Huang Chutian's team?
Ning Tian and Wu Feng immediately recalled what Huo Yuhao had told them about the pair of Soul Grandmaster sisters who could unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
After Huo Yuhao's warning that day, Ning Tian had spent the past two days asking around and learned some information about this team.
"How are we doing this?" Wu Feng asked quietly as she walked beside Huo Yuhao.
"I'm an upstanding young man of the new era. I would never lay a hand on a girl, unless she challenged me to a fair warrior's duel first," Huo Yuhao said, wagging his head.
"I'll take the big dumb oaf. You take the two pretty girls. Wonderful, that's settled."
He actually wanted her to fight two against one? Hearing Huo Yuhao's shameless division of labor, Wu Feng nearly had her nose twisted out of joint with anger.
Still, she knew Huo Yuhao did not want to reveal too much of his strength, because he would serve as their surprise weapon in the later matches and help them win the championship.
But why did that look of his, as though all he wanted to do was slack off, make her so furious?
Both teams entered the arena at the same time. As a Power Attack System Battle Soul Master, Huang Chutian naturally took the front position. The twin sisters, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, stood behind him, their beautiful eyes turned somewhat nervously toward Huo Yuhao's team.
Huo Yuhao's side retained its usual formation, with Wu Feng at the front and Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao completing a triangle. This time, Huo Yuhao stood a little farther back than Ning Tian, deliberately putting on a nervous expression.
"Huh?" Wang Yan froze at the sight.
No way. No way! Was Huo Yuhao really just a paying client getting carried?
But both sides were already in position, so Wang Yan could only announce, "Begin the assessment."
Both sides swiftly released their martial souls. Huang Chutian roared and pounded his chest with both fists, his height shooting from one and a half meters to one meter eighty in an instant.
His powerful muscles burst straight through his school uniform, and all his exposed skin turned iron-black. His black eyes turned yellow, and two canine teeth protruded slightly beneath his thickened lips.
Two yellow soul rings rose from beneath his feet at the same time, revealing his Soul Grandmaster cultivation.
Huo Yuhao gave Huang Chutian an envious glance. It really was nice to have money. Every time he activated Martial Soul Possession, he had an excuse to change into new clothes. He did not even have to bother washing them.
Meanwhile, two yellow hundred-year soul rings appeared beneath each of Lan Luoluo's and Lan Susu's feet. Their long blue hair billowed behind their heads, rapidly spreading through the air and growing to over ten meters in length.
"Seven treasures turn, revealing glazed tile. Seven Treasures Have Names, first: speed!"
"Dragon's Fire!"
With the buff applied, a string of fiery-red afterimages appeared behind Wu Feng as she charged straight toward Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu.
Under the scorching crimson flames of her Red Dragon martial soul, the sisters' hair immediately began to dry out and curl.
Huo Yuhao had anticipated this result long ago. Even with soul power protecting it, hair was still protein at its core and far too easy to ignite. Wu Feng's fire attribute naturally countered it.
Yet at that moment, less than a second had passed since Wang Yan announced the start of the assessment.
Huang Chutian was still pounding his chest when he turned his head and discovered that his team's back line had been breached.
Realizing things were going badly, he was about to lend his teammates a hand when Lan Luoluo shouted at him, "Don't fall for their trick! They want all three of us to fight Wu Feng together! We can still hold out. Hurry and eliminate those two support Soul Masters!"
Huang Chutian paused, then immediately noticed Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian staring wide-eyed at him.
At the sight, delight surged through Huang Chutian's heart. Was this not a heaven-sent opportunity to dive into their back line?
Just wait. I'm coming to get you!
He lunged forward, about to attack Ning Tian, only to notice Huo Yuhao, standing on the other side, take a seemingly fearful step backward.
"Hm? A Soul Master with a ten-year soul ring? Excellent. I'll finish you in one hit, then deal with that Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master!"
Huang Chutian pushed off and pivoted, abandoning his charge toward Ning Tian to rush at Huo Yuhao instead.
At the same time, his first soul ring lit up. Both fists abruptly doubled in size, their skin gleaming with an intense metallic luster as they hurtled toward Huo Yuhao's chest.
But when he glanced at Ning Tian nearby, for some reason, he saw a trace of pity in the beautiful blonde girl's eyes.
"Since you came looking for me, don't blame me for packing my bags." Huo Yuhao laughed and reached both hands straight toward Huang Chutian's fists.
Boom!
Fists collided with palms, but Huo Yuhao was neither sent flying nor knocked unconscious as Huang Chutian had imagined.
Instead, his sandbag-sized fists were gripped tightly in Huo Yuhao's hands, unable to move an inch.
"Impossible!" Huang Chutian was shocked. His Great Strength Divine Ape was a formidable martial soul, renowned for its copper skin, iron bones, and boundless strength, yet he could not break free of Huo Yuhao's hands.
How could this boy, who did not even look particularly muscular, possess such terrifying, monstrous strength?
Huo Yuhao smiled at Huang Chutian and gradually exerted force through his arms, forcibly prying Huang Chutian's fists apart. Then he kicked forward with his right leg, sending Huang Chutian flying.
"Just as I thought! You really have been hiding your strength all along!" Wang Yan's eyes gleamed nearby. This was exactly the result he had wanted to see.
Huang Chutian flipped over and got to his feet, but a dull ache still lingered in his chest. He stared incredulously at the utterly unruffled Huo Yuhao, then glanced at his two teammates, who were still locked in combat with Wu Feng, and let out a furious roar.
"Roar!"
Clasping his hands together and raising them above his head, Huang Chutian lit up the second soul ring circling his body.
A thick yellow glow spread over his entire body, and both arms swelled. His bulging muscles contained terrifying explosive power, and the yellow light flowed all the way to his fists before coming to a halt.
"Force Cannon..."
But before he could finish unleashing his soul skill, Huo Yuhao's voice reached his ears like a demon's beguiling whisper.
"Your skill's windup is too long. Remember not to shout before you attack next time, or everyone will know what you're planning. All right, take a deep breath. Feeling dizzy is perfectly normal. You'll be fine once you wake up..."
At some point, another brilliant ray of light had split off from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in Ning Tian's hands and landed on Huo Yuhao. With the pagoda's speed enhancement, combined with the swiftness of the Heavenly Net Art, Huo Yuhao's speed had reached an unimaginable level.
Before Huang Chutian was even halfway through unleashing his second soul skill, Huo Yuhao had already reached his back. After finishing his words, he delivered a vicious knife-hand strike to the back of Huang Chutian's head, knocking him unconscious on the spot.
"Hey, Wu Feng, I'm done over here. Why haven't you wrapped things up yet? Can you even handle this, you scrawny weakling?"
Wu Feng turned and froze at the sight of Huang Chutian sprawled on the ground, but Huo Yuhao's words nearly infuriated her to death.
Seeing their teammate so easily defeated by a Support System Soul Master, Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu were also at a loss. But with things having come this far, the sisters exchanged a glance, determination shining in both their eyes.
The soul rings on Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu vanished simultaneously. They released their clasped hands at the same time and, right there in the midst of battle, opened their arms and moved to embrace each other.
Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Heavenly Net, unleashed!
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