Everything, it seemed, had returned to the freshman assessment from a year ago.
The Shi-Hi-Kai team this time was truly facing the Wang Dong team. Besides Xiao Xiao being replaced by Xu Sanshi, who could perform a martial soul fusion with Tang Wutong, everything else was just like that day.
And the protagonists of the two teams were, impressively, the two protagonists from the story's previous timeline.
"Huo Yuhao, I've wanted to fight you for a long time," a look of excitement appeared on Cao Jinxuan's face. "It's just a pity that in the freshman assessment at the academy, you actually directly surrendered to those three girls..."
Hearing his words, Huo Yuhao suddenly smiled.
"You... are a transmigrator, right?"
The appearance of the three words "transmigrator" fiercely sketched the memories that had been sealed in Cao Jinxuan's mind for many years, causing his pupils to slightly widen.
"No wonder, as the contemporary successor of the Body Sect, you seized the opportunity that originally belonged to Long Aotian, yet your behavior is so insane," Huo Yuhao continued to smile. He pointed a finger at his own head.
"The Body Sect's body refining method is considerably strict. One cannot achieve great success without a firm character. But we transmigrators have a common ailment that you and I have to admit."
"And that is, we were originally just ordinary people. Whether it's our character or our great perseverance, neither can be compared to the original characters."
"Thinking of how slow-witted Ah Ruheng was ten thousand years later, I know the reason for your perverted behavior."
"Sure enough, you are too..." Cao Jinxuan grinned, like a hunter who had discovered his prey, his face completely twisting.
"I was just lucky. In the constant tempering of this world, I have gradually grown," Huo Yuhao lightly tapped his chest with his fist. "If not for this journey that has tempered my will, perhaps I would also be like you, losing myself in the torment of becoming stronger, my mind twisted into a pervert."
"Nonsense! Huo Yuhao, in this life, everything of yours will be mine!" Cao Jinxuan roared angrily. He was the protagonist who had transmigrated to this world. He should have been the master of this world! He wanted to achieve God-King, possess countless beauties, and control the lifelines of all beings!
At the same time, in the Divine Realm, the great God-King Tang, who was continuously transmitting his divine sense and observing everything through Tang Wutong's perspective, had become quite interested. Once upon a time, was he not also a wandering soul who had transmigrated to another world?
He had not expected that on this continent, after ten thousand years, two more transmigrators would emerge. And from Cao Jinxuan's words, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have misjudged something. It was just that for a moment, he couldn't grasp that key point.
"Come on, Huo Yuhao! Let's see if your team is stronger, or if our side's daughter of heaven's destiny is a cut above!" Cao Jinxuan's muscles bulged all over, clearly having taken up a combat stance.
"The match begins!" The Heaven-Shaking Douluo couldn't understand what the two were mumbling about at all, but the competition had to go on. He could only announce the start of the match as usual.
Without even an extra movement, Tang Wutong directly grasped Xu Sanshi's palm. The start was that absolutely powerful field-controlling divine skill, Blooming in Brilliance, the Splendor of Gilded Gold!
Xie Huanyue and Cui Yejie took a step back and each began to condense their soul power. And Huo Yuhao, at the forefront, instantly lit up his Spirit Eyes' first soul ring. Spiritual Detection Sharing, Spiritual Interference, Soul Impact—the four great divine skills were cast all at once.
His spiritual power had no effect on Tang Wutong, but could Xu Sanshi and Cao Jinxuan block it?
The moment Huo Yuhao's various spiritual power means were unleashed without reservation, Xu Sanshi and Cao Jinxuan immediately felt that something was wrong. The former was a little better off with the daughter of a God-King sharing the burden. The latter, however, immediately held his head and rolled on the ground.
Also a transmigrator, but Cao Jinxuan's spiritual resistance was too weak.
The martial soul fusion skill, Splendor of Gilded Gold, was successfully released. Huo Yuhao instantly switched to his second martial soul. The brownish-brown, five-hundred-thousand-year immortal wood soul ring for the first time was displayed before the eyes of the world.
"Look quickly, what kind of soul ring is that?"
"Heavens, a brown soul ring! What on earth is its age limit?"
"The pressure released by this soul ring is too terrifying..."
Just as everyone was discussing animatedly, the faces of the high-level members of Shrek Academy, led by Yan Shaozhe, instantly became colorful. They naturally knew that Huo Yuhao also had a long saber martial soul. Then, Huo Yuhao was the first owner of a three-life martial soul on the continent!
What a three-life martial soul meant, they knew better than anyone.
"Sage Art... Flower Tree World Advent!"
Huo Yuhao's two palms came together. In an instant, the great earth shook. On the ground of the entire plaza, huge trees that took several people to encircle continuously drilled out, turning the entire plaza into a sea of trees.
If not for the protective shield still barely holding on, the spectators would very likely have had to flee in all directions. What on earth was this soul skill?
The sea of trees that had broken out of the earth in an instant had dissolved the martial soul fusion skill of Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong. An uneven ground was impossible to smoothly display this move on.
Huo Yuhao did not stop. His two palms flipped, and he then extended one palm, slightly gripping forward.
"Sage Art, All Wooden Prison Hand—" The sea of trees instantly moved with Huo Yuhao's will. One after another of huge trees transformed into arms, grabbing towards the three from Xu Sanshi's side.
"Impossible! How can you have this kind of ability!" Cao Jinxuan was instantly tightly bound by countless wooden hands, letting out a powerless, furious roar.
And Tang Wutong and Xu Sanshi were a little better off. Relying on the indestructible nature of the Golden Dragon in their hands, they cut down the attacking wooden hands one by one.
Xu Sanshi couldn't help but rub his two eyes. He found it hard to imagine that this would be the battle situation of a soul master academy tournament. This kind of ability, could it be displayed by a normal soul master?
After continuously casting two large-area soul skills, Huo Yuhao's breathing also unavoidably became rapid. Dealing with the daughter of the Tang God-King, he did not dare to be careless in the slightest. He had to make a move with all his might.
Tang Wutong was also shocked by Huo Yuhao's soul skill. How could she have ever thought that a four-ring Soul Ancestor would possess such an astonishing means of moving mountains and overturning seas?
"Use the other one!"
Hearing this, Xu Sanshi instantly understood something. He released the right hand he was holding of Tang Wutong's and instead held her left hand.
"Another martial soul fusion skill!" Huo Yuhao instantly understood what they wanted to do. Tang Wutong's other martial soul was the Clear Sky Hammer. Xu Sanshi only had one Xuanwu Tortoise martial soul. This time, I'm afraid it would be a fusion skill with quite a terrifying attack power.
I absolutely cannot let them display it smoothly! Huo Yuhao changed to stretching both hands forward. The great trees all pulled up from the ground one after another, transforming into one after another of huge wooden dragons in the air, opening their ferocious great mouths towards the two of them.
And just at this time, Cao Jinxuan, who was imprisoned in the tree prison, burst out with astonishing power. With a flurry of random punches, he smashed all the trees before him. At the same time, his martial soul, the Time Elapsing Clock's third soul ring lit up. Two golden lights instantly shot out from the surface of the clock, respectively entering the bodies of Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong.
Their originally slow soul power fusion was instantly completed. A huge, illusory Xuanwu of a full thirty meters tall appeared behind the two of them.
The Revival in the Deep Sea, the Hammer of True Martial!
The giant Xuanwu stood upright like a human. In its hand, it held a deep-blue hammer. With a world-destroying might, it smashed down towards the group of wooden dragons blocking in front of Huo Yuhao's trio.
The giant hammer, with just one strike, smashed the countless wooden dragons into sawdust and continued to fall downwards. With the obstruction of the group of wooden dragons, Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yejie at the same time displayed their strongest attack methods.
"Disintegration, Ice Dragon Hailstorm Rack!"
"Giant Cannon Fist, Great Ape King!"
"Super Spiral Soul Beast Cannon!"
A huge slash, a fist, and an energy cannon bombarded the hammer's body. With a destructive force, it instantly smashed the giant hammer in the Xuanwu's hand into fragments, stirring up a vast shockwave that tore everything around into pieces.
Huo Yuhao's eyes were quick and his hands were fast. With one hand for each, he, along with himself, instantly escaped into the Kamui space, evading the terrifying shockwave formed by the collision.
In contrast, on Tang Wutong and Xu Sanshi's side, Cao Jinxuan once again used his ultimate skill, the Time Stop domain, to take the two of them away from the area affected by the energy explosion, and with a thousand-jin drop, drilled into a depression on the ground.
Boom—
The soul tool protective shield could no longer withstand the huge energy collision and instantly shattered inch by inch. The three great Guardian Douluos of the Star Luo Empire made a joint move, doing their best to maintain this protective shield, which was how it did not affect the surrounding crowd.
Countless people's faces were pale with fright. They had originally thought it would only be a tragic final, but they had not expected that the two participating sides would actually create this kind of terrifying destruction.
"This... was this really created by a few teenage children?" The Star Luo Emperor fell back into the chair behind him without any image. Dai Hao, beside him, was not much better off either. His tiger eyes were also wide open. And, he had recognized the means used by one of them. Wasn't that Huo Yuhao precisely the young general who had attacked his own troops many years ago?
The spiritual power means he had come up with was still effective to this day. Those few White Tiger personal guards who had been hit back then, now the moment they saw him, it was as if they had seen a mortal enemy. They still waved their sabers and charged at him.
In the end, he had no choice but to assign these personal guards to the borders of other regions, lest they make a move to kill each other the moment they saw him.
Well now, a three-life martial soul. Truly a young hero! If only this were my son...
TLNote: Bruh
Dai Hao couldn't help but cast his gaze towards the two brothers, Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng, in the Shrek waiting area. From an ordinary person's point of view, they were undoubtedly the pride of heaven. But without comparison, there is no harm!
When the dust had settled, Huo Yuhao's trio drilled out from the Kamui space. On the other side, Tang Wutong's trio was much more miserable. Their bodies were covered in sand and dust. They were as miserable as they could be.
Cao Jinxuan's soul power was exhausted, and he had even overdrawn to a certain extent. But he still had not fallen into a coma. As long as Tang Wutong and the other completely defeated Huo Yuhao's trio, he would have a way to seize the opportunity belonging to Huo Yuhao!
"You are very strong, unreasonably strong," the trident pattern on Tang Wutong's forehead sparkled, her eyes becoming extremely deep. "But the final victory will surely belong to us!"
As she spoke, she once again extended her hands to Xu Sanshi. Seeing this, Xu Sanshi's eyes couldn't help but look at her straight on, his gaze full of tenderness.
"Come on! Let's see if they can take our strongest martial soul fusion skill!"
Tang Wutong hummed shyly and directly threw herself into his broad embrace. This scene made Jiang Nannan, who was watching the battle from afar, her face change dramatically. At this moment, it was as if something very important had left her and gone away.
Just as Tang Wutong threw herself into Xu Sanshi's embrace, a butterfly representing their martial soul, a hammer, and a tortoise that had instantly evolved into a Xuanwu all left their bodies, and under the shining of the golden light on Tang Wutong's forehead, they slowly rose into the sky.
Finally, a trident pattern glowing with a golden light reflected their martial souls, fusing the three things of different forms together. Tang Wutong's figure also then transformed into a phantom and merged into Xu Sanshi's body.
It was actually a three-martial-soul fusion skill!
Damn it! Are you playing dirty with me? How could Huo Yuhao not guess that it was the Tang Buddha in the Divine Realm who was messing around with his divine sense?
This martial soul fusion skill seemed to be the fusion of Tang Wutong's two martial souls and Xu Sanshi's Xuanwu Tortoise, but in reality, it was a four-martial-soul fusion including the Sea God's martial soul, a four-in-one martial soul fusion skill.
The auras of the two rose steadily, breaking through the level of a Titled Douluo in an instant, and advancing triumphantly towards the realm of a Super Douluo.
At this moment, all the members of the Sun Moon team couldn't help but feel a sense of despair. A five-ring and a four-ring could actually, through a martial soul fusion skill, raise their realm to such a level...
"Monsters! These two are the absolute monsters of Shrek's future!" the Star Luo Emperor murmured. "They will surely be able to leave their own legend on this continent, just like that person from ten thousand years ago."
Dai Hao deeply agreed with this. However, he moved to stand before Xu Jiawei. "Your Majesty, I'm afraid the subsequent battle will get out of control. Please take protective measures."
Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor waved his hand. "A martial soul fusion skill of this level will surely be an instant kill of the opponent. There won't be a situation of the scene getting out of control, unless..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw that on the field, the three from the Sun Moon team who were participating, Huo Yuhao's trio, had gathered together. Huo Yuhao had his back to the two, while Xie Huanyue and Cui Yejie had both placed one of their hands on his shoulder.
"Yuhao, let that damn God-King's daughter have a good look," Xie Huanyue grinned.
"Let the whole world cheer for our martial soul fusion skill," Cui Yejie raised her snow-white chin high and said proudly.
"Thank you, my partners," a wisp of flame ignited in the depths of Huo Yuhao's eyes. A heroic feeling immediately rose in his heart. "With you all by my side, it's really great."
At this point, Huo Yuhao's third martial soul was completely liberated. The ice-blue soul ring instantly soared into the air, echoing with Xie Huanyue's twisted black soul ring and Cui Yejie's burning red soul ring from afar.
"They... they are also casting a martial soul fusion skill!"
Many spectators instantly judged the actions of Huo Yuhao's trio, one after another voicing in their hearts what they were doing.
But the next moment, Huo Yuhao's four pure white soul rings from his Spirit Eyes and the brownish-brown soul ring from his Immortal Spirit Wood appeared together. Among them, the soul ring from the Immortal Spirit Wood actually proactively floated onto Cui Yejie's body.
What kind of operation was this? Could one's own soul ring still be bestowed upon others?
It was a pity that no one could explain this phenomenon to them. Even the high-level members of Shrek like Yan Shaozhe, who had an absolute say in martial soul research, couldn't judge what kind of martial soul combination skill this was from Huo Yuhao's trio.
At this time, on the other side, Tang Wutong had completely disappeared from everyone's sight. Only Xu Sanshi, holding the Golden Dragon Spear, was left. His figure seemed to have grown a lot taller. A head of azure long hair floated behind him. His entire body was covered in golden armor, as if a god had descended to the mortal world.
This was the martial soul fusion skill born from the fusion of all their martial souls: The Advent in the Abyss, the Sea God-King.
"No matter what martial soul fusion skill you display, in front of me, it is all in vain," Xu Sanshi's voice became extremely magnetic. He pointed the long spear in his hand forward, aiming at Huo Yuhao's trio.
And just at this time, the figures of Xie Huanyue and Cui Yejie fiercely overlapped with the Huo Yuhao in front. The three were as if superimposed together. The soul rings also superimposed on each other, actually presenting a brilliant and colorful display.
Under the gazes of countless people, the hair on Huo Yuhao's originally black-turned-white head stood on end, root by root. His entire body began to have electric arcs coiling around it.
At the same time, the sky above Star Luo Plaza became covered with dark clouds, with continuous rumbles of thunder.
Huo Yuhao's face gradually became ferocious. With a loud roar, the next moment, his upward-floating hair turned a dazzling gold without any warning. At the same time, a golden qi flame that shot straight up to the clouds rose from under his feet. A brand new legend, carrying a terrifying pressure that transcended this plane, descended upon the world with an invincible posture.
At that moment, everyone seemed to have seen a god.
Everything in this world dimmed because of it.
This was a miracle.
Even the Buddha, far away in the Divine Realm, showed a look of shock on his face.