Chapter 348. Fire Resistance, Blue Silver Grass (Part 1)

Salas's gaze grew deeply somber; no one could tell what he was thinking. The one who remained most composed was actually Emperor Xue Ye, a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips as he watched Tang San on the stage, his eyes filled with nothing but approval.

Once again, his attack had been shattered by the Ring of Fire Repulsion, and this time even Tang San himself had been blown away. The battle on both sides ground to a temporary halt.

Having escaped danger, Huo Wushuang and his three companions wasted no time, swiftly regrouping with their remaining three teammates to re-form their triangular battle formation. On the other side, the seven members of Shrek Academy also gathered together.

Jiang Zhu's healing staff was already planted in the ground, its restoration halos radiating outward in concentric rings, dispelling the fire-aspected Soul Power effects clinging to everyone's bodies. Her healing was multifaceted—one of her Soul Skills in particular was dedicated to cleansing all manner of abnormal statuses.

Waves of cool relief surged through the Shrek Academy team members, rapidly restoring their spirits.

The two sides stared at each other, neither in any rush to strike first. On the surface, the battle appeared perfectly even, but in truth, Shrek Academy still held the upper hand.

Nearly all of Blazing Fire Academy's members had already deployed their third Soul Skills, whereas on Shrek Academy's side, only Dai Mubai had used his White Tiger Diamond Transformation. Both Huang Yuan and Tai Long's third Soul Skills had not been fully unleashed.

In terms of Soul Power expenditure, the advantage was clearly on Shrek's side. Moreover, from the start of the battle until now, Tang San—the team's absolute core and its very soul—had not used even a single proper Soul Skill. He had merely employed his Blue Silver Grass in its most basic form.

Huo Wushuang turned his head, exchanging a glance with Huo Wu. In the instant their eyes met, both gave each other an almost imperceptible nod.

Huo Wu slowly raised both hands, and twin clusters of tangerine-orange flame began to rise from her palms, climbing over a meter high.

This seemed to be a signal. The other six members of Blazing Fire Academy moved in unison.

The two auxiliary Soul Masters blazed with firelight, unreservedly releasing their third Soul Skills once more. But this time, the sole target of those Skills was one person—Huo Wu herself, whose hands already burned with radiant flame.

Masses of condensed fireballs poured into Huo Wu's body. The tangerine flames above her palms grew ever brighter, not simply flaring higher but gradually shifting in color. From tangerine to a deep cerulean blue, and then from cerulean to a searing, incandescent white.

The moment the flames turned white, all the previous scorching heat vanished completely, as though what burned in her hands was no longer fire at all.

The four attackers, led by Huo Wushuang, stood in a line before Huo Wu, maintaining a defensive formation. The glow of their third Soul Rings ignited simultaneously—they were clearly prepared to intercept any sudden assault from Tang San's side at a moment's notice.

Purple bloomed—the color of a Soul Ring. But this was no longer the third; it was the fourth. Huo Wu's fourth Soul Ring.

The purple light merged with the white incandescence in her palms, the flames illuminating her until she seemed almost ethereal.

Tang San's expression turned a shade graver. He could tell at a glance that under the full support of the two auxiliary Soul Masters, Huo Wu's fourth Soul Skill was nothing like an ordinary fourth. Its power might well surpass the fifth Soul Skill of a typical fire-aspected Soul Master.

Her Martial Soul was even more formidable than Huo Wushuang's Fire Dragon.

As a fire-control Soul Master, Huo Wu was the most powerful opponent Tang San had faced in this entire tournament.

"Huo—Wu— Blazing—Sun—." Her clear, ringing voice rang out, each syllable drawn out deliberately. With every word, the white incandescence in her hands intensified, and by the time the final syllable left her lips, a massive sphere of white fire had already coalesced above her head, blazing like a genuine sun. In that moment, even the actual sunlight in the sky seemed dimmed by its radiance.

In the VIP box, Ning Fengzhi spoke with undisguised emotion. "The fire's power is completely contained within—no energy leaks outward at all. This girl from Blazing Fire Academy has already achieved a terrifying degree of Martial Soul control. And that isn't just her own Soul Power; it belongs to three people combined. Shrek Academy may be in serious trouble."

Tang San could see clearly that Huo Wu's choice for her fourth Soul Skill was the exact opposite of his own. He had chosen group control. What she had chosen was an overwhelmingly aggressive offensive ability—but one that could only be unleashed at full power through the combined efforts of her teammates.

He could sense it vividly: hidden behind that blazing white radiance, Huo Wu's gaze was locked firmly upon him. The miniature sun blazing with incandescent light had him dead in its sights. She wanted to use the combined strength of three people to defeat him first? That was almost certainly the case.

A faint smile touched Tang San's lips, and the gravity on his face vanished under the gaze of all seven opponents. Because he knew that at this point, Huo Wu's Soul Skill could no longer be stopped—and he no longer needed to hide anything.

Dai Mubai and the others were filled with anxiety, because even now, Tang San had yet to give a single order.