Chapter 21

As the end of class approached, more and more students exhausted their soul power, falling into a state of utter fatigue.

For such students, Wang Yan merely let them rest to the side, his gaze falling on the few students still persisting.

Finally, only two groups remained persisting in the arena.

They were Tang Wulin's group and Dai Huabin's group.

Their characteristic is that they both possess strength far beyond their peers; even without using soul skills they can easily win, so their soul power consumption rate is relatively much slower.

Even so, their soul power is now basically depleted; fighting until now is more just for a breath of pride.

Seeing that only they remained opposite each other, Dai Huabin's mouth curled with a mocking smile.

"Only us left, huh? Still not daring to challenge me, coward? You wouldn't be scared that after losing to me you'd lose your class monitor position, would you?"

In his eyes, he is the superior, while Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong are inferiors.

Inferiors are not worthy of superiors initiating a challenge; if they fight, it should be the other side that actively submits an application.

Tang Wulin ignored him, instead looking toward Huo Yutong.

"Huo Yutong, should we beat him up?"

The reason he has been unwilling to fight Dai Huabin is mainly out of consideration for Huo Yutong.

Although he is reluctant to admit it, if both sides go all out, Tang Wulin's current frontal combat ability is slightly inferior to Dai Huabin's.

Even with Huo Yutong's spiritual detection assistance, Dai Huabin has a Soul Elder‑level auxiliary soul master helping him, so his chances of victory are not great.

It wouldn't matter if Tang Wulin lost on his own, but if he lost together with Huo Yutong, the meaning would be different—it would be humiliating.

Huo Yutong stared fixedly at Dai Huabin, her gaze terrifyingly cold.

"It's fine, Wulin, go ahead—I won't hold you back."

"Good."

After understanding Huo Yutong's intentions, Tang Wulin also made up his mind.

He looked at Dai Huabin again and curled his finger.

"Come on."

Dai Huabin frowned displeasedly.

"What a relaxed look—let's see if you still have that composure later."

Next, his body swelled, white hair sprouted, and claws grew on both hands.

"Go ahead, Qianling."

The student he called Qianling nodded silently, holding up a strange flower in her hand.

A bewildering fragrance spread out, quickly drifting toward Tang Wulin and the others.

Her martial soul's effect is to diffuse fragrance, buff allies, and weaken enemies—it is a very powerful control-type martial soul.

In fact, her soul power ranks only behind Dai Huabin and Zhou Sichen, making her the top-ranked control-type Soul Elder in the class.

This is another important reason Dai Huabin can keep fighting to this point: among the top three soul masters in the class, their team already contains two of them, leaving other groups no chance to resist.

Dai Huabin's combat strength is already strong, and with her assistance, he could not possibly lose to Tang Wulin.

While thinking this, he overlooked a crucial factor.

That is, this battle is not two against one, but two versus two.

A muffled grunt sounded; Dai Huabin startled, then instinctively looked behind.

Without a doubt, the one who made the sound was his good partner Qianling, who was now lying on the ground, apparently unconscious.

This is……

Dai Huabin snapped his head back and saw the golden light flickering in Huo Yutong's eyes.

This was her second use of Soul Impact in this class, combined with the full-force release of her Purple Extreme Magic Eyes, instantly shattering a Soul Elder.

The situation instantly reversed, turning into Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong versus Dai Huabin.

A howling wind came; Dai Huabin quickly raised his hand to block, barely managing to fend off Tang Wulin's attack.

However, the cost was great; facing Dai Huabin, Tang Wulin showed no hesitation and immediately unleashed the Golden Dragon Claw.

As a result, Dai Huabin was not only blasted to the ground, but more importantly, his entire left arm lost sensation and is unusable for the time being.

Dai Huabin's expression changed instantly. In the previous match, he hadn't even had a chance to clash head‑on with Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Claw before Wang Yan called an emergency halt, so he had no idea this move was so monstrous.

This attack power is now fully comparable to his all‑out effort.

Before he could recover from the shock, Tang Wulin's next attack arrived.

He is not at peak condition; with his current soul power, the Golden Dragon Claw can last only ten seconds.

He must defeat Dai Huabin within these ten seconds, or else once the time is up he will become a lamb awaiting slaughter.

Dai Huabin rolled embarrassedly on the ground, barely escaping Tang Wulin's pursuit.

He was about to get up when several strands of Blue Silver Grass glowing with golden light shot up from the ground and tightly entangled him.

After Tang Wulin used the Blue Silver Grass to bind Dai Huabin, he wasted no moment, clenched his right fist, and struck with all his strength.

At the critical moment, Dai Huabin bit his lower lip, and his first and third soul rings lit up simultaneously, allowing him to break free from Tang Wulin's entanglement in an instant.

"Ugh!"

Tang Wulin's face turned pale; his already meager soul power dropped another notch.

However, Dai Huabin is even more anxious now—not only is Tang Wulin's soul power depleted, but his own is also running low, and using both the first and third soul skills at once places a huge burden on him.

We must settle this quickly!

At this moment, Tang Wulin's and Dai Huabin's thoughts unexpectedly coincided.

Dai Huabin raised his claws and struck at Tang Wulin without holding back.

Although the speed was still too fast for Tang Wulin to react, fortunately this time Huo Yutong's assistance allowed him to barely dodge Dai Huabin's attack.

While dodging, he also did not idle; the Golden Dragon Claw traced a graceful arc and squarely struck Dai Huabin's chest.

Cough—

Dai Huabin felt the air in his lungs completely knocked out, facing Tang Wulin who raised his dragon claw again, he steeled himself and opened his mouth wide.

With the brightening of his second soul ring, astonishing lightning began to condense in his mouth.

Just then, an invisible spiritual power swept over, and Dai Huabin only felt a moment of dizziness; his White Tiger Blazing Light Wave actually shot off course!

Although he was just a point away from striking Tang Wulin, that point was like a heavenly chasm.

Dai Huabin, whose soul power had been exhausted by the last resistance, could no longer resist Tang Wulin; he was struck again by the golden dragon claw, flew backward onto the ground, and couldn't even crawl up.

Exhale.

Seeing this, Tang Wulin finally breathed a sigh of relief and retracted his golden dragon claw.

At that moment, a plop sounded behind him.

Turning his head, he saw Huo Yutong collapsed on the ground, her face pale, eyes tightly shut, obviously unconscious.

After this lesson, her soul power and spiritual power were already scarce, and she had just fully unleashed a soul impact and a spiritual disturbance in this final battle, reaching her limit.

Tang Wulin's face changed drastically; he hurriedly embraced Huo Yutong and said to Wang Yan:

"Teacher, I want to take Huo Yutong to the infirmary!"

He didn't know what had happened to Huo Yutong, but from her expression he could tell she was in great pain.

Looking at the anxious Tang Wulin, then at Huo Yutong in his arms, Wang Yan's lips curled up slightly.

"Alright, go. If it's serious, she doesn't need to come to class this afternoon."

"Thank you, teacher!"

After thanking the teacher, Tang Wulin hurriedly embraced the unconscious Huo Yutong and rushed out of the sports field.

Wang Yan chuckled and shook his head.

"Ah, youth is truly wonderful."

According to his estimate, Huo Yutong likely just fainted from overexerting her spiritual power; it's not a big problem.

However, since Tang Wulin wanted to send her to the infirmary, he wouldn't object.

Such a thing could both aid her recovery and let the relationship between these two children grow closer; why not?

No one noticed that, at this moment, Dai Huabin, lying on the ground, clenched his teeth and gazed at Tang Wulin's retreating back with a look that could be called vengeful, following him as he left.

(End of chapter)