Chapter 183

At this moment, the two girls on the field, for different reasons, simultaneously adopted a delaying tactic.

Meng Hongchen wanted to delay until Huo Yutong's deadly poison erupted for a counterattack, while Huo Yutong was doing so because she needed to use the Milk Bottle to restore her soul power.

Normally, a soul master cannot fight while using a Milk Bottle to restore soul power, but Huo Yutong is an exception.

She is a spiritual-type soul master, inherently strong in controlling the mind, and also has Spiritual Detection to assist in battle; with divided attention, handling both at once is not difficult.

The soul skills she is currently using are only Spiritual Detection and Imitation; the Emperor's Sword is a weapon-type soul skill, and once released it no longer consumes her soul power, so her soul power begins to recover slowly.

Without needing to say it, the battle gradually dragged on, creating the illusion that neither could gain the upper hand over the other.

As time passed, Bei Bei, Tang Wulin, and Dai Yaoheng had fully recovered the soul power they had expended in the group battle; Xiao Hongchen was also released from the ice, and he stared at the fight on the stage, dumbfounded.

"Why isn't Meng's poison taking effect?"

In fact, this is also the question that Meng Hongchen is anxiously pondering right now.

The battle has already been stretched to fifteen minutes or more; by rights, even if Huo Yutong were truly a Soul Emperor, she should have been deeply poisoned by now.

Yet Huo Yutong seems completely indifferent to her poison, fighting with increasing vigor, as if she could keep going forever.

Regardless, Huo Yutong obviously has a way to deal with her poison; even though we don't know how she does it, Meng Hongchen's toxin clearly has little effect on her.

Upon realizing this, Meng Hongchen's face darkened instantly.

More than half of her strength comes from the deadly poison of the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad; without that toxin, she would be on par with an ordinary fifth-rank soul engineer, after all, unlike her brother, she mainly cultivates a martial soul, making her actually closer to a soul master than a soul engineer.

Her opponent is Huo Yutong, who possesses six-ring strength; although we don't know how much Xiao Hongchen drained her in the previous match, at present she shows no sign of being about to run out of soul power.

Rather, the prolonged battle has caused Meng Hongchen's soul power consumption to exceed seventy percent; if they continue, she will lose from exhaustion even without Huo Yutong lifting a finger.

She must change tactics, Meng Hongchen thought helplessly.

She paused her steps, then used Ice Refraction again, appearing once more behind Huo Yutong.

She has used this soul skill countless times in this battle, but this time she evidently has some new tricks.

Only to see her fifth soul ring light up; Meng Hongchen spun rapidly in midair, red and blue light swiftly condensing and shooting toward Huo Yutong.

This is her fifth soul skill, Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Drill, her strongest offensive soul skill.

She actually knows this is not the best moment to unleash that soul skill, but she has no choice; Huo Yutong's swordsmanship far surpasses hers, and with the poison ineffective, she can only resort to this surprise move.

Huo Yutong let out a faint sigh in her heart.

Her soul power has now recovered to eighty percent or more; she had originally planned to top it off during this fight, but it seems that won't happen.

Thus she stepped forward, and a beautiful figure appeared behind her.

That was a woman with white long hair, a lovely figure, and an icy pretty face as if condensed from the world's essence; she glanced coolly at the oncoming Meng Hongchen and snorted. Instantly, intense fear exploded in Meng Hongchen's heart, and the fifth soul skill she was releasing was interrupted just like that.

Because Huo Yutong herself is very strong, she rarely imitates the Snow Emperor's aura, but not doing so doesn't mean she can't; at this moment, with her full-power imitation, she instantly pressed Meng Hongchen down so she couldn't lift her head.

Meng Hongchen's figure in the air looked somewhat embarrassed; she didn't understand what had happened, her heart filled with panic.

What cannot be understood is the most terrifying; Huo Yutong not only can ignore her universally effective deadly poison, but can also shatter her fifth soul skill with a mere phantom, which is completely beyond her comprehension.

A blue light flashed in Huo Yutong's eyes; Meng Hongchen immediately let out a miserable scream, her body completely losing control, and was struck squarely by Huo Yutong's Emperor's Palm.

Terrifying cold invaded her body; Meng Hongchen, whose soul power was nearly exhausted, had no resistance left and was frozen solid in ice.

The Star Net Plaza instantly burst into cheers.

Huo Yutong once again brought victory to Shrek Academy, and she appeared to do so with remarkable ease, which stirred the spectators.

Everyone loves an underdog triumph; if this trend continues, Shrek might actually overcome the gap in raw strength and defeat the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the athlete's section of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy was utterly gloomy.

Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen are their trump cards; their strength ranks second or third on their team, yet both were successively dealt with by Huo Yutong alone.

Could it really be that only Ma Long can defeat her?

Ma Long took a deep breath and said:

"Chen An, you go up next; she's just gone through two matches in a row, so she can't be unscathed—go probe her, and if possible, take her down."

He too felt quite helpless; he knew Huo Yutong's strength very well—her combat power is extremely strong, yet her abilities are also utterly aggravating; the best way to defeat her is probably to drain her soul power.

Ma Long cannot simply go onto the field now; if he were to be taken down by Huo Yutong's last gasp, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy would lose this match for sure, especially since Shrek still has Dai Yaoheng coming up—he cannot act rashly.

Right now, the influence of Wang Yan's strategy is beginning to show; if it weren't for the ten-thousand-year soul beast that Ma Long brought being killed in the group battle, with his strength combined with that soul beast, a one-on-one duel would leave no chance of losing.

But now it's too late to say anything; he can only rely on other Sun Moon team members to probe Huo Yutong's condition.

Chen An nodded, rose, and walked onto the competition stage.

He regarded Ma Long's request as a godsend, because he is not only a regular member of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy's main team, but also has another identity.

He and Chen Fei, who was seriously injured by Huo Yutong earlier, are brothers.

Huo Yutong didn't deliver a killing blow, but she didn't show mercy either; the ultimate ice element she injected into Chen Fei's body was extremely domineering, and he cannot possibly recover without lying in bed for two months.

This naturally fills Chen An with resentment toward her; he now only wants to vent all his grudges on her, the harsher the better.

(End of chapter)