"Give Xiao Wu back to me!"
Tang San, having regained his footing, was furious. He immediately leaped up and caught up with Little Nine, who had entered the stands. However, before he could make a move, half of Xiao Jiu's body was suddenly Ice Seal.
A graceful and alluring figure stepped out from the side, coldly staring at Tang San, and said in a chilling voice, "If you want that girl to die, then go ahead and stop Little Nine from saving her!"
The person who arrived was Shui Xinrou, the team leader of the Skywater Team and part-time dean.
As the team leader of the Skywater Team, she had a very low opinion of Shrek today because their behavior was too Shameless.
His Shameless disgusted her, so she had absolutely no liking for Tang San.
Whether it was because of Shui Xinrou's words or because of the Ice Seal on his body, Tang San glared fiercely at Little Nine, who was treating Xiao Wu, but he didn't say anything more.
" Xiao San, that girl's condition is very serious. We don't have any good treatment options. The competition is the most important thing right now!"
At this moment, Bone Douluo appeared beside Tang San Tang San, shattering the Ice Seal that had trapped him with one hand, and whispered words of comfort.
Xiao Wu's condition was truly dire; her entire body was being eroded by extreme cold. If this kind of injury were to happen to anyone else, they would be crippled or even killed.
Xiao Wu is a key member of the Shrek Team. They've already lost Oscar, so they absolutely can't afford to lose another one.
Otherwise, even if they pass the qualifying rounds, they will still lose in the finals.
Moreover, Tang San needs to deal with Shui Bing'er, whose power has already been secured, so it's really not good to waste any more time here.
After pondering for a long time with an uncertain expression, Tang San finally glared at Little Nine with a sinister look, got up and walked towards the battle platform.
" Tang San, shall we enter the battle arena now to begin the fight?"
The referee, who had been waiting outside the barrier of the battle arena, saw Tang San approaching and asked in a formulaic, deep voice.
Tang San remained silent, standing quietly outside the barrier.
Just kidding, he hasn't even had his three-minute break yet, how could he possibly go in and get tortured so soon?
However, this move only drew countless scornful glances, clearly showing disdain for such a Shameless delaying tactic.
This is just a competition, not a life-or-death struggle where any means are acceptable. Even if we can use corresponding tactics against the enemy, these tactics are far too Shameless.
Tang San was aware of the gazes of the onlookers, but he couldn't refute them.
Because being defeated by Shui Bing'er in a seven-game sweep was something Shrek could never accept.
They used to feel great about their Shrek Team's arrogant sweep of seven other academy teams, but now that the same thing happened to them, they felt really annoyed.
Most importantly, their Shrek Team has already lost two matches and absolutely cannot afford to lose a third, otherwise even passing the qualifying rounds will be a question.
Therefore, they absolutely cannot lose this battle, even if it means resorting to underhanded tactics.
And so, with only one second left of the three-minute break, Tang San opened his eyes and looked at the referee.
" Tang San, shall we enter the battle arena now to begin the fight?"
The referee once again asked a question in a formulaic manner to confirm the information, but in this context, the originally formulaic question sounded quite jarring.
This was especially true for Tang San, who felt that the referee from the Spirit Hall was deliberately humiliating him.
However, since the other party was the referee, and he needed them to use their spatial Soul Skill to teleport him in, he could only suppress his anger.
"Yes!"
Gritting his teeth, Tang San spat out the word, then turned his head and gave a gloomy look towards the stands of the Botanical Academy Team before being escorted into the arena by the referee.
Once inside the battle arena, Tang San realized just how terrifying this cold current, condensed with the power of celestial phenomena, was. Even though he was immune to ice and fire, he felt as if his entire body had been frozen stiff.
Even more deadly was the fact that the countless rapidly spinning ice crystals in the ice storm were too lethal; even he dared not confront them head-on.
He is immune to ice, not kinetic energy; he still has to kneel before the impact of these solid ice crystals.
However, Tang San had already formulated a battle plan, and as soon as he entered the battle arena, he rushed to the core area.
An ice storm is a form of tornado, but a tornado only has strong winds on the outside, while the core eye is relatively calm, at least the countless ice crystals cannot hit there.
However, Tang San did not relax, because although the impact of countless ice crystals was no longer present, there was another kind of danger here.
Meanwhile, Shui Bing'er, high in the dark clouds, stood on the back of Ice Phoenix that was a thousand feet in size, looking down at the battle platform through an ice crystal cylinder that was a hundred feet in size.
This was an object she had seen by chance in the Spirit Hall Martial Spirit Temple, which called it a telescope—a very fitting name.
According to the competition rules, although the contestants cannot use external Soul Tool or similar devices in combat, she can create one on the spot by using the principle of the telescope's shape and the help of the ice crystal awakening.
That wouldn't be considered a foul. It was precisely because of this telescope that she was able to grasp the situation and combat tactics of the Shrek team members below in a timely manner.
She had now seen through Tang San's battle plan.
" Tang San, you finally dared to step onto the stage!"
A slight smile played on her alluring lips as Shui Bing'er elegantly snapped her fingers. A spiral ice crystal gradually materialized in the claws of the Ice Crystal Phoenix beneath her, though it was considerably larger than the previous spiral ice crystal.
Once the spiral ice crystals had completely condensed, the Ice Crystal Phoenix released its claws and plummeted rapidly downwards, spinning rapidly under the force of the ice storm.
"Trying to play delaying tactics? Let's see who can outmaneuver whom!"
With a cold smile, Shui Bing'er elegantly continued to observe the situation below through the ice crystal telescope.
Unlike the previous Huo Wu, she has a significant advantage in her current environment.
Last time, Huo Wu didn't actually have the upper hand on the battle stage. Not only did she have to expend a huge amount of Soul Power to turn the entire battle stage into magma, but she also had to risk going deep into the underground magma layer to break through a passage.
It is precisely because hot springs are prevalent in this area that the underground magma layer is not very deep. Otherwise, even with Huo Wu's Soul Power reserves, it would have been difficult to open a passage to the underground magma layer, even if she had cleverly created a Magma Domain.
However, her battlefield environment this time was the extremely cold Snow Eagle Territory, which naturally had a massive amount of cold air for her to mobilize.
Her Martial Soul has now completely transformed into the top-tier Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, giving her an innate ability to control cold energy. In addition, after learning that the Shrek Team had Shameless refined a large number of Soul Bone, Shui Xinrou took out two ice-attribute Soul Bone from the academy's collection.
Although they were all Soul Bone less than 50,000 years old and very incomplete, they still provided her with considerable assistance.
The thousand-foot-tall Ice Crystal Phoenix beneath him was the best proof of this, and this Ice Crystal Phoenix was constantly devouring the vast cold currents around it, increasing its own size.
Therefore, her Soul Power consumption was much less than the people below had imagined, and she could maintain it for at least another half hour.
As for the ice storm...
Hehe, she only took the lead at the beginning, condensing a vortex, and then she didn't spend much Soul Power. The ice storm grew on its own by absorbing the surrounding wind.
"Really!"
Tang San, standing directly below in the center of the battle platform, watched the spiraling ice crystals gradually appearing in the sky and thought to himself, "Just as I expected."
Although the eye of the storm is much calmer, it is still within the range of the spiraling ice crystals, making it equally difficult to deal with.
However, he had been observing the spiral ice crystals' offensive and had already devised several countermeasures suitable for himself, which was the source of his confidence to fight.
However, as the spiraling ice crystals descended to a certain point, Tang San suddenly noticed something was amiss.
This time, the spiral ice crystals seem to be much larger!
Damn it!
When Tang San activated his Purple Demon Eye to its fullest extent and discovered that it was not ten zhang in size as before, but a full hundred zhang in size, his face turned green.
He could still dodge the spiral ice crystals that were ten feet in size, but those that were a hundred feet in size would be fatal; they were not even in the same league!
The several contingency plans I had prepared were now obsolete.
We have no choice but to fight!
With a gritted jaw, Tang San unleashed his Second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, and with all his might, hurled it high into the sky to meet the hundred-foot-tall spiral ice crystal.
Although he could no longer dodge, he could smash the spiraling ice crystals beforehand.
Although the spiral ice crystals formed by this extreme cold are extremely hard, they are also extremely fragile. Once subjected to a certain degree of external force, they will shatter.
This is also why the spiral ice crystals shattered into countless ice blocks and crystals upon contact with the ground, causing them to explode and kill enemies.
Tang San's tactics were very successful. The extremely hard but also extremely brittle spiral ice crystals were smashed apart by the Clear Sky Hammer, turning into countless huge ice blocks, which were then drawn away by the surrounding ice storm and accumulated on the outer edge of the battle platform.
Is this the end of the plan?
High in the air, Shui Bing'er saw Tang San's countermeasures through her telescope and smiled again.
Although the impact of the spiral ice crystals is strong, that is only incidental; the real attack comes from the large amount of extreme cold power contained within them.
She knew that Tang San had ice immunity, but this ice immunity was not absolute; it had its limits.
There is no such thing as absolute immunity; it's just that we haven't reached the limit of surpassing the opponent.
Her current goal is to continuously send the icy power from the dark clouds down through the ice crystals, accumulating it until it eventually surpasses Tang San's immune limit.
The reason she was able to execute this tactic perfectly was Shrek for converting the original fire-attribute defensive barrier into an ice-attribute one; otherwise, with that fire-attribute defensive barrier, she really wouldn't have been able to accumulate much extreme cold power.
After smashing ten spiral ice crystals with the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang San finally understood Shui Bing'er's true intentions, which made his face very ugly.
That's right, he is indeed immune to icy energy, but there is a limit to it. Although this limit is very high, if he continues like this, he can hardly guarantee that the extreme cold power will not reach his own limit.
Moreover, his Second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, was not enhanced by Soul Ring and could not be sustained even with the combat techniques taught by his father.
Every time he struck the spiral ice crystal with the Clear Sky Hammer, he felt as if his Martial Soul would shatter. At the same time, the extreme cold power on the spiral ice crystal was constantly eroding the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul.
"Now it's a matter of who can hold out until the end!"
With his mind racing, Tang San realized that it was now a matter of who could last the longest.
Did he drag Shui Bing'er down until her Soul Power was exhausted first?
Or did Shui Bing'er accumulate enough extreme cold power beyond her own limits first?