Douluo: Bloodline Insufficient? Brains Make Up For It!
Chapter 33

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Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the ten opponents before him.

His greatest advantage was his Spiritual Power, which had already reached 260 points at the age of seven.

However, those standing before him were all students from Shrek's previous class. Having just advanced to their second year, they were basically all over fifteen, and their Spiritual Power had long since surpassed Xu Yuan's.

Their ages and cultivation levels were unequal.

Even his advantage lost its luster before them.

Therefore, despite his powerful Spiritual Power, it was difficult for him to accurately judge the strengths and weaknesses of the ten opponents before him through that alone.

"Which of you three will go first?" Wang Hao looked at the three of them.

Xu Yuan glanced at Ye Xinglan.

Seeing that she had no intention of going first, he stepped forward.

"I'll go first."

"Which one will you choose?" Wang Hao asked.

He was rather curious at that moment as well.

Xu Yuan had scored full marks in all his previous assessments. Could he maintain that record in this test too?

Thinking of how Xu Yuan had ultimately risked his life in the second round, trading injury for injury to kill a three-thousand-year Earth Demon Rhino, Wang Hao did not think Xu Yuan had no chance.

At the very least, his offensive and kiting abilities were at that level, as long as his combat skills could keep up.

Unfortunately.

It would have been one thing if he had come to take the test at thirteen, but Xu Yuan was only seven years old after all.

Not even his uncle had taught him combat techniques.

In all his battles so far, Xu Yuan had relied on his talent to explore and figure things out on his own.

"I'll take that senior."

Xu Yuan pointed at a tall, thin man among them.

Wang Hao gave Xu Yuan a strange look.

"Junior, are you sure?" The tall, thin man grinned. "I'm the strongest. Can't you sense that?"

Just standing there, the fluctuations of his Soul Power were the strongest among the ten of them: Level 38!

Even if Xu Yuan could not accurately determine one's level from Soul Power fluctuations, he should at least have been able to tell the difference in strength between the ten.

"I'm challenging the strongest one," Xu Yuan said "modestly."

The tall, thin man said no more and stepped forward.

The other nine opponents retreated, leaving the fighting space to Xu Yuan and the tall, thin man.

"Junior, my condolences," the tall, thin man shouted as he immediately activated Martial Soul Possession.

His Martial Soul was Space Tentacles. The tentacles could appear anywhere, and once they wrapped around an opponent, they could hold them in place.

Xu Yuan looked at the tall, thin man's Martial Soul, but he could not immediately determine his opponent's abilities.

Holding the Heaven Origin Brush, he faced his opponent cautiously.

Whoosh!

A piercing whistle rang out as a tentacle rushed toward Xu Yuan at tremendous speed.

With that speed behind it, even a tentacle was like a Piercing Spear, brimming with impact. Xu Yuan did not doubt its destructive power in the slightest.

The Heaven Origin Brush traced through the air, and an earthen wall instantly rose from the ground, intercepting the tentacle.

Boom!

The earthen wall shattered, and so did the tentacle.

However, most of the dirt and debris from the shattered wall sprayed toward Xu Yuan.

Very fragile, Xu Yuan thought.

The tentacle itself was not strong.

But even if it was weak, even if it shattered after a collision, the destruction it produced with such high speed was still terrifying.

Xu Yuan observed the tall, thin man's reaction and concluded that this degree of destruction had no effect whatsoever on his Martial Soul.

Powerful regenerative ability.

As he considered this, several more piercing whistles came in quick succession.

The tall, thin man was probing him as well.

Five tentacles crossed a distance of ten meters in an instant, about to reach Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan swung the Heaven Origin Brush again. An earthen wall appeared before him, the earth element forming it with incredible speed.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

They collided and shattered one after another.

Suddenly, Xu Yuan felt a sense of danger.

A tentacle burst out of thin air at his side.

It was one of the tentacles that had been charging at him. At the instant before it struck the earthen wall, it had actually transferred directly to his side.

Space attribute?

Xu Yuan was caught off guard, but he reacted swiftly.

Five-colored light from the Five Elements burst from Xu Yuan's body and shot toward that tentacle.

It was the Five Elements Spear Spirit.

With a single strike, the Five Elements Spear Spirit shattered the tentacle. It spun once through the air before merging back into Xu Yuan.

The tall, thin man narrowed his eyes.

"What was that just now? A spear? Twin Martial Souls? No... could it have been a Soul Spirit? A Soul Spirit in the form of a spear?"

He was stunned. It had happened too quickly, and he was not even sure whether he had seen it clearly.

The battle reached a stalemate.

The tall, thin man's tentacles regenerated instantly before launching rapid charges. This was the Soul Skill granted by his First Soul Spirit, and it was the only Soul Skill his First Soul Spirit had given him.

His Second and Third Soul Skills both came from his Second Soul Spirit.

Three Soul Rings floated around him, one yellow and two purple.

Spirit Sea Realm.

Of course, he had not reached it at Level 20. Back then, his Second Soul Spirit had only been yellow, and he had raised it to purple later through the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Space-attributed Soul Spirits were rare. Upon encountering one, the tall, thin man had directly chosen to fuse his second Soul Ring with a Second Soul Spirit.

Fortunately, the Soul Skill this Soul Spirit gave him was extremely powerful and suited his fighting style perfectly.

His First Soul Skill launched tentacle thrusts, while his Second Soul Skill transferred the tentacles. When these two moves were combined, they were usually impossible to counter.

At his current level, using his Second Soul Skill, Space Transfer, to transfer a charging tentacle was far too difficult. He could only instantly transfer a single tentacle, and it could easily be disrupted. Thus, even when transferring tentacles, he still had to move them to a point five meters away from Xu Yuan.

These limitations could gradually be remedied as his Soul Power Level and Soul Spirit age increased, but unfortunately, they were still limitations for now.

Xu Yuan had also guessed that his opponent's Soul Skill had limitations, but he could not be completely certain that the other man was unable to transfer a tentacle directly in front of him.

"Hm?" Xu Yuan's expression changed as tentacles appeared one after another around him.

They were not tentacles created by the First Soul Skill's thrust. Instead, motionless tentacles had simply been transferred directly before him using the Second Soul Skill.

Five tentacles surrounded Xu Yuan from every side, rapidly strangling toward the center.

This was the second combination technique, as well as the second stage of activating the First Soul Skill after the Second Soul Skill: tentacle strangulation.

The tall, thin man stared at Xu Yuan's position while summoning more tentacles, ready to strike at any moment.

The Heaven Origin Brush transformed into the Heaven Origin Spear. With a sweeping strike, Xu Yuan shattered the tentacles one by one.

He could not let himself be entangled. Otherwise, once his movements were restricted, even for an instant, the situation would turn sharply against him.

His sweeping spear strike was a combination of the Gold Element Power fusion technique from the Five Elements Spear Tactic and the defensive spear techniques of water and earth.

The tall, thin man's eyes lit up.

The brush Martial Soul had turned into a Spear Martial Soul?

He controlled the tentacles and continued thrusting them toward Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan turned toward the tall, thin man, wielding his spear as he shattered the tentacles one after another.

The tentacles were very fragile.

So I'll have to gamble on whether this senior's defense is fragile too.

Xu Yuan's movements appeared erratic. He moved forward, backward, left, and right, dodging and sweeping away the tentacles around him while choosing appropriate responses.

But overall, he was closing in on the tall, thin man.

Once he entered charging range, Xu Yuan's aura immediately changed.

Previously, he had merely been in a defensive stance, relying on spear techniques and the Five Elements Spear Tactic. Now, he shifted into an offensive stance. Xu Yuan's unstoppable Spear Intent directly intimidated the tall, thin man facing this strike.

However, bolstered by his powerful Spiritual Power and prior preparation, the tall, thin man quickly steadied himself.

Five Elements Unity!

Xu Yuan thrust out.

His Spear Will condensed to an unprecedented degree.

Feeling Xu Yuan's Spear Will, Ye Xinglan's eyes shone as she stared fixedly at his spear.

The tentacles arranged in defensive positions before the tall, thin man shattered one after another. The tentacles strangling toward Xu Yuan were also blocked by the Five Elements circling around his body, yet the tall, thin man showed no panic whatsoever.

His body gradually became intangible, leaving only a phantom behind. It lost all sense of substance, as though he no longer existed in real space.

Third Soul Skill, Intangibility!

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