Many Eyes Break the Seven Treasures

"Fine, let's bet. What's there to be afraid of?" After a brief moment of surprise, Zhou Yi gave Mu Jin a soft snort. "Just don't regret it. You think empty threats can scare me? Dream on."

The two teachers on the viewing platform were trading barbs and placing bets, while Huo Yuhao's group of three had already squared off against Ning Tian's team on the arena.

The three girls on Ning Tian's team were all quite pretty. They wore the same freshman uniforms, and the girl standing at the front was rather tall—slightly taller than both Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. She had neat, short golden hair, large aqua-blue eyes framed by long lashes, and several charming little freckles on her cheeks.

Huo Yuhao locked eyes with Ning Tian, while Wang Dong's gaze collided with Wu Feng's. Only Xiao Xiao and Nanmen Yun'er regarded each other more calmly.

An invisible smell of gunpowder had already spread among the six of them.

Just then, the proctor shouted, "Begin!"

Wang Dong pushed off with the tip of her foot and charged forward in a single stride. As she rushed ahead, her dazzling blue-gold wings suddenly unfurled.

No matter how confident Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun'er, and Ning Tian were, the sight of those brilliant Light Goddess Butterfly wings still dazzled their eyes. They silently marveled at how beautiful they were.

Wu Feng also let out a sharp cry as her petite body sprang into the air. A dense wave of heat surged from her body, accompanied by a faint dragon's roar.

Wu Feng's body abruptly lengthened. While she was airborne, her stretched frame tore apart her school uniform, revealing the close-fitting clothing beneath.

She had clearly come prepared. Beneath it was a highly elastic leather bodysuit, exposing a pair of smooth, bare thighs as it cinched upward around her body.

A faint crimson glow rippled across Wu Feng's skin. Beginning from the left side of her face, a layer of fine dragon scales spread downward along her neck, over her shoulder, and across her entire left arm and hand.

Just as Wu Feng was about to collide with Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao made his move. As his first soul skill, Illusionary Thought Confusion, activated, Wu Feng's vision swam, and the force behind her punch was reduced by more than half.

Wang Dong, however, was not weakened by Illusionary Thought Confusion. Her fist met Wu Feng's head-on.

Wu Feng's arm was knocked backward from the blow. At that moment, Ning Tian also summoned her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

As an auxiliary-type battle soul master, Ning Tian almost instantly realized that Huo Yuhao was the root cause of Wu Feng's disadvantage. Though she did not yet understand the exact effect of Illusionary Thought Confusion, she could tell that it was a weakening-type soul skill directed at opponents.

"Seven Treasures Have a Name, second: Dispel." The pagoda's second soul ring lit up. Rich yellow light made the pagoda appear even more splendid, and two dazzling beams shot from it, landing respectively on Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er.

A flash of clarity passed through Wu Feng's eyes, but it lasted only an instant. The greatest difference between Illusionary Thought Confusion and ordinary control-type soul skills was that it was closer to a domain-type soul skill.

In other words, unless one could directly dispel the entirety of Illusionary Thought Confusion, removing its weakening effect once meant very little. The moment it was removed, Illusionary Thought Confusion would trigger again.

Unless the opponent could react in time, immediately sever her five senses, and swiftly escape the range of Illusionary Thought Confusion.

By now, Huo Yuhao had spread Illusionary Thought Confusion across the entire arena. Only Ning Tian, protected by the treasure aura emitted by her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul, had avoided being affected.

Yet Illusionary Thought Confusion was also continuously weakening the protective effect of that aura. If Ning Tian did not realize it quickly enough, breaking through her aura defense would only be a matter of time.

"Ning Tian, what's going on?" Wu Feng had not seen through the effects of Illusionary Thought Confusion. She only felt the weakness in her body vanish for an instant before returning, and she anxiously turned to ask Ning Tian.

Ning Tian frowned as well and said to Wu Feng, "His eyes carry an icy aura and look like an ice-type martial soul, but they're actually primarily spiritual. Use your fire to break his ice first. I'll find a way to counter this sustained weakening soul skill of his."

As Wu Feng retreated, she gritted her teeth and said, "Normally, I wouldn't have a problem with that, but in this situation, I can't take them on!"

"Seven Treasures Have a Name, first: Speed." Two dazzling beams shot from the pagoda again, landing on Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er. Ning Tian gritted her teeth and said to Wu Feng, "No matter which of you two does it, one of you has to take down Huo Yuhao first if we want any chance of winning. Otherwise, we're doomed to lose."

Afterward, Ning Tian directly used her third soul skill, the thousand-year-level Third: Strength. This time, she placed the enhancement entirely on Wu Feng.

Nanmen Yun'er's battle with Xiao Xiao was equally tense. Although Xiao Xiao did not have Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection to assist her this time, her own control still kept Nanmen Yun'er firmly blocked far away from Huo Yuhao.

Zhou Yi and Mu Jin stared intently at the battle on the arena. At this point, those on the stage and those below it saw the match from two completely different perspectives.

To the spectators below, the match was still deadlocked. Both sides exchanged blows and tested each other, with no clear advantage or disadvantage yet apparent.

But to those on the stage, especially Ning Tian's side, it felt as though they were frogs being slowly boiled in warm water.

Unlike that foolish frog, they clearly knew that as time passed, they would be cooked alive. Yet it was not that they did not want to leap out of the pot.

Rather, the person who had put them in the pot had clamped down a heavy lid, making it difficult for them to jump beyond its confines.

After the Spirit Eye fused with the ice element and acquired its properties, Illusionary Thought Confusion truly became a persistent weakening effect that clung to its targets like maggots to bone.

Wu Feng let out one strange roar after another, clearly tormented badly by the weakening effects of Illusionary Thought Confusion.

With the dual boosts to speed and strength from the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, she should not have been at such a disadvantage. Yet she could now only barely match Wang Dong's speed and strength with those enhancements.

Furthermore, Wu Feng's objective was to get close to Huo Yuhao, but Wang Dong had already inflicted several wounds on her. The pain gradually began to cloud her judgment.

"I'll fight you to the death!" Wu Feng roared as her Soul Power erupted once more. Ning Tian clenched her teeth and used another strength enhancement on her, and Wu Feng charged forward with the momentum...