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The 'Unicorn Boar's' massive body charged toward Dugu Yan at an extremely high speed. The immense vibration attracted the attention of Shi Mo, who was locked in a fierce battle with the 'Flame Lord' not far away.
The fourth spirit ring on Shi Mo's body immediately lit up, flashing with a purple light.
A giant Xuanwu Shield, three meters wide and four meters long, instantly appeared on the charge path that the 'Unicorn Boar' was bound to take.
When the Xuanwu Shield appeared, the 'Unicorn Boar' had not yet charged more than a few meters.
Its inertial momentum had not had time to accumulate before it slammed its head directly into the enormous Xuanwu Shield.
Dong!!
The instant the pig and shield collided, the 'Xuanwu Shield' was smashed into smithereens.
After the 'Unicorn Boar' burst through the Xuanwu Shield, it flopped head-first onto the granite arena, its four legs splayed out as it slid to a stop.
Its originally extremely furious white pupils had turned into dizzying stars. Clearly, the 'Unicorn Boar' had managed to knock itself out.
When the 'Flame Lord' saw that the 'Xuanwu Turtle' Shi Mo actually had the spare attention to help defend a teammate, he immediately seized the opening created when Shi Mo used his fourth spirit ability.
Yan's third, fourth, and fifth spirit rings lit up with purple and black light respectively.
"Flying Sand Mad Flames!!!"
"Hell's Raging Flames!"
"Magma Surge!!"
The moment the fifth ten-thousand-year spirit ability, 'Flying Sand Mad Flames,' lit up, the twenty-meter area surrounding the Flame Lord—a circular zone forty meters in diameter—was instantly and completely covered in orange magma.
The range of the magma was so vast that it directly enveloped all six members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Xu Yu, wielder of the 'Brilliant Gold Scepter,' saw Yan unleashing his ultimate move and hurriedly dragged Li Kai (the 'Unicorn Boar' who had been released from his spirit possession) out of the magma's range.
After the magma domain appeared, the purple spirit ring's 'Hell's Raging Flames' followed immediately, causing all the magma within the circular domain to heat up rapidly.
The originally calm magma surface began to roil with occasional bubbles.
The air above the magma continuously twisted and heated up. This scorching heat caused all five members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, excluding Ye Lan, to break out in a massive sweat, their entire bodies and clothes soaked through.
At this moment, Yan's fourth spirit ability, 'Magma Surge,' activated. The magma within the domain began to churn violently.
In just a few seconds, Ye Lan, Ye Leng Leng, Ning Rong Rong, Dugu Yan, and Shi Mo were all sinking steadily into the magma.
At this moment, the 'Life Share' total health bar was dropping at an extremely high speed. Fortunately, they had all been linked to 'Life Share,' and all the damage was currently being transferred to the owner of the health bar, the 'Blue Silver Grass.'
The Blue Silver Grass near Ye Lan began to explode wildly.
It was a good thing that Yan's spirit power level did not exceed Ye Lan's by twenty levels. Ye Lan and his Blue Silver Grass were able to use their fire exemption characteristic to gain immunity to the flame damage.
Otherwise, even if Ye Lan could rely on his 'Ultimate Water' characteristic to help the Blue Silver Grass resist the magma's fire damage, his spirit power would still be plummeting.
Once his spirit power was exhausted and his Blue Silver Grass was completely annihilated, the Life Share health bar would be in truly grave danger.
Although the Blue Silver Grass was not receiving fire damage, the rest of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy members were taking an enormous amount of it.
This caused the Life Share total health bar to begin dropping at a rate visible to the naked eye.
"Leng Leng, heal everyone!" Ye Lan immediately commanded.
Ye Leng Leng nodded and opened her palm.
The 'Nine Heart Saint Begonia' in her palm began to spin rapidly, and片 after片 of pink and white flower petals drifted onto everyone.
"'Nine Heart Saint Begonia,' Fourth Ability: Mass Heal!"
A sea of flowers instantly covered everyone. All five of them were blanketed by the 'Nine Heart Flower Petals.'
This meant all five were enjoying the healing effect, which, for the 'Life Share Total Health Bar,' translated into a five-fold healing potency.
The originally dropping Life Share total health bar began to rise at an extremely fast speed. In just a moment, the once-desperate health bar was full once again!
And the 'Flame Lord' Yan was completely unaware of all this.
After Yan finished releasing his ultimate move, he saw that the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy team was completely restricted by him.
He had assumed that the Heaven Dou team would have to exhaust all their spirit power to resist the magma. In his excitement, he began to laugh wildly.
"Hahahaha, all of you can just die beneath the hellfire! I am the Flame Lord, Yan!"
However, as he laughed, Yan's laughter came to an abrupt halt.
He discovered, to his astonishment, that the five members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy were actually 'taking a bath' in his magma domain!!?
Why isn't my magma domain doing any damage at all?
At this time, the 'Golden Blue Silver Grass' behind Ye Lan was continuously exploding, but the grass seemed to be endless.
Not long after one batch exploded, a new batch of Blue Silver Grass would appear in the same spot.
Bibi Dong's gaze was repeatedly drawn to the five Heaven Dou members 'bathing' in the magma. She was perfectly clear on Yan's strength.
Among all attribute-based spirit abilities, magma-type skills were in the highest tier of attack power.
But faced with the combined area-of-effect magma skill from Yan's three abilities, the five Heaven Dou members remained completely unharmed. Bibi Dong guessed that, aside from the help of the mutated 'Nine Heart Begonia' in healing them, the third spirit ring that Ye Lan currently had lit was likely the greatest contributor.
"An interesting spirit ability. This final match will not end so easily," Gu Yuena commented.
"Young Lord, with you present, no team that encounters our Myriad Beast Academy will have any power to fight back," Bing Di said, looking at Gu Yuena with worship.
Gu Yuena shook her head slightly and said, "Do not underestimate anyone. The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's captain is merely a rank 39 Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master, but his strength is likely not as simple as what he has revealed."
Xiong Jun patted the massive muscles on his chest and said, "Young Lord, no matter how 'not simple' he is, in the end, he's just a Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master. Watch the finals, I'll show you how I deal with him."
"I think the Young Lord is right! That golden-haired youth's Blue Silver Grass is far from simple. Even my 'Demon Eye Demon Tree' was suppressed by him, and you must know, the Demon Eye Demon Tree is already at the level of Ultimate Wood, belonging to the very pinnacle of plant-type spirits."
"Which is to say, his spirit's quality has likely reached the level of a God-level Spirit," Wan Yao Wang said with dread. After this period of study, Wan Yao Wang had also come to understand the 'New Spirit Core Competitiveness' theory that Ye Lan had published.
"So what? His Blue Silver Grass definitely can't withstand my Sky-Tearing Claw!" Xiong Jun said confidently, his five fingers forming a claw.
Within the red mist, 'Yao Mei' (Demon Charm) had fled. After putting distance between himself and Qian Renxue, he began to hold his breath with all his might.
Although 'Yao Mei' didn't know why Qian Renxue could sense him within the red mist, 'Yao Mei' was extremely confident in his own spirit fusion skill.
He felt that as long as he completely concealed his breath, he could definitely 'disappear' from Qian Renxue's presence.
And just as 'Yao Mei' had anticipated, Qian Renxue's 'Heart's Eye' was only at a rudimentary level. It was capable of perceiving moving targets.
Against the 'Yao Mei' who had slowed his movements and completely concealed his presence, she instantly lost her perception of him.
Qian Renxue frowned slightly. At this moment, 'Yao Mei' had completely vanished from her 'Heart's Eye' field of vision.
Since you won't fight me with swordsmanship, I have no need to keep playing with you in this red mist!
"Angel - Spirit Power Form!"
A pair of enormous angelic wings materialized behind Qian Renxue. The moment the angel wings appeared, Qian Renxue's spirit power directly increased by one hundred percent.
Qian Renxue's Six-Winged Angel spirit and Zhuqing's 'Shadow Saint Civet' both belonged to the beast spirit category, so she, like Zhu Zhuqing, had learned Ye Lan's 'Spirit Possession Adaptation Method.'
Since Qian Renxue was inside the red mist, outsiders could not see the situation within.
Therefore, Qian Renxue appropriately revealed some of her true strength.
Of course, the base spirit power she was using was still at the Soul King level. To defeat Hu Liena, Qian Renxue would not stoop to relying on a higher spirit power level to suppress her opponent.
The 'Angel - Spirit Power Form' was a combat skill Ye Lan had taught her; it was not part of her true body's strength.
Moreover, using a skill Ye Lan had taught her could be considered as the two of them jointly fighting against Xie Yue and Hu Liena's spirit fusion skill, 'Yao Mei.'
Qian Renxue activated 'Angel - Spirit Power Form,' and in the instant her spirit power surged...
'Yao Mei' was greatly alarmed. As the one who had released this spirit ability, he was the one who best understood Qian Renxue's condition within the red mist.
He had never expected Qian Renxue to so easily boost her spirit power to the Soul Emperor level, bringing her to the same level as him.
'Yao Mei's' surprise wasn't over. At this moment, Qian Renxue's fifth spirit ring flashed with a black light.
"Angel's Flame!!"
Qian Renxue raised the 'Angel Holy Sword' high above her head with both hands. The moment the spirit ring lit up, the golden holy sword suddenly erupted with scorching-gold flames.
The fierce, scorching-gold flames burst through the 'Red Mist' and shot straight to the top of the clouds.
The Silver Dragon King, this grandmaster of elements, merely swept her gaze over the dazzling flames in the sky before commenting, "It is an Ultimate-level fire element. Furthermore, the quality of this Ultimate Fire is a level higher than the Ultimate Fire achieved by the 'Fire Shadow' from the Element Academy using ring fusion."
Thinking of something, the Silver Dragon King extended her senses toward the golden-haired girl's condition.
Gu Yuena sensed that the golden-haired girl seemed to be veiled by a layer of gauze.
A camouflage spirit ability? Gu Yuena thought to herself.
A camouflage skill that could resist her current senses was definitely a hundred-thousand-year level spirit ability. Which meant, that girl had a hundred-thousand-year-level spirit bone on her?
Golden hair, an angelic aura.
The future second-generation Angel God?
Gu Yuena suddenly felt the pressure on her increase by another fraction.
As the scorching-gold flames pierced the clouds, Qian Renxue retracted the flames on her holy sword.
She held the Angel Holy Sword horizontally in front of her with both hands. She stepped, twisted her body, and swept!
The holy sword spun three hundred and sixty degrees.
A circular, scorching-gold flame slash instantly expanded outward in all directions at extreme speed.
Faced with this AOE (Area of Effect) flame slash, 'Yao Mei' could only retreat frantically, trying to dodge this terrifying AOE attack.
Wherever the scorching-gold flame slash passed, not a wisp of mist remained.
The red mist that had originally enveloped half the arena was instantly incinerated by the 'Ultimate Fire.' After Qian Renxue finished this strike, she immediately canceled the 'Angel - Spirit Power Form,' returning to her normal state.
Qian Renxue slowly opened her eyes, only to see 'Yao Mei' now perched on the 'Flame Lord's' shoulder.
And the place where they stood was covered everywhere in roiling magma.
At this moment, Ye Lan, Leng Leng, and Rong Rong were all submerged up to their waists in the magma.
After confirming that they were all unharmed, Qian Renxue lightly cursed Ye Lan, "Ye Lan, you and your perverted spirit ability!"
Hearing Qian Renxue praise him for being formidable, Ye Lan smiled and waved his hand. Since Qian Renxue had broken through the 'Red Mist,' Ye Lan dismissed the thought of instantly killing the 'Flame Lord,' leaving the opponent for Qian Renxue instead.
Qian Renxue gripped her sword with both hands, holding it diagonally by her feet, her golden pupils staring directly at the Golden Generation.
Let me, Qian Renxue...
Cut you all down!!
'Yao Mei' spoke, "Yan, ignore the others, attack Xiao Xue with all your strength! I will create an opportunity for you!!"
The 'Flame Lord' nodded. After all, Qian Renxue was the person Hu Liena wanted to defeat.
At this time, the red core on the Flame Lord's chest lit up.
He spread his enormous arms, raising them above his head.
Following this, countless streams of 'magma' from the arena began to converge above his hands. A massive ball of magma was gradually forming.
Just as 'Yao Mei' saw Yan begin to take action, his figure flashed and instantly appeared in front of Xiao Xue, his twin moon blades slashing down at Qian Renxue in a cross pattern.
With the 'Red Mist' gone, Qian Renxue's perception was restored.
Although the 'Heart's Eye' could sense opponents, it was, after all, inferior to her real eyes.
At this moment, Qian Renxue, with her perception fully open, saw right through 'Yao Mei's' move. She raised her sword in an upward slash.
Before 'Yao Mei's' twin blades could even fully exert their force, they were parried in advance by Qian Renxue.
With just one upward slash, Qian Renxue sent 'Yao Mei' staggering back several steps.
Qian Renxue pressed her advantage, stepping forward with a horizontal chop.
At that moment, the golden sword's shadow flashed with a scorching-white flame.
'Yao Mei' didn't have time to parry and could only retreat again.
But his speed was a fraction too slow. The Angel Holy Sword slashed across his torso, as simple as a hot knife cutting through butter.
A gash was instantly cut open on his abdomen. Before the blood could even splash out, it was vaporized by the high temperature of the holy sword. The air instantly filled with the smell of scorched flesh.
Intense pain assaulted 'Yao Mei's' mind. He immediately grit his teeth against the agony in his abdomen.
He quickly twisted his body, using his core strength to fling the moon blades in his hands toward Qian Renxue.
The moon blades spun continuously, cutting through the air, their target aimed straight at Qian Renxue's fair neck.
Qian Renxue immediately turned her body and twisted her head, dodging one moon blade. She then used the rotational force of her turn to raise her sword and block the other spinning blade.
After deflecting the second moon blade, just as Qian Renxue was about to give chase...
'Yao Mei' had already retreated behind the 'Flame Lord.' At his summons, the two moon blades flew back into his hands.
At this time, the 'Magma Ball' above the Flame Lord's hands had already reached a diameter of more than ten meters.
"Earth's Fury!!"
The Flame Lord roared and hurled the gigantic 'Magma Energy Ball' toward Qian Renxue.
Qian Renxue was fearless. She raised her sword and leaped toward the 'Earth's Fury,' the holy sword in her hands once again blazing with 'scorching-gold flame.'
A tiny figure leaped toward the massive magma ball.
Qian Renxue used only one strike. 'Earth's Fury' was instantly cleaved in two.
The moment the 'scorching-gold flame' touched the magma, the 'magma' was instantly incinerated, as if it were dry grass meeting a inferno.
The two pools of severed magma flew toward the audience stands on either side, drawing gasps of alarm from the crowd.
Before the Titled Douluo could even act, Gu Yuena stretched out her small, fair hand and clenched her five fingers.
The magma instantly froze in mid-air, and then, the 'magma' vanished into thin air.
Countless people watching this scene felt their pupils shrink. If an element-type spirit master encountered this person in the future, how could they even play?
Should they just go home and farm?
After Qian Renxue split 'Earth's Fury,' her figure flashed, instantly appearing above the 'Flame Lord.'
Seeing Qian Renxue suddenly appear right in front of him, 'Yao Mei,' who was on the 'Flame Lord's' shoulder, immediately retreated in a burst.
The giant 'Flame Lord' had very strong attack and defense, but its speed was very slow.
Facing Qian Renxue, it was impossible for it to escape.
Nor did it have time to escape. At this moment, Qian Renxue had already struck.
The instant she struck, the golden holy sword once again blazed with scorching-gold flame.
A massive 'scorching-gold crescent moon' appeared on the 'Flame Lord's' body.
Similarly, when the 'Flame Lord' met the 'scorching-gold crescent moon,' it was like butter meeting a red-hot knife. It was instantly sliced in two at the waist.
The 'Flame Lord,' now in two pieces, could no longer maintain its form. The flame core instantly shattered.
Amidst the countless falling red core stones, a red-haired Yan fell onto the arena floor.
'Yao Mei,' who had once again dodged Qian Renxue's attack, did not retreat further. He looked at Qian Renxue with determination and said:
"Since it has come to this, then let me show you my self-created spirit ability!!"
"This spirit ability is named: Full Moon."
"Even without relying on the spirit fusion skill 'Yao Mei,' I could defeat a rank 68 Spirit Emperor with just this one move. And now that I am using this move while under the effects of the spirit fusion skill, you might actually die! Be careful!"
After 'Yao Mei' spoke, he half-bent his legs, placing his moon blades one in front and one behind him.
Qian Renxue, meanwhile, took a step forward, holding her sword with both hands, positioning it at her side.
Seeing that Qian Renxue was ready, 'Yao Mei' moved.
His figure vanished completely.
In the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of Qian Renxue.
At this moment, 'Yao Mei's' figure had disappeared, and his moon blades had also disappeared.
In front of Qian Renxue, there was only a single, silver-white disc. This disc was spinning at an extremely high speed.
Its speed was so fast that it kicked up an innumerable, fierce gale.
The gale itself seemed like a bone-scraping blade, frantically cutting into the granite of the arena.
If the wind it carried was already so sharp, what about the moon blades on the disc's edge?
The instant 'Yao Mei' activated 'Full Moon,' Qian Renxue also moved.
Her body flashed with platinum-gold and crimson-gold spirit power light. These two types of spirit power were 'Ultimate Divine' and 'Ultimate Fire' respectively!
"Angel Saint Flame!!!"
"E... xcalibur!!!"
At this moment, the 'Angel Holy Sword' in Qian Renxue's hand flashed with an extremely blinding white light. A fierce power of divine flame exploded from the 'Angel Holy Sword.'
The 'Angel Holy Sword' slashed down upon the 'Full Moon.'
In just a moment, under the 'Angel Saint Flame's' massive energy impact and terrifyingly high temperature...
The moon blades could no longer hold. Countless diamond-shaped fragments burst out wildly in all directions.
This caused both Qian Renxue and 'Yao Mei' to bleed red and golden blood.
In the slow-motion view of the Golden Pupils, the instant the golden blood flowed out, Ye Lan immediately squeezed Ye Leng Leng's small hand.
Ye Leng Leng understood instantly. Petals drifted down, landing on Qian Renxue.
Relying on the 'Nine Heart Saint Begonia's' healing, Qian Renxue's 'golden blood' did not even have a chance to flow out, and the wounds on her body were all completely healed.
A few seconds later, the 'Full Moon' could no longer hold on. A figure was sent flying backward off the arena.
'Yao Mei' was left holding only the hilts of his moon blades; the blades themselves had all shattered.
Heavily injured, 'Yao Mei' could no longer maintain the fusion. It dissolved, leaving only two weakened figures with white and brown hair on the ground.
"Leng Leng, quickly, heal them," Ye Lan said immediately.
A beautiful rain of 'Nine Heart Saint Begonia' flowers drifted down upon the arena.
Beneath the flower rain, Qian Renxue's golden pupils met Bibi Dong's purple pupils.
Qian Renxue's gaze seemed to be saying: Bibi Dong, you chose the wrong person.
Qian Renxue tried to find a trace of regret or loss in Bibi Dong's eyes.
However, Bibi Dong's expression was extremely calm, not revealing a single trace of emotion.
Qian Renxue gripped her Angel Holy Sword tightly, then turned and walked toward Ye Lan.
Beneath the Pope's throne, Bibi Dong's heart was not, in fact, as calm as Qian Renxue thought.
Bibi Dong felt proud of Qian Renxue. However, just now, the 'Rakshasa's evil thoughts' had begun to act up.
At this moment, aside from feeling proud of Qian Renxue, her mind was filled with nothing but endless killing intent.
Forcibly suppressing the killing intent she felt toward Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong turned her head and signaled to the officiating staff.
The staff member hurriedly announced in a loud voice: "Heaven Dou Imperial Academy S versus Spirit Hall Academy! The winner is Heaven Dou Imperial Academy! Tomorrow's final match will be Myriad Beast Academy versus Heaven Dou Imperial Academy!!"
After hearing the staff member's announcement, Bibi Dong vanished from the throne.
Ning Fengzhi, meanwhile, was chatting with Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo. They had been getting along quite harmoniously recently.
Di Tian, on the other hand, was replaying the battle between Spirit Hall Academy and Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in his mind. After the replay, Di Tian had a newfound respect for humans.
He thought to himself:
No wonder the Lord wanted to be reborn and cultivate again. Is this the talent of humans?
He truly had not expected that humans, relying on only a Soul King's cultivation, could erupt with the power of a Soul Saint.
Even among spirit beasts, such occurrences were few and far between.
Moreover, that golden-haired youth's spirit ring effects were excessively absurd.
The Lord's spirit rings were all pale gold because of the Silver Dragon King's foundation.
The other spirit beasts' first four rings could reach the ten-thousand-year level because of the 'Spirit Soul System' the Lord had developed.
But that human, his second spirit ring could already absorb a thousand-year spirit ring, and his third spirit ring's age was infinitely close to ten thousand years. If it weren't for the spiritual shock from a ten-thousand-year spirit ring, that human's third ring probably would have reached the ten-thousand-year level.
Which is to say, at the Grand Spirit Master stage, that human's physical constitution was already comparable to a Soul King's.
If this were translated to spirit beasts, it would be like a hundred-year spirit beast possessing the physical constitution of a ten-thousand-year spirit beast.
...
Spirit Hall, Pope's Palace.
The seven members of the Spirit Hall Academy were all kneeling on one knee below the throne. They hadn't even made it to the finals; they had actually lost to the Heaven Dou Empire's Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Although this was because Qian Renxue was on the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy team, this was not an excuse for their Spirit Hall Academy's failure.
"Alright, all of you, rise. It is not strange to lose to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. Even without Xiao Xue, you would not have lasted long," Bibi Dong said.
Yan hurriedly stood up, saying unconvinced, "Your Holiness, I admit defeat in losing to Xiao Xue, wholeheartedly. But I do not believe I would lose to the others. The 'Nine Heart Begonia's' healing ability is strong, but she would eventually run out of spirit power."
Xie Yue also quickly spoke up: "Yan is right. If Xiao Xue hadn't been able to see through my movements in the 'Demon Charm Mist,' we had a high chance of defeating Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. This battle, it can be said that Xiao Xue alone defeated our Golden Generation."
Bibi Dong shook her head slightly. "You are all geniuses cultivated by Spirit Hall. I won't hide it from you. On the surface, Heaven Dou Imperial Academy is the Heaven Dou Empire's number one team. In reality, they are our Spirit Hall's Second Team."
(End of this chapter)