What Did You Do to My Evil Fire?

Dai Yueheng was charging into the enemy formation when he heard this. Remembering Gu Mingyuan's Soul Skill that relied on taking hits to accumulate power, he didn't hesitate any longer.

The fourth Soul Ring lit up.

Dense white orbs of light rained down from the sky, mainly targeting the back row of Ma Xiaotao's team, but the edge of the fire net conveniently enveloped Gu Mingyuan and Ma Xiaotao as well.

Ma Xiaotao snorted coldly and spread her Phoenix Wings to block the meteor.

Gu Mingyuan, however, left his defenses wide open, allowing several White Tiger Meteor to strike him squarely. His already depleted Jade-Shaking Force was instantly replenished to its full potential with the "assistance" of his companions' firepower, making the golden patterns on his body shine blindingly.

The next instant, Gu Mingyuan forced his way through the flames of the explosion and unleashed a powerful left punch.

This punch did not trigger the [Serious Punch], but it was infused with the power accumulated in the Jade-Shaking Force.

At the same time, following the instinctive reaction of the [Sin-Cleaving Scythe] to evil energy, Gu Mingyuan secretly extracted a trace of the judgment attribute from it and hid it in his fist force.

His left fist clashed with Ma Xiaotao's.

The explosion that Ma Xiaotao had anticipated did not occur. The flames on her fist were not forcibly suppressed by force; instead, it was as if a layer of dirt had been peeled off.

A few wisps of dark red, frenzied fire were forcibly extracted from the golden-red Phoenix Flame. The moment they came into contact with that trace of judgmental aura, they vanished into the air like ice and snow meeting boiling water.

The Phoenix Flame, stripped of their impurities, did not weaken; instead, they became purer and brighter than ever before.

Ma Xiaotao's body stiffened.

This was completely different from the feeling of Huo Yuhao forcibly freezing and suppressing it with Ultimate Ice. This was the evil impurity in the Evil Fire that truly affected the mind, which was directly removed by this punch!

From afar, Huo Yuhao clearly sensed the qualitative change in the fire attribute through Spiritual Detection. His heart sank inexplicably, and a sense of crisis arose that his core values were being shaken.

Even Xuan Zi, standing offstage, stopped what he was doing and slowly put down the gourd of wine in his hand. He stared intently at Gu Mingyuan's left hand and finally recognized that fleeting aura.

It was that night by the Sea God Lake that the Power of Judgment contained within Gu Mingyuan's strange Second Martial Soul.

In the center of the battlefield, Ma Xiaotao did not launch another attack.

She stood there, staring at the flame in her hand that had returned to its pure golden-red color, then slowly raised her head and looked at Gu Mingyuan with a complicated expression.

"What... did you just do to my Evil Fire?"

Gu Mingyuan slowly withdrew his left fist, meeting her gaze:

"It only removed a small part, something that shouldn't have been there in the first place."

Meanwhile, Dai Yueheng and Xu Sanshi had already charged into the enemy's back row like wolves and tigers.

Both of them were students who had undergone rigorous real-world combat training, so calling them ruthless wouldn't be an exaggeration. Their primary target was neither Huo Yuhao, who possessed divine skills, nor Wang Dong, who had Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but rather the core figure who would elevate the entire team's combat power: Gong Yangmo.

"Boom!"

He Caitou's soul-guided heavy cannon unleashed a barrage of fire, attempting to halt the two's advance. Xu Sanshi snorted coldly, slamming the Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield heavily in front of him, enduring the cannon fire to forcefully close the distance.

The fourth Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly flashed, emitting a burst of black light.

[Xuanming Displacement]!

Space distorted instantly. Gong Yangmo, who was hiding behind layers of protection, didn't even have time to react. He only felt a blur before his eyes, and he found himself in front of He Caitou's cannon. Standing opposite him was Dai Yueheng, whose muscles were bulging and who had activated the White Tiger Vajra Transformation.

A pure support type suddenly finds itself face-to-face with Power Attack System Soul Emperor.

Gong Yangmo didn't even have a chance to create distance before Dai Yueheng's powerful palm struck his chest. The strong gust of wind sent him flying out of bounds, where he was caught by Xuan Zi outside the arena.

With Gong Yangmo eliminated, the seven-colored amplifying halo surrounding Huo Yuhao and the others vanished instantly.

Dai Yueheng struck successfully and pressed forward.

Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing system went into overdrive, clearly reflecting Dai Yueheng's every exertion and every charging route in his mind.

However, seeing clearly is one thing, being able to avoid it is another.

Cultivation level became Huo Yuhao's greatest weakness. His brain issued the command to dodge, but his weak body simply could not keep up with the burst speed of Soul Emperor.

Dai Yueheng swept past like a whirlwind, unleashing a punch that sent Huo Yuhao flying out of the arena before he could even switch his Martial Soul.

"Yuhao!"

Enraged, Wang Dong unleashed the wings of the Light Goddess Butterfly, unleashing several dazzling blades of light that slashed down. Dai Yueheng merely snorted, using the White Tiger Body Barrier to withstand the light blades, and then countered with a White Tiger Light Wave, blasting Wang Dong straight down from mid-air.

Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and smashed down the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, He Caitou also pushed his close-range Soul Cannon to their limit. However, these resistances appeared extremely weak under the absolute level suppression. Dai Yueheng braved the cannon fire and forcibly tore through the defenses, sweeping the two of them out of the game one by one.

Jiang Nannan attempted to use her speed advantage as a speed-based attacker to bypass the frontal encirclement and provide support, but Xu Sanshi blocked her position. Xu Sanshi knew her too well; every change of direction was preemptively blocked, ultimately leading to her defeat.

In a short time, under the overwhelming force of Dai Yueheng and Xu Sanshi, the back row was completely breached.

On the other side of the field,

Gu Mingyuan maintained [Golden Jade Strength Transformation] at its most defensive level.

Faced with Ma Xiaotao's relentless offensive, he did not choose to confront her head-on.

He was like a reef in a tsunami, letting the opponent's heavy punches, mixed with Evil Fire, keep hitting him, relying solely on his Golden Jade Body and [Jade-Shaking Force] to devour and absorb those terrifying impacts.

Once the power has accumulated to the critical point of the meridians, Gu Mingyuan will instantly transform most of his defense into a violent force, unleashing a powerful counterattack.

Two punches for one punch.

Gu Mingyuan rarely countered, but each attack he unleashed was so powerful that it forced Ma Xiaotao to halt her offensive and switch to defense. Coupled with his 50% reduction in pure elemental damage, Ma Xiaotao was unable to quickly defeat him.

However, the cost of directly confronting a Soul Emperor is of a higher level is also obvious.

The golden patterns on Gu Mingyuan's body flickered under the continuous heavy blows, and small cracks had appeared at the knuckles of his fists, with blood slowly seeping out from his jade-like skin.

Ultimately, he was just a Soul Elder. Using his Soul Power, which was more than thirty levels higher than his own, to hold off a core member of the Inner Court was already his limit.

Ma Xiaotao could have easily used her speed to get around him, but she didn't.

The change in the Evil Fire that Gu Mingyuan had just dispelled with his punch had made her particularly concerned, even to the point of being somewhat driven mad.

However, the price of doing so was that the original team of eight was Ma Xiaotao, all alone.