Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 297 The Secret Transmission of One Heart (Take a day off, 6k words)

Without activating martial spirit or using soul skills, shattering the fortress battle formation with a single strike is even more impactful than shattering a Soul King with a single strike. But how exactly can one shatter this fortress battle formation that resembles a tortoise shell?

Chen Zifeng, who was in the rest area, sat up straight. He knew that he absolutely could not defeat Situ Yu without using his soul skills. Huo Yuhao had not even obtained his third soul ring yet, and at most he could only be considered a Great Soul Master. What would he do?

Situ Yu raised his forearms, tucking his elbows between his ribs, where they engaged and fastened with metal. Immediately afterward, six metal tubes on each side of his arms simultaneously emitted intense white light.

At the same time, his four spirit rings were flashing alternately, and the huge fan behind him was shimmering with light, emitting layers of white halo.

Countless white orbs of light erupted almost instantly, each the size of an egg, sweeping towards Huo Yuhao like a tidal wave of light projectiles.

A six-barreled miniature soul-guided cannon. This is one of the most powerful level-four soul-guided devices. It excels at firepower coverage and is one of the most favored soul-guided devices by the military. If ten level-four soul-guided masters equipped with these six-barreled miniature soul-guided cannons were to provide firepower coverage, they could suppress thousands of soldiers within a certain range.

However, the advantages and disadvantages of this thing are quite obvious. The advantages are naturally its strong explosive power, wide coverage, and extremely high attack power. The only drawback is fatal: its enormous consumption of soul power.

A level four Soul Master can only use a six-barreled small Soul Guidance Cannon for a maximum of five minutes before needing to rest and recover his Soul Power.

Faced with such an attack, Huo Yuhao responded in the simplest way.

For a typical four-ring Soul Master facing a six-barreled miniature Soul Guidance Cannon, the only option is to run as far away as possible. This thing's attack range isn't very long, only about 100 meters, so maintaining distance greatly reduces its threat. But how big is this arena? It's simply impossible to maintain distance.

A dazzling light flowed beneath Huo Yuhao's feet, making his figure ethereal. He gracefully dodged several shells that grazed his face, then stepped into the air as if he were walking on invisible steps, rising more than ten meters into the air before rushing towards Situ Yu's location.

"What?!"

The audience's shock was exactly the same as when Xixi first witnessed Huo Yuhao's Flowing Water Moon Steps. Walking on air was something only a Soul Saint could do!

Situ Yu was instantly confused. His fortress tactics had no anti-air capabilities, with a maximum elevation angle of only fifteen degrees. They were designed for small-scale projectile and direct fire, and were intended for ground combat. He had never considered dedicated air defense.

After all, no one can be perfect. Yunluo Academy has Soul Masters who specialize in using heavy soul-guided explosive energy ray guns to defend against air attacks. If the enemy can fly, he, as the captain, is usually not the first to engage them.

However, Huo Yuhao is different. He does not seem to be a flying-type Soul Master. He had seen the scene during the elimination rounds where the 100,000-year Soul Ring under his feet flashed and froze all seven people from Kassel College. Logically speaking, Huo Yuhao should be a mental-type Soul Master!

Why can you fly, you're just a spirit-type Soul Master?! Aren't you supposed to be a newly ascended Soul Master, bro?!

Situ Yu was devastated. He tried his best to raise the elevation of his turret to the maximum, and a series of white light balls were accurately fired into the air. However, his shells had no detonation point in mid-air and could not hit Huo Yuhao, who was extremely agile in mid-air.

The attacks, large and small, landed behind him, piercing through the afterimages he left behind, but none of them managed to hit him.

Are you a Soul Master or a Soul Saint?

As everyone knows, Soul Masters who are not at the Soul Saint level can never fly unless they possess a flight-type Soul Skill or rely on a wingsuit-type flight Soul Tool. Moreover, Huo Yuhao hasn't even activated his Martial Soul and Soul Rings yet!

Could it be that the opponent is actually a Soul Saint like Ma Xiaotao, and the previous four rings were actually just four Soul Rings released?

Various crazy ideas surfaced in the minds of the junior Soul Masters in the spectator area, while the members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy were even more ashen-faced. Two Soul Saints—if this conjecture was true, their Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy could truly become the earliest team to prepare for the next tournament's championship battle.

Let's have a competition. Who can beat Shrek Academy? Two Soul Saints have been dragged out of this competition. What's the point of us playing anymore?

"Could it be a self-created soul skill?"

Ma Rulong made this conjecture with a livid face, but it was quickly rejected by everyone.

For so many years, not to mention the Sun Moon Empire, even within the three great empires, no one has been seen to create such a self-created soul skill that allows one to walk on air. How could it be such a coincidence that Huo Yuhao created it?

For a time, a feeling of despair spread throughout the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy.

Shrek Academy probably really has two Soul Saints. The Soul Ring configuration of one yellow, one purple, one black, and one red is probably just an illusion that the other party only released the first, third, fifth, and seventh Soul Rings.

Thinking about it this way, Huo Yuhao's behavior becomes quite normal. Who can absorb a 100,000-year spirit ring with only a fourth spirit ring? If it were the seventh spirit ring, it would be much more convincing.

Just as the crowd below the stage was lost in thought, Huo Yuhao reappeared in Situ Yu's sight, and the distance between them was less than five meters.

At the muzzle of the Soul-Guiding Cannon, the light was completely distorted, and the temperature rose to an extremely high level.

A burst of intense white light erupted, and the air on the entire competition stage became incredibly turbulent the instant it shot out.

Situ Yu's eyes were filled with madness.

He knew that this was an opportunity given to him by Huo Yuhao, and also his only chance to hit the other party.

Therefore, Situ Yu shared everything without reservation.

He stopped all the other completely meaningless bombardments and poured all the soul power in his body into this focused soul-guided cannon.

However, Huo Yuhao was too close to him. With just a slight step in mid-air, he had already dodged Huo Yuhao's sure-fire attack.

Huo Yuhao landed.

Situ Yu swallowed hard, and Huo Yuhao in front of him had already turned into a blur in the next instant.

If someone possessed the same mental detection abilities as Huo Yuhao at this moment, they would discover that Huo Yuhao's spine was glowing faintly, and the thick nerve fiber bundles throughout his body were being activated by a surge of energy.

[Soul Bone Skill - Unending Burst: Stimulates the energy within the spine to significantly boost muscle and brain nerves, greatly enhancing reaction speed and muscle speed, until the soul skill is actively deactivated or the nerve fiber bundles are burned away by the energy.]

The duration of Unending Burst is at least four seconds, and each use of Unending Burst will place a huge burden on the body.

[Secret Technique - Isshin: A style of swordsmanship that unleashes combos with incredible speed, a masterpiece of swordsmanship that Isshin Ashina, the Sword Demon, mastered through his entire life. It is a technique that only existed when Isshin and Huo Yuhao were drinking together.]

[This is the result of honing one's skills to this point, focusing solely on slashing and hacking, concentrating solely on this one thing. The resulting combos, combined with the Sword Saint's supreme sword intent, could even cleave through space itself, right?]

(End of this chapter)