At the moment when the referee Unbroken Douluo Zheng Zhan announced the start of the match, Nan Qiuqiu completed the possession of the Ice Extreme War God Armor immediately. Huo Yuhao had explicitly said before she went on stage that with Xu Sanshi's current level, the Yama's Invitation just now was probably the limit of the Tang Sect hand-thrown hidden weapons he could use. With the protection of the Ice Extreme War God Armor, general hand-thrown hidden weapons couldn't hurt Nan Qiuqiu at all.
Unless Xu Sanshi used Yama's Invitation again, he couldn't break the defense of the Ice Extreme War God Armor.
Xu Sanshi, whose martial soul was severely damaged, couldn't use his martial soul again in a short time. However, even so, Xu Sanshi could still use Tang Sect unique skills relying on his soul power cultivation of an eighty-level Soul Douluo, and he was definitely not so easily defeated.
A diamond-shaped pink crystal-like gem appeared on Nan Qiuqiu's forehead with the release of her martial soul. Immediately after, her body became more slender. Her height increased by almost a foot. Pointing her right hand to the sky, dark red scales grew along her fingertips.
At the same time, under Nan Qiuqiu's feet, six best-configured soul rings rose one by one. This quantity and configuration of soul rings, which should have been envied by countless people, could no longer catch the eyes of countless spectators at this moment.
The attribute of Nan Qiuqiu's martial soul was annihilation, which had a certain restraining effect on Xu Sanshi who couldn't use his martial soul. Therefore, she raised one hand almost without any hesitation, and the palm covered by the Battle Armor fired a ray of Annihilation Light directly at Xu Sanshi.
"Hmph, insignificant skill!" Light flashed in Xu Sanshi's hand. Don't forget, he had also come into contact with many things in the soul tool field in the Sun Moon Empire. Therefore, the Tang Sect specially asked someone to create a melee soul tool suitable for him.
It was a round shield carved with a Xuanwu pattern, mainly in dark blue, red, and white colors. It was an out-and-out Level 7 soul tool. Its only function was to block all energy-type attack methods.
After the Annihilation Light with annihilation ability hit the shield in Xu Sanshi's hand, it disappeared instantly without a trace like a stone sinking into the sea.
Xu Sanshi seemed to have taken the path of the practical control soul guide system. Of course, this didn't mean he was already a practical control soul engineer, but simply using soul tools was still achievable.
"I want to see how hard your turtle shell is!"
Before her voice fell, Nan Qiuqiu instantly activated the thrusters of the war armor, rushing towards Xu Sanshi like a bolt of lightning. Xu Sanshi didn't retreat, raising his shield to meet her.
"Bang!" A violent collision sound resounded throughout the venue. The powerful impact cracked the ground inch by inch, and countless gravel flew everywhere.
Nan Qiuqiu's soul skills boosted by the Battle Armor attacked like a storm. Palm cannons, shoulder launchers, various weapons emerged endlessly. Xu Sanshi resolved her offensives time and again relying on agile movements and a sturdy shield.
The Ice Extreme War God Armor was a humanoid soul tool. The biggest feature of humanoid soul tools was comprehensiveness.
When Kong Deming and Huo Yuhao designed this set of Ice Extreme War God Armor, everything was based on the characteristics of the Rouge Dragon, because only in this way could the power of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and Nan Qiuqiu's own Rouge Dragon Martial Soul be fully exerted.
Of course, the meaning of this melee combat was not complete contact combat, but combat within a certain range.
With the Ice Extreme War God Armor on, Nan Qiuqiu clearly felt that rich soul power was constantly pouring into her body after being filtered by the War God Armor. The War God Armor was like a part of her skin, and there were also bones. Apart from feeling that her whole person had become a circle larger, she didn't feel any discomfort.
To fully exert the power of this humanoid soul tool, one must control it with powerful spiritual power. Nan Qiuqiu didn't understand it well enough yet, and could only use its own boost and defense.
After a few rounds, Xu Sanshi's face began to look a bit strained.
Unable to use soul skills meant that he could only use Tang Sect unique skills and hand-thrown hidden weapons to deal with Nan Qiuqiu. Before Nan Qiuqiu appeared, he had thought about how to deal with the opponent's annihilation attribute. But when they really fought, what gave him the biggest headache was not Nan Qiuqiu's annihilation attack methods, but the defense of that set of armor!
Xu Sanshi was originally a defense-type soul master. He only possessed considerable attack power after activating the Martial Soul Avatar. Therefore, he discovered that those unique skills the Tang Sect was proud of couldn't break the defense of the Battle Armor at all!
Only Huo Yuhao, who designed it personally, and Kong Deming, who was responsible for building it, knew clearly that it was a genuine Level 9 soul tool.
If he condensed soul power to fire another Yama's Invitation...
This thought quickly rose in Xu Sanshi's mind, but he soon dismissed it. Leaving aside whether his current physical condition could perform it again, just the huge consumption was unbearable for him.
Seeing the strange situation on the field, even Huo Yuhao couldn't help being stunned. Both sides currently seemed to have no means to break the opponent's defense. How long would this fight last?
Nan Qiuqiu took a deep breath. She also discovered this point. The gap in soul power cultivation between the two was too big. Moreover, it also verified Huo Yuhao's words that Xu Sanshi was different from ordinary Soul Douluos. The gap between them was definitely not something that could be easily bridged by external objects.
Annihilation Light, Annihilation Chain Explosion, Hand of Annihilation, Rouge Annihilation Sword, Annihilation Star, and other attack-type soul skills were all blocked by Xu Sanshi's round shield.
"It seems neither you nor I can do anything to each other." Xu Sanshi retreated a few steps, looked at Nan Qiuqiu's good-looking face, and suddenly said.
"Hmph, not necessarily!" Nan Qiuqiu stared at him coldly.
"Beauty, how about this? As long as you surrender, after my Tang Sect wins the championship, I'll reserve a future elder position for you?" Xu Sanshi rolled his eyes and began to guide patiently: "You should know, our Tang Sect was personally founded by the generation of Sea God Tang San ten thousand years ago, possessing a long history."
Hearing this, Nan Qiuqiu just sneered: "I remember, the hidden weapons produced by your Tang Sect were completely abused by the soul tools of the Sun Moon Empire thousands of years ago?"
Xu Sanshi instantly looked unhappy. This little girl really mentioned which pot was not boiling. His Tang Sect was personally protected by Lord Sea God. Regardless of whether others believed it or not, he was someone who had truly seen the Sea God descend.
"If you can defeat me, I'll join your Earth Dragon Gate, how about that?"
"Not interested!" Nan Qiuqiu gave him a look directly.
"Don't regret it when we win the final championship." Xu Sanshi continued to tempt. As the competition progressed to now, he and Tang Wutong basically confirmed that Huo Yuhao and his companion with the ape-type martial soul did not participate in this competition.
Since Huo Yuhao didn't come, then their winning the championship was almost a sure thing. Just Tang Wutong alone could sweep the whole field.
Nan Qiuqiu continued to act. Pointing her right hand forward, a pink Annihilation Light instantly reached behind Xu Sanshi. Strangely, this Annihilation Light suddenly exploded when it was less than two meters away from Xu Sanshi, transforming into countless light threads covering Xu Sanshi.
Turning his body, Xu Sanshi waved the shield, bringing up a piece of soft black soul power, looking as gentle as water waves, rotating and entangled with the Annihilation Light chasing from behind. As soon as the Annihilation Light entered these black lights, large ripples were instantly stirred up in it.
Every black ripple was still rotating, stubbornly not letting a single light thread pass through.
"Useless!" Xu Sanshi shouted proudly: "This young master is known as the Eternal Defense. Even without using the martial soul, soul masters of the same realm can't break my defense so easily."
"Eternal, phul!" Nan Qiuqiu said disdainfully, "Where is there anything eternal in this world?"
Just at this time, what Xu Sanshi couldn't see was that some residual pink light spots of the Annihilation Light dissolved around him fell on his body. These light spots were extremely tiny, impossible to see with the naked eye alone.
Xu Sanshi didn't have spiritual power like Huo Yuhao to keep the Purple Demon Eye open continuously. Therefore, after these light spots fell on him, they disappeared abruptly.
"Beauty, for us defense-type soul masters, absolute defense is an art, and this art is eternal with me." Xu Sanshi was still trying to persuade Nan Qiuqiu to give up the confrontation with words. However, after finishing this match, the Tang Sect would probably have to change people. He still wanted to reserve some strength to participate in tomorrow's decisive battle.
"What art do you, a big man, understand?" What Xu Sanshi didn't see was that some sweat seeped out of Nan Qiuqiu's forehead. This was a phenomenon of excessive use of spiritual power. Even so, she still ridiculed toughly.
"Okay, then I won't be stingy to show you what impeccable eternal art is!" Xu Sanshi's eyes narrowed, and he threw the shield in his hand directly at Nan Qiuqiu.
In anyone's view, this was a rare opportunity to seize this shield from Xu Sanshi's hands. But Nan Qiuqiu knew clearly that for the Tang Sect possessing the means of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, playing with a large frisbee was easy.
Nan Qiuqiu immediately raised her elbows, blocking the flying round shield in front of her.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
The rapidly rotating round shield cut on Nan Qiuqiu's forearm armor like a circular saw, emitting dazzling sparks. The sharp noise made the audience closer cover their ears involuntarily.
Nan Qiuqiu was pushed back several steps by this huge force. It had to be said that the defense of the Ice Extreme War God Armor was quite high. Under such collision, only a shallow trace was scraped on the forearm armor.
Of course, Xu Sanshi didn't expect this blow to achieve anything. With a raise of his wrist, the flying round shield returned to his hand again.
"I said, I can fight with you like this for a whole day." Xu Sanshi made a throwing gesture again. This battle had lasted too long, and he eagerly hoped to end it.
Therefore, he was looking for an opportunity to destroy the opponent's mentality with an absolutely strong offensive, and then take the opportunity to strip off that troublesome armor, so he could win.
At this time, Nan Qiuqiu started running towards the edge of the venue, seemingly planning to pull away from him completely.
"Run, can you run away?" Xu Sanshi snorted coldly, then directly threw the round shield again with the Bat Wing Samsara technique.
"Opportunity has come!" Nan Qiuqiu's beautiful eyes instantly revealed a touch of determination. In this instant, she recalled what Huo Yuhao said, at all costs.
Facing the sharp round shield thrown by Xu Sanshi, Nan Qiuqiu stopped her advancing figure abruptly, turned half her body back, squatted slightly, raised a hand and aimed at Xu Sanshi.
"Planning to take the opportunity to use soul skills against me?" Dark soul power airflow appeared on Xu Sanshi's body again. One wisp was directly connected to the flying round shield. Once Nan Qiuqiu used soul skills to attack him, he could immediately control the shield to fly to the corresponding position to block.
Before the semi-finals started, the Tang Sect had done homework on how to deal with the Earth Dragon Gate. Nan Qiuqiu was also one of the opponents they studied.
The conclusion drawn by the Tang Sect was that all of Nan Qiuqiu's attack soul skills were energy means. She mostly fought by boosting soul skills with the humanoid soul tool. According to grapevine news, Nan Qiuqiu's soul skills also reached the Soul Sage level under the boost of that set of armor.
That is to say, the two Lan sisters were Soul Sages, Nan Qiuqiu counted as a Soul Sage after boosting, plus a Golden Dragon Girl Soul Emperor with a top-level martial soul. The Earth Dragon Gate could be considered to have sent four Soul Sages in this competition!
Among them, Nan Qiuqiu was exactly the opponent Xu Sanshi needed to solve because he was too good at dealing with attacks of energy-type soul skills.
In the next moment, a shocking scene appeared—
Nan Qiuqiu's proud Ice Extreme War God Armor actually began to fall off one after another, splitting into countless parts. With her gesture command, they all flew towards Xu Sanshi. At the same time, she also completed martial soul possession, dark red scales covering her whole body.
"This, this is..." Xu Sanshi was directly confused by Nan Qiuqiu's move. Before he could struggle, the Ice Extreme War God Armor originally belonging to Nan Qiuqiu quickly completed wearing and assembly on Xu Sanshi's body.
At the same time, Xu Sanshi's round shield also arrived. Nan Qiuqiu, who lost the protection of the Ice Extreme War God Armor, could still activate the soul skill Annihilation Body Protection for defense.
"My art is—" Nan Qiuqiu's beautiful eyes widened abruptly. The Battle Armor bound with her spiritual power burst with red light in an instant.
"Explosion!"
In Xu Sanshi's frightened and angry gaze, Nan Qiuqiu shouted with reluctance, detonating this entire Level 9 humanoid soul tool.
Rumble...
The self-destruction of a Level 9 soul tool was no joke. Even Xu Sanshi in his prime might not be able to block its self-destruction unscathed.
Watching the fire soaring into the sky, although there was reluctance on Nan Qiuqiu's pretty face, there was more relief of completing the mission.
"Huo Yuhao, I don't owe you anymore."
It could be said that Nan Qiuqiu's set of Ice Extreme War God Armor originated from Huo Yuhao's gift and was also destroyed in the plan arranged by Huo Yuhao.
Even Huo Yuhao below the stage didn't expect Nan Qiuqiu to actually harden her heart to do such a thing. The raw material of the Ice Extreme War God Armor was Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. There were probably not many Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Caves in the entire Douluo Continent. It could be said that this material was less with every use.
Xu Sanshi lost, lost without suspense. That was the self-destruction of the continent's first Battle Armor, but destroyed just to defeat him. Xu Sanshi was proud enough.
His whole person flew out. Almost no piece of good skin was left on his whole body from the explosion. Only, even the referee Unbroken Douluo Zheng Zhan didn't expect that this guy's last defensive action and posture was actually covering his crotch...
"This match, Earth Dragon Gate wins!"
Unbroken Douluo glanced at Nan Qiuqiu with a complicated expression and immediately announced the result of the match.