No Mountain Domain, No Fixed Formation Core
The Ice Seal fell simultaneously, forcing Yu Feng upwards, while Shi Mo's right leg remained trapped inside the ice.
Between Ye Lingling and the front lines, the newly pieced-together treatment route was only half-lit.
Shui Bing'er did not give Li Man time to recalculate.
"Pressure the center."
The three from the Skywater Academy slid in simultaneously, one forcing Yu Tianheng forward, and the other circling around Dong Jian.
The last straight cut is between Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
If it were the same strategy as yesterday, Imperial Fighting Team's most natural reaction would be to repair the net first, but Li Man picked up a bamboo stick first.
I've collected another one.
"You're still accepting?" Even in mid-air, Yu Feng was stunned.
"Shut up, turn left."
He did as instructed immediately; Li Man now only retains three types of connections.
Ye Lingling's treatment at the front line was short-circuited, and Yu Tianheng was able to retreat to a return path in the middle section.
And the only short circuit on the side that allows for the repositioning of Yu Feng or the Shi Mo.
Withdraw everything else; avoid unstable locations and locations that are too far away.
Avoid systems that require managing three backup anchors simultaneously.
The net, which originally covered most of the playing area, was suddenly shrunk considerably.
Some people in the stands even thought there was something wrong with her Soul Power.
"Li Man can't hold on any longer?"
"Half of the key points of the formation are missing."
"Skywater Academy forced her to quit."
These words couldn't be heard clearly from the field; Dong Jian only noticed that she had less sweat on her forehead than in the previous round, and that there was less net movement.
The mental burden is naturally less.
"My side?" he asked.
"Go by yourself."
"Clear."
The black Fourth Soul Ring still hasn't lit up. Since closing it in Chapter 154, Dong Jian hasn't opened the Yin-Yang Mountain Domain again.
The ice beneath your feet will still send out different responses to the same vibration.
Unreliable is unreliable. Even Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill cannot turn a wrong answer into a right one. He only used a superficial Force Observation.
Observe the shoulder line of Yu Tianheng, the direction of the Shi Mo tortoise shell, and when Yu Feng will descend.
To see how far Ye Lingling was from the front line, a quick-attack attacker from the Skywater Academy suddenly slashed diagonally, not targeting the healing class.
Instead, he first crashed into the side path left by Li Man. Dong Jian saw it but didn't move.
The Yu Feng itself pressed down from above, and the wind blades forced the opponent to stop in time.
"I can handle this," Yu Feng called out.
Dong Jian simply replied, "I know."
On the other side, Shi Mo had just escaped the Ice Seal when he was caught by a second Skywater Academy team member. He didn't wait for Li Man to give him a route.
With the tortoise shell horizontally positioned, it first fixed itself behind Yu Tianheng, and if it got frozen, it got frozen.
As long as we don't retreat, this point will remain.
Yu Tianheng unleashed two consecutive Thunderclap attacks from the front.
Skywater Academy didn't take the hit head-on, but instead slid off the ice. Shui Bing'er had been waiting for his landing point, and a ring of ice closed in from the side.
That was exactly where Yu Tianheng turned around.
"Tian Heng, the right flank is short," Li Man reported in just one sentence.
He wasn't being ordered how to fight; he was just being told which way he could get back. Yu Tianheng didn't even look at Dong Jian.
The first step was to continue the pursuit, with the Thunder Claw forcing back the front row of the Skywater Academy. Only then did they retreat to the right.
The ice ring closed from his original position, less than half a step away, returning to the middle.
Dong Jian was already there; the momentum from the previous charge hadn't completely subsided when Yu Tianheng shifted his shoulder to the side and pulled back.
Dong Jian only touched it once; he neither received the lightning nor the Soul Power.
Let the pullback continue to veer to the right.
Yu Tianheng regained his footing by taking advantage of the situation, and the Shi Mo tortoise shell was placed next to him, leaving the three of them without a complete formation.
However, the three connections were re-established. Qin Ming watched from the rest area without saying a word; this was exactly what he wanted to see.
Sharpness, axis, and net should never be equated with any three Soul Skill, unless the Yin-Yang Mountain Domain is activated.
Dong Jian wouldn't be the pivot point; if there were no Green Jade Bamboo on the ground, wouldn't Li Man be the net?
All that training before was for nothing, Shui Bing'er clearly noticed that the Imperial Fighting Team style had changed.
She no longer expended a lot of Soul Power to chase after each Mobile Formation Eye.
The Third Soul Skill contracts towards the center line, and the ice surface suddenly rises.
Two ice walls flanked Yu Tianheng from the front and the back, at the same time.
Another member of the Control System completely blocked Ye Lingling's path.
The treatment route was interrupted again, but Li Man didn't immediately resume treatment; she checked on Ye Lingling first.
Ye Lingling walked to the left on her own, and Shi Mo was just about to go and meet her without waiting for a reminder.
But Yu Feng descended from the sky first.
"I'm nearby."
With just two words, Li Man hung the short-circuit device towards him, Yu Feng as a temporary anchor.
Ye Lingling's treatment leveraged this point to cross the middle stage again.
Shi Mo didn't move again; instead, he turned the tortoise shell to Dong Jian's left, blocking an ice blade.
No one waited for Dong Jian to say "answer".
No one waited for Li Man to lay out the complete route; they just started moving along the parts that were passable.
Shui Bing'er's gaze truly turned serious for the first time. She could freeze ice surfaces and press down moving anchors.
It could even make Dong Jian voluntarily turn off his most prominent, eternally powerful Fourth Soul Skill.
However, Imperial Fighting Team did not stop in place just because the two tools lost their effectiveness.
"Main anchor," Li Man whispered.
"What?" Dong Jian didn't hear clearly.
"Nothing."
She crossed out that word herself. Now, where is there a truly fixed anchor on the field? Yu Feng can take the hit once.
Shi Mo can be used once, Dong Jian can also become a temporary landing point if the distance is right, but these are not permanent cores.
Whoever is in the correct position goes first.
This is still far from a truly unfixed array core. Li Man can only manage a few short circuits at most; beyond that, things will still get chaotic.
But at least.
She no longer tries to save an anchor point just because it's frozen in time.
"The right side is broken," Dong Jian reminded him.
Li Man looked over and saw that Yu Tianheng was being forced to the side of the arena by the ice wall.
The low temperature also compressed Dugu Yan's poison field, slowing its spread compared to normal.
If they retreat again this time, Imperial Fighting Team will be pushed to the brink by the Skywater Academy.
"Yanzi, give me a path I can't walk on," Li Man suddenly said.
Dugu Yan understood; the poisonous fog was not spread towards the enemy.
Instead, a narrow strip was carved out on the right side of the platform, an area that Skywater Academy cannot easily tread.
The same applies to the Imperial Fighting Team.
But the inability to leave is itself a problem.
It can also serve as the boundary of the route, so Li Man doesn't need to place the array's core there.
Once it's clear that neither side is willing to step in, a new shortcut is naturally created.
Yu Tianheng was forced back by the ice wall and pressed towards the center, Dong Jian saw.
"Take this."
This time, Dong Jian didn't remind anyone; he filled it in himself first.
Yu Tianheng's shoulders and back carried obvious momentum as he retreated, while Dong Jian's Black Stance sank into his waist, bearing only the initial impact of his body.
Then Circular Rotation, changing the original straight retreat direction to a diagonal line, and connect it to the white side.
Yu Tianheng's feet did not stop; the previous force of retreat ended there.
This directly became the starting point for the next phase of renewed pressure.
The Yin-Yang Force Redirection is incomplete, consisting of only one segment.
But that was enough to make him pause for half a beat.
Shui Bing'er clearly didn't expect Yu Tianheng to switch roles back from being forced into a new position.
She immediately retracted the ice wall, but the instant she released control, Li Man also moved.
"Yu Feng, descend."
The Yu Feng descended from above, and the last spare Mobile Formation Eye landed at the base of his wing, not to send Dong Jian into the sky.
It merely temporarily bridged the gap between Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling, crossing a corner of the ice wall.
As the healing light fell, the Thunderclap around Yu Tianheng surged once more.
"We can play now," Dong Jian said.
Yu Tianheng answered even faster.
"I know."
The Thunder Dragon Body charged straight in, not at Shui Bing'er herself.
First, attack the control position in front of her responsible for maintaining the ice layer's movement.
Skywater Academy must be rescued; Shui Bing'er has to shrink the large area of the ice rink.
Imperial Fighting Team finally pushed the battle lines back to the center from the periphery.
This wasn't the decisive punch.
However, this caused Skywater Academy to lose control of the rhythm of the entire venue for the first time.
The later matches were not as complicated as the earlier ones.
Shui Bing'er continued to try to freeze the moving anchor, while Li Man continued to shrink and freeze the Yu Feng.
Shi Mo connection, frozen Shi Mo, Dugu Yan used poisonous areas to give the border.
Even Dong Jian wasn't a fixed center point; sometimes he moved forward, and sometimes he retreated to Ye Lingling's vicinity.
Only handle contacts that will actually completely sever the two segments.
finally.
A large-scale ice attack from the Skywater Academy simultaneously pressed down on Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling.
Two of the three short circuits in Li Man's hand went out instantly.
She didn't make up for it.
There's only one left on the left.
Upon hearing this, Yu Tianheng immediately abandoned his original, better pursuit angle and switched to the only remaining short circuit.
The Yu Feng forced a Skywater Academy agile attacker away from above.
The Shi Mo tortoise shell blocked their retreat.
Dong Jian followed Yu Tianheng's existing turning trend, only changing the angle by half a step.
Yu Tianheng did not stop; the Thunder Dragon Body crashed into the Skywater Academy Control Zone from the side.
If Shui Bing'er continues to maintain the outer Ice Seal...
He was about to be forced to face the continuous attacks of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon head-on.
She could only retract it; the ice layer lost unified control.
Dugu Yan's poisonous mist immediately filled the two cracks, and for the first time, Skywater Academy was truly separated.
Imperial Fighting Team seized this window of opportunity, which lasted less than ten breaths, to complete the suppression.
The referee finally announced:
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy wins."
Dong Jian withdrew his Martial Soul, and his Fourth Soul Ring did not light up again from beginning to end. Li Man glanced at the arena.
Not a single intact bamboo pole remained on the ground.
Only a few jade-like specks of light disappeared along with the team members.
Yu Feng landed, panting, and asked, "So, what formation is it today?"
Yu Tianheng glanced at him.
"A victorious battle."
Yu Feng was unable to refute it. Qin Ming waited for them to return to the rest area before making any comments.
He simply put the next round's matchup on the table, along with four words: Thunder Academy.
Dong Jian glanced at it, then looked at Yu Tianheng.
Yu Tianheng had already tightened his wristbands again.
This time, no one needed to remind him who was on the other end.