Ma Xiaotao was helpless against Huo Yuhao's Instant Transmission. She could only cover the entire arena with her attacks. It was an inefficient strategy, but she had little choice. Huo Yuhao was like a slippery loach, impossible to catch.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom…" A series of explosions erupted as fireballs detonated, engulfing the entire arena in a sea of flames.
This time, Huo Yuhao didn't use Instant Transmission to dodge. With Ma Xiaotao's attack covering the entire arena, there was nowhere to hide.
Fourth Soul Skill, Evil God's Protection!
Under these circumstances, Huo Yuhao activated his fourth soul skill. His soul rings lit up, and a black, translucent shield enveloped him.
Ma Xiaotao didn't concentrate her fireballs on Huo Yuhao, knowing he would just use Instant Transmission to escape again.
But with the attacks spread so wide, they were too diffuse. The individual attacks lacked power. As it was, Huo Yuhao was safe and sound within the black shield.
Ma Xiaotao, in the air, was hopping mad, cursing. If Huo Yuhao fought her head-on, she'd be eighty percent certain of victory. But she couldn't catch him. Her fourth and fifth soul skills were both small-scale, single-target attacks, which Huo Yuhao could easily dodge with his speed.
"Damn it, what's the point of hiding and dodging? If you've got the guts, fight me head-on for three hundred rounds!" Ma Xiaotao said hatefully, trying to provoke Huo Yuhao. This feeling of having strength but nowhere to use it was disgusting.
"Hehe, then why did you fly so high? Don't try to show off these childish tricks in front of me. Also, this is the Continental Elite Soul Master Academy Tournament. Only the outcome matters. As a top student of Shrek Academy, you wouldn't not understand this, would you?"
"Come on, don't lose the match in the end and not even touch a corner of my clothes. That would be so embarrassing, and Shrek's thousand-year glory would be ruined in your hands. Sigh, I don't want to bully you like this either."
After saying this, Huo Yuhao even shrugged his hands, looking innocent, but the words coming out of his mouth could just about infuriate someone. He looked like he was asking for a beating.
"Damn it, this Huo Yuhao is really annoying to look at. He talks as if he's already won," He Caitou clenched his fists and said hatefully, harboring the thought of going up and beating Huo Yuhao up.
"No, Huo Yuhao isn't that arrogant. He might be trying to provoke Senior Sister Ma," Beibei, the strategist of the Shrek Seven Devils, was calm and composed, revealing Huo Yuhao's intentions in a single sentence.
"Beibei is right. Now it depends on how Ma Xiaotao responds. I hope she doesn't fall for it," Wang Yan said, his tone carrying a hint of worry. Others might not fall for this, but if it were Ma Xiaotao, who was known for her fiery temper... Sigh!
"You..." Ma Xiaotao's chest heaved with anger, and she didn't know how to retort. She wasn't good with words to begin with.
Seeing her like this, Huo Yuhao mocked, "They say big breasts, no brains. That saying really suits you."
"Tsk tsk, didn't realize Young Master had such a sharp tongue before. But, I like it, hehe."
Xiang Wuqing rolled his eyes, completely speechless at his own sister.
"You... die." Ma Xiaotao was enraged. Disregarding Huo Yuhao's threat of Instant Transmission, she dove down, wanting nothing more than to tear Huo Yuhao's mouth off.
Whoosh! Huo Yuhao raised his hand and fired three arrows. Although Ma Xiaotao was furious, she hadn't completely lost her mind. She shifted her body to the left, dodging them with ease.
After avoiding the incoming arrows, Ma Xiaotao continued to charge towards Huo Yuhao. However, in the eyes of the others, the three arrows, after missing Ma Xiaotao, turned around on their own and continued to shoot at her.
"Senior Sister, watch out behind you!" At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong couldn't help but shout out in impulse.
But Wang Dong's warning came too late. "Pfft, pfft, pfft!" With the sounds of three sharp objects entering flesh, a thin line of blood appeared on Ma Xiaotao's shoulders and left leg. She lost control due to the intense pain.
Huo Yuhao retreated a meter to the right. Then, Ma Xiaotao fell to the ground where Huo Yuhao had been standing, her body slamming down hard.
"You lost!"
"How… how did you do that? Why can your weapon turn around on its own?" Ma Xiaotao endured the pain in her arms and legs, struggling to stand up.
Ma Xiaotao looked truly miserable at this point. Her clothes were torn in several places from hitting the ground just now, and the blood flowing from her shoulders and right leg had soaked her crimson dress a deep red.
"You didn't think my External Spirit Bone was just an ordinary weapon, did you?" Huo Yuhao said calmly. By now, many people had probably figured it out, so there was no need to hide it.
Ma Xiaotao suddenly realized, murmuring, "Right, spirit bone… spirit bones are controlled by soul power. But you treated it like an ordinary bow and arrow. No, you did it on purpose. From the beginning, you were deliberately misleading me. You shot the arrows out of bounds several times to make me think you couldn't control them!"
Hearing Ma Xiaotao's self-reflection, the referee finally understood, the audience realized it, and the Shrek Academy group also suddenly understood, all glaring at Huo Yuhao.
Ma Xiaotao swayed slightly, and even someone as proud as her felt a deep sense of defeat.
Did I really lose like this? Lost to a junior whose soul power was more than twenty levels lower than mine? And it was so… helpless.
Her strength was inferior, and her intelligence was utterly crushed.
Jiang Nannan had fallen, Xu Sanshi had fallen, Wang Qiuer had fallen, Ling Luochen had fallen. Was she, too, about to fall?
What would happen after she fell? Could Dai Yaheng defeat Huo Yuhao? Or was Shrek Academy about to be overturned by a single person?
Ma Xiaotao closed her eyes, recalling everything that had happened since they arrived in the Star Luo Empire. From the initial high spirits when they left Shrek Academy, to the subsequent acceptance of the Inspection Group's mission, and the heavy casualties suffered while trying to eliminate Evil Soul Masters in the Bright Fight Mountain Range.
Then they participated in the tournament with the remaining members of their team. Because the main team members were injured and unable to fight, they could only let the reserve team juniors take the field. The juniors lived up to expectations, and although they faced many hardships, they successfully entered the top four.
Finally, they waited for the main team members to recover from their injuries. They thought their appearance would secure victory and amaze everyone. But the reality was a complete defeat.
As the team captain, she had watched her teammates die in the hands of Evil Soul Masters. She had watched her juniors struggle on the stage, helpless to do anything. And now, she was in this situation herself.
What was the use of being the captain?
She had lost. She, a direct disciple of the Martial Soul Department's dean of Shrek Academy, had lost. The undefeated Shrek Academy for a thousand years had lost, defeated by a single person. This was a disgrace to the team, and even more so to Shrek Academy. Had Shrek Academy's thousand years of glory been destroyed today? Destroyed in her hands?