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

Chapter 485 Hercules

A shard of the broken longsword sliced ​​across Meng Hongchen's face, and crimson blood seeped out and splattered, but a sly look appeared on her face.

After Ryougi Shiki shattered the long sword, the dagger was drawn back to her hand by her spiritual power. Qiu Yi tried to grab the dagger, but it cut her palm.

Xiao Hongchen quickly changed his posture, and the soul-guided turret and floating cannons rippled under the light, and the liquid metal reformed into a giant sword nearly ten meters long.

The giant sword gleamed with golden light, and a row of thrusters on its back spewed forth soul power. With unparalleled momentum, it slashed fiercely between Ryougi Shiki and Meng Hongchen, causing the arena to shatter and fly with debris.

Ryougi Shiki gripped her dagger and retreated, then leaned forward, using the ground as leverage to leave a red shadow in the air as she charged toward Xiao Hongchen, who was constructing a soul tool.

Ye Nongfeng continued to unleash a barrage of fire, with soul-guided shells raining down on the ground, while most of the firepower remained focused on Ilya and Miyu in the rear.

They can't sleep or eat in peace until the support-type Soul Masters are eliminated.

Holding a longbow in one hand, Ilya remained fearless in the face of the fierce attack. She was indeed a little nervous at first, but later she realized that if she treated it as just an exam, it wouldn't be so bad.

"The Blazing Sky Covers Seven Rings!"

As she opened her soft little hand, seven consecutive pink halos, like cherry blossoms, bloomed in the air. The seven halos overlapped to form a giant shield, and countless soul-guided cannonballs crashed down on it, creating a violent explosion.

The triple petals withered, but the defense remained reliable. Ding Xiaobu, who was searching for a way to deal with the Red Plains Hound in the distance, was a little confused. He slid and dodged the arrow's bite, muttering, "What kind of martial soul does she have? She has defense, attack, and support. It seems that the support is quite strong."

"Isn't the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda supposed to be the best support item in the world? I feel like that thing is a bit overrated."

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School also participated in this competition, but unfortunately, they encountered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the elimination rounds and were kicked to death by them like they were just passing by.

They had also done some research on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. It was just a Nine Gates Martial Soul, currently only at the upper three gates. As times changed, they estimated it would continue to decline.

Even without condensing a soul core, a Soul Saint has already graduated. In the business world, it is being squeezed out by a series of new merchants relying on the magic network, and is slowly losing its market competitiveness. I heard that it is currently undergoing a transformation.

However, the ancient merchant guild, which has existed for tens of thousands of years, is riddled with factions and has a lot of old-fashioned stubborn people, so it is not an easy task to transform it in a short period of time.

There was no time to complain. Ding Xiaobu continued running. If he lingered for too long, the arrows would come running at the first sign of trouble.

He witnessed the illusion collapse just now and knew that this thing would explode. With the power of that explosion, even a speed-type soul master like him would be sent to the underworld to meet his grandmother if he took a hit.

However, he wasn't running away haphazardly. If he couldn't solve the problem, he would solve the problem by targeting the person who raised it. He was using the old BJ running style to approach Miyu and Illya.

In his view, while they possessed offensive and defensive capabilities, they were ultimately support-type Soul Masters. How tough could their bodies be? He figured one punch from him would leave them crying for a long time.

At that moment, Ryougi Shiki also approached Xiao Hongchen. His heterochromatic eyes couldn't help but meet those eyes that shimmered with colorful spirals. A chill ran from his tailbone into his cerebral cortex. It was the smell of death. Xiao Hongchen felt as if he had seen the end of everything.

In an instant, Xiao Hongchen suppressed his inner fear; the hundreds of beatings he had endured from Madmos back then hadn't been for nothing.

He decisively abandoned the giant sword in his hand, and liquid metal constructed a propulsion soul guide under his feet. The core magic array was completed almost instantly. The three-legged golden toad was simply the martial soul that soul masters dreamed of. The metal manipulation was too overpowered.

In other words, he was born in the wrong era. If he were born ten thousand years later, he would have benefited from a lot of version updates, unlike that Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

The ability to become stronger simply by consuming metal is something that Xiao Hongchen can enjoy for an entire major version. In the future, each metal will have its own unique skills.

Using the thrusters under his feet, he narrowly dodged Ryougi Shiki's dagger; the invisible telekinetic sword almost grazed his face.

When her first attack failed, she shifted her focus to Lan Xiu and Qiu Yi, who were both in a daze due to the shattering of their soul tools.

The dagger ignited with a faint flame, which seemed to contain endless colors. This was the external manifestation of her sixth soul skill, Death Wound, which to some extent allowed her death-instant characteristic to spread to the world itself.

With a single slash, a pure black cube enveloped the two of them, the black cube resembling an absolute black body devoid of any light.

Many powerful individuals immediately recognized it as a spatial rift, and Ryougi Shiki killed the space with a single strike.

The instructor leading the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy immediately shouted to Zheng Zhan, "Qiu Yi and Lan Xiu concede defeat."

Without hesitation, Zheng Zhan teleported to Lan Xiu and Qiu Yi. The black cube collided with his level-nine protective soul tool, causing him to pause. He quickly led the two off the field.

He casually tossed Qiu Yi and Lan Xiu, who were still struggling, to the team leader of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and said, "Luckily, I brought a level nine soul tool. If it were a level eight, I might have suffered a setback today."

On the field, three members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had already been eliminated, and the battle had reached its climax.

Having lost Qiu Yi and Lan Xiu, she didn't hesitate to unleash another slash at Ye Nongfeng and Meng Hongchen behind him. The instant the slash landed, Meng Hongchen shouted sharply, "Now!"

"Freeze! Sixth Soul Skill! Corrosive Ice!"

As the spirit rings on Meng Hongchen's body lit up one after another, Ryougi Shiki's movements slowed down, and countless icy frosts spread from her body, carrying a deadly poison.

Meng Hongchen's Corrosive Ice is a top-tier poison-attribute soul skill; a single drop is enough to poison and kill a giant diamond mammoth.

Ryougi Shiki sensed the sluggish flow of soul power within her body and said calmly, "Is it that drop of blood?"

"So you have this kind of soul skill."

Meng Hongchen, pale-faced and panting, said, "You lost."

"Corrosive ice can poison even dragons. Let's go down and have His Majesty the Healer treat them."

Behind Ryougi Shiki, Ding Xiaobu also crept up to Illya and Miyu, laughing loudly, "Haha! I succeeded again!"

With a maniacal laugh, he leaped into the air and swung his short blade at the two girls. The propulsion device on his back was brighter than the sun for a moment.

Miyu glanced at Illya, seemingly asking who would make the move. Illya shook her head, and her fifth spirit ring immediately shone brightly.

"Haha! You're already so desperate you're just randomly using your soul skills? Heh! Isn't your fifth soul skill a support skill?"

Ding Xiaobu had already secured victory. His opponents fielded three players, and he immediately took out two. The other team, with six players, only managed to eliminate one. The difference in skill was immediately apparent – ​​a decisive win! A resounding victory!

He was smiling like someone from the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie set next door, but his smile quickly froze as a huge shadow suddenly loomed over his entire body.

He subconsciously looked up and saw a muscular, black-clad man who had appeared behind him at some point, his irrational eyes flashing red.

A gigantic, black, menacing axe-sword, larger than the man himself, came crashing down on his face, not with the blade, but with the back of the sword.

"You fouled! Where's the referee?! Where did that huge muscle come from?!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was sent flying like a volleyball. In an instant, it seemed as if a cloud of air was generated, and countless cracks appeared on the ground, with countless rubble obscuring all vision.

Ding Xiaobu crashed hard into the soul guidance barrier, his body covered in horrific wounds, his limbs twisted beyond recognition.

Zheng Zhan carefully peeled him off and hurriedly had someone take him to the side of the Immortal Physician for treatment; the guy was still breathing.

The sudden appearance of that massive, black, muscular creature made Xiao Hongchen's brow twitch, and he exclaimed, "What is that thing?"

"Why is there a second level?"

Ryougi Shiki chuckled lightly, "Poison and ice? Not a bad combination, but it won't work on me."

"Are you crazy?!" As Xiao Hongchen's eyes widened, the short blade in her hand sliced ​​through the ice on her body and then plunged into herself.

To everyone's surprise, when the short blade was withdrawn, there was not a single wound on her body, her aura returned to normal, and her deep Mystic Eyes of Death Perception remained bright.

Meng Hongchen exclaimed in disbelief, "The corrosive ice has been broken!"

Xiao Hongchen gritted his teeth and fired countless soul-guided cannonballs again, muttering, "This guy's abilities are actually this good?!"

"She killed herself from her poisoned state! A conceptual-level ability? How could such a martial soul exist in Douluo Continent?"

Ye Nongfeng cursed inwardly, "Who created this dung monster? It feels similar to the half-mad Asura God in 'Black Myth: Dragon God Ring'."

She can kill poison, so can she kill wounds?

Self-destructive, immune to abnormal statuses, highly mobile, deals high damage with instant death upon contact—all it lacks is fast and slow attacks. What a joke! What about the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect? Save them!

Ryougi Shiki ignored the three people's complaints. Her physical and mental strength were greatly depleted. This was the case for agility-type Soul Masters, let alone a Soul Master like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which required targeting specific concepts.

After activating the Death Wound, the world was filled with death lines, and the energy required to observe these death lines was becoming too much for her to handle.

The first to suffer was Xiao Hongchen. The molten metal was cut off by Ryougi Shiki in a moment of carelessness, and it immediately lost control, falling to the ground and dimming.

As a gunner, Ye Nongfeng was no different from a lamb to the slaughter after losing the cover of his teammates. After Ryougi Shiki's dagger slashed across, all of his soul tools exploded into pieces.

In a real field battle, Ryougi Shiki would have just severed the death lines on their bodies.

To deal with a Soul Master, simply sever the lifeline of their Soul Power, and they will suffer unbearable pain. Despite having cultivation, they will never have any Soul Power left in their lives.

The last one was Meng Hongchen. She tried to struggle a few more times, gathering ice spikes to launch a sneak attack on Ryougi Shiki, but it was useless against mental detection.

She snatched an ice spike with her backhand and forcefully plunged her wrist into Meng Hongchen's palm. Crimson blood dripped onto the ground, causing her to clutch her hand and kneel on the ground.

It only pierced the palm, not the vital point. Seeing this, Xiao Hongchen breathed a sigh of relief, lay on his back on the ground looking at the blue sky, and said, "I lost."

"I wish you continued victory in every battle."

Xiao Hongchen doesn't care about winning or losing. Medemos has a deep influence on him. As long as you do your best and stick to your inner principles, it's not shameful to lose. If you're not as skilled as others, there's nothing to say.

However, this should be his last time participating in the Soul Battle. After today, he will basically no longer engage in combat. He plans to go to Xilu City to become a researcher and realize his dream.

His grandfather, Jing Hongchen, had already made arrangements. After the competition, he would set off, bidding farewell to his hometown where he had lived for more than ten years.

Indeed, the three-legged toad should shine in the field of research.