Amid the clouds, Xiao Hongchen was growing angry. What should have been a guaranteed victory over the previous Soul Fighting Tournament's champion, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's opening battle to make its name, had instead turned into a mess. Not only had they failed to swiftly defeat East Cang Academy, they had already lost one match, and he could not even find his opponent. It felt like punching cotton.
"Do you intend to hide like this until the match ends? Is this the pride of East Cang Academy you spoke of?" Xiao Hongchen taunted, trying to provoke Sun Yunhai.
"The method doesn't matter. What matters is that you can't do a thing to me!" Sun Yunhai's voice echoed hollowly through the clouds.
Xiao Hongchen clenched his fists and said coldly, "You forced my hand. Don't regret it."
Soul rings circled him. In an instant, all six apart from the seventh lit up one after another.
Xiao Hongchen was a pure soul engineer. All his soul skills were designed to improve his control over soul tools. Black light lingered on his sixth soul ring for an unusually long time, and a dangerous aura emanated from him.
When the soul rings' light faded, an enormous cannon barrel appeared before Xiao Hongchen's chest. The metal barrel looked somewhat illusory, but the fiery red patterns covering it radiated threads of terrifying power.
"Is that... the Fire God Cannon?" Paper Douluo's expression changed. Of course he knew the ability Xiao Hongchen was using: a soul tool technique, the crowning achievement of the Illustrious Virtue Hall's soul engineers, a cutting-edge development that truly put soul engineers on equal footing with genius soul masters.
It was no surprise that members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's team had mastered this ability, but even