Faint blue light shimmered as two yellow and one purple Soul Ring coiled around their bodies from bottom to top. Because their Martial Souls had generated turtle shells that greatly swollen their frames, the Soul Rings wrapped around them appeared slightly distorted as well.
The overwhelming aura that
Through the gap between the Shi brothers,
A dazzling sphere of blue light suddenly blazed from the center of Yu Tianheng's forehead. In the next instant, the blue light spread outward and cascaded from his brow across his entire body. Streaks of blue-purple electricity burst forth like tiny serpents, writhing and circling around him. On the surface, Yu Tianheng's transformation did not seem all that dramatic—apart from a blue lightning insignia that had appeared on his forehead, only one part of his body had visibly changed through Martial Soul Possession.
Yet that single change was more thorough than the transformation of every other Beast Soul Master present.
The change was in his right arm. The sleeve on his right side had already been completely torn to shreds and reduced to ash by the swelling of the limb. His arm had grown more than half a foot longer, becoming enormously thick and covered entirely in blue-purple scales. His hand had become a claw sheathed in the same scales, each knuckle bulging thick and powerful. The blue-purple serpent lightning orbiting his body continuously condensed upon or darted along the arm, and his two yellow and one purple Soul Rings, rather than coiling around his torso as they would for other Soul Masters, spiraled solely around this one mutated limb.
Starting from Rank 30, every time a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master gained a new Soul Ring, one more part of their body would become more dragon-like when they activated their Martial Soul. Yu Tianheng's right arm now was the first such limb transformation. By the time they reached Rank 70, a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master could truly transform into a dragon, unleashing power of terrifying magnitude. They were hailed as the most fearsome offensive Soul Masters at any given level. Put simply: if Yu Tianheng and
Thus, Yu Tianheng's right arm now had completely exceeded the bounds of humanity—it was a dragon arm, sheathed in dragon scales, with his right hand transformed into a dragon claw.
Behind Yu Tianheng was a field of jade green.
A diamond-shaped green scale had appeared at the center of her brow. When the Shrek Seven Devils looked more carefully, they could not help but startle in surprise—because Dugu Yan's legs were gone. No, rather, her legs had fused together into a thick serpentine tail. She propped herself up on that tail, which explained her swaying.
The Black Panther Soul Master Oslo's transformation was modest. He had been dressed entirely in black to begin with, and now even his hair had turned black. His delicate, almost feminine face appeared somewhat pale, while his pupils had become two vertical slits. His entire body radiated a coiled, predatory danger. He, too, carried two yellow and one purple Soul Rings. This optimal Soul Ring configuration seemed as effortless as breathing among the Imperial Battle Team.
Among all the Imperial Battle Team members, the one who had changed the most through Martial Soul Possession was arguably the Wind Chime Bird Soul Master,
Yu Feng's wings had not materialized from thin air; they were his arms transformed. Now he flapped them and soared into midair, gazing down at the Shrek Seven Devils from above. Not content to simply watch them, he also kept glancing up at the beautiful Doudou in the sky above—even letting out a whistle toward her long legs. Clearly, he did not take his opponents, the Shrek Seven Devils, seriously at all.
Because the front-line members were packed so tightly together, the Shrek Seven Devils could not at this angle spot the team's support Soul Master—
The pressure brought by the entire team's optimal two-yellow-one-purple Soul Ring configuration was overwhelming. Both in Martial Soul quality and Soul Ring configuration, the Shrek Seven Devils were at a comprehensive disadvantage this time.
Yet these were the very areas in which they had enjoyed superiority against every other team in the arena.
Though the battle had not yet begun, the faces hidden beneath the Shrek Seven Devils' masks were already grave.
For them, this was certain to be an unprecedentedly brutal fight.
At that moment, the floating Doudou felt her cheeks flush slightly under Yu Feng's easy, relaxed gaze after his Martial Soul Possession. But her professionalism held firm. Two simple words—yet words that served as the spark lighting the fuse—left her cherry-red lips.
"Begin."
With a heaven-shaking roar, Dai Mubai boosted his side's morale through action alone, lunging toward the enemy first. With
The Shi brothers' faces remained as unchanging as the turtle shells on their bodies. Watching Dai Mubai charge forward ferociously, the two showed not a shred of fear. They moved toward each other simultaneously, closing the center to block Dai Mubai's path head-on. Their first Soul Ring flared to life, and a heavy, settled aura radiated from these two Black Tortoise Soul Masters. The yellow glow suffusing their bodies, combined with their thick turtle shells, made it clear they were fully prepared to weather Dai Mubai's charge.
Dai Mubai stomped his left foot hard against the ground and launched himself into the air. The blades on his tiger claws sprang forth, and he reached out with both hands to seize at the Shi brothers' heads. At precisely that moment,
Though it appeared to be a simple change, the simultaneous boost to both Strength and Speed could easily leave an opponent suffering badly in their defense. After their recent period of coordination, the Shrek Seven Devils could work together flawlessly without a single word.
With Dai Mubai's Soul Power and the keen edge of his tiger claws, forget human heads—even solid rock would be ripped apart. Yet the Shi brothers used a single move that was simple yet utterly uncanny to neutralize Dai Mubai's attack entirely.
A resonant clang rang throughout the arena as Dai Mubai's tiger claws scraped across the Shi brothers' turtle shells, sending a spray of sparks flying.
Dai Mubai's body was still suspended in the air, and his arms had been knocked high upward by the impact. Despite the White Tiger Protective Barrier absorbing much of the force, the violent counter-reverberation from the shells still left his tiger claws tingling with numbness. The Black Tortoise—one of the strongest defensive Martial Souls—was not so easily breached.
And at that very moment, a blue figure had already appeared before Dai Mubai. The massive dragon arm gleamed with resplendent blue radiance under the lights of the central arena. Before the body even arrived, blue lightning had already condensed into a claw shape in midair, slamming toward Dai Mubai's wide-open chest. All of it seemed to have been calculated in advance.
The instant Dai Mubai had surged forward, the Imperial Battle Team's captain—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master Yu Tianheng—had launched his own charge as well. But that had been exactly the moment the two Black Tortoise Soul Masters shifted inward, completely concealing Yu Tianheng's movements behind their bodies so that the Shrek Seven Devils on this side could not see him.
And now, at the precise instant Dai Mubai's attack had failed and left his chest exposed, Yu Tianheng leaped into the air. His first Soul Ring flared violently, and the
Lightning speed was incomparably fast. Dai Mubai had barely registered that blue figure before the blue-purple electric claw was already upon his chest.
Even if Dai Mubai could have pulled back his raised arms in time, all he could do was block the blow head-on with his forearms—and that would immediately put him at a disadvantage.
As the most powerful offensive Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master, Yu Tianheng need only follow up with a sustained assault, and combined with his teammates, the scales of victory would tip decisively.
But just then, Dai Mubai suddenly vanished—disappeared into thin air right before Yu Tianheng's eyes. Even Yu Tianheng, known for his composure, could not help but freeze for a moment in midair.
Dai Mubai of course could not teleport. But one must not forget—wrapped around his waist was a strand of Tang San's
(End of Chapter)