Chapter 118

Tang Wulin is also a member of the Tang Sect; although he has only been a member for a year, causing his mastery of the Tang Sect's secret arts to be far inferior to Bei Bei's, but it doesn't matter—his speed is much greater than Bei Bei's; lacking skill, he makes up for it with numbers.

As a result, he managed to dodge almost all of the golden leaves in the nick of time.

Although a few golden leaves did graze his body, the scattered golden leaves were obviously unable to cause much impact.

Moreover, while dodging, the distance between him and Ye Wuyou shrank considerably, bringing him right before Ye Wuyou's eyes.

Tang Wulin raised his dragon claw, qi and blood surged, a faint dragon roar sounded, and he threw a punch at Ye Wuyou.

In his haste, Ye Wuyou hastily raised his left hand to block, but was directly sent flying.

Using this soul skill to bully Bei Bei, who isn't strong in strength, would be fine, but using it against Tang Wulin is really overestimating it.

Tang Wulin didn't pause at all; he strode forward and, taking advantage of the situation, launched a pursuit against Ye Wuyou.

Although Bei Bei had just been forced back in close combat by Ye Wuyou, this also shows that although Ye Wuyou has close-combat means, he is essentially an archer, and close combat remains his weakness.

Ye Wuyou gritted his teeth unwillingly.

It's obvious that this kid in front of him is even harder to deal with than Bei Bei just was; if he's careless, he could really lose.

Thus, his black soul ring lit up again, and the Dance of the Golden Leaves descended upon the stage once more.

However, this time Ye Wuyou's mindset was different from before; he began to secretly hope that Tang Wulin would surrender outright like Bei Bei.

Because his intuition told him that Tang Wulin had a means to counter this soul skill of his.

And Tang Wulin did not disappoint his expectation, as a piercing cyan light burst from his left leg.

Terrifying wind element erupted, forming an astonishing tornado, within which countless wind blades performed high-speed slicing, colliding with the hundreds or thousands of golden leaves.

This is precisely one of the two soul bone skills bestowed upon Tang Wulin by his Wind Dragon King left leg bone, the Wind King Violent Dragon Coil.

He had used this soul bone skill before when opposing Dai Yaoheng and others; with the support of Gongyang Mo and Huo Yutong, it could even briefly restrain a Soul Emperor and two Soul Kings, showing how terrifying its power is.

Now, using it again, although it cannot completely block Ye Wuyou's Dance of the Golden Leaves, it greatly weakens its power.

And the remaining weakened portion is not difficult for Tang Wulin to deal with.

A soaring dragon roar sounded, Tang Wulin's golden ring of qi and blood lit up, the Golden Dragon Body instantly enveloped him, and golden scales began to spread over his entire body, helping him resist the cutting of the golden leaves.

At the same time, he also released the second soul skill of the Blue Silver Emperor, Blue Silver Bond, to help him share the damage caused by the Dance of the Golden Leaves.

Tang Wulin's physical strength is already formidable; using these two soul skills, speaking without exaggeration, his current defense is not inferior to Xu San Shi's, and dodging while blocking the weakened Dance of the Golden Leaves is not difficult.

Thus, the storm gradually dissipated, revealing Tang Wulin's unyielding figure.

Ye Wuyou's face had completely darkened. Nobody expected that such a brat as Tang Wulin could still possess such a powerful burst of ability.

Previously, Huo Yutong obviously had Soul Emperor strength, and now Tang Wulin can block a full-force strike from a Soul King; what's going on with these Shilake people, have they all turned on cheats? The Dance of the Golden Leaves consumes him enormously; after just one match, he had already expended over half his soul power, and after using the Dance of the Golden Leaves again, his soul power is left at less than twenty percent.

His fighting style demands a great deal of soul power; it can be said that once his soul power is exhausted, it means his defeat.

What he doesn't know is that Tang Wulin's situation is even worse than his.

As a wide-range attack skill, the Wind King Violent Dragon Coil consumes enormous amounts of soul power, just like Huo Yutong's Ice Emperor's Fury; now his soul power and qi and blood are both nearly depleted, so he can only use the Golden Dragon Claw for another minute at most, and he dare not casually activate the Golden Dragon Body.

Just because he dares not casually activate it doesn't mean he cannot; Tang Wulin knows well that Ye Wuyou's situation is no better than his, the remaining time in the match is almost gone, and from now on it's a matter of who can defeat the opponent before their soul power is completely exhausted.

This situation is obviously more advantageous for Tang Wulin.

Not only because his main combat strength comes from his body, making his reliance on soul power far less than Ye Wuyou's, but also because he has a means to restore soul power.

A ring of blue-gold light suddenly shot out from his body, quickly covering a area of several tens of square meters centered on him.

Ye Wuyou's horse-like face instantly became even more horse-like.

"What the hell is this? A domain skill?! He guessed right—this is exactly the ability Tang Wulin learned over the past year: the Blue Silver Domain."

The effect of his Blue Silver Domain is to absorb energy within the domain, convert it into his soul power, and then transform it into stronger life force that is released outward.

The manifestation is that using Blue Silver Emperor–related soul skills consumes almost no soul power, and even without using Golden Dragon King–related abilities he can slowly recover soul power, while the opponent's soul power consumption speeds up.

Since mastering this move, Tang Wulin rarely faces a situation of exhausted soul power; moreover, Mu En urged him to keep it secret, so he has not used it on anyone besides Huo Yutong and Mu En; at this moment, Ye Wuyou is honored to become his third test subject.

Feeling the consumption of soul power within his body, Ye Wuyou's face changed, and he realized that if he didn't act now, it would be too late.

Thus, he moved both hands, and again a dozen or so golden leaves were clenched in his hand; however, he did not rush to throw them, but instead charged toward Tang Wulin.

Although he doesn't know what that strange footwork demonstrated by Tang Wulin and Bei Bei is, it's obvious that relying on that footwork they can ignore most of his long-range attacks; he can only go all-in, closing the distance to Tang Wulin to increase his hit rate.

Tang Wulin naturally welcomed this immensely; he also stepped forward, and an aura resembling a king's emanated from his fist and spread throughout his body.

This was the first time Mu En's supreme skill, "Sovereign of the Heavens," appeared on this match stage.

Facing Tang Wulin in this state, Ye Wuyou felt as if he were confronting a towering sovereign; his face instantly changed, and, shaken in mind, he hastily scattered all the golden leaves in his hand.

Tang Wulin threw a punch, his soul power, mental power, and qi and blood merging as one, shattering all the incoming golden leaves and simultaneously blasting their owner, Ye Wuyou, away.

Ye Wuyou was thus knocked down beneath the stage, and this also meant that the first round-robin match of this tournament had ended, with the victor being Shilake Academy.

(End of chapter)