"Ten... a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring!"
Countless Sun Moon students squeezed their voices into thin threads, their eyes wide as bells as they stared without blinking at that dazzling blood-red Soul Ring. The overwhelming ferocity of the hundred-thousand-year Saint Sun Heavenly Spirit Tiger swept across the entire arena, making the phantom of the Six-Winged Angel appear sacred and inviolable.
"This is over the limit! Way over the limit!"
"He can instantly defeat Soul Engineers of the same rank with just a sword, and now he's even using his Spirit..."
"There's no way to fight him at all..."
Some held their foreheads and sighed, while others shook their heads with bitter smiles. Everyone present was a favored prodigy of the continent's number one Soul Engineer Academy, and they had always held themselves in high regard.
Though they had never defeated Shrek Academy, they understood that Shrek was already in decline, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was a rising sun. Before long, they would surely wash away their past humiliation.
Yet today, the Sixth Level Soul Engineers they had painstakingly trained—the cream of the crop among three geniuses—had seen the first two suffer crushing defeats, while the third had been frightened out of his wits and did not even dare enter the arena.
The Sun Moon students in the stands trembled with fury, wishing they could rush down and give Ling Bai a real challenge. But when they looked at that figure wielding the Angel Holy Sword, his aura spanning heaven and earth, they could only stay honestly seated. The "genius Soul Engineers" Ling Bai had praised and mocked in equal measure were like slaps viciously landing across their faces.
Ling Bai stood proudly at the center of the Zero Test Arena. After waiting a long time without seeing another