Yao Haoxuan and Ling Luochen naturally would not just stand there foolishly. At the same time Xiao Hongchen erupted, Yao Haoxuan unhesitatingly stood at the very front. Soundwave Interference, Soundwave Oscillation, Soundwave Barrier—his three great soul skills were used at the same time, raising his field control ability to its strongest state. As a disciple of the Shrek inner court, and even more so under the watchful eyes of all, he absolutely could not retreat.
"Ice Prison!"
Countless layers of ice walls suddenly rose from the ground, superimposing layer upon layer with the two of them as the center. This was Ling Luochen's ultimate defense ability with her ice element after it had been weakened from Ultimate Ice.
After using this move, Ling Luochen also completely lost her combat power and was signaled by Yan Shaozhe's eyes for the Heaven-Shaking Douluo to lead her out.
Even if they only saved Yao Haoxuan, one control-type Soul King, when Dai Yueheng and the other two broke out of their predicament, the subsequent situation would be much more relaxed.
A real smile appeared on Xiao Hongchen's face. This was the first time he had displayed his full strength. Although this one strike was already the strongest he could personally achieve, he had absolute confidence that Yao Haoxuan could not block it. Even if he blocked it with the ice walls left by Ling Luochen, I'm afraid he would also be seriously injured. Although his soul power would be seventy to eighty percent consumed after this one strike, to be able to trade for two of the opponent's Soul Kings, he was already proud enough. What's more, he still had the ability to retreat with his whole body intact.
As the captain of the preparatory team, he was not only skilled in soul tools. His own martial soul was also not as weak as an ordinary soul tool master's. At the age of fourteen, he had reached the Soul King cultivation through various methods and had not left too many after-effects, precisely because his own martial soul was strong enough. More importantly, as described in the original novel, his martial soul could be said to be the most suitable in the world today to become a soul tool master and was also strong enough on its own.
The Three-Legged Golden Toad—this was Xiao Hongchen's martial soul. This extremely rare beast martial soul had an extremely special ability, and that was to control metal.
Among the four soul skills he had displayed before, the first and third, which were displayed at the same time, were respectively: Metal Control and Gold Condensation. The metal balls he had thrown out were actually one after another of soul tool cannon core formations, and those cannon barrels were all temporarily condensed by him through his control over the metal element. He always carried a large amount of metal powder with him. This metal powder, under his control, could be completely condensed into any form.
With such strong metal control ability, he was thus called the number one genius in the history of the Sun Moon Empire!
Xiao Hongchen's overall combat power was not much inferior to Ma Rulong's. Once he was allowed to catch up to Ma Rulong in cultivation, then his strength would comprehensively surpass this captain.
The layers of ice walls surrounding Yao Haoxuan were almost instantly shattered under such a dense baptism of cannon fire. But Yao Haoxuan did not sit and wait for death either. The moment the ice walls shattered, relying on his soundwave interference, his sturdy body fiercely pounced towards the not-far-away Ma Rulong.
Ma Rulong, who had been aiming at him all along, naturally did not give up this opportunity. The golden cannon barrel on his shoulder fiercely trembled. The previously unstoppable golden-red light once again lit up, shooting towards the rushing Yao Haoxuan with anger.
Facing this terrifyingly powerful soul tool ray, Yao Haoxuan did not immediately dodge. The Heaven-Shaking Ape he had transformed into, to everyone's surprise, opened its great, basin-like mouth towards Ma Rulong. His fifth soul ring's black light shone greatly. The golden-red light submerged into his mouth and then there was no more movement.
Devouring Abyss! Yao Haoxuan had finally displayed the divine skill he had hidden until now. This devouring skill could instantly swallow an opponent one rank higher than himself, causing them to completely lose all combat power for a certain period of time.
"Captain!" Seeing that Yao Haoxuan's abyss-like great mouth was about to completely swallow Ma Rulong, the thruster under Mika's feet burst out with astonishing propulsion. He pushed the Ma Rulong beside him far away with one hand, but exposed himself to Yao Haoxuan's direct attack.
"Mika—" Ma Rulong was almost going crazy, but it was already too late for him to stop it. The focused-energy soul tool piercing cannon just now had almost consumed more than eighty percent of his soul power. If not for Mika sacrificing himself to save him, he would not even have been able to avoid Yao Haoxuan's life-risking strike.
The next moment, Mika disappeared into Yao Haoxuan's great mouth. And Xiao Hongchen's firepower also immediately poured all over his body.
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo flashed and arrived at Yao Haoxuan's side. With Yan Shaozhe presiding over Shrek, how could he dare to let a contestant from Shrek have an accident? He directly teleported the Yao Haoxuan, who was in a desperate situation, out of the competition.
Below the stage, Yao Haoxuan's face was as pale as paper. Swallowing that one piercing cannon from Ma Rulong was also not so easy to bear. His huge body dry-heaved, and he spat out the Mika he had just swallowed.
Although Mika had not lost his life, many of his bones were dislocated and shattered. It was clear that he could no longer participate in the subsequent battles.
At this point, the participating members of both the Sun Moon team and the Shrek team had each lost four of their seven. The current situation on the field had become a three-on-three.
All the spectators were shocked beyond words by this wonderful and unparalleled final. As expected of a competition between the two great favorites to win the championship. Their trip was not in vain at all!
Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen's consumption was excessive, their existing soul power less than one-tenth. And the Shrek side was not much better either. In order to break out of the blockade of the Thunder Prison as soon as possible, Dai Yueheng and Qi Zhu had gone all out with their firepower. Gongyang Mo had also done his utmost to provide them with amplification. The three of them had also consumed no small amount.
At this time, the only variable on the field was the Meng Hongchen in the Sun Moon team who had not participated much in the battle from beginning to end. What her abilities and fighting style were, for the current Shrek, was still an unsolved mystery.
At this moment, Dai Yueheng no longer needed to hold back anything. The three great ultimate amplifications of the White Tiger's heritage were on his body. Gongyang Mo at the same time also applied the last trace of his soul power amplification on him. Dai Yueheng held the level-eight close-combat soul tool, the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade. At this moment, his combat power had completely reached the level of a Soul Sage.
And Xiao Hongchen and his sister Meng Hongchen at this time also felt a huge pressure from Dai Yueheng. The White Tiger Soul Sage before them, whose momentum was like a rainbow, even more so caused their belief in certain victory to suffer a huge blow.
"Sister, let's do it! Let's end them. We can't hesitate anymore," Xiao Hongchen shouted in a deep voice.
Meng Hongchen said with some hesitation, "But, the subsequent matches..."
Xiao Hongchen said proudly, "Don't we have anyone else on the Sun Moon team? Let them see the strongest attack of us siblings! This match, we cannot lose! If we win against them by ourselves, we will be the glory of the academy, the heroes of the empire."
As he spoke, all the soul tools on Xiao Hongchen's body suddenly disintegrated and fell. The soul tools themselves turned into metal powder. He didn't even care about the core formations that fell to the ground, but instead opened his arms to his own sister.
The slender sword in Meng Hongchen's hand then disappeared. She turned around and threw herself into Xiao Hongchen's embrace. In an instant, a pillar of light mixed with gold and ice-blue shot up to the sky, instantly submerging their bodies within.
"Not good," Dai Yueheng, who had been used to seeing his younger brother and Zhu Lu's this action since he was young, was extremely familiar with this scene before him. That was clearly the precursor to a martial soul fusion skill being cast! They had already estimated the Xiao Hongchen siblings very highly, but they had never thought that they, as soul tool masters, could actually display a martial soul fusion skill, and had even displayed it at this most critical moment.
That was a martial soul fusion skill cast by two Soul Kings!
"Stop them!" Dai Yueheng roared angrily. Qi Zhu did not dare to be negligent. A soul tool that appeared very bloated suddenly appeared under his crotch. He rode on it, looking exceptionally comical.
The Hog Sunset Cannon. As Qi Zhu's strongest attack method, it was similar to a soul tool turret and could burst out with a strike comparable to a Soul Emperor's limit in an instant. He had named it "Riding a Hog to Watch the Sunset." A real man never looks back at an explosion. After one cannon shot, he could even ride this soul tool to quickly get away.
Ma Rulong knew that the other side wanted to stop the Xiao Hongchen siblings' martial soul fusion skill. As the captain, he took it upon himself to stand before the two. Ma Rulong knew very well that if he were to let Dai Yueheng and Qi Zhu stop the Priceless Love, their Sun Moon team would have no more chances in this team battle. At this time, a thick blue-purple cannon barrel instantly appeared on his shoulder. The next instant, it had already erupted with a thick blue-purple light.
The blue-purple electric light that spewed out from the cannon barrel in Ma Rulong's hand did not directly bombard the three members of Shrek but instead bombarded the ground in the center of the competition stage.
In an instant, a blue-purple light wall hung there, blocking Dai Yueheng's path. The most formidable part of this level-six soul tool of Ma Rulong's was that once it was touched, then it would be like a fly touching a spider's web, directly being stuck to it. All the lightning energy would instantly roll back and envelop his body within.
However, what he had not expected was that Dai Yueheng's rapidly charging figure had stagnated at the same time the lightning light screen had appeared. One moving and one still, it looked very abrupt. And then the fourth soul ring on Dai Yueheng's body lit up.
Damn it, it's the White Tiger Meteor Shower again. Ma Rulong cursed silently in his heart at this soul skill that had intercepted their soul tool firepower many times. Just as his face changed greatly, the blue-purple light wall then shattered.
Ma Rulong's two hands hurriedly clapped together in front of him. A thick golden light flashed. The light of the soul rings on his body flashed one after another. While his own momentum was rapidly increasing, the previous golden cannon barrel disappeared, replaced by a golden-red greatsword.
A close-combat soul tool? Ma Rulong actually gave up on long-range attacks and switched to a close-combat soul tool?
This greatsword was appearing for the first time in this year's tournament. It wasn't until this moment that Ma Rulong had revealed his trump card.
He's using it so soon? Huo Yuhao's eyes narrowed slightly. This soul tool was the top-grade among level-eight close-combat soul tools, countless times stronger than the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade in Dai Yueheng's hands.
Ma Rulong held the hilt of the golden greatsword with both hands and slowly raised the greatsword. A thick golden light was emitted from the sword's body. It could be seen that from the tip of the sword all the way down to the hilt, there were a total of nine core formations. A thick golden light sparkled, and one after another of lights continuously burst out in the air. He raised the greatsword high above his head. His two pupils had actually also gradually turned golden.
"Awaken, Judgment Blade," Ma Rulong shouted. His own soul power was injected into the greatsword at an astonishing speed. Because he was injecting his soul power too violently, one could even see circles of white halos continuously rising from under his feet, passing through his entire body, and finally converging at his hands to be injected into the greatsword.
And the greatsword, shining with a golden light, also began to change. Starting from the hilt, the golden light rapidly converged and gradually turned into two colors. One side of the sword's spine turned white, while the other side turned black. The two contrasting colors, in the golden light it itself was blooming with, had a somewhat strange feeling.
"He is darkness. Convict the heretic," Ma Rulong held the greatsword with both hands and pointed it in Dai Yueheng's direction, at the same time turning the black side of the blade to face Dai Yueheng.
In an instant, a black light flashed in the air and disappeared.
Dai Yueheng's entire body's protective light shone brightly. But when the black light arrived, all his defenses were actually useless. The black light just flashed and merged into his body.
In an instant, Dai Yueheng felt a strange feeling in his body. The originally bright golden white tiger fur had actually turned black in an instant. A dark, cold feeling spread throughout his entire body. Even the hostile energy in his body surged out and condensed with the black soul power, with a great feeling of about to lose control.
What kind of soul tool is this? Dai Yueheng was truly shocked. This was the first time he had seen such a strange situation. Was the attack of the opponent's soul tool simply impossible to defend against?
And just at this time, the greatsword in Ma Rulong's hand flipped over. The white side burst out with a strong, incandescent white color. A golden sword light also instantly shone with an extreme light aura, instantly sweeping across the entire field.
Dai Yueheng let out a miserable cry. The black light on his body actually began to show large patches of atomization. At the same time, his entire person also felt as if he were about to be decomposed by the power of light.
A trace of a smug look appeared on Ma Rulong's face. The trap he had laid before had finally succeeded.
This Judgment Blade in his hand was a combination of darkness and light, able to instantly merge into the enemy's soul power with the power of darkness, causing the enemy to become an uncontrollable dark attribute, and at the same time, judging the opponent with its own powerful light attribute. When encountering a low-strength enemy, it could instantly disintegrate the opponent's soul power, and even completely destroy them under the light aura of the Judgment Blade.
Ma Rulong was just a level-six soul tool master. To use this level-eight Judgment Blade also required paying a great price. What Dai Yueheng couldn't see was that at this time, behind Ma Rulong, a blood-red core formation was flashing at the position of his back. A thick blood flame was burning.
That was the power of a level-seven soul tool, named the Chapter of Sacrifice. With Ma Rulong's own life force and potential as a sacrifice, it would instantly improve his body's strength and soul power intensity to support the needs of the Judgment Blade. Of course, he could not last for too long. But as long as he defeated Dai Yueheng, it was enough.
Of course, Ma Rulong knew that even if he would have no more combat power in the subsequent team battle, relying on the martial soul fusion skill of the Xiao Hongchen siblings was also enough to achieve victory. However, just like Dai Yueheng, he was absolutely unwilling for the one to finally decide the victory to be a teammate and not himself. What's more, he was the captain of the Sun Moon team.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to pay the price of his cultivation being unable to advance an inch for the next year and his vitality being greatly damaged, to display this Judgment Blade produced from the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
The only time this Judgment Blade was ineffective was when facing an opponent with a single light-attribute or dark-attribute martial soul. But the Evil-Eyed White Tiger was a multi-attribute of light and evil mixed.
Listening to Dai Yueheng's miserable cry, Ma Rulong only felt that everything he had paid was worth it. An indescribable pleasure instantly spread throughout his entire body. Partners, the captain is going to avenge you!
Below the stage, Yan Shaozhe's gaze instantly turned cold. What he could sense was that Dai Yueheng's aura had gradually transformed from its original fierceness to dark and evil. If one were to say that his younger brother Dai Huabin had only obtained a dark-attribute soul skill after absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's soul ring, then Dai Yueheng's martial soul had completely mutated into an evil Dark White Tiger.