Seeing that his poisonous mist was ineffective, and that under the effects of the high-temperature flames, as the poisonous mist dissipated, the soul power of this Barak Academy team member was also being consumed in large quantities. Greatly alarmed, he immediately used his third soul skill!
He spun his body halfway around, then fiercely swung out the Sunflower, and in an instant, countless pale yellow points of light scattered from the enormous flower disk, enveloping a vast area with a powerful aura, making it obviously impossible to dodge.
But Yunchuan had no need to dodge either.
He drew a circle with the flaming longsword in his hand!
The spreading flames unexpectedly did not dissipate, but instead gathered in front of him, transforming into a barrier of fire!
The next moment.
The dense yellow points of light instantly slammed into the barrier of fire!
An astonishing scene appeared.
The moment those dense yellow points of light touched the barrier of fire, they immediately vanished like moths flying into a flame. Not only did they fail to have the slightest effect, they instead caused the barrier of fire to blaze brilliantly!
Nourished by the supplement, the barrier suddenly expanded...
Then erupted!
In an instant, it completely destroyed all those yellow points of light attacking him!
"Go!"
Yunchuan's gaze sharpened!
The erupting barrier of fire surged onward with undiminished force, roaring straight ahead!
The scene was just like an erupting volcano!
The opponent more than ten meters ahead was directly engulfed by these erupting flames!
"Ah!"
Facing the erupting flames head-on.
He only felt as though he had fallen into magma, the soul power throughout his body instantly becoming useless, while the Sunflower in his hand quietly withered and shriveled under the intense heat of the flames!
At this moment, he felt as though he was about to turn to ash...
Fortunately, the flames soon dissipated.
At this moment, all the clothes on his body had already been scorched, and even his hair had been burned into curls. Yet his body alone had not suffered any major harm. He merely seemed to have some minor burns. Clearly, Yunchuan had deliberately held back. Otherwise, that attack just now probably could have burned him directly to ash.
But killing was not allowed in the competition, so he had deliberately controlled the power.
Although his body had not suffered much harm, his mind had been severely frightened. Therefore, after the flames disappeared, his eyes immediately rolled back. His entire body fell flat onto his back, and he passed out.
The battle was over.
It did not exceed anyone's expectations.
And the battles afterward were even simpler.
The students Barak Academy sent out afterward were clearly unable to compare with the first two in strength. After Yunchuan defeated another three people in succession, none of the several Barak Academy team members who came on afterward were Soul Ancestors above rank forty.
The first round of the advancement tournament was perfect for Cupid Academy, with Yunchuan effortlessly handling the entire match by himself. The several reserve members Dean Brand had brought along just to make up the numbers as a precaution never even had a chance to take the field.
And in the matches afterward, the other teams that had qualified from Heaven Dou City also won their respective matches. The undefeated record of the five soul master academies representing the Heaven Dou Empire immediately left Emperor Xue Ye extremely satisfied. On the spot, he announced rewards of one thousand gold soul coins for every academy that won that day, while the losing academies would also receive a reward of five hundred gold soul coins.
After the first day's matches ended, the deans of each academy went onstage to draw lots, and by a remarkable coincidence, the opponent Cupid Academy drew was precisely Blazing Academy, which had made such a splash in the first match.
Although it was a round-robin tournament and every academy would encounter each other, meeting Blazing Academy this early was still somewhat unexpected for the people of Cupid Academy. It could only be chalked up to luck.
...
The pace of the advancement tournament was much faster than the qualifiers, with no ordinary spectators, and only the results of the matches mattered. Without those cumbersome procedures and the clamor of the audience, it instead made it easier for the soul masters to display their true strength.
The match between Cupid Academy and Blazing Academy was fifth in the order, and before the match had even begun, Yunchuan, who was putting on an aloof act, had already sensed the scorching gaze fixed on him from not far away.
Yunchuan did not look at Huo Wu, nor did he want to act particularly arrogant, since that did not fit his current persona. He merely watched the matches on the field calmly, especially Divine Wind Academy and Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. These were two academies he had not encountered before.
With them about to face each other in the advancement tournament, he had to observe carefully. Through observation, he could avoid being tricked by an opponent exploiting the competition rules. If he lost a match, he would really lose face then.
After observing, Yunchuan discovered that aside from the three elemental academies and the academy Tang San and the others belonged to, there were also two academies whose strength was fairly noteworthy, one called Beast Academy, and one called Plant Academy. They were precisely two of the three academies Dean Brand had mentioned before.
Beast Academy appeared to be about as strong as the four elemental academies, possessing multiple students above rank forty.
But Yunchuan found Plant Academy somewhat difficult to understand.
All of Plant Academy's participating team members possessed plant martial souls, and all of them were extremely strange plants. Since the start of the tournament, they had only fielded three team members. Moreover, they were not even core members who were all Soul Ancestors, but merely some substitutes. Even so, they had still won their matches.
Of course, this was only because they had not encountered any powerful opponents. That was why they had achieved the excellent result of two consecutive victories in the matches that had already concluded.
Plant Academy kept a very low profile, and their soul skills were not flashy either, but the more this was the case, the more it made people feel that they were not simple.
Soon, it was finally time for Cupid Academy and Blazing Academy to take the field.
When the swordsman dressed in green walked onto the field, all the teams that had already finished their matches naturally watched with utmost seriousness. They were equally well aware of Blazing Academy's reputation, and this was an individual battle rather than a team battle, so would Blazing Academy bring out something new and make Dugu Qiubai, who had created a legend in the qualifiers, suffer defeat for the first time?
Yunchuan calmly walked onto the arena.
But the first person Blazing Academy sent out opposite him was not Huo Wushuang, nor Huo Wu, nor even the Fire Leopard soul master. Instead it was…that Mars support-type soul master.
Yes, it was one of those two Mars support-type soul masters!
Looking over the previous matches today, there had never been any notion of sending a support-type soul master out as the vanguard, which truly left people incredibly astonished. The first to take the field was actually a support-type soul master with the Mars martial soul?
At this moment, even the people from the other academies looked somewhat stunned and completely baffled. And as soon as this Mars soul master came up, he directly lit up his thousand-year soul ring, releasing a special streak of fiery light toward the ground!
"Third Soul Skill: Scorched Earth for a Thousand Miles."
After he finished releasing it, faint firelight could be seen flowing across the arena! Extremely strange!
And after releasing it, this support-type soul master did not even directly fight Yunchuan, but instead conceded! This once again left many people utterly astonished.
"This soul skill…looks like some kind of charge-up trigger-type soul skill?" Yunchuan frowned slightly, seeming to have guessed something. But he was not entirely certain.
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