MTLNOVEL Chapter 69: Chapter 72: This Binbin is Just Lame
Forfeit? Hearing his words, Mu Jin almost fainted from anger.
"Huo Yuhao, is your Team Shi-Hi-Kai directly admitting defeat to your opponent?" Yan Shaozhe's face instantly showed displeasure, and he asked with a frown.
"Yes, Dean Yan. My two partners got their periods last night and are not feeling well today, so they won't be participating in the morning's match," Huo Yuhao said respectfully. A piece of soft flesh on his waist, however, was being pinched by Cui Yejie and twisted a full one hundred and eighty degrees.
At the side, Xie Huanyue pointed at himself with a look of utter astonishment. Do I look like someone who can get that thing?
"Ahem!" Yan Shaozhe was choked by his words. They were soul masters who cultivated soul power; their bodies had long been improved to be impervious to cold and heat. How could they possibly get that thing? If you're going to surrender, at least find a better excuse, right?
"Very well then. Team Shi-Hi-Kai forfeits. Team Ning Tian automatically advances to the finals," Yan Shaozhe announced faintly.
Wang Dong's team and Dai Huabin's team naturally also heard Huo Yuhao's excuse. Wang Dong knew about the ambiguous relationship between Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian's group of three. Seeing this, she couldn't help but pout. This guy really would do anything to win a smile from a beauty. Is he being fair to his companions?
Xie Huanyue and Cui Yejie naturally would not question Huo Yuhao's decision. That bit of glory from being the new student assessment champion was useless. The prize included was nothing more than a thousand-year soul bone.
The plan for all six of their future soul bones had long been drawn up by Huo Yuhao. For now, they looked down on the garbage soul bones awarded by the academy.
Since Huo Yuhao's side had given up their qualification for the finals, the audience's attention shifted to the impending clash between Dai Huabin's and Wang Dong's teams on the other side.
Mu Jin, on the viewing platform, could only place her hopes on Ning Tian's group of three at this point, while internally cursing Huo Yuhao's team a thousand times over.
On the other side, the match between the two great teams of Dai Huabin and Wang Dong was about to begin.
Both sides walked onto the stage. Before they even stated their names, a strange smell of gunpowder had already spread.
"Who is Cao Jinxuan?" Dai Huabin raised his head to look at the three people opposite him and questioned coldly.
"Who gave you the courage to directly call this great one's name?" Cao Jinxuan took a step forward, facing him without the slightest fear.
"You... very good!" Dai Huabin revealed a sinister smile, his killing intent completely exposed.
"This is an assessment spar. Stop at a touch. You must not maliciously harm anyone," the referee could clearly feel the gunpowder in the air between the two sides and had to warn them.
Both sides stated their names. With a command from the referee, the six people instantly completed their martial soul possession. Especially when everyone's gaze fell on the four soul rings on Dai Huabin—two yellow, one purple, one black—they couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
Another four-ring!
Unlike Xie Huanyue's four black soul rings, which had their quality improved due to a second martial soul awakening, Dai Huabin's fourth soul ring was clearly one that had been genuinely absorbed beyond the limit.
Even the Chang Cheng'an that Huo Yuhao's team had faced earlier, his third soul ring had turned black because his martial soul had undergone a benign mutation.
But Dai Huabin's martial soul was still the previous Evil-Eyed White Tiger!
"The quality of this year's new students is truly beyond my expectations," Yan Shaozhe stood on the high platform and praised sincerely.
On the stage, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao flanked the striding Dai Huabin from the left and right. Every time the wings of the Radiant Butterfly Goddess bloomed, they would attract the eyes of countless people.
What was different from the original novel was that because there was no help from Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing, if Wang Dong wanted to get a good ranking in the assessment, he could not hide his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer.
Xiao Xiao also displayed the powerful offensive and defensive capabilities of her Three Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron. Three large cauldrons circled crazily around Dai Huabin, completely separating him from Zhu Lu, giving them no chance to use their martial soul fusion skill.
Wang Dong flapped the wings of the Radiant Butterfly Goddess, gripped the handle of the Clear Sky Hammer with both hands, and smashed down fiercely at Dai Huabin from above.
Seeing that Dai Huabin was surrounded by the two main forces of the enemy, Zhu Lu wanted to support him but was unable to break through the blockade of Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron for a short time and could only constantly try to find an opportunity.
And Cao Jinxuan had been paying attention to Ye Linlin at the very back. The soul skills of the Nineheart Begonia had always only been for healing, but its healing ability was heaven-defying. No matter what kind of heavy blow Dai Huabin suffered next, he could be completely restored through the healing of the Nineheart Begonia.
Bang!
Dai Huabin immediately activated his two amplification soul skills, the White Tiger Protective Barrier and the White Tiger Vajra Transformation. He sent Wang Dong, along with his hammer, flying with a single blow. Both sides had top-tier martial souls, and the gap in their soul power levels became apparent.
Wang Dong did a turn in mid-air and quickly adjusted his form. His second soul skill, the Butterfly God's Light, shot out from the golden light patterns on his wings.
"Useless! White Tiger Violent Light Wave!" Dai Huabin roared, and a blazing white light shot out from his mouth, meeting Wang Dong's second soul skill. Although the quality of his second soul ring was not as good as Wang Dong's, he won in the depth of his soul power and pushed the Butterfly God's Light back.
"Cauldron's Shock, Cauldron's Quake!" Seeing this, Xiao Xiao used her first and second soul skills in tandem. The three large cauldrons gathered and smashed into Dai Huabin, creating a ripple and successfully interrupting his second soul skill.
Dai Huabin, under the effect of two major amplification soul skills, was undoubtedly the most powerful existence among the four-ring Soul Ancestors. Xiao Xiao's cauldrons couldn't cause him any harm at all.
"Then let's start with you!" Dai Huabin revealed a sinister smile. A tiger claw shot out to block the Three Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron in front and was about to rush towards Xiao Xiao's position.
Seeing this, Xiao Xiao dared not be negligent and decisively switched her second martial soul. She raised her hands in front of her, and her temperament suddenly changed. A trace of gentleness appeared on her face. The two yellow soul rings on her body suddenly became one. The Three Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron floated above her head, and in her hand, she held an additional jade-green vertical flute.
The single soul ring quietly lit up, and a faint melody sounded. Although the melody was not very pleasant, it gave people a feeling of viscosity. A layer of jade-green halo also spread out from Xiao Xiao's body.
"A slowing control skill?" Dai Huabin immediately understood the use of this skill. He was not a speed-type soul master to begin with. Under the influence of this soul skill, his mobility was greatly reduced.
Wang Dong took the opportunity to smash down with the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, crashing it on Dai Huabin's head. The protective soul power was instantly shattered, and his entire person was sent flying away.
"Huabin!" Zhu Lu cried out in alarm and hurriedly rushed back to where Dai Huabin had landed.
Dai Huabin only felt a buzzing in his head. If not for the fact that he had already advanced to a four-ring Soul Ancestor and his physical body had been strengthened to an extremely high degree under the two major amplification soul skills, the referee would probably have intervened just now.
"Look, look at this Binbin! He got dizzy after just one hammer smash! He's really so lame!" Wang Dong couldn't help but mock.
"This Binbin is just lame!" Cao Jinxuan also pointed at Dai Huabin and laughed loudly, which made the people in the audience also laugh out loud.
Hearing this, Dai Huabin's face turned green and red. He pushed away Zhu Lu who was helping him up, and his entire person shot out like a cannonball. At the same time, his fourth soul ring lit up.
Is he finally going to use his fourth soul skill? Everyone on the viewing platform couldn't help but hold their breath. Among all the new students, there were only these two four-rings. That Xie Huanyue loved to hide his skills, which resulted in him not using his fourth soul skill even once. This time, they could finally feast their eyes.
Just then, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger martial soul behind Dai Huabin suddenly had its fur turn pitch black. Its pair of bright, upturned eyes suddenly turned into red pupils. A fierce and evil aura spread out, causing Xiao Xiao in front to have a slight change in expression.
"This... what kind of soul beast's soul ring skill did he absorb?" Yan Shaozhe shot up, his face serious as he turned to the Class Five head teacher, Pei Jue, at his side.
Pei Jue, on the other hand, had a proud look on his face. For this soul ring, he and Dai Huabin had spent a great deal of effort to kill that Dark-Devil God Tiger and forcibly absorb this soul ring, which caused its age to mutate, changing from the purple of a thousand years to the pitch black that symbolized ten thousand years.
This was also Dai Huabin's trump card for the last two matches of the assessment!
Fourth Soul Skill, Dark Meteor Shower!
A pitch-black pillar of light shot into the sky. In the center of the pillar of light, a crescent moon-like dark radiance faintly converged. Immediately after, dozens of balls of black light flashed from the top of the pillar of light and then instantly fell, smashing towards Cao Jinxuan's team of three.
Xiao Xiao hurriedly recalled her Three Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron to block in front of her, but with her two-ring cultivation, it was clearly like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. In less than two breaths, the three large cauldrons shattered into pieces, and her entire person coughed up a mouthful of blood and fell straight to the ground.
"First Soul Skill, Wings of the Goddess (Guillotine)!" Wang Dong, in mid-air, could only use his first soul skill to block. Even so, many of the meteor shower light balls still landed on him, and the powerful explosive force made him spray blood wildly.