As the captain of the Earth Dragon Sect Team this time, Nan Qiuqiu truly felt an overwhelming sense of despair.
"Xiao Ye, let's go together." Nan Qiuqiu finally selected Xiao Ye, who was second only to herself in the team, to step forward and face the Sun and Moon Royal Team.
If the two of them couldn't handle the opponents, then giving up early was the best choice.
Huo Yuhao and Zhou Xinghao also stepped onto the stage simultaneously.
As the energy canopy above the arena dissipated, an energy shield enveloped the entire stage, and the referee gave the command.
"The match begins!"
Both sides unleashed their Soul Rings.
Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Ye both had the optimal Soul Ring configuration of two yellow, two purple, and one black.
Nan Qiuqiu's Martial Soul was the Rouge Dragon, a pink sub-dragon with a unique annihilation attribute. Xiao Ye's Martial Soul was the Night Dragon, possessing a dark attribute capable of devouring light.
Huo Yuhao and his companion released their Martial Souls.
Huo Yuhao had a configuration of one white, one purple, and three black Soul Rings, while Zhou Xinghao had two yellow, two purple, and one black.
Spiritual Detection Sharing!
Xiao Ye's Martial Soul, the Night Dragon, was a Control-type Battle Soul King with a dark attribute. The moment the match began, the light around him and Nan Qiuqiu seemed to be swallowed by his Martial Soul, turning into darkness.
This dark area swiftly expanded towards Huo Yuhao and his companion.
Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power spread across the entire stage, rendering this Soul Skill almost ineffective against him, and it hardly affected Zhou Xinghao either.
Zhou Xinghao completed the fusion with his Battle Armor, and instantly there were flashes of light on various parts of it, with twelve Soul-guided Cannons mounted on its exterior.
Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing helped him aim everything perfectly.
Boom boom boom!
Twelve Sixth-level Soul-guided Shells were launched.
With a distance of a hundred meters between them, the shells reached their target almost instantly.
Xiao Ye's face slightly changed.
Damn it.
Their opponents were unaffected by his dark shroud.
The surface of the Night Dragon was cloaked in a layer of black energy, which spread to envelop both Xiao Ye and Nan Qiuqiu.
The Dark Energy Shield formed by this energy seemed to be sliced open, forming individual black energy shields around both of them.
At the moment Xiao Ye sensed the trajectory of the shells, he retracted the dark shroud, allowing Nan Qiuqiu to regain her vision and evade the shell bombardment.
However, just after the first round of shelling, a second wave of bombardment swiftly followed.
Under Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing, Zhou Xinghao's Soul-guided Cannons achieved unprecedented accuracy, perfectly utilizing all twelve cannons.
If the first round of bombardment offered some space for evasion, the second round left no room for escape.
Twelve Soul-guided Cannons were still somewhat insufficient.
Xiao Hongchen's hundreds of Soul-guided Cannons could achieve true full-coverage bombardment; that was truly satisfying.
Tatatata!
With just twelve Soul-guided Cannons, a setup was necessary.
Under Huo Yuhao's guidance, the first round of cannon fire blocked the basic escape routes, minimizing their room for evasion.
And at the moment they attempted to dodge, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection could analyze their evasion path.
It was because of this that, knowing their route a few seconds later, the second wave of bombardment became unavoidable.
This is called anticipation!
After two rounds of bombardment, they had to endure at least one Sixth-level Soul-guided Shell bombardment.
After experiencing Huo Yuhao's tactics, the more decisive adversaries would realize that enduring one shell in the first round of bombardment was the wisest choice.
Unfortunately, Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Ye didn't know this.
Boom boom boom!
Deafening explosions resounded.
Sixth-level Soul-guided Shells hit the ground, even causing the metal stage to show signs of melting, and the stage shook continuously. The violent shockwave rippled the surrounding Soul-guided Protective Shield with wave after wave.
As the airwaves from the shelling dissipated, the embarrassed figures of Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Ye quickly darted out from within.
The two of them charged towards Huo Yuhao and his partner.
They were not slow.
However, all their actions were constantly under Huo Yuhao's observation, and even Zhou Xinghao, due to the existence of Spiritual Sharing, was aware of all their movements.
Boom boom boom!
The third round of bombardment.
Charging further would mean colliding with the oncoming Sixth-level Soul-guided Shells. The Dark Energy Shield Xiao Ye had covered for the two had long shattered, and they each had used other Soul Skills to withstand the recent damage, currently in a cooldown gap.
Defense Soul Skills often have vulnerabilities.
Powerful Defense Soul Skills may seem to have no cooldown, but they actually have an invisible cooldown.
The Soul Skill lasts three minutes, but if the defense is broken within those three minutes, it's still considered to be using that Soul Skill.
Meaning they cannot reform their defense.
This is the invisible cooldown.
What Su Yu mentioned about completely integrating a Soul Skill, being able to use Soul Power to deploy it at any time without relying on a Soul Ring, was a realm not explored by him alone.
The significance exists inherently; there is no shortage of explorers.
It's just that being able to cultivate a single Soul Skill to this level is already impressive.
But Su Yu managed to refine all his Soul Skills to this level, even improving the effects of the Soul Skills, constantly enhancing them by filling the gaps with his insights.
It's simply absurd.
Huo Yuhao increasingly felt the unfathomable depth of Brother Yu.
Despite also attempting to cultivate his Soul Skills, after several years, he only managed to fully integrate the Spiritual Detection and the Ice Emperor's Claw, even with Su Yu and the guidance of the Ice Emperor Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm.