MTLNOVEL Chapter 66: Chapter 69: Shattering Their Defenses
A hundred-thousand-year soul ring?
Including the old man clutching a chicken leg, all the Shrek Academy faculty members on the high platform and the new students in the assessment area stood up, their expressions incredibly rich.
A three-ring Soul Elder actually possessed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring!
They had originally thought that a Soul Ancestor with four soul rings that were all ten-thousand-year was already beyond their expectations. They never imagined that the unknown girl in Huo Yuhao's team was still hiding such a hand.
Chang Cheng'an's team of three on the opposite side felt the oppressive feeling brought by the hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and for the first time, a trace of apprehension and even fear grew in their hearts. But they still held on to a sliver of hope. Perhaps this is just another gimmick created by Huo Yuhao's simulation skill? After all, according to common sense, it was impossible for a three-ring soul master to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, skipping ranks.
"Elder Xuan, what on earth is..." This was also the first time Wang Yan had noticed Huo Yuhao's team. Previously, his attention had always been on Wang Dong's side. The four-ring Xie Huanyue was already a well-known special existence. Regardless of whether his teammates were a burden, it was indeed not difficult for a team led by a Soul Ancestor to break into the top eight or even the top four.
What if his teammates are also heaven-defying existences? Then this new student assessment would be completely a one-team performance show!
Wang Yan didn't even dare to look at Huo Yuhao, who had maintained one ring all this time. This guy, who had likely been hiding until now, could he also have some heaven-defying ability?
"This year's new students are indeed a rare grand occasion not seen in thousands of years!" Elder Xuan's expression became solemn for the first time. Not only had two four-rings and several prodigies with soul ring ratios that surpassed the age limit appeared, but even a hundred-thousand-year soul ring had popped out. With his eyesight, he didn't even need to investigate closely. Just by sensing it, he could feel the oppressive feeling that belonged to the hundred-thousand-year level.
In the arena, both sides immediately took action. Chang Cheng'an instantly completed his martial soul possession. His first soul ring lit up. First Soul Skill, Golden Body.
Don't be fooled by the fact that his martial soul was a wolf-type that leaned towards agility-attack. His first soul skill could amplify his defense to an extremely terrifying level. An ordinary two-ring power-attack type battle soul master couldn't even break his defense.
At the same time, his second soul ring lit up one after another. Second Soul Skill, Wolf King's Taunt. This was a spiritual-type soul skill that disrupted the enemy's attack target, capable of transferring all of the opponent's locked attack targets to himself.
Xie Huanyue had long been impatient and rushed over. He used his first and second soul skills at the same time. A large amount of steam rose from his red skin surface. With a swing of his hand, he threw an instantaneous punch that smashed into Chang Cheng'an's chest, forcing him back several steps.
Feeling the fiery pain in his chest, only then did Chang Cheng'an personally experience the terrifying attack power of a four-ring power-attack type soul master.
"First Soul Skill, Illusory Shadow Pounce." Seeing that Chang Cheng'an's defense was not enough to resist Xie Huanyue's offensive, Gu Xiaoli also activated her soul skill. Her Shaking Gold Hammer martial soul was surprisingly a pair of large hammers, which looked particularly eye-catching when swung by a delicate girl like her.
She was seen swinging the large hammers, and three ethereal rays of light left the hammers and landed on the three of them. The figures of the three also gradually became blurry. This was clearly an auxiliary-type soul skill that could bring a great evasion boost to their own side, allowing Chang Cheng'an, as the taunt unit, to evade some of the attacks he couldn't block to the greatest extent.
However, this was completely ineffective in front of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing.
"Rubber—Gatling!" Xie Huanyue charged forward again. His randomly extending limbs punched out at an extremely fast speed, creating the illusion of countless fists attacking.
"Don't even think about it!" Pei Xiaoqi roared angrily. As the control soul master in the team responsible for restraining the opponent's close-combat type soul masters, he absolutely could not let Xie Huanyue unleash all his attacks.
His martial soul was a claw-type tool martial soul, the Ghost Claw. His second soul skill activated, Myriad Poisons Devouring Heart.
Several cyan-purple rays of light shot out from the tips of Pei Xiaoqi's claws. As long as one was hit by this light on the skin, a potent poison would instantly spread throughout the body, causing paralysis and poisoning, leaving one with no strength to fight.
"Amaterasu!" How could Huo Yuhao let his control skill be used on Xie Huanyue? He immediately condensed his soul power in his left eye and directly ignited a wave of pitch-black fire in front of Xie Huanyue, swallowing and incinerating all the light rays shot from the tips of Pei Xiaoqi's claws.
Xie Huanyue's flurry of punches finally smashed into Chang Cheng'an's body. The exceptional attack power of a four-ring Soul Ancestor almost crushed his flesh, which had been strengthened by his first soul skill. His entire person was sent flying backward.
"Save Chang'an!" Seeing her teammate being hit, Gu Xiaoli hurriedly shouted to Pei Xiaoqi.
"First Soul Skill, Healing Sacred Hand." Pei Xiaoqi dared not be negligent. He flashed behind Chang Cheng'an, slapped his hands on his back, and stopped his flying body. A thick life aura enveloped the latter, and his bloody and mangled chest recovered to its original state at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"They even have a healing-type soul master!" Huo Yuhao's expression was surprised, but his hands did not slow down in the slightest. He gripped his Soul-Slaying Blade and swung down at the two of them.
Not far away, Gu Xiaoli swung her twin hammers, and her second soul ring immediately lit up. "Second Soul Skill, Group Confusion!"
Xie Huanyue, who was charging forward, suddenly felt his head spin. Huo Yuhao's spiritual sharing was interrupted. Everyone in his vision turned into Chang Cheng'an. For a moment, he couldn't tell where the latter was and could only swing his fists wildly.
"Damn it!" Huo Yuhao suddenly felt a vicious wind coming at him. It was precisely the fist that Xie Huanyue had swung wildly. He had to raise the flat of his Soul-Slaying Blade to block it, and his entire person was knocked back several meters.
Among the three of them, Xie Huanyue's spiritual power cultivation was undoubtedly the lowest. Once the spiritual sharing was forcibly interrupted, control-type spiritual soul skills had a considerable restraining effect on him.
"First Soul Skill, Multi-Body Charm." Cui Yejie used her evolved charm soul skill for the first time. Amidst the rising clouds and mist, countless enchanting and angry Gu Xiaolis, barely clothed, appeared in front of Chang Cheng'an's team of three.
Even the referee at the side couldn't help but have a disgraceful nosebleed.
Chang Cheng'an was mesmerized, completely unaware that Huo Yuhao had already closed in and struck with his blade. The sharp Soul-Slaying Blade immediately opened a shallow cut on his chest. In pain, he leaned against Pei Xiaoqi behind him and retreated repeatedly, letting Pei Xiaoqi continue to use his first soul skill to heal his wound.
Cui Yejie raised both her palms, and her second soul skill, Annihilating Gray Bone, took the opportunity to activate. Several bone spurs shot out from her palms, forcing Gu Xiaoli to have to swing her hammers to block, and her second soul skill was thus forcibly interrupted.
Huo Yuhao wasn't idle either. Relying on the flash step skill that his Death God martial soul brought him, he circled around to the back of Pei Xiaoqi. As long as this healing-type soul master was still around, Chang Cheng'an could continuously recover his injuries and tank their attacks.
Clang!
Pei Xiaoqi had nowhere to dodge and placed his Ghost Claw horizontally in front of him to block. He forcibly took Huo Yuhao's full-power slash, and the Ghost Claws on the back of his hands broke with a sound.
With his martial soul damaged, Pei Xiaoqi violently spat out a mouthful of blood, his expression instantly becoming listless. He was grabbed by Chang Cheng'an and turned around.
And then he saw Xie Huanyue's sandbag-sized fist.
With a flash of light, the supervising teacher pulled the powerless Pei Xiaoqi out. If he had let Xie Huanyue's rain of fists smash onto him, Pei Xiaoqi would have been skinned alive, if not killed.
"Third Soul Skill, Golden Rebound!"
With Pei Xiaoqi's body being pulled away from the field, Xie Huanyue's attack naturally fell back on Chang Cheng'an, forcing him to have to use his third soul skill, which consumed the most energy.
The fist smashed onto Chang Cheng'an's body, and at the same time, a multiplied reactive force was fed back to himself. Xie Huanyue's entire person was also sent flying backward.
This skill was surprisingly a divine skill that reflected attacks.
Just as Chang Cheng'an fell into the dangerous situation of a joint pincer attack from Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue, Gu Xiaoli was also entangled by Cui Yejie, who had activated her third soul skill, Sage Fox Outer Armor. Her only offensive third soul skill, Thousand-Jun Power, was completely helpless against Cui Yejie, who was draped in outer armor and engaged in close combat.
This was the absolute gap between a ten-thousand-year soul skill and a hundred-thousand-year soul skill!
No one would have thought that Chang Cheng'an's team was actually a combination of one defense, one control, and one auxiliary. Without a power-attack type battle soul master meant that they actually didn't have very strong offensive means. But with their exquisite cooperation and Chang Cheng'an's unsolvable taunt and super armor, countless new student teams could only end up being miserably defeated by them in frustration.
The match had only just begun, and Chang Cheng'an's group had pretty much used all their trump cards. If they were facing ordinary new students, they could still wear down their opponents with the Golden Body taunt and Gu Xiaoli's group control means. But the attack power of Xie Huanyue and Huo Yuhao was simply too high. One was pure, ultimate striking power, and the other possessed the indestructible sharpness of a tool martial soul.
It had to be said, Chang Cheng'an's team was indeed exquisite in their cooperation. It was just a pity that their opponents far exceeded the limit they could handle. Their defenses were directly and completely broken.
The battle finally came to an end. Chang Cheng'an could no longer withstand Xie Huanyue's desperate, frantic attacks. His golden, solid body was finally crushed by a giant fist from Xie Huanyue's third soul skill, Bone Balloon. His skin tore apart piece by piece, dripping with blood.
Everyone looked at the miserable Chang Cheng'an in the field and couldn't help but suck in a cold breath. Even Gu Xiaoli, who had the lightest injuries, was grabbed by the leg by Cui Yejie, swung around, and smashed violently onto the ground. In the end, she was thrown out like a broken sack and was caught in the arms of Elder Xuan, who had flashed over.
"You kids, how can you not know how to hold back?" Elder Xuan carefully inspected the Gu Xiaoli in his arms and found that her body had already suffered multiple fractures. He muttered in dissatisfaction.