Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 181 Beating a Dog When It's Drowning

The rain was still falling softly from the sky.

After the previous match with Xiao Hongchen, the large arena looked quite dilapidated. Many places were riddled with large craters and damaged by the bombardment.

Huang Jinxu, the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, glanced at both sides. The final was finally about to end. Even with his cultivation level, he felt a bit tired despite constantly raising his focus to the limit.

"The match begins!"

The final match has finally begun.

Ji Lin dashed out in a flash, and at the same time, the Heavenly Fire Judgment appeared in his hand. He held it and drew a trajectory in the air, and crimson sword energy roared out.

On the other side, Ma Rulong reacted quickly as well. Ma Rulong knew very well that being approached by Ji Lin was very disadvantageous to him.

A thick, bluish-purple cannon barrel instantly appeared on his shoulder, and the next instant it erupted with intense bluish-purple light.

The blue-purple lightning bolts spewed from Ma Rulong's cannon were not aimed directly at Ji Lin, but rather struck the ground in the center of the arena.

Instantly, a blue-purple light wall appeared, blocking not only Ji Lin's crimson sword energy but also his path of advancement.

Ji Lin did not blindly charge at the blue-purple light wall.

He had no idea what strange effects this soul tool had. He didn't want to be caught off guard and end up losing his way. Ma Rulong was a Soul Emperor after all, and that soul tool was at least a level six soul tool.

Ji Lin's guess was correct.

The most formidable aspect of Ma Rulong's level-six soul tool is that once touched, it's like a fly getting stuck to a spider web—immediately trapped. All the lightning energy will instantly reverse, enveloping the opponent and forcing them to bear the full force of the attack.

Faced with the blue-purple light wall blocking his way, Ji Lin's first three spirit rings shone, and he fired a crimson light cannon at the light wall.

When the light cannon struck the lightning wall, the lightning instantly contracted, collided with the light cannon, and exploded.

The blue-purple light wall was instantly destroyed.

But Ma Rulong's soul-guided turret was also completed, and beams of light burst forth in wave-like patterns. There were light spheres, beams of light, and some metal spheres that rose directly into the air, tracing parabolic arcs. The powerful firepower of the soul-guided turret erupted instantly.

Ji Lin plunged the Heavenly Fire Judgment into the ground, causing the earth to tremble. The arena instantly cracked, with red light emanating from the cracks. Soon, flames shot out from the cracks and soared into the sky, enveloping Ji Lin. The temperature in the air rose rapidly. Ji Lin activated the Heavenly Fire Domain, amplifying his flames to a full extent. Within the domain's coverage, the temperature was so high that even the air was distorted.

Ma Rulong's soul-guided cannonballs were melted by the extreme heat, and all the light spheres shot at Ji Lin could not break through the blockade of the fire pillar. Within the domain of the extreme fire, the threat level of all long-range soul-guided devices to Ji Lin was reduced to the extreme.

The area where Ma Rulong was located was also covered by Ji Lin's domain. He felt the suppression from the Heavenly Fire Domain, and his soul-guided armor and the barrel of the soul-guided cannon showed signs of melting.

Ma Rulong's face was extremely grim. "It's actually a domain! He's never used it in previous matches!"

Ma Rulong's heart sank to the bottom; he had no idea how many more tricks Ji Lin had up his sleeve.

Thinking of this, Ma Rulong no longer hesitated. He clasped his hands together in front of him, and a burst of intense golden light appeared. One by one, the spirit rings on his body flashed, and his aura rapidly increased. At the same time, the spirit cannons on his body disappeared, and in their place was a golden-red giant sword.

Ma Rulong abandoned the long-range soul tool and switched to a close-combat soul tool.

This giant sword was making its first appearance in the competition. It was Ma Rulong's trump card, which he had been hiding. He originally planned to use it in the team battle, but he didn't expect Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er's Martial Soul Fusion Skill to be so powerful. Before he could even use it, they lost the team battle. Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were in the same situation. The brother and sister had another Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Hongchen Juanlian couldn't use it. They lost too quickly in the team battle and couldn't use it. The individual elimination round was a singles battle, so they didn't have the chance to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The poor brother and sister lost the competition before they could even play their trump card.

Ma Rulong, wielding his giant sword, met Ji Lin head-on.

"Clang!"

The sound of the giant sword clashing with the greatsword rang out in the air. Ma Rulong barely managed to withstand Ji Lin's slash with the help of his soul tool and his Soul Emperor cultivation. However, in terms of swordsmanship, he was far inferior to Ji Lin and Meng Hongchen. Ji Lin's continuous slashes almost knocked the giant sword out of his hand.

Ji Lin was also a little puzzled as to why Ma Rulong was only using the greatsword as a weapon and not activating its effects.

Ma Rulong was also in a difficult position. This giant sword was called the Sword of Judgment, an eighth-level soul tool that was a combination of darkness and light. It could instantly merge the power of darkness into the enemy's soul power, turning the enemy into an uncontrollable dark attribute, while simultaneously judging the opponent with its own powerful light attribute. When encountering a weak enemy, it could instantly disintegrate the opponent's soul power, or even completely destroy them under the light aura of the Sword of Judgment.

Ma Rulong was only a level six Soul Master, and he had to pay a huge price to use this level eight Judgment Sword.

He also has a level seven soul tool, which is used in conjunction with this level eight soul tool. It is called the Chapter of Sacrifice, which uses Ma Rulong's own life force and potential as a sacrifice to instantly enhance his physical strength and soul power to support the needs of the Sword of Judgment.

After using it, his cultivation would not progress for a year, and his vital energy would be severely damaged.

He was willing to pay the price if it could bring victory to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, but now the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had no chance of victory, so using this level-eight soul tool would be a loss.

After his long-range soul tool proved ineffective against Ji Lin, he had no choice but to take out this level-eight soul tool to fight Ji Lin in close combat. At least the level-eight soul tool wouldn't be easily melted by Ji Lin's ultimate fire.

Facing Ma Rulong, who was weak in close combat, Ji Lin unleashed a powerful strike, the force of which made it almost impossible for Ma Rulong to control the Sword of Judgment.

Ji Lin gave Ma Rulong no time to react, and immediately unleashed a second, third, and fourth sword strike, each one stronger than the last.

Ji Lin unleashed his final sword strike, and Ma Rulong's Judgment Sword flew into the air in response.

Ji Lin's Heavenly Fire Judgment sword, wreathed in flames and crisscrossed with sword energy, slashed fiercely at Ma Rulong.

The invincible shield activated in time, and within three seconds, Ma Rulong took several sword strikes from Ji Lin and retreated in a sorry state. A soul master who had lost his soul tool was completely at a disadvantage when facing a soul master. If a soul master at the Soul Emperor level were facing Ji Lin, he wouldn't be in such a sorry state. At least Ji Lin wouldn't have been able to defeat Dai Yueheng so easily.

Ji Lin beat the dog when it was down, and then caught up with Ma Rulong. He unleashed a series of sword energies, forcing Ma Rulong to use all of his defensive soul tools.

(End of this chapter)