Lao Huo, Ready? Your Lucky Break Is Here!

"Everyone, be careful. Our opponents are strong. One slipup, and our tournament run will end here." Huo Yuhao sent his thoughts to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao with his mental energy.

At the same time, thanks to the Spiritual Sharing and detection ability granted to him by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he could also sense what his two teammates were thinking.

Just then, Huo Yuhao received Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong's thoughts.

Xiao Xiao's mental fluctuations were full of excitement as she said to Huo Yuhao, "Monitor, look at Lin Yao! He's so handsome! How did I never notice before? He looks so good with his Martial Soul possessed!"

Wang Dong, meanwhile, wore a strange expression as she told Huo Yuhao, "I don't know why, but after seeing his Martial Soul, I feel like my heart was tugged by it, just a little. It's as if some mysterious connection has bound us together."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Lin Yao looked at Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao's feelings were written plainly across her face, and even her lovestruck gaze had grown a little hazy.

When he met Wang Dong's eyes, he, too, felt a strange connection. But unlike Wang Dong, it didn't feel smooth at all. It was like two puzzle pieces that had nothing to do with each other, forced together by some mysterious power.

Lin Yao couldn't help glancing up at the sky. A theory from the Peerless Tang Sect forums in his previous life suddenly came to mind.

The theory was that Tang San, the God-King, had engineered the Martial Soul Fusion Skill between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Otherwise, there was simply no way to explain how eyes and a butterfly, eyes and a Clear Sky Hammer, the Ice Empress and a butterfly, and the Ice Empress and a Clear Sky Hammer could achieve a perfect fusion every single time. Even the Martial Soul of Electrolux, which would become Huo Yuhao's third Martial Soul in the future, could be forcibly made to resonate with the Sea God's Divine Sense Tang San had left inside Wang Dong.

Lin Yao narrowed his eyes. In theory, if the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life could see what was happening to him, there was no reason Tang San, who paid even closer attention to the Douluo Continent, couldn't see it.

If Tang San really was behind all this, forcing the Ender Dragon into a match with a butterfly would be no easy feat. He'd have his hands full.

This clumsy connection posed no threat to Lin Yao. He could tell that if he rejected it from the bottom of his heart, his Martial Soul would resist along with him and sever the connection completely.

With a casual thought, Lin Yao cut off the already awkward connection. He looked at Wang Dong. That lofty deity really was a prisoner trapped on the patriarch's throne.

Even if he wanted his daughter to find a good son-in-law, he shouldn't resort to this sort of trick. At the very least, he ought to do it openly and honestly.

Wang Dong felt the connection snap. She froze for a moment, but fortunately, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sharing detection provided her with auxiliary vision. Otherwise, who knew how long she might have been out of it?

Just then, the referee overseeing their section of the arena raised a hand and called, "Ready! The match begins!"

The instant the match began, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao charged at Lin Yao's team from opposite sides.

Xiao Xiao kept her eyes fixed on Lin Yao. When she activated her Martial Soul and attacked their opponents, Lin Yao was her first target.

This time, Xiao Xiao activated the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron with exceptional focus. Almost as if she were showing off, she sent all three cauldrons at Lin Yao from three different directions.

The three massive cauldrons formed a triangle, as if they meant to crush Lin Yao between them.

As Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing detection to direct Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao's attacks, Ye Guyi and Xu Ye moved beside Lin Yao.

Xu Ye was a long-range Agility System Soul Master. Four colorful leaves spun in her hands as she stood behind Ye Guyi, joining her in fending off Wang Dong's assault.

Unfortunately for Xu Ye, Wang Dong had Spiritual Sharing detection this time. For a long-range Soul Master like her, it was practically like running into the strictest father imaginable.

Within just a few minutes, Wang Dong knocked her off the arena.

At the sight, Zhou Yi smiled from the high platform. But the very next moment, her smile vanished.

Lin Yao had made his move. He deliberately let the three cauldrons pin him in place, and Xiao Xiao's expression immediately turned grim.

Lin Yao had grabbed the legs of two of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons, one in each hand, and was lifting the massive vessels right off the ground.

Once he had lifted them, he hurled both cauldrons toward Wang Dong.

Wang Dong was startled. Those were her teammate Xiao Xiao's Martial Souls, so she couldn't simply blast them apart with Soul Power. She could only flap the wings of the Light Goddess Butterfly on her back and dodge.

As she dodged, Ye Guyi had already reached a spot above and behind her. She tapped her foot against Wang Dong's back.

Wang Dong immediately felt the weight on her back. She turned to attack, but Ye Guyi's knee slammed into her mouth and pinned her to the ground.

By then, Lin Yao had crouched down, his eyes locked on Huo Yuhao. His lips moved as if he were saying something.

Huo Yuhao furrowed his brow. Using Spiritual Sharing detection to study Lin Yao's lips, he could make out the words:

"Lao Huo, ready? Your lucky break is here!"

Huo Yuhao was still trying to figure out what that short sentence meant when Lin Yao suddenly kicked off the ground. The wings of the Ender Dragon spread behind him, and shock flashed across Huo Yuhao's face.

Before Lin Yao spread those dragon wings, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sharing detection had sensed neither the wings of the Ender Dragon Martial Soul nor anything behind Lin Yao.

Now, seeing those enormous wings, Huo Yuhao couldn't help staring blankly.

Lin Yao gave Huo Yuhao no time to wonder. In an instant, he was right in front of him.

Huo Yuhao hurriedly used the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to dodge backward. At the same time, his hands turned white as he activated the Mysterious Jade Hand and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, trying to use the Tang Sect's secret techniques to hold Lin Yao off.

But facing an overwhelming difference in sheer stats, those techniques meant nothing. Lin Yao grabbed Huo Yuyao by the collar and hauled him straight into the sky.

Without using Soul Power to protect him, Lin Yao left Huo Yuhao exposed to the air. The fierce current struck his face like knives, making the muscles in his face tremble violently.

Huo Yuhao was about to fight back when Lin Yao began rapidly flipping and spinning through the air with him, faster and faster.

Amid that frenzied spinning, Huo Yuhao couldn't maintain his Soul Power, let alone his Spiritual Sharing detection. All he could feel was nausea churning in his chest...