Chapter 181: Absolute Lock Soul Tool

This silver light did not injure her, but in terms of outcome, it was far more serious than causing direct injury.

After being struck by the silver light, she felt a new connection between herself and Xiao Hongchen; this faint link gave her a strong sense of danger.

With Huo Yutong's mental power, her perception of threatening targets is keen; being able to feel this already proves the danger of that silver light.

Before Xiao Hongchen's invincible shield had fully formed, numerous gun barrels rapidly appeared around him, aimed at Huo Yutong.

A blue flash appeared in Huo Yutong's eyes as she released mental interference, then she dodged to the side.

As a natural counter to soul tool masters, this mental interference ability had been used many times by her in this competition, always effective.

But this time, Huo Yutong miscalculated.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and the soul tool cannonball, as if it had grown eyes, suddenly turned in midair and blasted her.

If Huo Yutong's keen mental detection had not noticed the anomaly of the soul tool cannonball and she had not released Ice Emperor Armor at the critical moment, this volley would have already severely injured her.

But this is far from over; it's merely the beginning.

While Xiao Hongchen carried out this volley, gun barrels continued to form in the air around him, each aimed at Huo Yutong's position.

He could ignore both simulation and mental interference, precisely striking Huo Yutong, thanks precisely to the silver light that had just hit her.

That soul tool is called the Absolute Lock Soul Tool, the very one Ma Rulong prepared to use against the Ice Sky Dragon Emperor.

The difference is that Ma Rulong's Absolute Lock Soul Tool intended for the Ice Sky Dragon Emperor is a seventh‑grade soul tool, of which he only has one, whereas Xiao Hongchen's is a fifth‑grade tool made specifically to deal with Huo Yutong.

After all, Huo Yutong's possession of mental‑interference abilities had been exposed early in the competition; treating her as a hypothetical opponent, Xiao Hongchen naturally prepared tools to counter her in advance.

Huo Yutong's face grew grim; defense is not her forte, and that volley had already shattered her Ice Emperor Armor—if Xiao Hongchen launched a stronger barrage, she could not possibly defend against it.

Moreover, evasion was impossible; thus she had no choice but to seize the initiative and attack.

Huo Yutong's torso burst with intense green light, firing just as the invincible shield vanished, striking Xiao Hongchen at the exact moment the shield disappeared.

The timing of this attack was perfect; Xiao Hongchen's body surface instantly turned green, completely freezing him, and the prepared salvo was interrupted by the Ice Emperor's Wrath.

This was not the end; at the same moment Xiao Hongchen was struck by the Ice Emperor's Wrath, Huo Yutong raised her Emperor Sword and brought it down again.

A flash of reluctance crossed Xiao Hongchen's eyes; then his fifth soul ring lit up, his body turning into golden liquid that slipped away from before Huo Yutong.

This is his fifth soul skill, Golden Fondness, which lets him transform into metallic liquid, granting eighty percent immunity to physical attacks and strong resistance to energy attacks.

As a soul tool master, he could obviously not block Huo Yutong's Emperor Sword, so he chose to escape using Golden Fondness and look for another opportunity.

Anyway, he had already used the Absolute Lock Soul Tool to forcibly link the two of them, so he wasn't worried about missing her.

But how could Huo Yutong let him go so easily? Her mental detection accurately predicted Xiao Hongchen's escape direction, and she launched a relentless pursuit at his liquid form.

At the same time, a fierce snowstorm blew up, slowing Xiao Hongchen's already sluggish movements even further; beneath the net of sword light woven by Huo Yutong, danger loomed. He felt utterly frustrated, thinking that if he could just land one hit, he had the confidence to blast her off the stage with a single cannon shot.

But Huo Yutong simply would not give him that chance.

Maintaining Golden Fondness also consumed him greatly; if this continued, he might truly end up suffocated and defeated.

Xiao Hongchen's heart surged with strong reluctance; the metallic liquid that had been scattering everywhere suddenly coalesced, reforming his body.

Huo Yutong naturally would not miss this opportunity; she slashed her Emperor Sword straight at his body.

With a clang, the Emperor Sword did not cut Xiao Hongchen's body but struck a golden shield.

Invincible shield?

Huo Yutong thought that instinctively, then immediately dismissed the idea.

Because she saw Xiao Hongchen's face inside the shield turn even paler; if it were truly an invincible shield, he would not react that way.

Actually, this soul tool is called the Resilient Wall; its effect is simple—a weakened version of an invincible shield, trading reduced defense and greatly increased soul power consumption for reusability and passive triggering.

Huo Yutong's strike instantly drained Xiao Hongchen's already meager soul power reserves; he could only grit his teeth and, scraping together his last bit of soul power, launch an attack at her.

Dozens of soul tool cannons fired simultaneously, and with the aid of the Absolute Lock Soul Tool they shot precisely at Huo Yutong.

At that moment, Huo Yutong's eyes suddenly emitted intense green light; the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain retracted, becoming a pure Eternal Freeze Domain.

Regardless of temperature or area, the Eternal Freeze Domain cannot compare to the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, but as a component of the latter, it has one advantage: Huo Yutong can control it with greater precision.

Under Huo Yutong's control at that moment, the originally vast Eternal Freeze Domain instantly shrank to a radius of about five meters, concentrating terrifying cold into that tiny space.

A large‑scale Eternal Freeze Domain naturally cannot match the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, but when reduced to this extent its temperature becomes far lower than that of the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain.

Under such extreme cold, the soul tool cannonballs aimed at Huo Yutong instantly froze, and Xiao Hongchen, finally unable to hold on, exhausted his soul power; as the Resilient Wall could no longer be maintained, his body was encased in solid ice.

Huang Jinchu stepped forward to examine the situation, then announced: "The match is over; the winner is Huo Yutong."

Upon hearing that, Huo Yutong hastily dismissed her martial soul and used her Milk Bottle to replenish soul power.

In this match, Xiao Hongchen placed enormous pressure on her; her consumption was high, especially the final domain compression, which directly evaporated over forty percent of her soul power.

Now her soul power remains at roughly thirty percent, and she must recover quickly.

Seeing her actions, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy dared not delay, promptly sending out the next competitor.

Meng Hongchen.

By the way, the Hongchen siblings basically correspond to Lao Huo's two martial souls, each of which was defeated by one of his martial souls; they were practically born to be cannon fodder, utterly miserable.

(End of chapter)