The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

Immediately afterward, the second of the five spirit rings beside Nanmen Yun'er lit up—a yellow one. She retracted her right hand, clasped her hands together above her head, and a crescent-shaped blade of light, also emerald green, condensed above her head, slashing straight at Dai Huabin.

Second Soul Skill: Jade Slash!

With the White Tiger Barrier providing some protection, Dai Huabin, though surprised, quickly recovered thanks to his excellent combat skills.

He retreated immediately, spitting out a burst of intense white tiger light waves from his mouth toward the emerald green light blade in the air.

"boom--"

The shockwaves from the collision of soul forces stirred up the surrounding sand and gravel, and this time the collision was evenly matched.

Nanmen Yun'er's Emerald Bird Martial Soul is of higher quality than Dai Huabin's White Tiger Martial Soul, but her Soul Power level is only level 51. Both are second Soul Skills enhanced by their third Soul Skills, and Dai Huabin's advantage in Soul Power cultivation is enough to compensate for the slight difference in Martial Soul quality.

The reason why Nanmen Yun'er's Jade Blade was able to break through Dai Huabin's White Tiger Protective Barrier was purely due to the advantage of their soul skills. One is a soul skill that specializes in breaking through protective barriers and is good at single-point penetration, while the other is a general defense.

It's perfectly normal for Nanmen Yun'er's first soul skill, Jade Blade, to have the advantage.

At the edge of the field, Wang Yan's eyes shone brightly.

It is a universally acknowledged rule in the soul master world that offensive soul masters are superior to agile soul masters, but Dai Huabin did not gain any advantage in these few encounters, which speaks volumes.

"Tianhuang, your class is truly full of talent." Wang Yan couldn't help but sigh softly, his eyes growing increasingly fervent. Nanmen Yun'er, this disciple who had just entered the inner academy, had brought him another pleasant surprise.

Xu Zihuang smiled without saying a word, continuing to observe the confrontation between Dai Huabin and Nanmen Yun'er in the center of the arena. His eyes had turned into a bright gold, with a shimmering halo around them.

Unlike Wang Yan, he possessed the innate ability of Golden Eyes, allowing him to observe more detailed things. Among the people present, Han Ruoruo, a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse known as the Inner Academy's number one controller, naturally possessed such observational skills.

At this moment, Han Ruoruo also keenly noticed the change in Xu Zihuang's eyes. Generally speaking, the mental power of a control-type Soul Master should be the strongest among Soul Masters of the same level, not to mention an elite disciple of Shrek Academy's inner court like Han Ruoruo. Although she is not a Soul Master with a mental attribute, her mental power is already very close to the realm of tangible yet intangible.

Even so, when she looked directly into Xu Zihuang's eyes, she felt as if her mind was being drawn in.

"Such strong mental strength." Han Ruoruo praised inwardly, gradually beginning to understand the intentions of Elder Mu and Zhang Lexuan.

The rest of the group watched intently. Not only Dai Huabin, but also Nanmen Yun'er, who usually kept a low profile, was putting immense pressure on them. Just as Wang Yan had said, their graduating class was indeed brimming with talent.

The one who was most hurt was Wu Feng, who hung her head and looked terrible. Ever since she entered Shrek Academy, her pride had been trampled underfoot time and time again.

At first, it was Yu Tianhuang, but after Yu Tianhuang went to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for exchange studies, she was always suppressed by Dai Huabin, and she was not at an advantage compared to Xie Huanyue and Xiao Xiao. Now there is Nanmen Yun'er.

How could she possibly win Ning Tian back from Yu Tianhuang? This reality was too oppressive and despairing for her.

Nanmen Yun'er's figure shifted constantly in the air, resembling a green phantom, dodging Dai Huabin's White Tiger Blazing Light Waves. Relying on her superior flight ability and speed, she temporarily achieved a stalemate with Dai Huabin.

While it's true that power-attack type Soul Masters are effective against agility-attack type Soul Masters, that refers to direct confrontation and close-quarters combat. In such situations, as long as the difference in strength isn't significant, power-attack type Soul Masters can use amplification and protective Soul Skills to defend against agility-attack type Soul Masters' attacks. Agility-attack type Soul Masters, on the other hand, have historically weak defenses and are unlikely to survive a hit from a power-attack type Soul Master.

However, Soul Masters with flying-type Martial Souls can also, to some extent, restrain Soul Masters with non-flying-type Martial Souls.

After the initial probing, Nanmen Yun'er decisively changed her strategy, giving Dai Huabin no chance to get close. Her martial soul had evolved into the Emerald Demon Bird, and flight had become her martial soul instinct, consuming virtually no soul power. With this shift in power, she was the one in control and held the initiative.

She could even continue to ascend to places where Dai Huabin's White Tiger Blazing Light Wave couldn't reach, but that would defeat the purpose of sparring.

Nanmen Yun'er weaved through waves of white tiger light, while simultaneously unleashing her second soul skill, Jade Slash, to attack Dai Huabin. This forced Dai Huabin to maintain his White Tiger Vajra Transformation state and activate the White Tiger Protective Barrier.

Dai Huabin's eyes were red, and he felt extremely aggrieved. Although he had become much more composed over the years, how could his inherent personality be so easily changed?

It's one thing that he's not as good as Yu Tianhuang, but the fact that he can't even compare to a woman is the hardest thing for him to accept.

With a roar, his black fifth and fourth spirit rings flashed one after another, and a strong golden light continued to rise from his feet. With each rise of the light, his aura expanded, and a fierce pressure began to spread outward. Even the white tiger spirit phantom behind him turned completely golden.

Fifth Soul Skill: White Tiger Divine Demon Transformation. Dai Huabin's fifth soul skill is similar to his third soul skill, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, but with a stronger amplification effect, and the effects of these two skills can be stacked.

Then another bright golden beam shot up behind him, with a crescent-shaped light shining in the center of the beam before turning into hundreds of clusters of light that fell to the ground.

With two amplification-type soul skills active, Dai Huabin unleashed his fourth soul skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower, instantly sealing off the area where Nanmen Yun'er was located.

Nanmen Yun'er's figure blurred, splitting into three. This was her fourth soul skill, a clone-type skill, and also a relatively common soul skill among agility-based soul masters.

Three emerald green figures broke through in different directions, trying to graze through the gaps in each ray of light from the White Tiger Meteor Shower, but these three clones still couldn't avoid being hit.

Each time the white light passed through, the clones became more illusory, as if none of them were Nanmen Yun'er's original body.

However, Xu Zihuang and Han Ruoruo both noticed a detail. That is, the three clones were not hit at the same time. Later on, one clone was always particularly solid and kept moving among the three clones.

The three clones broke through Dai Huabin's White Tiger Meteor Shower and merged into one. The two illusory clones merged into the last solid clone.

Nanmen Yun'er calmed her breathing slightly, her soft chest rising and falling gently. The fourth soul skill she had just used did not consume much soul power, but due to a characteristic of this soul skill, it consumed a lot of mental and spiritual energy.

He didn't know if Dai Huabin still had the strength to use White Tiger Meteor Shower to block her movements again with the amplification of his third and fifth soul skills, but she certainly wouldn't be able to withstand using her fourth soul skill to evade it.

So she decided not to delay any longer.

Her emerald green wings flapped behind her, suspending her in the air. Then, emerald green light gathered at the tip of her right finger, and her jet-black fifth spirit ring lit up.

The emerald green light converged, and instead of becoming more intense, the color gradually shifted towards translucency, becoming as fine as silk. It resembled a jade needle carved from jadeite.

A faint, translucent emerald-green light flashed by, seemingly without any movement, but the concentrated and rich wind element contained within it was enough to startle everyone.

Dai Huabin was certainly aware of this, but given his personality, how could he possibly back down at this point? Rather, he was actually forcing Nanmen Yun'er to confront him head-on.

His expression turned cold, and he raised his right hand in a loose fist. An incredibly intense pale white light surged in his palm, then transformed into a beam of light that was thinner than the White Tiger's Blazing Light Wave, but countless times more concentrated, to meet the translucent emerald green light.

Intense light cutting line.

This is the result of Dai Huabin's years of arduous training. This Blazing Light Cutting Line can be considered a self-created soul skill in some ways. It is based on the White Tiger Blazing Light Wave, but its power is immeasurably greater.

However, this blazing light cutting line wasn't a self-created soul skill; rather, it was a skill passed down through generations of the White Tiger lineage, which Dai Huabin just happened to master. This was something neither White Tiger Duke Dai Hao nor Dai Yueheng had accomplished.

At that very moment, a golden light shot into the sky, coiling like a dragon between the blazing light cutting line and Nanmen Yun'er's fifth soul skill, the Jade Needle. It was clearly a golden rope. The golden halo shimmered, transforming into rings of golden light that easily blocked Dai Huabin and Nanmen Yun'er's strongest attacks.

"Alright, this sparring session is over." Han Ruoruo's gentle voice rang out, and the golden rope retracted, returning to her side.

There were eight spirit rings pulsating around her, two yellow, two purple, and four black.

Wang Yan, standing beside her, looked thoughtful, but the burning intensity in his eyes as he looked at Nanmen Yun'er and Dai Huabin was unmistakable.

"Senior Sister Han, who won?" Xiao Xiao was still immersed in the shock just now and subconsciously asked Han Ruoruo in a soft voice.

She knew that she wouldn't stand a chance against either Dai Huabin or Nanmen Yun'er.

Even if she has twin martial souls.

The strength of twin martial souls only becomes apparent as one cultivates them to a higher level. At this stage, she doesn't have much of an advantage.

The others also looked at Han Ruoruo.

After Han Ruoruo made her move, Dai Huabin's gaze remained fixed on her. His strong competitive spirit clearly made him more concerned about the outcome of this sparring match than Xiao Xiao and the others.

Han Ruoruo smiled and said, "Hua Bin's move should be even more powerful. It's very good."

Dai Huabin wore an expression that seemed perfectly natural. His target had always been Yu Tianhuang.

“However, Yoona’s fifth soul skill is more concentrated, enough to penetrate Dai Huabin’s attack. In the end, it should be a lose-lose situation.” Xu Zihuang picked up where Han Ruoruo left off, and smiled gently at Nanmen Yoona, who had withdrawn her martial soul and landed on the ground not far away.

"If I'm not mistaken, Yoona, the three clones created by your fourth soul skill should allow your main body to switch between them, right?"

Han Ruoruo nodded slightly, indicating that she completely agreed with Yu Tianhuang's point of view. Her current thoughts were the same as Wang Yan's; this year's freshmen were truly outstanding.

As soon as Nanmen Yun'er nodded and came to the group's side, Dai Huabin found it hard to accept. He clenched and unclenched his fists, but ultimately said nothing.

Yu Tianhuang and Han Ruoruo had no need to deliberately belittle him. His greatest achievement over the years was going from being arrogant to being able to face the facts.

Afterwards, Wang Yan gave Dai Huabin and Nanmen Yun'er some guidance. Limited by his strength, Wang Yan lacked some insight, but those points were pointed out by Xu Zihuang and Han Ruoruo. Combined with his rich theoretical knowledge, he was still able to give the two some inspiration.

Dai Huabin and Nanmen Yun'er sat down on the spot to begin recovering their soul power. Wang Yan and Han Ruoruo, however, did not have Xiao Xiao, Xie Huanyue, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian team up for a sparring match as before. Instead, they smiled and put their right hands on Xu Zihuang's shoulders.

"Tianhuang, I think it's better to do this. You and Ning Tian will fight against Dai Huabin, Xiao Xiao, Nan Yunyun, Xie Huanyue, and Wu Feng. Otherwise, there will be too little pressure, and you won't be able to see how much you've improved over the past few years."

Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian exchanged a glance, both seeing the smile in each other's eyes. Xu Zihuang's expression was calm and composed, while Ning Tian's showed absolute trust in him.

"Teacher Wang, we have no objections."

Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Xie Huan Yue looked at each other in bewilderment.

But a glimmer of hope ignited deep within Wu Feng's eyes. Though the odds were slim, they weren't without a chance if it was five against two.

The thought of having a chance to defeat Yu Tianhuang was like grasping at a last straw, driving her to a frenzy of obsession. Of course, she wouldn't show any of this.

Han Ruoruo looked at everyone with great interest and smiled gently.

“Although this is a friendly spar, we should still be more formal. You two should step back to the sides and discuss tactics while Yoona and Huabin recover their soul power.”

"Then let's go over there." Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian took the initiative to walk to the other end of the training ground.

Ning Tian still held Xu Zihuang's arm intimately, and the two sat down on a clean, smooth rock, gazing at Wang Yan and the others across the way.

Chapter 295 The Illusion of the Mirror and the Power of a 100,000-Year Soul Skill

Xu Zihuang is a control-type battle soul master, and Ning Tian is a support-type soul master. Since there are only two of them working together, there is obviously no need to discuss anything in detail.

Xu Zihuang will definitely be in charge of facing the enemy head-on, while Ning Tian will provide support from the side using his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul.

The tactical discussion that Han Ruoruo mentioned earlier was actually aimed at Wu Feng, Xiao Xiao, Xie Huanyue, Nanmen Yun'er, and Dai Huabin.

Among these five people, there are two offensive-type Soul Masters, one defensive-type Soul Master, and one agile-type Soul Master. In addition, there is Xiao Xiao, a unique support and control-type Soul Master. Compared to a typical complete Soul Master team, the only thing they lack is a food-type Soul Master to provide logistical support for prolonged combat.

The five individuals have complementary abilities, making them a fairly well-rounded team. If they can cooperate seamlessly, they are capable of handling several opponents whose soul power level is one rank higher than theirs.

After all, they are all elite disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court, and each of them has the potential to become a Title Douluo.

A gentle breeze stirred, causing Ning Tian's skirt to flutter slightly, revealing a sliver of her fair and slender legs beneath the pure white dress. A subtle smile curved her lips. This sparring match would be a perfect opportunity to test the results of her cultivation over the years; she wanted to prove that she possessed the ability to accompany Yu Tianhuang to the pinnacle of the Soul Master world.

As the sole heir to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, an ancient sect, how could she not be a little proud? From childhood to adulthood, she had always been a proud and arrogant woman who looked down on her peers. Only in front of Yu Tianhuang, whom she admired, would she put aside this pride.

Xu Zihuang bent down and tugged at Ning Tian's skirt, which was fluttering in the wind. His warm fingertips touched her calf, causing Ning Tian to tremble slightly and her face to flush. In the past, when they were alone, Yu Tianhuang always showed a special preference for her long legs, and it was common for him to touch them directly.

Privately, she didn't think anything of it, but doing it in front of everyone like this inevitably stirred up some strange feelings within her. Along with shyness, there was also a strange sense of excitement.

Fortunately, Yu Tianhuang only helped her adjust her skirt briefly and did not do anything too outrageous.

Ning Tian parted her red lips slightly

"Tianhuang".

"Hmm?" Xu Zihuang sat up straight again. Perhaps her feelings for Ning Tian weren't as sincere and pure as her feelings for Ye Guyi, but it was undeniable that Ning Tian, ​​who had been with him for most of his adolescence, had touched him to some extent. And his subconscious behavior just now was a manifestation of his possessiveness towards Ning Tian.

Even if it's just a glimpse of Ning Tian's calves, he doesn't like other men to see it.

The intelligent Ning Tian understood this perfectly. At this moment, with her chin resting on Xu Zihuang's shoulder, her light blue eyes were filled with sweetness and tenderness.

"Before we begin our sparring, let me tell you about my fifth soul skill and the soul skill attached to the Mirror Illusion Skull of Wisdom."

"Okay." Xu Zihuang smiled slightly.

Ning Tian composed himself slightly and said, "My newly acquired fifth soul skill is an amplification of attack power. Now that I am a Soul King, the amplification effect of all five soul skills can reach 60%. As for the soul skill attached to my Mirror Illusion head soul bone, it is the same as its name, Mirror Illusion. It is a domain-type mental illusion soul skill that can confuse opponents. In addition, this soul skill has another effect. Within the range of this soul skill, I can connect the mental seas of my companions to establish a mental network, allowing us to communicate with each other and not get lost in the Mirror Illusion."

As he listened to Ning Tian's story, a hint of surprise appeared in Xu Zihuang's eyes.