Underground Training Ground, Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"I'll go first. You, come out."
From the main team, a member named Michael stepped forward, his eyes burning with anger as he glared at Gu Yuena.
"Heh, seeking death? I'll oblige."
Gu Yuena directly summoned her Silver Dragon Spear and walked step by step toward the center of the arena.
"Gu Yuena, go easy on him."
Liuxing, who was standing nearby, whispered to her as she passed.
After all, they weren't mortal enemies, so it was best not to kill or cripple anyone.
As for the fact that the opponent was a Soul King and Gu Yuena might lose?
Liuxing had never even considered it.
In the arena, amidst a series of metallic clangs, a large number of soul tools began to attach themselves to Michael's body, especially on his feet and back.
Blue metal boots, two massive cannon barrels on his back connected to a metal sphere, it was clear that these soul tools could rotate freely, allowing for omnidirectional attacks.
Seeing Michael fully armed, Gu Yuena sneered.
Behind her, a slender and beautiful silver dragon phantom appeared, its stunning purple vertical pupils opening.
Blue, red, and green elemental orbs began to rotate around Gu Yuena.
Yellow, purple, and purple soul rings rose from her feet, and a whirlwind enveloped her, lifting her slowly into the air.
As her martial soul manifested, a pair of small silver horns grew from her forehead, and a pair of silver dragon wings spread from her back.
The silver-haired dragon girl, wielding the Silver Dragon Spear, exuded an aura of nobility and sacredness.
"What is this?"
Ma Rulong's pupils contracted as he turned to look at Michael.
He felt that Michael might be in real danger. Was this really the aura of a Soul Elder?
Michael, too, was shaken by Gu Yuena's presence.
He gritted his teeth, and the blue light from his metal boots flashed.
With a sliding step, he moved so fast that it seemed like teleportation, circling around Gu Yuena.
At the same time, the soul cannons on his back and arms fired a barrage of energy bullets toward Gu Yuena, who was hovering in mid-air.
Gu Yuena snapped her fingers with one hand, and fireballs materialized in the air, raining down like Liuxings to intercept Michael's projectiles.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The collision of the energy bullets and fireballs triggered a series of violent explosions.
Michael, holding a thick metal tube with both hands, fired an orange energy ball toward Gu Yuena.
This orange ball moved silently and far faster than the previous soul cannon shots.
Moreover, it moved erratically, but its target was unmistakably Gu Yuena.
Gu Yuena narrowed her eyes.
With her left hand forming a claw, a stream of water condensed in her palm.
She then pushed it forward, transforming it into a massive water dragon claw that grabbed at the orange energy ball.
The water dragon claw accurately caught the orange ball, but something strange happened next.
Upon contact with the orange ball, the water dragon claw was instantly absorbed. Immediately after, the orange ball stopped in mid-air, but its light grew increasingly intense.
Gu Yuena's eyes showed a hint of surprise as she murmured, "A triggered timed soul cannon shell!"
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who were watching from the sidelines, also recognized this soul cannon shell.
A triggered timed soul cannon shell refers to a projectile that, upon hitting the target or being blocked, absorbs all surrounding energy and then detonates.
Gu Yuena's water elemental dragon claw had been absorbed by the cannon shell itself.
Moreover, the explosion time of this shell could be controlled, Michael could delay the explosion by a few seconds.
In the next moment, the orange energy ball suddenly expanded and exploded.
The terrifying force of the explosion created a massive orange-red fireball over three meters in diameter in the arena.
Within the sphere of light, terrifying high temperatures and a powerful explosive force radiated.
The light from the explosion spread out, distorting the air within a ten-meter diameter.
Gu Yuena happened to be within the explosion's range, otherwise, Michael wouldn't have directly detonated the orange light sphere.
An invisible wind suddenly appeared, transforming into a flowing wind wall in front of Gu Yuena, firmly blocking the explosive shockwaves, preventing them from advancing even an inch.
But the explosion of the first shell was just the beginning.
Michael, with a metal cannon on his right shoulder, fired a second and then a third orange light sphere.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The continuous explosions echoed without end.
Michael's offensive didn't stop, yet a thin, transparent wind wall perfectly sealed off all the explosions.
Despite Michael's relentless attacks, not a single hair on Gu Yuena was harmed.
Maintaining a wind element barrier consumes soul power.
Blocking so many shell explosions, although Gu Yuena's consumption isn't as severe, it's indeed not suitable to continue much longer.
And she didn't want to play around anymore.
Gu Yuena didn't use the Silver Dragon Spear.
Instead, she formed a bow with her hands, and a transparent wind element arrow took shape in her grasp.
"Whoosh!"
With the sound of the arrow cutting through the air, Michael's body stiffened, an expression of disbelief on his face as he slowly looked down at his chest, where a blood flower bloomed, and scarlet blood slowly flowed.
"So fast!"
With these last words, Michael fell to his knees and then collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Michael!"
"Bastard, what did you do?"
Old Ma moved swiftly, positioning himself in front of the main team members, saying coldly, "What's the panic? I'm still here."
Old Ma glanced at Michael lying in the arena and said gravely, "Michael is fine. Gu Yuena avoided vital spots. Stop the bleeding and bandage the wound, and he'll be okay."
Hearing that Michael was okay, the other main team members breathed a sigh of relief, then their gazes towards Gu Yuena changed.
Michael was the strongest among them, second only to the captain, Ma Rulong, yet he was defeated so quickly by Gu Yuena, leaving them with mixed feelings.
"What do we do? Michael actually lost. He was the strongest among us besides the captain."
Li Yan's face was somewhat ugly.
He was the weakest among the main team members, and now he had a bad premonition.
"Why panic? I don't believe every one of them is that strong."
Chen Fei stepped forward, looked over Liuxing and the others, then turned to Xiao Hongchen and said, "Xiao Hongchen, come out and fight."
Liuxing was the reserve team captain, to be left for their captain, and he also disdained bullying girls, so he directly chose Xiao Hongchen.
Xiao Hongchen pressed down his hat and said in a low voice, "I'll be back in a moment."
Liuxing's mouth twitched. Who are you showing off to?
But this Chen Fei chose the wrong person!
Xiao Hongchen's metal control is practically a god internally soul engineer battles.
At this stage, which low to mid-level soul tool doesn't contain metal?
Sure enough, facing Xiao Hongchen, Chen Fei's soul tools were utterly ineffective.
His soul cannons and soul guns were all restricted by Xiao Hongchen, who then unleashed his firepower without restraint.
If Old Ma hadn't pulled Chen Fei out, Chen Fei's Invincible Barrier would have been forced out.
The Invincible Barrier, developed based on the Invincible Golden Body soul skill, is a one-time consumable.
The lowest level Invincible Barrier is a level five soul tool, requiring gold crystal unique to the Sun Moon Empire as a medium.
With the core formation's injection, the Invincible Barrier can guide the energy within the gold crystal to produce an extremely powerful defense.
A level five Invincible Barrier can defend against attacks below the eight-ring Soul Douluo level for three seconds.
A level six can withstand ordinary Title Douluo attacks for three seconds, and a level seven can withstand attacks from Super Douluo for three seconds.
Currently, the highest level for an Invincible Barrier is level seven.
With two consecutive defeats of the main team members, Ma Rulong couldn't stand by any longer.
He stopped Lin Xi, who was about to step forward, and walked step by step to the center of the arena.
He looked at the reserve team and said gravely, "Next, I'll go. Who among you will come?"
Although he said this, his gaze was fixed on Liuxing.
He was very curious to test the mettle of Liuxing, who had replaced Xiao Hongchen as the reserve team captain.
Liuxing, about to step forward, paused and looked puzzled at Liuying, who had grabbed his left hand.
Liuying shook her head and said, "Let me handle it. I'll make them truly convinced."
"Well, alright then!"
Liuxing pondered for a moment.
Although he was confident in defeating Ma Rulong, he couldn't possibly crush him effortlessly.
While it would be enough to establish his authority, it wouldn't have the same impact as if Liuying were to take action.
Seeing that his opponent wasn't Liuxing but a girl who resembled him, bright, lovely, and adorable, Ma Rulong frowned.