Chapter 105: Dai Youheng vs. Meng HongchenOld Ma looked at the arena and said, "This Dai Youheng is truly formidable. Little Meng, your Spirit is the bane of most others; you go deal with him.""Understood. I absolutely will not let him continue to run rampant," Meng Hongchen said.Although Dai Youheng fit her aesthetic, in the face of the Sun Moon Empire's rare chance at winning the championship, it was impossible for her to be influenced by "good looks."The Sun Moon Team finally couldn't sit still anymore. The fourth person to step onto the stage was one of their trump cards—Meng Hongchen!Meng Hongchen walked onto the stage and said softly, "Handsome brother, please go easy on me!"Meng Hongchen of the Sun Moon Team, while her appearance was not as breathtakingly beautiful as the Snow Empress, could still be called a little beauty. Her temperament was extremely cold. As she released her Vermilion Toad of Ice Spirit, the cold air permeating from her body caused a layer of frost to form on the surface of the arena. However, her eyes were as red as fire; the two extreme attributes of ice and fire formed a strange and dangerous balance within her.The battle erupted. Meng Hongchen's sword technique was exquisite; her ice sword was sluggish and obstructive, while her fire sword was as aggressive as fire. The alternating attacks of ice and fire were impossible to guard against.Even trickier was the extreme cold poison contained within the ice mist surrounding her, which constantly tried to invade Dai Youheng's body. Meanwhile, her fiery red eyes would occasionally flicker, releasing invisible fire poison that was equally impossible to defend against.Dai Youheng immediately felt the pressure. His tyrant tiger soul refining saber roared as it left its sheath. His saber technique was sweeping and powerful, using force to break through finesse, forcibly parrying the continuous attacks of the twin swords."It's useless. My poison will continuously drain you until your spirit power is exhausted and you die, frozen and burned," Meng Hongchen said coldly, her attacks becoming increasingly fierce.Dai Youheng's expression remained calm; his mind was not disturbed by her words. In reality, Meng Hongchen's ice-fire poison was completely useless against him.Although he could not use Ultimate Ice to fight without taking the snow soul condensing ice pill, the Snow Empress's spirit ring was still within his body. Those ice and fire poisons that entered his body, whether ice or fire, could only retreat when encountering the power within the Snow Empress's spirit ring.While swinging his saber to defend, he carefully observed. He discovered that although Meng Hongchen was formidable with poison, she seemed more inclined towards mid-range skirmishing rather than close-quarters combat, as if she were deliberately conserving something."Is she guarding against an outburst from me, or—does she have another trump card?" Dai Youheng's thoughts raced.Seeing that her poison didn't seem to work for some reason and that she couldn't win after a long attack, a flash of impatience crossed Meng Hongchen's eyes. She let out a sharp cry, her fifth spirit ring suddenly lit up, and the energy on her ice and fire swords instantly surged to the extreme!"You should be proud to have forced me to use this move! Ice-Fire Purgatory!"Terrifying ice and fire energy gathered frantically at the intersection of the two swords, compressing into an extremely unstable energy sphere radiating a destructive aura. It looked like it was about to be unleashed, swallowing the entire arena!This was a finishing move Meng Hongchen had created by fusing her strongest ten-thousand-year Spirit Ability with a level 5 spirit tool.It was at the very moment when the energy sphere was about to form, and Meng Hongchen was fully focused on controlling it—with her own defenses dropped to the lowest point.Dai Youheng used the auxiliary ability of Shadow Surge, Shadow Stealth. His entire body turned into an afterimage, shooting towards Meng Hongchen, the tyrant tiger soul refining saber thrusting directly at her chest to force her to defend.Meng Hongchen seemed to have anticipated that he would take the opportunity to attack, and a cold smile of a plan succeeding curled the corners of her mouth. The ice sword in her left hand barely blocked Dai Youheng's thrust, while the fire sword in her right hand continued to maintain the stability of the energy sphere.Just as the blade and sword were about to clash, a faint glimmer flashed from an inconspicuous ring on Meng Hongchen's left ring finger—Teleportation!Her figure disappeared directly from in front of Dai Youheng's blade and reappeared three steps behind and to the side of Dai Youheng. This position was extremely tricky, exactly the blind spot that was difficult for Youheng to defend against!"You've fallen for it, die!" Meng Hongchen shouted, and without hesitation, she pushed the Ice-Fire Purgatory, which had condensed massive energy, towards Dai Youheng's back. She had calculated precisely: immediately release the strongest finishing move after Teleportation; the opponent would have absolutely no time to react!However, at this critical moment, it was as if Dai Youheng had eyes on the back of his head. He didn't turn around, nor did he attempt to turn and block the destructive energy sphere that was inches away.His response was simple, direct, yet effective to the extreme!First Spirit Ability: Demonic Tiger Body; Third Spirit Ability: Shadow Surge! The two boosting Spirit Abilities instantly stacked to the limit!He didn't choose complex deflection techniques; instead, he poured all his surging spirit power unreservedly into his back. At the same time, his muscles tightened, and the phantom of the Evil Shadow Demonic Tiger roared silently behind him, forming a layer of incredibly solid spirit power armor!He was actually going to use his back to forcefully withstand Meng Hongchen's strongest strike, the Fusion of her fifth Spirit Ability and the twin-sword spirit tool!"Boom!!!"The destructive energy of ice and fire slammed solidly into Dai Youheng's back! A deafening explosion rang out, and the violent energy shockwave ravaged the area, causing the protective barrier of the arena to shake violently, flashing with chaotic light.Everyone held their breath, and the hearts of the Shrek team members were in their throats!But the next moment, they saw a shocking scene. As the energy light dissipated, Dai Youheng's figure was still standing! The clothes on his back were shattered, revealing back muscles that were sleek yet contained explosive power. They were covered in a layer of dense black-purple spirit power, flowing like tiger stripes. Although it had dimmed significantly, it had forcibly withstood that terrifying explosion!A trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth; he had suffered minor injuries, but he was far from losing his ability to fight!"What? How is this possible?" The smugness and cold smile on Meng Hongchen's face froze instantly, turning into utter disbelief and horror. Her strongest attack had actually been resisted by the opponent's body? And he was almost unscathed.And even more fatal was that, in order to burst out instantly, she was currently in the interval period of spirit power output, and her biggest trump card for saving her life, the Teleportation ring, had already been used!"Are your trump cards used up?" Dai Youheng slowly turned around, tore off his shattered upper garment, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and smiled. "Then now, it's my turn."Before the words left his mouth, he didn't give Meng Hongchen any chance to catch her breath or re-condense her spirit power! The speed of Shadow Surge exploded again!Meng Hongchen raised her twin swords in a hurry to block.But Dai Youheng didn't use the tyrant tiger soul refining saber again. Instead, his left hand reached out as fast as lightning, precisely grabbing the wrist holding her ice sword. With a forceful squeeze, Meng Hongchen felt the pain, and the ice sword fell from her hand!At the same time, Dai Youheng's right fist was clenched tightly, the immense power of his First Spirit Ability had not yet dissipated, and with a simple and brutal straight punch, he slammed it into her abdomen!"Bang!"The light of the trigger-type defensive spirit tool on Meng Hongchen's body flashed wildly, then shattered! Her delicate body shook violently, and she bent over like a shrimp, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with the aura of ice and fire. All her spirit power was scattered by this punch, and she could no longer maintain her Spirit Avatar, collapsing softly to the ground.Dai Youheng didn't even glance at her, turning to walk towards the center of the arena.He won, in such a domineering and brute-force way, hard-resisting a finishing move and winning with a single strike!The entire audience fell silent again, then erupted into even more fanatical cheers! Everyone was conquered by Dai Youheng's incredibly powerful defensive ability and his precise and ruthless tactical response!On the city wall, Emperor Xu Jiawei's eyes shot out with sharp light, and he couldn't help but praise in a low voice, "What a powerful physique! What decisive judgment! To be able to precisely seize the only flaw after Teleportation and trade injury for victory! This child has the talent of a great general!"Xu Jiujiu was so excited that her fingertips were trembling slightly, and strange colors rippled in her beautiful eyes. "He was even able to withstand Meng Hongchen's absolute kill move. Is his body made of the silver mother of deep-sea sunken silver?"Dai Hao's shock was beyond measure. He stared fixedly at the son with the upright back down on the stage, his heart churning. "What on earth—has he experienced over these years? This is definitely not something just the Evil Shadow Demonic Tiger Martial Soul could achieve!""Brother, that was a beautiful fight." Huo Yuhao was extremely excited. Dai Youheng had already won four consecutive matches, completely sweeping away the gloom of their defeat in the team battle just now.
