"Found you."
Dai Mubai followed a Blue Silver vine and successfully located Ye Lingling's position amidst the flying sand. His spirit power rapidly surged.
"Second spirit ability, White Tiger Intense Light Wave."
A fierce beam of light shot from Dai Mubai's mouth, rapidly firing toward Ye Lingling not far ahead.
However, the entire spirit fighting arena's ground had changed—the hundred-meter diameter field had become a muddy swamp, with a layer of faint green poisonous mist floating above the marsh.
The swamp rolled like ocean waves according to Dugu Yan's will. In less than half a second, Dai Mubai's second spirit ability was affected by the terrain and completely missed its target, striking the wall outside the spirit fighting stage.
"Third spirit ability, Rock Domain Dragon Tail."
Dugu Yan gave Dai Mubai no chance to resist. Just as his legs were trapped in the mud and he temporarily couldn't break free from the restraints, a massive scaled dragon tail from the Rock Jade Poison Scaled Dragon swung with Dugu Yan's body movement, attacking Dai Mubai.
"Bind."
Tang San quickly activated his first spirit ability. Numerous Blue Silver Grass vines burst through the mud around Dugu Yan, entangling her while weakening the power of her Rock Domain tail.
"Little Ao."
Hearing this, Oscar instantly understood. He quickly activated his third spirit ability, creating six Flying Mushroom Sausages in succession. The moment Tang San got the Flying Mushroom Sausage, he used his hidden weapon techniques to accurately throw it toward Dai Mubai's direction.
"Thanks, Xiao San."
Just as Dai Mubai was about to catch the Flying Mushroom Sausage, a high-speed rotating green turtle shell directly cut the Flying Mushroom Sausage in half.
"Want to save someone? Did you ask me first?"
Shi Mo's turtle shell had now become a shield in his hands, continuing to guard the formation's second core—Ye Lingling.
Without the Flying Mushroom Sausage, Dai Mubai watched as the black dragon tail continued breaking through the Blue Silver Grass protective barrier. He had no choice but to consume massive spirit power and activate his third spirit ability.
"White Tiger Vajra Transformation."
His attack, defense, and strength instantly doubled. Using his tiger claws, he hard-blocked the poison dragon tail's bombardment.
"Bang—"
"Crack—"
Although Dai Mubai's defensive power had increased by 150% under the enhancement of his first and third spirit abilities, he was still forcibly blasted off the spirit fighting stage by the poison dragon tail. Two of his ribs broke, his right hand hit the ground, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
"Boss Dai—"
Seeing Shrek's strongest team member get injured and eliminated, everyone including Tang San was shocked.
"Is this the power of a Spirit King's third spirit ability? Even Boss Dai's White Tiger Vajra Transformation couldn't defend against it!"
Then Tang San and the others regarded Dugu Yan on the ground with even greater seriousness. So far, she had only used her first three spirit abilities and had directly eliminated Dai Mubai.
"Third spirit ability, Spider Web Binding."
Tang San used his Tang Sect hidden weapon techniques, consuming large amounts of spirit power while dark purple Blue Silver Grass rapidly bound Dugu Yan and Shi Mo.
"First spirit ability, Bind."
Massive Blue Silver Grass directly imprisoned Ye Lingling who was caught in the flying sand. Then Tang San's second spirit ability quickly activated—the barbs on the Blue Silver Grass rapidly pierced into Ye Lingling's body, preventing her from healing her teammates.
"Ahh—"
With a painful scream, Ye Lingling's spirit power was rapidly draining away.
At the same time, having used numerous first and third spirit abilities, Tang San was now showing symptoms of spirit power exhaustion.
"Sister Lingling—"
Shi Mo, who was responsible for dealing with Xiao Wu, saw Ye Lingling restricted by Blue Silver Grass and turned around worriedly to rescue her. Xiao Wu seized the opportunity.
"First spirit ability, Waist Bow."
Using soft techniques, she directly threw Shi Mo, who was twice as heavy as her, into mid-air and began executing her self-created spirit ability, the Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw.
However, at this moment, Dugu Yan and Shi Mo had completely broken free from the third spirit ability's restraints.
"Second spirit ability, Xuanwu Flying Shield."
The massive Xuanwu shield flew toward Ye Lingling, attempting to break the Blue Silver Grass binding her. Tang San, whose spirit power had hit rock bottom, immediately seized the opportunity and withdrew his Spider Web Binding.
"Not good."
Shi Mo watched as the Xuanwu Flying Shield attacked Ye Lingling.
Just as he was about to recall his flying shield, Ma Hongjun, now under the massive enhancement of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tower, quickly shot a flame at him, preventing Shi Mo from recalling the Xuanwu Flying Shield.
"Third spirit ability, Rock Domain Dragon Tail."
Having no choice, Dugu Yan's dragon tail suddenly smashed toward the Xuanwu Flying Shield. The Xuanwu shield attacking Ye Lingling was directly knocked away and returned to Shi Mo's hands.
"Retreat!"
At Dugu Yan's command, Shi Mo quickly retreated to Dugu Yan's side, while Shi Mo was forcibly smashed off the spirit fighting stage under Xiao Wu's Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw, barely remaining conscious.
Dugu Yan looked at the four people flying in the sky opposite them, while they had fallen into such a passive situation. She admitted she had previously underestimated the coordination of their six-person team.
Dugu Yan's eyes filled with anger as she leaped up. Under Ye Lingling's third spirit ability's super-strong healing, her spirit power was rapidly recovering.
"Rock Domain Poison Formation."
The entire spirit fighting stage rumbled and sank one meter down. Massive stone blocks floated in mid-air, forming rock spikes stained with red poisonous gas.
"Xiao Wu, catch!"
Just as Xiao Wu caught the Flying Mushroom Sausage and prepared to take off, dozens of stone spikes suddenly fell. Xiao Wu twisted her body, quickly dodging.
"Thud—"
A sharp rock spike pierced shallowly through Xiao Wu's right calf. The rhythm of her dodging was also disrupted by the pain from this wound, and countless rock spikes consecutively hit Xiao Wu.
"Ahh—"
As Xiao Wu's painful cries rang out frequently, Dugu Yan also upheld the principle of sparring and quickly withdrew her fifth spirit ability.
Tang San rapidly flew toward the falling Xiao Wu, caught her in his arms, and shouted urgently:
"Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu, don't scare me."
"Brother, I'm fine..."
Xiao Wu raised her left hand, wanting to comfort Tang San.
"...fine."
After saying these two words, Xiao Wu fell into unconsciousness. Tang San looked at Xiao Wu in his arms, blood-soaked with many puncture wounds on her body, and a murderous intent suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"Why did you strike so heavily?"
Tang San stood up, his eyes fierce as he looked toward the distant Dugu Yan whose spirit power was nearly exhausted and questioned her.
Just as Dugu Yan was about to explain, the furious Tang San's surrounding killing intent instantly surged, and eight spider legs began growing out.
"External spirit bone?"
Dugu Yan was extremely surprised by this, but Tang San gave her an unprecedented sense of darkness—those eight spider legs were definitely a terrifying existence.
"Lingling, take Shi Mo and leave first."
Before the words finished, Tang San used his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track movement technique to appear beside Dugu Yan.
"So fast."
Before Dugu Yan could react, two spider legs were directly pressed against her neck. Tang San threatened:
"Have your support Spirit Master heal my companion, or die."
(End of Chapter)this duel ends, I'll let you examine me too."
"That's good then."
At this moment, Shi Mo and Shi Mo nearby walked tremblingly to Dugu Yan's side, patting their chests and saying very confidently:
"Sister Yanyan, those Shrek people are looking at you with bad intentions. During the duel, we'll definitely make them pay."
"Good. Do you still remember how I usually spar with you?"
When Dugu Yan brought this up, Shi Mo and Shi Mo fearfully stepped back a few paces.
Every other day, they would go under a waterfall about sixty to seventy meters high, enduring the tremendous pressure from the cascading water flow. But when they were exhausted and could no longer continue the water pressure body training, Ye Lingling would immediately provide comprehensive treatment, and then Dugu Yan would require them to return under the waterfall to continue tempering their bodies. One round would take three full days.
Besides that, once a month they would also suffer Dugu Yan's loving beatings, helping them become more proficient in mastering their spirit abilities and physical strength.
This training method made them suffer greatly, but the benefit was that their spirit power also grew significantly. When they needed to advance, the spirit beasts were personally found by a Titled Douluo, and each one was a high-quality turtle-type spirit beast.
Furthermore, since the two had Dugu Yan's help, their families had more or less benefited from the Titled Douluo's influence, and their businesses were surprisingly good.
So the two brothers listened to Dugu Yan extremely well, almost to the degree where they would do whatever she told them to do.
At this moment, Mengshenji looked at that red-clothed fatty's perverted behavior with great displeasure, but still out of respect for Yu Xiaogang's face, he led Dugu Yan's four-person team toward Tang San's group to introduce them one by one.
"Everyone, this is Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo."
"Hello, Dugu Yan."
Tang San stepped forward and friendly extended his hand in greeting. Dugu Yan looked at this rather friendly Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master in front of her and shook his hand as basic courtesy.
After the introductions were complete, each side returned to their respective areas to discuss pre-battle deployment.
Half a quarter-hour passed, and everyone stepped onto the spirit fighting stage together.
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's first team formed a 2-1-1 formation centered on Dugu Yan, while the opposing Shrek team formed a 3-1-2 semi-encirclement formation centered on Tang San.
"When the match starts, we'll use our numerical advantage to attack first. We must take out their support-type Spirit Master first. Without that Ye Lingling's group healing, we'll have a much better chance of winning."
"Xiao Wu, you're responsible for containing the Shi family brothers. Fatty, you focus on protecting Rongrong and Oscar."
Tang San, with his shallow understanding of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's first team, quickly used his rapid analytical abilities to arrange the optimal tactics.
Only now did he think of the usually most useless agility attack-type Spirit Master. If Zhu Zhuqing could fight alongside them against these four people, their chances of victory would be more assured.
"Understood. Brothers, activate your martial souls."
The six activated their martial souls, and 16 standard-configuration spirit rings appeared before the many spectators. Many of the watching students showed disdain, but the watching teachers' gazes focused on Tang San and Oscar.
"A sausage martial soul support-type Spirit Master who's already reached Spirit Elder cultivation—his future is promising!"
"And that Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master, under Grandmaster's theoretical guidance, must have encountered some opportunities to grow so fast."
...
As the six from Shrek activated their martial souls, Dugu Yan's four-person team showed no weakness, activating their martial souls one after another. Especially when Dugu Yan's Rock Jade Poison Scaled Dragon appeared, the originally very quiet spirit fighting arena became lively, with countless students shouting Dugu Yan's name in unison. This made the Shrek members extremely embarrassed, especially Yu Xiaogang, who was particularly angry inside.
His student had cultivated a Blue Silver Grass martial soul to Spirit Elder level—shouldn't the students on the scene be shocked by this disciple of his? Instead, they were cheering for a martial soul that was neither fully dragon nor snake. This was too disrespectful to their Shrek Academy students.
Only now, after revealing her martial soul, did Dugu Yan realize that the perverted little fatty was actually also a phoenix Spirit Master. No wonder she'd had that martial soul fusion technique feeling earlier.
Unlike Bingbing's Ice Phoenix martial soul, this Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix martial soul gave her an evil feeling.
At this moment, Tang San took the lead in launching his first spirit ability, the Bind skill, quickly dividing the enemy battlefield. Xiao Wu, following Tang San's pre-battle deployment, rapidly charged toward Shi Mo, who had become separated from his team while dodging the binding technique.
Relying on her speed, she quickly reached Shi Mo.
"Second spirit ability, Charm!"
Shi Mo's movements became sluggish, his eyes showing pink hearts as he stood there in a daze.
"Big brother, wake up!"
Shi Mo, who was on the left side ready to attack at any moment, said worriedly when he saw his brother had fallen for the trick.
Dugu Yan also hadn't expected that the rabbit Spirit Master on the other side could use control-type Spirit Master abilities.
"First spirit ability, Quicksand Domain."
As the entire arena changed, Shi Mo awoke from the charm technique. Just as Xiao Wu was about to get close and execute her waist attack technique, she was punched in the abdomen by the martial soul-possessed Shi Mo, and she flew backwards in pain.
"Xiao Wu—"
With Xiao Wu's injury, Tang San's fury ignited again. At this moment, Dai Mubai had already charged into the enemy formation.
"First spirit ability, White Tiger Barrier."
Dai Mubai's body swelled to twice its size. While his increased defense resisted the flying sand attacks, he was also rushing rapidly toward the direction where Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was transforming.