Douluo: I am a biologist, awakening the weapon spirit?

Chapter 181 Intrigue and deception
"Tsk, why do you have to bring up the most awkward things, fatso? Are you looking for a beating?"

Xiao Wu shook her fist at Ma Hongjun, clearly annoyed that he had reopened her wound.

The reason she was defeated in the Star Dou Great Forest was entirely because she encountered Er Ming. As a result, after returning, she was not only scolded by Chen Feng and Tang San, but Ma Hongjun also kept making fun of her about it.

After that incident, she had already toned it down a lot and rarely showed her face again.

Xiao Wu doesn't even use Flash much anymore, because she originally acquired the Flash soul skill mainly to get closer to enemies. After being prohibited from jumping into enemy faces, the frequency of Flash usage naturally decreased significantly.

As for the intended use of Flash, which is to avoid the opponent's threat, Xiao Wu doesn't really need it, because the opponents in the Soul Arena can't withstand her firepower.

Even if someone rushes close to her, the one who should be worried is the opponent, not Xiao Wu.

After all, Chen Feng and Tang San only prohibited her from using the Flash Jump to the enemy's face, but they didn't say she was completely forbidden from close combat. This allowed Xiao Wu to frequently use the baiting tactic to lure her opponents over and beat them up.

Ma Hongjun puffed out his chest, a little smug. "Young Master Jun, I'm clearly not fat anymore. You should call me Phoenix, or call me handsome, I can accept that too."

"Besides, we're almost at the Soul Master level now, Jade Rabbit, you're no match for me, you can't beat me anymore."

"Alright, alright, let's have a go at it then, let me see what kind of person you really are." Xiao Wu was amused by Ma Hongjun's arrogant attitude.

Just as Ma Hongjun was about to tease them a bit more, the Grand Soul Arena announced that the team battle was about to begin, with the two sides being the Hydra Team and the Heavenly Dou Royal Team.

The participants and spectators then separated and headed to the Battle Arena.

The two teams stood on the stage, and without much small talk, the host announced the start of the battle.

At the same moment, the Hydra team and the Heavenly Dou Royal team released their martial spirits.

As various lights flashed, the soul power levels of both sides were clearly visible.

To the audience's surprise, this recently emerging Hydra team, like the Heaven Dou Royal team, has a lineup of two Soul Masters and five Soul Venerables.

Chen Feng narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at Tang Ying, who was holding a large purple bow.

When facing that level 40 team from the duchy last time, Tang Ying didn't release his martial spirit; he just stayed in the back and did nothing.

However, this time when facing them, Tang Ying used his Purple Flower Bow martial soul, which clearly showed that he was wary of the strength of the Hydra team.

This indicates that during the month or so since Chen Feng and his group emerged, the Heavenly Dou Royal Team had likely noticed their existence, gathered some intelligence about them, and attached great importance to the Hydra Team composed of Chen Feng and his group.

Indeed, Tang Ying was no longer the leisurely man he had been before. He held the Purple Flower Bow and stared intently at a girl with a scorpion braid opposite him, whom he saw as a great threat.

Tang Ying's discovery of Xiao Wu was not a coincidence, but rather a result of a reminder from team leader Qin Ming.

Qin Ming told him that a very powerful archer had appeared in the Great Soul Arena. After careful observation, Tang Ying found that this was indeed the case. The girl with the scorpion braid was on par with Tang Ying in terms of both the accuracy and power of her attacks, and was even slightly better.

Not only that, the girl with the Lion Martial Soul on the other side had also encountered the Shi brothers. She was said to be quite strong and capable of breaking through the impenetrable wall formed by the Shi brothers.

Therefore, Qin Ming allowed Tang Ying to act freely in this team battle, believing it to be a good opportunity for Tang Ying to hone her skills.

In the spectator area, a brown-haired young man wearing glasses watched the two sides on the battle stage with a slight smile on his face.

"Dean Flander, let me see what these junior students are all made of."

On stage, the moment Oscar released his martial spirit, he quickly distributed flying mushrooms to his teammates.

Meanwhile, the Tian Dou Royal Team was not slow to act either. Dugu Yan began to recklessly spray poison water, but her eyes were fixed on the sword in Chen Feng's hand.

Grandpa said that the young man's martial spirit is a sword, and there are black and white patterns on the hilt. Could it be him?
Chen Feng noticed Dugu Yan's gaze. He wasn't sure if she recognized him, but even if she did, the team battle had to be finished today.

He didn't charge in directly with "Instantaneous Attack" because, judging from the turtle formation on the other side, if he charged in, he would most likely not be able to get out, and he might not achieve much.

When Dugu Yan sprayed the poisonous water, Tang San did not react immediately.

He wanted to wait until Dugu Yan had spread the poisonous water far enough before clearing a field for his teammates, which would deplete Dugu Yan's soul power.

Only when Dugu Yan controlled the poisonous water to spread in this direction did Tang Sanfang take countermeasures.

He pressed one hand against the ground, and countless green plants sprouted from the ground and spread out in front of him.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dai Mubai rushed forward and clashed with Yu Tianheng on the opposite side. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and the White Tiger Martial Soul met, and they were bound to fight to the death.

However, just when Yu Tianheng thought Dai Mubai would have a passionate one-on-one fight with him, Gu Yueling rushed over and directly launched a righteous two-on-one battle.

Upon seeing this, Osro, who was behind, transformed into a blur and attacked Gu Yueling. Gu Yueling turned around and engaged him in battle.

"Huh?" Dugu Yan raised an eyebrow. This was the first time she had encountered a fighting spirit opponent like herself who could change the battlefield environment.

"It does impose some limitations on me, but my poison is not that simple."

Dugu Yan smiled slightly, and the poisonous water that had spread on the ground immediately flowed back and contracted towards Yu Tianheng's location.

This scene puzzled Tang San. Was Dugu Yan going to start a fight between them?
However, his doubts were quickly resolved. As the green poisonous water rapidly contracted towards Yu Tianheng, its color began to subtly change to red.

The red poisonous liquid spread up Yu Tianheng's legs and quickly seeped into his body.

The next moment, a faint red light appeared in his eyes, and his aura increased significantly with every move he made. Dai Mubai also felt the pressure from his opponent suddenly increase.

"Can Bilinhongdu really be used like this? It seems Dugu Yan has really become a water venomous snake," Chen Feng muttered to himself, rushing towards Dugu Yan without any hesitation.

Dugu Yan chuckled and quickly retreated. Just as Chen Feng thrust his sword at her, a black shield blocked her path.

"Clang!" The sound of metal striking metal rang out as the sword and shield clashed.

Dust Blade changed from a thrust to a slash, but the shield only trembled slightly before deflecting his attack.

He glanced at the graphite opposite him and the millstone behind him. At this moment, the Shi brothers both had a piece of black metal on their chests, clearly having become conjoined twins capable of sharing attacks.

Chen Feng kept swinging his sword, while Shi Mo defended himself flawlessly, and the two were locked in a stalemate.

As the vanguards began to clash, the archers' duel also began.

Several moon blades flew from Xiao Wu's hand, heading towards the rear of the Heaven Dou Royal Team, but were blocked by Shi Mo, who was stationed at the rear. Bai Chenxiang also flapped her wings and took flight, scattering feathers from the air towards the opponent's back row.

Tang Ying drew his Purple Flower Bow and aimed it at Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu showed no intention of dodging and continued to maintain a high density of firepower.

Seeing this, Tang Ying frowned slightly. He moved the bow in his hand from Xiao Wu's chest to her shoulder and then released the bowstring.

As a beam of yellow light shot out rapidly, Tang Ying's three spirit rings quietly turned into two.

When she saw the yellow light approaching, Xiao Wu revealed a sly smile.

A purple soul ring on her body lit up, and her figure instantly disappeared from the spot, appearing in another place closer to Tang Ying.

"Flash!?" Tang Ying's face showed surprise. He had watched Xiao Wu's Soul Battle before and had never seen her use this Soul Skill.

Could it be that this girl has never used her full strength in the Soul Battle?
"Hehe, I tricked them out of an arrow." Xiao Wu launched another attack on the back row of the Heavenly Dou Royal Team.

Tang Ying snorted coldly and shot another arrow, but Xiao Wu, who had been on guard against his movements, reacted quickly and dodged it.

However, when she looked back, she was surprised to find that Tang Ying's spirit rings had not decreased again.

What's going on? Wasn't it supposed to be using spirit rings as arrows? Xiao Wu wondered.

"You're not the only one who can lie," Tang Ying said with a smile.

That's right, for his Purple Flower Bow to launch a truly powerful attack, it must use spirit rings as arrows.

Logically speaking, this kind of martial soul has great limitations and is not suitable for participating in martial soul competitions, let alone joining the Heaven Dou Royal Team.

However, thanks to the archer theory proposed by the biological pioneer Chen Feng, Tang Ying found a technique for using the Zihua Bow martial soul.

That is the arrow of deception.

According to Chen Feng's theory of archers, the most suitable archers are biological soul masters, because they have the Foundation Establishment Ring, which allows them to directly release absorbed elemental energy to attack enemies through energy projection.

While it's not impossible for artifact-type Soul Masters to use this method of attack, their attack power is not ideal due to the lack of a Foundation Establishment Ring, making them unsuitable as archers.

But in Tang Ying's hands, this method of releasing energy outwards served another purpose: to provide cover for his actual arrows.

Whether the attack power is ideal or not is not important. As long as it can interfere with the enemy's judgment and make them unable to distinguish between the harmless energy arrow and the threatening soul ring arrow, then Tang Ying can be considered successful.

His arrows fly at an extremely fast speed, so fast that it's no exaggeration to describe it as lightning fast, and this speed will increase as his soul power increases.

If the enemy judges the authenticity of the arrow by observing Tang Ying's spirit rings, then they will certainly not have enough time to dodge the arrow.

However, if the enemy is only focused on dodging arrows, they will be deceived and make a futile effort.

Generally speaking, Tang Ying would first shoot a real arrow to demonstrate its power to his opponent, telling them that they must dodge his arrow, otherwise being hit would at least result in serious injury.

Then he would start using fake arrows to deceive, hiding real arrows among fake ones to catch them off guard.

The methods used are quite insidious, blurring the lines between truth and falsehood.

Through this method, Tang Ying defeated many opponents in the academy and was eventually chosen by Qin Ming to be a member of the Heavenly Dou Royal Team.

As an archer, Xiao Wu quickly realized that Tang Ying was using the method of external energy projection to deceive people, and immediately frowned deeply.

Because Tang Ying's arrows were too fast, it was impossible to dodge and observe the changes in the spirit rings at the same time. One had to choose between being tricked and being shot.

Meanwhile, Chen Feng, who was entangled with Graphite, suddenly realized what the factor he had previously felt was being overlooked was.

It was his own theory of the shooter.

Indeed, in Douluo Continent II, Tang Xiaolei could only use his spirit rings as arrows; once he ran out, he had nothing left.

However, after Chen Feng proposed the archer theory, Tang Ying had a way to play a game of deception and trickery.

Given the extremely high speed of the arrows shot from the Purple Flower Bow, theoretically, even after Tang Ying has fired countless arrows, his spirit rings should remain completely still.

"Hiss~ Why is there a sixth one here? Shouldn't it be a head-on 1v1 man-on-man battle? What kind of hero plays these dirty tricks?" Chen Feng thought to himself.

However, he completely overlooked the fact that he himself was the one who loved to use dirty tactics the most.

Unable to distinguish between the real and fake arrows, Xiao Wu could not use her Flash ability continuously, so she and Tang Ying were locked in a stalemate, neither daring to make any further moves.

Without the ability to teleport, Xiao Wu must concentrate fully on observing Tang Ying's movements in order to dodge his arrows.

As a result, she was unable to unleash her full power or pay attention to the status of Tang Ying's spirit rings.

Therefore, the stone mill behind could focus a lot of attention on Bai Chenxiang, blocking the feathers she flung down.

At this point, the two sides seemed to be at a stalemate, but the stalemate was soon broken.

Oslo, who was relying on his own speed to fight Gu Yueling, suddenly stumbled. An inconspicuous green plant had appeared under his feet.

Gu Yueling's eyes lit up. She was just worried about not being able to catch this slippery guy, and a good opportunity had just presented itself.

Without hesitation, she grabbed Oslo's arm and then delivered a powerful punch to his forehead.

Suddenly, Oslo felt a buzzing in his head and lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.

After taking down one opponent, Gu Yueling ignored Yu Tianheng behind her and charged directly towards the back row of the Tiandou Royal Team.

But the familiar poisonous water spread again, blocking Gu Yueling's path forward.

At the same time, Tang Ying, who was confronting Xiao Wu, swiftly shot an arrow. Gu Yueling immediately stopped, her body releasing golden light, and her fists, which were shrouded in the golden dragon head, blocked in front of her.

What many people didn't notice was that Bai Chenxiang had unknowingly arrived above Gu Yueling.

(End of this chapter)