Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, they all have ulterior motives.

Chapter 153 Please bear with me a little longer.

"Ready—"

As Elder Xuan's voice rang out, the crowd at the edge of the arena subconsciously focused their attention, staring intently at the two people confronting each other in the center of the arena.

At first, the inner court disciples were somewhat dismissive, thinking it was a battle with no suspense whatsoever. However, when they saw the three purple soul rings rising from Huo Yuhao's feet, they were all stunned. In their daze, they couldn't help but subconsciously glance at the blonde girl beside them.

You can imagine how shocked they were when they saw Qiu'er's spirit rings, and now another one exactly the same has popped up?

Although he hasn't acquired any more spirit rings yet, judging from the current situation, even if Huo Yuhao is not far behind Qiu'er, the difference isn't that great.

Chen Zifeng, standing opposite Huo Yuhao, also changed his expression. After letting out a cold snort, he released his martial soul without hesitation.

The first soul ring is a thousand years old, which shows that he is indeed quite capable. But to think that he can cross two major levels with just that and fight against a high-level soul king with the cultivation of a soul master is to underestimate the inner court disciples.

"start!"

As soon as Elder Xuan made the announcement, the first spirit ring under Chen Zifeng's feet lit up.

After releasing his martial spirit, Chen Zifeng's originally handsome face was no longer calm. His scarlet eyes and sharp killing intent made him look fierce and gloomy.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao also moved. With one step, he darted out like a ghost amidst the incredulous gazes of the crowd.

Is this the speed a Soul Master should have? Even compared to Xixi, who is an agility-based attacker, it's not much slower, right?

No one expected that the figure, which did not look particularly strong, could unleash such astonishing speed.

After a brief moment of shock, the experienced Chen Zifeng did not hesitate at all. With a flick of his hand, the Soul-Chasing Sword, which was suspended in mid-air, suddenly emitted a crisp hum, carrying a chilling and sharp killing intent, and shot out towards Huo Yuhao like a blood-red rainbow.

The two were not far apart to begin with, and with the added speed, in less than half a second, the distance between the man and the sword was reduced to just a few meters.

Just then, as if demonstrating his flexibility, Huo Yuhao bent his waist backward in a somewhat strange arc as he charged forward, letting the Soul-Chasing Sword fly past his cheek so close to his face.

The distance was precisely controlled, as if calculated. Any more would not be impressive enough, and any less would result in injury from the fierce sword energy. It was a perfect, flawless technique.

If they hadn't known beforehand that it was a fight, they probably would have subconsciously thought it was some kind of acrobatic performance.

Seemingly not expecting his opponent to dodge his attack in this way, Chen Zifeng's eyes widened, especially when he saw that Huo Yuhao not only did not slow down because of the previous attack, but instead accelerated towards him, a hint of anger flashed in his eyes.

You're just a Soul Master, do you really think I'm afraid of you in close combat?!

The thought had barely crossed Chen Zifeng's mind when he was slightly taken aback by what happened next.

In a battle like this, which is similar to establishing authority, the faster it is resolved, the better. Without holding back in the slightest, Huo Yuhao's third and first spirit rings instantly lit up.

As if swallowing up all the surrounding light, Chen Zifeng felt the whole world become dim. Then, a dazzling radiance, like the sun, burst forth from Huo Yuhao's pupils.

Tragedy of fate, soul deprivation, soul impact.

Three soul skills descended upon him almost simultaneously, along with a suffocating feeling as if death was imminent.

Without activating his Pride Source or using his Ice Emperor Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao was certainly not arrogant enough to believe that he could suppress a high-level Power Attack Soul King in close combat.

Fortunately, although the Spirit Eye Martial Soul is not strong in direct combat, its Soul Skills are all very useful.

As one of the two skills bestowed upon it by Qiu'er, which can be described as divine, the effect of soul stripping can only be described as abnormal.

Ignoring cultivation level and directly dismantling all mental defenses means that even if a Title Douluo were standing here, they would still be injured by Huo Yuhao's soul attack.

The only difference is that compared to those with lower cultivation levels, Title Douluos have higher mental strength and are less injured.

That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that this effect can prevent Huo Yuhao from suffering mental backlash when he launches a mental attack.

It's important to understand that one of the key reasons why mental-type Soul Masters are so powerful is that most of their mental attacks are characterized by being fast and difficult to detect.

However, while possessing these advantages, spirit-type soul masters also have some very obvious drawbacks, namely, mental backlash.

Generally speaking, if someone with low mental strength rashly launches a mental attack on someone with a significantly lower mental strength, they will often suffer a backlash.

The reason for this backlash is that everyone's mental sea will build up mental defenses due to their own subconscious. In this case, it is fine if the difference in mental strength is not large, but once the difference is particularly large, then this passive defense effect alone will cause great damage to the attacker.

But Huo Yuhao didn't have this concern, since both passive and active defenses would be ineffective against the effect of soul stripping.

This means that as long as he is not facing someone like Gu Yuena whose soul has already transformed into a divine soul, Huo Yuhao can use his mental power to attack without restraint after using soul stripping without worrying about being backfired.

Although he wasn't as mentally exhausted as Dai Yueheng before, Chen Zifeng also didn't have the same level of cultivation as Dai Yueheng.

The soul impact that followed made him subconsciously let out a painful groan. Although it only took less than two seconds for Chen Zifeng to recover from the pain, that was enough time for Huo Yuhao to arrive in front of him.

With his five fingers together, a brilliant golden light gathered from Huo Yuhao's fist, and he swung it fiercely toward Chen Zifeng's face.

boom!

Amidst the stunned gazes of the crowd, Chen Zifeng flew backward like a cannonball and landed solidly on the ground.

After struggling to get up, the pair of scarlet eyes no longer held the murderous intent they once had, but were filled with deep fear.

For some reason, even though the punch wasn't particularly powerful, the moment it made contact, he had the illusion that his body, soul, and everything else had been completely destroyed by that blow.

Although the damage he suffered wasn't that exaggerated, it was definitely not small either. He could even clearly feel the strange energy flowing into his body through his fist, which was now frantically destroying his body.

In a daze, Chen Zifeng seemed to sense a warmth below his nose. He endured the stinging pain in his head and struggled to raise his hand to touch it. Upon seeing the bright red blood, his face suddenly darkened and then became extremely ferocious.

It can only be said that the harm was not great, but the insult was extremely strong.

He would rather be facing a Soul Emperor or even a Soul Saint who could knock him unconscious with a single blow than be suppressed by a Soul Venerable in front of so many people and have his nose bleed from that seemingly light punch.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Huo Yuhao, who had maintained a calm and indifferent expression throughout, his body trembling violently.

What arrogance!

It's as if he takes it for granted that he can suppress a Soul King with the cultivation of a Soul Venerable, and it's simply not worth mentioning.

"Huo Yuhao... don't think this is the end!"

"Um?"

Seemingly surprised that Chen Zifeng hadn't become obedient after taking a hit from the Emperor's Throne, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

But he guessed the reason in the next second.

It must be because I didn't unleash the full potential of my Arrogance Source, resulting in a significant gap in cultivation between me and Chen Zifeng. In addition, the killing aura inherent in Chen Zifeng's Martial Soul, the Soul Chasing Sword, would more or less affect the host, which directly suppressed the effect of Dominating the World.

There's nothing we can do about that.

Since he's still not convinced after taking one punch, I'll just have to keep hitting him until he submits...

Huo Yuhao lowered his eyes slightly and slowly took out the silver carving knife with dark pink patterns from his storage space.

"Then, if I'm too rough next... please bear with me, senior."

As soon as he finished speaking, Huo Yuhao charged towards Chen Zifeng again.

During the process, the silvery-white covering the surface of the carving knife quickly faded away like a tide, replaced by a brilliant gold color exactly the same as the golden dragon spear in Qiu'er's hand.

Although both the Silver Dragon Spear and the Golden Dragon Spear possess the characteristics of being indestructible and absorbing life energy to feed back to their host, they excel in different areas.

The former focuses more on increasing all elemental attributes, while the latter focuses more on the absorption effect and the increase in power.

Without using the Ice Emperor Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao simply used the Jealousy Source to directly transform the carving knife into the Golden Dragon Spear, which was more suitable for the current situation.

With a weapon, Huo Yuhao began to adopt a strategy completely opposite to his previous dodging when facing the Soul-Chasing Sword controlled by Chen Zifeng.

clang--

The carving knife and the Soul-Chasing Sword collided violently, creating a shockwave. However, Huo Yuhao only experienced a momentary stun and was not blasted away by the terrifying power of the Soul-Chasing Sword as others had predicted.

If the characteristics of the Silver Dragon Spear greatly enhanced his ice-attribute martial soul, then the Golden Dragon Spear was like adding wings to his already powerful body, which had been modified by Pride.

With the power of this divine weapon, he was even able to withstand the attacks of the Soul-Chasing Sword.

This scene completely stunned Chen Zifeng.

It should be noted that he was a powerful offensive Soul Master who was twenty levels above Huo Yuhao. Unlike Beast Soul Masters, he had concentrated all his strength into the Soul Chasing Sword. Although he did not release any Soul Skills, it was still impossible for a Soul Venerable to withstand him.

He even felt that what Huo Yuhao held in his hand at that moment was not a light carving knife, but an incomparably heavy giant axe.

"We lost..."

Seeing this scene, as if he had already foreseen the ending, Elder Xuan couldn't help but sigh softly.

too strong.

Even he had to admit that the young man before him was so powerful that he seemed to have transcended his era.

But the more dazzling Huo Yuhao was, the more unhappy he became.

It wasn't just because of the experience of Huo Yuhao pointing his finger at him and cursing him several times; more importantly, he was the one who personally promoted this peerless genius. Now that this kid is so dazzling, doesn't it make him seem like he was very blind back then?

Thinking of this, Elder Xuan couldn't help but glance at Tang San watching the battle below. Feeling annoyed, he wished he could take him to the Star Dou Great Forest for some more training.

How come others are so powerful even without my personal instruction as a level 98 Super Douluo, while you, with divine assistance, have actually faltered?

(End of this chapter)