The Battle Ended in One Minute

By the time Wang Sheng's Soul Power had mostly recovered, the referee announced, "Second match: Class Three challenges Class One in a four-on-four. Begin! Students, take the field."

On Ji Bing's side, Wang Sheng, Mei Hu, Wu Xiaodong, and Wu Xiao'ai stepped onto the field one after another.

On the other side were also two boys and two girls. Judging by their appearances, they were even one or two years older than Wu Xiaodong, the eldest among them.

The muscular man leading the opposing side stared coldly at Wang Sheng and the others, then shouted, "Brothers, summon your martial souls!"

Wang Sheng's side showed no weakness either, summoning their martial souls almost simultaneously.

Yet the disparity was completely one-sided.

Two yellow rings each—the four members of Class Three all flashed with two hundred-year soul rings.

On Wang Sheng's side, two had two yellow rings while the other two had one yellow ring each. Judging from their soul rings alone, they were not even on the same level.

However, led by Wang Sheng, they erupted with a formidable presence that was in no way inferior to the four opponents before them.

"Hm?"

Ji Bing's expression darkened beneath the stage. According to the information she had received, Class Three, like Class Two, had only three two-ringed Soul Masters. Yet now there were four!

Had another student from Class Three broken through to the second ring during the past half month?

No, Ji Bing did not think so. There was definitely something fishy going on.

Ye Zhiqiu, who knew Class Three well, did not look much better either.

Because one of those four had originally belonged to Class Three. He was from another class!

Using such tricks for the sake of the academy's honor was understandable.

But pulling something like this in an internal academy class competition was rather ugly. Even Ye Zhiqiu, who also liked to play tricks, felt some disdain for it! After all, a person needed to have some bottom line.

The match began. The two boys on the opposing side charged toward Wang Sheng, while the two girls circled around him and pounced directly at Wu Xiaodong, Wu Xiao'ai, and Mei Hu behind him.

"Heh, so they wanted to first keep me occupied, then have their two agility-type fighters take out Wu Xiao'ai and Mei Hu. After that, the two of them would join forces to eliminate Wu Xiaodong, then all four would surround and attack me?"

Watching the two girls rush forward at high speed, Wang Sheng revealed a strange smile.

Were they underestimating Wu Xiao'ai and Mei Hu too much?

Wang Sheng's group's formation had Wang Sheng in front, followed by Wu Xiaodong. Wu Xiao'ai and Mei Hu stayed close behind Wu Xiaodong, sheltering together behind that massive Shield Axe!

Sure enough, just as Wang Sheng had anticipated, the two opponents charging at him slowed down.

The two agility-type girls had already circled behind Wang Sheng and even bypassed Wu Xiaodong's enormous Shield Axe.

They attacked Wu Xiao'ai and Mei Hu.

"Gravity Field!"

"Big sister, do you think I'm pretty?"

The soul rings on Wu Xiao'ai and Mei Hu immediately lit up together.

The two agility-type girls faltered. Had they not reacted quickly enough to halt their attacks, the sudden gravity combined with their rapid movement would likely have sent them sprawling to the ground.

"Shield Bash!"

How could Wu Xiaodong possibly let such an opportunity slip by?

His second Soul Ring immediately lit up, and he slammed the girl nearest Wu Xiao'ai, sending her flying with a single blow.

"Crack, crack..."

Meanwhile, the girl near Mei Hu turned into a stone statue before everyone's astonished eyes.

"Bang!"

Mei Hu kicked out, sending her straight off the field.

At that moment, the two people charging at Wang Sheng had also entered Wu Xiao'ai's Gravity Field. The suddenly doubled gravity made their bodies lurch unsteadily. Like the two girls, they had to stop abruptly just to barely steady themselves.

But Wang Sheng had been waiting for precisely this moment. Every one of his soul rings lit up.

"Blood Flame Impact!"

Wang Sheng, transformed into a man of flame, rammed into one of them and sent him flying.

"Phoenix Flame Soar!"

Then his second Soul Ring Skill activated immediately as he blasted toward the other one.

These two did not possess martial souls as powerful as Cheng Hu's. Besides, they had not even had time to activate their soul skills before being knocked down.

Only then did the stone covering the girl Mei Hu had kicked off the field shatter apart.

She stood there dumbfounded, her mind filled with questions. Who am I? Where am I?

Wasn't I on the field? How did I end up off the field?

Why were they all down already? Did we lose just like that?

And she was not the only one stunned. Everyone beneath the stage was dumbfounded as well. They had not even understood how Class Three's four two-ringed Grand Soul Masters had all been defeated.

Both on and off the field, a brief and eerie silence fell.

"Was that even a minute?"

"Definitely not!"

"How did they lose?"

"I couldn't make sense of it! The four of them had clearly been attacking aggressively, but for some reason, they suddenly lost their balance and exposed huge openings."

"That wasn't even the strangest part. The one who had already been knocked off the field actually turned into a stone statue earlier."

"Right, right, right! If there hadn't been shattered stone around her, I would've thought I was seeing an illusion."

Cheng Hu, Tao Ping, and Zhou Da from Class Two stood there with their mouths wide open, their faces filled with shock.

After coming back to their senses, they could not help cursing. "Holy crap, that's insane!"

"This... this, this, this... how is that possible?!"

Class Three's teacher was on the verge of collapse. What had he gone to such lengths for? Cultivation resources, of course!

But now, it had all turned into nothing. The key was that, in order to win, he had even transferred a two-ringed student over from Class Six, paying no small price for it.

Ye Zhiqiu quietly shifted several steps to the side. After this battle, that teacher was likely going to have a hard time.

After all, even after resorting to underhanded methods, a team of four two-ringed Soul Masters had still lost to a team with two two-ringed and two one-ringed Soul Masters.

"Sigh!"

Why go that far?

If he had not used tricks, then a loss would have simply been a loss. But he had used tricks and still lost.

That was truly humiliating beyond measure. He would probably never be able to hold his head up at the academy again.

At that moment, Ye Zhiqiu suddenly felt that his own loss was nothing much after all!

Meanwhile, the Spirit Hall deacon had risen from his seat once again.

Others might not have understood it, but he had seen everything clearly.

The key to this battle had not actually been Wang Sheng, nor had it been Wu Xiaodong. It had been the two one-ringed girls.

"Gravity and petrification—what two powerful and strange soul skills!"

"Hahaha! I told you, each of these four has a stronger martial soul than the last, and each has stranger soul skills than the last. I didn't disappoint you, did I, Deacon?"

Vice City Lord Huang burst into laughter beside him. At that moment, no one was happier than he was.

The better the talents of these four were, the more beneficial it was to him!

Who told his rival to have a brain-dead son who had offended these four geniuses beyond repair?

Seeing City Lord Li sitting nearby with a dark face and remaining silent improved his mood even further. If the Spirit Hall deacon had not been present, he would have laughed even more wildly.

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