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"Match, begin!"
Both sides released their respective spirits.
On Team 'Seeking Defeat's' side, a total of two spirit rings shone. Two yellow rings pulsed beneath Ning Rongrong's feet.
On the other side, Team Blazing had the optimal spirit ring configuration across the board, all displaying two yellow and one purple ring.
In the spectator area, the seven official members of the Royal Team watched Team Blazing on the field with grave expressions.
"Barring any accidents, these seven are the ones who will represent Blazing Academy in this year's Spirit Master Tournament. Just judging from their aura, they are stronger than us."
Without counting Su Wen, the Royal Team was undoubtedly inferior to Team Blazing. And this was already the result of their higher cultivation efficiency over the past two years under Su Wen's theoretical guidance.
The gap wasn't actually caused by Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, but by Yu Feng, Ao Siluo, and the others.
Ye Lingling was an auxiliary Spirit Master responsible for healing teammates, so her impact wasn't huge either.
The ones affecting the overall strength were still Yu Feng, Ao Siluo, and the two defense-type brothers, Shi Mo and Shi Mo.
Although a configuration with two defense-type Spirit Masters was theoretically feasible, it still limited the Royal Team's upper limit.
No matter how strong the defense, it's just meant to be beaten.
"Take out that auxiliary Spirit Master first!"
Huo Xing, and the Silver Spirit Fighter team that fought Team 'Seeking Defeat' yesterday... one chose to get close to Su Wen and was caught off guard by his explosive close-combat power, while the other chose to use their numerical advantage to wear Su Wen down from a range, only to be worn down themselves.
Now, Team Blazing chose to eliminate Ning Rongrong first.
Even though it had only been two days, a lot of intelligence on Su Wen and Ning Rongrong had been revealed, especially regarding Ning Rongrong's buffing direction.
"Su Wen has strong attrition capabilities. We can't engage in a ranged battle of attrition with him. We have to fight in close quarters and use our advantage of seven people to take him down.
But his close-combat ability is too strong. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda provides a full thirty percent boost to strength and speed. To besiege Su Wen in close combat, we must eliminate the auxiliary Spirit Master first!"
Team Blazing's strategy was clear.
Facing the charging members of Team Blazing, Su Wen used his fire tornado to split the battlefield.
Among the seven, he picked out the weakest one, Huo Yun, with spirit power level thirty-four, and let him slip through to attack Ning Rongrong. Su Wen focused on blocking the other six from attacking her.
Huo Yun and Huo Yu were a pair of twin brothers in Team Blazing, with somewhat sinister expressions. Their spirits were Fire Cranes, possessing flight capabilities, making them the best candidates to ambush Ning Rongrong.
Su Wen took the opportunity to let Huo Yun, who felt about the same strength-wise, slip through.
As for Huo Yu, he was blown back by the violent wind Su Wen unleashed, flying to the edge of the ring and almost falling off directly.
"Wind element control!"
In terms of attack intensity, it wasn't weaker than his fire element control at all.
Huo Wu felt heavy-hearted, finding Su Wen a tricky opponent.
By now, she roughly understood Su Wen's spirit skill configuration, related to fire, wind, and earth elements respectively.
She couldn't think of a spirit that could achieve such a combination, but it was highly likely the case.
However, Su Wen had developed such skills to an incredible effect.
In this regard, Huo Wu admired Su Wen greatly.
"However, you still have to lose!" In her dictionary, there was only victory!
Although it was seven against two, Huo Wu couldn't care about that anymore.
The audience present and even various parties had fallen into a habitual way of thinking: fighting Su Wen seven-on-two was considered a fair duel...
Her third spirit ring flashed.
A ring of fire began to spread with her as the center.
Behind her, two tall male Spirit Masters' spirit rings flashed, and sparks shone on their bodies.
A stream of fire connected each of them to Huo Wu, injecting waves of fire energy into her body.
At this moment, the ring of fire around Huo Wu had already spread to Su Wen's location.
Su Wen felt a tyrannical force acting on his body.
It had no offensive or destructive power, but under its sheer elasticity, it interrupted his control over spirit power for an instant and pushed him backward.
"Very strong control ability." Su Wen felt this kind of mandatory displacement could be used as a reference for development.
So, Huo Wu, you have to bleed a little today!
On the other side, Ning Rongrong wasn't flustered at all by Huo Yun's ambush.
An airflow suddenly appeared in front of her.
This airflow disrupted Huo Yun's flight path, causing his attack direction to deviate.
The timing was perfect. By the moment Huo Yun adjusted his route, Ning Rongrong had already used the wind under her feet to quickly distance herself. At the same time, she had conjured a giant fireball in front of her.
Huo Yun crashed head-on into this fireball.
BOOM!
Ning Rongrong used the wind element to make herself light, constantly dodging Huo Yun's attacks and condensing fireballs for Huo Yun to crash into.
Under this repetition, Huo Yun was also annoyed.
Ning Rongrong's control over the two elements was the result of Su Wen's enhancement. To a certain extent, it carried Su Wen's insights, so the intensity was up to standard. Facing Huo Yun, a Spirit Elder, she could also kite him using her wind element control ability.
"Huo Yun, you—"
Huo Wushuang also noticed Huo Yun's predicament.
How is this possible?
How can a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Master master control over these two elements?
Ning Rongrong had shown this yesterday, but Huo Wushuang and the others thought it was a rumor.
Could it be that her spirit mutated?
But this mutation is too similar to Su Wen's ability, isn't it?
It was precisely because the two elemental control methods Ning Rongrong displayed now were too similar to Su Wen's that Huo Wushuang and the others had previously thought the audience yesterday hadn't seen the details clearly and mistook Su Wen's methods for Ning Rongrong's.
"Fire Leopard? Replicate it!"
Seeing that although Ning Rongrong was struggling a bit, she could still cope, Su Wen relaxed and prepared to end the battle.
BOOM!
Flames wreathed his fist. He threw a punch, like a flamethrower, with flames mixed with violent wind constantly rotating, blasting towards the Fire Leopard Spirit Master.
Su Wen's eruption was too abrupt; the Fire Leopard Spirit Master could only use spirit skills to resist head-on.
Su Wen stepped forward, quickly closing in for close combat.
To collect blood, he had to adopt close combat as his main fighting style again.
Airflow rotated madly in his hand, forming a cyan sphere. Airflow under his feet constantly expanded and exploded, propelling Su Wen forward.
Arriving in front of the Fire Leopard Spirit Master extremely quickly, the cyan sphere in his hand exploded. Countless air currents like wind blades flew out, heavily injuring the Fire Leopard Spirit Master.
Su Wen also collected the opponent's blood.
Another cyan sphere quickly condensed in his hand. This time, the airflow inside rotated even more violently, and air currents were driven outside the sphere, forming wind blade edges.
He fiercely threw the spiraling, blade-like cyan sphere.
The two Fire Star Spirit Masters' faces changed slightly. This Rasenshuriken was coming towards them.
"You two, run!"
Huo Wu's confidence was bursting at this moment.
With the attribute energy supplement from the two Spirit Masters, plus the Spirit Ring Fusion technique...
Taking advantage of their numerical superiority, she had been accumulating power in the back for a long time.
"Su Wen, this is my strongest burst!"
(End of this chapter)