"Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring! Soul Emperor! He broke through Elephant Armored Academy's seven-man defensive formation all by himself!"
"Three swords! He only used three swords! He didn't even use any soul skills!"
"What kind of monster is Skywater Academy's captain?! A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring? How old is he? Who in this tournament can stop him now?!"
Waves of voices surged one after another, so loud that even the Soul Tool amplifiers around the arena could not drown them out.
Huyan Li struggled to his feet. His arms were still trembling faintly, but the toughness belonging to a warrior remained in his eyes. He looked at Bing Yekong in silence for two seconds before saying hoarsely, "I concede."
Bing Yekong lowered the Tianshuang Sword, its tip pointing at the ground, as the pressure of that Ultimate Ice slowly withdrew into his body. He nodded at Huyan Li. "Your defense is very strong. Someone else really might not have been able to break it."
That was not mere politeness. With seven layers of Diamond Mammoths stacked into a defensive formation, without Ultimate Ice's penetrating properties and the Dragon Clan Bloodline's suppressive effect on beast martial souls, an ordinary Soul Master of the same rank would have struggled to break through even with thirty swords, let alone three.
He had won through elemental restraint and bloodline suppression, not through sheer overwhelming strength.
The referee finally found his voice and announced somewhat dryly, "Group D preliminaries, Skywater Academy wins."
Bing Yekong turned and walked down from the arena.
When he returned to the contestants' area, the members of Skywater Academy stood there with all kinds of expressions. Shui Yue'er's mouth hung open and did not close for a long while. Yu Hairou and Shen Liuyu exchanged a glance, their eyes full of stunned disbelief that