Silence fell. A voice rang out, one that sounded familiar to Huo Yuhao. It was none other than White Tiger Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Clan, with Dai Yueheng standing beside him.
Star Luo Emperor said: Today, we will witness a duel between the strongest young people on the entire continent. As is customary, the champion will receive a reward of three Soul Bone and one million Gold Soul Coin.
Hopefully, both teams can deliver a fantastic match for the spectators.
As you all probably saw, that moment a couple of days ago was a historic one, a glorious moment for contestant Huo Yuhao. Everyone is curious about what kind of performance our contestant Huo Yuhao will deliver next, and whether he will create another miracle. Let's wait and see.
Xuan Zi, holding a chicken leg, watched Shrek's match. "Here it comes, here it comes! Yuhao, what kind of surprise are you going to give me this time?"
The referee was still Huang Jinxu, the Heavenly Fiend Douluo. "Today I'm here to announce the rules for the finals. The finals consist of three matches: a team match, an individual elimination match, and a 2-2-3 battle. The champion will be selected in a best-of-three format. The situation can change in an instant during the match, and even I, the referee, cannot guarantee the absolute safety of both participants."
The first match is a 7v7 team battle. Players from both sides, please come onto the field.
Unsurprisingly, Huo Yuhao didn't play in this team battle, leaving everyone quite disappointed. Of course, Ma Xiaotao's gift— the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade— had already arrived the day before the match.
The Star Luo King, somewhat disappointed, chatted with Dai Hao, "My dear brother, let me tell you, I've discovered a promising talent this time! He's one of our Star Luo Empire's people, and he's incredibly strong!"
Upon hearing this, Dai Hao raised an eyebrow, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes. He leaned forward, looking intently at the Star Luo King, and asked, "Oh? A promising talent? Anyone who can catch His Majesty's eye must be extraordinary. May I ask who you are referring to?"
The Star Luo King's lips curled slightly upward, a hint of approval flashing in his eyes. "This young man is named Huo Yuhao, a citizen of my Star Luo Empire. What's even more astonishing is that he possesses Twin Martial Souls! Such talent is truly one in a million!"
The first match slowly came to an end, and Shrek Academy lost; the opposing team's teamwork in the team battle was excellent.
In the second elimination round, Ma Xiaotao took the stage and won a perfect victory thanks to her Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade and her own Ultimate Fire Martial Soul.
Although it was indeed difficult, it was still a series of victories.
Of course, no one can keep going forever. There are wins and losses, and there are also formidable opponents. The team kept changing players until Ling Luochеn was defeated by Meng Hongchen's poison.
As Wang Yan was considering who to send, Huo Yuhao said, "Let me do it this time."
After Ling Luochеn was defeated, Huo Yuhao immediately detoxified her.
The Shrek students were all surprised. Why was Huo Yuhao suddenly going to step up? No, it should be said that he seemed somewhat angry this time.
The continuous eliminations had already made him irritable. He slowly walked past Ling Luochеn and said, "Senior Ling, let me teach her a lesson for you guys."
The moment Huo Yuhao stepped onto the final stage, the roar of the entire audience almost lifted the ceiling. Amidst the cheers, the Star Luo Emperor excitedly pounded the armrests, even the jeweled pendants on his crown swaying. "It's him! My brother, look, that's Huo Yuhao!" Dai Hao looked at Huo Yuhao and said, "To gain His Majesty's favor, he must be no ordinary person."
Meng Hongchen stood on the other side of the arena, arms crossed, a glint of disdain in her eyes. She felt inexplicably short of breath under Huo Yuhao's sweeping gaze. "You're the Huo Yuhao who's been talked about like a god?" She raised her chin, her lips parting slightly to reveal her sharp, diamond-like canine teeth. "My brother's formidable rival?"
Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow at the exquisitely made-up girl before him, a playful smile playing on his lips. " Huo Yuhao is me, that's true, but a formidable rival..." He deliberately dragged out his words, shrugging under Meng Hongchen's angry gaze, "Sorry, I can't remember someone whose name is too difficult to pronounce. Your brother is?"
" Xiao Hongchen!" Meng Hongchen practically spat out the name through gritted teeth, the slender sword at her fingertips suddenly gleaming with a crimson and purple light. "Remember this!"
"Oh--" Huo Yuhao nodded as if suddenly realizing something, "It's that chuunibyou Nantong." His tone was so casual, as if he were talking about a street performer, but it made Xiao Hongchen in the stands tighten his grip on his rapier.
Before the referee's whistle had even faded, Meng Hongchen had already leaped out like a flame. Her Martial Soul, the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad, had possessed her, turning her pupils into blood-red vertical lines, and black poisonous mist suddenly burst forth from her hair. Her slender sword spun in her palm, transforming into a stream of light, simultaneously enveloping ice crystals and flames—her prized ultimate technique, " Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill."
The instant the referee said "start, "Meng Hongchen activated her Martial Soul, and her eyes turned red. Her Martial Soul was the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad.
"What did we see here? It's just a toad. You're so different from the image of your Martial Soul!"
"You, Meng Hongchen, angrily said..."
Enough talk, take this! Meng Hongchen immediately used her trump card. She knew that Huo Yuhao's reputation was not entirely undeserved, and that responding with her strongest move was the best decision.
With Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill combined with a level six Soul Tool, the Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill. Meng Hongchen spun her rapier, sending ice-attribute poison and a whirlwind of fire hurtling towards Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao said, "Someone like you, who defeated a few students with that cheap poison, is now showing off here."
"Let me show you what the Ultimate Ice is."
But in that instant, Huo Yuhao's eyes flashed with blue light, and with a slow flick of his finger, an extremely powerful blizzard containing the Ultimate Ice swept out and froze the entire arena.
Silence, a deathly silence. Everyone was shocked. "What just happened?" " Meng Hongchen seems to have been instantly killed."
Huo Yuhao gently blew away the ice crystals from his fingertips, glanced at the stunned referee, and said calmly, "Next." His tone was as calm as if he were calling a student to come up and do a problem during a break, but it caused the three Soul King level contestants on the Sun Moon Royal Academy's bench to take a half step back at the same time.
Of course, according to the rules, the referee still allowed Huo Yuhao to remove the ice.
Xiao Hongchen stepped onto the stage again. " Huo Yuhao, my formidable rival, you are very strong. However, if I back down without even fighting you, I think I will regret it for the rest of my life. You don't need to hold back."
I will also do my best.
Because their opponents were all supermodels, Xiao Hongchen suggested teaming up with Meng Hongchen.
Huo Yuhao said, "Then let's all come together."
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen said, "If you can withstand this one move, we are willing to admit defeat."
The two embraced, and golden and ice-blue light shot into the sky. They used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Red Dust Attachment, and crimson light swept across the arena. The gold of the Three-Legged Golden Toad and the ice-blue of the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad disappeared, leaving only a five-meter-tall red toad with a metallic luster. A crimson-gold vortex was condensing and rotating in the air above the toad.
The phantom of the Three-Legged Golden Toad intertwined with the icy blue Soul Ring of the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad, eventually transforming into a five-meter-tall crimson-gold giant toad. The vortex in the toad's mouth continuously devoured the surrounding light and heat, actually condensing an energy core comparable to a Soul Cannon in its palm.
"It's here!" Xuan Zi crushed the roasted chicken leg in his hand, the oil droplets on his beard trembling with excitement. "This is forcing Yuhao to use his ultimate technique!"
Wang Yan, standing on the sidelines, adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting the slowly coalescing golden dragon phantom behind Huo Yuhao: "No... this time is different." His voice was filled with barely concealed excitement, "Look at the frost flowers on those dragon scales— Yuhao has integrated the Ultimate Ice into his Martial Soul Avatar!"
Sure enough, the moment Xiao Hongchen and his sister shouted " Red Dust Attachment!", Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, and a gust of wind blew up again.
The people in the audience, as well as the emperor, the princess, and even Xuan Zi, all understood what he was going to do.
The crowd cheered, saying: Huo Yuhao is about to use his powerful Soul Skill that can cause storms again! Everyone has been waiting for this moment.
The wind element surrounding Huo Yuhao suddenly condensed into ice crystals. A giant golden dragon covered in ice shards burst forth from its body, scattering ice crystals with each flap of its wings, forming an inverted ice and snow dome above the arena.
The temperature in the stands plummeted by tens of degrees, and some even saw the white mist they stirred condense into ice butterflies in the air. The chill made everyone in the stands shiver, and it instantly transformed into a realm of ice and snow.
The golden dragon was also preparing. A dragon roar echoed across the arena, and the chilling aura released from its wings completely froze the red toad and the incoming torrent. The golden dragon charged out, its claws slashing out.
Huo Yuhao said, "Go, Golden Dragon Ice-Breaking Claw!"
The red toad vanished completely, and the Hongchen siblings were frozen by the chill.
Xuan Zi stared in disbelief, Star Luo Emperor and Princess Jiujiu remained astonished, and Dai Yueheng also glanced sideways.
The audience was still chanting one name: " Huo Yuhao ".
When the dust settled, only Huo Yuhao remained in the center of the arena. The golden dragon phantom had mostly dissipated, but the icicles in his palm remained crystal clear. On the other hand, Xiao Hongchen and his sister were supporting each other as they fell into a lava-like crater. Their clothes were tattered, but they were still forcing smiles—they had lost, but they had lost willingly.
The cheers from the stands erupted like a tsunami, and Star Luo Emperor suddenly realized that he was already in tears.
The match is over. Huo Yuhao's overwhelming victory has left his peers in despair and those stronger than him feeling sorrow.
After witnessing this match, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Team abandoned the subsequent 2-2-3 strategy because they realized that they had absolutely no chance of victory against Huo Yuhao.
P. S.: Since we're getting close to Qiu'er's storyline, this brings up a question: I can write about romance, but there are some things I'd like everyone to share their insights on.
Gu Yuena, one of the most important female protagonists, is a character without problems. The problem lies in how to resolve the issues surrounding the Spirit Pagoda later on.
As everyone knows, the Spirit Pagoda many evil deeds in Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King. How should we resolve this issue, and how can Soul Beast and humans coexist? I have some ideas, but I would also like to hear everyone's opinions.