At this moment, Feng Xiaotian, who was in the arena, had a different feeling.
After Zui Hongchen completed his armament, the intuition brought by his Double Headed Storm Wolf Spirit's possession told him that he was in danger.
Under everyone's strange gazes, Feng Xiaotian's charge towards Zui Hongchen suddenly changed, and his second and third spirit rings lit up simultaneously.
"Second Spirit Ability: Twin Wolf Possession!"
"Third Spirit Ability: Storm Wings!"
A pair of huge azure wings unfurled from Feng Xiaotian's back. At the same time, an azure light and shadow condensed behind him, taking the form of a Double Headed Storm Wolf.
Against the backdrop of that vast and dazzling light and shadow, Feng Xiaotian soared into the air. With just one flap of his wings, and aided by the wind, his body shot straight up, reaching a height of fifty meters above the ground.
Seeing this, Zui Hongchen's lips curved into a smile, and he praised, "Keen battle intuition. If you had charged at me recklessly just now, in the next second, you would have been riddled with holes."
"spirit tools?" Feng Xiaotian stared at the cannon barrels surrounding Zui Hongchen, feeling a hint of regret for the first time.
In this battle, Zui Hongchen and the others hadn't forbidden him from using spirit tools. If he had some spirit tools at hand now, coupled with his Spirit advantage, he would naturally control the airspace.
Unfortunately, he had been somewhat narrow-minded before.
"Zui Hongchen, I admit I underestimated the role of spirit tools before. I will use my strongest Spirit Ability to defeat you. You said I wasted time creating my own Spirit Ability, so let me show you my results."
"This move, Storm Devil Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, I only perfected recently. Be careful."
Feng Xiaotian looked at Zui Hongchen below him, his expression serious as he spoke.
Hearing Feng Xiaotian mention his self-created Spirit Ability, the onlookers were undoubtedly shocked as they looked at him.
Although self-created Spirit Abilities were not popular in the Sun Moon Empire, no one would deny their power. Any Spirit Master capable of creating their own Spirit Ability was undoubtedly a remarkably talented individual.
"Come on, let me see what you've got." Zui Hongchen looked at Feng Xiaotian in the air with a serious expression. Although he could ascend with the help of a flying spirit tool, he ultimately lacked flexibility compared to his opponent.
With a long howl, the Double Headed Storm Wolf's light and shadow behind Feng Xiaotian gradually merged with his body.
His body descended from the sky like a shooting star, the sharp edges of his wings gleaming with a faint azure light under the sun as he slashed towards Zui Hongchen.
"Hehehe, artillery fire is a man's romance! If you want to attack me, you'll have to get through my barrage first!" Zui Hongchen laughed loudly, and with a clang of metal, hundreds of cannon barrels around him automatically calibrated, their muzzles pointing at the approaching Feng Xiaotian.
Fire!!!
Such a large number of Level 3 and Level 4 Spirit cannons firing together created an boundless net of firepower. No matter how Feng Xiaotian, like a fish, tried to swim, he couldn't break free from the net's bondage.
"Boom!"
"Is this the power of a Soul Engineer? What terrifying explosive force." Looking at Feng Xiaotian, who was scurrying around the arena, the Heaven Dou group was stunned.
Many people frowned in thought, wondering how they would respond to Zui Hongchen's fierce firepower if it were their turn.
Facing such firepower, they probably wouldn't last thirty seconds before being eliminated.
"Soul Engineers are generally weak in close combat, but in one-on-one situations, if one's speed is insufficient, or their defense is not strong enough, it's very difficult to get close, so the outcome is already decided." Shui Bing'er recalled the characteristics of Soul Engineers she had learned in the library these past few days, and calmly judged.
"But Bing'er, Feng Xiaotian's speed isn't slow. Even a speed-type Battle Spirit Master of the same rank can't compare to him. Moreover, he can fly. If even he can't get close to Zui Hongchen, doesn't that mean only a Spirit King or Spirit Emperor can reliably defeat Zui Hongchen?" Xue Wu said with some hesitation.
"This..." Shui Bing'er was momentarily speechless. All she knew was textbook knowledge; she didn't have detailed information on how Soul Engineers truly compared to Spirit Masters in practice.
Lin Ximeng listened to their conversation from the side, a faint smile on her face.
Not every Soul Engineer was as terrifying as Zui Hongchen. He was among the top tier of Soul Engineers in the Sun Moon Empire.
Due to his unique Spirit, Zui Hongchen's firepower when using spirit tools was exceptionally fierce, almost equivalent to a Soul Engineer corps.
At this moment, even though Feng Xiaotian could fly, he was forced into a corner of the arena by Zui Hongchen. His Storm Devil Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes couldn't even reach Zui Hongchen, so how could he build up power?
A feeling of frustration welled up in his heart. Feng Xiaotian felt like he was punching cotton.
The next second, his pupils contracted. He saw Zui Hongchen in the distance inexplicably squat down on the spot.
Countless metals grew around him, enveloping him without any blind spots, like a sturdy fortress.
This was one of the Soul Engineers' signature techniques, the Spirit cannon platform tactic. A Soul Engineer using the Spirit cannon platform tactic was like a living artillery platform, with the fiercest firepower.
Zui Hongchen clearly intended to kill Feng Xiaotian with one blow.
"Boom!!!"
Along with an explosion, the referee's voice also fell.
"Battle over, Zui Hongchen wins!"
"Feng Xiaotian lost, with no power to fight back at all." The outcome of the battle was not beyond everyone's expectations. They had already had a premonition when the battle began.
They just hadn't expected Feng Xiaotian to lose so miserably, so utterly without the power to retaliate.
For a time, many Heaven Dou academy students began to reflect on themselves, wondering if they had underestimated spirit tools too much in the past.
"Yu Tianheng, Spirit Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Level 36 Battle Spirit Elder, who will fight me!"
Yu Tianheng stepped forward, looking seriously at the people who had been with Zui Hongchen earlier, and said in a deep voice.
He didn't believe Feng Xiaotian's result. He believed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon wouldn't lose to a pile of scrap metal.
"Then let me play with you." Among the crowd, people looked at each other, and finally, a slender student walked out.
"Li Yan, Level 3 Soul Engineer."
The two quickly walked onto the arena. At the referee's command, Yu Tianheng was the first to complete his Spirit possession.
A dazzling blue light erupted from within Yu Tianheng, and streaks of blue-purple lightning coiled around his body.
His body didn't change much, except for a blue lightning symbol on his forehead. Only his right hand transformed into a dragon claw covered in blue-purple scales, each knuckle on his hand becoming extremely thick, and the blue-purple serpentine lightning swirling around him continuously condensed or flowed on his arm.
Two yellow and one purple spirit rings revolved around his dragonized arm.
Li Yan was different from Zui Hongchen. Zui Hongchen's use of spirit tools leaned towards long-range firepower strikes, while Li Yan was a Soul Engineer skilled in close combat.
After the battle began, a series of metallic clangs erupted from his body, then enveloped his entire upper body, as if he were wearing a suit of armor.
Li Yan's spirit tool armor could definitely be described as heavy armor. After putting it on, his entire body expanded by at least three sizes.
Bright blue metallic light shone, and two white lights flickered at his chest and lower abdomen, clearly the core formations of his spirit tool armor.