Chapter 121: Suppressing Tang San

Yu Xiaogang, in the spectator area, listened to Shi Quan's assessment with a terrifyingly gloomy expression; his already stiff face turned shades of green and purple, and he felt some worry in his heart that Tang San might change his opinion of him.

"Shut up!"

Hearing Tang San's angry shout from the stage, Yu Xiaogang immediately let out a sigh of relief.

Watching Tang San's furious expression, Shi Quan couldn't help but shake his head slightly. This Tang San had truly thoroughly internalized the saying that a master is like a father. Even after he had spoken so plainly, Tang San's attitude toward Master had not changed in the slightest. It seemed that trying to sow discord between the two was not going to work.

"Shi Quan, you are too self-righteous! How could you possibly see through Teacher's talent!" Tang San took a deep breath, his gaze fixed on Shi Quan. "Let's settle this with our own hands!"

"Settle it with your own hands?" Dugu Yan said disdainfully from below the stage. "You? You aren't even worth a single finger of Xiao Quan's. Xiao Quan, let him get a good look at your strength!"

A cold sneer appeared on the corner of Tang San's mouth. Ignoring Dugu Yan, purple light flickered in his eyes, and his eight long legs moved rapidly, carrying a series of purple phantoms through the air. In the blink of an eye, he had already arrived before Shi Quan.

"Shi Quan, having already used your Third Soul Skill twice, how much soul power do you have left now?"

Thinking this, Tang San braced himself with four spider spears, while the other four carried a sharp aura, pointing directly at Shi Quan's forearms and shoulders.

"Your speed is just so-so." The Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances also had a strengthening effect similar to the Eight Spider Lances. Shi Quan was not surprised by this; he stepped into his Nine Shadows Movement and instantly shifted to a position three meters away, just outside the attack range of the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances.

Therefore, even with the enhancement of the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances, Tang San still could not catch up to Shi Quan.

His retreating figure shifted sideways, silver light flickering between his palms.

Shi Quan dodged the stabs of the spider spears with composure, retreating while teasing in a relaxed tone: "So what if you can see clearly? Can you hit me? What does it matter if your eyesight is good?"

Shi Quan smiled faintly. "I originally wanted to play with you to let you understand the gap between us, but since you are so impatient, I will let you get a good look at my methods!"

"That strange footwork again." Tang San looked up, purple light flickering in his eyes, and the spider spears moved again, chasing after Shi Quan at high speed. "It's a pity, though—I've already seen through your movements!"

On the Soul Fighting Arena, Tang San controlled the spider spears, the two chasing and fleeing. After a long time, Tang San's spider spears hadn't even touched the corner of Shi Quan's clothes. Although he could see Shi Quan's movements clearly, every attack was off by just a fraction. After all that, he had consumed a lot of stamina, while Shi Quan looked neither red nor out of breath, completely fine.

Yu Feng paused, swallowed, and said in shock: "Barely, but if we are talking about speed alone, I can't compare."

Most of the audience around the Central Main Soul Fighting Arena could only see the constantly changing figures on the stage; they couldn't see the specific movements of the two at all, only feeling a sense of dizziness!

"Tianheng, can you see their movements clearly?" Dugu Yan looked at the scene on the stage in surprise.

Clang!

The Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances collided with Shi Quan's palm, emitting a strange metallic sound.

Tang San's expression became increasingly ugly, because he discovered that the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances could not land an effective attack on Shi Quan. Instead, his own Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances began to tremble slightly under the tugging and colliding with Shi Quan. With every collision, a certain amount of counter-shock force rebounded onto the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances. At first, Tang San didn't feel much, but as the counter-shock force increased, the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances became harder and harder to control.

When Nine Shadows Shift is cultivated to its peak, one can manifest nine figures through speed, which is enough to show how astonishing the speed of Nine Shadows Shift is.

Flying in mid-air, the host Dou Dou, holding a cone-shaped megaphone, exclaimed: "Is... is this still a battle between Soul Elders?"

"What? After all this time, all you can do is run around like a rat?" Tang San's spider spears kept chasing, starting to mimic Shi Quan's taunting.

What shocked Tang San the most was that when the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances touched Shi Quan, the Devour ability within them was completely ineffective against him?!

The two figures continued to change constantly, and crisp clashing sounds rang out incessantly.

Tang San only felt as if his Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances had struck a wall of copper and iron.

Shi Quan's soul power level was already six levels higher than Tang San's, and his body had been successively transformed by the Ten Complete Great Replenishment Pill, the external spirit bone Dragon Spine, and the Sacred Dragon Eight Spears.

"It can't be..." Yu Tianheng clenched his fists.

"What about you, Yu Feng?" Dugu Yan looked at Yu Feng, whose mouth was slightly agape to the side.

"Why has your speed slowed down?" Shi Quan's mocking voice rang out. "Can't control it so soon? Is this your harvest from over six years?"

Hearing this, Tang San didn't speak again, but his hands moved toward the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges at his waist. His hands turned into streaks of afterimages, and countless steel needles, flying knives, and other Hidden Weapons were launched from his hands.

Seeing the large area of Hidden Weapons covering him along with the spider spears, Shi Quan was already prepared. His figure pulled away again, silver light condensed around his body, and with a flick of his hands, he blocked and deflected several Hidden Weapons. His hands moved rapidly in mid-air, and the force stirred up by Universe Shift was revealed without doubt.

As the Hidden Weapons were continuously reduced, Tang San felt increasingly shocked. He discovered that Shi Quan seemed to have mastered a type of force technique similar to Crane Controlling Dragon Capturing. This force technique was extremely peculiar, actually able to deflect all of his Hidden Weapons.

His flexible and ever-changing Hidden Weapons were all deflected to the side in front of Shi Quan. The area around Shi Quan seemed like a forbidden zone, impossible to break through.

His Hidden Weapon techniques, which he took pride in, were broken just like that.

For a moment, an unspeakable sense of powerlessness welled up in Tang San's heart. Why... why was Shi Quan so strong...

Clearly, he had Innate Full Spirit Power and possessed cultivation methods like the Mysterious Heaven Skill, so why couldn't he compare to Shi Quan, who only had Innate Level 1 soul power!

With the continuous consumption of Hidden Weapons, Tang San's attack frequency gradually decreased.

"Is this your trump card? Although these Hidden Weapons are strange, they only bully those with weak observation skills. As long as one has sufficient observation and reaction speed, it is not difficult to block them."

Silver light flickered in Shi Quan's hand as he raised it to catch a flying blade thrown by Tang San. He revealed a look of disappointment and disdain, saying faintly: "Our martial souls are both Blue Silver Grass, but you possess the most enviable Innate Full Spirit Power, and this is the result? In these six-plus years, have you spent your days playing with these low-class trinkets? Reciting some useless theories of unknown authenticity? What exactly have you been doing?"

Hearing this, Tang San's pupils shrank. Tang San, who was already somewhat self-doubting, looked down at his own palms and immediately fell into confusion and self-doubt.

Seeing this, a faint, imperceptible smile rose on the corner of Shi Quan's mouth. Although the relationship between Tang San and Yu Xiaogang was not easy to sow discord in, in the original story, Tang San was struck so hard during the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament that he almost went into qi deviation. If it hadn't been for Dugu Bo's guidance, Tang San's mentality would have already shattered, and he might have switched to cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer.

Since there was a loophole, Shi Quan naturally wouldn't let it go. Because Tang Hao was behind Tang San, he couldn't directly kill Tang San, so he could find a way to make Tang San destroy his own talent.

Can't handle the blow, right?

Then he could just start from this aspect, slowly attacking Tang San's confidence and prompting him to switch to the Clear Sky Hammer.

To destroy Tang San, start by destroying his talent!

Below the stage, Zhao Wuji watched this scene in shock. Tang San was using his Hidden Weapons so frantically, yet he still couldn't cause effective damage to Shi Quan, and even those special Hidden Weapons were belittled by Shi Quan as worthless, called low-class.

Yu Xiaogang's expression was terrifyingly gloomy. The useless theories of unknown authenticity that Shi Quan spoke of naturally referred to his "Invincible Theory."

While suppressing Tang San, he didn't forget to step on him a few times. Yu Xiaogang immediately gritted his teeth and shouted to Tang San on the stage: "San, don't listen to him! He is deliberately belittling you to stall for time. In the previous battle, he used his Third Soul Skill consecutively, plus the consumption of his first and second soul skills; his soul power must be almost exhausted now. Don't fall for his trick, you haven't lost yet, don't lose your fighting spirit just because of a few words from the opponent!"

Hearing this, Tang San felt his spirit jolt. He took a deep breath, his eyes gradually becoming firm, and he stared straight at Shi Quan, saying coldly: "Finished? Do you think I will be easily fooled? Next, I will let you get a good look at the trinkets you look down upon!"

Shi Quan spread his hands and said disdainfully: "Are you planning to take out that Black Clamp from before?"

"As you wish!" Tang San's hands reached into his waist, and two Zhuge Divine Crossbows appeared in his hands out of thin air. His hands crossed, and with a 'click' of the spring, dozens of crossbow bolts covered the direction where Shi Quan was.

Facing the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, Shi Quan's expression became unprecedentedly serious.

Just as Tang San pulled the trigger, the first soul ring under Shi Quan's feet lit up. Layers of Blue Silver King grew rapidly, and then the Hardening ability was activated.

Facing the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, it was still very difficult for Shi Quan to dodge now; he could only take it head-on.

Clang, clang, clang!

A muffled, booming sound erupted suddenly.

The sound didn't stop; another 'click' of the spring rang out, and the muffled, booming sound erupted again. No matter how strong the Hardening ability was, it ultimately fell short against two rounds of the Zhuge Divine Crossbow.

The power of the flying crossbow bolts was less than ten percent of what it should have been; with a wave of his hand, Shi Quan knocked all of these bolts away.

Even so, this was enough to shock Tang San, for one must know that even a Soul Ancestor, if they failed to deploy a defensive skill in time when facing the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, would not find it strange to be killed by it.

Yet, Shi Quan's Hardening Blue Silver King had actually withstood two rounds of the Zhuge Divine Crossbow...