Chapter 48: A Swift Strike Decides the Outcome
"What did you tell me two weeks ago?"
Lei Bao frowned, confused at first, then suddenly froze as if struck by lightning.
"You finished that thing?"
Yu Tianlin smiled and nodded, confirming his guess.
"Uncle Lei, you should head down first. The students under the stage are getting impatient."
Lei Bao glanced around. His sudden appearance had halted the match. No one dared shout at the vice dean, but the restless whispering and curious looks said enough.
"Fine, fine, continue." Lei Bao shook his head helplessly. "Let me see what you have been working on."
He stepped down from the arena and returned to the main platform nearby.
Only after confirming that Lei Bao had left did the referee raise his arm again.
"Match, begin!"
"You said you are not using your Martial Soul?"
Although the referee had announced the start, Hu Yanshi did not attack right away. He stared at Yu Tianlin with a mocking look.
"Kid, you are too arrogant."
Yu Tianlin and Lei Bao had not lowered their voices. The students below could not hear clearly because of the distance, but everything on the arena had been perfectly audible. Hu Yanshi, of course, had heard it all.
"Do not think you can look down on others just because you are from one of the three upper clans!" Hu Yanshi roared. "It is not like I have never defeated them before!"
With a bellow, he entered Spirit possession once more.
His nose extended forward, two one-foot-long fangs thrust out from the corners of his mouth, and his already massive body swelled again. A thick layer of dark yellow keratin covered his skin, gleaming with a metallic sheen under the sun. At the same time, two yellow Spirit Rings rose up beneath his feet.
As Hu Yanshi released his Martial Soul, voices immediately rose from the spectators.
"Tsk tsk, as expected of one of the seven great clans. That Diamond Mammoth really looks terrifying."
"Hu Yanshi just beat that Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon student. This new Thunder Academy kid will definitely lose too."
"You know nothing. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon cannot use dragon transformation below level thirty. If he could, he would have blasted Hu Yanshi's head off."
"Hey, why has that Thunder Academy guy still not released his Martial Soul?"
"Thousand Birds."
Ignoring the noise below, Yu Tianlin narrowed his eyes and guided his Spirit Power into his right palm.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle."
Blue white lightning suddenly burst from his hand. The crisp, piercing sound of a thousand birds chirping exploded across the arena, sending a chill down everyone's spine.
What is that?
"There are no Spirit Rings lighting up on his body. It is not a Spirit Ring skill. Could it be a self created Spirit Skill?"
The students below gasped in surprise.
"Good heavens, that brat actually came up with a self created Spirit Skill!"
On the main platform, Lei Bao's expression also changed.
"It looks like a powerful single target lightning current attack."
He shook his head slightly.
"It is a pity. This level of electricity still is not enough to defeat Hu Yanshi."
Just moments ago, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon student had bombarded Hu Yanshi with his second Spirit Skill, Thunderous Might, yet the damage had been minimal. After Spirit possession, the keratin layer covering Hu Yanshi's skin could effectively block this kind of lightning attack. Once his first Spirit Skill further strengthened his defense, the effect became even better.
"Hmph, just a bit of lightning. All flash, no bite."
Hu Yanshi was shocked at first when Yu Tianlin unleashed Thousand Birds, but once he realized it was "just" a powerful electric current, he relaxed and strode straight toward him, full of disdain.
"Interesting. Looks like Thousand Birds has been underestimated."
Watching Hu Yanshi swagger toward him without even activating his Spirit Skill at first, Yu Tianlin grinned, his gaze turning razor sharp.
"Underestimating your opponent comes at a price."
According to the rules, the match started with a twenty meter distance between them. With only a few heavy steps, Hu Yanshi had already closed nearly half of that, leaving ten meters between them.
Thousand Birds reached its peak when used as a high speed thrust over a distance of more than ten meters. Yu Tianlin judged the timing to be just right.
Wrapped in dazzling lightning, he lowered his body slightly, then exploded forward like a bolt of thunder.
In the blink of an eye, he crossed the ten meter gap and appeared right in front of Hu Yanshi.
"So fast!"
Hu Yanshi's mind went blank for a moment. His pupils shrank sharply as he finally registered the speed Yu Tianlin had unleashed. At such close range, he could clearly sense the danger radiating from that crackling right hand.
This is definitely not a simple electric attack.
Driven by instinct, Hu Yanshi hurriedly activated his first Spirit Ring. A glassy sheen suddenly coated the keratin on his skin.
First Spirit Skill, Iron Wall, increases defense by fifty percent.
"Even if it is useless, just break it."
Yu Tianlin saw the changes in Hu Yanshi's body, but did not care at all. He drove his right hand, wrapped in violent lightning, straight into Hu Yanshi's chest.
"Boom!"
With a thunderous crack, Hu Yanshi's three hundred jin body was blasted off his feet. He arced through the air like a sandbag and crashed heavily onto the arena more than ten meters away.
"Y you…"
He coughed twice, his trembling finger weakly pointing at Yu Tianlin. Then his head lolled to the side as he passed out.
The referee reacted first, immediately rushing to Hu Yanshi's side to check his condition.
When Hu Yanshi was sent flying, the entire arena fell silent.
The noisy crowd seemed to have had their throats grabbed. Only when the referee moved did the silence shatter, replaced by a wave of shocked exclamations.
"I am not seeing things, right? That was Hu Yanshi who flew out!"
"I did not even see clearly what happened. The battle ended in an instant, and Hu Yanshi was defeated in a flash!"
"That move was insanely fast, and its power was terrifying!"
Because the fight had been decided in a single exchange, many students who were not paying close attention had not even understood what happened. All they had seen was lightning, a bang, and Hu Yanshi lying on the ground.
After the referee finished his examination, he found that Hu Yanshi's injuries were not serious. He had simply fainted from the impact and the electric shock. The referee finally let out a sigh of relief and waved for the medical staff to come and carry him down for treatment.
"The winner is Yu Tianlin of Thunder Academy," the referee announced loudly. Then, following the usual procedure, he turned to Yu Tianlin and asked,
"Yu Tianlin, do you choose to step down or continue defending the arena?"
Yu Tianlin smiled, full of confidence.
"I choose to continue."
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