All-Out Firepower!

Before his words had even faded—

"Attack! Don't give him a chance!"

The young minor leader reacted the fastest. Though he felt it was beneath them to win this way, the temptation of the reward and Carlson's orders made him cast aside his hesitation in an instant.

With a low shout, his soul ring lit up. He charged out like a cheetah, his hands gleaming with a metallic luster. Clearly, he was an assault-type battle Soul Master with a Beast Martial Soul Possession!

His companions behind him snapped out of their daze as well, their soul rings lighting up in a blaze of different colors!

"First Soul Skill, Wind Blade!"

"Wrap!"

"Fireball!"

"Rock Barrier, protect our people!"

Ranged attacks, control soul skills, and defensive soul skills instantly intertwined into a chaotic yet dense web of attacks, sweeping toward the isolated Lin Xia and Bulbasaur in the center of the field!

Several agility-type Soul Masters also moved like Gui Mei, circling in from both sides at incredible speed!

More than a dozen Soul Masters unleashed their soul skills at once. Even if they were all children, the gathered Soul Power fluctuations and imposing momentum were enough to make an ordinary Soul Grandmaster turn pale!

The training ground was instantly filled with flashing soul light and howling gusts!

Facing the overwhelming barrage, Lin Xia stood completely still as though he had been frightened stiff. Only the cold smile at the corner of his lips grew more pronounced.

Just as countless attacks were about to strike him!

"Bulbasaur!"

Lin Xia shouted.

"Bulba—!!!"

The seed bulb on Bulbasaur's back erupted with emerald light!

Several Vine Whips burst forth and danced wildly as if they were alive, moving so fast that they left only streaks of green afterimages!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Incomparably precise!

Three Vine Whips shot out like spirit snakes, wrapping around the first few Wind Blades and Fireballs to arrive before twisting violently!

Puff! Puff! Puff!

The low-level ranged soul skills instantly burst apart beneath the tremendous strength and resilience of the Vine Whips!

At the same time, the other two Vine Whips lashed hard against the ground in front of them!

Bang!

Dust exploded and shattered stones flew everywhere!

A shallow yet sufficiently obstructive trench instantly formed. The two assault-type Soul Masters charging at the front stumbled, their momentum immediately halted!

"Poison Powder, then keep using Swords Dance. I'll hold them off!"

The bulb on Bulbasaur's back flashed, releasing a pale purple powder carrying a strange sweet scent. It erupted like smoke, instantly blanketing several meters around Bulbasaur and Lin Xia!

This was its most proficient area-restriction skill!

"Careful! It's poisonous!"

Someone cried out and instinctively held their breath.

The people at the front inevitably inhaled a small amount of the powder. Their movements immediately stiffened, their heads grew dizzy, and even the circulation of their Soul Power stalled for an instant!

Though the poison was not potent enough to immediately rob them of their fighting ability, such momentary interference was fatal in high-speed combat!

In that flash of lightning!

Lin Xia moved!

He did not use any soul skill, relying solely on the powerful physique tempered countless times in the Illusion Demon Spider's stomach pouch and his astonishing reaction speed!

Like a slippery loach, his body twisted at an unbelievable angle as he slid sideways and ducked low!

Whoosh!

A claw aimed at his throat swept past the tip of his nose!

Bang!

He turned sideways and used his shoulder blade to deflect most of the force from a heavy punch!

He lowered himself to evade a sweeping leg whip, then forcefully pushed off the ground with his toes. Like an arrow loosed from a bow, he advanced rather than retreated, slamming into the chest of an agility-type youth whose movements had slowed after inhaling the Poison Powder!

"What?!"

The youth was horrified. He had never expected Lin Xia to dare close in on him!

A cold glint flashed in Lin Xia's eyes. His elbow became like an iron hammer, smashing fiercely into the center of the youth's chest with a shriek of tearing air!

"Urgh!"

The youth let out a muffled groan as his Soul Power was instantly dispersed. The searing pain bent him double, and he flew backward, crashing directly into another person charging in from behind.

Having succeeded with one strike, Lin Xia did not pause. Borrowing the recoil from the collision, he spun smoothly around his left foot as an axis. His right hand chopped precisely into the exposed side of another assault-type youth's neck after the latter's attack missed!

"Urgh!"

The youth's eyes rolled back, and he collapsed limply to the ground.

Like a rabbit rising and a falcon falling, he had taken down two people in an instant!

All of this happened within the mere two or three seconds covered by Bulbasaur's Poison Powder!

"Bastard!"

The young minor leader's eyes nearly split with rage. He had never expected Lin Xia himself to be so fierce!

With an enraged roar, he swung both fists at Lin Xia's back. His soul ring gleamed, showing that he had activated a soul skill, and his fists tore through the air with a piercing shriek!

Lin Xia seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. Just as the fists were about to hit him, he suddenly bent backward in an iron bridge!

Whoosh! The fierce fist wind grazed across his chest!

At the same time, Bulbasaur completed one round of Swords Dance. Yet it had not forgotten Lin Xia's instructions and continued using Swords Dance.

Then four or five Vine Whips suddenly extended from behind Lin Xia. Like venomous snakes that had been waiting for their chance, they sprang up from the ground and lashed fiercely at the young minor leader's ankles!

"Ah!"

The pain threw off his balance, turning his forward charge into a stagger.

Lin Xia's bent body sprang upright like a compressed spring. His knee, carrying Qian Jun's force, viciously drove toward the youth's exposed abdomen as he stumbled!

The entire sequence flowed as smoothly as water!

However, just as Lin Xia's knee strike was about to land, buzz! An earthy yellow barrier appeared out of nowhere, blocking the young minor leader!

It was support from a defense-type Soul Master behind him!

Bang!

Lin Xia's knee slammed viciously into the barrier with a dull boom.

The barrier shook violently and cracks spread across it, but it ultimately blocked the lethal strike.

"That was close!"

The young minor leader broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly retreated.

"Don't give them room to breathe! Focus your ranged attacks on that soul beast dancing over there. Something feels off about it!"

Someone shouted commands amid the chaos.

Several ranged Soul Masters began gathering their soul skills again.

Lin Xia's eyes narrowed.

He knew the real test had arrived. The other side had an overwhelming advantage in numbers. Once they regained their footing and coordinated properly, he and Bulbasaur would find it extremely difficult to withstand the bombardment of ranged soul skills alone.

Watching the soul rings light up once again, watching the opponents reorganize themselves with all traces of disdain gone from their eyes, replaced only by solemnity and anger, Lin Xia knew he could not keep holding back.

Carlson wanted to see his limit? Then he would show them!

He took a deep breath. Green-purple light suddenly flared in his eyes, and an overbearing, eerie aura rose from his body.

Beneath the skin of his right arm, purple veins seemed to flow faintly.

"Bulbasaur, get ready!"

Lin Xia's voice was low and full of power.

"Bulba!"

By now, Bulbasaur had completed two rounds of Swords Dance. Sensing Lin Xia's resolve, the bulb on its back shone more brilliantly than ever. Every Vine Whip was pulled taut like a steel cable, while the scent of Poison Powder grew even stronger.

The battle had only just entered its most intense stage!

"Toxic! Poison Powder! Sleep Powder—cover the entire area!" Lin Xia roared, his strategy clear. Since they had the advantage in numbers, he would first create chaos!

The bulb on Bulbasaur's back swelled violently, and three differently colored powders with different effects erupted forth like a volcanic explosion!

Dark purple Toxic dust, pale purple paralyzing Poison Powder, and Sleep Powder carrying a strange sweet scent—under Lin Xia's precise guidance of Soul Power, the three deadly smoke bombs did not mix completely. Instead, they formed three intertwined streams of color that instantly swept across most of the training ground!

"Not good! Hold your breath! Defense types, get your barriers up!"

The young minor leader cried out in terror, but it was already too late.

"Cough, cough... my head's spinning..."

"My Soul Power... isn't circulating properly!"

"My eyes... I can't open them..."

Cries, coughing, and the sounds of people falling rang out everywhere.

The faces of the trainees who inhaled the Toxic dust rapidly turned blue and purple as their Soul Power fell into disorder. Those shrouded by the paralyzing Poison Powder became stiff and sluggish.

Those who inhaled the Sleep Powder found their eyelids unbearably heavy, swaying as though they might collapse at any moment.

The formation of more than a dozen people instantly fell apart. The gathering of ranged soul skills was forcibly interrupted, while the assault-types and agility-types at the front seemed to have fallen into a thick bog!

"Ingrain!"