Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 429 Team Battle (Part 1)

Wang Dong stepped off the stage, his face still bearing the lingering shame and embarrassment.

Since both sides have expended a lot of soul power, they will have a half-hour rest period, which is crucial for the Tang Sect.

As soon as they returned to the Tang Clan's base, Bei Bei greeted them with concern: "Dong... Dong'er, are you alright?" He looked at the handsome but gloomy-eyed young man in front of him, his tone hesitant.

Wang Dong noticed his companions' confusion and concern, and forced himself to explain, "It's Yin Wansheng's soul skill effect. He seems to possess some kind of Yin-Yang attribute power. Once he breaks through the defense, he can temporarily reverse the target's gender. However, he said that this is only temporary."

Xu Sanshi imagined himself as a woman, shuddered violently, and exclaimed, "What kind of ghostly technique is this? It's too dangerous!"

His words immediately drew everyone's attention to him. Xu Sanshi, terrified by the stares, clutched his chest and took two steps back.

"Why...why are you looking at me? What do you want to do?"

Beibei patted his shoulder with a "kind" expression, her tone heavy: "Sanshi, look, out of the seven of us, you are the most reliable defensive-type Soul Master."

"During team battles, you'll be in charge of defending against Yin Wansheng! Don't let everyone down!"

"Beibei!" Xu Sanshi cried out in despair, "You really are a repressed pervert! I don't want to become a woman!"

Beibei tried hard to suppress her laughter and comforted him, "It's okay, look at Wang Dong, he wasn't hurt at all, and he'll turn back to normal."

Jiang Nannan casually added, "Well, I...wouldn't mind being sisters with you for a few days."

Xu Sanshi was struck dumb, his face instantly turning ashen, feeling betrayed by the whole world.

After their banter, Wang Dong's immense embarrassment and shame caused by the gender reassignment dissipated considerably.

"What's going on? It's so lively..." At this moment, Huo Yuhao slowly woke up, clutching his still slightly throbbing head.

When Wang Dong saw that he had woken up, he instinctively paused, somewhat hesitant to approach him.

Helpless, Beibei had no choice but to step forward and explain what had just happened, as well as Yin Wansheng's strange soul skill.

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao was astonished: "Gender change? There's such a... shameless soul skill in the world!"

He imagined himself as a woman and felt a chill run down his spine; he simply couldn't accept it.

But when he looked at Wang Dong, he surprisingly felt no aversion.

Back when they were still "good brothers," their relationship was extremely close, which even led to misunderstandings from Xiao Xiao. He simply felt heartache and anger for Wang Dong.

He noticed Wang Dong's embarrassment and shame, and took the initiative to step forward, putting his arm around his shoulder. The touch felt much firmer than he remembered, and he gently comforted him:

"Don't worry, once we get on stage, we'll beat the Natural Sect and they'll remove your soul skill!"

Wang Dong's face became even more embarrassed, and he whispered, "It's no use... He said this soul skill can only be released on its own. If we forcibly interfere, it may cause a complete imbalance of Yin and Yang attributes, and a permanent change in gender..."

Huo Yuhao's arm around Dong'er's shoulder stiffened slightly, and he sighed inwardly, "Does that mean I won't be able to be intimate with Dong'er for a long time..."

But he didn't show it on his face, and still firmly comforted her, "It's okay, no matter what, you are still you."

The team quickly discussed tactics. Soon, the break ended, and the team competition officially began.

The players from both sides took to the field and lined up.

On the Tang Sect's side, the team members are: Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou.

The formation was clear: Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei, both Soul Emperors, were at the forefront, with Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao providing support on the flanks, and Huo Yuhao in the center, responsible for overall control and mental communication.

Wang Dong followed closely beside Huo Yuhao, serving as both a powerful combat force and ready to unleash a martial soul fusion technique with Huo Yuhao at any time. He Caitou, on the other hand, provided cigar-themed soul skills and powerful soul tool firepower support from the rear.

On the Natural Gate side, seven people will fight: Bai Yuan, Mu Yi, Yin Wansheng, Liu Niandao, Qing Liuli, Bo Xi, and Ming Baixue.

Their formation was more aggressive and direct: Bai Yuan, Mu Yi, and Bo Xi, three powerful Soul Masters, stood in a row at the front, like three insurmountable mountains, while Yin Wansheng, Liu Niandao, Qing Liuli, and Ming Baixue stood behind them.

"Game start!"

As soon as referee Zheng Zhan gave the order, black spirit rings instantly rose from beneath the feet of the seven members of the Natural Sect.

Especially the three standing at the front, Bai Yuan, Yin Wansheng, and Bo Xi, whose seven deep black soul rings brought visual impact and soul power pressure, made the audience hold their breath instantly, and then burst into thunderous cheers and exclamations.

"Three Soul Saints! All of them have ten-thousand-year Soul Rings!"

"Natural Sect is terrifying! No wonder it's a sect that has Limit Douluo level experts!"

Faced with such a terrifying lineup, Huo Yuhao knew he could no longer hold back. He took a deep breath and, amidst countless astonished gazes, stood up directly from his wheelchair.

"He...he can stand up?!"

"Was it all an act before?"

Huo Yuhao ignored the audience's comments and held Wang Dong's hand tightly beside him.

In an instant, a dazzling light enveloped the two of them, and the power of the Spirit Eye and the Clear Sky Hammer, two top-tier martial souls, began to merge!
Martial Soul Fusion Skill: The Truth in the Void - Mind Storm!
This was a choice Huo Yuhao was forced to make.

The opponent is too powerful. We must first use a wide-range, indiscriminate mental attack like "Mind Storm" to clear the field. If we can defeat the opponent's Ming Baixue, who has a healing ability, we might still have a chance of winning.

However, just as that invisible and intangible mental storm, powerful enough to tear apart the soul, was about to sweep out, Bai Yuan at the very front of the Natural Gate moved.

"Don't think about it!"

He let out a deep, angry roar, and the previously blurry, dark figure behind him suddenly expanded and solidified.

It was an indescribable, terrifying existence, like a nightmare originating from the abyss of the universe, radiating an extreme greed and darkness that devoured everything—it was his martial soul, the Abyss Glutton! Devouring Domain, fully activated!

Centered on Bai Yuan, a dark domain that seemed capable of swallowing even light suddenly spread out.

Strangely, this domain can even devour invisible spiritual energy.

Third Soul Skill, Ultimate Devour! Enhances Bai Yuan's devouring power.

Fourth Soul Skill, Abyss Feast! It temporarily or permanently strengthens itself based on the power it devours. If it devours spiritual power, it will temporarily strengthen its spiritual power by about one-fifth, and the duration will be at least one hour, enough for a battle.

The sixth soul skill, Abyss Maw!, greatly increases the devouring range, expanding the Abyss Domain and the black hole around White Abyss several times over.

At this moment, Bai Yuan seemed to transform into the abyss itself!

That gaping maw was no longer an attack in the physical sense, but rather a manifestation of rules.

The sweeping mental storm, with its immense spiritual energy, was swallowed whole by the gaping maw of the abyss, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, without even causing a ripple!

On the high platform, Xu Tianran looked astonished and couldn't help but ask, "Grand Preceptor, what kind of martial spirit is this? It can even break through a martial spirit fusion skill at the Soul Saint level so easily?"
Zhongli Wu remained silent, his eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.
A voice filled with barely concealed surprise came from the side: "It's a Taotie! And an extremely rare mutated Taotie containing the essence of darkness! Even from hundreds of meters away, its bloodline pressure made me feel a bit of pressure... I'm afraid its bloodline quality is already comparable to a true dragon!"

Xu Tianran was initially startled, then his expression turned extremely grim. A dragon bloodline that could put even a Limit Douluo under pressure?
This child must not be allowed to live!
Otherwise, he will surely become another terrifying figure like the "Master of Nature" in the future!
Zhongli Wu's heart was also filled with murderous intent, but what he was thinking about was how to extract Bai Yuan's bloodline to feed the bone dragon created by his ninth soul skill and cultivate a stronger bone dragon king.

In a certain part of the audience, Xuanzi stared blankly at the phantom of the Taotie in the abyss.

That was the absolute superior martial soul of his martial soul "Gluttonous Divine Ox". Its pure and terrifying devouring power made even the owner of the Gluttonous Divine Ox martial soul feel a tremendous suppressive force.

"I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to unleash my full potential as a Title Douluo in front of Bai Yuan..." He shook his head and sighed. "It's a pity he's not a student of Shrek Academy... However, it's fortunate that he's not from the Sun Moon Empire either, which is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune."

On the arena, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were both horrified.

They had considered that the Martial Soul Fusion Skill might be resisted, weakened, or even withstood, but they never imagined that it would be directly broken by someone in this "devouring" manner.

Worse still, the bloodline suppression brought by Bai Yuan's Abyss Gluttonous Martial Soul began to manifest. On the Tang Sect's side, all beast martial soul holders felt their aura stagnate and their soul power flow become sluggish.

Especially Beibei, whose Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex martial soul was most affected, almost losing his will to fight.

He forcibly activated a trace of the Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline within him, and his Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul briefly evolved into the Light Sacred Dragon, which barely offset some of the suppression, but his movements were still greatly affected.

"Yuhao, I can't face him!" Beibei cried out urgently through telepathy. "Let me switch places with Sanshi, I'd rather go and fight Yin Wansheng!"

Huo Yuhao's heart sank to the bottom.

With their key combat asset, Senior Brother Bei Bei, severely hampered, the situation worsened. He immediately changed tactics, ordering Xu Sanshi, "Second Senior Brother, execute Plan B, target Ming Baixue!"

Upon receiving the order, Xu Sanshi used Huo Yuhao's mental detection to accurately pinpoint Ming Baixue's location behind them.

The fourth soul skill, Xuanming replacement!
With a flash of light, Xu Sanshi and Ming Baixue instantly switched positions.

Xu Sanshi landed, feeling the suffocating pressure from Bai Yuan behind him. Daring not to hold back, and thinking of Bei Bei being suppressed, he roared, unleashing his full power, activating his Xuanwu bloodline, and transforming his martial spirit into the Xuanwu Shield:
The sixth soul skill, the domain of Xuanwu!
Black, heavy, mercury-like mysterious water spread out from him. Within this domain, all his abilities were amplified by 100%, and the powerful water pressure exerted both mental and physical oppression on his enemies.

His second soul skill, Xuanwu Shield Formation! Four enormous tortoise shell phantoms firmly protected him.

The third soul skill, Xuanwu Power! Defense instantly triples, and with the blessing of the Xuanwu Domain, it's equivalent to a six-fold increase in defense!
He instantly built up his defense to its limit, confident that he could withstand even a Soul Saint for a long time.

However, he underestimated the strangeness and power of the Natural Gate.

He had just finished his defensive stance when Liu Niandao, who had already set up the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Blade Formation, made his move. The spirit rings on his body flashed one after another at an unprecedented speed:

First Soul Skill, Thousand Cuts! The sharpness, penetrating power, and attack speed of the throwing knives are greatly enhanced.

Second Soul Skill, Shadow of the Blade! The throwing knife attack is accompanied by a shadow, causing secondary damage.

The third soul skill, "Heavenly Flowers in Full Bloom," increases the number of throwing knives dramatically. One hundred and eight basic throwing knives multiplied by the number of soul rings equals six hundred and forty-eight! Adding the effect of "Shadow of Blades," the number doubles again!
Fifth Soul Skill, Blade Soul Resonance! Attacks inflict sharp mental damage.

Sixth Soul Skill, Blade Soul Liberation! The Martial Soul enters a ethereal state, making physical defense almost ineffective; only mental defense can withstand it!
This was completely unknown information to the Tang Sect. Who would have thought that a seemingly physical attack flying knife martial soul, under Liu Niandao's terrifying "sword intent" cultivation and the resonance with his second martial soul "psychic power," could actually generate such a terrifying pure attack soul skill.

This is practically piling all the effects of soul skills onto the single point of "destructive power"!
When Huo Yuhao "saw" the ethereal flying knives that were flying everywhere and emitting invisible spiritual fluctuations through his mental detection, he knew something was wrong.

However, he and Beibei were being held back by the undead creatures summoned by Ming Baixue, such as the Black Warrior and the Undead Knight. Moreover, the moment Ming Baixue was swapped over, she used some kind of spatial attraction ability to summon her teammates Mu Yi and Bo Xi to her side, forming a solid defensive line.

"Senior, switch back quickly!" Huo Yuhao anxiously sent a mental message.

But, it's too late.

The countless, invisible yet incredibly sharp spiritual flying knives rained down on Xu Sanshi's seemingly indestructible Xuanwu Shield Formation like a torrential downpour.

There was no loud bang of physical collision, only a cutting that directly affected the soul.

"what--!"

Xu Sanshi let out a piercing scream; for the first time, he felt such excruciating pain that reached the very depths of his soul.

His pride and joy, his physical defenses that had been elevated to the extreme, were utterly useless in the face of these mental throwing knives!
In just a second, before his massive Xuanwu Domain and shield array could even play a role, his consciousness was torn apart by countless mental flying knives. His vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness, collapsing heavily to the ground.

Yin Wansheng glanced at the unconscious Xu Sanshi, a wicked smile playing on his lips. He casually unleashed a burst of Yin-Yang power, which landed on Xu Sanshi.

In a flash of light, Xu Sanshi's body began to change, becoming slender and gentle... In the blink of an eye, a "Xu Sanshi" dressed in men's clothing but with a clearly female body appeared on the field.

Yin Wansheng kicked him (or her) out of the ring boundary as if he were throwing away trash.

The Tang Clan has lost one member.

Moreover, it was the most important defensive core, and the situation collapsed instantly!
(End of this chapter)