Chapter 22: Three vs. Three against Wang Dong
The next day, Huo Yuhao continued to compete in his division, fighting several rounds successfully entering the top thirty-two.
It could be said that in the subsequent assessments, any student team that encountered Huo Yuhao's team would collapse instantly, refusing to give themselves a chance to get injured.
In the entire Assessment Area 27, there were no Soul Masters who could contend with the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo.
They weren't even forced to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
When the third day arrived, New Student Assessment rules meant that teams from the same class wouldn't meet in the divisional rounds, but once they entered the top thirty-two to compete for higher rankings, they would.
Fortunately, Huo Yuhao's team did not encounter Ning Tian's team from the same class, but they did encounter the team Huo Yuhao least wanted to face.
"New Student Assessment, Round Six, Match One: New Student Class Nine's Huo Yuhao Team vs. New Student Class One's Wang Dong Team will commence the assessment."
"Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Zhuo Yu. Please advise."
"Huo Yuhao, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo. Please advise."
After exchanging names, Wang Dong's magnificent butterfly wings unfolded, and she charged directly toward Huo Yuhao, taking the lead.
Xiao Xiao, meanwhile, controlled her heavy black cauldron, sending it spiraling toward Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo.
The young girl named Zhuo Yu summoned her auxiliary gem-type tool Martial Soul and began applying buffs to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
Clearly, although this auxiliary Great Soul Master named Zhuo Yu had good talent, having Cultivated into a Great Soul Master at the age of eleven or twelve, she was not among the absolute best; at the very least, Ning Tian's auxiliary effects far surpassed Zhuo Yu's.
One assault, one control, one auxiliary—a very common three-person Soul Master formation.
Moreover, Wang Dong targeted Huo Yuhao directly, while Xiao Xiao blocked the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, clearly executing a decapitation strategy.
Huo Yuhao, who had only ever applied buffs, was clearly seen as the target that could be quickly eliminated, leading to a three-on-two situation.
Wang Dong's flying speed was extremely fast, covering more than half the arena in an instant.
Soul Masters with flight capability have a huge advantage before the Seven-ring Realm; they can fight and fly, and if they lose, their chances of escaping are greater than other Soul Masters.
Soul Engineers can fly at the Four-ring Realm, but they require a spirit tool flying device. While the duration isn't as long as a flight-type Soul Master's, it fulfills the dream of flying for Soul Masters before the Seven-ring Realm.
Huo Yuhao wasn't strongly opposed to spirit tools, but he didn't overly praise them either.
In his view, there was no need to waste precious time learning spirit tools while he was still weak; it would be easier to learn them once his Realm was higher.
Only the strongest Soul Master, paired with the strongest spirit tool, could achieve the body of a Mortal and strike down the Divine.
Of course, with the Soul Master as the foundation, even without spirit tools, one could still become the strongest in the world.
Ultimately, it is a world where great power belongs to the individual.
Wing Scythe!
Wang Dong crossed half the competition stage at extreme speed, her wings cutting through the air, heading straight for Huo Yuhao.
Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo's Hair Net swept out, intending to protect Huo Yuhao, but a massive black cauldron blocked their path.
With Zhuo Yu's Soul skills amplification, Xiao Xiao temporarily restrained the Lan sisters.
Wang Dong was now very close to Huo Yuhao. In her mind, facing a one-ring auxiliary Soul Master as a Great Soul Master—wasn't that an easy capture?
Although Wang Dong didn't know why she felt Huo Yuhao wasn't annoying and wanted to be friends the first time she saw him, this was a competition! She carried the hopes of her two teammates and had to defeat the opponent!
The wing scythe chopped down, aimed directly at Huo Yuhao.
Without any reaction, Huo Yuhao seemed stunned, allowing the wing scythe to descend.
This made Wang Dong involuntarily shift the direction of her wing scythe, preventing her from severely injuring Huo Yuhao.
"Crack!"
The wing scythe struck the ground of the arena, and confusion flashed in Wang Dong's eyes.
What happened? Why did I miss?
She looked again and saw Huo Yuhao standing a few meters away, looking as if he hadn't moved at all.
How is that possible!
Wang Dong gritted her teeth and continued the pursuit.
But every time she struck, she missed, repeatedly.
To the audience outside the arena, Wang Dong looked like she was drunk, wildly slashing at the stage even though Huo Yuhao was right in front of her eyes.
Spiritual Interference combined with Simulation.
With Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power at the level of a Soul Sect, Wang Dong had no ability to resist, unable even to accurately pinpoint his location.
Without personally attacking Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao took the opportunity to apply Spiritual Interference to Xiao Xiao as well, causing the black Soul Suppressing Cauldron to miss many strands of Hair Net.
First Soul skills, Hair Net!
With Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing providing guidance, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo naturally wouldn't miss such an opportunity, and they activated their First Soul skills simultaneously.
Only when the sweeping Hair Net strands reached Xiao Xiao did she finally react.
First Soul skills, Cauldron Tremor!
Second Soul skills, Cauldron Sweep!
With two consecutive Soul skillss, the protective Soul Suppressing Cauldron erupted with intense black light, forcefully shaking apart the overwhelming Hair Net strands.
Nine Phoenix Auspice!
Two yellow Soul Rings disappeared, replaced by one yellow Soul Ring, and a jade-green long flute appeared in Xiao Xiao's hand.
Under the sound of the flute, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo's Hair Net strands also began to slow down.
However, the next moment, Xiao Xiao's body went limp, and she collapsed onto the stage.
Soul Impact.
Huo Yuhao did not want to attack Wang Dong, fearing that a Soul Impact might affect the Sea God's Divine Sense within Wang Dong's sea of consciousness. If a Divine Sense proxy were to intervene, Huo Yuhao would have nowhere to appeal.
Unless he also let Electrolux act as a proxy.
The tacitly cooperating sisters, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, released their Second Soul skills. The Hair Net surged, wrapping Wang Dong like a zongzi. Even though Wang Dong finally released her Second Soul skills, Butterfly God's Light, she still missed and was thrown off the stage.
Only one auxiliary Soul Master remained on the opposing side: Zhuo Yu.
"I, I, I'll go down myself."
After Zhuo Yu conceded, the referee teacher announced the victory of Huo Yuhao's team.
Spectator Platform.
Du Weilun was deep in thought.
"Teacher Mu, it seems Huo Yuhao from your class is hiding quite a bit. In this assessment, he used more than one Soul skills. Does he perhaps possess a Spiritual-type Soul Bone? Otherwise, the little girl with the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron wouldn't have suddenly fainted. Teacher Zhou, you've lost this bet."
Zhou Yi glared with a dark expression at Wang Dong, who looked like a defeated eggplant below the stage. Wang Dong and Zhuo Yu were supporting the unconscious Xiao Xiao, taking her to the infirmary.
"A loss is a loss. I can afford one Soul Bone!"
"Then Teacher Zhou, please send the Soul Bone over quickly. Don't make me go ask Fan Yu for it!"
Mu Jin was delighted. There was nothing happier than seeing her enemy and love rival suffer a setback.
Although she had moved past the events of the past and no longer had feelings for Fan Yu, this didn't stop her from using Fan Yu's name to annoy Zhou Yi.
But that boy, Huo Yuhao, how could he be hiding so much?
As a Soul Master at the Soul Emperor level, she could naturally see that both Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao were affected by a Spiritual attack, likely a Spiritual attack type Soul skills.
How could Huo Yuhao possess a Soul Bone? How could a Soul Master with a Soul Bone have been picked up by her outside the gates of Shrek? This left Mu Jin completely bewildered.
In the Soul Master world, Soul Masters who are not close friends won't even reveal their own Soul skillss to each other, let alone something as precious as a Soul Bone.
Of course, none of them considered the possibility that Huo Yuhao had created his own Soul skills.
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