Feng Xiaotian's opponent was Ma Hongjun.
Strictly speaking, Ma Hongjun was originally an agility-type Spirit Master. However, because of his physique, he had been forced to transition into a power-type Spirit Master.
His close-combat ability was abysmal. Aside from relying on his First Spirit Skill to breathe fire, he had almost no effective means of fighting an opponent at close range.
Although Ma Hongjun had gained the ability to fly after obtaining his Third Spirit Skill, he posed no real threat to Feng Xiaotian.
Faced with such an easy opponent, Feng Xiaotian could hardly be bothered to attack. He casually dodged Ma Hongjun's assaults while observing the battlefield and even exchanged signals with Wu Qi from a distance.
Before the match, the team had developed a set of coded signals. Using them allowed them to communicate without revealing their tactical intentions to outsiders.
To Tang San, however, it simply looked like the two of them were constantly communicating, and he had no idea what they were planning.
"Third Brother, should I go help? That fat guy is practically a joke. He can't stop anyone," Xiao Wu said anxiously.
Tang San shook his head.
He alone couldn't defend the rear against simultaneous attacks from both Feng Xiaotian and Wu Qi.
But he already had a solution.
"Oscar, Flying Mushroom Sausages!"
On the ground, the Seven Treasure Team's overall strength was undeniably overwhelming.
However, if the battlefield shifted into the air, only Wu Qi and Feng Xiaotian would still be capable of flying.
Seven against two, the advantage would naturally be theirs.
Grand Spirit Arena matches were essentially fought without restrictions. Before the battle, Oscar had prepared a large quantity of food, which he now took directly from his storage soul tool for everyone to consume.
Tang San shouted, "Execute Plan Two!"
At his command, Dai Mubai and the others on the front line immediately regrouped into formation.
Using the Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon technique, Tang San threw Flying Mushroom Sausages one after another to his teammates.
Feng Xiaotian reacted instantly.
Just as Ma Hongjun reached out to catch one, Feng Xiaotian intercepted it first.
With a slight squeeze of his hand, the Flying Mushroom Sausage shattered into pieces.
Tang San frowned.
Fortunately, Ma Hongjun could already fly, so losing the sausage wouldn't affect him much.
At Tang San's command, all seven members of the Shrek Seven Devils took to the air, with everyone linked together by Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.
From a tactical standpoint, this flying formation was nearly flawless.
Unless the opposing team consisted entirely of flying Spirit Masters, they would inevitably find themselves outnumbered in the air.
If the enemy failed to respond, the Shrek Seven Devils, controlling the skies under Tang San's command, would quickly overwhelm isolated opponents one by one and eliminate the weaker members first.
Wu Qi and Feng Xiaotian exchanged a glance.
Battles this easy were rare.
What was the greatest danger while flying?
Strong winds.
The arena wasn't large. Once airborne, everyone depended on their wings to stay balanced, making them extremely vulnerable to powerful gusts.
Feng Xiaotian rapidly slashed with his wolf claws, generating swirling currents of wind around himself.
Wu Qi immediately followed up, merging all of the air currents into a single powerful gale.
If they hadn't wanted to keep their trump cards hidden, Huo Wushuang, Huo Wu, and Changkong could have added their flames to create a blazing firestorm powerful enough to severely injure the Shrek Seven Devils.
Even without the flames, however, the gale was mixed with Wu Qi's feather blades, making it just as dangerous.
Tang San's expression darkened.
He anchored one strand of Blue Silver Grass to the arena floor while sending out several more vines in an attempt to wrap around the raging gale and neutralize it.
Unfortunately, the toughness of his Blue Silver Grass was limited.
Against such a powerful windstorm, the vines were torn apart almost instantly.
Below the arena, Grandmaster shouted anxiously,
"Get down! Land now! Don't let yourselves get blown away!"
Whether Tang San heard Grandmaster's warning or simply realized the problem himself, he immediately used Blue Silver Grass to pull the other six members of the Shrek Seven Devils back to the ground.
Then Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng unleashed their Fourth Spirit Skills simultaneously.
Only through their combined full-powered attacks were they able to disperse the gale.
However, the Seven Treasure Team had no intention of giving them a chance to recover.
A pair of wings spread from Feng Xiaotian's back as he charged forward.
Ma Hongjun was startled and hurriedly moved to intercept him.
Feng Xiaotian's speed was astonishing.
Tang San's Purple Demon Eye could track his movements, but the growth speed of Blue Silver Grass was nowhere near fast enough to keep up.
In the blink of an eye, Feng Xiaotian had already closed the distance.
Tang San shouted,"Tianheng! Mubai!"
For both sides, this was an excellent opportunity.
Feng Xiaotian could use his speed to eliminate Ma Hongjun.
At the same time, however, he had charged deep into the Shrek Seven Devils' formation, leaving himself with virtually no room to retreat.
With a single punch, Feng Xiaotian struck.
Ma Hongjun had no time to react and was blasted backward.
The food in his stomach, which hadn't yet been digested, sprayed from his mouth, tracing an arc through the air.
He then crashed to the ground, curling into a ball with his eyes rolled back, completely incapacitated.
Feng Xiaotian reacted quickly enough to avoid being hit by the unpleasant "biological attack."
Before he had time to think further, the remaining six members of the Shrek Seven Devils had already surrounded him.
At that moment, Wu Qi charged in and coordinated perfectly with Feng Xiaotian, smashing apart the Shrek Seven Devils' formation.
Ma Hongjun had been lying on the ground for over twenty seconds.
According to the competition rules, he was automatically eliminated.
With their formation broken and one member already out, the remaining six members of the Shrek Seven Devils were once again forced into fighting on their own.
This match wasn't intended to be a one-man show for Wu Qi and Feng Xiaotian.
Instead, it was meant to give every member of the Seven Treasure Team a chance to display their abilities.
Although they hadn't revealed many of their tactical strategies, simply demonstrating their overwhelming strength was enough.
Wu Qi believed that once the preliminary rounds began, most teams would avoid challenging them head-on.
After all, the Spirit Master Tournament stretched over a long period of time and demanded tremendous physical and mental endurance.
Reducing the pressure during the early stages of the tournament would be a tremendous advantage later on.
Changkong's target was Xiao Wu.
Previously, with Xiao Wu positioned in the rear of the formation, he had never had a chance to fight her.
Now that the formation had been broken apart, Tang San had retreated with Oscar, leaving Xiao Wu exposed.
Gripping his Coiling Dragon Staff Spirit tightly, Changkong charged straight toward her.
With no room to evade, Xiao Wu was forced into battle.
Huo Wushuang faced Dai Mubai head-on.
Although the two possessed similar Spirit Power Levels, the difference in their performance was like night and day.
Huo Wushuang fought calmly and methodically.
Dai Mubai, who had grown accustomed to overwhelming weaker opponents, found himself steadily driven backward under Huo Wushuang's relentless assault.
Zhu Zhuqing attempted to come to his aid, only to have Feng Xiaotian block her path.
"I don't like fighting women, so I'd appreciate it if you stayed where you are and didn't make any moves."
There was a gap of more than ten Spirit Power Levels between them, making any direct confrontation hopeless.
After Xiao Wu had exposed Dai Mubai's past behavior during the team's recent internal conflict, Zhu Zhuqing had once again grown distant from him.
She was already reluctant to perform their Spirit Fusion with him.
So she simply remained where she was, using the excuse of keeping Feng Xiaotian occupied.
With such an overwhelming gap in individual strength, combined with the chaos of a full-scale melee, the Shrek Team was completely overwhelmed.
The sausages provided by Oscar merely delayed the inevitable defeat.
Tang San repeatedly used his Blue Silver Grass Spirit, attempting to control the battlefield.
However, his Fourth Spirit Skill wasn't the ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring skill from the original timeline.
It lacked any large-scale crowd-control ability and couldn't create an opportunity for his teammates to launch a counterattack.
Dai Mubai was the first to fall.
Caught in the combined assault of Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, he was blasted out of the arena by Huo Wu's Repelling Fire Ring.
With their strongest front-line fighter defeated, the resolve of the remaining team members crumbled.
From that moment on, the collapse of the Shrek Team became unstoppable, their defeat snowballing beyond recovery.
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