Innate Eight Trigrams Formation

Jiang Xuan's third soul skill allowed him to freely command the Innate Eight Trigrams Formation within his Eight Trigrams Furnace Martial Soul in battle.

Moreover, because it was a Ten Thousand Year soul skill, the Innate Eight Trigrams Formation covered an immense area. Within a hundred-meter radius centered on Jiang Xuan, everything lay within the formation's domain.

As long as an enemy entered the formation, Jiang Xuan could control it and attack at will with the elemental powers of wind, fire, water, lightning, and earth.

And these were no ordinary elements.

For instance, the fire was Six-Ding Divine Flame, the water was Innate Gui Water, and the lightning was Innate Divine Thunder...

It was no exaggeration to say that if any one of these powerful elements appeared on this continent and was mastered by someone, it could at least give rise to a god.

Yet Jiang Xuan was now preparing to use these powerful elements against Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, who had already been scared senseless...

"Fatty... am I seeing things? Is that black one... a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring?"

Ma Hongjun rubbed his eyes.

"I think I'm hallucinating too. It would be one thing if this brat had the strength of a three-ring Soul Master, but how could he have a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring too? Fake, it has to be fake! He must be bluffing!"

After psyching himself up, he immediately summoned his Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul. In an instant, the surrounding air temperature rose sharply, snapping Dai Mubai out of his shock as well.

"Right! You're right! It has to be fake. This doesn't make any sense! This brat is too despicable—he actually dared to fool us. We have to teach him a profound lesson and let him know the consequences of offending us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Dai Mubai summoned his Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul as well, revealing his two yellow Soul Rings.

The Evil Fire Phoenix and Evil-Eyed White Tiger were unquestionably top-tier beast Martial Souls on Douluo Continent.

Especially the Evil Fire Phoenix. In the original story, after consuming the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower provided by Tang San and refining the inner core of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, its flames evolved into Ultimate Fire, known as the strongest flame that could appear on Douluo Continent.

However, before the Six-Ding Divine Flame, which could burn the heavens and transform the earth, so-called Ultimate Fire was at most a slightly more stubborn little flame that could still be extinguished at any moment.

Just like now, Ma Hongjun first used his second soul skill, Phoenix Bathing in Fire, to enhance the power of his subsequent soul skills, then directly unleashed his first soul skill, Phoenix Fire Line, at the calm-faced Jiang Xuan.

This was Ma Hongjun's long-range single-target attacking soul skill. Its flames possessed extremely strong adhesion; once touched by them, they were difficult to extinguish.

Seeing Jiang Xuan being so "arrogant" that he did not even dodge, Ma Hongjun immediately felt victory was within his grasp. Yet just as the flames were about to hit Jiang Xuan, a stream of water carrying an extremely yin force appeared out of nowhere and, in the blink of an eye, completely doused Ma Hongjun's proud attack.

"How is that possible?!"

This scene completely overturned Ma Hongjun's understanding of the world.

Since when had his flame attacks become so weak?

Could it be that he had rewarded himself too many times today and weakened his body?

Seeing Fatty's life-questioning expression, Dai Mubai patted his shoulder at just the right moment to comfort him.

"It's fine, Fatty. That brat's Martial Soul just happens to counter your flames. Don't take it too much to heart. I've already figured out what he's capable of—watch my Evil-Eyed White Tiger avenge you!"

Hearing this, Ma Hongjun felt much better at once.

Dai Mubai was right!

According to the fundamental principles of Soul Master Martial Souls, a person's Martial Soul could master at most one attribute. Although he had no idea what this little bastard's Martial Soul was, since it was related to the water element, it could not possibly defeat Dai Mubai!

His master had taught him that. The outcome of this battle was already decided!

With that thought, Dai Mubai had already finished using his first soul skill, White Tiger Bodyguard Barrier, strengthening his body before charging straight forward.

"Second soul skill, White Tiger Fierce Light Wave!"

The moment he used this move, Dai Mubai saw that Jiang Xuan still neither dodged nor avoided it. He instinctively wanted to celebrate his victory, but an extremely ominous feeling suddenly surged up from within him.

Sure enough.

Just as his attack was about to hit, an extremely solid earthen wall appeared out of thin air, perfectly blocking it.

When the smoke and dust dispersed, Dai Mubai began questioning his life as well.

Because his full-force attack had not even left a single mark on that earthen wall!

Just where had this monster come from?

He looked the same age as them, yet his strength surpassed theirs by so much!

If they wanted to make peace now... was it still too late?

However, before Dai Mubai could decide whether to take the initiative and ask for peace, Jiang Xuan's body suddenly vanished from where he stood.

This made Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun widen their eyes once more, completely unable to understand what had happened.

While the two stood there in confusion, looking around in every direction, Jiang Xuan silently appeared behind Dai Mubai like Gui Mei. With a raised leg, he kicked him straight to the ground, sending him sprawling face-first into the dirt.

And to prevent Dai Mubai from opening his mouth to surrender, Jiang Xuan followed up with another kick directly to his face, knocking out half the teeth in his mouth and leaving him in so much pain that he could not make a sound. Snot and tears streamed uncontrollably down his face.

At the sight of this brutal scene, Ma Hongjun was scared senseless.

That was too violent!

They were still just children!

How could this guy be so ruthless toward the two of them?

No! He had to surrender immediately!

Otherwise, he would end up just like Dai Mubai!

With that thought, Ma Hongjun immediately abandoned all dignity. His legs gave way, and he dropped to his knees before Jiang Xuan, weeping bitterly.

"Hero! We failed to recognize greatness when we saw it. We were foolish and ignorant! I apologize for the mistakes we just made. Please show mercy and let the two of us go!"

Jiang Xuan had long known that Ma Hongjun had a rather loose temperament, but he had not expected this fatty to be such a coward. His fist had not even landed on him, yet he was already kneeling...

But Jiang Xuan was not about to let him off so easily.

"Heh. You only think to admit your mistake now? Don't you think it's a little too late?"

Jiang Xuan's cold laugh sent chills down Ma Hongjun's spine, but to save himself, he could only force a smile and continue.

"Not late! Not late at all! As the saying goes, a prodigal who returns is worth more than gold, and a youth who recognizes his mistakes is still a good youth! Seeing how sincere I am in admitting my fault, please be magnanimous and spare me this once, Hero! For the rest of my life, I'll always remember your mercy and immense kindness! I'll never forget it for eternity!"

To avoid a savage beating, at least half of Ma Hongjun's words were sincere. He believed that this speech of his was enough to move heaven and earth. If there were a Best Actor award in this world, he thought he ought to win at least one.