Douluo: The True Eye

The next day, early in the morning, the individual elimination matches between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy began.

However, due to the team battle yesterday, three members died in battle, so the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team was shrouded in a somber atmosphere.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy naturally also had substitute members; although three people died, they wouldn't be unable to gather enough participants for the individual elimination matches.

It's just that today is different from the past; the face of the Sky Fiend Douluo standing on the competition stage was not very pleasant.

Because he saw a figure, one whom even he had to be wary of, appearing in the Shrek Academy's rest area.

'Gourmet Douluo... This is difficult to handle.' Sky Fiend Douluo frowned slightly; as a member of the Star Luo Empire's Hall of Worship, he naturally knew of the existence of Gourmet Douluo Xuan Zi in Shrek Academy.

Normally speaking, even if the other party was the elder accompanying the Shrek Academy team this time,

under the circumstances where he hadn't shown his face before, his appearance at this time clearly indicated one thing, and was also sending a signal to their Star Luo Empire.

That was that he was supporting Ma Xiaotao, supporting Ma Xiaotao's 'manslaughter' in the previous team battle.

"Elder Xuan," Wang Yan respectfully saluted Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi nodded, casually glanced around, and then looked at Ma Xiaotao and said.

"I won't participate in your tactical decisions; just pretend I don't exist, anyway, with me here, absolutely no one will dare to play any tricks."

'After all, you are the biggest trick, right?' Huo Yuhao thought to himself.

Hearing this, Wang Yan nodded, and at this time, the Sky Fiend Douluo on the competition stage also loudly announced.

"This is the first match of the individual elimination tournament between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy; please have both sides send their participating members to the stage!"

Wang Yan softly said: "Xiaotao, I'll leave the first match of the individual elimination tournament to you."

Ma Xiaotao didn't say much, but jumped directly onto the competition stage.

And the first player sent out by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was none other than their team's captain, Ma Rulong.

At this time, Ma Rulong's face appeared very cold as he faced Ma Xiaotao, the enemy who killed three of his teammates.

The two of them didn't even go through the normal, perfunctory exchange of pleasantries that should have taken place on the surface.

Just as the atmosphere gradually stiffened, the Sky Fiend Douluo spoke again: "Both team members retreat to the edge of the competition stage, prepare to officially begin the match!"

Ma Rulong naturally knew that his strength couldn't possibly be a match for Ma Xiaotao.

He also knew that the result of facing Ma Xiaotao this time would likely be serious injuries, with a small chance of death, and a high probability of missing the subsequent matches.

But at this time, he had already made up his mind that he must eliminate a scourge like Ma Xiaotao for his teammates.

Even if the price was himself, he wouldn't hesitate.

Otherwise, with Ma Xiaotao's existence, in the subsequent matches, would they, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, have to directly surrender whenever Ma Xiaotao made a move?

Precisely because of this, as the Sky Fiend Douluo announced: "Match, begin!"

Ma Xiaotao's golden phoenix flames around her body exploded again after her martial soul was activated; facing the terrifying figure attacking, Ma Rulong didn't use his most skilled ranged soul tool to intercept.

The Great Ape martial soul was activated, and the light of soul rings flickered under his feet; surging soul power surged on Ma Rulong's body; at this time, he actually directly faced the oncoming Ma Xiaotao, without making any obstructing moves, but allowing the other party to get close.

So the current Ma Xiaotao's more proficient fighting style was actually close combat supplemented by phoenix flames and based on evil energy as the core; Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike, Phoenix Soaring Sky Strike, were the same soul skill fusion, the move that killed the soul engineer named Lin Xi before.

Hidden beneath the explosive golden phoenix flames was condensed and compressed evil energy.

And this was precisely the opportunity that Ma Rulong was waiting for.

As the golden Invincible Barrier lit up, even the golden shield of the Invincible Barrier had obvious cracks under Ma Xiaotao's attack.

But after all, Ma Xiaotao's attack didn't have Gong Yangmo's blessing, and it wasn't amplified to the maximum using a soul bone skill, so as it hit the Invincible Barrier, the flames dissipated, and most of the power was diverted to the surrounding ground.

Ma Xiaotao's soul skill fusion didn't break through the Invincible Barrier's defense, it only consumed a lot of the Invincible Barrier's energy.

So for Ma Xiaotao, although this attack didn't determine the victory or defeat, then another attack would be fine!

But at this time, Ma Rulong made a move; in his hand, a golden-red giant sword appeared.

This close-combat soul tool had never appeared in the previous competitions, and was obviously one of the hidden trump cards of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

And Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes were also operating at full power at this time, recording the structure within, after all, an eighth-level soul tool was a good thing that couldn't be seen in Shrek Academy and the original Three Kingdoms of Douluo Continent.

Even in the Sun Moon Empire, the level of the Sword of Judgment wasn't low among the eighth-level soul tools.

At the same time, behind Ma Rulong, a blood-red soul tool core array was also flashing at the position of his back heart, burning with a strong blood flame; this was a seventh-level soul tool, named Chapter of Sacrifice.

Its effect was to instantly increase his body strength and soul power strength by using Ma Rulong's own life force and potential as sacrifices; it was a very costly and very powerful soul tool.

It was precisely because of the Chapter of Sacrifice that Ma Rulong was able to forcibly control the Sword of Judgment, a soul tool whose quality level reached the eighth level, with the cultivation of a Soul Emperor.

At this time, the distance between Ma Rulong and Ma Xiaotao was extremely close; Ma Rulong was seen holding the hilt of the golden giant sword with both hands, and as intense golden light began to emanate from the sword, it extended from below the tip of the sword all the way to the hilt.

On the sword body, a total of nine soul tool core arrays began to operate, and then rays of light burst out in the air; at the same time, the golden light in the sword body seemed to also seep into Ma Rulong's body, dyeing him golden as well.

"Awaken, Sword of Judgment!" Ma Rulong shouted loudly, and then the remaining soul power in his whole body was injected into the giant sword at an alarming speed; this was the trajectory of soul power transmission on Ma Rulong's body.

As long as they were soul masters, even without Spirit Eyes like Huo Yuhao, they could clearly see through the perception of soul power that this was undoubtedly a situation formed by Ma Rulong giving it his all.

Subsequently, with the convergence of soul power, the giant sword, which had been shimmering with golden light, underwent a change. As the golden light receded, it transformed into black and white. The sword's body, with the spine as the dividing line, became white on one side and black on the other.

Light and darkness coexisted on the blade at this moment. This was one of the research achievements of Mingde Hall, a product of their study of opposing attributes: the Sword of Judgment.

It utilized the repulsion between light and darkness, while also maintaining a subtle connection, to disrupt the attribute balance within another person's body, making them lean more towards one side.

Then, it used the pure elemental energy on the other side of the blade to restrain the attributes that had become filled with dark aura due to the disrupted balance within the body, which were also temporarily uncontrollable.

"He is darkness, condemn the heretic!" Ma Rulong held the giant sword, and with a turn of the blade, the black side of the sword directly faced Ma Xiaotao, emitting a black light.

At such close range, Ma Xiaotao had no time to react, and the speed of the black light was simply too fast.

Logically speaking, the Sword of Judgment should have no effect on beings who inherently possess dark or light attributes.

Because if the target possessed dark attributes, the dark side of the Sword of Judgment would only amplify them.

The light side could only cause harm and would not affect the nature of the attributes within the target, thus failing to prepare for the subsequent judgment.

The result would be the same if the target possessed light attributes, only with the judgment logic reversed.

However, although Ma Xiaotao had integrated her evil energy into her soul bone to stabilize her martial soul,

in essence, the Evil Fire Phoenix's attribute was still a fire attribute mixed with evil attributes, with little connection to the dark attribute.

Therefore, with the injection of the dark attribute, because the evil attribute was very compatible with the dark attribute, the darkness lurking within Ma Xiaotao's evil attribute was also affected and drawn out by the Sword of Judgment.

This was also because Ma Xiaotao's cultivation had not reached the Soul Sage level. Otherwise, if she were already a Soul Sage, possessing her Martial Soul Avatar, the stability of her martial soul would be greatly enhanced under the suppression of the Martial Soul Avatar.

But at this moment, with the integration of the dark aura, the golden phoenix flames around Ma Xiaotao rapidly turned black, transforming into pitch-black flames. The evil power that Ma Xiaotao had originally concealed with the fire attribute was now revealed to everyone.

Black fire swirled, and evil energy soared to the sky. Anyone with even a slight understanding of evil soul masters could see the evil aura that had penetrated deep into Ma Xiaotao's bones.

"How is that possible? An evil soul master? A contestant from Shrek Academy is actually an evil soul master?"

"No, it's impossible, right? It should be that Ma Rulong playing tricks! This must be fake, this is Shrek Academy!"

"Not necessarily, after all, that Ma Xiaotao seemed a bit off before, and she seemed to have crippled or killed several people."

"Yes, yes..."

The audience outside the arena was in an uproar. Although Ma Rulong was initially somewhat surprised, he did not hesitate any further.

He directly reversed the giant sword in his hand, and the white side faced Ma Xiaotao, emitting a blazing white sword light, which then rose to become golden.

Along with the golden sword light that shone to the extreme, a surge of light aura swept towards Ma Xiaotao.

Light and darkness restrain each other, but when the darkness is not pure enough, normally the light attribute will be the nemesis of the dark attribute, and vice versa.

However, at this moment, the evil energy within Ma Xiaotao, under her instinctive control, merged with the invading dark power, and the pitch-black phoenix flames erupted, contending with the light power of the Sword of Judgment, even gaining the upper hand.

But at this moment, there was one person who could no longer sit still.

Xuan Zi's eyes widened in anger, and he shouted, "How dare you, villain!"

The terrifying aura of soul power, mixed with mental power, instantly swept the entire arena. Everyone's breathing stagnated at this moment, their minds went blank, and the previous chaotic noise was swept away. Even those Titled Douluos were affected.

After all, Xuan Zi's cultivation was infinitely close to the limit level of Super Douluo, the highest combat power among the crowd.

Several Guardian Douluos of the Star Luo Empire's Consecration Hall only had time to form a barrier with soul power to protect the Star Luo Emperor himself.

Unlike the uncontrollable martial soul mutation caused by the Sword of Judgment in the original story, Ma Xiaotao's martial soul had completely and stably transformed into a Dark Phoenix at this time.

Faced with this situation, Xuan Zi naturally could not sit idly by, otherwise it would be an extremely major blow to the reputation of Shrek Academy.

Those powerful Titled Douluos who could not be influenced were actually unimportant. After all, there were many dirty secrets in various countries, and everyone knew it well. There were unspoken rules, and they would not be discussed openly.

The weaker soul masters and civilians, under the dual influence of Xuan Zi's mental power and soul power, would also spontaneously forget this memory due to the body's self-protection mechanism, suppressing the impact of the incident to the greatest extent.

Looking at the Star Luo Emperor's gaze on the stage, Tiansha Douluo could only helplessly say to Xuan Zi: "Calm down, Pavilion Master Gluttonous Douluo."

"Hmph, if anything happens to my disciple because of that evil soul tool, I will never forgive any of you present."

Xuan Zi directly interrupted Tiansha Douluo's words, and as he said this, Xuan Zi's gaze also turned to the members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, who were still conscious under the protection of the ninth-level soul tool master, Ma Lao, not far away.

In a few words, Xuan Zi directly attributed the impact of this incident to the soul tool of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy having a problem.

And next, all that was needed was to take away the Sword of Judgment and bring Ma Xiaotao back to Shrek Academy, and then there would be no way to verify the truth, and no one would be able to seize this weakness to say anything against Shrek Academy.

This was also why Xuan Zi did not choose to directly violate the rules and interrupt the competition on the stage, because he could also see that Ma Xiaotao's condition at this time was very stable, and could even be said to be stable in a very strange way.

Watching the changes happening to Ma Xiaotao, Ma Rulong only felt that his heartbeat seemed to have skipped a beat, but having reached this point, he had no way out. He suddenly rushed forward, and the Sword of Judgment in his hand slashed fiercely towards Ma Xiaotao.

Then, his momentum stopped.

He looked down in disbelief.

At some point, a black, small phoenix condensed from phoenix evil fire.

Had broken through his chest and abdomen, leaving a hole that pierced through.

Just now, his attention was all on the Sword of Judgment, and his own soul power had been consumed by seventy or eighty percent, unable to activate the Invincible Shield for defense.

It was a soul bone skill. Under the cover of the phoenix evil fire contending with the light of the Sword of Judgment just now, Ma Xiaotao absorbed dark energy and converted it into soul power to activate the soul bone, thereby attacking and killing Ma Rulong, who was not good at close combat.