"Xiao Xiao, Yutong, I'll have to sit up and play properly this round."
Lu Yu stretched his limbs and stood in front of the two girls.
"What, are our opponents really strong?" Xiao Xiao's and Huo Yutong's gazes turned serious.
"They're rather unusual opponents, I suppose. Anyway, leave those two sisters to me."
Lu Yu looked at the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, wondering whether he would be able to use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill after obtaining both their Martial Soul Fragments.
Lu Yu glanced at the ground. The arena was paved with hard stone bricks, so he could not play his favorite trick of digging tunnels with Blue Silver Grass for sneak attacks. Besides, his opponents were fellow students, and this was a regular match. He would feel awkward using Blue Silver Parasite Thorn to make a complete mess of the girls' insides.
Competing in matches really was a hassle.
"Begin the match."
As soon as Wang Yan spoke, Lu Yu leaped up.
"Xiao Xiao."
Xiao Xiao understood immediately. Three Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons flew forward, one of them catching Lu Yu securely.
The second Soul Ring behind Lu Yu lit up. Countless tiny strands of Blue Silver Grass sprouted from the seeds in his hand and began arranging themselves into a long blue-purple whip according to a specific structure.
Not having Blue Silver Splitting Net is such a pain.
Lu Yu had used his Second Soul Skill and his powerful spiritual power to forcibly cosplay a bargain-bin version of Blue Silver Splitting Net's effect. Unlike Blue Silver Splitting Net, which instantly produced large quantities of tough grass ropes, this bargain-bin version could only create a single tough whip in his hand.
"Blue Silver Grass? Even that Martial Soul can get into Shrek?"
Huang Chutian possessed himself with his Great Strength Divine Ape, and the second Soul Ring behind him lit up. He slammed both hands into the ground, sending a yellow Light Cannon toward Lu Yu.
Xiao Xiao moved the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron ahead of time, but unexpectedly, the Light Cannon changed direction midflight and flew toward Lu Yu.
It's a lock-on skill.
Lu Yu watched the Light Cannon, pressing his body against the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. Just before it struck him, he drove his legs down hard and soared into the sky like a swallow.
Boom! Unable to turn in time, the Light Cannon struck the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which had activated its Second Soul Skill, and exploded.
"So fast-he actually escaped the blast radius." Watching Lu Yu leap overhead, Huang Chutian could only helplessly let him pass, because he was now surrounded by three Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons.
Second Soul Skill: Gravity Control-Light.
First Soul Skill: Waist Bow.
Lu Yu used Gravity Control to leap swiftly upward while activating Waist Bow, choosing to concentrate all his body's strength into the Blue Silver whip in his hand while airborne.
He lashed the whip out viciously.
Seeing the whip coming, the Lan sisters immediately activated their Soul Skill, Hair Net. Their hair instantly wove into thick nets to intercept it.
But how could ordinary Martial Souls withstand an all-out strike from Lu Yu's physical body? The Blue Silver whip drove through their Hair Nets and lashed straight into Lan Susu's waist.
Lan Susu immediately clutched her waist with both hands and fell to the ground, unable to rise.
"Sis!" Lan Luoluo cried out, glaring furiously at Lu Yu. The second Soul Ring behind her lit up, and her hair turned into spikes that stabbed toward him.
Lu Yu was in midair, completely unable to dodge!
Just as the hair spikes were about to strike him, Lu Yu suddenly fell faster, narrowly avoiding them.
"How is that possible? Where did he get the leverage?"
Gravity Control, little girl!
"It's over!"
Parasite + Blue Silver Entanglement!
Countless strands of Blue Silver Grass instantly sprouted from the whip that had struck Lan Susu, trussing her up tightly. Since Lan Luoluo had stayed very close to Lan Susu so they could activate their Martial Soul Fusion Skill at any moment, she also failed to escape this sudden bondage play!
The two lovely sisters were immediately entangled in countless blue vines. As the vines tightened, both girls gradually struggled to breathe.
The outcome was decided. Although Blue Silver Grass was lousy, the sisters' hair Martial Souls were lousy too and could not cut through it at all. Lu Yu's contest with the two girls really came down to who could entangle the other with their Martial Soul first.
Clearly, Lu Yu had come out ahead.
Fuck, this Blue Silver Entanglement is absolute trash. This round was carried entirely by the Soft Bone Rabbit's stats.
Lu Yu sighed. A mighty expert in the field of Martial Souls like him could actually suffer an upset at any moment against two inferior hair Martial Souls of the same rank. If he slipped up, wouldn't his lifelong reputation be completely ruined?
That lousy Ya isn't even using the Blue Silver Entanglement she picked herself. She's having the time of her life in the fourth year with the Blue Silver Splitting Net I picked, leaving me here in the first year serving a prison sentence with Blue Silver Entanglement.
Once I become a Soul Elder, I'm replacing this fucking Blue Silver Entanglement with Tian Meng's Extra-Large Cup four-skill Soul Ring.
Meanwhile, Huang Chutian, who had been surrounded by three heavy trucks, had also been rammed unconscious. Seeing that the outcome was decided, Wang Yan announced Lu Yu's team's victory.
Lu Yu walked over to the Lan sisters and released Blue Silver Entanglement, taking their Martial Soul Fragments while he was at it.
He tried replacing the Soft Bone Rabbit with the two hair Martial Soul Fragments, fitting them into his first and second rings respectively. Once both Martial Soul Fragments were installed, he vaguely sensed an urge to fuse.
Just as I thought. Installing two Martial Soul Fragments that can fuse lets me activate a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
Wait, how come this Blue Silver Grass and the hair Martial Soul can also undergo synthesis?
Lu Yu had not expected the Blue Silver Grass and hair Martial Souls within his Soul Rings to show a tendency toward synthesis as well.
Could it be because they're both threadlike control-type Martial Souls, and both control their targets by weaving nets and binding them... put that way, these two Martial Souls really are more similar than the Clear Sky Hammer and the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
Lu Yu firmly suppressed his urge to experiment with Martial Soul Synthesis and Martial Soul Fusion Skills, then slacked his way through four more matches.
It could not be helped. After Shrek became an aristocratic school, too many people were fishing in muddy waters. Over the past two days, they had been stomping teams at the Soul Master level; aside from Lan Susu's team, they had barely encountered any Soul Grandmaster teams.
After the matches ended, Lu Yu immediately pulled Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao into a small grove to test his new abilities.
"Ah, Grandmaster Lu, you want to spar with me? Could you pick Yutong instead?"
The moment Xiao Xiao heard that Lu Yu wanted to spar with her, her face fell. It was not that she was afraid of him, but fighting him really was far too unpleasant.
The lousy Blue Silver Grass Lu Yu played with could not stand up to her heavy trucks, so he kept using the Tang Sect Secret Art Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to kite Xiao Xiao.
At a distance, Xiao Xiao's control over her Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons weakened, so naturally she could not hit Lu Yu.
Then Lu Yu would start playing his burrowing Blue Silver Grass sneak-attack game. Once it bound her, he would sow seeds all over her body and erupt them into spikes. How was taking that move any different from death by a thousand cuts?
Afterward, they even had to spend a fortune hiring a healing-type Soul Master for treatment. After a few bouts, not only did Xiao Xiao no longer want to spar, but Lu Yu himself rarely participated either because the treatment fees were too expensive.
"This time, we're only testing skills. No Blue Silver Parasite Thorn."
"Okaaay, fiiine."
With Lu Yu's firm assurance, Xiao Xiao agreed.
"Let's establish a baseline first."
Xiao Xiao summoned her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. Lu Yu immediately released Blue Silver Entanglement, and a single Cauldron's Tremor shattered all of it.
"Now try this."
Lu Yu merged the hair Martial Soul into the Blue Silver Grass. The originally vinelike Blue Silver Grass instantly became as fine as strands of hair, and controlling it presented no difficulty whatsoever.
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