Su Qingshuang, Team Battle

In the fifth match, Su Qingshuang of Flower-Washing Valley finally took the field herself! Her opponent was another Soul Sage from the Golden Saber Sect, level seventy-one. Yet the battle ended far faster than anyone had expected. Su Qingshuang did not even move her feet. She merely summoned her martial soul—a strange plant phantom, crystalline throughout and flowing with clear moonlight. It was a top-grade super martial soul: the Laurel Tree. Seven soul rings rose around her—two yellow, two purple, and three black—followed immediately by the first black soul ring lighting up.

"Fifth Soul Skill: Moonlight Tassel: Seal."

There was no earth-shaking display. Soft moonlight merely spread outward from her, covering more than half the arena. After the Golden Saber Sect Soul Sage rushed into its range, his movements abruptly became incomparably sluggish, as though he had sunk into viscous mercury. Even swinging his saber became immensely difficult. He desperately unleashed his Soul Power, his blade radiance dazzling, yet he was never able to break through that seemingly gentle moonlight. Ten breaths later, his face had flushed red, and his Soul Power was rapidly draining away. He had no choice but to concede.

"A control skill akin to a domain?" Dongyue Qi's expression turned solemn. "Though it is not a complete domain, it already possesses part of a domain's power. This Su Qingshuang is even harder to deal with than I imagined."

In the end, the seven one-on-one matches concluded with Flower-Washing Valley claiming five victories and two losses for 5 points, while the Golden Saber Sect had two victories and five losses for 2 points. Flower-Washing Valley's four Soul Sages and three Soul Emperors displayed excellent form and tactical execution. Meanwhile, the Golden Saber Sect's two Soul Sages and five Soul Emperors fought with all their strength, but there