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"Now that everyone else has been cleared away, it's just you and me. Let me see for myself what your true ability is!"
Cao Ying's jade-like hand brushed aside the loose red strand falling across her forehead. The smile on her enchanting face grew even more alluring. But as she spoke, her jade hands quietly began forming a hand seal, and then suddenly tightened!
With the seal complete, the vast soul power swirling around her body instantly condensed. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into an invisible phoenix. As the phoenix's wings flapped, the space around it violently twisted.
Faintly, tiny black cracks of space spread outward.
Although this phoenix was formed of soul power and thus intangible, the oppressive pressure radiating from it caused many in the hall to fix their solemn gazes on the empty air before Cao Ying.
"Go!"
As Cao Ying's jade finger tapped forward into the void, a clear phoenix cry rang out through the great hall.
The invisible phoenix flapped its wings and, with a gust of wild wind, shot toward Lin Feng. Seeing this, a torrent of boundless soul power erupted from Lin Feng's body, surging like a vast tidal wave and enveloping the entire assessment field.
That overwhelming soul power spread like lightning, filling the entire hall with terrifying pressure. Wherever it swept across, the space shuddered violently, thin black cracks creeping forth silently.
Though soul power was formless and without color, the dreadful pressure flooding the sky was something everyone could tangibly feel. But the clash between the two made things miserable for those with weaker soul strength in the hall.
First they had been battered by Cao Ying's attack, and then immediately afterward by Lin Feng's counter. Watching the fight was enough to leave their minds reeling — it was torture in itself.
At this moment, Lin Feng suddenly clenched his hand. The immense sea of soul power instantly gathered at one point.
"Go!"
With a soft shout, that ocean of soul power condensed at lightning speed into a massive soul hammer, almost solid in form. The hammer then swung down viciously at the head of Cao Ying's invisible phoenix.
"Boom!"
The hammer struck the phoenix's head, and the collision erupted into a raging storm of soul energy.
Even the sturdy stone floor of the great hall was torn apart in several places, leaving cracks as thick as an arm. The soul storm came fast and went fast. After raging violently for several seconds, it quickly dispersed.
Only then did everyone see clearly — both Lin Feng and Cao Ying had each been forced back about three steps.
"You are very strong. In those earlier assessments, you were definitely holding back."
Cao Ying slowly extended her long, graceful arms, her supple, serpent-like figure stirring the imagination of many men present.
However, Lin Feng dared not be careless. His eyes were fixed warily on her across the field. Then he smiled slightly and replied, "Wasn't Miss Cao Ying doing the same in the earlier tests?"
"True… since that's the case, then let's decide the winner with one move."
Cao Ying laughed sweetly, her flawless jade hands spreading open in front of her like a work of art that one couldn't help but want to seize and cherish.
"Hehe, that's exactly what I had in mind."
Lin Feng readily agreed to her suggestion.
"Then allow me to make a humble display!"
As she spoke, the smile on Cao Ying's face grew even more bewitching. Her slender, snow-white hand stretched forward, and in an instant, a strange hand seal formed.
As that hand seal solidified, everyone in the hall could suddenly feel it. A vast and majestic soul power was rapidly condensing in Cao Ying's palm. Faintly, within the twisted space, they could see a handprint taking shape, flickering between existence and illusion.
"So this is that so-called 'Soul Handprint'?"
Lin Feng's gaze locked on the handprint before Cao Ying, muttering silently to himself. He naturally did not forget something that had appeared several times in the original text.
At the same time, Lin Feng's vast, ocean-like soul power rapidly circulated along a specific route. His soul power suddenly condensed at extreme speed, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into an invisible thorn before him.
"Soul Technique?!"
Seeing Lin Feng's transformation, everyone in the great hall had a drastic change in expression, their faces filled with shock.
"How does he have that thing?"
Watching Lin Feng's movements, Dan Xuan, who had already returned to the Dan Clan's seats, exclaimed in surprise.
According to the information the Dan Clan had obtained, this Lin Feng was a cultivator who had clawed his way up from the very bottom. By logic, it should have been impossible for him to possess such an extremely rare Soul Technique!
"Perhaps he had some sort of fortuitous encounter."
Dan Chen's beautiful eyes locked onto the distant Lin Feng, who was focusing intently on executing his Soul Technique, as she speculated.
At this moment, she too felt a trace of curiosity in her heart toward Lin Feng in the arena. As for inside the assessment field, Cao Ying maintained that strange hand seal. Her crimson eyes stared in astonishment at Lin Feng's unexpected actions.
Then, she suddenly smiled, her voice light as she said, "I was planning to give you a reminder, but I didn't expect you to know Soul Techniques as well. In that case, let's decide the winner here and now!"
As her words fell, her hand seals shifted like lightning, producing a dazzling blur of afterimages. A cold shout immediately rang out from her rosy lips.
"Soul Mysterious Seal Palm!"
As her voice resounded, the immense soul power gathered on her hand instantly solidified.
A soul imprint identical to her palm shot out like lightning. That terrifying soul power forcibly tore open a pitch-black crack in the space ahead!
Though a soul imprint was invisible, the oppressive force it carried made people feel suffocated, even from far away.
"Soul Severing Thorn!"
Lin Feng bellowed, and the invisible thorn condensed before him shot silently and rapidly toward Cao Ying's soul imprint.
"Boom!"
In an instant, the invisible soul thorn and the soul imprint collided with a thunderous impact. Invisible soul ripples surged violently from the point of collision.
The floor of the assessment field rolled with waves of energy. The hard black stone slabs exploded into countless fragments with a loud bang.
The two Soul Techniques eroded each other, and Lin Feng's body was shaken back over ten meters by that terrifying, formless shockwave. He only managed to stop slowly when he slid all the way to the edge of the assessment ground.
As for Cao Ying on the opposite side, she didn't fare much better. Her alluring figure was now less than a fist's distance away from the red boundary line.
"That was close, if I slid back just a little more, I'd have been out of bounds."
Looking at the red line behind her, Cao Ying thought with relief.
"Swish~"
Just as she was feeling relieved, a hidden invisible hand, concealed beneath the soul thorn, suddenly shot toward her at great speed!
"Not good, this guy hid another move inside his attack!"
With her powerful soul power, Cao Ying instantly sensed something was wrong. She hurriedly scrambled to mobilize her soul power, trying to block the invisible hand. But with her lack of combat experience, she was ultimately a step too late.
Before her soul defense could form, that invisible hand had already appeared before her. Then, under her dumbstruck gaze, the soul hand lightly flicked her between the brows.
"Ouch~"
Caught off guard, Cao Ying instinctively shut her beautiful eyes, her jade hand covering the spot that was flicked, as a pained cry slipped from her lips.
Her delicate body, already teetering on the edge of the red line, immediately slid back another half a meter, completely stepping outside the boundary.
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