"Ah..."
Feeling the burning sensation on his left cheek, Tang San cried out in pain.
He was disfigured?
Tang San touched the wound on his face in shock. Although he was not good-looking, he still had a sense of shame! This Zhu Zhuqing actually dared to hurt his face! She was really asking for death!
Zhu Zhuqing was a little embarrassed and quickly withdrew her martial soul to go forward and check on Tang San.
The audience below the stage erupted in an uproar. Most of them had placed bets outside the venue, but now Zhu Zhuqing had not chosen to press her advantage after injuring her opponent, but instead withdrew her martial soul!
"What's going on! Go!"
"Is this a dirty match? Withdrawing your martial soul at a time like this!"
"Attack him!"
"Attack him!"
"Attack him!"
...
The voices from the audience rose higher and higher, but Zhu Zhuqing ignored them and just walked towards Tang San with a slightly apologetic expression, wanting to check his wound, but Tang San stopped her.
Tang San covered the wound on his face, giving Zhu Zhuqing a vicious glare before quickly averting his gaze and feigning indifference.
"It's alright, the match isn't over yet, let's continue..."
Zhu Zhuqing, oblivious to Tang San's fleeting glint of malice, nodded and walked back to the other end of the arena.
Since they dared to attack him, Tang San, they should be prepared for retaliation.
Thinking this, Tang San didn't hesitate any longer. From an angle Zhu Zhuqing couldn't see, he reached down and swiped his hand across the "Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon" at his waist, producing several gleaming objects in his hand.
On the other side, Zhu Zhuqing was completely unaware of this. She hadn't expected Tang San to use these against her, so she wasn't on guard.
However, Yin Hao, who had been watching Tang San closely, saw his subtle movements clearly and couldn't help but sneer. "Really..."
After resummoning her martial soul, Zhu Zhuqing signaled to Tang San and then charged at him.
Tang San, as before, summoned two Blue Silver Grasses to attack Zhu Zhuqing, but she easily dodged them and accelerated towards him using the grasses.
When Zhu Zhuqing was about seven or eight meters away from Tang San, his first spirit ring lit up, and he unleashed his first spirit skill, Entangling.
Two Blue Silver Grasses wrapped around Zhu Zhuqing from the left and right, but were easily torn apart.
"Now..."
A purple light flashed before Tang San's eyes, and three gleaming silver needles instantly appeared in his hand. He then swiftly threw them at Zhu Zhuqing with a skillful technique.
As the possessor of a cat-type martial soul, Zhu Zhuqing's reaction was quick; if the distance was sufficient, she could have dodged them.
However, unfortunately, she was too close to Tang San, and she hadn't expected him to use this move, so she was completely unprepared.
Seeing three silver needles hurtling towards her, one after the other, Zhu Zhuqing could only use her supple body to leap lightly, narrowly dodging the attacks of two needles.
But the third needle arrived right in front of her, and since she hadn't landed yet, she couldn't catch it. She watched helplessly as the needle drew closer.
Just as the needle was about to strike Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San smiled with satisfaction. He had coated the needle with poison; although not a deadly toxin, it would quickly weaken the victim and cause unbearable itching—a small punishment for Zhu Zhuqing injuring him.
As for how to explain it after he went down? Heh... the arena is like a battlefield, shouldn't one use any means necessary? He was teaching them a lesson!
But just then, a sudden change occurred. The silver needle, which was less than ten centimeters away from Zhu Zhuqing, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
This left Tang San dumbfounded. What happened?
Zhu Zhuqing was also stunned. The silver needle... was gone? But she reacted immediately and quickly rushed towards Tang San.
Earlier, in order to catch Zhu Zhuqing off guard, Tang San had deliberately kept the distance between them close. Now, the distance between them was only five meters. With Zhu Zhuqing's speed, she was in front of Tang San in a flash.
However, Tang San's reaction was not slow either. He first used the Crane Control Dragon Capture Technique to block Zhu Zhuqing's claw, and then immediately used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps to try to create distance between them. At the same time, Tang San had also secretly prepared the silent hidden arrow in his hand, ready to turn around and shoot Zhu Zhuqing at any time.
But for some reason, just as Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps, it seemed that he suddenly tripped over a stone, and his whole body jolted.
Zhu Zhuqing wasn't about to let such a good opportunity slip by. Her first spirit ring lit up.
"First Spirit Skill, Netherworld Thrust!"
There was no time to dodge. Tang San quickly summoned Blue Silver Grass to shield himself, but having lost his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and with his first two spirit rings only at the hundred-year level,
his three layers of Blue Silver Grass were torn apart in a second. Zhu Zhuqing's claws reached Tang San's chest.
"Ah..."
In an instant, four bloody welts appeared on Tang San's chest from Zhu Zhuqing's grip. However, Zhu Zhuqing had no intention of stopping, raising her other hand to continue.
Tang San wasn't stupid; continuing the fight was pointless and would only cause him more injury. So he quickly said,
"I concede!"
Hearing these three words, Zhu Zhuqing had no choice but to withdraw her hand, giving him a cold glance before turning and leaving the arena.
In a small corner of the arena behind, two silver needles were stuck in the ground, the ground around them slightly blackened, clearly poisoned.
Ma Hongjun and the others, with their lower cultivation levels, certainly didn't notice, but Flander, possessing the Cat-Owl Martial Soul, saw it clearly.
Flander frowned, looking at Tang San with some complicated emotions. He hadn't expected Tang San to do such a thing to his classmate. If it weren't for Zhu Zhuqing's methods (he attributed the sudden disappearance of the silver needles to Zhu Zhuqing's methods), he probably would have been ambushed.
"Xiao Gang, how did you teach your disciple..."
Flander muttered under his breath, but didn't say anything more.
Dai Mubai and the others were still stunned. Because of the distance, they hadn't noticed the hidden weapon Tang San had launched and didn't understand why Tang San had suddenly conceded defeat.
However, this didn't stop Dai Mubai from feeling distressed.
"Ninety thousand gold soul coins! It's over!"
It's not easy to renege on a debt from the Great Soul Arena, and he didn't dare to; otherwise, Flander wouldn't be able to protect him.
Zhu Zhuqing walked down from the stage to register the points, while Tang San went straight back to where the Shrek Seven Devils were.
Seeing the distressed Dai Mubai, Tang San was a little puzzled.
"Brother Dai, what's wrong?"
Dai Mubai's face darkened further upon hearing Tang San's voice. He glanced at him but didn't reply.
Seeing that his efforts were met with indifference, Tang San simply ignored him.
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