Genjutsu: Kyoka Suigetsu

"Wu Feng, Yun'er, retreat quickly!" Ning Tian shouted from where she stood.

A faint sense of unease gnawed at her, though she couldn't quite put her finger on why.

"Bastard! What do you mean by that?" With the full force of Ning Tian's amplification coursing through her, Wu Feng felt she was now no less than a typical Soul Elder. She was confident she wouldn't lose to this annoying guy!

Retreat? Why on earth should she retreat!

She still had her trump card!

"Second Spirit Skill, Dragon's Fury!"

Flames of Soul Power coiled around Wu Feng. Upon activating this second spirit skill, her offensive and defensive capabilities, along with all her other spirit skills, would be boosted by over thirty percent.

Not only that, but her right-handed dragon claw was once again imbued with her first spirit skill, Dragon Fire.

In the next second, she thrust her dragon claw mercilessly toward Huo Yuhao.

But something happened that no one expected: Huo Yuhao didn't dodge or parry, remaining foolishly rooted to the spot.

Oh no!

Wu Feng tried to pull back, but it was too late.

With a sickening "squelch," Huo Yuhao's chest was completely pierced by Wu Feng, blood gushing out!

Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun'er, and Ning Tian all stared in shock, their eyes wide.

"H-how could this happen!" Panic laced Wu Feng's tone.

She wanted to win, but she hadn't intended to kill anyone.

Huo Yuhao's pupils seemed to lose focus. He shakily raised his hands, pressed his fingers together, and pointed in a certain direction.

Wu Feng, at a loss, could only look in the direction he was pointing.

There, on the other side of the arena, a stone chair had appeared out of nowhere. Huo Yuhao was sitting calmly upon it, resting his head on his hand.

Those strange, evil eyes were watching her performance with detached amusement.

Utterly arrogant.

Wu Feng froze. Then... who did I just kill?

"Caw, caw."

The next second, the "Huo Yuhao" that Wu Feng had impaled spat out a crow, and then his entire body transformed into a flock of crows that flew away.

"H-how, how is this possible? What is going on!"

Wu Feng stared at the scene in disbelief.

Nanmen Yun'er was also stunned into silence by this sudden turn of events.

Only Ning Tian's expression shifted. As if realizing something, she said, "This... this is a mental-type spirit skill! We've fallen into his mental-type spirit skill!"

Realizing this, the second spirit ring on Ning Tian's body flashed rapidly as she chanted the spirit incantation: "Seven Treasures Famous, Second: Dispel!"

Three beams of yellow light shot instantly from the pagoda, landing on Nanmen Yun'er, Wu Feng, and herself.

But after the yellow light faded, Ning Tian was shocked to find that everything before her remained exactly the same!

"How... how can this be?" Ning Tian fell into a daze.

Could it be that this entire space was under his control? What kind of spirit skill was this? How could such a powerful skill even exist?

At this very moment, on the high observation platform of the eighth Assessment Zone.

Except for a few, everyone else was completely bewildered.

From their perspective, it looked as if Ning Tian and her team had simply stood there, frozen.

The moment Ning Tian released her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, many people present couldn't help but gasp.

The Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, originating from the long-standing Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, was known as the number one support-type Martial Soul in the world!

With such a Martial Soul, it was equivalent to forcibly elevating the strength of one's teammates by an entire tier.

Even Wang Yan, the moment Ning Tian revealed the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, understood why Mu Jin believed her class's team could defeat Huo Yuhao and his group.

Because with the support of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, Ning Tian's two teammates were effectively two Soul Elders!

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao's teammates were merely students who had barely broken through to become Soul Grand Masters.

Moreover, in terms of Martial Soul quality, Ning Tian's side held the advantage.

Two top-tier beast Martial Souls combined with a top-tier tool Martial Soul—if they could use tactics effectively to eliminate Huo Yuhao's two teammates first...

As a master of Martial Soul research, Wang Yan instantly envisioned many possibilities.

But the result still defied everyone's expectations.

It was a total crush; no one even knew how Ning Tian and her team had lost.

The only possible explanation, perhaps, was that ten-thousand-year spirit ring of Huo Yuhao's.

Wang Yan analyzed silently in his heart.

"What... what are Ning Tian and the others doing? Why are they just standing there like idiots? What is going on?" Mu Jin's eyes widened.

She couldn't even believe her eyes; losing was one thing, but she had never seen anyone lose like this.

Standing rooted to the spot without even moving—how was this any different from surrendering?

"Heh, it seems your students are all just trash. If they were in my class, I'd expel every single one of them for surrendering without a fight," Zhou Yi, the old woman standing to the side, mocked.

Although she said this, the look Zhou Yi gave Huo Yuhao grew increasingly astonished.

How could this kid be so bizarre, with his tricks emerging one after another?

"Referee, does this count as our win? The three of them have been like this for a minute now."

Huo Yuhao spoke up to ask.

The referee teacher looked helplessly at the other side of the arena, at the three people standing frozen with wide eyes. After taking a deep look at Huo Yuhao, he announced, "In this assessment, Team Huo Yuhao is the winner."

From his perspective, after he had announced the start of the match, Ning Tian and her team had just released their Martial Souls when all three of them seemed to see something bizarre at the same time, their eyes widening.

They had remained in that state ever since.

In all his years as an assessment teacher, he had never encountered such a situation.

However, he had felt Huo Yuhao's second Spirit Ring flicker slightly at the time.

Therefore, this situation with Ning Tian and the others was definitely caused directly by Huo Yuhao.

While he was very curious about what Huo Yuhao's second spirit skill was to have such immense power, spirit skills were a spirit master's secrets, so he naturally couldn't ask.

Thus, he did not hesitate to declare Team Huo Yuhao the winner.

In fact, this move of Huo Yuhao's was not caused by a single spirit skill.

Rather, he had combined the first spirit skill, Mental Interference, and the second spirit skill, Nightmare, bestowed upon him by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and finally channeled the power of these two skills into the genjutsu of his Sharingan to release it.

Overall, it was still primarily the Sharingan's genjutsu.

That was why Ning Tian's second spirit skill, "Dispel," had no effect.

Your "Dispel" removes the negative effects of spirit skills; what does that have to do with my ninjutsu?

Huo Yuhao named this move: Genjutsu: Kyoka Suigetsu.

When facing those with weaker mental strength than his own, he could completely control them and manipulate them at will; if they had strong mental strength, he could still cause brief control, though the effect would not be as potent.

If Huo Yuhao knew what everyone was thinking, he would likely just smile dumbly.

Did they really think these second and third-ringers could fight him?

He was simply testing his skills; from the very beginning, this match was destined to be a complete and utter crushing defeat for them.

Seeing that his team had already secured victory, there was no need to continue controlling Ning Tian and the others with genjutsu.

With a thought, Huo Yuhao released the Sharingan's hold on the three of them.

Ning Tian and her teammates suddenly snapped back to reality, immediately bending over, panting like oxen, with sweat pouring down like rain.

Looking at the familiar world before them and the completely unscathed team of Huo Yuhao opposite them, they widened their eyes in disbelief: "This, this is impossible!"