102: In response to the predicament of the Zhou sisters

However, as the battle progressed, the scene became increasingly chaotic. Various Spirit abilities intertwined, with explosions, shouts, and cries of pain rising and falling one after another.

Several agility-attack system referees intervened multiple times, rescuing students who might have been killed at the critical moment.

The playground was covered in craters and pockmarks. The air was filled with the pungent smell of acrid smoke and the residual energy fluctuations of Spirit abilities. Even Shen Guyan's side had become precarious.

A Three-Ring Soul Elder let out a loud shout, and the spiked club in his hand instantly tripled in size, smashing down fiercely toward Zhou Hanyou. Zhou Hanyou's eyes turned sharp, and her body flickered nimbly, dodging the lethal blow.

Immediately after, her second spirit ring lit up. "Ice Spike, Rain!"

Countless sharp ice spikes fell from the sky like raindrops. That Soul Elder hurriedly raised his spiked club to block, but was forced back repeatedly by the impact of the ice spikes, his hands numbed.

Just then, another student launched a sneak attack from the side, their short blade aiming directly for Zhou Hanyou's throat. At the critical moment, a thorny vine wrapped around the student's wrist like lightning, knocking the short blade to the ground.

Zhou Tianer gave her a playful wink before diving back into the battle with other students.

Wang Dongqi also ran into trouble on her side. Three Spirit Grandmaster-level students surrounded her, forming a triangular formation. One of them had a flaming longblade as their Spirit, with raging flames and waves of heat hitting her face; another had an iron shield Spirit, the heavy shield surprisingly covered in spikes; and the last one had a long spear Spirit, the tip of the spear glinting with a cold light.

The three had clearly spent a long time together and coordinated perfectly; the flaming blade led the attack, the iron shield defended, and the long spear waited for an opportunity.

Although Wang Dongqi's talent was not as great as The Zhou Sisters', being able to join their small group naturally meant she had her own extraordinary qualities.

She showed no fear. With a loud shout, the electrical light on her Flash Thunder Sword grew even more dazzling, and a traveling bolt of lightning struck out from the blade like a giant silver python, sweeping toward the three.

Second Soul Skill, Silver Snake Dance!

The flames of the flaming blade were instantly extinguished under the impact of the lightning, the spikes on the iron shield were melted by the powerful current, and the long spear was even twisted and deformed by the lightning strike. The three were sent flying by the powerful impact, crashing heavily onto the ground and losing their ability to fight.

The battle grew more intense as students continued to fall and new opponents joined in. Although Zhou Hanyou, Zhou Tianer, and Wang Dongqi were exceptionally strong, they gradually began to feel the strain in this chaotic scene.

They had all sustained some level of injury, and their physical strength was depleting rapidly.

Although Zhou Hanyou's Third Soul Skill, Ice Spirit, was powerful, every use of the skill consumed a large amount of Soul Power. By now, her forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat, and her breathing had become hurried. Although Zhou Tianer's Wood Spirit was effective in support and interference, it seemed somewhat powerless when facing some powerful attack system Spirits.

Relying on the powerful attack power of the Flash Thunder Sword, Wang Dongqi had been rampaging through the crowd, but the prolonged battle had made her arms ache, and her movements were no longer as agile as at the start.

Just then, a world-shaking roar suddenly came from the field. It was a burly student whose Spirit was a Vajra Bear; his entire body was covered in thick brown fur, and his muscles bulged high like a small mountain. He slammed his fists heavily onto the ground, and a powerful shockwave spread out in all directions with him as the center. The faces of Zhou Hanyou, Zhou Tianer, and Wang Dongqi changed drastically as they hurriedly used their Spirit Abilities to block.

They instantly recognized this person—the number one student of the sixth grade in the Sea and Land Academy's Intermediate department, Yang Zhanpeng.

Zhou Hanyou deployed an Ice Wall again, attempting to slow down the shockwave; Zhou Tianer controlled a large number of vines, weaving them into a giant green shield that covered the Ice Wall; Wang Dongqi held the Flash Thunder Sword high above her head, the tip of the sword flickering with dazzling electrical light, preparing to meet the impact.

"Boom!"

The shockwave collided with the three's Spirit Abilities, letting out a massive bang. The powerful air current knocked the surrounding students to the ground one after another.

The Ice Wall shattered, and Zhou Hanyou and Zhou Tianer were also forced back repeatedly by the air current, a trace of blood overflowing from the corners of their mouths.

Everyone was a Three-Ring Soul Elder; to be able to break The Zhou Sisters' combined skills in one blow, he had clearly received an enhancement from a support Spirit Master.

"Take the chance now, force them to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill!" Yang Zhanpeng called out to his teammates.

Several students immediately fanned out to surround the three girls. The heat waves rising from the ground carried smoke, churning between everyone. On the right, a short-haired girl had crimson chains wrapped around her fingertips, the hooks at the ends of the chains still dripping with dark purple venom; directly in front, a tall boy had six bronze darts hovering over his shoulders, flowing with an eerie, ghostly light.

"Watch out! It's the Venom-Quenched Chains and Life-Taking Darts!" Zhou Tianer's vines had just coiled around several chains flying through the air when a bronze dart grazed past her ear, exploding into a string of sparks on the lawn. Zhou Hanyou's Ice Wall rose in response, but it was corroded with dense holes by the venom, as the cold and poison mist intertwined into a pungent white fog.

Wang Dongqi's Flash Thunder Sword suddenly erupted with blinding lightning. Using the electric light as cover, she approached the boy controlling the darts like a Gui Mei. The moment the blade collided with the darts, the violent roar made everyone's eardrums ache. However, a cold smile curled on the boy's lips as the six darts suddenly split into twelve, sealing off all of Wang Dongqi's retreat routes from tricky angles.

"Sister Hanyou! Let me use your cold air!" Zhou Tianer suddenly grabbed Zhou Hanyou's wrist, and Wood Soul Power surged out from their joined palms. Zhou Hanyou understood and pushed her Ice Spirit to full capacity, causing the temperature within a ten-zhang radius to plummet. Those Venom-Quenched Chains were frozen into brittle ice, and the bronze darts were also covered in a layer of white frost, their flight speed visibly slowing down.

"Flash Thunder Ring!" Wang Dongqi seized the opportunity, and a silver-white ring of light suddenly burst outward from her body, accurately striking the darts.

Just as she shook off those darts, the girl controlling the chains had already closed in, the chains coiling toward Wang Dongqi's neck like living things. At the critical moment, Zhou Tianer's vines suddenly turned into spikes, piercing through the girl's landing spot from underground and forcing her to retreat.

"This isn't the way to go." Zhou Hanyou wiped the fragrant sweat from her forehead, her azure eyes scanning the encirclement. "They are forcing us to use our Martial Soul Fusion Skill."

Everyone had heard Zhang Zhenpeng's previous announcement, which could be described as blatant favoritism toward The Zhou Sisters. Once their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice Snow Forest, was unleashed, their peers basically had no way to contend with it.

If they were forced to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill in this first melee, then in the final two-on-two stage, others might have a chance... This was the predicament Yang Zhanpeng had prepared in advance specifically targeting The Zhou Sisters! That Martial Soul Fusion Skill of theirs was too unreasonable; not only was it a 100% Fusion rate, but the cooldown period was also very short.

Just as The Zhou Sisters were hesitating, a figure in a wheelchair slowly rolled out from their protective circle and came before the three girls.

"Zhuo Tianya, what are you doing?"

Before Zhou Hanyou could stop him, Shen Guyan threw the canglang sword in his hand toward one of the opponents surrounding them.

Yes, he threw it!

That student let out a cold laugh, and just as he was preparing to parry it casually, the figure in the wheelchair had already arrived before him without a sound.

W-what Spirit Ability is this... "Just making a mark, so the referee doesn't think I failed to break your defense." Shen Guyan's gaze was cold as the canglang sword pressed against the student's neck, then lightly cut a slit less than half a millimeter deep.