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"Hmph, daring to challenge seven of us with only two people, ultimately, you are too arrogant and conceited!"
The captain, Huo Xing, was annoyed.
The first clash clearly favored the opponents.
And the opponents were only two people, one of whom was an auxiliary.
In this situation, they absolutely could not lose, or Team Raging Fire's reputation would plummet.
Fortunately, although the opponent had extremely powerful explosive power, they weren't without weaknesses.
Having established themselves in Blazing City, they were very familiar with this cultivation style.
Blazing Academy was like this.
The students they recruited were all fire-attribute Spirit Masters, and they all went to extremes, being extremely powerful in one aspect but having corresponding fatal flaws.
Wasn't this 'Ignorant Scholar' just like that?
His explosive power was so intense, could he really have no weaknesses?
With Captain Huo Xing's reminder, the members of Team Raging Fire all knew how to fight this match.
The seven of them avoided the fire tornado and used their own spirit skills.
Su Wen remotely controlled the fire tornado, observing the effects of the seven people's spirit skills.
Two of them caught his attention.
One seemed to be able to turn his body into an element, immune to part of Su Wen's fire element impact, rushing out along the edge of the fire tornado.
The other condensed a flame clone, using the clone to pass through the fire tornado and instantly swap places with his main body.
"Hm? Displacement-type spirit skill?"
This was the first time Su Wen had seen such a skill.
This involved the application of spatial power.
He didn't expect to encounter this type of spirit skill in the first battle in Blazing City.
However, the thin male Spirit Master with this skill didn't seem to use it well.
He wasn't old, and neither were the other members of Team Raging Fire. Their tactical coordination was also very standard, so they were likely students from an academy.
But the thin man hadn't appeared in the Spirit Master Tournament in the original story.
At the Spirit Elder level, he should have been qualified to join the battle team. If he could develop suitable tactics for his flame clone displacement ability, participating in the Spirit Master Tournament shouldn't be a problem.
The seven members of Team Raging Fire displayed their methods, dodging Su Wen's fire tornado while rushing towards him.
From the first clash, Team Raging Fire clearly recognized Su Wen's explosive power.
Now, only getting close offered hope.
Even if a few of them were fragile, seven fragile Spirit Masters fighting one fragile Spirit Master in close combat would definitely result in the seven winning. Besides, only three of the seven were considered fragile, and one of those was an agility-attack type with excellent close-combat assault capabilities.
Su Wen gained a basic impression of the seven's methods.
Then, he manipulated the fire tornado to change direction, continuing to obstruct the few in the back, letting the two opponents with partial elemental transformation and flame clone skills through.
In the stands, seeing the current situation, Qin Ming was also shocked.
He hadn't expected Su Wen's explosive power to be so fierce.
Although he had been conducting special training for Su Wen over the past half month, his duty was only to supervise...
This was a pattern formed before Su Wen went to obtain his third spirit ring.
Su Wen's fire development had reached a point where Qin Ming couldn't teach him further. It had always been about supervision and planning arrangements, with the rest being Su Wen learning from Xiao Zhan.
And now, Su Wen rarely even studied with Xiao Zhan.
Ning Rongrong hid behind Su Wen, looking at the two opponents rushing towards Su Wen, a trace of pity in her eyes.
Poor kids.
"Hmph, kid, this battle is over!"
The thin man declared his victory when he was still ten meters away from Su Wen.
His three spirit rings flashed simultaneously.
A full three flame clones condensed beside him, rushing towards Su Wen along with his main body.
The other flame elemental transformation Spirit Master used his second and third skills simultaneously.
Facing the two Spirit Masters approaching him, who seemingly had close-combat means, Su Wen didn't panic at all.
Flames rose and swirled around his entire body.
Even when controlling incredibly explosive flames for battle earlier, his demeanor had been calm and breezy, echoing his title of 'Scholar'.
However, with flames swirling around him now, his aura instantly became incredibly explosive.
From a gentle and refined scholar, he suddenly turned into a violent thug!
The faces of the other Team Raging Fire members, who were looking expectant in the distance, changed drastically.
"Flame Overlord Body type spirit skill?"
How is that possible!
With three spirit rings, he allocated one slot for a Flame Overlord Body. How did he manage to elevate his flame control and explosiveness to such a degree with the remaining two rings?
The members of Team Raging Fire were puzzled.
But Su Wen didn't give them time to be puzzled.
One punch per kid. His instant explosive power was not inferior to his previous ranged attacks at all.
Flames condensed on his fists, blasting out with his punches, creating violent explosions.
He was very measured, only eliminating the thin man and the Spirit Master with partial elemental transformation after making them bleed.
Taking advantage of the situation, he absorbed their blood, integrating it into his own spirit to replicate their spirits.
Unlike Oscar in the original story, Su Wen's luck wasn't as good; he didn't get the Mirror Image Beast's head spirit bone, nor the mirror image clone ability. However, Su Wen's replication was stronger than Oscar's in that it could be stored.
This was the case with the Snow Silkworm possessing the simulation skill.
Regardless of whether Su Wen used it, he could choose to continuously consume spirit power to maintain the replication after copying it once.
It was just that different spirits had different consumption rates.
The Snow Silkworm's consumption was negligible for Su Wen, so he had been maintaining its replication.
Ning Rongrong's strength and speed buffs showed their effect at this moment.
After Su Wen got close, the thin man and the Spirit Master with partial elemental transformation were quickly eliminated.
"Indeed, this battle should end!" Su Wen lamented.
He opened his right hand to the sky, using his third spirit skill.
Great Stone Formation.
The sea of fire above his head dissipated, and three giant boulders fell towards the location of the other Team Raging Fire members.
This time, they dodged easily.
However, once the boulders landed, the formation was set. A massive oppressive force made their movements incredibly difficult.
"Damn it, it's a control-type spirit skill!"
Huo Xing's brain was fried.
He completely couldn't understand how this 'Ignorant Scholar' opposite him managed to master three elements while having such powerful effects for each, with no shortcomings in ranged or close combat.
At this moment, he only felt the 'Ignorant Scholar's' ignorance was mocking him.
A gale swept through, and the members of Team Raging Fire within the Great Stone Formation were forced to surrender one after another.
The oppressive force of the Great Stone Formation was too strong; it didn't seem like an effect a thousand-year spirit ring skill could exert at all.
The match was decided within a short ten breaths. The audience and the host were a bit slow to react.
(End of this chapter)