Just as Huo Wu stepped forward, a mocking voice suddenly rang out behind her.
She turned and saw the dust gradually settling. Yu Tianheng was still standing where he had been.
Lightning wreathed his body. Her first Soul Skill had failed to injure Yu Tianheng in the slightest.
All his attributes had increased by a hundred percent, and his physical body, Qi and blood had been tempered and strengthened as well.
The terrifying strength of Yu Tianheng's body was beyond anything an ordinary person could imagine.
"Th-this... how is this possible?"
Huo Wu's lips parted slightly, her eyes full of astonishment.
The boy before her was thirteen or fourteen at most, and his Soul Power Level should have been somewhere in the twenties.
How could he have withstood her full-strength attack head-on?
"Xiao Wu, looks like you held back after all."
Huo Wushuang patted Huo Wu on the shoulder, not thinking any further about it.
"I didn't! I was trying to cripple him with that attack!"
Huo Wu hated this sort of scumbag more than anything. How could she have held back?
"Oh?"
Hearing that, Huo Wushuang narrowed his eyes and looked Yu Tianheng up and down.
"Looks like Blazing Fire Academy really isn't much. It's my turn next, isn't it?"
A faint smile played on Yu Tianheng's lips.
As soon as the words left his mouth, he vanished from where he stood.
When he reappeared, he was already behind the two of them.
Four Thousand-Year Soul Rings appeared beneath his feet: purple, purple, purple, purple!
"Am I seeing things? Four Thousand-Year Soul Rings?"
"Wait! This young man's so young, and he's already reached level forty?"
"Tsk, tsk. No wonder he's got such luck with women. Just on talent alone, there can't be many people on the whole continent who can compare to him, right?"
"..."
The crowd's murmurs echoed in Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang's ears.
"Third Soul Skill! Fire Dragon Heavy Claw!"
Huo Wushuang reacted quickly, pulling Huo Wu back with one arm while his other hand transformed into a dragon claw.
It shot straight toward Yu Tianheng.
Yu Tianheng didn't dodge. He quietly unleashed his Thunder God Domain.
"Seriously? Is this kid really that arrogant? He's just standing there, waiting to get hit without moving?"
"Could he have masochistic tendencies? Huo Wushuang's a rising star of Blazing Fire Academy, a level thirty-eight Battle Soul Elder!"
"He's done for. Even with the difference in levels, taking that blow head-on will knock his brains out, won't it?"
"..."
Just when everyone thought Yu Tianheng was bound to lose,
Huo Wushuang's crimson dragon claw stopped a mere two inches in front of him.
The Thunder God Domain's suppression of Beast Martial Souls made the Soul Power inside Huo Wushuang feel as though it had frozen.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't mobilize it.
His legs could no longer support him, and he was slowly sinking to his knees before Yu Tianheng.
"How could this happen?"
Huo Wushuang's brow had already knotted into a deep furrow.
Not even the Soul Emperor instructors at the academy had ever made him feel such pressure.
"Xiao Wu, hurry and go!"
Huo Wushuang used every ounce of his strength to try to push Huo Wu away from him.
"Brother, I... I don't think I can move!"
The instant the Thunder God Domain was unleashed, countless bolts of lightning had surged into Huo Wu's body.
With the constant paralysis, it was a mercy she hadn't fainted on the spot.
"Brother Tian Heng, what are you doing?"
A gentle, lilting voice suddenly rang out.
Ning Rongrong ran over to Yu Tianheng and hooked her arm through his.
To avoid hurting Rongrong, Yu Tianheng dispelled the Thunder God Domain with a thought.
"Tian Heng, who are those two?"
Dugu Yan stared warily at Huo Wu.
Huo Wu was more mature than them in both looks and figure.
Dugu Yan had already labeled her as someone who wanted to seduce Yu Tianheng.
"These two are contestants from Blazing Fire Academy. They wanted to spar with me just now."
Hearing that, Huo Wu immediately tried to retort.
But the weakness that followed the fading paralysis kept her from getting a single word out, no matter how hard she tried.
At those words, Dugu Yan's eyes darted, as though she had realized something.
She reached out and hooked her arm through Yu Tianheng's other arm.
"I know our Tian Heng is outstanding, but not just anyone can seduce him. Also, I suggest that certain people rely on their charm if they want to win the opposite sex's affection, rather than revealing clothes."
As she said this, Dugu Yan deliberately glanced at Huo Wu's clothes.
"No wonder that beauty attacked the kid. Turns out her love wasn't returned!"
"She's so pretty, so why hang herself on a single tree? I'm a man too!"
"Buddy, he's in his early teens, over level forty, and has four Thousand-Year Soul Rings. What about you?"
"..."
Being crushed by Yu Tianheng had only surprised Huo Wu.
But the comments now reaching her ears made her feel her anger surge.
What did they mean, she was seducing him? How could she ever fall for a scumbag like him?
If her body hadn't been so weak, she would have skinned Yu Tianheng and torn him to pieces.
"You two, I'm Yu Tianheng of the Heaven Dou Team. If you have anything else to teach me, you're welcome anytime."
With that, Yu Tianheng strolled away with the three women.
He left Huo Wu staring at his back.
"Brother, I'm going to kill him!"
Huo Wu clenched her teeth, and only after a long while did she force those words out between them.
When in her life had she ever suffered such humiliation?
"Huo Wu, he must be Yu Tianheng of the Heaven Dou Team, the one who crushed Xue Luoge and his six teammates single-handedly."
For the first time, Huo Wushuang didn't agree with his sister and coax her.
Instead, he stared darkly in the direction Yu Tianheng had gone.
"He's Yu Tianheng?"
Huo Wu's graceful brows drew together.
The match between Heaven Dou Team One and Team Two had long since become common knowledge among the teams competing in the Soul Master Tournament.
Everyone regarded Yu Tianheng and Heaven Dou Team One as their greatest opponents.
Huo Wu was no exception.
But she hadn't expected to run into Yu Tianheng so soon.
And to be "humiliated" by him in such a crushing fashion!
"Brother, I'm going back into seclusion! I have to find a way to deal with Yu Tianheng!"
After resting for quite a while, the two of them had mostly recovered.
Huo Wu stood up and headed toward Blazing Fire Academy's lodgings.
The shock and anger in her eyes had been completely swallowed up by fighting spirit.
"Brother Tian Heng, was that woman trying to seduce you just now?"
Out of nowhere, Ning Rongrong dropped a bombshell of a question.
"What? What seduction? Who did you learn that from?"
Yu Tianheng felt rather helpless. They had clearly been ready to fight to the death. What did that have to do with seduction?
"Didn't Sister Yan Yan just say she was wearing so little to seduce you?"
Ning Rongrong looked so curious that Yu Tianheng didn't quite know how to answer.
"Tian Heng, one look at that woman and you can tell she's no good!"