MTLNOVEL Chapter 73: Chapter 80: You Dog Thief, You've Bullied My Yuhao Too Much
Dai Huabin's body was once again sent flying like a broken sack. Even as a four-ring, facing Xie Huanyue's furious offensive, he was utterly powerless to resist.
"How is this possible?" Zhu Lu, being toyed with in the palm of Huo Yuhao's hand, watched with wide eyes as Dai Huabin was sent flying again and again, blood streaming down, and despair gradually grew in her heart.
Countless people stared dumbfounded at the one-sided situation in the arena, unable to help but swallow. This Team Shi-Hi-Kai, apart from the first match where they were careless and had one member heavily injured by that Gou Luanshi's unknown means, all their other battles had been steamrolling victories. No one had ever seen them fall into a disadvantage.
On the high platform, Yan Shaozhe watched the clash between the two teams thoughtfully, silent. At his side, the vice-dean of the soul tool department, Qian Duoduo, was full of surprise. "I say, Old Yan, don't you think that this team is the one that has hidden the most in the entire new student assessment?"
"A joke. Their methods of hiding their skills are certainly brilliant, but how could they possibly fool me?" Yan Shaozhe's gaze remained fixed on Huo Yuhao. "That Xie Huanyue's transformation from a Rubber Elephant to this rubber monkey martial soul of unknown origin, and that little girl's Nine-Tailed Fox martial soul's mutation, including the abnormality of the three girls from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's martial souls, are probably all the handiwork of that boy. As expected of the person chosen by the Holy Ghost Cult to be their Holy Son."
"Since he can continuously help others have a second awakening and evolve their martial souls, why don't we just control him directly?" A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Qian Duoduo's eyes. It was clear the entire upper echelon of the academy already knew Huo Yuhao's identity. "With this boy's ability, why should our Shrek Academy worry about not being able to create a few gods, just like ten thousand years ago?"
"This is Teacher's will," Yan Shaozhe shook his head, a cunning smile on his face. "I heard this boy is also a saint of love, so I have already let Little Tao get in contact with him."
"Little Tao?" Qian Duoduo quickly reacted, a sleazy look on his face. "Old Yan, you're really willing to part with her!"
"Sigh..." Yan Shaozhe sighed. "With this relationship between him and Little Tao, there's no need to worry that he won't repay the academy in the future. It's just that a grown daughter can't be kept at home..."
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Dai Huabin had never been so humiliated in his life. He never would have thought that one day, under the watchful eyes of all, he would be completely dominated by a peer like this.
Because of the rubbery nature of Xie Huanyue's body, even if he desperately attacked him, it had no effect at all. Instead, the force would rebound back onto himself. Even if he switched to using his tiger claws to attack, Xie Huanyue could quickly condense a layer of unknown pitch-black power on the surface of his body to prevent the sharp claws from scratching him.
In contrast, on his own side, under the amplification of two great soul skills, every time he was hit by Xie Huanyue, he felt an excruciating pain as if all his bones were falling apart.
Dai Huabin was unwilling. They were both four-rings, why was the gap between them so huge? Was it just because he had four black ten-thousand-year rings?
Being sent flying once again, whether intentionally or not, Dai Huabin's body fell at Ye Linlin's feet.
"Linlin, quick, heal Huabin!" Seeing this, Zhu Lu's heart couldn't help but leap with joy, and she hurriedly urged. This was one of the few opportunities to counter-attack!
Ye Linlin, seeing that Xie Huanyue had no intention of pursuing, immediately released her martial soul and channeled her soul power to heal Dai Huabin.
Seeing Dai Huabin receiving treatment, Xie Huanyue not only did not press his advantage, but instead retreated to the very back, plopped down on the ground, his entire person like a deflated balloon, instantly becoming listless.
This? Is this a side effect of his soul skill? The audience was mystified. No matter how one looked at it, Xie Huanyue seemed to have completely lost his ability to fight.
Huo Yuhao gave a thumbs-up to Xie Huanyue behind him. One-third of the result he wanted was already complete. He then said to Cui Yejie beside him, who was looking eager, "It's your turn."
What does this mean? Dai Huabin, who had recovered slightly with the healing from the Nineheart Begonia, barely managed to prop himself up, only to see that Huo Yuhao's side had actually switched out a person to charge at him.
Zhu Lu was still being firmly controlled at the side by Huo Yuhao. Ye Linlin was even less of a fighter. The barely-standing Dai Huabin felt as if he had thought of something, but for a moment, he couldn't quite grasp it.
Cui Yejie, as one of the few who knew Huo Yuhao's background, naturally detested the Dai Huabin before her. Halfway there, her third soul ring had already lit up. The ethereal red outer armor appeared, clinging to her delicate body, and her entire person's aura suddenly rose a lot.
Dai Huabin, who had recovered a certain amount of his injuries, did not dare to be negligent. He got up and blasted a White Tiger Violent Light Wave over. Since the other side looked down on him so much, he would definitely make them pay a heavy price for it!
Facing the jet of blazing white light, Cui Yejie did not dodge or evade, letting the attack land on her body.
The White Tiger Violent Light Wave impacted on Cui Yejie's body like a stone sinking into the sea. A ripple appeared on her outer armor, and then, as if nothing had happened, it disappeared without a trace.
What strong defense! Even Xu Sanshi, sitting in the audience, couldn't help but secretly praise. If it were him, although he could also easily take this attack from Dai Huabin, it would definitely not be so effortless!
"Little Dong, this team of Huo Yuhao's, I'm afraid even you guys are not their opponents," Bei Bei calmly finished watching Xie Huanyue and Huo Yuhao's moves and asserted. "Especially that Huo Yuhao, who is the core of their team. From beginning to end, he has given me a feeling that I can't see through."
"Is he that strong?" Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao felt very uncomfortable hearing Bei Bei's words, yet they couldn't disagree. After all, they definitely couldn't do what Huo Yuhao had done, toying with the three-ring Zhu Lu in the palm of his hand.
"Huo Yuhao, if you have the guts, let go of your control over me!" Zhu Lu was once again pushed away by Huo Yuhao, her heart filled with anger. Although Huo Yuhao's one hand of attraction and repulsion played her until she couldn't find north, with the characteristics of her Nether Civet martial soul, she could greatly mitigate the damage of the two forces on her body. But to be pulled over and pushed away like a toy from beginning to end by someone, she would inevitably be laughed at.
"Zhu Lu, if you have the guts, break free of my control!" Huo Yuhao responded with extreme shamelessness, which almost made Zhu Lu's lungs explode with anger.
Dai Huabin had already engaged with Cui Yejie. Compared to Xie Huanyue's fierce attacks, Cui Yejie's fighting style was much lighter and more agile. Relying on the Sage Fox Outer Armor that Dai Huabin couldn't break through at all, Cui Yejie dared to engage him in close combat with her strange and varied pugilistic skills. The not-so-strong attacks that rained down on Dai Huabin were more like a humiliation to him.
One must know, Cui Yejie should have originally been his teammate! Cui Yejie came from a remote village. Since enrolling, she had to rely on him, Dai Huabin, hoping to get the assistance of the power behind him.
"You three-surnamed house slave! To think that you once wagged your tail and begged for this young master's help, yet today you betray me for an outsider! Watch how this young master deals with you!" Dai Huabin roared angrily, his fists bursting with a dark and gloomy light. It was the starting move of his fourth soul skill, Dark Meteor Shower.
"A good girl born between heaven and earth, how can she languish long under another person?" Cui Yejie's eyes widened with anger. Now, in front of the person in her heart, she was absolutely unwilling to expose the humility of her past. "You dog thief, you've bullied my Yuhao too much!"
Hearing these strange yet familiar lines, Huo Yuhao was completely astonished. Well now, this little girl has something up her sleeve!
Facing Dai Huabin's strongest offensive soul skill, Cui Yejie's beautiful eyes widened. Her first and second soul skills could be used under the amplifying effect of her third soul skill. She stretched her arms forward, and countless bone spurs shot out from her palms.
"Annihilating Bone Rain!"
The sky-covering bone spurs instantly drowned Dai Huabin's meteor shower soul skill, and also swallowed his body.
Don't be fooled by the fact that this soul skill of Cui Yejie's only condensed bone spurs for a physical-level attack, which seemed unable to break Dai Huabin's two major amplification soul skills. Huo Yuhao knew that this soul skill had the characteristic of being able to easily penetrate soul power. If he let Cui Yejie attack with her full anger, before the referee could react, Dai Huabin would very likely die from ten thousand stabs to the heart.
"Ahhh——" Dai Huabin's miserable cry instantly echoed throughout the entire plaza.
"That's enough, Yejie!" Seeing the referee unable to hold back and preparing to intervene and stop it, Huo Yuhao hurriedly shouted to stop her. He didn't want to kill Dai Huabin so easily, and certainly not by someone else's hand.
He would avenge Huo Yun'er's grudge himself. In this life, without the help of the Tang Buddha and Dai Mubai, the hope of reviving Huo Yun'er was slim. And even if she were revived, she would not want Huo Yuhao to be so cruel as to kill his father and brother.
Hearing his voice, Cui Yejie hurriedly stopped the attack of the Annihilating Gray Bone, and Dai Huabin's miserable state was then revealed to everyone.
"Hiss—" Including the academy's higher-ups, countless people couldn't help but suck in a cold breath. For no other reason than that Dai Huabin at this moment was truly too miserable...
Dai Huabin had deliberately raised his arms to protect his head before being hit by the bone spurs, but how could he have expected the penetration strength of this move of Cui Yejie's against soul power?
His body, amplified by two great transformation skills, was so vulnerable in front of this dense rain of bones. His entire body was covered in densely packed bone spurs, not an inch of it intact. At his feet was a patch of splattered crimson bloodstains.
Cui Yejie's soul skill naturally didn't really shoot out bones, but were just solid objects temporarily condensed from soul power. Soon, the densely packed bone spurs turned to dust with the wind and scattered. Only the bloody, thousand-holed body of Dai Huabin was left.
What a miserable sight this was...
When the other new students looked at Cui Yejie, it was as if they were looking at a demon. And now this demon was showing a delicate smile, trotting back to Huo Yuhao's side, and hugging his arm and shaking it, which was chilling to the bone.
As expected, women are the most difficult to provoke in the world. Huo Yuhao gave a bitter smile. How could he not understand that Cui Yejie was also venting his anger for him and Huo Yun'er from the Duke's Mansion?
"Old Yan, this... should we stop the match?" Qian Duoduo swallowed hard and asked Yan Shaozhe beside him.
"For now... no need," Yan Shaozhe was also frightened by Cui Yejie's cruel methods, but he clearly saw that at the moment Dai Huabin was hit, Ye Linlin had also rushed behind him, using his body to block the sky full of bone spurs on one side, while channeling her soul power to heal him on the other.
The reason he had not stepped in to stop the match was also because he believed in the healing ability of the Nineheart Begonia. At the same time, he also really wanted to know what the result would be if Huo Yuhao's team were to face the martial soul fusion skill of the White Tiger lineage and the Zhu family.
Compared to the life and death of the students, he was clearly more concerned about the potential of Huo Yuhao's group. Not to mention Huo Yuhao and Cui Yejie, just the potential of Xie Huanyue alone was enough for him to ignore the life and death of Dai Huabin's group.
In his nearly one hundred years as dean, he had received several batches of the Dai family's sons. With his understanding of the cruel direct-line competition of the White Tiger lineage, the loss of a few individual descendants was completely irrelevant to them, which was enough to show this family's disdain for their own kin.
The fact that Dai Huabin dared to let his subordinates beat and scold Huo Yuhao and his mother in the Duke's Mansion was the best proof!
If not for the Buddha's brainwashing and Electrolux's persuasion, Huo Yuhao should have taken his revenge with satisfaction, and finally brought Dai Huabin's head to find Dai Hao, demanding him to repent to the deceased Huo Yun'er.
The original novel gave him a seemingly happy and perfect ending, but in reality, it had already erased the charm of this character when he first appeared, resulting in an ending where he degenerated into a loyal dog of the Tang family.
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Author's Note: This was my original intention for arranging a character like Ye Linlin for Dai Huabin's team, to let the protagonist vent his hatred without letting him kill. In this life, without the Tang Buddha and Dai Mubai finding a god who can resurrect to help, the character of Huo Yun'er will most likely have to be wronged. The sins committed by a person cannot be redeemed. Dai Huabin is like this, and the Bibi Dong you all hotly discuss is also like this. Unless, he is willing to become that demon king, the demon king belonging to the demoness. This is the reason why I will not write the protagonist taking off the hat of the Holy Son of the Holy Ghost Cult.