The group arrived at the training ground. Wu Changkong looked at everyone.
"Aside from Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, the five of you clearly lack practical combat experience and skill."
"When I say lack, I don't mean your combat experience with your martial souls and spirit abilities, though that is also lacking, it's not severe. What you truly lack is fundamental combat ability without relying on your martial souls."
"As for Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena — yesterday's match didn't show me your combat literacy. Now, fight me and let me see your abilities with my own eyes!"
As he spoke, Wu Changkong turned and walked to the center of the training ground.
Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena exchanged a glance, their expressions were somewhat strange, but they still went and stood opposite Wu Changkong.
"I will suppress my spirit power to the same level as Huo Yuhao's." Wu Changkong was speaking when a sound transmission suddenly came to his ear. "Ahem — it might be better to keep your cultivation a bit higher, Teacher Wu Changkong."
It was a reminder from Luo Yanglu.
Wu Changkong glanced at Luo Yanglu, who had quietly followed, and ignored him.
No matter how much he suppressed his strength, his spiritual power was still at the Spirit Sea realm. Huo Yuhao's spiritual attribute martial soul was naturally at a disadvantage against him.
If the other was rational, he wouldn't use spiritual power to attack him. In that case, the main attacker would be Gu Yuena at Level 28.
In that scenario, if he suppressed his spirit power to Level 40, wouldn't that be bullying?
He was a teacher, not a competitor or an enemy to these two children.
He hadn't given up using his martial soul simply because the two's overwhelming performance yesterday had made him cautious.
Seeing that Wu Changkong wouldn't listen, Luo Yanglu was silent for a moment, then transmitted to Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena: "Go easy on him. Save some face for Teacher Wu."
He could already foresee the embarrassing scene that would follow.
But this wasn't his fault. He couldn't just say that even their own Tower Master couldn't teach Huo Yuhao, could he? Who would believe that?
Just as Luo Yanglu finished his reminder, the three of them simultaneously revealed their martial souls and spirit rings.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black — six spirit rings appeared around Wu Changkong. But as he had said, he would suppress his cultivation to Level 30, so naturally, he would only use his first three spirit abilities.
"Come!" Wu Changkong held his martial soul — the Heavenly Frost Sword — in his right hand, his expression indifferent.
Gu Yuena made the first move. She waved both hands, and wind blades, fireballs, ice cones, and earth spikes all shot toward Wu Changkong.
Wu Changkong stood on his ground, his right hand gripping the Heavenly Frost Sword tightly, his left hand lightly pinching the tip of the blade. Facing Gu Yuena's fierce assault, he did not move. There was not a trace of emotional fluctuations on his face, as if nothing in this world could touch his heart or affect his state of mind.
Watching this scene, Skydream Iceworm in the Sea of Spirit inexplicably remembered his own past experiences. He glanced at Ice Empress.
Showing off will make you fly!
But facing a re-cultivating deity and a Limit Douluo alone, I acknowledge you, Wu Changkong!
Just as the attacks were about to hit him, the Heavenly Frost Sword in Wu Changkong's hand sprang up. A pale blue halo was about to expand when he felt a powerful spiritual shock in his mind at the same time!
Crack!
The defense that was about to form vanished in an instant. Facing the multitude of elemental attacks coming at him, Wu Changkong's mind felt a sharp pain, his thoughts momentarily stagnant. He was hit in the face by various elemental attacks. Only a moment later did he dodge away somewhat awkwardly, looking at Huo Yuhao. His eyes rippled, his expression was stiff and stiff.
"His spiritual power is — above the Spirit Sea realm?"
His own spiritual power was at the Spirit Sea realm. To be able to affect him without suffering backlash — what level had Huo Yuhao's spiritual power reached?
At least the Spirit Sea realm!
A nine-year-old above the Spirit Sea realm — even with a spiritual attribute martial soul, that was far too terrifying!
But what Wu Changkong hadn't expected was that Gu Yuena's actions would surprise him again.
As Huo Yuhao attacked, Gu Yuena began to continuously gather ice and wind elements around her. An ice storm comparable to a four-ring spirit master's attack was gradually taking shape, flying toward him.
"The Elemental Heart? And the Elemental Heart for two elements?"
Wu Changkong hurriedly dodged, not daring to take it head-on. His originally cold expression turned somewhat grim. Only one thought was in his mind.
What kind of monsters were these two? How was he supposed to fight this?
Watching Huo Yuhao charge toward him, Wu Changkong's expression darkened. Sharp sword threads shot out from the Heavenly Frost Sword. At the same time, a cloud of cold frost mist also gushes from his body, rapidly spreading outward.
Huo Yuhao raised his palm. A golden light burst forth from his hand — this was what happened when the spirit power and spiritual power of his Spirit Eyes martial soul were fused.
Huo Yuhao turned his palm into a blade, countering each move, neutralizing those ice threads. He clashed with Wu Changkong dozens of times in a few seconds. Their movements turned into afterimages, colliding rapidly.
He had seen people who used swords better than Wu Changkong currently did — and fought them!
But in Wu Changkong's view, Huo Yuhao's half-inch perimeter was like absolute defense. His attacks never got through. On the contrary, he himself was losing ground frequently.
In terms of technique — was Huo Yuhao above him?
Shock appeared in Wu Changkong's eyes.
And at this age, he had actually fused his spirit power and spiritual power, completing his own self-created secret trick?
How was that possible?
The next moment, Huo Yuhao swung his palm, grinding away a large number of sword threads while changing his palm into a fist, colliding with Wu Changkong's raised Heavenly Frost Sword.
Bam!
An explosion sounded in the air. Wu Changkong's mind felt a momentary. He staggered backward. By the time he sensed a certain presence, it was too late.
Gu Yuena, who had done nothing but feint at the beginning, silently appeared behind him. Her palm, wrapped with ice, fire, and space — three elemental powers — pressed against his back.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao's palm, wrapped with a mixture of spiritual power and spirit power, also punched from the front.
Of course, just like with the Spiritual Shock, Huo Yuhao did not use his full strength.
Save some face for Teacher Wu... well, maybe they couldn't anymore.
Boom!!!
The elemental storm and the special artistic conception exploded nearby. Wu Changkong, affected by the artistic conception, couldn't use his spirit abilities to defend. A piece of armor vaguely appeared, automatically protecting him. Then, a powerful surge of spirit power suddenly erupted from within him, instantly spreading outward.
As if they had expected this all along, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena shifted their bodies and were completely unaffected by Wu Changkong's spirit power.
At that moment, Wu Changkong felt as if the ones guiding him, the ones suppressing their strength, were not him — but them.
He even had a subtle feeling that the two of them had held back!
At the edge of the training ground, Xu Xiaoyan, who had thought she would see an evenly matched battle, blinked, her face full of confusion.
Huh — what had just happened?
Had this Soul Emperor teacher just... lost? How long had it been?
Xie Xie clicked his tongue and Tucao Tucao to the equally shocked Tang Wulin beside him: "How many more times are they going to scare us?"
Tang Wulin nodded woodenly.
Although it had to do with Teacher Wu suppressing his strength, a win was a win — undeniable.
Two peers had lightly and calmly defeated a Soul Emperor who was suppressing his strength — and even one of them alone could probably have done it. Tang Wulin felt that he might be witnessing history.
Wu Changkong took a deep breath. He looked at the calm-faced Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, then at the five with strange expressions beside them. He said coldly:
"All of you, come here. I'll raise my level to four or five rings now. The seven of you will fight me together!"
The five of them looked at each other in dismay, but still walked over as Wu Changkong had said.
"Student Yuhao — looking forward to working with you."
Xu Xiaoyan ran over to Huo Yuhao, her smile was bright.
Huo Yuhao smiled and nodded, then looked at Zhang Yangzi. "How about I take the main control position?"
"Of course." Zhang Yangzi nodded.
He hadn't forgotten that Huo Yuhao was a Control System Spirit Master. As soon as they finished speaking, all six on Huo Yuhao's side received Spiritual Detection and Sharing.
Under their gaze, time seemed to slow down. Everything around them was exceptionally clear. Wherever their eyes reached, a flood of information instantly poured into their minds. The details of Wu Changkong's every movement became clearly visible.
Not only that, with them as the center, the scene within a hundred meters in all directions — without needing to see it with their eyes — appeared in their minds in a three-dimensional form. Any tiny change would be immediately perceived and reflected in their brains.
A trace of shock flashed in the eyes of the five experiencing this spirit ability for the first time.
What kind of divine ability was this?
With this, plus Yuhao's command, and Gu Yuena there — it seemed they might actually be able to fight Teacher Wu after all!
Under Wu Changkong's frowning gaze, the five on the opposite side revealed mischievous smiles.
After the battle ended, Wu Changkong, radiating cold air from head to toe, walked all the way to Luo Yanglu and stood before him, expressionless.
"Huo Yuhao — I can't teach him. He is perfect. Perfect in every sense of the word."
Luo Yanglu: "..."
I warned you before. Don't go there. He's a monster.
Now you've lost face, haven't you?
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