheng Li took hold of Xiao Nai's hand.
"Mm."
After Xiao Nai agreed, the yellow Spirit Ring pulsing on Zheng Li's body shone once more. At the same time, Zheng Li's platinum outfit became even more transparent, his skin visible to the naked eye, and Xiao Nai became even more ethereal.
The golden rings behind their heads floated simultaneously to the front of their joined hands, then overlapped, and the Light Sword spirit skill was activated once again!
Of course, this was equivalent to the full power Zheng Li or Xiao Nai could exert when fighting alone.
In truth, the massive Light Sword would have been even more powerful if used by one person alone, but their Spirit Power could not sustain it.
Hmm...
It was like having a luxury car right in front of you, but without any fuel; you could only drool over it, unable to drive it...
Chapter 32, Shameless
On the surface, the Light Sword spirit skill was locked onto Huo Yuhao, who was using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to constantly dodge Cui Yajie's attacks while gradually closing the distance to Wang Dong.
"Not again..."
Huo Yuhao muttered, his head aching.
He had a thought right now: once he reached the Spirit Emperor or Spirit Saint realm, he would definitely smash this spirit skill to pieces with ease!
It was too disgusting!
Huo Yuhao declared that he couldn't handle it!
Over on Wang Dong's side, he was still being dragged down by Ling Nan.
This ability of Ling Nan's to move constantly in the posture of a cat was a skill he had spent over three years researching, with help from his grandmother and father, so it naturally counted as a self-created spirit skill.
Ling Nan named his self-created spirit skill "Cat Void Step"!
The name really wasn't much to write home about.
Cat Void Step was based on Godspeed, concentrating the majority of one's Spirit Power into the wings and limbs to rapidly leap and fly through the air, much like an agile cat running.
Did it consume Spirit Power?
Naturally, it consumed the Spirit Power concentrated in the wings and limbs. Ling Nan didn't explain the principles behind it, but the consumption was neither fast nor slow.
There was a price to pay after using it: it could not be used again for the next half month.
Otherwise, the meridians in the limbs would rupture.
Wang Dong was truly annoyed right now. Seeing Huo Yuhao under attack again while he couldn't provide support, this feeling was truly stifling! He was also extremely worried.
However, the next moment, the Light Sword made a sharp turn and immediately scattered to strike at Wang Dong.
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