Black Phoenix, the Final Collision

"Su Fan, Su Fan indeed..."

Xuan Zi gritted his teeth.

He stared at the proud figure on the arena, his expression filled with bitter resentment.

Shrek could accept geniuses and monsters.

A loss was a loss. They could discuss things with him after the match.

After all, Su Fan was only twelve years old, just the right age to enroll at Shrek.

But Su Fan's performance on the arena had made Xuan Zi completely abandon that idea.

In the individual elimination match, Su Fan had swept through all seven opponents.

And he had done so with such overwhelming force.

This was rubbing Shrek's face against the floor!

Yan Shaozhe's expression was equally unpleasant.

He stared fixedly at the arena.

Ma Xiaotao stepped onto the stage.

Su Fan had eliminated six people in a row before this, all with overwhelming dominance.

Faced with every strategy the Shrek Team had employed, he had merely thrown calm punches.

What arrogance.

On the arena.

Ma Xiaotao glared fiercely at Su Fan.

"Match start!"

At the referee's command, Soul Rings appeared beneath both their feet.

There was still a stabbing pain in her meridians, but Ma Xiaotao ignored it.

"Second Soul Skill, Bathing Fire Phoenix!"

"Third Soul Skill, Phoenix Wing Soaring!"

At that moment, blazing flames rose around her body and formed a massive fireball.

The crimson fireball resembled a second sun, raising the temperature of the arena to terrifying heights.

The phoenix cry carried a trace of shrill sorrow.

"Not enough!"

Ma Xiaotao knew that this level of power was not enough.

She desperately squeezed every last bit from herself.

At that moment, she would rather overdraw her very origin than fail to defeat Su Fan.

This was a battle concerning Shrek's honor.

The words Huo Yuhao and the others had repeated every day recently now burst from Ma Xiaotao's lips as well.

"For Shrek's glory!"

Su Fan frowned slightly.

He looked toward Ma Xiaotao in the air and saw blackness beginning to brew within the crimson flames.

Was her Evil Fire erupting?

Damn it. Without the Sword of Judgment, this woman's Evil Fire still erupted?

Was there really nothing wrong with her cultivation?

Remembering that Du Busi was present, Su Fan calmed down after cursing under his breath.

Even if Ma Xiaotao fell completely on the spot, Su Fan was not afraid.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Phoenix Meteor Shower!"

The crimson flames around Ma Xiaotao split apart, forming fiery meteors that rained down from the sky.

All the flaming meteors converged upon Su Fan.

A heat wave swept over him, scorching air lashing against his skin and dyeing him red.

Su Fan continued punching.

His Heavenly Circuit Apertures trembled.

Outside his body, one Aperture after another resonated with the Apertures within him.

During cultivation, Su Fan had created the Spirit Crossing Method. By using the transition between inner and outer Apertures, he could have the outer Apertures absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transfer it directly into his body, accelerating his cultivation.

Now, in the midst of battle, he directly transferred the Soul Power within his body to every part of the outside.

In the blink of an eye, Core Arrays derived from Soul Tools began operating one after another.

Hundreds of Apertures shone, illuminating the heavens and earth.

The Phoenix Meteor Shower had already been dazzling enough.

Yet as Su Fan exerted himself, it felt as though light had pierced through a darkened world.

One Aperture after another lit up.

Soul Power erupted at that instant.

Boom!

Countless streaks of fire shot into the sky and collided with the Phoenix Meteor Shower in midair.

The sight was truly magnificent.

The descending Phoenix Meteor Shower was actually being forced back upward by Su Fan from the ground.

This scene was deeply etched into the minds of the spectators.

The Sun Moon Royal Team's preparation area.

Although they had already lost and had no need to prepare, the area had still been retained as a privilege for participating teams.

Xiao Hongchen gripped the railing with both hands, staring fixedly at the Apertures amid the rain of light filling the sky.

"It's a Core Array. I finally saw it!"

He looked almost crazed, muttering to himself.

The surrounding teammates all wore grave expressions.

They had all seen it clearly.

Within the Apertures were densely packed Core Arrays.

Every Aperture seemed to have been cultivated by Su Fan into a Soul Tool.

Not only that, some of the Apertures had Linkage with one another, unleashing the power of multiple Soul Tools at once.

The principle was—

"It's a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell. He borrowed the methods of Fixed Soul Guidance Shells!"

Xiao Hongchen's face was filled with fervor.

Heavens!

A Soul Master could actually replicate the effects of a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.

He believed in numbers.

That was why he had been unwilling to accept his defeat when Su Fan eliminated him earlier.

Only after Su Fan erupted in the finals, displaying numbers so overwhelming that they inspired despair, had he acknowledged his loss.

As a Soul Engineer, the numbers he worshipped most were those of Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

They were the Soul Tools with the most explosive numbers.

Among Soul Tools of the same level, the damage of a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell was unquestionably at the very peak.

There were no exceptions.

However, Fixed Soul Guidance Shells had exceedingly harsh requirements for rare materials.

Their manufacturing process was also complex.

They could be called the pinnacle of Soul Tools.

Under normal circumstances, only a seventh-rank Soul Engineer would truly begin producing sixth-rank Fixed Soul Guidance Shells with strategic significance.

Because a mistake during production would cause the thing to explode outright.

Inside were countless nested explosive arrays.

Countless arrays were layered together for the sake of that single instant of detonation.

During production, the earlier arrays were already capable of functioning.

Thus, if an error occurred while making the later arrays and accidentally triggered the earlier ones...

The consequences would be unimaginable.

That complex process made it impossible for Soul Engineers to equip themselves with fixed Soul Guidance weapons.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with forcibly carrying a fixed Soul Cannon and its matching shells, then claiming it as one's own combat power.

But in ordinary combat, Soul Engineers could not make use of fixed Soul Guidance weapons.

Su Fan had shattered Xiao Hongchen's understanding.

He replicated Soul Tools through Apertures.

Using countless Apertures, he had created the effect of a fixed Soul Guidance weapon through Linkage.

"No wonder, no wonder he can unleash power of this level."

As Su Fan forced her attack back, unwillingness flashed through Ma Xiaotao's eyes.

"Not enough, it's still not enough!"

"I should be stronger!"

At last, she no longer suppressed herself in the slightest.

She needed power.

Normally, she was always suppressing the Evil Fire inside her, devoting part of her focus to it.

Now, she completely stopped suppressing it.

Erupt!

Erupt, all of it!

Ma Xiaotao roared, her voice becoming hoarse.

Her fiery red eyes turned pitch-black at that moment.

The crimson flames became intertwined with black-red in the blink of an eye.

"Fifth Soul Skill, Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike!"

Her final trace of reason drove Ma Xiaotao to mobilize all her power and unleash her strongest attack.

The black-red flames completely turned black in an instant.

Pitch-black flames gathered, and a phoenix cry carrying a trace of sinister charm rang through the air above the arena.

Su Fan's expression changed slightly.

She had truly fallen.

Just how long had Ma Xiaotao been suppressing this?

The Sword of Judgment, the Sword of Judgment...

Was the Sword of Judgment really to blame in the original story?

"Ultimate Sublimation!"

The Apertures within his body shone, operating at full capacity.

A single line ran through thirty-six of his Apertures.

Nine Apertures nourished one Aperture.

His Heavenly Circuit Apertures formed thirty-six regions, all linked together by that one line.

Boom!

The Kirin Arm erupted.

A Kirin phantom condensed around Su Fan's right arm and roared as it charged forth.

The black phoenix descended from the sky.

The blood-streaked Kirin roared as it soared upward.

Boom!