Chapter 151: Provocation

Ning Feiliu naturally has no interest in a position within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; even if Ning Mingrui wanted to nominate him, he would flatly refuse.

He is currently on the Douhun Platform, waiting for the host to announce his victory before he slowly walks to the edge of the platform.

Looking at the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team surrounding Kailasi below, Jin Xi'er summons her martial soul to help Kailasi heal his wounds.

Seeing Ning Feiliu appear, Carlisle and the others frown, but they say nothing.

The most important thing right now is Kailasi's injuries.

However, because the power of Ning Feiliu's current Third Soul Skill is limited, and Kailasi is a Defense-type Soul Master by nature.

So even though Ning Feiliu used his full strength with his Third Soul Skill to defeat Kailasi, the injuries caused were not actually that severe.

"Second Soul Skill, Healing Light." Jin Xi'er holds a deep cyan book in her hands, her second soul ring lights up, and the light symbolizing healing falls upon Kailasi.

Gradually, the burns on Kailasi's body slowly repair themselves bit by bit.

However, Jin Xi'er's healing soul skill is only a hundred-year soul skill, and she is only a Soul Elder, unlike Ye Lingling who possesses a top-tier healing martial soul.

So Kailasi's injuries only improve slightly, then the face with eyes tightly shut suddenly knits its brows, lets out a "hiss," and slowly regains consciousness.

"It looks like Big Kai is fine." Jin Xi'er immediately retracts her martial soul, lets out a sigh of relief, and says.

"Mm, rest assured, the gap between his strength and mine is not large, there shouldn't be any issues." Just then, Ning Feiliu's calm voice appears in their ears.

Carlisle and the others immediately look at Ning Feiliu on the Douhun Platform, not knowing what to say.

After all, Ning Feiliu isn't mocking them, it's just that hearing these words... why is there a feeling that this guy is putting on an act?

And next, Ning Feiliu clearly turns his head, and his gaze clearly falls upon... Lian Ling, among the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team.

"Let's continue the Spirit Fighting Battle, I believe you all signed up for Spirit Fighting Battles today, right?" Ning Feiliu says indifferently, "If I'm not mistaken, my next opponent will be you... Magic Chain Lian Ling?"

So arrogant? Just defeated Kailasi and is already issuing more challenges?

Ling Yue and the others all start to feel displeased; this is clearly not taking them seriously at all!

Yet what they don't know is that this has always been Ning Feiliu's style.

Defeating Kailasi, for the current Ning Feiliu, did not consume much soul power or physical strength.

Although he used a few soul skills, including one Third Soul Skill, his current soul power consumption is not even one-quarter.

This is the Practical Experience and technique granted by the Sett and Jax series of missions, the experience that taught Ning Feiliu how to reduce his own consumption during continuous combat.

When Sett was fighting in the underground black-market boxing rings of Ionia, fighting in tournament battles often meant dealing with a continuous stream of opponents.

Therefore, he also slowly learned how to face opponents who were not very strong, and while defeating the other party, also reduce his own consumption.

Jax goes without saying; in the campaign of Icathia resisting the Shurima Empire, and in the hundreds of years of battles while traveling the Douluo Dalu, he had long since learned how to better maintain his physical strength.

However, Ning Feiliu has only obtained Jax's martial arts and experience from the Shurima war; the mission rewards accumulated up to now only amount to about sixteen years of martial arts and experience.

Yet it is precisely by relying on those sixteen years of experience contained within combat that the current Ning Feiliu is as powerful as a veteran elite of a hundred battles.

Coupled with the fact that Ning Feiliu has now re-absorbed two soul rings, possessing three Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, and these three Thousand-Year Spirit Rings combined are close to twenty thousand years.

As well as the power of the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon martial soul set, it has resulted in him being truly too powerful right now.

Even with an opponent like Kailasi, whom he had studied for a long time and whom he naturally countered, he felt nothing after defeating him easily.

This is, of course, why the Spirit Fighting Battle must continue.

Especially since the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team are all here.

Lian Ling also directly lets out a cold snort, "Is it just this much arrogance and conceit?"

Ning Feiliu shakes his head and says, "I am not being conceited, I am being confident. If I were to defeat him and then directly challenge your captain across ranks, that would be called... hmm, it doesn't seem like conceit either, but that's just from my own perspective. Of course, regardless of anything, strength must do the talking. How about it? Do you want to prove that I am just being conceited?"

Carlisle, Ling Yue, and the others all look at him, also feeling a bit provoked.

But just at this moment...

"Next, please have contestant Lian Ling take the stage as soon as possible for the Spirit Fighting Battle." A staff member of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena stands out and says to Lian Ling.

Because the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team, except for Jin Xi'er, had of course all signed up today.

Therefore, in fact, regardless of whether Ning Feiliu "provoked" the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team, they were all going to take the stage to battle Ning Feiliu.

And in the half year that Ning Feiliu has been frequenting the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena has actually come to know his habits.

That is... as long as he hasn't left the Douhun Platform, they will continue to sign him up for Spirit Fighting Battles until he voluntarily leaves the Douhun Platform and returns to the registration desk in the back of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.

Especially with the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team returning today, they are rare opponents capable of matching Ning Feiliu.

Ning Feiliu naturally will not step down.

So the next opponents for the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team will all be Ning Feiliu.

"Very good! Then let me see whether you are truly conceited or confident." Lian Ling sneers and walks onto the Douhun Platform.

Ning Feiliu, however, retreats back to the position on the opposite side of the Great Soul Arena.

The other members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team under the Douhun Platform also take Kailasi and return to the waiting area under the Douhun Platform.

"Next, we will continue with the second Spirit Fighting Battle of our Central Great Soul Arena!" Following the host's command, both Ning Feiliu and Lian Ling release their martial souls...

Half an hour later.

Central Great Soul Arena of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, spectator stands.

"Tianheng..." Oslo, who is watching the battle, notices Yu Tianheng walking over slowly and immediately greets him loudly, saying.

Yu Tianheng walks toward Oslo, Yu Tianxin, and Yufeng, but he keeps his gaze fixed tightly on the Douhun Platform below.

He sees Ning Feiliu, wearing that unique mask as always, and Zuo Chi, who is dodging the flashes of blades and shadows of swords from Ning Feiliu in the sky.

"Has Senior Lian already been defeated?" He says as if it were not unexpected.

"Mm, Senior Lian is no match for this guy Yafei." Yufeng says with some helplessness, "He really is a monster; his soul power level has increased quite a bit again. Now the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena has updated his soul power level to thirty-six."

As fellow students of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, and given that even within the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, there are not many Tiandou Grade students.

Those like Yufeng and Yu Tianheng, who were originally slated to be members of the next Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team, naturally know the current members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team.

"Thirty-six..." Yu Tianheng's eyes are filled with indescribable surprise. Three months ago, Ning Feiliu was only at soul power level thirty-three; has he already broken through to level thirty-six now?

Such a rate of soul power improvement is terrifying, even among genius Spirit Masters like them.

Especially at the Soul Elder level, it is truly normal to break through one level of soul power every few months.

Yet Ning Feiliu still maintains an improvement rate of one level of soul power per month, which is just too frightening.

Ever since his defeat in the battle against Ning Feiliu, Yu Tianheng's fighting spirit had been ignited; after his injuries healed, he began closed-door cultivation, but even so, he had only improved by one level of soul power in these two-plus months.

Ning Feiliu's direct improvement of three levels of soul power made Yu Tianheng feel somewhat discouraged.

It was not just Yu Tianheng; Yu Tianxin, Oslo, and Yufeng were the same, feeling somewhat unwilling to accept it.

"After all, the other party has Poison Douluo as a teacher behind him; perhaps he hasn't eaten few of those Mysterious Water Pills," Oslo said sourly.

Ever since Dugu Bo brought out a Mysterious Water Pill for auction, and its astonishing effects were proven to be completely real, many young talents in Heaven Dou City began to envy Dugu Yan and Ning Feiliu.

Dugu Yan is easy to explain, as she is Dugu Bo's granddaughter after all.

As for family background, some people are indeed born extremely lucky, while others start in hell; it is something one cannot choose.

But what right does this "Yafei" have?

By what right can he become Dugu Bo's student, and by what right can he casually consume an unprecedented miracle medicine like the Mysterious Water Pill?

This is unfair!

Though, of course, this is just an excuse for them to be jealous of Ning Feiliu.

If they could become Dugu Bo's students, they would, of course, be ten thousand times willing.

Yu Tianheng shook his head and said, "It is said that the Mysterious Water Pill can only be taken once; taking it again does not have much effect. Yafei's strength and talent do not rely entirely on pills."

Especially that self-created spirit skill, Summoning of the Casting God.

When Yu Tianheng was in his hospital bed, he had asked his grandfather who came to see him.

Yu Yuanzhen had also learned the sequence of events from his younger brother Yu Luomian, and upon confirming that Ning Feiliu's Summoning of the Casting God involved detonating his own Soul Ring, he also fell silent.

As a descendant of Tang Chen, he naturally knew of the Clear Sky Sect's supreme sect-protecting art, the Great Sumeru Hammer, and had also witnessed the Ring Detonation Mystery of the Clear Sky Douluo.

Moreover, he was very clear that Dugu Bo could not have created this explosive ring soul skill himself.

If Dugu Bo truly had this ability, what had he been doing all this time? He wouldn't be the one publicly recognized as having the lowest strength among Title Douluo.

One must know that not long after A Yin sacrificed herself and Tang Hao ascended to Title Douluo, he was able to use the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation to defeat Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Douluo—two Title Douluo who were at least at the ninety-second level of soul power at the time—along with Qian Xunji, who was suspected to be at the ninety-fifth level or higher.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Douluo also had a Spirit Fusion Skill—the Two-Pole Static Domain.

Even with their coordination with Qian Xunji, they were no match for Tang Hao, who had just ascended to the Title Douluo realm.

This proves that the Ring Detonation Mystery is truly monstrous; at the Title Douluo realm, it can allow one to defeat opponents half a major rank higher.

In battles between lower-level Spirit Masters, it goes without saying.

In reality, this is indeed the case; when Ning Feiliu experimentally used the Summoning of the Casting God, his evaluation of its power was... the power of a ten-thousand-year spirit skill.

And this was while the Soul Ring he detonated was only a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring, plus he is still only a Soul Elder.

As the quality of the Soul Ring increases and his soul power level rises, the power released by detonating the Soul Ring with his two Blessing Skills will naturally be even higher.

Although Yu Yuanzhen had not seen Ning Feiliu use the Summoning of the Casting God with his own eyes, he had witnessed the Clear Sky Sect's Great Sumeru Hammer mystery, which is also an explosive ring soul skill.

Not only had he witnessed it, but he had also personally experienced the power of the Great Sumeru Hammer.

It was precisely because he had experienced it personally that he also witnessed the feat of the First Generation Haotian Douluo, Tang Chen, who relied on the Great Sumeru Hammer to lead the Clear Sky Sect to seize the throne of the number one Spirit Master sect on the Douluo Dalu.

Therefore, he was very clear that this "Yafei," who also likely created the "Explosive Ring" stunt, might very well be a figure of Tang Chen's caliber in the future.

At the very least... he could become a Tang Hao.

So, what Yu Yuanzhen said to Yu Tianheng was that losing to someone like "Yafei" is not something to feel embarrassed about.

After all, losing to a future "Tang Chen" really does not count as a humiliation.

Moreover, Yu Yuanzhen was very open-minded; he knew clearly that there are always some geniuses in this world who might be existences you can never defeat.

He was only worried that Yu Tianheng would not be able to let it go; after all, Yu Tianheng had not suffered any setbacks and would feel that he had always been a genius among geniuses, and that it was impossible for him to lose.

And upon hearing his grandfather Yu Yuanzhen's words, Yu Tianheng also roughly understood what kind of peerless genius "Yafei" truly was.

And to say that "Yafei" relied entirely on taking drugs to defeat him?

Wouldn't that be an insult to himself, implying he couldn't even beat a peer who only knew how to take drugs?

In any case, Yu Tianheng did not believe it, nor was he stubborn or looking for excuses for himself.

He also let it go; a loss is a loss, and admitting that others are better than oneself is actually nothing to be ashamed of.

Just then, a huge sound suddenly came from the Douhun Platform, interrupting the conversation between Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Oslo, and the others.

Yu Tianheng looked toward the Great Soul Arena, only to see Ning Feiliu holding the Broken Soul and Folding Mirror, and under the sky full of flying knives, Zuo Chi, who had been flying in the sky, fell to the ground with a thud, covered in wounds.

Ning Feiliu looked at the battered Zuo Chi, and then glanced at the host far away.

The host hurriedly announced that Ning Feiliu had won again.

"Yafei! Yafei!"

"Yafei! Yafei!"

"Yafei! Yafei!"

Suddenly, everyone present cheered loudly again; this was Ning Feiliu directly defeating three genius Spirit Masters from the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team in a row.

This truly had to make people admire him.

"Did Senior Zuo lose too?" Yufeng said with a headache, "And this guy Yafei is really too monstrous; he could even win against Senior Zuo using the Folding Mirror and Broken Soul, which are disadvantageous for this battle..."

(End of this chapter)