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At this moment, both sides in the battle released their soul rings.
Immediately, everyone's attention focused on Bai Chen and Lu Lin.
When Bai Chen saw the two soul rings rising from Lu Lin's body, he couldn't help but feel slightly surprised.
Among the four people present, only Lu Lin was a two-ringed Great Soul Master.
For a nine-year-old child to reach two rings, even if he had taken medicinal resources, it was still extremely rare. After all, even at Shrek Academy, there were not many students who could reach two rings by the time they entered school at eleven.
It seemed there was a reason why he had firmly held the position of class leader before Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen arrived.
However, Lu Lin stared fixedly at the purple soul ring around Bai Chen.
If he himself was the only one with two rings in the arena, then Bai Chen was the only one with a purple ring.
That was a thousand-year soul ring.
How did this kid manage to obtain a soul ring of that age as his first ring?
Suddenly he understood why Xiao Hongchen had such confidence in Bai Chen.
This was definitely a monster not to be underestimated.
"Seven Treasures have a name: one is Power."
While everyone else was momentarily stunned, Ning Tian did not forget her role.
She released the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower martial spirit, and a brilliant ray of light shot from it and landed on Bai Chen.
Bai Chen's strength immediately increased significantly.
"This is… the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower! Hmph, so they really are people from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower clan!"
Lu Lin recognized Ning Tian's martial spirit at a glance and said coldly to the girl beside him:
"Focus your fire on her. She's a threat!"
In his view, as a Seven Treasure Glazed Tower soul master, Ning Tian's threat was not much smaller than Bai Chen's.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tower was the top support-type martial spirit. Even with just one ring, it could increase attributes by 20%, something other support spirits couldn't match.
Combined with Bai Chen's unknown thousand-year soul skill, their explosive power absolutely could not be underestimated.
At this moment, he no longer dared underestimate the pair.
The girl beside him immediately drew a first-grade soul tool bow, aiming at Ning Tian.
But just before the arrow was fired, Bai Chen suddenly flashed in front of Ning Tian and struck the incoming shot away with a palm.
At the same time, he stomped the ground with his left foot.
With a loud sound, he shot forward like a cannonball toward Lu Lin and his partner.
Lu Lin's mouth twitched slightly.
This speed…
Even assault-type soul masters weren't necessarily this fast.
Even with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower's support, this speed was outrageous.
No wonder he could absorb a thousand-year soul ring as his first soul skill. He was a monster.
Lu Lin sighed helplessly. A short blade appeared in his hand as he said quickly:
"I'll hold him off. You deal with Ning Tian!"
As long as Ning Tian was eliminated, with his two-ring cultivation, defeating Bai Chen in a two-on-one situation would still be possible.
The girl nodded and ran toward Ning Tian.
Compared to long-range combat, she was actually better at close combat.
Strangely, Bai Chen made no attempt to stop her and walked directly toward Lu Lin.
Clang!
A crisp metallic collision sounded as Bai Chen's dark golden claws clashed with Lu Lin's blade.
Lu Lin laughed.
"So you think you can take me down before your teammate is defeated? Quite confident."
"You're wrong," Bai Chen said with a gentle smile.
"Ning Tian won't be defeated. It will be her who defeats your teammate."
"Hah, then we'll just wait and see."
Lu Lin didn't take the words seriously.
After all, Ning Tian was just a support-type soul master, while the girl with him was an assault-type battle soul master.
Normally, assault spirits were far stronger in combat than support spirits.
As long as Ning Tian was eliminated, the support effect on Bai Chen would disappear.
However, after just two exchanges, cold sweat began to run down Lu Lin's back.
What was going on?
Why was this kid's close-combat ability so strong?
His strength was terrifying, and his strange movement style was incredibly difficult to deal with.
After only a few seconds of fighting, he was already showing signs of losing.
What about Ning Tian?
Did his teammate win?
He glanced sideways toward Ning Tian's direction.
Then his eyes widened.
What did he see?
A support-type soul master—Ning Tian—was actually overpowering his teammate in close combat!
"I told you not to underestimate her," Bai Chen said calmly.
"Your teammate won't beat her. The winners will be us."
At that moment, Bai Chen seized Lu Lin's momentary distraction.
With a sudden burst of speed, he broke through Lu Lin's defense.
The Dark Gold Terror Claw stopped just one centimeter from Lu Lin's forehead.
Even though it hadn't touched him yet, the sharp aura made Lu Lin's skin tremble slightly.
"…I admit defeat."
Lu Lin smiled bitterly and conceded.
At that point, there was no point continuing.
Two minutes later, the other battle also ended.
Just as Bai Chen predicted—
Ning Tian won.
Her victory was not luck.
It was thanks to the Tang Sect techniques that Bai Chen had taught her.
Soon after Bai Chen joined the sect and began studying the techniques, he passed them on to Ning Tian.
For support-type soul masters, such combat techniques were extremely valuable and greatly improved their self-defense.
After one year of hard training, Ning Tian had already entered the beginner stage of mastery. At least among people of the same age, her close-combat ability was unmatched.
The result of this battle surprised many.
The students of Class One originally thought that even if Lu Lin lost, he could at least cause Bai Chen and Ning Tian trouble.
Some even believed the two only won because they relied on Xiao Hongchen's reputation.
But now the facts spoke louder than words.
Lu Lin had been the strongest student in the class.
Now Bai Chen had defeated him head-on, proving he had the qualifications to become the Vice Class Leader, second only to Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
From that day on, Bai Chen officially became the vice class leader, helping Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen manage the class.
However, he wouldn't need to handle this responsibility for long.
In less than half a month, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's annual holiday would arrive.
During the holiday, Bai Chen and Ning Tian would return to the Heaven Dou Empire and head to the Star Dou Forest to hunt their second soul rings.