"We surrender! Referee, protect us!"
The seven members of Jiabei Team moved in perfect unison, squatting down with their hands over their heads. Their will to survive was clearly at its peak.
The referee reacted immediately, flashing in front of the members of Jiabei Academy.
Well, targeting the referee earlier had been unnecessary. He was going to save the other team anyway.
Soul Cannons came at them in a vast barrage. Only when they faced the attack head-on did the referee truly understand what terror meant.
After all, Xiao Hongchen had carved the Core Arrays into his Level Five Soul Cannons himself, one by one, using the Dark Gold Profound Blade. Their power was already thirty percent greater than that of ordinary Level Five Soul Cannons. With the boost from his Twin Martial Souls and fifty-ninth-level Soul Power, their power was likely even higher still.
The referee was only a Seven-Ring Soul Sage. To save his life, he had no choice but to activate his Martial Soul Avatar on the spot.
With a roar, the light of the referee's Seventh Soul Ring blazed. He had one white, two yellow, three purple, and one black Soul Ring.
Amid a deep growl, a body more than five meters tall and as massive as a mountain appeared out of nowhere.
It was a giant elephant, its entire body covered in thick plates of armor. As it let out a low growl, Soul Ring light shimmered faintly over its body. White radiance formed a barrier, which slammed head-on into the hundred Level Five Soul Cannons.
The surrounding ground split apart in great swathes. With his White Armored Elephant Avatar doing everything it could to hold the line, the referee barely managed to withstand the barrage.
When the smoke cleared, he was scorched black, blood