The Open-Over Series Shows Its Might, and Miss Meng Has a Beautiful, Even Set of Teeth (4K)

Lin Qing vs. Meng Hongchen.

This was a clash of dragons and tigers worthy of a semifinal. In the eyes of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's ten thousand-plus teachers and students, Lin Qing and the Hongchen siblings firmly occupied the top three spots in combat strength below Mingde Hall.

Referee 24 drew a deep breath, suddenly feeling the weight of his responsibility.

On one side stood the dean's own granddaughter, a native pillar of the Sun Moon Empire; on the other, a dragon crossing the river from the Douluo Three Kingdoms, personally designated by Dean Hongchen as a future pillar capable of holding up the heavens.

Their fight needed to be kept within bounds. Otherwise, with the hall master's heart as narrow as the eye of a needle, an accident involving either contestant would leave the referee with more trouble than he could carry away.

To preserve his well-paid, permanent position, the referee marshaled every ounce of his attention, ready to rush in and rescue the loser at any moment. Inwardly, he prayed that these two little tyrants, who saw each other day in and day out, would hold back a little.

"Begin!"

With a trembling voice, the referee sounded the battle's opening horn. Earth-shaking cheers erupted from the stands, urging on the two elite students.

Meng Hongchen gazed at the tall, straight-backed boy at the opposite end of the platform, fierce fighting spirit blazing within her.

As another once-in-a-generation genius who cultivated both disciplines in the Sun Moon Empire, Miss Meng had never possessed any less pride deep down than Xiao Hongchen.

Get in line and wait your turn, big brother. I'm going to have a proper fight with Lin Qing first!

Buzzz-

Cold Soul Power rippled outward. Meng Hongchen's exposed skin turned snowy white, her icy flesh and jade-like bones becoming crystal-clear. At the same time, her ice-blue eyes changed to a dazzling blood-red.

Martial Soul Possession: Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad.

The stark contrast between her snow-white skin and blood-red eyes gave the normally charming, lively girl a somewhat chilling, frightening appearance.

The moment the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad appeared, certain students in the stands shuddered, abruptly recalling some rather unpleasant memories.

The Hongchen siblings had enrolled at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy on the same day, yet Meng Hongchen's popularity lagged far behind her brother's. The root cause was her Martial Soul.

The Three-Legged Golden Toad was nicknamed the controller of metal. Its magnificent golden coloration caught the eye, and its symbolism of attracting wealth and treasure suited the ideals of most Soul Engineers.

The Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad, meanwhile, was known as the king of the cracks. Living on the fringes of the Far North, it alternated cold and heat through the ice attribute within its body and the fire attribute contained in its eyes, nurturing its extraordinary Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Venom.

In just a few short years, the Hongchen siblings had soared from first year to fifth year. Quite a few students at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had fought them, and Meng Hongchen had earned a reputation through her exceptional combat strength.

Beneath Little Meng's great renown, however, lurked her classmates' fear, because every match inevitably ended with them being poisoned unconscious by the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Poison. Although Meng Hongchen would detoxify them afterward, enduring that venom's invasion was undoubtedly an ordeal they would never forget.

As time passed, the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Poison grew increasingly potent. Once bitten by a snake, one feared a well rope for ten years; many Sun Moon students who had suffered at her hands no longer dared approach her, gradually keeping a respectful distance.

During his three months studying at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Lin Qing had inevitably seen Meng Hongchen use her Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Martial Soul in combat training.

Poison-attribute Soul Masters being unpopular was an old story. Lin Qing could clearly see the apprehension in his classmates' eyes, but to his personal aesthetic tastes, Little Meng under Martial Soul Possession was actually quite appealing.

White hair and red eyes-an unmistakable fondness for that combination ran through Lin Qing's genes.

Since ancient times, their ancestors had described immortals as having crane-white hair and youthful faces. Put that into modern terms, and it meant a white-haired little beauty!

Long white hair paired with red eyes, a girl gazing at you for a long time with gentle yet burning eyes-your heart instantly skipped half a beat!

"Watch out!"

Displaying admirable sporting spirit with that warning, Meng Hongchen raised four Soul Rings beneath her feet. Naturally, the Hongchen Family's treasured jewel possessed the conventional maximum configuration: the standard yellow, yellow, purple, purple.

Pushing off on her toes, she charged forward. The Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad's First Soul Ring shone, and Meng Hongchen thrust both palms out, releasing a cloud of white mist tinged faintly with blue-green.

First Soul Skill: Ice Toad Poison.

Meng Hongchen drove her Soul Skill with all her strength. Icy mist raged through Battle Platform 24, expanding at an astonishing speed to engulf more than half the platform.

Whooom-

A streak of silver flashed. Machine Element condensed into slender, willow-leaf-shaped blades, forming an impenetrable net of cutting edges that shredded the icy mist. Silver light blazed, and the poisonous fog could not cross the boundary by so much as an inch.

"It really doesn't work... ultimate elements counter me far too badly."

Seeing this, Meng Hongchen, who had taken the initiative to attack, murmured to herself.

Martial Souls possessed innate abilities distinct from Soul Skills, such as the Three-Legged Golden Toad's control over metal, Lone Bamboo's toughness, and so forth... elemental Martial Souls converted surrounding energy into their own element.

Because the quality of their Martial Souls was worlds apart, the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad's icy mist was crushed by Machine Element. Along with the terrifying Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Venom, it was rewritten into part of Ultimate Metal.

In fact, out of consideration for the girl's pride, Lin Qing had chosen to give her some leeway. Otherwise, once his innate domain emerged and the Steel Machinery Domain formed an iron-walled environment, Little Meng would probably have been left pouting before hanging her head and conceding.

At this point, Meng Hongchen had no intention of admitting defeat. Turning her hands over, she grasped two Peak Level 4 Soul Tool Swords.

The Hongchen siblings complemented each other in ranged and close combat: the brother handled overwhelming firepower, while the sister excelled at fighting up close. Her ice-blue rapiers traced two dazzling sword flourishes as Meng Hongchen silently repeated her intention to take Lin Qing back to the Ancestral Home to meet her family, desperately hypnotizing herself into surpassing her limits!

Both swords swept through the air. The ice-blue sword light held together without dispersing, crossing into a hauntingly beautiful cross that sliced through the air and hurtled toward Lin Qing like wind and lightning. A trail of blue-white mist followed behind it, with Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Venom sneakily attempting to breach the Machine Element defenses under cover of the sword light.

Boom-

A pink dome expanded, settling over Lin Qing like an overturned bowl. Its sweet, lovely color instantly struck the girls at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy right in their love of cute things-and the girlish hearts the boys would deny to their dying breaths!

Level 4 Soul Tool: Sweetheart Shield!

A bestselling Pin Dao Dao product-the Open-Over Series!

Extracting with a million was practically as inhuman as an Evil Soul Master, yet Lin Qing still remembered his number-one wealthy lady Xu Jiujiu's order. He had been producing it right on schedule, and now it conveniently replaced top-tier weapons like the Machinery King Shield and Dragon Devourer in his fight against Meng Hongchen!

Don't dismiss a bean bun as something that couldn't fill your belly. Any Soul Tool made from Ultimate Metal was bound to perform well. The sword light released by the Level 4 Soul Tool Swords struck, but merely stirred a few pink ripples across the Sweetheart Shield. Shattering it remained a distant dream.

His First Soul Skill, Zero Generation, erupted. Lin Qing flung out white-and-green chains, and the Flirty Magnetic Chains whirled wildly, surrounding Miss Meng from above and below before stabbing toward her together.

Facing an inescapable net spread across heaven and earth, Meng Hongchen abruptly halted. An ice-blue halo spread into the distance, freezing the ground into a single sheet of solid ice, smooth as a mirror and reflecting the azure sky.

The next second, a bizarre sight appeared. The Flirty Magnetic Chains stabbed in from multiple angles, yet met no tangible resistance, passing easily through Meng Hongchen. That figure immediately dissolved into motes of light, while the real Meng Hongchen had already changed positions.

The Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad's Third Soul Skill: Ice Refraction.

It condensed a mirror-like disc of ice, using the refraction of light and shadow to switch positions at will.

Her figure flashed as Meng Hongchen released her Third Soul Skill, Ice Refraction, to change positions and dodge the Flirty Magnetic Chains again. Her twin rapiers danced into a skyful of sword shadows, constantly seeking a flaw in the pink shield.

A thin sheen of sweat covered Meng Hongchen's fair forehead, and her breathing began to grow heavier. Ordinarily, poison-attribute Soul Masters did not fear prolonged battles; they even welcomed opportunities to circle their opponents and draw fights out.

After all, the longer the fight lasted, the deeper the poisoning became, greatly increasing a poison-attribute Soul Master's chances of victory.

But that did not apply to Lin Qing. Machine Element was like a first-rate security guard stationed at a residential complex's gate, holding up a pink shield marked "No entry" and coldly refusing the Ice Toad Poison trying to charge through on an electric scooter.

The venom could only scratch its head in frustration and stare helplessly outside the gate.

The limitations of the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad were clear. A Martial Soul with half its abilities invested in potent venom could scarcely advance an inch once it encountered a fortress it could not breach.

This was also one reason poison attributes struggled to reach the grand stage.

A Soul Master's constitution rose like a boat on a rising tide as their cultivation improved, and their resistance to all kinds of strange toxins climbed steadily. After reaching the nine-ring Titled Douluo realm, poison-attribute Soul Masters were generally among the weaker members of their rank.

A certain three-character-named expert from ten thousand years ago, whose title was Poison, had even been known as the lowest-ranked Titled Douluo.

Fortunately, the Douluo Continent had already entered an age in which Soul Tools flourished. Aware of the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad's flaws, Meng Hongchen wanted to build a suit of Soul Tool Armor that enhanced her in every aspect, ensuring a minimum level of fighting strength when its venom proved ineffective.

She fled and he pursued; even with wings, Little Meng could not escape. Lin Qing could see that Meng Hongchen's Ice Refraction and attempts to resist were becoming increasingly strained. Feeling the fight had lasted long enough, he decided to deliver the finishing blow.

A crescent-shaped golden dart formed on either side. Lin Qing brought his hands together, merging the two darts into a Happy Boomerang.

Turning his body halfway around, he swung as though throwing a discus. The dart whistled through the ice-blue sword energy and traced a golden arc toward Meng Hongchen!

"Ice Refraction!"

Using the same trick to escape disaster, Meng Hongchen had only just breathed a sigh of relief on the ice when, unbeknownst to her, the Happy Boomerang abruptly reversed direction in midair and came at her a second time!

Crack-

The crisp sound of a Soul Tool Shield shattering rang out. With no other choice, Meng Hongchen had been forced to activate her Soul Tool Shield to preserve a faint sliver of hope of turning defeat into victory.

"How come I've never seen these Soul Tools? Just how many secrets are you hiding?!"

Meng Hongchen clenched her pearly teeth and accused him loudly!

This Lin Qing is seriously rotten! Every sneaky trick he has, he uses on me!

With little Soul Power remaining, Meng Hongchen knew that dragging this out would guarantee defeat. The genius girl's pride would not allow her to lose so utterly. Her blood-red eyes filled with an overwhelming determination to end everything in one strike!

Her final, fourth Soul Ring blazed with light!

Her blood-red eyes shone with dazzling brilliance. A ball of dark-red light lit up at her well-developed chest, staining all the remaining icy mist and venom on Battle Platform 24 before drawing them back into Meng Hongchen's body.

Fourth Soul Skill: Ice Replenishment. Taking her fiery eyes as its source, it stimulated the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad Venom and transformed it into pure energy to replenish her, raising her attack to its maximum. The cost was that she could no longer use Ice Toad Poison during this battle.

Ultimate Metal stood like walls of bronze and iron. The Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad experienced the Doom Spider's anguish; trading useless venom for offensive power was practically the only resistance Meng Hongchen could offer in this desperate situation.

Fiery red joined the ice-blue of her rapiers. Ice and fire coated the Soul Tools, and her two blades swept aside the magnetic chains and boomerang to either side. Meng Hongchen pushed off the ground and charged straight for Lin Qing's head!

What Little Meng had not expected, however, was that Lin Qing would smilingly put away his pink shield and likewise draw a pair of melee weapons. Without dodging or retreating, he rushed to meet her!

Careful Instant Slash.

Overwhelming power erupted the instant their blades collided. The white-haired, red-eyed girl was hurled backward through the air, unable to stop herself, unwillingness written across her face. Her opponent remained rooted in place. A blue Soul Cannon locked onto its target, and six bright-red shells roared out!

Careless Missile!

"Ruthlessly crushing a flower-a true man among men!"

Everyone in the stands looked on with the reverence of people gazing up at a towering mountain!

See that? That's a steel-boned tough guy who's weathered wind and rain. Even against a gorgeous girl he's close to, he still mercilessly follows up with a cannon shot!

"Wait!"

Following up was a fighting instinct. Lin Qing immediately caught himself, and Machine Element swept out like a giant dragon, detonating the Careless Missiles early, midway through their flight.

"Cough, cough!"

Thick smoke rolled across the platform. The first figure to emerge from it was the referee.

Two or three seconds later, Meng Hongchen walked out covered in soot, the tips of her snow-white hair slightly singed.

Her entire color scheme had changed, transforming her from the fair and beautiful Miss Meng into the supreme black so admired in the Sun Moon Empire.

The match ended, and Little Meng returned utterly defeated!

"Senior Lin Qing really knows how to taunt someone..."

"Yeah, deliberately blasting her away, then intercepting the bombs halfway to save her. He's an even bigger show-off than Brother Xiao!"

"Senior Meng must be so angry her lungs are about to burst!"

Huh?!

That wasn't-I didn't-stop making things up!

The audience's muttering reached his ears, and the misunderstanding instantly snowballed. Suddenly, Lin Qing recalled that night at Zhanghua Garden three months earlier, when Ye Guyi had sarcastically remarked that he could actually make Level 6 Soul Tool Armor.

Realization arrived late. Had he misunderstood her back then? Had Miss Angel not been mocking him, but sincerely praising him instead...?

At that thought, Lin Qing silently apologized, then glanced at Meng Hongchen out of the corner of his eye to gauge her expression. The girl looked ready to demand an accounting, her red lips jutting out so far they could have held three oil bottles!

Considering how Don't Lose Because You Can't Express Yourself handled situations like this, Lin Qing lowered his eyes in brief thought, then offered his utmost sincerity.

"I can help you finish one bowl of Gray Juice."

?

A huge black question mark appeared above Miss Meng's head. Why not three bowls?!

"Please raise your right hand," Meng Hongchen said gently.

"Okay."

Puzzled, Lin Qing nevertheless obediently complied.

"Awooo!"

Her little mouth opened like a bloodthirsty maw and chomped down!

"Phew... finally, that felt good."

Wiping her soot-blackened face with Lin Qing's sleeve, Husky Meng exhaled a stale breath. Her ice-blue eyes curved into crescents, and she looked thoroughly pleased, like a fox that had stolen a chick. Baring her little white teeth, she huffed.

"Thanks to you, I have to prepare for the Losers' Bracket. See. You. To. Mor. Row!"

Watching the girl's lively figure recede into the distance, Lin Qing raised his hand and examined his bitten wrist.

Apart from the lingering saliva, there was also a small, delicate ring of tooth marks.

Well, she really did have a beautiful, even set of teeth.