Neither Zijing nor Yu Xinming exchanged any words and immediately began fighting.
As Power Attack System Soul Master, Yu Xinming naturally rushed forward to prepare for close combat.
Fortunately, his Martial Soul possesses lightning, and all five of his Soul Skill are related to lightning power. In addition, the lightning-attribute immortal medicine he had previously consumed gave him mid-range long-range attack capabilities.
Therefore, you only need to get close enough to attack the enemy, and you need to be able to counter control-type Soul Master to a certain extent.
Unfortunately, Zijing's performance far exceeded his expectations. She immediately unleashed all the sealed Soul Power and forcibly used her Soul Skill to make the entire battle stage grow with Purple Fire Thorn, creating a battle environment that was favorable to herself.
Although creating this combat environment consumed most of her Soul Power reserves, the effect was outstanding.
Yu Xinming was rushing forward at high speed, suddenly braked and stopped, looking at the dense Purple Fire Thorn around him with a grim expression.
These Purple Fire Thorn are all covered in thorns; if you bump into one, the experience will definitely be excruciatingly painful.
He hadn't expected that Zijing would go to such lengths to create such a battle environment, even at the cost of most of her Soul Power, and that she would succeed. This rendered all the countermeasures he had prepared useless.
In fact, if Zijing were to use her Soul Power power to complete the task. However, she was forced by Yu Xinming to complete the task quickly at any cost, which doubled the consumption. Now, she only has one-third of her Soul Power reserves left in her body.
"I only recently mastered this move, and you are honored to be the first to try it!"
Taking a breath, Zijing gazed at Yu Xinming, who was trapped in the thicket of thorns.
This guy was instantly defeated by Dieying in one move last time. Although she doesn't have the miracle of Dieying's Sevenfold Martial Spirit, she is not weak either, at least strong enough to defeat him.
She wanted to show the Shrek Team that all their schemes and tricks were nothing but paper tigers in the face of absolute strength!
As Zijing snapped her fingers, the thorny thicket covering the battle platform seemed to come alive, coiling like a long snake Entanglement the Yu Xinming within.
This move involves the Shape Transformation of Martial Soul Power. She has learned a lot from Jiang Zhu and others these days. Although they are just some tips and tricks without specific cultivation methods, they are enough to greatly increase her strength.
She was confident that in this thorny jungle, unless one was Soul Saint level expert, everyone who came would have to kneel down.
" Wings of Thunder!"
The moment Yu Xinming sensed the thorny thicket come to life, he used one of his Soul Bone Soul Skill, conjuring thunderous wings on his back and soaring into the sky to avoid the surging Purple Fire Thorn.
He dared not let that thing really get to him; otherwise, even if he still had some trump cards, he would be badly injured, if not killed.
"You think flying up there will be the end of it? How naive!"
With another snap of his fingers, the thorny thicket came alive even faster, Entanglement and coalescing into hundreds of hundred-foot-long thorn whips that lashed out at Yu Xinming high in the sky.
Upon seeing this scene, Ma Hongjun in the stands instinctively shivered.
This move is so similar to the Magma Shenron that Huo Wu used back then. He was almost killed by that Magma Shenron back then, and he still has a lot of psychological trauma from it.
Yu Xinming, the person involved, also looked very unpleasant. His Thunder Wings were similar to Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Wings Soaring, both of which could only fly at low altitudes.
Although his Thunder Wings were faster, this time he was facing a full hundred thorny whips.
Looking at the menacing spikes covering the surface, Yu Xinming couldn't help but swallow hard.
He had witnessed the battles of the Zijing before and understood how terrifying these Purple Fire Thorn were.
Although it is named Purple Fire Thorn, it does not produce flames; instead, it contains a kind of fire poison.
This kind of fire poison does not cause much substantial harm to the body, but it can cause extreme pain.
The pain from the Scarlet Fire Thorn was already comparable to the pain of childbirth for women, but the Purple Fire Thorn has amplified that pain tenfold.
Last time, he personally witnessed a Soul King being tortured to the point of rolling on the battle platform, crying and wailing. In the end, he even had to slam his head against the ground to force himself into unconsciousness in order to escape that inhuman pain.
He considered himself to have a strong enough will, but he still lacked the confidence to withstand such extreme pain.
Therefore, you must not be pierced by those Purple Fire Thorn, not even once!
Yu Xinming immediately launched a counterattack, dodging the attacks of hundreds of thorny whips while using his Soul Skill to strike the Zijing below, which was protected by the thorny forest.
" Soul Bone!"
However, when Yu Xinming made his move, everyone watching frowned and their expressions turned rather grim.
After so much time, they had long since learned about Yu Xinming's Soul Ring and Soul Skill, but just now Yu Xinming had used four other Soul Skill, including the Thunder Wings.
This was by no means Self-Created Soul Skill, but rather Soul Skill obtained from Soul Beast, yet Yu Xinming only had five Soul Ring.
Then there's only one truth— the Soul Bone!
It must be Soul Skill that comes with the Soul Bone itself, and it must be a high-quality Soul Bone that is over 50,000 years old, and there are even four Soul Bone in total.
This left many college teams feeling quite disheartened.
They could tolerate you getting one or two Soul Bone, but now you've gone so far as to give them four, and they're all high-quality Soul Bone that are over 50,000 years old.
There's no need to be so obvious about cheating!
"Pah! What kind of bullshit Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament? And what kind of bullshit theoretical Invincible Grandmaster? It turns out they just cheated. Laozi 'm not playing with you Shameless bastards anymore."
Immediately, a hot-tempered teacher in charge of the team stood up, yelled at the Shrek Team's stands, and then stormed off.
His team also got up and left, spitting in the direction of the Shrek Team's stands as they departed, and giving them an extremely contemptuous look.
"We're not playing anymore!"
With such a leader, more than fifty academy teams immediately got up and left, all casting disdainful glances at the Shrek Academy stands as they departed.
Of course, the reason they were causing trouble was partly because they were genuinely disgusted by the Shrek Academy, and partly because their grades weren't very good; they had all lost at least four times.
With this kind of record, there's clearly no hope of advancing to the top 15 or passing the qualifying rounds.
Originally, I was only reluctant to leave early due to the rules, and could only stay here and watch others win, but now I don't have to endure it anymore.
This is a good opportunity to leave, so as not to embarrass myself by staying here any longer.
The remaining half of the academy teams, backed by powerful clans and imperial nobles, and with the Shrek Academy having intricate connections to their respective backers, couldn't very well leave now. So they had no choice but to stay in their own stands.
Although they couldn't leave with them, they could still cast disdainful glances in the direction of the Shrek Academy.
The fact that half of the academy teams were eliminated before the end of the competition made many people's faces turn very ugly, especially the members of the Shrek Academy.
Liu Erlong looked worriedly at her lover Yu Xiaogang beside her, because Yu Xiaogang's face was purplish-red, and he was obviously very angry. She was really afraid that her lover would be so angry that he would spit out blood again.
Shrek Academy is truly destined to be infamous for eternity!
"I have presided over the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament for many years, but this is the first time I have seen such a grand occasion. Sect Master Ning, you have set quite a bad example in the competition!"
This is probably the last tournament in the Douluo Continent!
Salas turned his head past Xue Ye to look at Ning Fengzhi. Although his expression remained serious, his eyes revealed an undisguised mockery.
Ning Fengzhi silent with a gloomy face, as did Xue Ye.
It's important to know that one of the main purposes of the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament, held every five years, is to select elite talents for the Empire. However, Shrek has repeatedly violated the rules, almost completely ruining the tournament's structure.
With Shrek serving as a cautionary tale, it's easy to imagine that more academy teams will try to exploit loopholes in the competition rules in future tournaments.
Furthermore, the Shrek Team have tarnished the tournament's reputation and severely damaged the dignity of the tournament rules, making it difficult to hold the event officially again in the future.
It's possible that those who ultimately win will be the sly, opportunistic types.
Would their empire dare to want this kind of stuff?
Therefore, Salas's statement makes a lot of sense; this could very well be the last Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament.
The thought of this grand ceremony, which has been passed down for thousands of years and has been used to select elite talents for the empire, being ruined gave Xue Ye an urge to kill people.
Besides this, there was another matter that greatly troubled Xue Ye: the Nine-Hearted Begonia Clan had clearly pledged allegiance to him, but those aristocratic families and sects still kidnapped Ye Ying wife, important members of the Nine-Hearted Begonia Clan.
This is practically a blatant slap in the face to the Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye!
But he had no way to retaliate until he suddenly realized the extent to which powerful families, clans, nobles, and wealthy clans had infiltrated and eroded the empire.
Unlike the autocratic rule of the Star Luo Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire is an alliance, with various powerful families, sects, kingdoms, and duchies dividing up its power and territory.
The empire currently only truly controls the provinces in the capital region. With this limited power, it is simply no match for the united aristocratic families, sects, noble clans, and wealthy magnates. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so humiliating as to have its people, whom it was protecting, kidnapped.
"The powerful clans, noble families, and wealthy tycoons are indeed the cancer of the empire; they must be eradicated!"
Xue Ye's resolve to support his Crown Prince Xue Qinghe's plan only strengthened.
Support us at all costs!
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a shrill scream came from the battle platform. A figure was seen flying out of the platform, his body covered with countless sharp spikes, making him look like a hedgehog.
Upon closer inspection, who else could it be but Yu Xinming?
It turned out that the two had been evenly matched in their previous battle. Zijing's hundreds of thorny whips could not hit Yu Xinming, who was flying at high speed, and Yu Xinming's lightning attacks could not break through the dense thorny forest defense layer surrounding Zijing.
A large portion of the lightning power was even channeled underground by the Purple Fire Thorn, since plants themselves have a certain degree of electrical conductivity.
However, just when it seemed that the two sides were going to fight a protracted war, and it was a matter of who would wear down the other first, Zijing Purple Fire Thorn that covered the entire battle platform suddenly burst out with countless sharp spikes.
Millions of spikes erupted all at once, aimed directly at Yu Xinming in the sky, and the result was predictable.
Although Yu Xinming reacted quickly and used his defensive Soul Skill in time, he was ultimately unable to withstand the countless spikes and was breached after only three seconds.
Then Yu Xinming's entire body was riddled with thorns, a truly pitiful sight.
It's important to know that the toxicity contained in a single thorn can cause ten times the pain of childbirth for a woman; the consequences of being pierced by so many thorns at once are unimaginable.
Yu Xinming could only let out a single scream before collapsing into unconsciousness.
Even so, his body instinctively rolled around on the ground, convulsing and foaming at the mouth, and even his clothes emitted a foul odor, clearly indicating that he had lost control of his bladder and bowels.
This sudden turn of events shocked everyone watching. After recovering from the shock, Tang San and the others rushed down to check on Yu Xinming's condition, and their faces were all extremely grim.
They originally thought they had gained the upper hand through their previous tricks, allowing Yu Xinming, who could slightly restrain Zijing, to take the stage.
What seemed like an easy victory turned out to be a trap that Zijing had been hiding all along, only to unleash its full power now.