The doors to the Third Laboratory opened, and Xiao Hongchen slowly stepped inside, a confident smile spreading across his face.
When he heard that Huo Yuhao had appeared at the Sun Moon Royal Academy, his first reaction was surprise, followed by excitement he could barely contain.
Xiao Hongchen had always been proud.
He was desperate to trample this mysterious youth, who had represented Shrek Academy and defeated the Sun Moon Team at the Soul Fighting Tournament a year ago, beneath his feet at the next tournament and wash away his humiliation.
But now, that opportunity had come early.
Whatever Huo Yuhao's reason for coming to Sun Moon, Xiao Hongchen would make him understand that he was the genius who would reign over this era.
Whether in cultivation as a Soul Master or skill as a Soul Engineer, he was stronger than Huo Yuhao!
But soon, the smile vanished from his face.
The moment his entire body entered the room, he suddenly detected a faint, familiar fluctuation of Soul Power.
"Is that a Soul Tool trigger mechanism? Would a laboratory have one of those? What's it for?"
While he was puzzling over it, he seemed to catch a flash of swift white light out of the corner of his eye.
The white light shot like lightning from a Soul Tool mounted on the wall, aimed straight at the center of the doorway.
The originally handheld Soul Tool Paralysis Ray had been modified into a triggered device. As soon as the laboratory doors opened, the first person to enter would become its target.
An intense numbness instantly spread through Xiao Hongchen's entire body. His smile vanished, and his formerly handsome face twisted into an ugly grimace.
It was numbness-not a pleasant tingling, but numbness laced with pain.
Xiao Hongchen felt as though