Wu Siduo ultimately had to use her Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
She would be unable to participate in the upcoming team battle, but the good news was that Ye Wu had also been severely injured by her and likely couldn't participate either.
Second individual match: Ye Wu defeated.
The third-grade team members fell into collective silence.
The class monitor, Li Qiankun, looked at the vice-class monitor, Mo Jue.
"You go. It would be too embarrassing if we didn't win a single individual match."
Mo Jue silently left the team and stepped onto the stage.
Seeing the opponent who had taken the stage, her gaze fluctuated slightly.
Su Ming!
"Begin the match!"
Both sides released their Spirit Rings.
Around Mo Jue's body, four purple Spirit Rings emerged one after another.
She was eighteen years old this year, with 49th-rank Spirit Power. Most importantly, she had already completed ten pieces of her Battle Armor. She only needed to break through to the 50th rank to fuse her fifth Spirit Ring and create the final piece of Battle Armor, achieving the status of a One-Word Battle Armor Master!
Black feathers appeared amongst her hair, spreading down her long locks to the front of her body. Her aura also became viscous.
Her Martial Soul was the Black Swan, skilled in curses and long-range attacks.
Opposite her, Su Ming's three purple, one black Spirit Rings appeared.
Without a word, he threw a punch first.
Mo Jue frowned.
Facing Su Ming's fist radiance, she utilized her third Spirit Skill.
Dark Erosion.
A dark green halo appeared, gradually dissolving Su Ming's fist radiance.
Su Ming frowned and began his 'operations'.
Supreme Shockwave Fist!
A punch mixed with elemental power directly shattered Mo Jue's Dark Erosion halo.
Mo Jue's expression changed slightly, and she activated all ten pieces of her Battle Armor.
Her Spirit Power fluctuations instantly broke through the threshold of a Spirit King and nearly reached the level of a Spirit Emperor.
"Third Spirit Skill, Dark Erosion!"
She activated Dark Erosion again.
Watching the dark green halo and the fist radiance dissipate simultaneously, Mo Jue didn't feel relieved but instead grew more heavy-hearted.
Su Ming clearly hadn't exerted his full strength yet.
In her view, as long as Su Ming hadn't fused any Battle Armor components, he wasn't being serious.
That's right, an outstanding blacksmith like Su Ming, already a Spirit Ancestor, couldn't possibly not have Battle Armor components.
Her fourth Spirit Ring flashed, and a spear appeared in her hand. The spear was dark green, with three skulls at its tip. As the three skulls lit up, three halos also descended from above.
They represented three curse effects: Weakness, Fear, and Pain.
The three halos covered the entire arena.
Weakness, Fear, Pain—threefold curses descended, yet Su Ming merely frowned slightly.
Mo Jue's face changed dramatically.
Because Su Ming was almost completely unaffected!
How was this possible?
Su Ming grinned.
You might not believe it, but someone tried to curse me, the Son of the Plane.
He let out a loud shout, further increasing his 'operations', beginning to compress elemental power.
Supreme Shockwave Fist!
Wherever the fist radiance went, the halos shattered completely.
Su Ming threw three more punches in succession, each fist radiance becoming more and more condensed.
"Impossible!"
Li Qiankun stood up directly, watching as Mo Jue was engulfed by the fist radiance, his fighting spirit almost shattered.
"How can a mere Spirit Ancestor, without fused Battle Armor, possess power at this level?"
You're this strong without Battle Armor? Wouldn't you be even more unstoppable with it?
The third-grade area fell into complete silence.
Su Ming turned and slowly walked off the stage.
Mo Jue, engulfed by the fist radiance, was already severely injured and unable to participate in the subsequent team battle.
For the two-on-two battles, the first match featured Tang Wulin and Gu Yue.
With one melee and one long-range controller, they barely managed to win this battle.
The second match saw Su Ming take the stage again, accompanied by Yue Zhengyu.
The battle lasted only five minutes before Yue Zhengyu couldn't help but exclaim.
"Feels great to win by lying down."
If Li Qiankun's Martial Soul hadn't been so troublesome, the battle wouldn't have lasted five minutes.
Unfortunately, they still lost.
With consecutive losses in the individual and two-on-two battles, the third-grade homeroom teacher also announced the forfeit of the team battle.
Mo Jue and Li Qiankun, their two aces, had been utterly demoralized by Su Ming.
That deceptively simple Supreme Shockwave Fist was just too overpowered. Just when you managed to block one fist radiance, you'd find he had an even stronger one.
And if you managed to block that stronger fist, then congratulations, you had to face a sky full of fist radiances.
"Mo Jue's Black Swan and Li Qiankun's Qiankun Sphere are both quite good."
By fighting Mo Jue and Li Qiankun head-on, Su Ming copied their Martial Souls. Among them, the Black Swan's curse ability could help the Douluo 2 Su Ming learn Necromancy, while Li Qiankun's Qiankun Sphere could help Su Ming understand space and refine his Domain of Chaos.
Coupled with the Titan Giant Ape from Yuanen Yehui, the Nether White Tiger from Wu Siduo, and the Blue Silver Emperor from Tang Wulin copied a month ago, it was temporarily sufficient for Su Ming's cultivation needs.
These Martial Souls nearly fulfilled all of Su Ming's requirements for comprehensive improvement.
Simultaneously, Su Ming had also promoted himself during the forging competition.
"Spirit Fusion method, I wonder how much faith it will bring me."
It took the Sea God a full thousand years to consolidate his Sea God position. Was that thousand years purely spent collecting faith, or was it wasted on the path of unifying the seas?
Undoubtedly, the faith of the entire sea is vast, but humans in the sea are a tiny minority, far less than the population of a single city on the continent. So, the Sea God's initial foundation of faith was actually the sea spirit beasts and the sea itself.
He didn't have many means of stimulation.
Su Ming, now repeatedly stimulating the spirits of Spirit Masters across the continent, causing them to continuously generate high-intensity faith, is collecting faith at a rate at least comparable to the Sea God during the last hundred years of that millennium.
"His fortune has grown stronger."
Lao Tang sighed.
He could now confirm that Su Ming was the Child of Fortune.
The initial fortune might not have been apparent, but as he gained experience and showed his talent, more and more fortune would gather around him, eventually forming an unstoppable torrent.
"It shouldn't be. Could it be that the Abyss is pressing too hard, causing the Plane to nurture a second Child of Fortune?"
That doesn't make sense.
The Plane's fortune had been completely harvested by him. Even if it nurtured a second Child of Fortune, it should be stunted.
"Right, Su Ming also has the identity of the Son of the Plane."
Lao Tang felt he had found the answer.
"Of all times, Su Ming appears just as Wulin is born and the Ten-Thousand-Year Plan is coming to fruition."
"Fortunately, Su Ming's personality is aloof. Apart from showing off during forging, he isn't active at other times. Wulin still has the opportunity to gather resources and grow, plus he can obtain the status of Child of Nature in the future..."
It's okay.
Lao Tang breathed a sigh of relief and gave up on targeting Su Ming, this Son of the Plane and Child of Fortune.
It was too risky.
He was now just a fragment of divine sense, with limited power, which should be used on Tang Wulin's cultivation.
"Hmm, the emergence of the Spirit Fusion method is quite timely."
After receiving a communication from Zhen Hua, Su Ming began his next plan.
The Spirit Fusion method was the opportunity provided to him by Feng Wuyu.
He had originally been struggling with how to suddenly transition to the environment of the Ice Fire Two Eyes.
Because the Douluo 2 version of himself had already solved the environmental requirements, he wasn't that eager to go to the Ice Fire Two Eyes to cultivate anymore, so he couldn't be bothered to think of a way.
After all, the Tang Sect in this era of Douluo 3 did offer some immortal herbs for external exchange.
Under these circumstances, his absolute need to enter the Ice Fire Two Eyes was infinitely reduced.
Of course, since Feng Wuyu provided this opportunity, he wouldn't waste it.
"Elder Feng is a Sacred Blacksmith. If even he can't learn it, other blacksmiths certainly won't be able to. I am the only one who knows the Spirit Fusion method. A few months from now, I'll announce that I have perfected this method, but it requires the power of ice and fire, possibly needing to utilize a special environment. Then I can forcibly break through the Tang Sect's blockade and gain entry to the Ice Fire Two Eyes."
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