The Humiliation of a Head Pat, Kuan-an Entering the Marketplace with Helping Hands!

The kaleidoscopic torrent of Destruction surged fiercely toward the Hell White Tiger with the force to destroy heaven and earth.

Rumble—!!

The Hell White Tiger's enormous body was struck head-on by the torrent.

Within the energy construct, Dai Huabin watched the dazzling radiance rush toward him, a crazed sneer appearing on his face.

"Useless!"

"In the Hell White Tiger state, your attack is nothing more than a scratch!"

Before his words had faded, the Hell White Tiger opened its bloodied maw.

Buzz!

A gray beam over two meters in diameter erupted from its mouth. It was mixed energy formed from the White Tiger Intense Light Wave and Nether Slash, carrying an aura that could Annihilate everything.

Boom!

The two streams of energy collided violently at the center of the arena.

Blinding white light instantly swallowed everything around them. Countless shattered stone tiles were swept into the sky and ground into powder.

The entire protective barrier trembled violently, as though it might collapse at any moment.

The two energy waves remained locked in the air, neither willing to yield.

"See that?!"

Dai Huabin's voice pierced through the deafening explosions, brimming with unmatched arrogance.

"This is the power we have inherited for ten thousand years!"

"A mere one-ring Soul Master wants to shake the majesty of our Hell White Tiger?"

"Submit beneath the Hell White Tiger!"

However.

To his surprise, Huo Yuhao's cold, disdainful voice came from the source of the torrent of Destruction.

"So... this is what you look like at full strength?"

Huo Yuhao maintained his hand seal through the energy storm, as though he were watching monkeys perform tricks.

"If this is all you have..."

"Then you have no hope left."

"All that remains is despair!"

"Such shameless boasting!"

Dai Huabin's expression changed slightly, but the surging Soul Power from the Martial Soul Fusion Skill gave him boundless confidence.

"Kid, stop playing tricks! I'll end you right now!"

With that, he once again crazily overdraw the Soul Power within him. The Hell White Tiger threw back its head and roared, and the gray beam from its mouth suddenly grew thicker as it tried to force Huo Yuhao's attack back.

Just as he imagined utterly crushing Huo Yuhao and trampling him beneath his feet.

Suddenly.

A wave that made his heart tremble swept over him.

Huo Yuhao's five layers of energy, which had originally fought separately, began to intertwine and rotate.

Wind intensified fire's explosive force, water conducted lightning's paralysis, and earth gave the impact weight.

The power of the Five Release: Great Barrage instantly rose to another level!

Crack!

The Hell White Tiger's gray beam was instantly covered in cracks.

"How... how is this possible?!"

Dai Huabin's eyes widened as he watched the evenly matched situation collapse in an instant.

His attack was crushed inch by inch and forced back.

"It's over!"

Huo Yuhao shouted.

Rumble—!!!

The Five Release: Great Barrage completely suppressed the Hell White Tiger's attack and blasted fiercely into its body.

The violent explosion resounded through the skies.

The Hell White Tiger let out a shrill wail. Its massive energy body was blown apart, its once-solid light and shadow becoming illusory and transparent, as though it could fall apart at any moment.

At that instant, amid the billowing smoke and rampaging energy currents.

Whoosh!

A figure passed through the aftermath of the explosion like a ghost.

Huo Yuhao used the Body Flicker Technique, his form trailing an afterimage as he appeared before the Hell White Tiger's enormous forehead in the blink of an eye.

Less than half a meter separated them.

This move rekindled Dai Huabin's excitement, even though he had nearly fallen into despair.

"Kid! You actually dare approach us?!"

"Are you looking to die?!"

Though injured, the Hell White Tiger's close-combat ability remained terrifying.

Dai Huabin controlled the massive tiger claw, sending it crashing viciously toward Huo Yuhao with a shriek that tore through the air.

In the spectator stands.

Yan Shaozhe abruptly rose to his feet, his expression changing drastically.

"Not good! Why would Yu Hao try to withstand the Hell White Tiger with his body?!"

"That's suicide! No, I have to save him!"

However, before he could move.

On the arena.

Facing the tiger claw, Huo Yuhao neither dodged nor evaded.

He thrust out his right hand, palm aimed directly at the Hell White Tiger's brow.

The Wood Release Chakra within his body surged wildly, converging at a single point in his palm.

A pitch-black Chinese character emerged in his palm.

[Seat].

"Wood Release: Kuan-an Entering the Marketplace with Helping Hands!"

Buzz!

Huo Yuhao's palm seemed to press lightly against the Hell White Tiger's forehead.

But at the instant of contact.

An incomparably tyrannical sealing force poured through his palm and into the Hell White Tiger's body.

It was an absolute law of suppression designed specifically for Tailed Beasts and violent energy constructs!

"Roar... whimper..."

Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu felt the originally surging, vast Soul Power within their bodies instantly freeze and fall silent.

Under the suppression of that power, the Hell White Tiger's fierce purple eyes slowly closed.

The previously savage beast now became as docile as a kitten.

Whoosh.

The light and shadow scattered.

Under the suppression, the enormous Hell White Tiger was forcibly dismantled.

Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu reappeared. Both had turned deathly pale from the backlash of Soul Power and fell weakly downward.

Huo Yuhao's right hand swept down with the motion.

Smack!

He accurately grabbed Dai Huabin by the head.

It was an exceptionally humiliating head-patting gesture.

"Get... down on your knees!"

Huo Yuhao exerted force abruptly, gripping Dai Huabin's head and using the momentum of their fall to slam him viciously toward the ground.

Boom!

Dai Huabin's face crashed heavily into the hard stone floor, leaving a shallow crater. Blood instantly stained the ground red.

Before he could struggle.

A foot stomped heavily onto the back of his head.

It was Huo Yuhao's right foot.

With one hand in his pocket and his right foot planted on Dai Huabin's head, he looked down from above at the once-arrogant legitimate son of a duke.

The posture looked exactly like Dai Huabin was performing the ritual of kneeling beneath a seat before Huo Yuhao, humiliatingly forced to kneel.

"Ungh... ungh!!"

Dai Huabin desperately tried to struggle and lift his head. Broken words kept slipping from his mouth as he tried to curse Huo Yuhao.

"Damn... kill... you..."

But under the lingering force of Kuan-an Entering the Marketplace with Helping Hands, a powerful secret technique capable of suppressing even Nine-Tails, the Soul Power within his body was tightly sealed. He could not muster even the slightest will to resist.

He could only lie beneath Huo Yuhao's foot like a dead dog, unable to utter even a complete sentence.

The entire arena fell deathly silent.

In the spectator stands, Yan Shaozhe, who had been about to rush down to save him, froze in midair, his mouth hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.

"This... this..."

What had he just seen?

One hand?

One move?

And the Hell White Tiger had simply been pressed out of existence?

"Yu Hao actually suppressed the Hell White Tiger by himself?!"

"This is simply unbelievable!"

The shock in Yan Shaozhe's eyes gradually turned into fervor.

Such a method... he had never even heard of it! It was absolutely no ordinary soul skill!

No! No matter the cost, he had to bring him into their Martial Soul Department!

I absolutely cannot let this person go!

On the other side of the arena.

Wang Dong, who had been completely sidelined throughout the battle, stared blankly at the figure standing on Dai Huabin like a demon god.

Her Light Goddess Butterfly wings drooped weakly.

One hand... suppressing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?

What kind of power was that...?

I originally thought that as long as I worked hard, as long as we had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, I could fight alongside him.

But now, it seems...

A deep sense of powerlessness welled up within Wang Dong.

Will I... never be able to catch up to him in this lifetime?