Mental Martial Arts! Tang San's Confusion and Ambition!

"Yunhao was incredible!!"

"Wow, what do I do? I think I'm falling for Yunhao!"

"Didn't you say you liked the third prince?"

"Mind your own business! I like them both!"

After Huo Yunhao won, a stream of comments swept across the sky on the Blue Silver Empire's side, all cheers and congratulations.

To be fair, Sky Wolf of the Sun Moon Empire was no weakling. His Silver Moon Martial Soul gave him control abilities, while his Beast Martial Soul gave him formidable close-range offense and defense. He was a fighter with no weak side.

Yet Huo Yunhao had used a Self-Created Soul Skill to turn the power of emotion against Sky Wolf's state of mind. Sky Wolf had fallen before he could bring much of his strength to bear.

Battles involving Mental Attribute Soul Masters were strange indeed.

Many watching the sky had seen it too. Such a method was terrifying!

[Douluo Continent · Seven Treasure Sect Master Ning Fengzhi]:

"He fused mental power with Soul Power, and it was a Self-Created Soul Skill? Huo Yunhao was a genius! A Self-Created Soul Skill this powerful could rival an ordinary Titled Douluo's ninth Soul Skill!!"

[Sun Moon Empire · Body Sect Disciple Niu Dali]:

"That's what I'd expect from someone who awakened one of our Body Martial Souls! Did you all see that? That's the true power of a top-tier Body Martial Soul!"

[Sun Moon Empire · Body Sect Master Du Budao]:

"At that level, it had to be a Gold-Grade Second Awakening! Huo Yunhao's talent had already surpassed our ancestor's. I had to bring him over, whatever the cost!!"

On the battlefield, the Blue Silver Empire led two to zero and stood at match point. One more loss, and the Sun Moon Empire would have no need to fight on!

A fierce wind whipped up the waves. The violet-gold Spirit Eyes behind Huo Yunhao grew still, then merged into the vertical eye on his forehead, which disappeared beneath his skin.

He walked over to Ye Gucheng and stood quietly at his side, watching the waves break in the distance. He thought of Lin Qiu'er, still training back home, and a tender smile flickered through his eyes.

Qiu'er, did you see that?

Everyone in the world saw our Self-Created Soul Skills!

Yearning for Autumn, Missing Autumn, Haoqiu.

Three Self-Created Soul Skills. Every move, every form was you, my Qiu'er!

Beneath the sky, on a rooftop in the world of Douluo Continent.

Xiao Wu looked up, her eyes shining. She gazed at Huo Yunhao's gentle, upright figure in the sky, then remembered how fiercely the third prince Ye Gucheng had protected his sister. She could not help exclaiming,

"Ye Gucheng was so handsome! And so strong, too. He became a Vanguard at such a young age. He was seriously gorgeous!"

"And Huo Yunhao too! His Self-Created Soul Skills were so romantic. Creating a whole Soul Skill just for someone he loved... If I were that Qiu'er, I'd be moved to tears!"

Airheaded Xiao Wu's praise was pure and sincere, nothing more than an ordinary girl gushing over handsome men.

But to Tang San, it stung.

What did she mean, Ye Gucheng was handsome?

Was she implying I looked ordinary?!

And Huo Yunhao's Self-Created Soul Skills? That was just a matter of naming them. I, Tang San, simply couldn't be bothered!

Otherwise, I could rename my Mysterious Jade Hand the Mysterious Dance Hand, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track Rabbit Kicks the Eagle, and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon "Tease the Rabbit, Walk the Dog, Make Your Uncle Happy," all right?!

Damn it. Even defeat couldn't shut her up~

Though he grumbled inwardly, he really did feel a little dejected.

Because he truly could not measure up to these people.

After watching these matches in the sky, he had seen Ye Qingqiu's Life Blue Silver Grass, Ye Gucheng's formidable Mecha combat prowess and the bearing of an imperial Vanguard, and Huo Yunhao's Mental Attribute Soul Skills and Gold-Grade Awakening. These Blue Silver Empire geniuses had burst onto the scene one after another as though blessed by heaven, dazzling the world!

How was I supposed to compete with that?!

By comparison, even someone as proud as Tang San could not help feeling disappointed and unwilling to accept it.

He pressed his lips together. A trace of loneliness and anger flashed through his eyes, and the air around him turned faintly restless.

It was all that fucking Yu Xiaogang's fault. That moron couldn't teach, yet he taught me blindly and wasted my peerless talent!

If he hadn't found me those two lousy Soul Rings, I might have walked the same path of life as Ye Qingqiu.

He even remembered his first Soul Hunting trip with Yu Xiaogang. That bastard had actually told him to absorb a Lone Bamboo Soul Ring. The thought still filled him with dread and made him grind his teeth!

That beast!!

Soon, he steadied himself and closed his eyes, replaying every move Huo Yunhao had just made.

He ran through the paths and force of the three Self-Created Soul Skills—Yearning-for-Autumn Fist, Missing-Autumn Sword, and Haoqiu Palm—again and again in his mind, taking them apart and examining them.

The moves hadn't looked especially fast or hard to read. Why couldn't Sky Wolf dodge them?!

He found himself comparing those three moves with his own four "self-created" secret arts: Mysterious Jade Hand, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Purple Demon Eye.

My Mysterious Jade Hand was hard and overwhelming, impervious to a hundred poisons. Against Yearning-for-Autumn Fist, it could withstand that springlike torrent of punches;

Missing-Autumn Sword turned the threads of longing into an invisible sword, but my Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track was elusive and traceless. He couldn't lock onto me, much less land a strike;

And my Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon had striking techniques, grappling, and close-quarters attacks tested by generations of Tang Sect predecessors. It could meet his Haoqiu Palm head-on.

As for Purple Demon Eye, perhaps it could only draw even with his Spirit Eyes. Both were eye techniques that perceived the finest details and saw through flaws in an opponent's moves. There shouldn't be much difference between them.

Yet the theory held only until he repeatedly ran through the fight with himself in Sky Wolf's place, trying to find a way out.

Cold sweat ran down his face.

Judged purely by the refinement of their moves, their exchanges of attack and defense, and their ability to spot flaws in footwork, he believed his exquisite Tang Sect Secret Arts were in no way inferior to Huo Yunhao's Self-Created Soul Skills.

A clash between them would most likely be dead even. Only a prolonged fight could decide the winner.

Right up to the end of his calculations, Tang San had believed the advantage was his!

But when he saw what Ning Fengzhi had said in the sky, it struck him!

At last he understood why Sky Wolf had not dodged, even though Huo Yunhao's attacks had not been fast!

Huo Yunhao's Three Peerless Arts of Haoqiu fused mental power into his Soul Skills!

Xiao Wu was right. Huo Yunhao's Three Peerless Arts of Haoqiu did more than take their names from the person he loved.

Every move carried the tenderness of childhood sweethearts, the longing of a thousand miles apart, and the love behind their promise to stay together through every lifetime.

He had poured pure emotion and obsession into every move. Those pure feelings fused his mental power and Soul Power perfectly, creating Self-Created Soul Skills that belonged to Huo Yunhao alone.

Whenever he struck, his longing, devotion, and promises became invisible mental ripples—or perhaps an emotional field—that silently covered the battlefield, subtly unsettling his opponent's mind and disrupting his will.

That was why Sky Wolf could not dodge at all!!

If I, Tang San, could master a method like that, I could make the Tang Sect Secret Arts great again!