The spider legs behind Lin Nuo's back seemed to have come completely alive.
Thanks to the formidable physical enhancement brought by Martial Soul Possession, he did not retreat. Instead, he leaped into the air like Gui Mei,
closing in from an impossibly tricky angle through a blind spot in the raging net of lightning, reaching Yu Tianheng in an instant.
"Damn it, how was he so fast?!"
Yu Tianheng's expression changed drastically. In his haste, he instinctively raised a dragon claw wreathed in violent lightning and clawed straight at Lin Nuo's face.
However, accompanied by a piercing screech,
the Thunder Dragon Claw was once again easily blocked by the Death Demon Scythe in Lin Nuo's hand.
What was more, the sharp purple-black blade energy surging from the scythe sliced through Yu Tianheng's prized dragon-scale defense as easily as cutting tofu!
Lin Nuo reacted swiftly, and the deep-purple Millennium Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly blazed with light.
"Second Soul Skill, Vampire Spider Stinger!"
In an instant, the two thick lower spider legs behind Lin Nuo shot out fiercely, their tips glinting with a blood-red light that made one's heart tremble.
Two muffled pfft sounds rang out as the sharp Spider Stingers pierced mercilessly through the gaps in the dragon scales and punched through Yu Tianheng's shoulder blades!
Immediately afterward, an extremely chilling toxin, carrying intense paralysis, poured wildly into Yu Tianheng's body through the Spider Stingers.
He only felt the blood and Soul Power in his body being crazily drained through his wounds like floodwaters released from a broken dam.
His originally swollen, powerful Dragon Transformation body visibly withered, and in an instant, he could not muster even a shred of strength.
Without a doubt, a move carrying both bloodsucking and deadly poison properties
would, in the era ten thousand years later, when some "Lord God King" had laid down the rules,
definitely be branded as the work of an Evil Soul Master,
and would warrant a sentence of the Way of Seeking Death.
But in this era, with Spirit Hall suppressing the continent, though it looked somewhat vicious,
it could only be considered a standard ruthless tactic in real combat among Soul Masters. It did not qualify as any Way of Seeking Death at all.
At this moment, Yu Tianheng was like a sick cat with its teeth pulled, held rigidly in midair by Lin Nuo's spider legs.
In merely a few breaths, he had completely lost the ability to resist and could not move.
"Have you recognized reality now, Senior Yu Tianheng?"
Lin Nuo looked down at him from above.
"When you recover some strength later, don't forget to hand the Gold Soul Coin card to me.
The young clan master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan wouldn't refuse to pay his debt after losing in front of so many people, would he?"
Suspended in midair before everyone, Yu Tianheng's mind went blank.
The unprecedented humiliation made his eyes turn bloodshot, and he panted like a bull!
With trembling fingers, he painfully brushed over the storage Soul Tool at his waist and viciously flung an unregistered Gold Soul Coin card toward Lin Nuo.
With the stake in hand, Lin Nuo could not be bothered to waste any more effort. The spider legs behind him retracted, and he tossed Yu Tianheng onto the Soul Fighting Arena like trash.
Yu Tianheng endured the agonizing pain of his pierced shoulders and staggered into a standing position.
He bit his lip in unwillingness until blood seeped out, but the ironclad reality left him no room to argue.
If Lin Nuo had been older than him and stronger than him, he could at least have found an excuse to comfort himself.
But this brat before him had utterly shattered his common sense in both age and rank!
The future heir of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been completely trampled beneath Lin Nuo's feet!
"There are three thousand Gold Soul Coins on this card! This time... I lost!"
Yu Tianheng panted heavily, staring fixedly at Lin Nuo as he gritted his teeth to salvage some pride.
"But I was only careless this time!
Sooner or later, I'll challenge you again!"
"Kid, remember this!
Today, I, Yu Tianheng, lost to you because my skills were lacking—not because my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul lost to you!"
Faced with the declaration of a sore loser, Lin Nuo did not even have the interest to refute him. He did not take Yu Tianheng's threat to heart at all.
He merely tucked the Gold Soul Coin card into his clothes, then, with his back to Yu Tianheng, casually left him with a sentence.
"Those defeated by my hand have never been considered opponents by me."
"I will give you time to catch up, until you can no longer see me even from afar."
The students who had come to watch the excitement, even those noble good-for-nothings who loafed around all day, were still Soul Masters who had awakened Soul Power. Naturally, their hearing was not poor.
Lin Nuo's words contained not a single curse, yet pushed contempt and sheer swagger to the very limit, clearly reaching every person's ears.
In an instant, the entire Soul Fighting Arena erupted!
"Holy shit! This junior is way too damn cool when he talks, isn't he?!"
"I've learned it, I've learned it! How come I could never think of such a domineering declaration before?"
"A twelve-year-old Soul Grandmaster is nothing! An eight- or nine-year-old at rank twenty-five is what's truly terrifying!
I hereby declare that from today onward, he is the undisputed number-one genius of our Heaven Dou Royal Academy!"
"Ahhhhh!!! Stop talking! Such a cute and domineering junior has already made me wet..."
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Something strange seemed to have slipped in. The one who spoke was unexpectedly that terrifying Cat-Ear Senior from earlier.
Hearing the tsunami-like cheers and exclamations around her, Dugu Yan, standing at the front of the crowd, could not help but reveal a peculiar glimmer in her gaze as she looked at the aloof young man on the stage.
She was someone who clearly distinguished gratitude from grudges.
If they really got to the bottom of it, this Soul Duel had happened entirely because Yu Tianheng had relentlessly pestered her.
Lin Nuo had simply been unlucky enough to pass by and suffer an undeserved disaster, yet he had even taught that clingy nuisance a harsh lesson for her.
"No, I need to hurry back and inform Grandpa.
With the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's overbearing, protective ways, Lin Nuo will definitely face plenty of trouble afterward."
With that thought, Dugu Yan turned and whispered something to a cool, detached young woman beside her who wore a black veil.
Then, without hesitation, she turned around and quickly left the Soul Fighting Arena.
Having spent so long in Heaven Dou City, Dugu Yan understood those great sects that proclaimed themselves righteous and prestigious quite well.
If Yu Tianheng had merely been defeated today because he was inferior in skill, the higher-ups of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might have swallowed their pride for the sake of the sect's reputation,
treating it as an ordinary sparring match between juniors and saying nothing more.
But the problem was that what Lin Nuo had displayed today was simply too terrifying!
Not only did he possess a top-tier beast Martial Soul capable of confronting and even suppressing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon head-on, he also bore a Millennium second ring that completely shattered the common sense of the Soul Master world.
The implications of that were entirely different.
Once such a terrifying genius grew up, he would inevitably threaten the lofty status of the Upper Three Sects.
In that case, using certain underhanded methods would only be a matter of course.
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