Hearing his sister's words, Xie Yue nodded thoughtfully. It seemed that Xiao Wu had more tricks up her sleeve than they had imagined.
After a brief moment of deathly silence, the entire audience erupted in a deafening roar of cheers!
Everyone was deeply impressed by Xiao Wu's clean and decisive strike that instantly killed the opponent. The audience was in an uproar, feeling that Xiao Wu's strength was truly too great and unfathomable.
Meanwhile, in the audience seats outside, Yu Xiaogang stared intently at the spirit ring on Xiao Wu's body on the stage, his face blank and incredulous.
He and Tang San, who was beside him, both knew Xiao Wu from their time at Notting Academy.
However, in Yu Xiaogang's memory, when Xiao Wu left Notting City with Lin Yuan, she was clearly just a Soul Master!
At that time, Xiao Wu only had a yellow hundred-year soul ring.
But now, only a few short years have passed, and she's already a Soul King of level 59?!
Moreover, this spirit ring configuration is too outrageous! One yellow, one purple, and three black rings—this completely contradicts his theory of the ten core competencies of martial souls!
Tang San turned his head to look at his beloved teacher and asked with great confusion:
"Teacher, didn't you teach me before that the body's limit for the second spirit ring is 764 years?"
"Isn't the maximum lifespan of the third spirit ring 1,760 years? How come Xiao Wu's second spirit ring is a purple one at the thousand-year level?"
"Moreover, her third spirit ring has directly jumped to the ten-thousand-year black level? Why is that?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaogang's eyes twitched violently, and his already stiff face became even more unsightly.
Faced with his disciple's soul-searching question, he broke out in a cold sweat, because he really didn't know how to answer his disciple.
He can't very well say that his theory is wrong, can he?
Flander, who was standing nearby, was also a quick-witted person. He immediately noticed Yu Xiaogang's predicament and hurriedly spoke up to smooth things over:
"Xiao San, such illogical things are probably because the other party learned some secret techniques that we don't know about at the academy."
"After this three-school exchange competition is completely over, Qin Ming will arrange for us to move into the Heaven Dou Royal Academy."
Flander patted Tang San on the shoulder and comforted him, "Once we make contact, we should be able to find out exactly how they broke through their physical limits to absorb spirit rings beyond their level."
Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others suppressed their immense shock upon hearing the dean's words and nodded silently.
Tang San thought to himself, if there really was a way to absorb a spirit ring beyond one's level...
Once he joins the Royal Academy, if he can obtain this secret technique, it might be possible to make up for the fact that his second soul ring is a ten-year useless ring!
While everyone was preoccupied with their own thoughts, the match on the stage continued.
Immediately afterward, after a brief tactical adjustment, Blazing Academy sent out their second main player, none other than their vice-captain, Fire Dance.
The large screen also displayed Fire Dance's basic information at just the right time.
Fire Dance, vice-captain of the Blazing Fire Team, possesses the Martial Soul Fire Shadow and is a level 53 Control-type Battle Soul King!
As the host announced the start of the second round, Huo Wu's spirit rings appeared one by one.
Five spirit rings—two yellow, one purple, and two black—rose up beneath her feet!
The audience gasped again, because Huo Wu's fourth spirit ring was also black-level!
At that very moment, Lin Yuan, who was sitting in the preparation seat of the Heavenly Battle, also began to update his diary in his mind at a rapid pace.
[I really didn't expect that Huo Wu's fourth spirit ring would also be at the ten-thousand-year level.]
[It seems that having the auspicious beast join Blazing Academy has truly helped Huo Wu's mental strength improve significantly.]
Otherwise, even if Huo Wu possessed various rare and precious materials to ensure her physique could withstand the immense physical pressure brought by a ten-thousand-year-old soul ring, [it would be impossible].
Her mental strength was absolutely insufficient to withstand the impact of the resentment left in the spirit ring of a ten-thousand-year-old spirit beast upon its death.
[However, Huo Wu's current level is so much higher than it was at this point in the original story, so she should look down on Feng Xiaotian from Shenfeng Academy even more now, right?]
At this moment, the women saw Lin Yuan suddenly mention the names Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian in the instance.
Their eyes lit up immediately, knowing there must be some juicy gossip between the two, and their gossipy hearts were ignited.
As for the speculations that Lin Yuan automatically conjured up in his diary about auspicious beasts helping him, that was exactly what they wanted to see.
However, what Lin Yuan said in his diary was indeed correct.
After Rui Shou joined the Blazing Fire Team, out of consideration for his teammates, he did provide Huo Wu with some substantial help.
After all, the auspicious beast's attribute is ultimate fire, and if she wanted, she could temporarily advance Huo Wu's fire attribute to the ultimate fire level as well.
Helping Huo Wu improve her spiritual power to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring was an extremely simple matter for the auspicious beast.
The place where the auspicious beast lives is the Lake of Life in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, and the surrounding area is also full of natural treasures that can enhance spiritual power.
Lin Yuan's diary is still being updated.
In the original novel, Feng Xiaotian was practically Huo Wu's number one sycophant.
Speaking of Feng Xiaotian, he was actually a very rare and unparalleled genius, but in the end, he ruined himself.
His martial soul is a two-headed wolf that has undergone a beneficial mutation, and it possesses innate full soul power—a rare find!
[Possessing such extraordinary talent for cultivation, yet at the age of twenty-four, his soul power was only at level forty-four!]
The root cause of this is that he is too stubborn and too obsessed with creating his own soul skills.
The Gale Wolf Slash combo he painstakingly developed was indeed very powerful, but its weaknesses were equally obvious.
Moreover, it's not hard for anyone with discerning eyes to see that his so-called self-created soul skill is actually just a copy, imitating the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Clear Sky Sect.
The reason why the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Clear Sky Sect is so powerful and can accumulate power is because the Clear Sky Hammer itself is a heavy, blunt weapon.
Therefore, using this method of leveraging another's strength against them is a perfectly suitable and reasonable approach.
But what about Feng Xiaotian's martial soul? It's a beast martial soul like the Gale Demon Wolf!
To unleash this self-created soul skill, he needs to continuously condense wind blades in his hands. However, the hardness and strength of mere wind blades are naturally inferior to those of the Clear Sky Hammer.
[This is precisely why things are backwards; in the original story, when Feng Xiaotian and Tang San were competing on the arena...]
[His Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes of the Gale Wolf were ultimately no match for Tang San's half-baked Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique using the Clear Sky Hammer.]
[Regarding the reason why he only reached level 44 at the age of 24, I've also heard another explanation.]
[They say it's because he wanted to wait for Huo Wu in the competition and didn't want to fall behind, but I think if Feng Xiaotian really had that thought, it just shows how incredibly stupid he is.]
[For Huo Wu's sake, Feng Xiaotian deliberately slowed down his cultivation speed? That's utterly foolish!]
[What woman in this world wouldn't be attracted to a powerful, peerless expert who can protect her?]
Feng Xiaotian's servile, sycophantic behavior will only make the proud and arrogant Huo Wu despise him even more.
After all, Huo Wu is actually three or four years younger than Feng Xiaotian, but her soul power is only two levels lower than his.
[Furthermore, Huo Wu's talent is exceptional. Although Feng Xiaotian possesses some self-created soul skills, Huo Wu has mastered the Fusion Ring talent!]
In a battle between equals, if you send Feng Xiaotian to withstand Huo Wu's Radiant Sun attack, forcibly unleashed using her Fusion Ring talent, do you think Feng Xiaotian could withstand it?
[When dealing with a woman with a fiery personality like Huo Wu, you should be tough on her in terms of strength and completely conquer her with absolute power.]
In the original novel, Huo Wu looked down on Feng Xiaotian, let alone the current Huo Wu who has already broken through to the Soul King level.
In the chat group, the women started chatting enthusiastically about this juicy gossip.
[Seven Treasures Little Rich Girl: Wow, I never expected that Huo Wu would also possess the talent of ring fusion.]
[Seven Treasures Little Rich Girl: If I have the chance in the future, I really want to have a good competition with her to see whose ring fusion technique is better.]
[Seven Treasures Little Rich Girl: But unfortunately, I'm just a support-type Soul Master. The Ring Fusion talent is indeed more suitable for a battle-type Soul Master.]
[Dark Night Queen: At twenty-four years old and only at level forty-four, this cultivation speed is truly a disservice to his top-tier talent of innate full soul power; it's simply a waste of his potential.]
[Dark Queen: If I had this talent, I might have already been a Soul King by the time I was twenty-four in the original story.]
[I want to live past thirty: Right, doesn't he know that the golden period for a Soul Master's cultivation speed is before the age of thirty?]
[I want to live past thirty: In the early stages of building a foundation, one shouldn't be too fixated on developing self-created soul skills and neglect the cultivation of soul power.]
[I want to live past thirty: In my opinion, creating one's own soul skills, which consumes a lot of time and energy, is more reasonable and wise to cultivate slowly after reaching a higher level and encountering a bottleneck.]
Meanwhile, on the central arena...
Huo Wu looked at Xiao Wu, who had easily defeated her brother, her eyes filled with apprehension. She said to Xiao Wu:
"Hey, let's have a fair and square contest of strength this time. Do you dare to stop using that charm skill of yours?"
Hearing this somewhat unreasonable request, Xiao Wu couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
"That's a bit unreasonable of you. The charm soul skill is also my soul skill. How is using it not fair and square?"
Xiao Wu flexed her wrists, winked playfully, and said, "However, I can reluctantly grant you this small request."
"After all, if they kick you out in one go like they did when they beat your brother, then this competition really wouldn't be very interesting."
In response to Xiao Wu's words, Huo Wu gritted her teeth in anger and snorted coldly, saying, "Stop talking big. In the end, we still don't know who will win or lose!"
As soon as the starting signal for the match was given, the atmosphere on the stage instantly became tense.
Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Wu immediately activated her teleportation skill, flashing to Huo Wu's side and kicking out.
As a genius of Blazing Academy, Huo Wu also has a very fast reaction speed in actual combat.
She was prepared, and her third purple spirit ring lit up instantly as she unleashed her third spirit skill, Fire Resistance Ring!
A dazzling, strange ring of fire erupted from Huo Wu's center, carrying an irresistible, immense force that forcibly pushed Xiao Wu away.
Xiao Wu performed a backflip in mid-air to stabilize herself and landed in the distance.
Seeing that Huo Wu's soul skill of pushing people from all angles was indeed a bit troublesome, she immediately made a decision in her heart and decided not to continue to engage in head-on close combat with her.
Xiao Wu's legs were slightly bent, and the soul power within her body circulated rapidly along a strange path.
She immediately unleashed the sixth move of the Wind God Leg Technique: Howling Wind!
Xiao Wu channeled all the raging wind energy around her into one of her legs, and then, in mid-air, she kicked out several sharp wind shockwaves towards Huo Wu from a distance!
This miraculous Wind God Leg technique was obtained by Xiao Wu from the rewards of the diary system over the past few years.
Although she has only just reached a basic level in understanding most of the profound techniques in this manual.
Even if it's just at the beginner level, the exquisite nature of this martial art is more than enough to deal with Huo Wu in front of us.
What's more, there's a six-level difference in soul power between the two of them.
Huo Wu was taken aback by Xiao Wu's fierce long-range wind blade attack and dared not be careless in the slightest.
She quickly conjured a ball of blazing flame in front of her and launched it at the wind blade in an attempt to intercept it.
However, when the ball of flame met the shockwave of the wind force kicked out by Xiao Wu in mid-air, it only lasted for a moment before being torn apart and scattered by the gale!
With the wind blades about to hit her, Huo Wu was filled with helplessness and could only grit her teeth and use her third soul skill, the Fire Ring, to resist the fire.
With a burst of flames, the powerful thrust of the fire ring barely managed to neutralize the wind blades unleashed by Xiao Wu.
Looking at Huo Wu, Xiao Wu stood at a distance, smiled smugly, and said, "Your third soul skill is indeed powerful for defense, but how many times can you use this kind of wide-range projectile soul skill in a row?"
Then, Xiao Wu gave Huo Wu no chance to catch her breath, unleashing the Wind God Leg technique combined with her superb light footwork.
Xiao Wu's figure transformed into streaks of pink afterimages, constantly moving at high speed around Huo Wu, making it impossible for anyone to catch a glimpse of her true form.
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