Angry Buddha Lotus Flame

Only a few minutes after entering the woods, Gu Xingyue encountered the first team.

As the three passed through a patch of low bushes, a sudden rustling came from ahead.

Gu Xingyue stopped short and signaled for the other two to halt.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao grew alert at the same time, looking toward the source of the sound.

The bushes parted, and three figures emerged from behind the trees.

Leading them was a long-haired fatty with an outrageously exaggerated build.

That belly was absurdly big, like a balloon inflated to its limit.

Fat seemed ready to spill out from beneath the skin; in sheer size, she was even more exaggerated than Liangzi.

The flesh on her face piled together, squeezing her features until they were almost impossible to distinguish, leaving only a pair of eyes gleaming through the folds.

She wore an oversized outfit that had clearly been custom-made.

The fabric stretched taut, and the flesh on her body quivered with every step.

Gu Xingyue instinctively held his breath.

He was just about to finish this thing off with his strongest electric current.

The fatty opposite him opened her mouth first.

"Aaaaaaah, soul bones hidden in the forest are the hardest to find! Aaaaaaah!!!"

Her voice was as piercing as Lion's Roar, its penetrating sound waves driving straight into their eardrums.

Gu Xingyue felt as though someone had bombarded the inside of his head, leaving it buzzing.

It nearly made him, the happy one, back down.

Wang Dong's expression changed. Xiao Xiao retreated half a step, keeping the two in front as protection.

After the fatty finished shouting, her gaze shifted and landed on Gu Xingyue's group.

She narrowed her eyes, stretched her thick lips into a smile, then tilted her head toward her two teammates and lowered her voice. "Sisters, I have a great idea."

Both her teammates had yellow hair and ridiculously burly builds, with broad shoulders and thick arms.

Hearing the fatty's words, they both leaned closer.

"With my beauty," the fatty said, propping her chin on the back of her hand and assuming a bashful pose, "I'll use a honey trap to bewitch those three ahead of us, then have them help us find soul bones for free."

The two muscular women exchanged a glance, then nodded together.

"I support you." The yellow-haired woman on the left patted the fatty's shoulder, her tone sincere. "Just look at you-you look blessed with good fortune. Using a honey trap on them is really letting them off cheap. But what can we do? We girls have it so hard. The soul master world is unfair! Huanyue, you're a Soul Elder! Why can't Dean Yan just give you the championship outright? That sort is just an enemy mount, unlike us, born with the ability to love."

The one on the right nodded along, folding her thick arms across her chest. "Exactly. I only trained myself into this shape to keep those men from falling for us."

The three discussed it right in front of Gu Xingyue's group.

Their voices were hardly quiet, either. Every word came through perfectly clearly.

Gu Xingyue stood there, listening to those outrageous remarks.

His expression shifted from nausea to confusion, then to a profound sense of helplessness.

He raised his hand, palm up, and purple and green light surged from it simultaneously.

Two utterly different elements met, entwined, and fused in his palm, the auras of destruction and life colliding with a low rumble.

Wang Dong turned to glance at him, his pupils contracting slightly.

Xiao Xiao froze too, staring fixedly at the lotus-shaped mass of mingling light.

Without realizing it, Xiao Xiao shifted half a step to the side.

The disturbance was far too great.

Xie Huanyue watched Gu Xingyue approach her.

She curled her lips and pointed a thick finger at him. "Coming this close? What a turnoff. Watch my Pipi Elephant possession!"

Before her words had faded, she curled into a ball, her fleshy body abruptly swelling a size larger.

Like a cannonball fired from a cannon.

As that bulk came bearing down, even the ground trembled.

Watching that ball of flesh roll toward him, Gu Xingyue felt his stomach churn.

He hesitated no longer. Thrusting his right hand forward, he sent the lotus of mingled purple and green flying from his palm.

The lotus was only fist-sized, but the aura it emitted as it spun warped the light around it.

The purple was destructive lightning, the green was life that brought forth creation. As they spun, the two supreme powers fused into one, taking on an almost chaotic hue.

The lotus flew toward Xie Huanyue, not particularly fast, yet everything in its path was silently annihilated.

Fallen leaves, dead branches, and gravel turned straight to fine dust as the ripples from the lotus's outer edge swept over them.

Just as Xie Huanyue prepared to crash into it, a figure suddenly flashed out from the side.

A teacher who had been concealed at the edge of the field rushed out.

Not daring to be careless, he immediately activated his martial soul possession. Thick soul-power armor covered his entire body, and he crossed his arms before his chest to block.

The lotus struck him.

A soundless explosion.

Purple-green light instantly swallowed everything within several meters.

The teacher grunted, blasted backward through the air. His back smashed through three saplings as thick as the mouth of a bowl before he barely managed to stop.

His skin was covered in charred burns and fine markings, and the pain made the corners of his mouth twitch.

Xie Huanyue came to a halt amid the blast wave, covered in dirt and shredded leaves.

She froze for a second, then whipped her head toward the teacher and shrieked furiously, "What are you doooooing?! If it weren't for you, I'd have beaten them already! Sure enough, the soul master world has been ruined by you stinking-"

She never finished.

Gu Xingyue raised his right hand and gently pressed his fingertips downward.

Dozens of purple lightning bolts descended from the sky, striking Xie Huanyue with pinpoint accuracy.

Of course, the other two beside her got a share as well.

Arcs of electricity danced wildly across her thick, fleshy body, every bolt carrying terrifying penetrating power that punched straight through her fatty defenses.

Xie Huanyue's body convulsed violently beyond her control. Broken screams escaped her mouth, and her legs buckled as she fell to her knees.

A puddle of yellow liquid spread beneath her, its rank stench mingling with the smell of burning in the air.

The teacher struggled to his feet among the trees. Looking at the twitching Xie Huanyue on the ground, that puddle, and the muscular woman making strange cries, he made no attempt to conceal his disgust.

Clutching his still-aching chest, he walked toward Xie Huanyue's group and dragged them off the field.

Gu Xingyue lowered his hand, and the lightning around him slowly dispersed.

He stood there, drew a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.

Wang Dong was silent for a while before asking, "What was that move you just used called?"

"Angry Buddha Lotus Flame!" Gu Xingyue answered truthfully.

Behind him, Xiao Xiao muttered, "That name's fucking awesome..."

Gu Xingyue did not respond. He turned and continued deeper into the woods.

"That fatty's martial soul was Pipi Elephant, a rare beast martial soul that lets her turn herself into a meatball and charge. Her defense wasn't low. She should be the Soul Elder Teacher Wang mentioned, but I never thought... there could actually be someone like that in this world."

"You were just scared!" Gu Xingyue replied.

Wang Dong: "..."

"Who wouldn't be?!"

Xiao Xiao followed at the very back, continuing to be invisible.