The other members of Blazing Fire Academy retreated one after another, leaving the entire vast platform to that white-clad figure.
On the other side of the platform.
Yu Tianheng heard every word of their exchange.
His pale face instantly flushed crimson.
It was the fury born of being utterly belittled.
"Arrogant!"
"What shameless boasting!"
Lightning flashed wildly over his dragon-transformed right arm.
Thick blue arcs crackled explosively.
As a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
One person intended to topple the entire Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team?
This was nothing short of trampling the Imperial Fighting Team's dignity underfoot.
"Everyone, attack together!"
"Teach this fool who doesn't know the heights of heaven or the depths of earth a lesson!"
Yu Tianheng's voice rang throughout the Great Soul Arena.
The other six members of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team were likewise burning with anger.
As the elites of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, every one of them was a favored child of heaven.
Yet now, a mere level-thirty-seven Soul Elder held them in such contempt.
How could the proud Imperial Fighting Team stomach this?
Four soul rings shone around Yu Tianheng, their light intermingling.
His third, purple soul ring blazed brilliantly at that moment.
"Third soul skill, Thunderbolt's Fury!"
The lightning instantly doubled in intensity, its energy condensing into tangible armor around him.
Thunderbolt's Fury could greatly increase his soul power for a short time and double the might of his lightning attribute.
Yu Tianheng was fighting in earnest, holding nothing back.
Dugu Yan followed close behind.
An eerie light glimmered in her emerald-green eyes.
Her third soul ring flashed.
"Third soul skill, Jade Phosphor Purple Poison!"
Dense purple poison mist poured from her mouth, forming a cloud that blotted out the sky as it enveloped Chen Jin.
Wherever the poison mist passed, even the hard floor of the platform hissed with corrosion.
The mist was lethally poisonous and also exceptionally effective at sealing off movement.
The brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo exchanged a glance.
Their heavy steps shook the platform violently.
Their fourth, purple soul rings lit up simultaneously.
"Fourth soul skill, Double Black Tortoise Barrier!"
Two enormous Black Tortoise shell shields materialized out of thin air, standing across the front of the team with the ponderous presence of mountains.
An eerie black glow radiated from the shields, providing the most solid protection for their teammates behind them.
The Black Tortoise martial soul's defense ranked among the very best in the entire Soul Master World.
With two layers superimposed, even a Soul Ancestor above level forty would struggle to break through.
The agility-type Soul Master Osler possessed himself with his Ghost Leopard martial soul and became a black afterimage, attacking at high speed from the flank.
His five fingers formed claws, sharp gusts tearing through the air.
Under cover of the lightning, his figure became a flickering black streak that shot straight toward the back of Chen Jin's neck.
The flying-type Soul Master Yu Feng beat his wings, stirring up wind blades as he swooped down from above.
Countless green wind blades condensed from soul power poured down densely like a torrential rain.
The pink begonia flower cradled in the hands of the Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master, Ye Lingling, gave off a gentle glow.
Soul power flowed continuously into her teammates, ready at any moment to provide the most powerful healing to anyone injured.
Heaven Dou Royal Academy's seven members joined forces.
Lightning, lethal poison, heavy shields, wind blades, stealth attacks, healing.
The dazzling radiance of their various soul skills engulfed half the platform in that instant.
Powerful soul power fluctuations converged into a raging torrent that swept toward Chen Jin.
The entire Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena shook violently at that moment.
Terrifying waves of air surged in every direction like a tide.
The spectators in the stands all felt that oppressive force.
Cries of alarm and sharp intakes of breath rose one after another.
"Heavens, is this the strength of Heaven Dou Royal Academy?"
"The power of this coordinated attack could probably take on a level-fifty Soul King head-on!"
"That Chen Jin actually wants to resist an attack like this all by himself?"
"He's mad! Absolutely mad!"
"No matter how strong he is, surely he can't cross such an enormous gulf!"
In Shrek Academy's rest area.
Tang San watched the nearly world-destroying strike on the platform, his brows tightly furrowed.
"Foolish."
"He actually chose to face an attack from all seven of them alone."
"No matter how powerful his martial soul is, it can't make up for the difference in soul power."
"Chen Jin will pay the price for his arrogance after all."
Ma Hongjun watched the platform with even greater schadenfreude.
"Haha, who does this guy think he is?"
"One against seven? Does he really think he's a Soul King?"
"Let's see how he keeps showing off after Yu Tianheng's lightning burns him to charcoal!"
Zhu Zhuqing sat beside them, her beautiful eyes fixed on the white-clad figure on the platform.
Her hands were folded together.
Although she had confidence in Chen Jin, she could not help worrying in the face of such an attack.
Faced with the attacks sweeping toward him from every direction.
Chen Jin stood quietly where he was.
His white clothes snapped in the fierce wind, his expression unchanged.
Under the gaze of countless eyes.
The third, purple soul ring beneath Chen Jin's feet quietly lit up.
Its dazzling purple radiance actually eclipsed the lightning and poison mist filling the sky at that moment.
The Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix Martial Soul behind him let out a clear cry.
That cry pierced the clouds, carrying supreme divine might.
The Divine Phoenix spread its wings, its golden-red pinions blotting out the sky and sun.
"Third soul skill, Heaven-Burning Purgatory."
Chen Jin spoke, every word reaching everyone's ears clearly.
The temperature across the entire platform suddenly soared to a terrifying level.
Endless golden flames descended out of nothingness.
A sea of fire surged skyward.
Like an enormous furnace, it swallowed the entire platform.
Under that extreme heat, the air began to distort violently, and even the view became blurred.
The seven members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy faltered the instant their attacks touched that sea of fire.
Osler had only just reached a point five meters behind Chen Jin.
The terrifying heat instantly emptied the surrounding space of air.
A scorching wave struck him head-on, and Osler felt his clothes turn to ash in an instant as searing pain shot through his skin.
His incomparably swift movements became agonizingly slow within the sea of fire, which was as viscous as liquid.
Yu Feng, who was diving down from above, was hurled away by a terrifying rising current of hot air.
The feathers on his wings instantly curled and blackened in the heat.
Had he not retreated quickly, that hot current would have roasted him alive.
Before the white light from Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia could enter her teammates' bodies.
It was purified and evaporated in midair by those sacred flames.
Not even a trace remained.
At the center of the sea of fire, Yu Tianheng's expression changed drastically.
These golden flames were horrifyingly hot and also carried a strange devouring power.
The soul power within his body was actually draining at a terrifying rate.
It was as though this sea of fire was desperately devouring it.
"Damn it!"
Yu Tianheng roared, driving Thunderbolt's Fury to its full power.
Electricity formed thick bolts of lightning that blasted into the surrounding sea of fire.
He tried to tear through this confinement.
Yet the golden flames cycled endlessly, renewing without cease.
No matter how the lightning bombarded them, the sea of fire merely rippled a few times before swallowing and covering the lightning once more.
Elsewhere.
The Jade Phosphor Purple Poison Dugu Yan had spat out could not last even a single second upon touching the golden flames.
Under the extreme heat, the pungent poison mist was instantly burned away into nothingness.
Before the sacred flames of the Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison was as fragile as something made of paper.
Dugu Yan's face paled, her martial soul violently shaken, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
"How is this possible..."
"My poison was actually purified?"
Dugu Yan's eyes were filled with horror.
The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, which had once triumphed wherever it went, was now not even qualified to approach her opponent.
The brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo also turned deathly pale.
Under the scorching flames, dense cracks began appearing across the surfaces of their two mountain-heavy Black Tortoise shell shields.
The sound of shattering rang out within the sea of fire.
The two indestructible Black Tortoise barriers collapsed in an instant, scattering fragments across the sky.
The powerful backlash made both brothers spit out a mouthful of blood as they staggered backward in disarray.
"How is this possible..."
Yu Tianheng watched the scene, his eyes filled with horror.
Just what kind of soul skill was this?
A mere third soul skill could actually suppress and devour the soul power of all seven of them at once?
Was this truly power that a level-thirty-seven Soul Elder could possess?
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's lightning, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's lethal poison, and the Black Tortoise's defense had all been defeated by the same flames at that moment.
At that moment.
Inside the Great Soul Arena.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators rose to their feet in unison.
Everyone stared wide-eyed in shock at the golden sea of fire that had turned the entire platform into a furnace.
After a brief silence came cries of astonishment that surged like toppling mountains and overturning seas.
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