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The same was true for Shrek; having come this far, how could they give up so easily?
The fourteen individuals from both sides looked at each other, not a single word was spoken, but the intense clash of their auras instantly escalated the tension to its limit.
The two teams of contestants had reached their designated positions, and at the referee's prompt, they all summoned their Martial Spirits.
A surging spirit power instantly erupted from their bodies.
"The match begins!" The referee's voice quickly rang out.
"Retreat!"
Thump, thump, thump, the Shrek members moved swiftly, retreating in unison, and while creating distance, Oscar, who was surrounded in the middle, repeated as he ran: "I have a Mushroom Sausage."
One Flying Mushroom Sausage after another continuously appeared in Oscar's hands.
"His speaking speed is so fast now? It seems he practiced a lot in his daily life." Shi Quan looked at Oscar on the stage with some surprise; when he was at Shrek under the identity of Zhuang Zhou, he had often seen Oscar make Sausages.
Hu Liena naturally couldn't just watch them retreat. She stepped forward with a graceful stride, and her Third Soul Skill and Fourth Soul Skill lit up beneath her. "Third Soul Skill, Charming Fox Transformation, Fourth Soul Skill, Charming Fox's Voice."
The Shrek members remained unperturbed, covering their ears one after another, and simultaneously isolating their ears with spirit power.
"…" Hu Liena gritted her silver teeth and rushed forward with all her might. During the match against Shi Quan in the morning, almost all of her abilities were exposed, so being targeted was unavoidable.
With her voice isolated, her abilities couldn't be fully utilized.
"Zhang Ping, delay them from the side. We'll press forward, no need to rush. We have an absolute advantage in spirit power Rank." Xie Yue calmly commanded, leading the others to pursue the Shrek members.
The arena was only so big, and the Shrek members couldn't keep retreating indefinitely.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Golden Swallow Gale Slash!" Zhang Ping, an agility-attack system Spirit Master with the Golden Waist Flying Swallow Martial Spirit, quickly arrived. With a flap of her wings, she stirred up a gust of wind, which transformed into dozens of golden wind blades.
"Fourth Soul Skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower." Dai Mubai took the lead, raising his fists and striking out, emitting countless fist-sized golden orbs of light from his body to block.
Puff, puff, puff, continuous explosions sounded in the air.
"Third Soul Skill, Spider Web Restraint." Just as the White Tiger Meteor Shower and Golden Swallow Gale Slash collided, using the white light generated by the collision of the light orbs and wind blades as cover, Tang San's Third Soul Skill beneath him lit up silently. He raised his hand and flung it, sending a Martial Spirit towards Zhang Ping in the sky.
"First Soul Skill, Hell Magma Rush!" Yan's voice came from afar. Yan raised his hand and fiercely threw a punch, and a dark red flame shockwave flew out towards the web's vine ball.
The Soul Devouring Spider Web suddenly enlarged, and the shockwave directly hit its center. A powerful devouring force erupted, and the scorching aura did not completely burn Tang San's Soul Devouring Spider Web. Instead, due to the impact effect brought by Yan's First Soul Skill, the Soul Devouring Spider Web, which was originally moving upwards, descended like a parabola, covering them.
"Such strong devouring ability, it can even devour flames." Xie Yue was startled, and his Third Soul Skill instantly lit up beneath his feet. The two moon blades in his hands were raised, and then he flung them towards the web in mid-air with a peculiar stance, "Third Soul Skill, Distant Moon!"
Two giant moon blades spun and slashed towards the Soul Devouring Spider Web in mid-air. Swish, swish, swish, after cutting a few vines, the two moon blades did not penetrate further, but directly got stuck on the vines.
"His toughness is also this high?" The Martial Soul Palace Team members' expressions all changed. Helplessly, Xie Yue could only control the moon blades to change the direction of the Soul Devouring Spider Web in mid-air.
Off stage.
"That's not right. During the last internal battle, Tang San's vines were just average. How did his strength increase so much after his spirit power Breakthrough to Rank 40?" Yu Feng looked confused.
"Because Tang San's Martial Spirit is no longer Blue Silver Grass!" Shi Quan's eyes flickered, and he raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself: "I wonder how many Spirit Beasts he devoured. His Blue Silver Grass Martial Spirit should have become Dark Blue Silver Grass by now, right?"
On stage.
While pushing the incoming Soul Devouring Spider Web aside with the moon blades, Oscar's voice came from behind Tang San, "Xiao San, it's done!"
"First Soul Skill, bind!" Tang San didn't hesitate, directly releasing his First Soul Skill to restrain Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, who were charging at the very front, in place. Then he turned, took the Sausage, and put it directly into his mouth.
"Third Soul Skill, Hellish Flames!" Yan looked at the vines churning beneath his feet, and his Third Soul Skill beneath him suddenly lit up. A fiery lord phantom quickly condensed behind Yan, its ferocious mouth suddenly opened, and surging flames erupted from Yan's body.
With a crackling sound, the vines were burned one by one.
Although Tang San's Dark Blue Silver Grass now possessed devouring properties, under these surging flames, the speed of devouring was clearly not faster than the speed of burning.
Yan stepped out quickly, and the flames surged towards Xie Yue and Hu Liena. Under the scorching of the flames, Tang San's Dark Blue Silver Grass quickly softened.
The delay was extremely short, but it was already enough, because as several whooshing sounds came, Tang San and the others' figures had already flown into the air.
The Martial Soul Palace Team members naturally wouldn't let the Shrek members fly up so easily.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Ear-Piercing Howl!" Li Kai, who was not restrained, approached, and his giant mountain pig suddenly raised its head, emitting a piercing howl.
"Ah…" Tang San and the others, who were covering their ears to guard against Hu Liena and flying, all paused, shaken back significantly by the sudden sound wave.
Covering their ears could only reduce the volume of the sound; completely isolating it was clearly impossible. Li Kai's Fourth Soul Skill's sound wave attack, besides the sound wave itself, also contained considerable shock force. The reason it was called 'ear-piercing' was precisely because the sound wave's power could pierce the enemy's eardrums.
Despite the protection of spirit power, Tang San and the others still felt their eardrums ache, and they were a bit dizzy.
"Quickly ascend, don't stop!" Tang San roared, instantly waking everyone up a bit.
"Second Soul Skill, Moon Blade!" Xie Yue controlled the flying moon blades, transforming them into discs, and slashed towards Tang San.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Golden Swallow Gale Slash!" Zhang Ping in the sky also released her Fourth Soul Skill again, echoing from above and below.
"You all charge!" Tang San whispered, his Soul Devouring Eight Spider Lances unfolded behind him, purple light gleaming in his eyes. His Purple Demon Eye locked onto the position of the moon blades, and his Eight Spider Lances accurately stabbed out from behind him.
"Clang, clang."
Two sounds as the Soul Devouring Eight Spider Lances accurately knocked the two moon blades away.
"Fourth Soul Skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower." Seeing the Golden Swallow Gale Slash approaching, Dai Mubai still used White Tiger Meteor Shower to block it.
Fireworks exploded in the air again.
"Zhang Ping, come back quickly!" Hu Liena quickly shouted.
"It's too late to run now!" A glint flashed in Tang San's eyes.
A clear Phoenix cry came. Although Ma Hongjun's spirit power Rank was not as high as Zhang Ping's, his Phoenix Martial Spirit had absolute Bloodline suppression over all avian Martial Spirits.
Just as Zhang Ping paused slightly, a figure emitting purple lightning had already appeared in front of her.
The Flying Mushroom Sausage possessed the speed of a Millennium Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent. Almost in the blink of an eye, Zhang Ping was already surrounded by Ma Hongjun and Yu Tianheng.
In a flash of thought, Zhang Ping immediately decided to break through towards Ma Hongjun, whose spirit power Rank was weaker.
"Third Soul Skill, Golden Swallow Assault!" A golden flying swallow quickly condensed behind Zhang Ping, charging straight towards Ma Hongjun with astonishing speed.
"First Soul Skill, Phoenix Fire Wire." Ma Hongjun spat out a fire line as thick as an arm from his mouth.
The fire line began to retreat upon touching Zhang Ping. In just a single breath, Zhang Ping had already charged within four meters of Ma Hongjun.
A Spirit Elder using a First Soul Skill to directly counter a Spirit Ancestor's Third Soul Skill—Ma Hongjun naturally wouldn't be that foolish to make such a disproportionate choice.
"Third Soul Skill, Teleportation!" Xiao Wu's peach-colored figure suddenly appeared behind Zhang Ping. Before she could react, Xiao Wu's legs had already wrapped around Zhang Ping.
"First Soul Skill, Waist Bow!" As Xiao Wu's First Soul Skill lit up, Xiao Wu's powerful strength instantly erupted. With a front and back motion, Zhang Ping immediately lost her balance and was spun in mid-air by Xiao Wu, whose legs were clamped around her head.
As soon as Zhang Ping fell into a state of weightlessness, Dark Blue Silver Grass suddenly grew from her body.
"Second Soul Skill, Parasite!" It was precisely Tang San's Second Soul Skill. When Tang San released his Martial Spirit, he had already scattered Dark Blue Silver Grass Parasite seeds on his teammates' bodies. With Xiao Wu's contact, the Parasite seeds directly landed on Zhang Ping.
Once triggered, the Parasite seeds bound her tightly, giving her no chance to counterattack, and a powerful devouring ability also erupted, beginning to devour her spirit power.
Facing the combined attack of four people, Zhang Ping had no chance to resist at all.
After Tang San broke free from Xie Yue's delay, his Soul Devouring Eight Spider Lances directly pierced into Zhang Ping's body. After completely devouring all the spirit power within her, he then signaled Xiao Wu to throw her towards the ground.
The Mountain Pig Spirit Ancestor, Li Kai, caught the unconscious Zhang Ping to prevent her from being injured a second time.
"Don't worry, their flying Spirit Ability can only last for one minute. Such large-scale flying consumes a lot of the auxiliary Spirit Master's spirit power." Xie Yue stared intently at Tang San and the others in the sky, becoming even more certain when his gaze fell on Oscar, whose face was slightly pale.
Although they had lost one combatant, the opponent's auxiliary Spirit Master had consumed a large amount of spirit power, and the others also had a certain degree of consumption. This kind of full-scale flying situation would definitely not be possible again.
As long as their flying time passed, the next phase would be their home ground.
Xie Yue's deduction was not wrong. Oscar's spirit power was now only one-third remaining. Continuously making seven Flying Mushroom Sausages was incredibly draining for him.
Making seven more Flying Mushroom Sausages was simply impossible, and the Shrek members consuming so much spirit power was, of course, not just to deal with Zhang Ping!