Chapter 96: Two-Person Battle with the White Tiger

Dai Yaoheng opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing.

He had originally picked Gongyang Mo and Ling Luochen, because he thought these two were the most important starting team members, able to exert a decisive influence on the match's outcome.

In fact, they both indeed had a huge influence on the match's outcome, but for him it was in a negative sense.

Although the reason is unclear, Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo's swift defeat undoubtedly was the main reason Dai Yaoheng's team lost; their elimination caused Dai Yaoheng's group to fall into a 5 vs 7 situation right at the start of the battle.

In this situation, there is no doubt that these two were the team's deadweights; logically, replacing them would indeed have a positive effect.

Since neither team's captain had any objections, the matter was naturally settled that way.

Gongyang Mo and Ling Luochen stared fixedly at Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong, both feeling puzzled about their own recent blunder.

Meanwhile, Zhang Zehao was somewhat reluctant to let go, because the sensation of Huo Yutong's Mental Detection Sharing was simply too exhilarating, making it hard to bear parting with it.

After the substitution, the next match began quickly.

This time, because the two teams' compositions differed greatly from before, their tactics also differed from the previous match.

Unlike the previous all-out assault, Bei Bei's team this time adopted a 2-2-3 formation, with Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong holding hands and charging to the front, Bei Bei and Wang Dong closely following, while Ling Luochen, Zhou Sichen, and Gongyang Mo took the rear, handling control, support, and assistance.

With Ling Luochen's control and Gongyang Mo's assistance missing, the all-out assault became Dai Yaoheng's team; Dai Yaoheng took the lead, Xixi and Chen Zifeng closely followed, Yao Haoxuan stood in the center, and Xu San Shi guarded in front of He Caitou and Zhang Zehao, preparing for possible long-range attacks.

Seven-colored light poured down; when it fell on Tang Wulin, his whole body suddenly blazed with golden light, resonating with Gongyang Mo's seven-colored light.

Gongyang Mo was stunned; he could feel that under Tang Wulin's influence, his assistance ability had greatly increased.

If originally his soul skill could only boost the team by over thirty percent, now that figure had risen to nearly fifty percent.

This boost was undoubtedly terrifying; under this swelling enhancement, almost every member of Bei Bei's team gained the ability to fight above their rank.

Thus Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's speed increased again, and they soon clashed with Dai Yaoheng, who was charging to the front.

Seeing his opponent was Huo Yutong, Dai Yaoheng's body instinctively shuddered; recalling Huo Yutong's astonishing palm strike just now, he dared not be careless, unleashing all his 1-3-5-3 soul skills, boosting his momentum to an astonishing degree, and his twin tiger claws swept toward Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin.

Huo Yutong let out a cold snort; the Emperor Sword condensed forth, tracing a beautiful icy-blue blade of light, blocking Dai Yaoheng's attack.

Dai Yaoheng's tiger claws collided with the Emperor Sword's icy-blue blade; he felt a tremendous chill emanating from the blade, a layer of frost quickly coating his claws, and his expression involuntarily changed.

Knowing he was under the amplification of three soul skills, even against a Soul Saint he could hold his own for a while, yet facing Huo Yutong he found himself at a disadvantage after just one exchange—what on earth was this little girl?

In fact, Huo Yutong herself did not actually possess such combat power; even she could not suppress a Soul Emperor-level expert, but that premise was only if she acted alone.

Her team had Gongyang Mo, a top-tier support, and together with her martial soul fusion with Tang Wulin, her fully boosted combat power had already approached that of a Soul Saint, naturally enabling her to suppress Dai Yaoheng at this stage.

Dai Yaoheng gritted his teeth and turned his gaze toward Tang Wulin.

Since he could not deal with Huo Yutong, he would instead target Tang Wulin, this shortcoming. Just now Tang Wulin had fought him for a while, giving him a rough grasp of Tang Wulin's combat ability.

Possessing combat power approaching that of a Soul King was impressive, but that was all; to him it posed no great threat.

But then something happened that left him dumbfounded.

Tang Wulin's figure suddenly began to fade gradually, disappearing right before his eyes.

This is… invisibility? Dai Yaoheng almost wanted to curse.

What the hell is this?! Can we even fight properly? Fortunately, the duration of this exchange was already enough for the two Soul Kings behind him to catch up; otherwise he might truly have been swiftly killed by these two outer-courtyard second-year brats.

The three starting team members exchanged a glance and simultaneously made up their minds.

Xixi's whole body crackled with dangerous electricity, thunder roared, and his already extreme speed increased further, shooting toward Huo Yutong like a ghost.

Chen Zifeng wielded his sharp Chasing Soul Sword, slashing out streaks of blood-red light, cutting off Huo Yutong's retreat space.

Dai Yaoheng crossed his hands, a large "kill" character appeared before him, his aura erupted with tremendous might, a terrifying attack building up, ready to be unleashed.

Obviously, they intended to eliminate Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin in one fell swoop before Bei Bei et al.'s support arrived.

Although this duo was dangerous, conversely, Bei Bei's team only had these two as threats.

Aside from these two, none of the other members—Bei Bei, Wang Dong, Zhou Sichen, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo—could contend with a Soul Emperor-level Dai Yaoheng.

The encirclement by the three starting team members of Shrek was undoubtedly formidable; under the light of their soul skills, Huo Yutong's slender figure was like a moth trapped in a spider's web, with nowhere to escape.

At this moment, a shocking scene unfolded.

Suddenly a jade-green scorpion tail shot out from behind Huo Yutong; the jade-green tail swept at high speed, blocking all of Chen Zifeng's blood-red light.

At the same time, a cyan-green light faintly rose, a small tornado appeared on the field, fierce wind blades sliced rapidly at Dai Yaoheng and his two companions, greatly affecting their movements and slowing Xixi's speed.

Seeing this, Dai Yaoheng hurriedly prepared to unleash a soul skill, but locking eyes with Huo Yutong, a sudden icy-blue light shot from her eyes, a stabbing pain flashed in his mind, and the soul skill he was about to release was interrupted.

After interrupting Dai Yaoheng's soul skill release, Huo Yutong leapt high, swiftly dancing with her long sword to block Xixi's attack, her whole body like a dance in midair as she swiftly retreated, escaping the trio's encirclement.

This series of moves flowed smoothly; nobody expected that even surrounded like this, Huo Yutong could still break free.

However, the combined attack of the starting team members was not without effect; Tang Wulin's figure appeared behind Huo Yutong, he released his hand from her waist, and embraced her frontally.

Gold-white-blue three-colored light instantly blazed across the entire arena.

(End of chapter)