Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit.

Chapter 484 Ilya: "Red Plains Hound! Fantasy Collapse!"

Coming to her senses, the colorful spiral patterns in Ryougi Shiki's eyes became even more dazzling, the deep light captivating and mesmerizing. Her mental detection was locked onto every move of everyone at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, not even missing a single hair's twitch.

She gripped the dagger in her backhand, lightly touched the ground with her toes, and immediately charged towards her opponent. In her eyes, the so-called all-around three-dimensional defense was as fragile as paper.

As long as she can see the death line, she's willing to kill anyone, even if they're a god, to show everyone.

Xiao Hongchen closed the cannon, his entire body shone with spirit rings, the cannon body was dyed gold, and terrifying spirit power gathered at the muzzle, even causing cracks to appear in the surrounding space.

The surrounding floating cannons unleashed firepower at the speeding red figure, each soul-guided ray enough to take away three lives from an ordinary Soul King, while Ye Nongfeng coordinated to launch targeted bombardment.

Faced with the whistling shells and soul-guided rays, Ryougi Shiki's eyes moved rapidly up and down, her body tumbling and dancing, her dagger slicing through the sunlight, precisely cutting the deadly lines of the shells and rays, bringing them to their complete end.

In the eyes of Xiao Hongchen and the others, a dancing flame leaped amidst countless attacks, all of which suddenly became ineffective after the dagger slashed across.

Xiao Hongchen was also a little confused. He knew that the mental attribute mechanism was very strong, but wasn't the other party's actions a bit illegal?

What about the law of conservation of energy?

After a few brief rounds of probing, he made a guess about Ryougi Shiki's abilities. Xiao Hongchen was, after all, a researcher who had published papers on various forums over the past three years and was quite well-known in the academic world.

Knowing that the opponent possesses a true martial soul, the effects of soul power, space, and gravity will all be nullified after the dagger strikes. The opponent's mechanism is probably not "kill," but an absurd mechanism capable of killing everything.

If this is truly the ability, then Xiao Hongchen can only say that the higher-ups of the Xilu City Research Institute are a bunch of lunatics. They dare to release such a guy; aren't they afraid of accidentally killing their opponent if their hand slips?

In other words, times have changed. If it were in the past, this guy would have taken countless lives during the competition.

However, she is not invincible. Her mechanics are strong, but she is not unbeatable. As long as they don't get hit by her attacks, and the seven of them work together, there is hope of defeating her.

In Xiao Hongchen's eyes, the dancing girl was more suited for assassination than for fighting in the arena. If they were in the wild and the other party launched a proper sneak attack, the seven of them probably wouldn't last more than half an hour.

"Her mechanism is killing; you should think of it as another form of destructive power."

Everyone be careful not to get cut by the enemy's knife.

Qiu Yi, who was in charge of defense, gritted his teeth. In his hand was a level seven soul-guided shield that he had designed and made himself. It used to be the most reliable bulwark in the team, but now he was not sure how many seconds it could last.

Upon hearing Xiao Hongchen's words, he wanted to ask himself what to do. He was just a defensive soul master, and the other party ignored his defense. He should just leave the scene; standing here was somewhat redundant.

At this moment, Ye Nongfeng's aging ray finally completed its charging. Ding Xiaobu and Ye Canshang, who had already reached the sides of Ryougi Shiki, immediately used their soul skills to prepare for a sneak attack.

Lan Xiu, standing at the back of the team, also waved his hand, and nine silver beams shot out. This was the only soul tool he could make, and also the signature move that made him famous—Nine Luminaries.

A soul tool belonging to the category of reflective rays, possessing a very strong reflective force, and only a soul master with a mental attribute like him can control nine of them simultaneously.

Nine Luminaries sped forward, weaving a dense, impenetrable silver net. Every second, the air flowing past was sliced ​​back and forth hundreds of times by the rebounding force.

Ding Xiaobu moved very fast, and with the help of his soul-guided device, he arrived behind Ryougi Shiki in the blink of an eye. His level-six soul-guided short blade lit up with white light, its sharp edge aimed at Ryougi Shiki's neck, ready to launch an attack.

A pitch-black skull also appeared to the right of Ryougi Shiki; it was Ye Canshang's martial spirit, a skull based on his own body.

The skeleton formed its arms into swords and attacked Ryougi Shiki from the other side.

With attacks coming from both the front and the back, even someone with the speed to react to Kamui should still take a hit, right?

All of this could not escape the detection of the spirit. The spirit eye's soul skill was always overpowered. Ryougi Shiki did not pay attention to the two of them because someone was preparing to target them.

"Heh! We won! We got it!"

When Ding Xiaobu saw that Ryougi Shiki didn't even turn her head, he assumed that she hadn't noticed him and was overjoyed!

As long as he makes the cut, he will bring victory to the team and completely end the undefeated myth of the Xilu City Research Institute.

He would also become a hero of the Xilu City Research Academy, standing atop its divine halo, and might even be personally awarded by the future emperor.

At that moment, a red light flashed, and a strong sense of crisis surged into his heart, shattering his illusions. He subconsciously stopped his attack and leaned back.

A silver arrow flashed with red light, its gleaming metal shaft reflecting Ding Xiaobu's astonished face, as if wondering where the attack came from.

He lived up to his reputation as an agility-based Soul Master, stomping the ground and turning around to change his position, clearly seeing who had launched the attack.

The silver-haired girl, who was originally a support-type character, had changed her clothes at some point. She was now dressed in red and holding a large bow. Her first spirit ring was shining brightly.

Ding Xiaobu's lips twitched involuntarily, and he angrily retorted, "Do you guys even have any sense of reason?! Isn't she a support-type character?!"

"Have support classes evolved to this state now?"

Ilya lowered her great bow and kindly pointed behind him. Ding Xiaobu subconsciously turned around and saw the arrow flashing red turn around, biting him like a hyena.

"It can turn?! Is that legal?"

"I need to have my license checked!"

Ding Xiaobu was terrified and hurriedly tried to dodge. Ye Canshang on the other side suffered a similar fate, being frantically chased by an automatically tracking arrow.

Ilya gave a peace sign to Gu Qiu'er behind her and said with a smile, "This is called the Red Plains Hound. As long as it doesn't hit the enemy, it will lock on forever and continue to track even if it gets cut off."

"The power that belongs to the Heroic Spirit Red Archer is the power I possessed when I obtained my first spirit ring, but unfortunately I never knew the other's name."

Ye Canshang and Ding Xiaobu dodged the Crimson Plains Hounds back and forth. As three spirit rings flashed in succession, the black skeleton's power surged. Facing the incoming arrows, two level-six spirit guide longswords appeared in its palms.

The longsword vibrated at a high frequency, producing a buzzing sound that sent chills down one's spine; its sharpness was enough to cut through solid metal.

The skeleton leaped high into the air, its twin blades swiftly slicing through the air, leaving an arc of light in its wake, as it slashed at the arrow.

Ilya's face showed a triumphant expression. She gently clenched her fist, and her voice echoed throughout the arena.

"Fantasy Collapse!"

The Redfield Hound immediately burst into red light, and then exploded violently before the skeleton could strike, a dazzling energy illuminating one side of the arena, sending countless metal fragments flying.

The shockwave from the explosion sent Ding Xiaobu flying and crashing into the soul-guiding barrier.

He endured the sensation of his internal organs shifting and quickly lay down and rolled over, because his Red Plains Hound was still biting him relentlessly.

Ye Canshang fared much worse. His cultivation level was already among the weaker ones in the team, and his skeleton martial soul was torn to shreds in the explosion.

The shattering of his martial spirit, coupled with the impact of the explosion, caused him to lose consciousness on the spot. Zheng Zhan flashed and carried him away from the arena, declaring that he had lost his eligibility to compete.

At this moment, the rest of the team had no time to pay attention to these things, as Lan Xiu used his mental power to manipulate the Nine Luminaries to surround Ryougi Shiki.

Nine silver orbs of light blocked all her movements. From a distance, Ryougi Shiki was surrounded by shimmering silver threads, which gleamed with a dangerous cold light.

Without further hesitation, Ye Nongfeng pulled the trigger, and the aging ray immediately shot out. Soul masters hit by this ray would instantly fall into a state of depletion of life force.

Only the Immortal Physician Douluo in Mingdu can cure this condition, which is why Xiao Hongchen allowed Ye Nongfeng to take out this weapon.

After spending time with Medemos in Xilu City and three years of dedicated research, Xiao Hongchen has curbed much of his violent temper. As long as his opponents don't intentionally kill someone during the match, he will never allow his teammates to kill anyone.

Ryougi Shiki remained calm in the face of the fierce attack. Her sixth spirit ring began to shine, and the short dagger in her hand emitted a ghostly light.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Death Wound."

In the dim light, the death line of a deeper concept was also captured by Ryougi Shiki. As the short dagger was swung, an invisible wave instantly transmitted through the world itself.

The Nine Luminaries Net, which should have been airtight, suddenly tore open with a large gap, and the aging rays that should have hit the target deflected to the sides in an incomprehensible way.

Ryougi Shiki killed the cause and effect that had been hit. She was slightly out of breath. The consumption of the sixth soul skill was huge, both in terms of soul power and mental power.

Capturing deeper concepts requires a great deal of mental energy; sometimes one can only see for a few microseconds. After a few microseconds, mental energy and even vitality will be severely depleted.

If it weren't for the two Holy Grails, she wouldn't have directly severed the cause and effect of death; instead, she would have used a more ingenious method to break through the encirclement.

But since we have so much soul power, this is a good opportunity to practice and try to capture more conceptual boundaries.

Taking advantage of Lan Xiu's distraction, Ryougi Shiki turned around and killed the connection between him and Jiu Yao, then rushed towards Qiu Yi at the forefront.

The level seven soul guidance barrier was nothing but death lines in her eyes. She threw the dagger backhand and pierced through the death lines of the barrier. As the barrier shattered, Meng Hongchen's figure flashed by, her silver hair fluttering in the air.

Ryougi Shiki sidestepped Meng Hongchen's twin swords, a few strands of her black hair being lifted up.

Then, with a light tap of his finger, the level seven soul-guided longsword shattered like glass.