Chapter 218: Tang San Logs In To Play On Behalf
“Hey! Everyone! I think we should first team up to eliminate those six in the middle!”
Among the core disciples separated by mountain rocks, a fourth-year core disciple shouted loudly to the people around him.
Xu Sanshi also responded loudly:
“I think that’s feasible!”
With someone taking the lead, the others also responded one after another, collectively turning their spears toward Bai E and the others in the middle.
Bai E watched as the soul rings around him lit up one by one, gripping the Dawn Greatsword tightly in his hand, his gaze slightly serious as he said:
“Mademos, the situation doesn’t look good.”
Mademos twisted his wrist and said:
“Are you scared?”
“These guys’ combat power isn’t even as good as that idiot Xiao Hongchen.”
Bai E glanced at Feng Jin and the others beside him, a smile appearing on his face as he said:
“Of course not!”
“Or rather, I’ve long wanted to fight side by side with you all once!”
“This should be our first collective action!”
“It really makes one feel excited!”
The corner of Mademos’s mouth rose in an imperceptible arc as he said:
“Then how about we compete to see who eliminates more people?”
Bai E swung the Dawn Greatsword in his hand, leaving a brilliant sword glow in the air as he said:
“Of course!”
“The loser has to do laundry for a week!”
Mademos’s golden eyes were filled with battle intent as he looked at the core disciples beginning to form formations around them. He clasped his fists, and scarlet flames began to condense into substance.
Feng Jin and Ti Bao were instinctively protected in the middle by Bai E and the others. She looked at the two ahead with boiling battle intent and revealed a sweet smile on her face.
“They’re still like this.”
“But this is indeed our first time fighting side by side.”
Ti Bao and Xia Die also nodded. Standing in front, Huo Sui’er smiled at them and said:
“Perfect, we’re all from the Xilu City Orphanage.”
“Give them a little Xilu City shock!”
In the stands, Xuan Zi and Long Xiaoyao watched the scene below intently. Long Xiaoyao became interested and said to Xuan Zi:
“Forcing the strongest few to huddle together isn’t a good idea.”
“The young people nowadays don’t understand that in a situation of overwhelming strength disparity, chaos is the best situation.”
“It seems this reserve team is without suspense.”
Xuan Zi didn’t speak. His gaze fell on Wang Dong and the other two slacking off at the edge as he said:
“There are still three slacking off. The last spot will be chosen from among those three.”
In the dueling arena below, support type soul masters like Ning Tian began moving to the rear, assault type soul masters held the front, and agility attack type soul masters began warming up.
Everyone was waiting for the first shot. Soon, the encircling side took action. The only soul tool department core disciple He Caitou deployed his soul tool cannon platform and, under the cover of those around him, quickly completed charging.
Twenty rays of light burst from his body, crossing over the core disciples ahead at extreme speed, fully covering the area where Bai E and the others were.
Feng Jin watched the fierce incoming attack, released her martial soul, and rainbow light accompanied by gale formed a barrier in the sky. All the attacks landed on it, producing violent explosions, but not a bit of aftermath broke through that rainbow hue.
“Everyone, get ready!”
Feng Jin’s first soul ring lit up, and a rainbow light circle appeared on Bai E and the others.
Their whole bodies’ soul power began rapidly recovering, vitality surging. Under this surging vitality boost, everyone gained extremely powerful self-healing ability.
This was Feng Jin’s first soul skill, Rainbow Dawn, also called by Zhuang Yusen the most absurd healing system first soul skill.
The calm of the dueling arena was broken. Ning Tian immediately cast soul skills on Wu Feng, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Xie Huanyue.
“Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, first enhancement: strength; second: speed; third: soul!”
Bei Bei and the others felt the power surging in their bodies, gave a thumbs up to the rear, then led the surrounding core disciples charging toward the six in the center.
“I’ve got a thick cigar, I’ve got a big cigar, I’ve got a long cigar, I’ve got a thin cigar!”
He Caitou opened his mouth wide, bit four cigars at once, took a mad puff, then activated his soul tool again, unleashing indiscriminate bombardment!
The surrounding core disciples all looked sideways, shocked by this continuous and terrifying attack.
“Earthquake!”
Bai E’s group also began acting. Huo Sui’er struck first, her second soul ring lighting up. The entire fighting platform began trembling violently, cracks appearing like wounds on the earth.
Strange earthy yellow light emanated from the cracks, a sense of crisis rising in everyone’s hearts. All realized they absolutely could not fall into them.
The cracks consciously spread toward He Caitou. He Caitou stopped the bombardment, sensing something wrong. Just as he tried to flee, he saw mountain rocks trapping him on both sides.
The surrounding core disciples wanted to rescue him but found mountain rocks generating ahead, blocking their actions.
He Caitou saw the cracks reaching his feet, gathered all his soul power to leap upward and break the seal, but the earthy yellow light from the cracks carried powerful attraction, nailing him firmly to the ground.
He Caitou watched himself fall into the crack, then the earth suddenly closed, his body firmly trapped in the soil, his feet gripped by some force, unable to move.
Then the surrounding soil began squeezing his body. He Caitou could barely breathe, his whole body’s bones emitting creaking sounds of unbearable strain.
Xuan Zi on the high platform flashed, quickly appearing at several corners of the dueling arena, rescuing He Caitou and several other unfortunates from the earth.
“You’re eliminated.”
“Next time, watch your feet carefully.”
“The earth isn’t always your friend.”
Bei Bei had no time to look back at the situation behind, because he was targeted by Mademos. Already heavily injured by Bai E, he couldn’t withstand Mademos’s terrifying offensive.
He relied on lightning and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps to maneuver around Mademos, but the other surrounding core disciples were out of luck.
They didn’t have advanced movement techniques for positioning and were knocked out one by one by Mademos and thrown down.
“You should have brought agility attack types.”
Mademos suddenly said to Bei Bei, then his figure flashed. Bei Bei’s eyes contracted, realizing it was space teleportation again!
He warily looked around. An illusory doorway unfolded above his head. Mademos gathered scarlet flames wrapping his fist and swung fiercely at Bei Bei below.
Bei Bei immediately activated Thunder’s Wrath and Thunder Dragon Claw to counter!
Flame and thunderbolt, two elements with terrifying attack power, collided intensely. Bei Bei gritted his teeth, barely holding on.
“Is this ultimate power?!”
The ground under Bei Bei’s feet caved in. The ferocious dragon arm emitted tooth-grinding cracking sounds. Countless dragon scales shattered under immense pressure, bright red blood dripping along the gaps to the ground.
Then Bei Bei suddenly felt his arm loosen. Looking up, he saw Mademos had vanished again. Before he could react this time, Mademos’s leg wrapped in scarlet flames, carrying terrifying airflow, whipped into Bei Bei’s abdomen.
Bei Bei suddenly felt his brain go blank, eyes bulging, mouth wide open, but unable to shout anything. His whole body shot out of the arena like an arrow off the string, crashing into the wall, dust spreading around.
When the dust cleared, Bei Bei was embedded in the wall, having lost consciousness.
Xuan Zi shook his head, pulled Bei Bei out, and said:
“Foolish!”
“You knew the opponent had ultimate power, yet fought him head-on. Mu Lao really should train you properly.”
Xu Sanshi was entangled by Bai E, sword and shield clashing intensely.
“Damn!”
“This is cheating!”
“Why can you teleport infinitely?!”
Xu Sanshi was numb. Every time he used Profound Nether Swap, Bai E would immediately appear behind him, impossible to dodge!
“Sorry, I’ll explain after you go down.”
Seeing Mademos had ended his fight, Bai E immediately erupted with blazing scorching sun!
Light and fire are inseparable. A golden scorching sun appeared before Xu Sanshi. The water elements generated by Profound Nether Power were now burned away.
The ultimate light blinded him. He only felt a heavy blow to his back, sending him flying out of the arena.
Only then did Xu Sanshi clearly see that Bai E had smacked him out with the flat of the Dawn Greatsword.
He could still try Profound Nether Swap to swap Bai E out, but after thinking, he gave up.
Xu Sanshi gave a helpless smile, looking at Bei Bei lying far away, and said:
“Sigh, I concede.”
Then his back hit the ground with a dull thud. He stood up limping to find Bei Bei.
The situation on the field was now clear: the original encirclement had become the encircled.
Bai E, Mademos, and Huo Sui’er, under Ti Bao’s Hundred Realms Gate support, fought dozens at once.
The support type soul masters like Ning Tian in the rear were panicking, as it was almost their turn.
Ning Tian’s good friend Wu Feng was already down, treated as cannon fodder by Mademos after just two rounds.
“Xue Qing, please don’t move.”
Just as Ning Tian and Xue Qing tried to shift, they saw a girl with amethyst-like eyes holding a massive scythe against their backs.
Xue Qing said tremblingly:
“Xia Die, we’re roommates, right? Lightly.”
Xia Die obediently nodded lightly and said:
“Mm.”
“Sleep well.”
Faint power of death made these support type soul masters instantly fall asleep.
A serene smile appeared on Xue Qing’s face as she said:
“Thanks.”
Long Xiaoyao on the high platform’s eyes shifted as he said:
“Xuan Zi?”
“I didn’t sense wrong, did I?”
“That power is power of death?!”
“Such pure power of death? Not a trace of evil intent?!”
Xuan Zi placed the support type soul masters lulled to sleep by Xia Die under the platform, returned to the high platform, and said:
“Yeah.”
“What’s wrong?”
“That child is also one Mu Lao thinks highly of.”
“The power of death is pure beyond reason.”
“According to little Wang, that child named Xia Die loves small animals, is very kind-hearted, a good child.”
“She can’t possibly become an evil soul master.”
Long Xiaoyao watched Xia Die below intently and said:
“Of course I know.”
“No one understands evil soul masters better than I do.”
“That power of death is so pure it’s unlike any power a human could have.”
“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe power of death could lack even a trace of evil intent.”
Long Xiaoyao thought to himself: “If Xi Shui saw her, she’d spare no effort to take her back as the Holy Spirit Cult’s holy woman.”
“Absolutely can’t let her fall into the Holy Spirit Cult’s hands!”
“Too dangerous.”
Just thinking of Ye Xishui fully controlling power of death made Long Xiaoyao shudder involuntarily.
At the arena edge, Wang Dong and the other two slacking off saw the fight basically over.
Wang Dong looked at Xiao Xiao and said:
“Xiao Xiao, we can withdraw.”
“Huo Sui’er and the others cleared the field.”
“Do you want to be on the reserve team?”
“Stay up here, Huo Sui’er probably won’t attack you.”
Finished speaking, Wang Dong prepared to jump down and withdraw. She didn’t want to join the reserve team.
Recently, big dad and second dad gave her a large sum of money, telling her to play freely after vacation and not return to Haotian Sect.
She’d long wanted to roam wildly across the continent. Compared to competing, she preferred sitting in the stands watching.
Wang Dong’s foot had just stepped off the fighting platform when a golden trident mark appeared on her forehead. A hammer pitch-black with blue-gold patterns appeared in her hand, then swung toward Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan.
Jiang Nannan immediately grabbed Xiao Xiao to dodge, falling out of bounds as a result.
Xiao Xiao reacted, looking at Wang Dong angrily and saying:
“No way!”
“What are you doing!”
“Backstabbing teammates?!”
Wang Dong looked at Xiao Xiao in horror and said:
“No, it wasn’t me!”
“My body moved on its own!”
Before she could speak, she found her body out of control.
“Sorry, Xiao Xiao.”
“I still want to be on the reserve team.”
“Bullshit! I don’t want to! Who is it?”
Wang Dong watched her body wielding the Haotian Hammer charge at the others.
During the advance, the body began swinging the hammer, stacking Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.
“This Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique is more proficient than mine. Who the hell are you?!”
“………”
“I’m your dad.”
Wang Dong was furious!
“Fuck (Douluo vulgarity)”
“You (Douluo vulgarity)”
Tang San got annoyed, shut Wang Dong’s consciousness into the sea of consciousness, then focused on controlling the body to hammer the remaining people off the platform.
Mademos immediately engaged the Tang San-controlled Wang Dong.
Fist wrapped in scarlet flames collided head-on with Haotian Hammer stacked with Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.
Two extremely strong powers collided. The surrounding air compressed then exploded. Terrifying gale caused countless cracks on the ground. The last few high-year core disciples nearby were also shocked out by the impact wave.
A blue light flashed in Wang Dong’s eyes.
“Eh?”
“Interesting, as expected of someone around the son of destiny.”
The blue-gold patterns on Wang Dong’s Haotian Hammer became clearer, its terrifying might distorting the surrounding air.
Mademos’s gaze grew solemn. Scarlet crystals appeared, power raised to the limit. His golden eyes were filled with majesty like a hidden lion.
Just as the two were about to collide, a voice came.
“Stop!”
“Selection match over!”
Mademos dispersed his power and looked around, only to find seven people left on the field.
