Chapter 20: Victorious in Every Battle

The victors are Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's team.

Wang Yan's announcement rang out, and the surrounding students only then recovered from their shock.

This battle ended far too quickly, lasting less than ten seconds.

One second they were still astonished by the difference in both sides' configurations, thinking Zhou Sichen's team might have the edge; the next second the battle situation underwent a drastic change, and then there was no 'then'.

Now, regardless of whether they had personally witnessed Tang Wulin and Dai Huabin's fight, the students of Freshman Class 7 dared not underestimate Tang Wulin in the slightest.

Some quicker-thinking students simply turned their gaze to Huo Yutong, wearing a thoughtful expression.

Tang Wulin had just said his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass.

As for his golden dragon claw, no matter its origin, it didn't look like it could launch an invisible attack.

So the one who could knock down Zhou Sichen with a single strike without anyone noticing was very likely Huo Yutong.

It seems we must not only focus on defending against Tang Wulin but also guard against being tricked by her.

After Tang Wulin's battle ended, the other teams, following Wang Yan's instructions, began to engage one another.

Freshman Class 7 had exactly one hundred students, so they were divided into fifty teams.

At that rate, each person would need to fight at most five or six matches to finish the battles for this lesson.

Wang Yan moved among the sparring students, observing their battles and continually taking notes in his notebook.

In three months will be the freshman assessment, at which time a considerable number of freshmen will be eliminated.

As a teacher, his duty is to enable as many of his class's students as possible to pass this assessment, so they are not expelled.

To that end, cultivating the students' practical combat ability is a must.

As things stand now, this batch of freshmen is of decent quality, and they still possess basic combat literacy.

Next comes figuring out how to teach them the advanced curriculum; this step is extremely troublesome and must be tailored to each student's actual situation.

This is also another reason he launched the combat class on the second day of school: to observe the students' martial souls and fighting styles, facilitating later instruction.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hearing several loud booms, Wang Yan instinctively looked toward the source of the sound.

All he saw was Tang Wulin fighting an earth-element Soul Elder.

That Soul Elder continually condensed earth clumps in front of his palms, accelerated them, and shot them out with astonishing power.

Tang Wulin's response, however, was simple and brutal: he waved the Blue Silver Grass in his hand like a whip, shattering all the incoming earth clumps.

After just a glance, Wang Yan sighed, shook his head, and lost interest in this fight.

He didn't even need a second look; Wang Yan knew the earth-element Soul Elder's defeat was certain.

Don't look at the fact that he was the one maintaining the offensive and had the upper hand on the field; achieving that relied on relentless attacks, and the rate of soul power consumption for such a fighting style is undoubtedly astonishing.

Although Tang Wulin had been merely defending, even finding it hard to step forward, the truth is he wasn't using any high-consumption techniques—not even the golden dragon claw that had appeared before, nor did he use dragon scales; relying solely on his own strength, he shattered all the incoming earth clumps with an almost uncanny precision.

Wang Yan knew why, for just yesterday noon he had just enjoyed Huo Yutong's Mental Detection Sharing.

That soul skill provides a tremendous boost to soul masters; even relying solely on it, Huo Yutong's effect would not be inferior to that of a support-type Soul Elder.

In fact, Tang Wulin and Wang Yan's thoughts were completely in agreement.

After several days apart, fighting side by side with Huo Yutong again, he now felt an unprecedented sense of ease. Her Mental Detection left the enemy's attacks nowhere to hide; furthermore, it finely predicted the trajectories of the incoming earth clumps, so Tang Wulin didn't even need to think—he just had to swing his Blue Silver Grass at the marked positions.

Huo Yutong's precise judgment combined with Tang Wulin's ferocious strength turned into extreme violence that ravaged the battlefield, making their battle extraordinarily easy.

Thus, as Wang Yan had anticipated, within three minutes the student controlling the earth element could no longer sustain such high-intensity attacks; Tang Wulin seized the opportunity, wrapped him with a strand of Blue Silver Grass, pulled him close, and ended the fight.

After the second battle ended, Tang Wulin turned his head to look at Huo Yutong and asked concernedly:

"Huo Yutong, how is your soul power consumption? Do we need to rest a bit?"

Huo Yutong smiled and shook her head.

"No, just maintaining Mental Detection doesn't drain my soul power heavily; I can keep going for a long time. What about you, Tang Wulin—don't you need a rest?"

She had already conducted this experiment when she first obtained her first soul skill.

Without overexerting herself, her Mental Detection Sharing can last a full hour.

This battle lasted less than three minutes, which for her is almost no consumption.

Tang Wulin shook his head and said eagerly:

"I'm not consuming much either; shall we start the next battle?"

Fighting alongside Huo Yutong was so comfortable it was practically addictive.

The feeling of using every bit of one's strength exactly where it belonged was something Tang Wulin had never experienced before.

After receiving Huo Yutong's affirmation, Tang Wulin quickly approached another team that had also finished their battle.

Seeing Tang Wulin approach him, that student's face instantly turned pale.

The commotion from Tang Wulin's battles was so great it was hard not to notice.

Tang Wulin has now demonstrated his strength three times: once by chance, twice by luck, and three times is absolute proof of his ability.

He now somewhat regrets having fought so quickly earlier; if he had gone a bit slower, he might not have had to face the Class Monitor, that monster.

"Class Monitor, can't we...?"

He had just been about to discuss it with Tang Wulin when Wang Yan's voice drifted over from afar.

"Li Zishuang, fight him."

Li Zishuang instantly felt like crying but had no tears.

Two minutes later, Li Zishuang lay on the ground, and Tang Wulin won again.

Li Zishuang's martial soul is the Purple Wolf, a special agile-attack beast soul.

Facing him, whether dealing with the entangling of Blue Silver Grass or Tang Wulin's monstrous strength, he was at a great disadvantage; consequently, Tang Wulin won this battle even more easily than before.

After witnessing this scene, Wang Yan nodded in satisfaction.

After this lesson, I suppose the voices looking down on Tang Wulin will completely disappear from the class.

This is the third reason he chose the practical combat class for his second lesson: to help Tang Wulin establish his prestige.

After learning that Tang Wulin possessed an Ultimate Soul, wholeheartedly helping him grow became Wang Yan's most important task.

(End of chapter)