Chapter 81: Art is Patrick Star!
This time, Shrek didn't have Huo Yuhao providing them with a full map view to cheat from below. All they could rely on was Shrek's unique iron will.
Damn it, Iron Will—are you scared or not?
As for the Sun Moon side, from the moment Huo Yuhao's Mental Detection Sharing opened, they began setting up Soul Cannons according to their tactical deployment.
Because of his previous record of one against seven, none of the Shrek members would underestimate Huo Yuhao's combat power. However, what surprised them was that Huo Yuhao was just standing at the back of the team, hands in his pockets, motionless, as if he didn't want to participate in the battle at all.
This left Ma Xiaotao and others from Shrek baffled.
Huo Yuhao had done this before in previous battles. Under Xuan Zi's leadership, they had studied it for a long time, but couldn't figure out why Huo Yuhao would enter the arena and do nothing. Was he a support system Soul Master?
It's still the same now. They are Shrek, yet he looks down on them so much.
What followed was anger. Without Wang Yan, they couldn't analyze Huo Yuhao's tactical positioning. They only felt this was contempt for Shrek.
On Huo Yuhao's side, besides activating Mental Detection Sharing to provide Xiao Hongchen and others with a full map view, he had also summoned a Spiritual Puppet early on and concealed it with a Spiritual Interference Domain.
The one Shrek saw standing still at the back was actually just a clone of him, while his true body, under the ability of simulation, was constantly ready to strike at any isolated Shrek member.
The field was already in intense combat, with soul skills and artillery fire filling the entire arena. Ma Xiaotao unleashed her full power from the start.
Her Sixth Soul Skill, Phoenix Meteor Shower, directly created a barrage of fiery meteors for a large-scale attack, covering the entire arena.
Ma Rulong, as a melee burst-type Soul Engineer, was best at dealing with this kind of area-of-effect attack. His Level 7 Soul Guidance Device heavy cannon and the Flame Meteor Shower bombarded each other, causing astonishing destructive power, and the protective shield of the entire arena trembled.
Ma Xiaotao charged at the forefront, followed by Bei Bei and Dai Huabin, preparing for a strong assault. Ling Luochen's Fourth Soul Skill, Ice Prison, condensed ice-blue light to form a cage, constantly preventing Chen Fei from advancing, and the freezing effect caused Chen Fei a great deal of trouble for a time.
Su Tong and Zhu Lu remained still, protecting the rear to prevent the Sun Moon side from advancing and disrupting the overall rhythm. As mentioned before, although Zhu Lu was an agility-attack system Soul Master, she could not penetrate the Sun Moon Team's rear!
He Caitou was now numb because he found his Soul Cannon had malfunctioned!
Are you kidding? Under Huo Yuhao's Metal Control, if your Soul Guidance Device could still be used, that would be a joke.
It could be said that from the very beginning, Xuan Zi's decision to send He Caitou, a Soul Engineer, onto the field was a completely wrong choice.
But it doesn't matter; he still has his shockingly large cigar. Use it, right? Isn't there no support system Soul Master? This isn't ready-made!
Now there was no Xu Sanshi to perform the Xuanming Replacement, but it didn't matter; Xiao Hongchen stated that not entering the enemy's center suited him perfectly.
To delay the strong assault of Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, and others, his Martial Soul was released, and 128 Soul Cannons instantly materialized, unleashing artillery bombardment. Shrek's rhythm... where did they get any rhythm?
"It's finally time for this genius to wreak havoc. Shrek guys, let me show you what a concentrated artillery barrage is!"
In an instant, Bei Bei and the others had to brace themselves. Damn—over a hundred Level 5 Soul Cannons! Are you Sun Moon guys not playing fair?
At this moment, the only thing they could do was dodge as much as possible. They didn't believe that Sun Moon Team, these annoying guys, could last long with so many Soul Cannons firing simultaneously.
But those cannonballs seemed to have eyes and auto-aim. Not only Xiao Hongchen, but even Ma Rulong's penetrating laser Soul Guidance Device and Xiao Xiafeng's long-range Soul Guidance Turret hit accurately every time. They simply couldn't dodge.
"Art is Patrick Star!"
Xiao Hongchen felt this was the first time he was so comfortable. Don't misunderstand—this sentence was taught to him by Huo Yuhao before the match. According to our Old Huo, saying something like this during bombardment on the field is more imposing!
As for Xiao Hongchen's crazy, eye-watering performance art, it was purely personal behavior. Please do not involve the innocent.
Shrek: Report, someone is using hacks!
Sun Moon: Lol, it was never turned off from the beginning!
If it weren't for Ling Luochen and Su Tong occasionally helping out, small Soul Ancestors and Soul Elders like Bei Bei and Dai Huabin would not have been able to last a minute under such dense artillery fire.
Although they were unwilling to admit it, Shrek's losing momentum was indeed apparent.
Off the field, Xuan Zi was eating a chicken leg, seemingly expressionless, but only he knew the tension in his heart.
He absolutely could not accept—and could not bear—Shrek stopping here. The championship—he wanted it so badly he was going crazy.
'Sea God, please descend a miracle and bestow powerful strength upon these children of Shrek. We truly cannot lose!'
If they won the championship, everything before could be written off, and even Shrek's reputation could be completely reversed. But if they lost this match, the losses Shrek would suffer would be unimaginable.
Look.
This old man wasn't this nervous even when four of the Shrek Seven Devils died, and two were severely injured. Now, for a championship—or to be precise, just a semi-final—he's already starting to lose his mind.
And Sea God above—bah!
It's clear how much Shrek's ten-thousand-year glory title was coveted by the people of Shrek.
In the stands, many spectators were captivated by the intense confrontation. Compared to Shrek's unremarkable battles before, this was the match everyone wanted to see.
However, many also noticed He Caitou at the very back of the Shrek team.
"What is that big stupid d doing? He's been aiming with his Soul Guidance Device for ages!"
"No, big brother, it's the semi-finals. What are you fiddling with? Could it be that his Soul Guidance Device malfunctioned?"
"Hahaha, he can't aim, right? This is Shrek's Soul Engineer—an eyesore!"
...
'Who understands, my friends?' He Caitou felt only despair at this moment. His Soul Guidance Device couldn't be used, so wasn't he useless?
And it was indeed as he thought. By using the Spiritual Interference Domain to simulate and conceal himself, and with his true body employing Mental Detection Sharing to get a full map hack, Huo Yuhao had already reached the rear of the Shrek team.
Sneaky? Are you kidding? Is it as sneaky as Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons? You guys should be happy I'm not using the Ice Explosion Technique on you!
And the first thing Huo Yuhao had to do was, of course, to pick off Shrek's soft targets—to prevent irrelevant "flies" from interfering with the subsequent match.
Who's the soft target? Whoever's soft is the soft target!
"What!"
At the rear, there were only three people: Su Tong, Zhu Lu, and He Caitou. And Huo Yuhao's target was obvious. The moment Huo Yuhao first appeared in front of He Caitou, the former royal orphan of the Sun Moon Empire had an unspeakable look of shock and fear on his face.
"Don't worry, I'll be gentle."
Huo Yuhao moved quickly, a smile still on his face, but his words sounded so cold in He Caitou's ears.
'Is this a question of being gentle or rough, you bastard!'
'How did you suddenly appear in front of me?'
These were his thoughts, but Huo Yuhao had no idea what this guy was thinking.
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