Chapter 124: Xiao Hongchen: “is This Right?”
Above the high platform, Ti Bao gripped the railing with both hands, her petite body lifted upward by her arms.
The small tuft of red hair tied on the left side of her head swayed back and forth, making Meng Hongchen’s heart itch as she watched from beside her.
Seeing Ti Bao’s somewhat anxious expression, Meng Hongchen came to her side and struck up a conversation.
“My name is Meng Hongchen.”
“What’s your name?”
Ti Bao turned her head to look at Meng Hongchen, and her pleasant, childish voice reached Meng Hongchen’s ears, nearly making her unable to resist hugging and kissing her.
“My name is Ti Bao.”
“The one below is Little Enemy.”
Meng Hongchen, seeing this adorable little one, immediately cast her brother aside and turned to angrily vent at Xiao Hongchen.
“That guy Xiao! Truly lacking manners!”
“It was clearly his fault, yet he acts so righteous! Ti Bao, don’t worry!”
“No matter the outcome, big sister will make that bastard Xiao apologize to you!”
“He has so many soul tools on him! Watch me pluck some for you!”
Ti Bao felt that the white side ponytail big sister beside her had a somewhat strange gaze, so she shrank her head and said:
“No need for that.”
“I actually don’t mind.”
“Little Enemy is always like this, he likes protecting friends.”
“He also takes every task seriously!”
“Actually, he is a very gentle and kind person!”
Meng Hongchen nodded and said:
“Mm-hmm, unlike that idiot Xiao, who messes everything up…”
Below, Xiao Hongchen suddenly sneezed, completely unaware that his own sister had stripped him down to his underpants.
Mademos stood with arms crossed over his chest, power surging within his body, his lion-like eyes faintly emitting golden light.
Xiao Hongchen appeared nonchalant on the surface, but his body was honest, tensing up in full combat readiness.
Soon, a referee walked onto the Fighting Platform, looking at the tense standoff between the two, and said to them:
“The rules for No Restrictions Soul Fighting are simple: the side that loses combat ability or falls off the Fighting Platform loses.”
“Flight Ability is allowed, but not higher than 10 meters above the Fighting Platform, otherwise it’s a loss.”
“Attention! Soul Fighting Competitions strictly prohibit malicious maiming or killing!”
“I am the referee for this match, a Level 61 Soul Emperor, and I will be responsible for your lives!”
“Once I detect killing intent from either side, this Soul Fighting will immediately terminate!”
After speaking, this referee went to stand on the high platform at one side of the Fighting Platform, signaling both sides to take their positions.
Xiao Hongchen followed the instructions to one side of the Fighting Platform. Due to the referee’s words, his view of Douluo Three Kingdoms instantly improved greatly, and he thought to himself:
“Not bad!”
“Douluo Three Kingdoms is indeed much more perfected in Soul Fighting Competitions than the Sun Moon Empire.”
“Strictly ensuring the lives of both competitors, where are the match killings that Meng Hongchen mentioned?”
Xiao Hongchen had clearly taken Xilu City’s special case as the norm. In reality, outside of Xilu City, maiming and deaths in Soul Fighting Competitions happened frequently!
Even in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, with Titled Douluo as referees, one side could still suffer heavy casualties.
Xilu City was purely because strength levels were generally not high, and referees, out of enthusiasm, required full concentration, which kept the Soul Fighting Competitions at an appropriate intensity.
After the referee confirmed both sides were ready, he nodded and said to the two:
“I announce, Soul Fighting begins!”
With the referee’s command, the Soul Guiding Barrier rose around the Fighting Platform, isolating all Soul Power Fluctuations from affecting the surrounding audience.
Xiao Hongchen immediately recognized this Soul Guiding Barrier as a Mingde Hall product, at least a Level Six Soul Tool.
“Grandfather that guy really sells everything!”
He grumbled slightly about his own grandfather, his heterochromatic eyes narrowing slightly, then a powerful aura rose, golden Soul Power swirling around his body.
A massive golden toad phantom appeared behind Xiao Hongchen, and the entire Fighting Arena felt the majesty from that divine beast bloodline.
Soon, the phantom merged into Xiao Hongchen’s body, his body as if dusted with gold dust, emitting dazzling golden light.
Then a third leg grew from his buttock position, but this leg was brilliant gold, its appearance giving the Fighting Arena audience a real eye-opener.
“Hey, how’s this kid shitting bricks?”
A fish-selling uncle watched the Xiao Hongchen below with great interest. He was a Level 43 Soul Sect. Before his enthusiasm brought him to Xilu City, he had been a gang boss.
Later, after eating Huo Yuhao’s iron fist, he returned to his old trade of selling fish.
Xiao Hongchen was full of black lines, instantly feeling that this group of Douluo ruffians completely ignored the unique power of his beast Martial Soul.
Two yellow and two purple soul rings appeared behind Xiao Hongchen. He was now a Level 48 Soul Sect!
A thirteen-year-old Soul Sect, this speed was enough to crush his peers, and this cultivation was mostly gained from absorbing energy from rare metals and consuming pills.
Mademos’s lion-like golden eyes bloomed with golden-red light, a golden-cast male lion appearing behind him.
The male lion emitted golden-red light, an aura of slaughter and strife sweeping the entire arena!
All the audience’s Martial Souls trembled, even the referee’s Martial Soul was affected, and Xiao Hongchen’s pupils contracted.
He felt his Three-legged Golden Toad Martial Soul seemed suppressed by the opponent.
One yellow and one purple soul ring appeared around Mademos, the Golden Lion King turning into golden-red armor covering Mademos’s body.
A Golden Lion Head appeared on his left shoulder, scarlet flames swirling around his body.
After noticing Mademos’s soul rings, Xiao Hongchen couldn’t help shouting:
“You only have two rings?!”
“Give up! Get down now and suffer less!”
At this moment, Xiao Hongchen felt bored. He hadn’t expected Mademos to only have two rings; winning wouldn’t be glorious.
Mademos snorted coldly, extending his hand covered in golden-red armor and clenching it into a fist.
“Retreat is not in my dictionary!”
“Beating you, two rings are enough!”
Xiao Hongchen felt a bit angry. His first and third soul rings lit up, metal control and gold condensation control summoning over ten golden small balls around his body.
They then transformed into eighteen soul tool cannons aimed at Mademos’s position.
Xiao Hongchen was confident that eighteen soul tool cannons were enough to make Mademos lose combat ability.
His current limit was controlling eighty soul tool cannons, but he felt that against a Great Soul Master, eighteen was already too many.
Mademos sensed the soul tool cannons locking on, his first soul ring lighting up.
“Blood for Blood!”
This was his first Soul Skill, a hundred-year Crimson Demon Mastiff carefully selected by Roman, a clansman of Chi Wang.
The extremely compatible soul ring fully unleashed the potential of the first Soul Skill.
In this Soul Skill’s activated state, for every bit of injury Mademos received, his power would increase slightly, and paired with his super strong self-healing ability, in prolonged combat, this Soul Skill was quite terrifying.
Scarlet flames ignited on Mademos’s body, forming a flame lion head, then his legs exerted force. Ultimate Power nearly shattered the arena, turning him into a flaming meteor charging straight at Xiao Hongchen.
In Xiao Hongchen’s eyes, a mass of flames rapidly enlarged, then the eighteen soul tool cannons fired together!
Eighteen golden energy beams tore through the air with screeching sounds, colliding fiercely with the flame lion head to produce a violent explosion.
The intense high temperature from the explosion melted the soul tool cannons around Xiao Hongchen, reverting them to metal balls.
He used Soul Power to block the scarlet flames, eyes fixed on the explosion center, then his pupils contracted.
Mademos stood unscathed in the center of the flames, the flames on his body growing even stronger, his power and aura both surging explosively!
That powerful overflowing force oppressed the surrounding air, making Xiao Hongchen’s breathing somewhat labored.
Xiao Hongchen didn’t know what was up with the opponent, how his power suddenly surged? He could only guess it was the effect of the opponent’s first Soul Skill.
Thus, he held nothing back anymore. He realized that if he kept holding back, he might really lose to a Great Soul Master.
If he lost, he might as well not return to the Sun Moon Empire and just bury himself somewhere in Xilu City.
“Interesting! Mademos, right?”
“I acknowledge you!”
Then, with all four soul rings lighting up together, eighty soul tool cannons appeared around Xiao Hongchen, encasing him like a steel porcupine.
Then the eighty soul tool cannons began charging, the powerful energy distorting the light across the entire arena.
The referee nearby was poised to act; if the situation turned wrong, he would separate the two even if it meant risking his life.
Mademos shook his wrist, his second soul ring lighting up.
“Blood Feud!”
The change happened almost instantly. The scarlet flames originally swirling around Mademos became viscous and sluggish, until forming high-temperature Crimson Crystal.
Ultimate Power fully erupted at this moment. Just the aura alone made the surrounding arena crumble inch by inch, the air rapidly flowing under the oppression of Ultimate Power, whipping up strong winds across the arena.
Both sides’ attacks happened simultaneously. Eighty soul tool rays of various styles rushed toward the charging Mademos.
But the result wasn’t the head-on collision Xiao Hongchen had anticipated, like before.
At the moment the attacks arrived, Mademos punched the ground, Crimson Crystal mixed with soil forming a wall in front.
The wall blocked and deflected a large number of attacks.
Mademos had long noticed that the opponent’s attacks looked imposing but were too dispersed! Energy waste was extremely severe!
A single crystal wall was enough to render most of the opponent’s attacks useless.
He wasn’t a fool like Bai E; how could he take a Soul Sect’s full-power attack head-on? That would be certain death.
The Golden Lion King’s self-healing ability currently wasn’t enough to withstand that level of attack.
In combat, Mademos was never a reckless brute charging forward blindly; he would seize every potential detail in the battle.
It wasn’t over yet. Mademos continued bombarding the ground, accelerating the arena’s disintegration.
The ground under Xiao Hongchen’s feet began to crack, the arena tilting backward, forcing him to dispel the soul tool cannons and dodge to the sides.
The restrictions Soul Engineers faced due to the small arena were fully exposed.
He had no time to dodge Mademos’s rapid assault and was caught mid-air by Mademos.
“We’re done for!”
This was Xiao Hongchen’s last thought.
If the arena were larger, or if he had teammates nearby, he was confident he could keep Mademos at bay, wearing him down remotely.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs now. Reality was that he had been closed in on by Mademos, this possessor of an Ultimate Power Martial Soul.
On the high platform, Meng Hongchen hurriedly covered Ti Bao’s eyes, then secretly took out a recording soul tool to capture the scene below.
Hearing the sounds of flesh striking the ground from the arena below, the girl prayed in her heart.
“When coming to Douluo Three Kingdoms, one should pray to the Sea God.”
“Sea God bless, may brother be alright.”
The surrounding bloodthirsty audience widened their eyes, watching Mademos grab Xiao Hongchen by the leg and smash him back and forth on the ground!
Loki from the neighboring Marvel set would call it professional.
Xiao Hongchen lay on the ground looking somewhat dead.
“Uh, what’s the situation here?”
Huo Yuhao appeared in the Fighting Arena with Su Tong. During his Kamui Teleportation, he sensed familiar energy fluctuations here.
The result was seeing Mademos beating Xiao Hongchen upon arrival.
Today has been all matters, had to accompany the leader, could only write when finding time during the day.
