"What, Seventh Elder, do you think a support-type soul master can't beat an assault-type soul master?"
Tang Yuehua's fine brows knit slightly as she asked with some displeasure.
So you're looking down on support, huh?
On the continent, few support-types can beat assault-types, and even fewer people have seen it. Unfortunately for him, Tang Yuehua had seen it, and that support's real combat power was terrifying.
That person was none other than Chu Chengzhou, who shamelessly disguised himself as a support.
There was no doubt that Chu Chengzhou's True Spirit Banner martial soul didn't belong to assault, agility-attack, or control. It also wasn't healing, food, or defense. By the current classifications in the soul master world, calling it a support-type wasn't entirely wrong.
After all, calling spirits to assist the summoner or enabling the summoner's teammates to fight also counts as support.
Hearing this, Tang Lie was stunned. A support can beat an assault?
"Yuehua niece, make your move!"
But Tang Lie didn't deny it at once. He stood with his hammer and motioned for Tang Yuehua to attack directly.
He wanted to see how the hell a support could beat his assault-type. Not to mention, as a support, her soul power rank was most likely lower than his assault-type.
Gazing at Tang Lie, Tang Yuehua's lips curved in a slight smile. She no longer used the Absolute Control technique to restrain her aura. Soul power surged around her, momentum fully revealed. "Seventh Elder, then be careful!"
"Hiss, an eight-ring Soul Douluo?!"
Sensing the aura Tang Yuehua released, the watching Tang Xiao blurted out in shock, then turned to look at Chu Chengzhou beside him in astonishment.
Though Tang Yuehua hadn't stated her rank, nor released her martial soul and soul rings, Tang Xiao was a level-96 Titled Douluo. With Tang Yuehua actively releasing her aura, how could he fail to see his younger sister's rank?
Tang Xiao still remembered that just over half a year ago, when his sister returned to the sect, he personally went to the forward outpost village to carry Tang Yuehua back through the air.
Otherwise, with no ability to fly and not even a formal soul master, Tang Yuehua had no way to cross those chain bridges over the cliffs that connect the sect's encampment to the outside.
Tang Xiao was very sure that at that time, Tang Yuehua was just a weakling. Yet after half a year she had become an eight-ring Soul Douluo? That was absurd.
Needless to say, for his sister to change so drastically, it had to be because of his good brother-in-law Chu Chengzhou. Otherwise, if she truly had this ability, she would have taken off long ago.
"Eight rings. Are immortal-grade herbs really that miraculous?"
Tang Xiao's shocked words struck Tang San's heart like a thunderbolt.
In just a few months, his aunt had rocketed from a level-9 soul scholar to an eight-ring Soul Douluo thanks to a Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb?
No wonder his uncle-in-law became a nine-ring Titled Douluo at such a young age. If his aunt turned out like this after eating one, what about his uncle-in-law who ate two immortal herbs?
Tang San: I want immortal herbs too.
Since immortal-grade herbs existed only in legend, Tang San had never seen one, let alone taken one. So he attributed all the earthshaking changes in Tang Yuehua to that Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb.
"Yuehua niece, it seems this old man underestimated you."
Feeling the impressive soul power aura from Tang Yuehua, Tang Lie put away the contempt in his eyes and spoke with a slightly solemn face.
At this moment, Tang Lie roughly guessed where Tang Yuehua's confidence came from.
In theory, a support-type soul master isn't absolutely unable to beat an assault-type.
Support-types and healing-types lack combat power only because their martial souls and soul skills lack offensive and defensive means. With the right conditions, support and healing soul masters can refine soul bones to obtain soul bone skills that compensate.
Needless to say, since Tang Yuehua dared to challenge elders like them, she had probably obtained soul bones of considerable age and intended to defeat them with soul bone skills.
But still. Hmph. She's young. Do you really think one or two soul bone skills can beat this old man?
In terms of raw might, even if Tang Yuehua could unleash a 90,000-year assault-type soul bone skill, its power would not match my 80,000-year assault-type eighth soul skill after activating the Clear Sky True Body.
"Soul Bone Skill: Crystal Shining Dragon Strike!"
With a light shout, a golden, crystal-like luster flashed over Tang Yuehua's right arm. As soul power surged, a gigantic phantom of a Crystal Shining Dragon Lobster condensed in the air behind her.
In the next instant, the huge golden lobster phantom flashed. Its abdomen suddenly swelled, and its majestic lobster head, which resembled a true dragon's head, aimed at Tang Lie opposite, then spat out a dazzling golden beam.
"Not good! Fifth soul skill, Clear Sky Bodyguard!"
The moment the gigantic golden lobster phantom appeared, Tang Lie sensed danger. Horrified, he hurriedly activated his fifth defensive soul skill.
With this kind of commotion, could it be a hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill? Damn, this is deadly.
Boom!
Without giving Tang Lie much time to panic, his fifth ring lit up. Just as the Clear Sky Hammer, topped with a layer of black light shield, rose before him, the dazzling golden beam arrived in a flash and engulfed his body.
Under the terrifying strike of the golden beam, the black barrier formed by the ten-thousand-year defensive soul skill was instantly wiped out. The incomparably sturdy Clear Sky Hammer martial soul in his hand shattered inch by inch. The beam then broke through the protective soul power on Tang Lie's body. With much of its force offset, the golden beam still landed on his chest.
At once, heavily injured and directly knocked unconscious, Tang Lie was blasted dozens of meters back and fell toward a cliff shrouded in mist behind him, at least a thousand zhang deep.
The power of a hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill was no joke. Tang Yuehua was an 84th-rank Soul Douluo. Tang Lie was an 89th-rank Soul Douluo. The gap existed but wasn't large. And since Tang Lie's defensive soul skill was only ten-thousand-year, he naturally couldn't stop it.
Fortunately, the defensive soul skill Clear Sky Bodyguard was rather special. The black light shield it formed counted as one layer of defense, sturdy and sizable. The Clear Sky Hammer martial soul that protected his head and chest counted as another layer. Plus his own protective soul power added a third layer. With defense after defense reducing the force, Tang Lie wasn't sent to GG in one move.
Of course, having his martial soul forcibly blown apart first caused martial soul backlash. Then he took the remaining might of a hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill with just his flesh. Tang Lie was never going to come out well.
Tang Lie: Junior With No Morals!
"Old Seven!"
Seeing Tang Lie heavily injured in one move and even knocked off the cliff, the four elders watching at the side changed expressions and cried out.
Never mind that he was already badly hurt. Even in perfect condition, falling from this height would turn him into a meat patty.
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