One-Sided Battle, Spider Emperor Sense (Part 1)

"What the hell, a Six-Winged Angel!?"

Chu Qingtian wondered if he had suddenly misheard, then saw the phantom of the Six-Winged Angel behind Ling Bai and his four soul rings—yellow, purple, purple, and black. His breath caught at once.

At first, he had assumed Ling Bai was merely some rogue soul master from outside. He himself was an inner courtyard genius selected from the continent's number-one academy, a superior horse certain to defeat an inferior one. Yet now their positions had been reversed, and Chu Qingtian had become the inferior horse!

He cast aside all his former pride and arrogance, staring fixedly at Ling Bai, who held the Angel Holy Sword, as though facing a formidable enemy!

Rather than losing his fighting spirit because of the legendary god-tier martial soul, Chu Qingtian felt an unprecedented surge of Blood Boiling!

A mortal charged at a lofty god!

The yellow soul ring in the first position flashed!

First Soul Skill, Rapid Lightning!

The Lightning Maniac Panther was an anomaly among soul beasts. Lightning was an incredibly violent attribute filled with destructive force, and most lightning-attribute soul beasts possessed terrifying destructive power, such as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. But the Lightning Maniac Panther was different—its lightning abandoned all destructive force and focused entirely on acceleration!

Using lightning to accelerate!

It seemed as though electric light rose behind Chu Qingtian. The moment he stepped forward, the Rapid Lightning soul skill propelled his speed to its peak, and he shot toward Ling Bai like an illusory streak of lightning.

However, there was no longer any emotional fluctuation in Ling Bai's gaze as he looked at Chu Qingtian. His once dazzling golden eyes had become as cold and indifferent as an abyss.

The Angel Holy Sword rose. Golden radiance rippled over its narrow, razor-sharp blade, faintly carrying a hazy blood-red glow, steeped in endless judgment and slaughter!

Second Soul Skill, Evil-warding Slash!

Fear instinctively appeared on Chu Qingtian's face as he charged forward. He had studied in the outer courtyard for years and experienced countless battles of every scale, yet he had never seen such a horrifying sword strike.

This slash, as though it had come from the deepest level of hell, seemed to tear apart everything before his eyes. It struck at his flesh, yet it also sought to cleave his soul into hell, condemning it to eternal darkness!

Ling Bai's second soul ring came from the thousand-year soul beast Yin-Yang Sky Falcon. Ancient records stated that it possessed the bloodline of the Ancient Yin-Yang Chaos Bird. It was a top-tier soul beast close to extinction, born with mastery over both light and darkness. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had spent three entire months searching for it back then.

Evil-warding Slash inherited the Yin-Yang Sky Falcon's dual nature of light and darkness, appearing vastly different to different people. Chu Qingtian could only feel the silent terror of the Angel Holy Sword seemingly trying to cast him into hell, while Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and the others saw the Angel Holy Sword's deeply stirring radiant holiness!

The crystal-like gilded longsword had a slender blade, like transparent glazed glass inlaid with a spine of brilliant gold.

The blade was fierce, while the sword's body resembled the slender waist of an unparalleled beauty, possessing countless charms and peerless splendor!

That streak of gold transformed into incomparably intense killing intent in Ling Bai's hand. The sword's momentum was magnificent and vast, and the edge of the Angel Holy Sword annihilated all things!

"Holy... fuck!"

"This is fucking level forty-one?"

"You're sweating now, aren't you, Brother Chu!"

"That's enough, damn it, I feel sorry for him!"

Shouts and cries rang out without end, most of them coming from the other four new inner courtyard students. The cute auxiliary-system girl in particular was scared silly. With the terrifying pressure Ling Bai and the Angel Holy Sword displayed, let alone a mere Fourth Level Soul Engineer like her, even a Fifth Level Soul Engineer would absolutely be unable to withstand it!

Her desire to fight, her regret over not being chosen by Ling Bai, and everything else vanished like smoke in that instant. Only one emotion remained in her heart.

Relief!

Relief that the Angel Holy Sword was not pointed at her!

On the other side, Tang Ya kept shouting, "Wow! Holy crap!" When Ling Bai killed the Blazing Bone Dragon Vulture, she had been absorbed in absorbing her soul ring. This was the first time she had witnessed the Six-Winged Angel with her own eyes. It was simply...

So cool!

Seeing his girlfriend instantly turn into a fangirl, Bei Bei felt slightly jealous. If it had been anyone else, he would not have cared, but Ling Bai...

He was nervous!

"Director Du, what's going on? How can the academy have a Six-Winged Angel?"

Zhang Lexuan's willow brows furrowed slightly. As the Eldest Senior Sister of the inner courtyard, she understood Ling Bai's true combat level from that single Evil-warding Slash alone.

"I'm not sure either, but he is a disciple of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. I've read the recommendation letter from the sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. His identity is absolutely safe!" Du Weilun said with a bitter smile.

He had only known Ling Bai for an hour longer than Zhang Lexuan had. Other than knowing that he came from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he knew nothing else.

Du Weilun smiled bitterly to himself. Feng Ya, we haven't seen each other in years. Where did you find a Six-Winged Angel...

"It seems the inner courtyard is about to welcome a true Peerless Tang Sect monster."

Zhang Lexuan stroked her delicate chin with her jade-like hand, an inscrutable look in her eyes.

Evil-warding Slash howled through the air, leaving a chain of golden afterimages behind it. Chu Qingtian's advance came to an abrupt halt. In his haste, he only had time to cross his arms before his chest and unleash his third soul skill!

Countless arcs of electricity swirled and surged forth. Chu Qingtian transformed into a massive Z-shaped bolt of lightning. The acceleration effect from Rapid Lightning remained active, but when Evil-warding Slash descended, the burst of sword energy cleaved the Z-shaped lightning into scattered fragments!

"Oh?"

Ling Bai let out a soft sound of surprise. The specks of lightning that fell to the ground did not dissipate. Instead, they gathered together, piling up layer upon layer until they formed human figures composed of lightning.

Chu Qingtian, a character who had briefly appeared in Peerless Tang Sect, did not seem so simple after all.

Ling Bai had thought Chu Qingtian would not even be able to withstand one slash.

If Ling Bai was only slightly surprised, then Chu Qingtian was purely overwhelmed by the relief of surviving a disaster. Fortunately, his third soul skill was special—otherwise, he really would have gone down in one strike!

The Lightning Maniac Panther's third soul skill, Lightning Transformation!

It transformed him into a lightning element, granting immunity to physical damage and allowing him to avoid most energy damage!

A divine life-saving skill!

This was especially true for agility-attack soul masters. With their naturally weak defenses, they needed every possible way to survive in battle or war.

Only the living could deal damage—the same was true in reality and in games!

I absolutely cannot tarnish Shrek's reputation!

Chu Qingtian understood that even with a slight advantage in Soul Power, he was still no match for Ling Bai. The difference between their martial souls and soul skills was as vast as a chasm!

Today, he stood on the assessment grounds as the Shrek inner courtyard's representative in testing an outsider. Losing was not something he could not accept. He could lose, but he could not lose without dignity!

Second Soul Skill, Lightning Shadow!

The human figures formed from the scattered lightning suddenly moved. Lightning Shadow was not as rare or powerful as Lightning Transformation, but it was still a practical soul skill. Its essence was to use lightning elements to create clone phantoms. The phantoms possessed twenty percent of Chu Qingtian's abilities, and they allowed Chu Qingtian to switch positions with them. With his four-ring cultivation, Chu Qingtian could create at most four Lightning Shadows!

Including his true body, it became five against one!