The pressure of the Hell White Tiger had already surpassed the realm of a Soul Elder.
Gu Yuena's purple eyes narrowed slightly as seven-colored light began to converge around her.
Ye Guyi also raised the Angelic Sacred Sword high, its holy fire burning fiercely, preparing to go all out and shake this legendary Martial Soul Fusion Ability head-on.
However, Caelus, standing at the very front, remained calm.
In his eyes, the illusory clockwork pupils accelerated suddenly, emitting a faint golden radiance.
The Hell White Tiger's massive figure rapidly enlarged in his pupils, a fishy wind blowing in his face, with its sharp claws about to strike.
Just at this critical moment—
An invisible slash appeared abruptly on the path of the Hell White Tiger's charge, as if it had been destined to appear there from the very beginning, silently sweeping across the Hell White Tiger's massive body.
Time seemed to freeze for an instant.
The next second, in everyone's incredulous gaze, the overwhelmingly powerful Hell White Tiger collapsed instantly like a popped bubble, without any process of resistance, turning into dots of black and white light and dissipating into nothingness.
As the light faded, two figures were revealed—Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fell heavily onto the arena, both pale as paper, vomiting blood, their aura withered to the extreme.
The backlash from having their Martial Soul Fusion Ability forcibly broken was terrifying; it instantly drained their Soul Power and physical strength, and caused severe internal injuries.
Dai Huabin struggled to lift his upper body, his eyes filled with unwillingness and deep confusion. He stared fixedly at Caelus, who was still standing indifferently, and used his last bit of strength to ask with difficulty:
"What... was that?"
Caelus slowly lowered the finger he had raised at some point, the light of his first spirit ring extinguishing again. He met Dai Huabin's gaze calmly and responded faintly:
"First Spirit Ability, Dreamlike Bubble."
As early as the start of the battle, every step he took and every seemingly meaningless wave of his hand had carved invisible "marks" onto the arena.
When the Hell White Tiger pounced with terrifying power, he activated his Spirit Ability, reproducing the "slash" phenomenon that had already been determined to occur in the "past."
Once a phenomenon is determined, its result becomes irreversible, no matter how strong the defense in between might be.
The strength of the slash itself might be negligible, but the "result" it represented—the fact that "a slash swept through the air"—was forcibly reproduced and completed.
This was not a collision of power, but an undeniable fact.
On the viewing platform, Yan Shaozhe stood up abruptly, the usual gentle smile on his face replaced by unprecedented solemnity.
With his cultivation as a Titled Douluo, even he had only felt an extremely eerie fluctuation of power in that instant. The appearance of that slash was completely untraceable, yet it carried a kind of "inevitability" that made even this Super Douluo feel a sense of trepidation.
"What kind of Spirit Ability is that exactly?"
He muttered to himself, his gaze toward Caelus filled with deep shock and inquiry.
Everything that happened on the arena exceeded the understanding of most people.
A second ago, the legendary Hell White Tiger had descended with monstrous ferocity, its terrifying Soul Power fluctuations even causing the arena's protective barrier to tremble violently, making many observing students turn pale and feel a chill—such power, perhaps even a powerhouse who had just entered the Soul King level would not dare to take it head-on.
However, the next second.
There was no earth-shattering collision, no explosion of energy impact.
Just a slash, appearing from nowhere and seeming like a hallucination, flashed by, and the arrogant Hell White Tiger was instantly disintegrated and dissipated like a reflection in water wiped away by an invisible hand.
Fast, too fast!
From the appearance of the Hell White Tiger to its collapse, the whole process was like a flash of lightning; the climax ended as soon as it appeared.
Many people's thoughts were still lingering in the shock brought by the Hell White Tiger, unable to keep up with this abruptly changing reality.
Dead silence.
The entire examination area was plunged into an eerie silence.
Everyone clearly saw that the moment the Hell White Tiger pounced, the yellow, hundred-year first spirit ring on Caelus lit up.
But... First Spirit Ability?
How could a First Spirit Ability granted by a mere hundred-year spirit ring instantly crush the Hell White Tiger, a Martial Soul Fusion Ability whose power approached that of a Soul King?!
This completely violated the common sense and power system recognized in the Spirit Master's world.
"W... what happened?"
"Where's the Hell White Tiger? Why is it gone?"
"I think I saw Caelus's first spirit ring light up..."
"A First Spirit Ability crushed the Hell White Tiger? Are you kidding me? That's just a hundred-year Spirit Ability."
On the viewing platform, whispers spread like a tide, filled with confusion, bewilderment, and disbelief.
The students looked at each other, seeing the same confusion in each other's eyes.
They could understand Caelus's team suppressing Dai Huabin's team with sheer strength, but they completely failed to understand this eerie scene before them.
On the teachers' bench, there was also astonishment.
Several teachers with deep cultivation frowned, struggling to recall the details just now.
"Director, did you see clearly? What exactly was that?"
A teacher couldn't help but ask Director, who was beside him, in a low voice.
Director looked solemn and shook his head slowly:
"The spirit ring fluctuation was indeed a First Spirit Ability... but the effect... is unheard of."
Even he, a Spirit Douluo, could not fully understand the eeriness of that moment.
And at this moment, the focus of the entire audience, besides Caelus who stood indifferently on the arena, was the Dean of the Martial Soul Department of Shrek Academy—Yan Shaozhe—on the high platform.
"Dreamlike Bubble... reproducing past phenomena and making them an inevitable reality? What a terrifying rule-based Spirit Ability."
As a Super Douluo, Yan Shaozhe had also heard the conversation between Caelus and Dai Huabin and knew the name of this Spirit Ability.
At the same time, he also roughly grasped the effect of Caelus's Spirit Ability.
"This child..."
Yan Shaozhe took a deep breath, his eyes becoming extremely profound.
"He must be focused on. His potential is perhaps even more terrifying than we previously assessed."
On the arena, the medical team teachers had already quickly entered the field to carry away Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, who were suffering from Soul Power overdraft and severe backlash injuries, for treatment.
Cui Yajie looked at her teammates who had been defeated in an instant, and then looked at Caelus, whose clothes were not even ruffled, on the opposite side. Her charming face was left with only dullness and fear.
Gu Yuena took a deep look at Caelus, a flash of realization and... a hint of imperceptible solemnity in her purple eyes.
She seemed to understand the meaning behind Caelus's move better than others.
Ye Guyi was full of excitement, walked quickly to Caelus's side, and patted his shoulder hard:
"Well done, Caelus, that move of yours was too amazing, but can you tell us in advance next time? You made Gu Yue and me nervous."
Caelus just smiled slightly at this, without giving much explanation.
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