Whoosh-
The machine element tore through the air, its savage shriek like a sonic boom. A silver-white blade cleaved down from high above, its ultimate edge seeming to sever Test Zone Zero in a single stroke.
At that moment, One Machine's control continued. The machine element seized command of the soul tools, turning the soul tool turrets into metal lumps wreathed in black smoke. No matter how desperately the Mingde Hall Soul Engineers channeled their soul power, not a single spark shot from the muzzles.
The Mingde Hall disciples gazed up at the sky, helpless bewilderment in their eyes. All of them were under twenty, elites heavily nurtured by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy-veteran Soul Engineers said to rival the students of the Shrek Inner Court.
When their instructors had informed them earlier that day that Jing Hongchen had decided to relax the rules, allowing students over fifteen to enter the selection tournament and represent the academy in the future Soul Master Tournament, they had been ecstatic. Their tremendous cheers had nearly lifted the roof off Mingde Hall.
For Soul Engineers who cultivated by gulping down pills, reaching Five-Ring Soul King before twenty was hardly difficult, provided they steeled themselves, opened their stomachs wide, and swallowed without restraint.
Thirty-six Mingde Hall disciples had entered Test Zone Zero with their heads high and their chests out, brimming with ambition. They had discussed it privately: whatever form the selection took, they would eliminate the younger students first, then compete among themselves for the Second Team's spots!
Then the Mingde Hall geniuses encountered an unprecedented ultimate metal that looked down upon the entire field and countered every soul tool equally. With just seven people, he and his chosen teammates swept through an alliance of a hundred. Victory was already in the