Upon re-entering the Soul Dueling area and finding Ning Tian's team, Huo Yuhao was met with, as expected, Wu Feng's sour face.
"Why are you so slow, you guy! If you dilly-dally any longer, I'm going to take the young lady and leave!"
The girl with light green long hair beside her gave her a chiding look, pulled her sleeve, and said to Huo Yuhao:
"Hello, my name is Nanmen Yun'er. I've long heard of your great name, and I hope we can both gain something from the upcoming sparring session."
"Yes, I have the same intention."
Huo Yuhao returned a friendly smile to her, having more or less assessed her in his heart.
To be able to form a team with seeded players like Ning Tian and Wu Feng, this girl named Nanmen Yun'er is definitely not simple. At the very least, in her class, she must be able to enter the top ten or even top five, and she must also be a Great Soul Master.
He couldn't be fooled by her gentle appearance.
After his two teammates finished speaking, Ning Tian asked indifferently:
"Did the Soul Tool Department's classes delay your time?"
"Yes."
"Understood. I hope you don't disappoint me."
After saying this in a flat tone, Ning Tian turned and walked into the arena.
Huo Yuhao felt a bit helpless. Ning Tian was clearly unhappy, but there was nothing he could do. Even though there was a reason, this incident was indeed his fault. Who told him to be late?
He winked at Wang Dong and Zhu Yun, and the three of them followed him into the arena.
The two teams came to opposite sides of the platform, immediately attracting the attention of many spectators in the stands.
There were six people on the stage, two handsome young men and four beautiful girls, each with a different style: delicate, dazzling, cute, fiery, and gentle. Wang Dong's looks were even more overwhelming.
Although there was no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women among Soul Masters, their combination was still quite eye-catching.
Even just for the visual enjoyment, this battle would definitely be highly entertaining.
They didn't have to wait long, and the match began. The six people on the stage simultaneously released their martial souls, and the eyes of all the spectators immediately lit up.
Among the six, the most eye-catching were naturally Wang Dong, who grew butterfly wings on his back, and Ning Tian, who held the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in his hand.
One of them had a thousand-year soul ring as his second soul skill, and the other had reached the cultivation level of a Soul Ancestor at a young age, both demonstrating their genius.
In addition, their martial souls were both sufficiently dazzling, and many people tacitly assumed that the core of these two teams was them.
Besides them, the others also had more or less changes on their bodies.
Huo Yuhao's hair turned black and white, a 'Wang' character appeared on his head, and his eye color gradually deepened, making it difficult to look directly at him.
Wu Feng's body suddenly grew a size larger, transforming into the appearance of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. Crimson dragon scales appeared on her body, and flames rose from beneath her feet.
Azure light appeared around Nanmen Yun'er, and a pair of small wings grew from her back, giving her a much more agile feeling.
As for Zhu Yun, while a pair of cat ears grew on her head, a long cat tail also hung down from behind her to the ground. What was magical was that this cat tail actually merged into the shadow behind her.
Thus, as everyone completed their martial soul possession, the battle officially began.
The first to act was Nanmen Yun'er, the only agility-type Great Soul Master on the field. The wings on her back flapped nimbly and quickly, and her entire body transformed into an azure shadow, rushing towards Huo Yuhao and the others.
Ning Tian was only a step slower than her.
Ning Tian's first and third soul rings lit up simultaneously, and four beams of light landed on Nanmen Yun'er and Wu Feng respectively.
Instantly, the aura of the two girls began to soar, reaching a level close to that of a Soul Ancestor.
Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda has the flaw of being unable to break through the seven-ring limit, within the first seven rings, it is the undisputed strongest auxiliary-type tool martial soul.
With its assistance, the combat power of soul masters of the same level can almost surpass one level.
As she took action, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Wu Feng also took action, rushing towards their opponents. Huo Yuhao faced Wu Feng, while Wang Dong faced Nanmen Yun'er.
As soon as the two flying-type martial souls met, the two immediately began to clash.
Both sides' first soul skills lit up simultaneously. The edges of Wang Dong's butterfly wings transformed into sharp blades, and a layer of azure light also covered Nanmen Yun'er's hands. At first glance, it even looked somewhat similar to Wang Dong's Butterfly Wing Sickle.
Of course, the power was still quite different. A loud "bang" sounded, and even with Ning Tian's assistance, Nanmen Yun'er still fell into a disadvantage in this exchange.
"Woo."
After testing Wang Dong's attack power, Nanmen Yun'er did not dare to confront him head-on. She changed her strategy, constantly shifting her position in the air, trying to find an opportunity for a counterattack through guerrilla tactics.
Wang Dong couldn't help but frown. With the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's amplification, Nanmen Yun'er's speed was astonishingly fast. Even with Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing assistance, he had to concentrate at all times and pay attention to Nanmen Yun'er's every move.
Just then, an unexpected change that altered the course of the battle suddenly occurred.
Before Nanmen Yun'er could formally take action, several black shadows suddenly shot out from the shadow beneath her feet. The black shadows wrapped around her body like ropes.
Her speed instantly slowed down, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's amplification of her was instantly overridden. Forget about evading Wang Dong, she was now even slower than a regular agility-type Great Soul Master.
Wang Dong naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. His eyes lit up, and without hesitation, he swung a Butterfly Wing Sickle at the opponent.
"Tsk."
Seeing that she couldn't dodge, Nanmen Yun'er had no choice but to activate her first and second soul skills simultaneously. She raised her hands above her head, and an azure blade collided with Wang Dong's.
With another "bang," both of them flew backward.
Nanmen Yun'er reacted very promptly, but she was after all just an agility-type soul master who was not good at frontal combat. Even though Wang Dong only used his first soul skill, she was still somewhat unable to parry.
Ning Tian's gaze, however, went past Wang Dong and landed on Zhu Yun, who was standing at the back of Huo Yuhao's team.
At this time, her appearance was very strange. Black shadows constantly emerged from her body, and the ground beneath her feet was completely dyed black. The shadow beneath her feet even transformed into the shape of a cat.
Ning Tian narrowed her eyes.
Indeed, it was as rumored...
It was said that two oddities appeared in the Star Luo Empire in this generation.
One was Huo Yuhao, and the other was Zhu Yun, who could perform a martial soul fusion with him.
If Huo Yuhao's Netherworld White Tiger could still show some trace of a white tiger, then Zhu Yun's Shadow Spirit Cat martial soul was completely a different species from the Netherworld Spirit Cat.
Unlike the agility-type Netherworld Spirit Cat, the Shadow Spirit Cat was a powerful control-type martial soul, whose talent was controlling shadows.
And it was said that this girl named Zhu Yun even had innate full soul power, was only in her early tens, and her soul power level had already reached level twenty-seven. If it weren't for her insistence on enrolling with her fiancé Huo Yuhao, who was a year older than her, she would actually have been a genius who reached the Soul Ancestor realm before enrollment.
The reason Ning Tian agreed to Huo Yuhao's sparring request, besides stabilizing the cooperative relationship between the two sides, was also to take this opportunity to probe Zhu Yun's information.
After all, while the two sides were partners, they were also competitors.
Ning Tian sighed softly in her heart, shifted her gaze away from Zhu Yun, and turned to the battlefield between Huo Yuhao and Wu Feng.
Immediately after, her gaze became momentarily blank.
She actually saw that the incredibly powerful Wu Feng was being unilaterally beaten by Huo Yuhao.