Douluo: The True Eye

With the attention of the Skyfiend Douluo fully focused on Xu Sanshi, he took the brief moment to send Xu Sanshi off the stage.

Seizing this opportunity, Ma Xiaotao suddenly erupted, once again attacking the group from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, just as she had done before.

However, her current position was extremely close to her allies, and Gongyang Mo was also providing her with auxiliary buffs once again.

The scorching phoenix flames surged and erupted, causing the surrounding air to crackle and sizzle, even making the Shrek team feel a wave of heat washing over them, immediately causing them to break out in sweat.

Even Xixi's hair was singed by Ma Xiaotao, who flew past her.

However, Xiao Hongchen's soul-guided cannon fire had already been unleashed once, entering an overheated state, making it difficult to reorganize and launch a second such powerful offensive in a short period of time.

Meanwhile, Ma Rulong chewed on the steamed bun fed to him by the food-type soul master beside him, and his soul power had recovered considerably.

A large helmet was now on his head, and the circular ruby at the center of the black helmet shimmered.

A dark red light and shadow quickly flew out, a scarlet ape. Although it was in energy form, it possessed intelligence and was quite agile. The aura of strength hidden within it was comparable to a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

'This method is interesting. Could it be based on the Holy Spirit Church's ideas? After all, with the integration of the Holy Spirit Church and the Sun Moon Empire in recent years, many evil soul masters are also powerful soul engineers.'

A temporarily added combat force could undoubtedly play a decisive role in a arena where only seven people could fight.

Moreover, with this demonic ape, whose strength was no less than that of a ten-thousand-year soul beast, blocking the way, it could buy the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy a valuable opportunity to regroup.

At this moment, the Shrek Academy team followed Ma Xiaotao, breaking through the crack in the lightning cage and charging towards the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team.

Naturally, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team would not sit idly by and wait for death.

A golden ball of light shot out from the formation, locking onto Ma Xiaotao.

At the same time, an incredibly fast figure, leaving behind afterimages, rapidly attacked the Shrek Academy team from the side.

Chen Fei's martial soul was a bird-type beast martial soul called the Flash Bird. Although its speed was not slow, it was not outstanding in other aspects. Among all kinds of martial souls, it could only be considered average. The golden ball of light was what he released.

However, with the blessing of various soul-guided devices, his flight speed was no less than that of a top-tier agility-attack martial soul of the same level.

Ma Xiaotao's expression remained unchanged, but the phoenix flames on her body became even more restless. Although the soul skill fusion of Phoenix Cloud Piercer and Phoenix Sky Howl was quite taxing, with Gongyang Mo's blessing, she could at least launch it twice more.

However, this soul-guided device, which seemed to be an energy projectile, was actually a restrictive soul-guided device.

The golden light instantly magnified upon contact with Ma Xiaotao, transforming into a golden net that enveloped her.

The golden net was extremely tough. Although Ma Xiaotao's powerful impact created some cracks, it still fulfilled its duty of controlling Ma Xiaotao and preventing her from moving forward, even when ignited by the phoenix flames.

But how long could a level-five restrictive soul-guided device control Ma Xiaotao, who seemed to be on the verge of losing control?

In just one second, the net was ignited by the phoenix flames, but the demonic ape released by Ma Rulong also rushed in front of Ma Xiaotao.

Its body instantly swelled, transforming into a giant ape over four meters tall, its dark red fur bristling, its aura even more violent, and its fists smashed down on Ma Xiaotao's head.

Behind it, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team also used all kinds of methods.

Spherical soul-guided devices attached with lightning formed a large net, and dozens of golden light spheres that had previously formed the golden net floated around Ma Xiaotao.

Ma Rulong's level-seven soul-guided ray was also aimed at Ma Xiaotao, and Xiao Hongchen, with the help of Meng Hongchen, was smoothing out his aura.

The others from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy activated the turret tactics, firing soul-guided cannons to delay the people behind Ma Xiaotao.

Only Xixi, with her agility and Gongyang Mo's blessing, forcibly broke through, while Chen Zifeng and Beibei took over the duties of Xu Sanshi, who had been eliminated, guarding Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo in the rear.

Ice walls rose, sword lights and dragon shadows flickered. With their cooperation, the four members of Shrek Academy blocked waves of low-level soul-guided cannon fire, but they were also unable to move forward, missing the opportunity to continue approaching.

At this moment, Ma Xiaotao smiled, but this cold smile made everyone from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy feel a chill down their spines.

The golden-red flames that had been wrapped around her instantly condensed on her right arm, and then a fire phoenix formed on her right arm.

Such control was clearly beyond what ordinary soul masters could achieve.

"Soul bone!" someone with knowledge exclaimed.

Huo Yuhao's eyes also narrowed, realizing that something was wrong.

The right arm bone that Ma Xiaotao possessed seemed abnormal. Although the overall structure was no different from ordinary soul bones, it was entirely condensed from evil energy.

'Or could it be that Ma Xiaotao first guided the evil energy in her body into the soul bone in her body?' Huo Yuhao speculated.

After all, such things had happened in history. For example, Dugu Bo, ten thousand years ago, guided all his poison skills into his soul bone.

Soul bones are the essence of a soul beast's lifelong cultivation, and their soul power is far purer and stronger than soul rings.

However, they can also be used as carriers, but such operations require first destroying the structure of the soul bone itself and then replacing it with poison or evil energy.

Based on the structure of the soul bone, it is refilled with poison or evil energy. Although it will not have much impact on the owner,

it will cause the soul bone on the owner's body to completely collapse after the owner's death because it is no longer controlled, and it will not be able to be preserved like ordinary soul bones because of its stable structure.

It seems that this is the only way. After all, Ma Xiaotao does not have Huo Yuhao in the original work to suppress the evil energy in her body with extreme ice, so she can only adopt a trick similar to Dugu Bo's to suppress the evil energy.

However, this method is only a temporary solution. After all, using a soul bone as a carrier, the soul bone that cannot grow will eventually have a limited upper limit.

Once the original soul bone is completely replaced by evil energy, the excess evil energy will naturally have nowhere to go, and forcibly stuffing it in will only cause the soul bone to collapse.

Moreover, that's not all. Evil energy is different from poison. After the evil energy completely replaces the original structure of the soul bone, it also forms a node of evil energy in Ma Xiaotao's body.

After all, without the evil energy clouding her mind and causing her original consciousness to struggle, her current actions were entirely 'clear-headed' and 'from the heart'.

She knew she couldn't openly cross the line and identify as an evil soul master, as that would only invite condemnation and encirclement from other powerhouses.

Even with Shrek Academy behind her, no matter how much they valued her, the inevitable outcome would be confinement within the inner courtyard, isolated from the world.

Therefore, she was constantly seeking 'justifiable' opportunities to unleash her excess evil fire.

That was, 'accidentally' crippling or killing opponents during matches.

Moreover, since she was actually only killing people from the Sun Moon Empire, many people cheered for her actions under the hostile lens of the original Douluo Continent's three nations.

The saying goes, 'Blackening makes you ten times stronger, whitewashing weakens you by three,' and at least after the evil energy entered her mind, Ma Xiaotao's wisdom in this regard was no less than that of some seasoned evil soul masters.

It was only because Ma Xiaotao hadn't used her soul bone before that Huo Yuhao hadn't paid too much attention to her, naturally failing to notice the clues.

Now, Huo Yuhao had uncovered this truth, but it also sparked some new inspiration.

Regardless of Huo Yuhao's thoughts, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was in big trouble.

Because after Ma Xiaotao unleashed her full strength to condense the Phoenix Flame, amplified again by her soul bone, she actually did the same thing as Xu Sanshi before, calling for reinforcements from the Skyfiend Douluo.

The Skyfiend Douluo had no choice but to react, rescuing Ma Xiaotao from the field first.

Meanwhile, the dazzling Phoenix of Flame charged into the formation of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Even with the Demonic Ape's obstruction and the previous layers of soul guidance protective shields, plus the Invincible Barrier instantly activated by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, it was not enough.

This soul bone skill, condensed with all of Ma Xiaotao's remaining soul power and fully amplified by Gongyang Mo, directly pierced through all the external soul guidance protective shields in an extremely strange manner.

Not breaking through, but piercing through; the soul guidance protective shields seemed to self-dissolve in front of this phoenix.

Even those soul tools surrounding Ma Xiaotao were no exception.

At this moment, the Invincible Barriers on the two soul engineers closer to the front failed to withstand the golden phoenix.

The Invincible Barrier, claimed to withstand attacks from an eighth-level Soul Douluo, was ultimately just a claim.

The man-made Invincible Barrier was still different from the Invincible Golden Body, a top-tier soul skill.

The two soul engineers brushed by the Phoenix Flame on the golden phoenix fell directly to the ground, lifeless.

After that, Ma Rulong's Invincible Barrier was also shattered, but the Phoenix Flame of the golden phoenix had also been exhausted, unable to form an effective kill against Ma Rulong.

This was a result that no one, not even the referee Skyfiend Douluo, had anticipated.

At this time, Xixi, who rushed to the front of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's group, had cold sweat dripping from her forehead.

Looking at the substantial anger in the eyes of the remaining four opponents, as if they were about to devour someone, Xixi suddenly felt that her actions were not very wise.

As the soul tools on Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong lit up one after another, Xixi and the rest of Shrek Academy hurriedly conceded defeat and left the stage.

At this moment, the entire audience was silent. In order not to be eliminated, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy suppressed the grief and anger in their hearts, listening to the Skyfiend Douluo announce: "This team battle, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy wins."

The Skyfiend Douluo looked at the Sun Moon Empire's people, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's mentors, whose faces were very unsightly below the stage, and said, "Everyone, calm down. The victory or defeat has been decided. If anyone has any excessive behavior, don't blame this referee for being impolite."

And the Skyfiend Douluo looked at the Shrek Academy's people, especially Ma Xiaotao, with a very unkind gaze. Now it was a battle under his supervision, and three people were actually killed, which could be said to have made him lose face completely.

However, at this time, the other spectators did not care about the Skyfiend Douluo's dereliction of duty, because they were all immersed in the news of Shrek Academy's defeat.

"How is it possible?"

"Shrek Academy lost?"

"Fake, fake, it must be fake!"

"Wow, my gold soul coins, my entire fortune was bet on Shrek Academy!"

After a brief silence, the Star Luo Square instantly became noisy, with all kinds of words and all kinds of people.

"Silence!" Under the feet of the Skyfiend Douluo, two yellow, two purple, and five black, nine soul rings shone brightly.

Then, with a wave of his right hand, an aura of arrogance, nobility, and intense pressure was instantly released, and a pure white star appeared in front of him, and the starlight instantly spread throughout the Star Luo Square.

"Today's competition is over. Both teams and the audience should leave in an orderly manner."

On the way to the exit, the eyes of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's people were filled with anger, but they were all suppressed.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition was too important to their Sun Moon Empire.

Because they were originally hostile to the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent, they needed to use the competition as a platform to cleanse the inherent concepts in the hearts of the people of the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent.

So that the subsequent actions and national policies of the Sun Moon Empire can be implemented more smoothly.

After returning to the Star Emperor Hotel, Ma Xiaotao did not attend the subsequent meeting to arrange the individual elimination rounds for tomorrow.

Wang Yan also focused on explaining the tactical arrangements for the individual elimination rounds tomorrow to Ling Luochen, Xixi, Xu Sanshi, and Beibei.

"In short, Gongyang Mo, after you go back, comfort Ma Xiaotao. Remember to tell her to restrain herself in the subsequent competitions."

Gongyang Mo nodded helplessly and responded, "I'll try my best."

As a friend who originally had a good relationship with Ma Xiaotao, he had also felt some changes in Ma Xiaotao during this period, which were somewhat different from before.

But Ma Xiaotao was able to behave normally and talk to him, which made him very confused.

It was just that time was tight during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, and he didn't have much time to communicate with Ma Xiaotao, so he could only suppress it in his heart.