Faced with Wang Dong'er's butterfly wings sweeping down across him, Xie Huanyue made no attempt to dodge and let them strike his body.
At the very moment Wang Dong'er's attack landed, his First Soul Ring lit up. His entire body suddenly swelled, turning him into an enormous, round balloon.
Buzzz!
Wang Dong'er's expression changed.
A powerful elastic force surged from Xie Huanyue's body, traveling along her butterfly wings and into her.
She was bounced away.
At the same time, Xie Huanyue's rotund body began spinning in the direction of Wang Dong'er's attack. Borrowing its force, he bounced once off the ground, then leaped a full ten meters into the air.
It was force dissipation!
Force dissipation of exceptionally high purity!
Xie Huanyue's already formidable defense, coupled with his bizarre force-dissipating technique, left him virtually unscathed by Wang Dong'er's sharp, resilient Butterfly Wing Guillotine. Of course, his cultivation being a whole tier above hers was also a factor.
"Cauldron's Tremor!"
"Cauldron's Surge!"
Facing Xie Huanyue as he leaped into the air and came crashing down toward the two of them, Xiao Xiao decisively merged her three cauldrons into one. She blocked him with the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's strongest defensive form, then activated two Soul Skills in succession.
Shock waves kept rippling from the pitch-black cauldron. Xie Huanyue and Xiao Xiao remained locked in a brief stalemate before the cauldron finally bounced him away.
While Xiao Xiao blocked Xie Huanyue's first attack, Huo Yutong, whom she was shielding behind her, did not remain idle either.
Fear Boiling + Dragon Might + Soul Shock!
A Soul Shock deliberately layered with debuffs shot from Huo Yutong's eyes, blasting straight toward the two agility-type Soul Masters on the battlefield ahead.
The Luo Brothers had seized the opportunity after Wang Dong'er was unexpectedly bounced away, hoping to eliminate her swiftly.
Unlike in the original story, there was no flute music from Xiao Xiao to slow them down. With their cultivation levels close, the Luo Brothers were far faster than Wang Dong'er, a Power Attack System Soul Master.
And it was two against one.
If the Light Goddess Butterfly had not been capable of flight, and Huo Yutong had not provided her with a see-through cheat, she probably would not have lasted long before being eliminated.
Trusting Xiao Xiao to stop Xie Huanyue successfully, Huo Yutong decisively chose to help Wang Dong'er out of her predicament first.
"Aaargh!"
The Luo Brothers were struck simultaneously. Their steps faltered, and both clutched their foreheads with cries of pain.
But they quickly recovered, forcing themselves to endure the pain and barely avoiding Wang Dong'er's counterattack.
At that moment, offense and defense had switched sides!
Yet Huo Yutong felt dissatisfied despite delivering a perfect assist.
Why were agility-type Soul Masters so damn fragile?!
Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu had at least had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to serve as a buffer and shield.
Against these two, she did not even dare increase the strength of her Soul Shock a little. She could only use its lowest output.
Otherwise, with her current shitty output control, she genuinely feared she might blow their heads apart and kill them.
Even the best outcome would be damage to their minds, leaving them drooling fools who could only babble "aba, aba" for the rest of their lives.
Once the Freshman Assessment is over, I need to work hard on fine control of my spiritual power...
Without Electrolux to guide her, Huo Yutong sighed softly and shifted her attention from Wang Dong'er back to Xie Huanyue.
Although Xiao Xiao had just knocked this Soul Elder away, he had suffered little damage.
In other words, he was still practically at full strength.
He had not even used his third Soul Skill yet.
Now, his body spun in midair again and hurtled down toward the two of them.
Much like Huo Yutong's team, Xie Huanyue intended to concentrate his efforts on the support and control-type Soul Masters first, reducing their numbers before turning to deal with the Power Attack System Soul Master.
After all, he was a three-ring Soul Elder. In a one-on-one fight, wouldn't handling someone with two rings be as easy as taking something already in his grasp?
But...
This famous Huo Yutong really did have formidable disruption abilities.
With just a small intervention, she had put Luo Tianba and his brother at a disadvantage.
Seeing that things seemed to be going poorly for his teammates,
Xie Huanyue's eyes flashed. Facing the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron as it rammed toward him again, he decisively lit up his Second Soul Ring.
The backs of his hands instantly swelled and stretched like rubber.
With a sweep of tremendous force, the three pitch-black cauldrons went flying backward.
Xiao Xiao discovered, to her astonishment, that her Soul Skills had actually been canceled out by him!
With the Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons no longer blocking his way, Xie Huanyue's enormous body came crashing down, aimed directly at the support and control-type Soul Masters below, who seemingly had no means left to oppose him.
And as he descended, his third Soul Ring lit up as well!
He would settle everything in one stroke!
Purple light enveloped his body, then swiftly pressed toward Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao as though it had become an extension of his flesh.
A smile appeared on Xie Huanyue's chubby face.
Once I eliminate these two, I'll go back and support Luo Tianba and Luo Tianlong, then clear that last Wang Dong off the stage too!
Facing the enormous shadow drawing ever closer overhead, Xiao Xiao, who had no close-combat experience at all, felt as though time had slowed to a crawl,
Her feet seemed rooted to the ground, unable to move an inch.
"Not good..."
Just as she instinctively tried to close her eyes, a tremendous force suddenly struck her waist, shoving her clear of the area covered by Xie Huanyue's shadow.
It was Huo Yutong!
BOOM!!
The next instant, the enormous, heavy ball of flesh, wreathed in a halo of purple energy, slammed into the ground. The entire arena seemed to shudder, and a huge cloud of dust billowed up.
"Yu Tong!!"
Xiao Xiao's pupils contracted, and she cried out.
But then she realized something was wrong.
The referee... had not entered the arena.
And it was so cold.
She shivered.
In fact, the referee had only just started to move before stopping his rescue attempt altogether.
The reason was simple: a second before Xie Huanyue's attack landed on Huo Yutong, a terrifying chill had erupted from her body and spread rapidly through the surroundings.
The dust cleared, revealing a slender yet resilient figure standing in place. Ice-blue dragon scales, translucent as crystal, covered her arms, and a pair of small, delicate dragon horns curved from her forehead.
Xie Huanyue's enormous body hung suspended in midair, unable to move another inch.
His face was filled with terror.
A sharp dragon claw had caught him with what looked like an effortless movement.
Only he knew just how terrifying the strength in that dragon claw truly was.
Then Huo Yutong flexed her wrist and slammed Xie Huanyue viciously into the ground.
The ball bounced up again, but no matter what he did, he could not escape that seemingly unimposing dragon claw.
Ignoring his struggles, Huo Yutong stared calmly at him with her icy-white Dragon Eyes, not even a strand of her hair out of place.
Ice Dragon King, Martial Soul Possession!
"Ultimate Ice!!"
Up in the stands, Yan Shaozhe let out a stifled cry of shock.
"And it's also an extremely high-tier True Dragon Martial Soul!"
Looking at the dragon-girl's figure, quite a few people present were just as shocked as he was.
Their Shrek had picked up another treasure!
But unlike the teachers' excitement and delight, Xie Huanyue's expression was far less pleasant.
He offered an awkward yet polite smile.
"Uh, can we make peace?"
If you were this strong, you should've said so!
Two-ring cultivation, and you're holding down a Power Attack System Soul Elder with one hand while all his Soul Skills are active...
Wouldn't it be nice to be a Power Attack System Soul Master with everyone's eyes on you?
Why insist on staying in the back as support? I thought you barely had any fighting ability.
This is a joke!
Moreover, Huo Yutong's stance and expression reminded him of a certain figure forever etched into his mind.
-El!!
That terrifying sense of Martial Soul suppression was almost identical to that freak's!
Remembering Zhou Yi's miserable state, Xie Huanyue trembled.
"I..."
He spoke too late.
The moment the word "I" left his mouth, a thin shell of ice silently enveloped him, imprisoning him inside.
A round ice soccer ball was born.
Huo Yutong casually kicked him off the arena.
Just like El used to kick the pufferfish he caught back into the lake when he went fishing.
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