The daily routine of randomly assigned team battles had become a regular task for Ming Tian and the others. Honing their combat skills and willpower through three-on-three matches, and becoming familiar with each other's abilities, had become something they enjoyed. All of this was preparation for the upcoming seven-on-seven team battles.
Inside the Sky Spirit Battle Arena, the newly formed trio was engaged in a three-on-three duel.
This time, the team consisted of Ming Tian, Gan Ling, and Yuan Yun.
Their opponents were the Ironclad Team, renowned for their defense: two defensive Soul Masters and one strong-attack Soul Master.
The opponents' Martial Souls were the incredibly defensive Pangolin and Iron Cocoon, both One-Ring Soul Masters. The strong-attack Soul Master's Martial Soul was an unprecedented type of soul beast, the Icefire Demontiger, possessing both ice and fire attributes; he was a Two-Ring Soul Grand Master.
Initially, Ming Tian's team fell behind in the clash. The defenses of the Iron Cocoon and Pangolin Soul Masters were extremely difficult to break. With these two Soul Masters protecting the Icefire Demontiger Soul Master, even Ming Tian's team struggled to withstand the attacks.
Seeing their side at a disadvantage, Yuan Yun, who hadn't used his Second Soul Skill, made his move. The Azure Crane Martial Soul emitted a loud cry, and his second Soul Ring shone brightly. Yuan Yun's hands transformed into a pair of wings covered in azure feathers, rushing towards the two defensive Soul Masters. When he was close to the two Soul Masters, he flapped his azure wings, creating a powerful gust of wind in front of them, making it difficult for them to maintain their footing and almost knocking them over.
This was Yuan Yun's Second Soul Skill, Azure Crane Wind!
Azure Crane Wind: Hands turn into Azure Crane wings, generating a vast, azure gale!
Yuan Yun used the Azure Crane wings to fly in the air, avoiding attacks from the opponents. Gan Ling seized this opportunity and came to Ming Tian, saying,
"I'll do my best to break through the defenses of those two defensive Soul Masters. When I do, I'll definitely be exposed to the Icefire Demontiger's attacks. While the Icefire Demontiger attacks me, you must take down the two defensive Soul Masters in one go, understand?"
Gan Ling spoke resolutely. Ming Tian was stunned, understanding that Gan Ling was going to use himself as bait to exchange one for two!
"No! You'll be severely injured that way!"
"We can't win this battle otherwise, Ming Tian, do you want us to lose this battle?"
Gan Ling's question made it difficult for Ming Tian to answer. Gan Ling smiled at Ming Tian and then charged forward without hesitation.
"Remember! The opportunity is only once!"
"Arrow Porcupine, Flying Spines!!!"
Under the cover of Yuan Yun's strong wind, Gan Ling charged in front of the two defensive Soul Masters, enhancing his Arrow Porcupine Martial Soul to its maximum output! Countless flying spines attacked the Iron Cocoon Soul Master and the Pangolin Soul Master.
"First Soul Skill, Cocoon Back Armor!"
"First Soul Skill, Pangolin Scale Armor!"
The two defensive Soul Masters hurriedly released their strongest defensive Soul Skills, but how could they allow Gan Ling's efforts to be in vain? Yuan Yun in the air also successively released his First and Second Soul Skills.
"First Soul Skill, Azure Wind Blade!!"
"Second Soul Skill, Azure Crane Wind!!"
The wind force increased its output, and azure wind blades were concealed within the wind. The two defensive Soul Masters were defending to their limit.
"Shen Tian, Shen Lin, get out of the way, I'll deal with that Gan Ling!"
Behind the two defensive Soul Masters, the Icefire Demontiger Soul Master also became enraged, his two Soul Rings flashing in succession, unsure which Soul Skill he was using.
To alleviate the pressure on his two defensive Soul Masters, he had to eliminate Gan Ling as quickly as possible.
An ice-blue energy ball shot into the sky to attack Yuan Yun, and a deep-red energy ball attacked Gan Ling.
The Icefire Demontiger Soul Master, Chu Su, rushed out from behind the two defensive Soul Masters, preparing to eliminate Gan Ling and reduce the pressure on the two defensive Soul Masters.
"Now!"
Ming Tian seized this opportunity, ignoring Gan Ling, who was being attacked by Chu Su, and activated the Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Evil God's Punishment!
Two immobilizing purple lights shot from the transformed scorpion claws, hitting Shen Tian and Shen Lin. Ming Tian ruthlessly urged the scorpion tail to emerge from the ground, binding the two, and, following the same method, the scorpion tail hooks struck their shoulders, and the scorpion venom seeped in.
At the same time, as Gan Ling's First Soul Skill ended, Chu Su arrived, and the deep-red energy ball, one after another, stacked up and grew larger, attacking Gan Ling.
"Gan Ling, eliminated!"
"Shen Tian, eliminated!"
"Shen Lin, eliminated!"
In this situation, the referee promptly ruled the opposing team members off the stage. A referee immediately blocked the attack for Gan Ling, but the residual energy of the Icefire Demontiger's attack still burned Gan Ling. Gan Ling was injured and spat out blood, but at that moment, during the full-power attack of Arrow Porcupine's Flying Spines, Gan Ling felt that the level restriction that had confined him for many years was finally broken. He finally touched the threshold of level twenty. He quickly sat down to comprehend, disregarding his injuries.
"Eh? To break through in this situation, let's not disturb him."
The referee said with some satisfaction.
On the other side, the referee had already ruled Shen Tian and Shen Lin as losing, and Ming Tian helped them detoxify. They also left.
Currently, only Ming Tian, Yuan Yun, and Chu Su remained on the stage. Two against one, Ming Tian's side had the upper hand.
"Is there any need to continue the fight? One against two, you have no chance of winning."
Yuan Yun had already avoided Chu Su's previous attack, flying down from the sky and speaking to Chu Su.
"Exchanging one for two, you do have guts, but I haven't lost either."
"Taste my final attack. If you can withstand it, you win!"
Chu Su said, and the Icefire Demontiger's two Soul Rings circled his hands, left and right. He condensed an ice ball and a fire ball in each hand.
"Icefire Spiral Kill!"
The two ice and fire balls on his left and right hands merged, quickly forming an extremely unstable icefire energy ball. The ice and fire elements collided and merged, producing unstable energy that gradually repelled and expanded, forming a sharp spiral that rapidly attacked Ming Tian and Yuan Yun.
During the attack, the two energy spirals continued to expand.
"Not good! Retreat!"
"Haha, too late!!!"
The Icefire Spiral was before them in the blink of an eye. Ming Tian knew he couldn't retreat at this moment. He transformed his hands into scorpion claws and slashed out. The scorpion claw slashes were quickly devoured by the Icefire Spiral.
"Damn it!! Try this!"
Ming Tian said, holding the scorpion claw slashes in his transformed scorpion claw hands, not directly slashing them out, maintaining the posture of almost slashing, using the two scorpion claw slashes as weapons, one in each hand, and raised them to meet the Icefire Spiral attack.
"Haaaa!"
"What?!"
Seeing Ming Tian block the Icefire Spiral, Chu Su was also astonished. However, Ming Tian had reached his limit. The Icefire Spiral exploded, the scorpion claw slashes dissolved, and Ming Tian's hands were severely injured, pushed back by the mutually canceling energy impact.
Yuan Yun hurriedly caught Ming Tian from behind.
"Ming Tian, are you alright?"
Yuan Yun asked with concern.
Looking at Ming Tian's burned hands was also shocking. Yuan Yun felt some heartache.
"Hehe, Brother Yuan, I'm fine."
Ming Tian smiled and said.
"Not bad, really not bad. Ming Tian, you're the first to take my Icefire Spiral barehanded. I concede defeat. I hope we have a chance to fight again."
Chu Su applauded and then conceded, jumping off the stage and leaving with the Shen Tian brothers.
"Haha, level twenty!! I, Gan Ling, finally broke through to level twenty! I've finally waited for this day!"
On the other side, Gan Ling, who was meditating, also jumped up happily.
Ming Tian and Yuan Yun, seeing this, also revealed expressions of joy.
"Congratulations! Brother Gan!"
Gan Ling's breakthrough to level twenty would undoubtedly be of great help for the upcoming seven-on-seven. Their victory had gained another layer of assurance.
"We won a match, it's great! Xiaotian, you've worked hard! Let's go home, I'll continue to treat you to our family's barbecue!"
Gan Ling said happily. Their meals these past few days had basically been solved at the Gan family's barbecue shop, and they felt a little embarrassed.
"Hey, don't always treat us. We'll eat you out of house and home. This time, I'll treat. You guys contributed the most to this duel."
Yuan Yun said generously.
"It's rare to have a chance to be treated by the young master of the city. Let's go."
With that, the three returned to the Gan family's barbecue shop.
As they walked to the door, Ming Tian noticed an elderly man leading a small child entering the shop as well. They didn't seem to be locals.
"Uh, shopkeeper, we've come from afar. Can we rest our feet and have a drink of water in your shop?"
This scene was just like when Ming Tian first came to Sky Spirit City.
"Hello, old man, of course you can."
Gan Ling was in a great mood and brought over some water and wine, and also a plate of barbecue.
"Thank you, thank you!"
The old man nodded gratefully, and the child next to him tugged at the old man's hand and said:
"Grandpa Jack, when are we going to find Uncle He Chen?"
"Don't worry, Little Jack, your Uncle He Chen is busy and is a Soul Saint. It's hard to meet him. We need to be patient."
The old man patted the child's head and said.
Hearing these two people's names, the three of Ming Tian smiled. Gan Ling came up and asked:
"Why are you called Old Jack and Little Jack? Are you grandfather and grandson?"
"Yes, this is my grandfather! When I get old, I'll also become Old Jack, becoming the village chief of Holy Soul Village. The village chief of Holy Soul Village is all called Jack."
"Oh, I see."
"Holy Soul Village? Is that the village that was named Holy Soul Village because it produced a Soul Saint?"
"That's right, how did you know?"
Little Jack asked.
"Because I know the Uncle He Chen you mentioned. Are you here to find Uncle He Chen? Then come with me. I'll take you to find him."
"Alright! Thank you, brother, here, eat a carrot, my Martial Soul is a carrot!"
Little Jack said, holding out a carrot.
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