"Hmph, hmph..."
This esteemed princess's eyes rolled back. Her whole body twitched, her delicate body trembling with a high frequency. Even though it was just an illusion, it had made her experience a month that felt like a year in her consciousness.
The ability of Tsukuyomi was displayed to its fullest in Huo Yuhao's hands. Even though only a few short minutes had passed, Xu Jiujiu had miserably suffered the conquest of the illusion from that year for a full month.
This was also the purpose for which Huo Yuhao had deliberately brought Xie Huanyue to participate in the competition. Only by personally experiencing the pain caused by Xie Huanyue's rubber attack could one easily empathize with this kind of fantasy.
Outside the absolute defense shield, after Cui Yejie had defeated the four great Soul Kings of the Star Luo National Academy team with one Soul Beast Cannon, the only two remaining Soul Kings suffered a devastating blow from the five girls.
Under Ju Zi's powerful fire cover, Cui Yejie, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er, who had received Ning Tian's full amplification, burst out with astonishing combat power, beating the last two Soul Kings until they could no longer get up. Among them, the most miserable was the agility-attack-type Soul King who had heavily injured Nanmen Yun'er. His kun-kun was roasted by Wu Feng's dragon fire.
Hearing the unbelievable sounds coming from his sister from within the protective shield, while the other members of the Star Luo team were defeated one after another, Xu Jiawei could no longer care about his status. He hurriedly spoke up to terminate the match. Receiving his order, the Heaven-Shaking Douluo broke open the main body bead of the absolute defense shield, which had been released by Princess Jiujiu herself, with one blow, revealing the three people inside.
When the audience discovered that the princess they had been longing for was being held in Xie Huanyue's hand, a wave of curses immediately sounded.
"What have you done to our princess?!"
"Is Her Highness the Princess alright?"
"Why is Her Highness the Princess in his hand?"
"Let go of the princess! Let me do it..."
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo complied with the will of the people. In almost a flash, he arrived in front of Xu Jiujiu, raised his palm, and fiercely chopped at Xie Huanyue's wrist, causing Xie Huanyue to loosen his giant hand that was holding the princess in pain.
How could Huo Yuhao not see that this Guardian Heaven-Shaking Douluo was deliberately retaliating? His eyes immediately turned cold, and he went up to support the Xie Huanyue who had retreated several steps.
Ju Zi and the other companions all gathered around, standing by Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue. They were about to act up but saw Huo Yuhao shake his head at them.
Through the magnified view of the soul tool screen, the audience could finally see the current state of Her Highness Princess Jiujiu clearly.
On Princess Jiujiu's body, not a single injury could be seen. She had just rolled her eyes back and fainted, just like those people whose consciousness had been shattered by Huo Yuhao's spiritual power before. This made the countless Star Luo citizens, who had been concerned about the princess's safety, immediately feel relieved. It seemed Huo Yuhao did not dare to maliciously harm Her Highness the Princess on their home ground.
Seeing that his own sister had not received any injuries, His Majesty the Star Luo Emperor finally let out a sigh of relief. Immediately, the referee also announced the result of this match.
"The first match of the semifinals, team battle. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy wins against the Star Luo National Academy," the Heaven-Shaking Douluo's lifeless, cold voice sounded, also announcing the end of today's competition.
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy had won!
Only the referee, who was close at hand and was supporting Xu Jiujiu's delicate body, had a very strange expression on his face.
For no other reason than that this princess's magnificent skirt was soaked through and emitted a strange smell. Coincidentally, this Heaven-Shaking Douluo had been a lonely old bachelor for many years and could not immediately judge the abnormality of the smell. He just thought that the princess had become incontinent after being impacted by Huo Yuhao's soul.
If the matter of the princess becoming incontinent from a spiritual power impact were to be said out loud, it would surely cause their Star Luo imperial family to lose face. So after reading out the result of the match, he immediately carried the pitiful princess to the imperial physician's room.
This match, from beginning to end, the overall time it took was not very long. Even the vast majority of the audience did not see the most exciting and also the most intense series of 'tutelage' processes in the absolute defense shield. However, the intensity of this match was definitely the most exciting and intense among all the team battles since the start of this year's tournament.
From the Star Luo National Academy completely controlling the rhythm of the match at the beginning, to the sudden reversal at the end, and the collective outbreak of the Sun Moon team, the entire process was not only tense and intense but also extremely exciting. Especially for the Huo Yuhao team members within it, even after the match was over, they were all still somewhat excited.
On Huo Yuhao's team's side, besides the weaker Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er, the rest of the members did not have any injuries. Nanmen Yun'er, whose injuries were more serious, immediately fainted after the match ended and was picked up by Huo Yuhao and brought back to the Sun Moon team's waiting area.
On the other hand, on the Star Luo National Academy's side, besides the four Soul Kings who had been sent flying by the Soul Beast Cannon, the rest of the people also did not receive too serious injuries. Even Her Highness the Princess had only been "knocked out" by Huo Yuhao's soul impact.
The situation of the Giant-Winged Vulture Soul King, whose wings had been shattered, was a little bad. His defensive ability relied on his two wings. With his wings heavily injured, it had wounded his soul master's origin. It could be said that among the seven main members of the Star Luo National Academy, at least four Soul Kings couldn't even think of continuing tomorrow's individual knockout match in a complete state. And under the situation of having lost one match first, if they wanted to turn the situation around, they still had to defeat the Sun Moon team in the individual knockout match.
However, the moment they thought of Huo Yuhao, who could instantly kill a Soul King by relying on his spiritual power, the Star Luo team could only choose to surrender.
They didn't want to be like the academy that had faced Huo Yuhao before, where one went up and one was carried down! Even if they wouldn't receive any injuries, that would still be too shameful. Without Her Highness Princess Jiujiu's Starshine Art amplification, it was absolutely impossible for them to block Huo Yuhao's soul impact, even with the spiritual protection helmet.
Jing Hongchen was naturally the happiest one in the entire venue. For no other reason than that he had personally witnessed the strength of Huo Yuhao's team. In these little fellows with an average age of no more than fifteen, he seemed to have seen a legend!
Because of Ju Zi's sake, Huo Yuhao's group had completely announced their joining of his Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy. In the future, they would truly possess exceptionally talented soul masters! A genius soul master paired with a soul tool—how could this not make Jing Hongchen ecstatic?
Jing Hongchen was even grateful to his past self for meeting Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi for the first time many years ago. If not for him going against all opinions to let Ju Zi join his Illustrious Virtue Hall, Huo Yuhao and the others would not have surrendered to his side. As for Shrek's wanted notice or whatever, how could he, Jing Hongchen, ever take it seriously? Even that Crown Prince with whom he had a close relationship, didn't he also raise a group of evil soul masters behind his back?
On Huo Yuhao's side, he had already carried Nanmen Yun'er back to the hotel. Wu Feng and Ning Tian were by his side, not saying a word. Ju Zi, Cui Yejie, and Xie Huanyue had gone back to their own rooms to recuperate due to excessive consumption.
One must know that at the very beginning, the three of them, as girls, had always stuck together. With Nanmen Yun'er suffering heavy injuries in the competition, how could they feel good in their hearts?
"This is a competition. Since you've stepped onto the stage, you have to be mentally prepared for injuries," Huo Yuhao glanced at Wu Feng, whose beautiful eyes were surging with anger, and said indifferently.
"If we only allow ourselves to injure and kill others, but don't allow others to injure us, wouldn't that be exactly the same as those pieces of trash from Shrek?"
"If you're injured, you can only blame your own lack of ability. Whether it's a one-on-one or being ganged up on, you can't blame others."
"I'm going back to cultivate!" Wu Feng fiercely gritted her teeth, turned her head, and left.
"Yuhao, I'll leave her to you," Ning Tian also followed and walked out of the room.
The two girls were both smart people and got the point at once. Huo Yuhao did not want them to become double-standard dogs like Shrek. When encountering problems and difficulties, one must first find the reason within oneself.
After all, this was just a boring one-on-one fight. Besides Shrek, the people from the other teams would not really deal a fatal blow. If they couldn't even solve a few peers who were only a few years apart in age, what would they use to face the gods in the future?
Huo Yuhao's consciousness sank into his spiritual sea. He casually looked at the pill formulas left by Xiao Huohuo and soon selected the formula and refining method for a first-grade pill.
A low-level fire he could produce. He himself had the wood attribute. He figured that refining a few first-grade pills to treat Nanmen Yun'er's injuries should not be a problem.
In terms of medicinal materials, the first thing Huo Yuhao thought of was the national treasury of the Star Luo Empire.
Through Tsukuyomi, Huo Yuhao had not only punished the members of the Xu family who had caused his mother's death but had also obtained a lot of useful information from Xu Jiujiu's memory, such as the location of the Star Luo Empire's national treasury.
The duchess who had caused Huo Yun'er's death was precisely a young daughter of the current Star Luo Emperor. Because the current emperor had not yet had a son, the few daughters before her naturally had not received the emperor's favor. The duchess, who had lacked love since she was young, after marrying Dai Hao through a political marriage, had used all means to suppress the other wives for the sake of her own status. Huo Yun'er, who was Dai Hao's childhood sweetheart, was the first to bear the brunt.
The reason why Huo Yuhao had used such means to deal with Xu Jiujiu was precisely because of his transferred anger. As the emperor's daughter, the duchess was naturally very familiar with her little aunt, Xu Jiujiu. The suggestion to eliminate the untimely threat of Huo Yun'er was precisely proposed by the half-grown Xu Jiujiu.
If the original Huo Yuhao were to know these inside stories, let alone cooperating, I'm afraid the ashes of this Star Luo imperial family would have to be scattered by him, right?
After tidying up his own emotions, Huo Yuhao gave Nanmen Yun'er a light kiss on the forehead and directly left using his Kamui space.
Star Luo National Treasury, here I come!
Huo Yuhao still remembered that before, Ning Tian had, at an auction manipulated by the imperial family, squandered a full six hundred million gold soul coins. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, after learning of this matter and being targeted by multiple factions, had immediately announced that they were expelling Ning Tian from the family.
Although Ning Tian hadn't shown anything, Huo Yuhao knew that if Ning Tian didn't have the ability to attract her own sect in the future, I'm afraid she would really not be able to go back.
From the moment Ning Tian had chosen to unconditionally support all of Huo Yuhao's actions, Huo Yuhao could no longer refuse this girl who had originally regarded herself so highly.
Even Nanmen Yun'er would most likely not be able to return to her home in Shrek City. Her family background was too ordinary and would surely be ruthlessly controlled by Shrek Academy.
From now on, he was no longer alone. No matter what kind of infamy he bore, he, Huo Yuhao, would have to fight for all benefits for these partners who had bet their future on him!
The transfer of the Kamui space was very fast. In less than half a shichen (one hour), Huo Yuhao had arrived before the main gate of the Star Luo Empire's underground national treasury.
The national treasury's main gate was right in the Star Luo Imperial Palace. Huo Yuhao, being in another dimension, would naturally not be blocked. Taking advantage of the night, he had easily arrived here.
At the same time, in the Imperial Physician's Pavilion, Her Highness Princess Jiujiu, who had been miserably conquered by Huo Yuhao's illusion for a month, finally slowly woke up.
She had not suffered any trauma, but her one-month experience in her consciousness was undoubtedly more painful than killing her.
She couldn't help but recall that scene. In that corner of the wall, the little boy who was fiercely held down by the soldiers...
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Author's Note: Readers who have seen the last chapter might feel it's excessive. With both sides in a hostile position, and the protagonist's setting being the Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult, and his personality in his past life also being the type to repay violence with violence, please do not be surprised. He is a person who is difficult to distinguish between good and evil. If the author always writes about him doing good deeds, then looking back at this book's introduction, you might feel a sense of fragmentation. After the tournament, the plot will also gradually turn into a dark stream. He is a demon king, not a campus savior.