Chapter 197

As both sides released their martial souls, the referee's voice sounded again: "The match…… begins!"

As the referee's voice fell, the second, third, and fourth soul rings on Du Gu Yan's body surface all lit up at the same time.

And at that moment, Qian Renxue, without the slightest hesitation, rushed straight at Du Gu Yan; she was not like in the original story, foolishly waiting for Tang San to launch an attack, but intended to settle the opposing team's captain with lightning speed!

Only seen, Qian Renxue's two pairs of golden wings fluttered behind her, and the first yellow soul ring on her body surface had already lit up.

Her first soul skill is called Angel Assault; after using this soul skill, Qian Renxue's speed suddenly surged again, and golden-yellow brilliant light burst forth on her pair of jade fists, directly charging at Du Gu Yan.

However, just after she charged to a distance of twenty meters from Du Gu Yan, a beam of silver-white light suddenly shot from Du Gu Yan's eyes.

"Fourth Soul Skill: Medusa Gaze!"

Seeing the two beams of silver-white light shooting fiercely toward her, Qian Renxue's heart jumped in shock, for she actually felt a strong sense of danger from those beams; if hit, she would surely suffer great restriction.

As a Soul Saint, she rarely fought in peacetime, but her sparring partners were two Titled Douluo, and her combat awareness was in no way inferior.

In merely an instant she reacted, absolutely cannot be hit by those two beams of light.

However, at this moment she was in an accelerated state and could not retreat in time, so she could only change her attack direction to dodge Du Gu Yan's attack.

Seeing this, Du Gu Yan sneered inwardly; her fourth soul ring came from a ten-thousand-year Medusa, and even though Qian Renxue's soul power level reached seventy-four, if hit she would absolutely not escape the fate of petrification.

At this moment Qian Renxue changed her attack direction in time to dodge Du Gu Yan's fourth soul skill attack, but she had already lost the initiative.

The second and third soul rings on Du Gu Yan's body surface lit up simultaneously with the fourth; with no threat from Qian Renxue, she had already released those two soul skills.

"Third Soul Skill: Origin of Poison!"

"Second Soul Skill: Spirit Snake Breath!"

Du Gu Yan's third soul skill has no attack capability, but it can instantly increase her toxin potency by one hundred percent, that is, infinitely expand the effect of the toxin.

Her second soul skill is pure deadly poison; the poison spreads as poison mist, and it also contains the water attribute, so it already fears neither ordinary strong winds nor the scorching of flames.

With the release of these two soul skills, a rich green poison mist began to coil around Du Gu Yan's body surface; only seen, her small mouth slightly opened, and a stream of green poison mist was directly exhaled forward.

The poison mist, at the moment it was exhaled, rapidly spread out, and it was about to directly envelop the entire competition stage.

At this moment the members of the Royal Battle Team also moved, but they did not rush toward the opponent right away; instead, they quickly gathered around Du Gu Yan, waiting for the poison mist to spread.

Although the competition stage's diameter is a full hundred meters, with Du Gu Yan's current strength at level fifty-four, wrapping her poison mist around the entire stage is not difficult; it's just that the poison mist's diffusion requires some time.

Because of the nature of the second soul skill, Zuo Yan also cannot use wind to aid the poison mist's diffusion.

However, at this moment Du Gu Yan also had Ning Rongrong's assistance; the Nine Treasure Glazed Tower of Soul Ancestor level directly gave Du Gu Yan a fifty percent boost in soul power, so Du Gu Yan did not need to consider soul power consumption and could act freely.

As long as Du Gu Yan's deadly poison spreads to cover the entire competition stage, the balance of victory will undoubtedly tip toward their side.

Seeing that her goal of striking first had not been achieved, and seeing Du Gu Yan's poison mist rapidly spreading, Qian Renxue also immediately reacted.

Only seen, her two pairs of golden wings behind her slowly fluttered, and golden holy light began to permeate her body surface, making her whole person appear as if born amidst endless golden radiance, giving a feeling of holy light shining everywhere.

Moreover, the golden light Qian Renxue released was not only on herself; the other members of the Spirit Hall also gained an extra layer of golden light, and everything around became somewhat golden and hazy.

"Angel Domain!"

As the golden light spread, Du Gu Yan's snake venom was actually blocked outside everyone's body surface, unable to infiltrate the bodies of the Spirit Hall Academy members, and even less able to cause effective harm!

"Domain!"

Du Gu Yan seeing this, her whole person became somewhat unsettled; a domain? This is a powerful skill possibly only a Titled Douluo could possess; but how could a Soul Saint-level Qian Renxue possibly have it?

What Du Gu Yan and the others didn't know was that after Qian Renxue broke through to the Soul Saint level, the domain belonging to the god-level Angel martial soul naturally awakened.

Within the Angel Domain, all soul power, poisonous mist, and filth will be melted and purified; this is also an innate special ability of the Angel martial soul.

However, Du Gu Yan's ultimate poison was indeed strong enough; Qian Renxue couldn't instantly purify and melt such a vast amount of poisonous mist, but she gathered the power of her domain to protect the bodies of the Spirit Hall team members, which was sufficient to prevent the poisonous mist from eroding them, directly rendering Du Gu Yan's ability ineffective.

It must be said, the moment Qian Renxue's domain appeared, it completely restricted Du Gu Yan's formidable ability.

After all, this is not a battlefield; Qian Renxue only needed to protect her own six people.

After the Angel Domain was released, Du Gu Yan's black fifth soul ring on her body also lit up; Qian Renxue had no intention of giving Du Gu Yan a chance to counterattack.

"Fifth Soul Skill: Angel Holy Sword!"

A golden Angel Holy Sword suddenly condensed into form, and Qian Renxue flapped the wings behind her, charging once more toward Du Gu Yan.

At that moment, seeing that Du Gu Yan's poisonous mist had no effect, the members of the Seven Treasure Team also sprang into action; Zuo Yan soared in the high skies and quickly engaged the female Soul Master whose martial soul was the Golden Waist Flying Swallow.

Zhan Yu faced Li Xuan, whose martial soul was the Black Horn Mountain Pig; Yang Pojun faced Sun Chuan Tao, whose martial soul was the Circular Giant Blade; while Li Li and Ma Bao rushed toward Xie Yue and Hu Liena.

Seeing that several people had already begun fighting, Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Tower on her body shone with treasure light, and several streams of light flowed into her teammates' bodies, granting them the abilities they most needed.

Zuo Yan provided speed and attack; Yang Pojun and Ma Bao provided attack and strength; Zhan Yu provided defense and strength; while Du Gu Yan and Li Li also provided soul power amplification.

Now Ning Rongrong's divided attention control has been cultivated to the Five Apertures Steady Heart; applying buffs to six people at once has long been second nature to her.

At this moment, Du Gu Yan saw Qian Renxue coming to attack her; after realizing her poisonous mist was being restrained, she had already prepared to counterattack.

However, while counterattacking, her poisonous mist continued to output, because her poisonous mist is not limited to being released from her mouth; any part of her body can serve as a carrier for its release.

As long as the poisonous mist is being released, even if Qian Renxue's domain can restrain it and prevent its spread, this will still consume her soul power and energy.

Seeing Qian Renxue, wielding the Angel Holy Sword, arrive before her, Du Gu Yan's black fifth soul ring on her body lit up.

"Fifth Soul Skill: Titan Poison Whip!"

With the release of the fifth soul skill, behind Du Gu Yan there appeared what seemed to be a Titan Giant Python over twenty meters long; a tail as thick as a water bucket and ten meters long lashed directly toward Qian Renxue.

Du Gu Yan's this soul skill comes from a Titan Giant Python of thirty-thousand-year level; the Titan Giant Python is also an ancient aberrant species, possessing no toxicity itself, but its power is tremendously fearsome.

After Du Gu Yan absorbed the Titan Giant Python's soul ring, the soul skill she obtained is the result of combining it with her own toxicity; it not only possesses tremendous power and attack strength, but the poison whip also carries dreadful poison—anyone who dares to touch it will instantly be turned into pus.

"Clang!"

Qian Renxue, wielding the Angel Holy Sword, was struck by the enormous poison whip, and upon contact the sword and whip actually produced the sound of metal striking metal.

Then Qian Renxue was sent flying backward directly; because Du Gu Yan's fifth soul skill's power was too terrifying, Qian Renxue's backward flight speed was actually somewhat faster than her charge speed.

PS: Typos will be corrected later.

(End of Chapter)