Chapter 127: The Might of the Phantom Beast

Flender saw Yu Xiaogang’s embarrassment and hurriedly spoke up to comfort him. “Xiaogang, you can’t really be blamed for this. The special nature of that opponent’s martial soul has already exceeded the bounds of what is normal for a soul master!”

Yes! Exactly! It was all because the other soul master’s martial soul was too unusual! Otherwise, how could the Grandmaster’s battle plan possibly have gone wrong?

In an instant, Yu Xiaogang recovered his inexplicable confidence. Turning to Ma Hongjun, the third team member about to enter the arena, he said, “Hongjun, although that soul master possesses both the advantages of an assault-type and an agility-type soul master because of his special martial soul, you have the ability to fly—an advantage he does not possess. Once you enter the arena, use your aerial superiority to attack him from a distance. Do not give him any chance to get close.”

As nothing more than a twenty-ninth-level great soul master, Yu Xiaogang naturally had no ability to transmit his voice secretly. Although he believed he had lowered his voice, to the accompanying teachers, all of whom were Soul Saint-level experts, it was no different from shouting directly in front of them.

Hearing Yu Xiaogang instruct Ma Hongjun, several nearby team leaders could not help rolling their eyes.

After Yi Ao changed form twice in succession, these teachers had finally understood that the martial soul of the Nine Stars Academy’s contestant must possess the ability to transform into the soul beasts from which his absorbed soul rings had originated.

Let’s be honest: he already possesses four soul rings. Is it really impossible that he once absorbed the soul ring of a flying soul beast? What made you think that the opponent could only absorb soul beasts that walked on the ground? Were his teachers and elders really that stupid?

Of course, these were merely the thoughts of the team leaders who had overheard Yu Xiaogang’s tactics. They were not saints, and Shrek was one of their opponents as well. Why would they remind Shrek?

Ma Hongjun slowly climbed onto the platform on his pair of short, thick legs. He was not like those experienced team leaders with broad knowledge. With his evil fire flaring up every few days, his mind contained little besides lust.

Thinking? What was that?

Out of his trust in his good brother Tang San and his teacher Flender—and possessing little capacity for thought to begin with—Ma Hongjun naturally treated Yu Xiaogang’s instructions like sacred decree and carried them out without question.

“Phoenix Possession!”

Having lost the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, Ma Hongjun’s martial soul still retained its former appearance: a comb atop his head and feathers growing from his arms. He looked exactly like a plump rooster.

“What phoenix? That’s obviously a giant rooster!”

“That little fatty has no shame. He actually dares call a chicken a phoenix!”

Just as Xiao Wu had done the first time she saw Ma Hongjun’s martial soul possession, many students around the arena burst into laughter at his appearance. They mocked Ma Hongjun for overestimating himself, saying that even a chicken dared compare itself to the phoenix, king of birds.

“Bastards! This is a phoenix!”

Ma Hongjun roared angrily and immediately used his third soul skill, Phoenix Wings Soaring. The skill raised the temperature of his flames while granting him the ability to fly.

As he beat his wings and soared into the sky, Ma Hongjun occasionally glared viciously at the students laughing the loudest.

Ma Hongjun’s temperament was much the same as Tang San’s and Dai Mubai’s: he held grudges and took revenge for the slightest offense. By now, he had already memorized the names of those academies and the appearances of their students. He secretly swore that when it was time to face those academies, he would repay them properly with his phoenix flames.

“First soul skill, Phoenix Flame Line!”

As he rose into the air, Ma Hongjun kept Yu Xiaogang’s instructions firmly in mind. His first soul ring lit up, and purplish-red flames spewed from his mouth, sweeping downward across the arena.

Still transformed into a giant bear, Yi Ao crossed both arms before him and solidly blocked Ma Hongjun’s flames.

“What incredible defensive power! Hongjun’s flames are strong enough that an ordinary Soul Ancestor would avoid them at all costs, yet this fellow blocked them head-on without suffering the slightest injury. He possesses attack, defense, and speed all at once. This is the first time I’ve ever seen such an all-round martial soul!”

Flender pushed up his glasses and spoke with undisguised envy.

How could such a genius not have come to Shrek Academy?

“Flender, don’t worry. Hongjun has the advantage in the air. So what if he can block one attack? Since he cannot strike an opponent in the sky, all he can do is take the beating passively. No matter how excellent one’s defense is, it will eventually be broken beneath an endless barrage of attacks!”

Perhaps trying to recover some dignity after Jing Ling and Huang Yuan’s earlier defeats, Yu Xiaogang suddenly raised his voice, as if terrified that no one else would hear him.

Idiot!

That was the only evaluation Yi Ao had for Yu Xiaogang after hearing his words from atop the arena.

“Fourth soul skill, Bloodsucking Bat Bite!”

A burst of red light erupted from Yi Ao’s body. The gray bear, as majestic as a mountain, was replaced by a blood-red bat more than a meter long. Spreading its wings and baring its sharp fangs, it too rose into the sky.

Yu Xiaogang froze. This was already the third time Yi Ao had made him look foolish that day.

Flender’s mouth fell open as well. He shook his head in disbelief. “How is that possible? He can fly too?”

The teachers leading the other academies on either side of Shrek’s resting area were rendered speechless. They could tolerate a great soul master in his twenties sitting in a well and believing he could see the whole sky; that was amusing enough. But the fluctuations of soul power radiating from Flender were clearly above level seventy. How could he say something so foolish as well?

Did everyone from Shrek believe that they alone were intelligent and everyone else was an idiot? Any soul master with even a little experience knew how precious the ability to fly was. In fact, these teachers felt that Yi Ao’s fourth soul skill had come a little late in being matched with the soul ring of a flying soul beast.

Upon the Soul Arena platform—

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