Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation!

Xiao Hongchen's Soul Cannon shells nearly covered the entire sky.

The deafening explosions never ceased.

The bamboo swords filling the sky were blasted to pieces midair by the Soul Cannon shells.

There were even more Soul Cannon shells than bamboo swords, raining down toward the rear of the Dou Ling Team.

Guzhu Jian's face turned slightly pale.

He was a high-level Soul King, yet at this moment, he felt Xiao Hongchen's power.

At twenty against fourteen, he would undoubtedly lose.

Both had five Soul Rings, but the gap in their strength was far too great.

Xiao Hongchen had deployed a full one hundred and eight Soul Cannons, the ultimate counter to his Purple Imperial Bamboo.

"Qian Yuan!"

Su Fan called out.

Qian Yuan, who had long been prepared, activated all three of his soul skills at once.

Two enhancement effects and one powerful attack.

In an instant, he swung the Dread Claws in his hands and charged fiercely forward.

An Aperture opened and swallowed him. The next moment, it teleported him directly in front of Ma Rulong.

Ma Rulong snorted coldly.

The two sides collided.

Qian Yuan staggered several steps back.

Ma Rulong's charge also came to a halt.

He was a Soul Emperor, and his strength suppressed Qian Yuan's.

Yet as he looked at the claw marks on his Soul Tool, his eyes narrowed.

When he looked at Qian Yuan's pair of Dread Claws, his gaze gained a trace of wariness.

Were these Dread Claws really this destructive against metal?

Though he could still suppress his opponent, every Soul Tool was the product of a Soul Engineer's painstaking effort. He did not want all his Soul Tools scrapped after the battle.

He would avoid those Dread Claws whenever possible.

If he truly could not, he would not lose the match over it.

Chi Hengyu threw out the Diamond Shield, while Su Fan used Apertures to teleport it repeatedly.

It went wherever it needed to go.

The others were likewise swiftly shifted about by him.

The entire battlefield became his chessboard.

Though he could not completely control the entire field, he could still place piece after piece.

When Qian Yuan could no longer hold on, Su Fan had him retreat and widen the distance from Ma Rulong.

If Ma Rulong pressed his advantage and ignored Qian Yuan, rushing straight toward Su Fan's rear line, then Su Fan would have Qian Yuan teleport behind Ma Rulong and strike him with the Dread Claws.

The others were the same.

For a time, the situation reached a stalemate.

Until Guzhu Jian's slightly weak and apologetic voice sounded beside Su Fan.

"Sorry, Xiao Fan, my Soul Power is nearly exhausted."

A hint of unwillingness flashed through Guzhu Jian's eyes.

He was a high-level Soul King, while Xiao Hongchen was a low-level Soul King, yet he had actually lost to his opponent in a battle of endurance.

Xiao Hongchen's firepower alone had stopped his rain of bamboo swords.

The other two artillery platforms of the Sun Moon Royal Team fired shells similar to Soul Tool rays, each carrying various special effects.

Su Fan teleported the Diamond Shield around to block them one by one.

But the Diamond Shield was steadily being worn down as well.

Though Chi Hengyu constantly used Soul Power to manifest new Diamond Shields, he could not withstand the alternating bombardment from the two artillery platforms, along with support from other directions.

Very soon, the Dou Ling Team fell into an enormous disadvantage.

They could not win a battle of attrition.

Su Fan remained calm.

"Milk Bottles."

Guzhu Jian took a deep breath, pulled out the Class 6 Milk Bottle he had previously bought at auction, and rapidly absorbed the Soul Power within it.

At this moment, he had a question.

Su Fan had been carrying out teleportations on such a massive scale and at such high frequency, yet he still seemed completely energized?

Was his Soul Power inexhaustible?

The team had practiced together before.

But that had only been tactical coordination.

Su Fan had never truly shown an all-out stance in front of the team.

He had merely had everyone practice and coordinate with his teleportation tactics.

"Hmph, are you the only ones who can recover?"

When the Sun Moon Royal Team saw the Dou Ling Team take out Milk Bottles to restore their Soul Power, they immediately sneered.

When it came to Soul Tools, the Sun Moon Royal Team feared no one.

You had Milk Bottles?

So did they!

Xiao Hongchen even freed both hands, holding a Milk Bottle in each, looking ready to drink from them alternately with his left and right hands.

But just as the Sun Moon Royal Team members successively took out their Milk Bottles, Su Fan made his move as well.

The fourth Soul Ring beneath his feet became immeasurably deep.

Even the light around him seemed to be swallowed up.

Though it did not shine with any dazzling radiance, it unconsciously drew everyone's attention.

That was—

A ten-thousand-year soul skill.

He was going to unleash his highest-year ten-thousand-year soul skill!

Ma Rulong's expression tightened as he immediately focused completely.

He could feel the pressure emanating from Su Fan's fourth Soul Ring.

That was absolutely a Soul Ring with a cultivation age even higher than his sixth Soul Ring.

It would not be an exaggeration to call it the highest-year Soul Ring in the entire arena.

It was coming.

What was his fourth soul skill?

Below, the Shrek Team in the preparation area also stared intently at the scene.

They too were curious about what Su Fan's fourth soul skill actually was.

Under countless watchful eyes, Su Fan's expression turned serious.

With him at the center, space seemed to begin solidifying as its range rapidly spread.

"Fourth soul skill, Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation!"

Su Fan finally unleashed this fourth soul skill, obtained from a fifty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca, in the tournament.

Its effect was to turn the space around Su Fan into a mirror surface and solidify the entire area.

Then, after consuming a vast amount of Su Fan's Soul Power, the mirror would shatter and annihilate the enemy.

The more Soul Power consumed, the more defenses the shattered mirror could break through.

The solidified mirror surface continued spreading.

In the blink of an eye, it encompassed Ma Rulong at the very front.

Then it extended deep into the half of the arena occupied by the Sun Moon Royal Team.

Even though all seven members of the Sun Moon Royal Team held Soul Tools that disrupted space, with the seven items linked together to strengthen their formation, they still could not stop the mirror's spread.

This was solidification. This was expansion.

It was not like Su Fan projecting an Aperture from afar, which could be interrupted by chaotic spatial power.

No matter how chaotic the spatial power was, it would be solidified before this soul skill.

What I want is solidification. I don't need to pass through your spatial power.

Whether your space is chaotic or not has nothing to do with me.

Su Fan counted silently, calculating the destructive power after the mirror shattered, and suppressed the urge to instantly kill all seven of them.

If he did that, all the Soul Power he had accumulated would be drained dry.

His Apertures could store Soul Power, but they were not Milk Bottles.

Milk Bottles stored power with rare metals as their foundation.

Su Fan's Apertures were themselves part of his meridians.

Their carrying capacity was limited.

Previously, even after all those Apertures had been engraved with Milk Bottle patterns, they had only raised his total Soul Power by a little more than twice.

Now that most of the Milk Bottle patterns had been improved, his total Soul Power was still only five times his base amount.

Not much.

It was not enough to make up for the Soul Power gap between a Soul Ancestor and a Soul Emperor.

Su Fan held back some of his strength.

His target was the Milk Bottles in the hands of the Sun Moon Royal Team's seven members.

Milk Bottles were functional Soul Tools, and they were not actually difficult to destroy.

Thus—

"Shatter!"

The mirror surface broke apart.

Xiao Hongchen felt both hands suddenly go empty.

He looked at the Milk Bottles he held in his hands and found that both had shriveled up.

The Milk Bottles were broken?

The other members of the Sun Moon Royal Team were also caught completely off guard.

They hurriedly pulled out spare Milk Bottles.

Unfortunately, Su Fan destroyed their Milk Bottles once again.

Su Fan was confident that, if he went all out, he could fight a Soul Emperor like Ma Rulong despite being a rank below him.

But now, the gap was one between entire teams.

His individual outburst was useless.

So he had to use strategy.

The Sun Moon Royal Team members were all Soul Engineers.

So-called Soul Engineers were, in truth, all about attrition.

The consumption of Soul Cannons was enormous. Every blast they fired was pure energy.