Chapter 47: Golden Dragon vs Xuanwu
Pa!
Sitting in the spectator stands, Beibei slapped his own forehead, his face full of helplessness and a wry smile.
"Too impulsive, far too impulsive!" Beibei felt an urge to scold him for being hopeless.
On the stage, one was already renowned in the Outer Court as one of the Twin Stars, the other was the newly risen "Strongest Freshman King" who had knocked their homeroom teacher senseless with two punches on the first day of school. Needless to say, this battle drew enormous attention.
The Soul Arena was now almost overflowing with people, and yet Xu Sanshi had just revealed his trump card? Didn't he know he was already marked to be one of the next Shrek Seven Devils? Didn't he know he was a reserve member for the upcoming Soul Master Tournament and a core member for the one after that?
And he just exposed everything like this?!
Beibei even felt an impulse to strangle Xu Sanshi.
Getting beaten was one thing, but pulling such a suffocating move…
Yet there was no time left for Beibei to lament. On the stage, the two had moved!
Lin Yun grinned, exhaling a scorching breath. His right foot slammed down hard, splitting the granite stage with terrifying cracks. Then, like a cannonball, he shot forward—soul power–weaker students could only see an afterimage.
Facing Lin Yun's overbearing assault, Xu Sanshi's pupils contracted. His second and third soul rings lit up at once.
Xuanwu's Strength!
Xuanwu Shield Formation!
Black light surged outward from Xu Sanshi like flowing water. The massive door-sized shield in his hand split into more than a dozen smaller Xuanwu Shields, swiftly aligning in a row before him.
This was Xu Sanshi's strongest defense—truly worthy of being called the Outer Court's strongest. With the Xuanwu's Strength enhancing the Xuanwu Shield Formation, even a Soul King would struggle to break through quickly.
Ding—
Strength of the Wild Dragon!
The purple soul ring around Lin Yun's dragon claw lit up sharply. His upper garment instantly burst apart, recreating the "King's Exploding Shirt" moment. Both arms spread wide like a drawn bow, dragon claws covered in dazzling golden scales raised high, the muscles beneath tightened to the extreme.
"Break!" Lin Yun roared with laughter. At the peak of his power, he swung his fist forward. Blocking his path were eighteen Xuanwu Shields layered with the Xuanwu's Strength.
"Before this king, the only path is to be smashed to dust—there is no other way!"
"Hahahahaha!"
The first shield—shattered on contact!
The second, the third—broken!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lin Yun's assault tore through the shields with unstoppable force, each punch unyielding. With every shield broken, Xu Sanshi's face grew paler.
Though his Martial Soul was the Dark Tortoise, now temporarily awakened as Xuanwu, and the shields were merely its manifested form, having them shattered so violently still affected him.
He felt his soul power pouring out like a flood through an opened gate. The sudden loss was more draining than channeling energy for three days and nights.
Fortunately, no matter how formidable Lin Yun was, he was still only a thirty-seventh rank Soul Elder—his strength had limits.
Staring at the final shield before him, already covered in cracks, a bead of cold sweat trickled down Xu Sanshi's forehead.
Just a little more, and his Xuanwu Shield Formation, reinforced with the Xuanwu's Strength, would be pierced by Lin Yun's single punch!
Meeting Lin Yun's golden vertical pupils, tinged faintly with scarlet, at close range, Xu Sanshi finally felt fear.
With just one strike, Lin Yun had shown the entire arena why he was called the Strongest Freshman King.
Especially that self-proclaimed "this king"—it ignited the crowd, making them chant "Strongest Freshman King" in a frenzy.
And in the entire Soul Arena, aside from Yan Shaozhe and a few teachers secretly observing, the only one who truly understood the weight of that strike was Beibei. If Xu Sanshi's defenses had been set before him, even with his Radiant Holy Dragon awakened, Beibei could at most break three shields.
Xu Sanshi might be lacking in offensive power, but his defense was no empty boast.
"Sanshi, you're in trouble," Beibei muttered with a bitter smile.
"Ring Fusion!" Xu Sanshi's combat experience was extensive. The moment Lin Yun halted, he knew he could not engage in close combat and had to create distance to drain Lin Yun's soul power.
Pressing one hand against the final shield, he formed a grasping motion with the other. The three soul rings circling his body—two yellow and one purple—instantly flew into his palm, fusing into a single black soul ring with a faint dark-green hue.
Xuanwu Bloodline Ability—Ring Fusion!
The nearly shattered last Xuanwu Shield instantly returned to its door-sized form, its cracks rapidly mending.
"Ha!" Xu Sanshi shouted sharply, swinging his fused hand forward. The black soul ring encircling his wrist released a deep, dark light.
Xuanwu Shock Variant—Multiple Xuanwu Shocks!
The Xuanwu Shield blocking Lin Yun suddenly rippled with layers of deep black waves. Lin Yun felt a brief dizziness before being blasted backward.
Forcing Lin Yun to retreat, Xu Sanshi decisively spread the Xuanwu's Strength outward until it covered half the stage before halting. His own body then seemed to dissolve, merging into the black waters of the Xuanwu's Strength, forming a unique domain.
Landing lightly on the other side of the stage, Lin Yun regarded the unusual domain with interest. In the original story, this ability had appeared only once—during the Mingdu Soul Master Tournament, when Long Aotian of the Body Sect had forced it out.
Unexpectedly, he was now facing Xu Sanshi's tricky technique ahead of time.
This wasn't easy to deal with unless you were a fire-attribute soul master—and not just any ordinary one.
Within the Xuanwu Domain, all attacks would be dispersed into the water of the domain. Since water naturally diffuses force, its damage-reducing effect was nearly at the maximum. Unless all the water within the domain was evaporated, Xu Sanshi's damage immunity would persist.
To evaporate the Xuanwu Domain's water required at least Ma Xiaotao's level of strength. While the Xuanwu Martial Soul did not possess the Ultimate Water attribute, it came close.
But—
What hindered others with the Xuanwu's Strength meant nothing to Lin Yun.
No matter what tricks you use, I will break them with a single punch!
Lin Yun took a deep breath, every muscle in his body tensing at once. He crouched slightly to gather power, then leapt skyward.
With his immense strength, this leap carried him nearly fifty meters into the air.
Ding—
The third soul ring lit up once more.
(End of Chapter)
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