The participating members and order for the individual knockout matches of the two great academies were decided.
Because the team battle was too tragic, the vast majority of the official team members of both sides were already powerless or had no chance to participate. From the individual matches onwards, both sides had no choice but to use their preparatory team members.
On Shrek's side, the Evil Soul Emperor, Dai Yueheng, was arranged to go up first, then Xu Sanshi, and after that, Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, Cao Jinxuan, and Wang Dong, as well as Qi Zhu.
Without a doubt, the first five were the main force of the individual knockout match competition. Cao Jinxuan and Wang Dong could be completely considered as extras. Both of these brothers were only three-ring. For Wang Yan to place them in the lineup was also out of necessity. In terms of individual combat ability, among the official team members, only Dai Yueheng, who had just completed his martial soul mutation, and Qi Zhu could fight. The rest of the people had either exhausted their soul power or were seriously injured and clearly could not go on stage again in a short period of time.
Ma Rulong's previous consumption was also an overdraft. It was clearly impossible for him to go on stage again. The first to go up was the original official team member who had previously been replaced by Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, and then another official team member who had been replaced. After these two people were Xie Huanyue, Meng Hongchen, Cui Yejie, Xiao Hongchen, and Ju Zi. The reason for placing Meng Hongchen in a forward position had its own deep meaning.
"The individual knockout match begins. Will the first team members of both sides please enter the stage. Shrek Academy, Dai Yueheng. Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, Li Yan."
Li Yan, originally one of the seven official team members of the Sun Moon team. His ranking among the original seven official team members was at the back. His martial soul was the Li Fire, which had many impurities. If he purely cultivated his soul master ability, it would be very difficult to possess sufficiently powerful strength. He could not bring more soul power for continuous combat through his own martial soul, but he could, with the help of his own Li Fire, attach the aura of fire to all his soul tools through one after another of soul skills.
The moment both sides entered the stage, there was a feeling of enemies meeting with exceptionally red eyes. The Sun Moon team had already had three people die in battle! On normal days, they were all partners who cultivated and improved together. For them to be eternally separated just like that, how could the hatred in Li Yan's heart be any less?
Little did they know that Dai Yueheng's current situation had already exceeded the expectations of the Sun Moon team. When his martial soul, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, had mutated into the Dark White Tiger, the boundless fierceness and evilness in his heart had been completely revealed. At this time, he had only one thought in his mind, and that was to torture and kill the opponent before him!
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo did not have too many words. He signaled for the two to retreat. His face was very ugly. However, the most complicated team battle had already ended. He was confident that in the subsequent matches, he would have enough energy to monitor every collision between the two sides.
"The match begins!"
Accompanied by a loud shout from the Heaven-Shaking Douluo, Huang Jinxu, both sides had already made a move at the same time.
Li Yan swung his right hand upwards, and a thick soul tool cannon was instantly shouldered. Without even looking, he fired a cannon shot in Dai Yueheng's direction.
In an instant, a ball of fire the size of a human head flew straight for Dai Yueheng. The fireball in the air even brought a series of air explosions. Wherever it passed, the air was completely twisted.
His Li Fire was not strong, but through the compression and condensation of a soul tool, its power was still terrifying. To dissolve one's own soul power attribute into a soul tool meant that this soul tool he was using was made by his own hands.
Under normal circumstances, no matter who it was, when facing a soul tool attack, the first thought would be to dodge. The soul power after being compressed by a soul tool, its attack power was quite formidable.
However, Dai Yueheng did not do so. He directly took a big step and suddenly rushed towards his opponent. At the same time, his Dark White Tiger martial soul was also released.
The upright white tiger was covered in purplish-black fur. Its body shape was a little thinner compared to the Evil-Eyed White Tiger. Its two pupils had turned a scorching red. On its pair of tiger paws, the pitch-black nails were more than twice as long as before, emitting an extremely bloodthirsty aura.
A circle of a water-ripple-like black halo rapidly spread out from the tiger's body. At this time, Dai Yueheng, his entire person seemed to have turned the same black color. Facing the huge fireball, he made a domineering full action. A pair of tiger claws swept horizontally, directly striking the fireball.
Under normal circumstances, the power released by any soul tool weapon would immediately explode upon collision, let alone an attack that was itself of the fire attribute.
However, the situation before them overturned everyone's cognition. When Dai Yueheng's tiger claws struck the large fireball, the slender nails on the tiger claws flashed with a purple light, and the fireball was instantly torn open, without any explosion occurring.
And Dai Yueheng still strode forward rapidly. With his martial soul mutated to the Dark White Tiger state, his entire person's cultivation had a comprehensive improvement. Even his speed was much faster.
Li Yan's one cannon shot had missed, yet he was not flustered in the slightest. The width of this competition stage was a hundred meters. For Dai Yueheng to want to rush before him was not something that could be done in a short while.
One after another of metal cannon barrels instantly appeared on his body. One after another of strong lights continuously lit up. Not only that, but he had also switched to a huge cannon. But this cannon was not bombarding Dai Yueheng, but was bombarding the area above his head.
A huge fire net instantly descended from the sky, heading straight for Dai Yueheng to cover him.
This one strike, Li Yan had calculated the amount in advance. If Dai Yueheng continued to rush forward, he would surely be enveloped by this fire net. If he paused, then he would be held back by Li Yan for a sufficient amount of time, and more soul tools would also show their power. What Li Yan was waiting for was the opportunity for Dai Yueheng to be delayed by him. His continuous combat power was not strong, but his explosive power was quite formidable. The strongest explosion definitely had to be displayed at the most suitable time.
Just when everyone thought that Dai Yueheng would surely stop his steps and wait for the fire net to land, or go around it from the side, Dai Yueheng suddenly disappeared.
"Tiger Shave!"
The next moment, Dai Yueheng's figure directly appeared behind Li Yan. Even the Heaven-Shaking Douluo had not expected that Dai Yueheng's speed at that instant would actually surpass that of an ordinary agility-attack-type Soul Emperor!
The moment before, he had been holding his arms and waiting for Dai Yueheng to use the White Tiger Meteor Shower again to block the cannon fire from the other side. But now, Dai Yueheng had already appeared behind the other person.
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo once again did not have time to rescue him. Dai Yueheng directly lifted a leg and swept it towards Li Yan.
"Tiger Gale!"
As Dai Yueheng swept out with a whip leg, a horizontal cutting force appeared out of thin air. Before Li Yan could react, his upper body had already soared into the air. His body had actually been cut in two by Dai Yueheng's one leg!
"Li Yan—" The members of the Sun Moon team below the stage all cried out in sorrow. This was already the fourth one...
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo, who had finally arrived, held the upper half of Li Yan's body, his face a mixture of green and white. If one were to say that the team battle was too chaotic for him to rescue in time, then how had this one-on-one exceeded his expectations?
"Ahhh..." Li Yan let out a painful wail. A person without their lower body would not die on the spot, but this also meant that from now on, he would no longer have the ability to walk. His career as a soul tool master had also come to an end here.
Facing the glare of the Sun Moon team, Dai Yueheng emotionlessly stretched out a finger and pointed at them. "Next!"
Dai Yueheng's cruelty and ruthlessness undoubtedly shocked all the spectators present. This was also the first time they had seen this side of Dai Yueheng. This was clearly a demon who killed without batting an eye!
On the high platform, Dai Hao looked at his eldest son, who was showing his great skill on the field, from afar. A long-lost smile appeared on his face. No matter what Dai Yueheng became, as long as he was his son and could become his pride, that was enough.
A gentle, great force supported Li Yan's body and sent him off the competition stage. A healing-type soul master immediately rushed over to treat him.
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo glanced at Dai Yueheng with annoyance, then said in a deep voice, "Sun Moon team's second individual match member, Chen An, enter the stage. You, retreat." The last few words were to Dai Yueheng.
Chen An, one of the official members of the Sun Moon team. Martial soul, Flash Bird. Chen Fei's biological younger brother. The two were only a little over a year apart.
Compared to his brother, Chen An was only eighteen this year. To be able to represent the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy as an official team member at the age of eighteen, it was clear that he had a higher talent than his brother. However, he had only one such older brother, a blood relative whom he had always regarded as his goal.
Chen Fei was dead, died in battle under the Thunder Half-Moon Slash of Chen Zifeng and Xixi's joint forces. Chen An's eyes, from that moment on, had turned blood-red.
Li Yan had been defeated. The moment the Heaven-Shaking Douluo had spoken, he had already jumped onto the competition stage. His entire person was as if on fire, a layer of an invisible light sparkling.
Completely different from the fighting style of other soul tool masters, when the Heaven-Shaking Douluo Huang Jinxu had shouted "the match begins," he had already, like a real flash of lightning, rushed straight for the distant Dai Yueheng.
His speed was simply too fast. Chen An, in terms of speed, was even superior to his older brother. Even with the Heaven-Shaking Douluo's vision, at that instant, he had only seen that Chen An seemed to have a pair of short swords as weapons.
A distance of a hundred meters disappeared in almost just one breath. The mournful electric light flashed towards Dai Yueheng like lightning. Even the Heaven-Shaking Douluo had to raise twelve points of his spirit to be ready to terminate this match at any time.
The black light on Dai Yueheng's body was withdrawn into his body the moment his opponent rushed out. The solid muscles on his tiger body bulged. He made a move that seemed to have nothing to do with the competition.
"Steel Tiger!"
His entire person took half a step to the right. At the same time, his two arms made a blocking motion.
"Clang—" A golden light suddenly flashed past Dai Yueheng's tiger body, splashing a series of sparks. Then a series of explosions sounded on his skin.
Chen An was different from Chen Fei. He, Chen An, was a close-combat soul tool master. What he was good at was close combat, was killing in high speed. A powerful offensive-type close-combat soul tool plus his own super-fast speed, he was even stronger than an ordinary agility-attack-type Soul King.
However, his charged-up strike had actually made a sound of metal clashing on Dai Yueheng's body.
"How... is that possible?"
Chen An's eyeballs immediately widened. Wasn't Dai Yueheng a power-attack-type battle Soul Emperor? Why could he possess the defensive power of a defense-type Soul Emperor?
The Heaven-Shaking Douluo had wanted to make a move to stop Chen An from heavily injuring the overconfident Dai Yueheng. Seeing this strange scene, even he was stunned.
But just at this moment when the Heaven-Shaking Douluo was in a daze, one of Dai Yueheng's arms that was originally blocking in front of him fiercely swung out.
"Spear Tiger Finger!"
This one strike from Dai Yueheng was simply too fast, so fast that Chen An also did not have time to use his invincible protective shield. A tiger finger had already pierced through his right chest.
As Chen An's facial expression froze, his body also staggered back a few steps, and then crashed to the ground.
"Ah—" Below the stage, one after another of mournful cries sounded. The people of the Sun Moon team were going crazy. Led by their leading teacher, they were about to rush onto the competition stage.
The fifth one! This was already the fifth team member to have died in battle! How could this be? How could this be? Old Ma's heart was completely panicked. With five outstanding geniuses dead, how could he possibly explain to the academy when he went back!
Jing Hongchen's face was also twisted. He strode onto the stage in one step, pointed at the Heaven-Shaking Douluo's nose, and gave him a good scolding.
"What kind of referee are you being? How many of our Sun Moon team have died? What kind of referee are you? Find the reason in yourself! After so many matches, don't you have any idea whether you've saved anyone or not?"
As he spoke, Jing Hongchen raised his head and bowed slightly to His Majesty the Star Luo Emperor on the high tower, his face still full of anger. "Your Majesty, this old one submits an application. We want to change the referee!"