Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

A dreamlike purple light surged forth from the eerie eyes that appeared between Hu Liena's brows, instantly entering Shui Yue'er's sea of ​​consciousness.

In terms of soul power level, Shui Yue'er is higher than Hu Liena, but in terms of mental strength alone, Shui Yue'er is no match for Hu Liena, who is a mental-type soul master and also has an external soul bone of the eye type.

After all, given that Shui Yue'er was only his sister-in-law, Mu Yang didn't give her the complete "Taiyin Refining Spirit" manual, only the first two levels. The upper limit of the effectiveness of the technique was only at the level of an ordinary level 60 Soul Master.

Once this limit is exceeded, the first two levels of "Taiyin Refining Spirit" will no longer be effective. Shui Yue'er's mental strength can only increase with the increase of her soul power level, which is much weaker than Hu Liena's.

The moment Shui Yue'er was hit by the purple light, her body froze. After a brief mental battle, her consciousness was pulled into an illusion, and the fourth soul skill she was activating was immediately interrupted.

However, while the fourth soul skill released by Shuiyue'er's main body was interrupted, the fourth soul skills released by her five clones were not interrupted.

Because the soul skill is only over ten thousand years old, the clones created by Yingyu's clone can use soul skills other than the fifth soul skill, but they are not under Shuiyue'er's precise control. They only have combat instincts and have no direct connection with the main body.

However, precisely because there is no direct connection between the clones and the original body, they can fight without control, which explains why Shui Yue'er's five clones were unaffected even though she was trapped in an illusion.

On the field, five azure water blade vortexes, each over ten meters in diameter, appeared one after another, sweeping towards the Spirit Hall team like a plow sweeping through a cave.

Seeing the five water blade vortexes sweeping towards them, Zhang Ping, Sun Chuantao, and Li Kai, the three members of the Spirit Hall team who had shielded Hu Liena from the concentrated attack, suddenly felt completely overwhelmed.

Although Shuiyue'er's clone's basic strength is not as good as her original body, it is still a clone of a five-ring Soul King. Not only are its Soul Skills ten thousand years old, but there are also five of them!

Even a weakened version of the ten-thousand-year attack soul skill of a five-ringed Soul King is something that the three four-ringed Soul Masters cannot withstand.

"Bang—"

Just then, a slight noise was heard, and the solid ice that had condensed on Fei Yanyan's body turned into a large handful of ice powder and dissipated, breaking free from the ice control even faster than Hu Liena and Xie Yue.

It's not that Fei Yanyan is stronger than Xie Yue and Hu Liena, but rather that his Flame Lord possesses both fire and earth attributes. When his martial soul is attached to him, the control effect of the Ice Sealing Soul Skill on him is inevitably reduced.

"Second Soul Skill, Granite Rock! Fourth Soul Skill, Lava Surge!"

The moment he broke free from the ice's control, Fei Yanyan was brave and fearless, his soul rings flashing all around him as he unhesitatingly activated his second and fourth soul skills.

In an instant, Fei Yan Yan transformed into a lava monster, with magma churning around him in an attempt to block the incoming five-fold water blade vortex.

At the same time, Zhang Ping and the other two didn't just stand by and watch. They lined up with Fei Yanyan and activated their soul skills to attack the incoming water blade vortex, attempting to weaken its power. Even Xu Yu, the support-type soul master behind them, frequently lit up his soul rings to enhance the four's support soul skills.

The next moment, a vortex of five layers of water blades, two in front and three behind, swept in and swallowed up Fei Yanyan and Zhang Ping, who were blocking their way.

However, the four people who were swallowed by the water blade vortex did not panic, and their faces did not show any fear that they would be cut to pieces by the water blade vortex.

Just as the defensive soul skills activated by the four themselves, or the defensive shields enhanced by their teammate Xu Yu, shattered, and the dense water blades in the vortex were about to hit them, four streams of light shot in from outside the arena and landed precisely on the four.

Instantly, a layer of earthy yellow transparent light shield condensed on the four people.

This yellowish-brown transparent light shield appeared thin, yet it seemed indestructible, showing no signs of breaking even as the dense water blades within the vortex cut through it.

Seeing this, Shui Bing'er, who was about to unleash her Martial Soul Fusion Skill "Ice and Snow Drifting" with Xue Wu, frowned and turned to look at the direction from which the four streaks of light were shooting.

Looking around, Shui Bing'er saw the referee outside the arena with a large, earth-yellow flag in his hand, his spirit manifested, and seven spirit rings of yellow, purple, black and white radiating from his body.

It was obvious that the one who made the move was the referee.

"Blatant cheating?"

A thought flashed through Shui Bing'er's mind.

At this moment, the referee spoke up: "This referee has determined that the soul skill released by contestant Shui Yue'er is too powerful. The lives of Yan, Zhang Ping, Li Kai, and Sun Chuantao of the Spirit Hall team are in danger. The above four are eliminated and should leave the arena immediately."

Well, it wasn't cheating, but Shui Bing'er was still unhappy.

It wasn't that I was unhappy that the referee saved the four people, but rather that the referee's intervention had a huge impact on the game.

Although Shui Bing'er couldn't see clearly which soul skill the referee had given the four of them, the defensive shield given by a seventh-ring support-type soul saint was naturally not something that Shui Yue'er's clone, who was only at the fifth ring level, could break.

If no one had intervened, after the five water blade vortexes engulfed the four members of the Spirit Hall team, Hu Liena and Xie Yue, who were frozen in place behind them, would not have been able to escape either.

But with the referee's intervention, the four people, clad in sturdy defensive shields and standing in a row, acted like a solid flood barrier, stopping the surging flood and resolving the crisis for Hu Liena and Xie Yue behind them.

Despite her displeasure, Shui Bing'er had no choice but to accept it.

After all, the Soul Master Competition is not a life-or-death battle. When a contestant suffers a serious injury that could cause irreparable damage or even endanger their life, the referee has the right to intervene in the competition.

Of course, once the referee intervenes in the match, the contestant who receives assistance during that intervention is also eliminated.

For example, right now, the four people who were given a defensive shield by the referee were directly eliminated.

However, if the four of them hadn't stood side by side in front of the five weakened water blade vortexes and had managed to escape the range of the soul skill in time, the referee would have applied the defensive shield to Hu Liena and Xie Yue.

In comparison, the four members of the Spirit Hall team avoided the main issue and chose to sacrifice themselves in exchange for Hu Liena and Xie Yue remaining on the field.

It can only be said that the Spirit Hall team took advantage of the competition rules, rather than actually cheating.

As for eliminating fewer of their own team members in exchange for Hu Liena and the other two remaining on the field?

This won't work. Even if the four of them stand side by side, they can only barely block the five water blade vortexes with the help of the referee's shield.

If one person is missing, leaving only three, they won't be able to stop the flood, because if a breach appears in the flood control dike, the river will burst its banks. (End of Chapter)