While the discussions on the stage were heated, the battle in the arena had already begun.
Huo Yuhao and his two teammates, and Dai Huabin and his two teammates, seemed evenly matched. Wang Dong faced Dai Huabin, Huo Yuhao faced Cui Yajie, and Xiao Xiao faced Zhu Lu. None of them fell behind, and all were able to parry attacks.
Zhu Ziyang finally witnessed the Goddess of Light Butterfly and couldn't help but exclaim that it truly deserved to be called one of the most beautiful Beast Spirits.
Behind Wang Dong, a pair of blue butterfly wings unfolded. The color at the ends of the forewings constantly changed from dark blue to azure blue to light blue. The entire wing surface was like a blue sky inlaid with a series of bright halos, forming a V-shape, bringing light to the human world.
Its shape and color were of unparalleled and impeccable beauty. The entire wing surface resembled white waves surging on a deep blue sea, with magnificent colors and patterns of purplish-blue. The whole wing surface was like a blue sky inlaid with a series of bright halos, sometimes dark blue, sometimes azure blue, sometimes light blue. The white patterns on the wings were like embedded jewels, shining brightly and captivatingly.
Such magnificent wings certainly lived up to the title of the most beautiful butterfly.
However, what Zhu Ziyang noticed was Wang Dong's spirit ring: one yellow and one purple! Indeed, the Clear Sky Sect's successor was extraordinary. His second spirit ring was a thousand-year one. He was the first Spirit Master Zhu Ziyang had seen, besides himself, whose second spirit ring was a thousand-year one.
Wang Dong's head-on confrontation with Dai Huabin showed no signs of falling behind. In fact, relying on the Goddess of Light Butterfly's ability to fly, he subtly suppressed his opponent, which greatly surprised Du Weilun, who had favored Dai Huabin's team.
The battle between Xiao Xiao and Zhu Lu was also a match of equals. Zhu Lu was the legitimate daughter of the Zhu family from the Star Luo Empire and Dai Huabin's fiancée, with a Spirit of the Spirit Cat, a typical agility-attack system Spirit Master.
Although Xiao Xiao's spirit power was lower than Zhu Lu's, she was a control system Spirit Master who naturally countered agility-attack types. Furthermore, both of her Spirits were typical control-type Spirits, and her Spirit Abilities greatly frustrated Zhu Lu, preventing her from fully utilizing her agility-attack system advantages.
As for Huo Yuhao and Cui Yajie, there was no suspense. How could Huo Yuhao, as the favored son of destiny, be suppressed?
Cui Yajie's Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit, though also a mental-type Spirit, held no advantage against Huo Yuhao, who possessed a pure mental-type Spirit, except for their spirit power levels.
From Zhu Ziyang's perspective, Huo Yuhao's eyes merely lit up, and then Cui Yajie froze for a second, her activated first spirit ring abruptly stopping. This was a clear sign that her Spirit Ability casting had been interrupted.
Zhu Ziyang looked curious. He wanted to know how Huo Yuhao had interrupted Cui Yajie's Spirit Ability. Was it a Spirit Ability? If so, what was his Spirit Ability?
The situation on the competition field suddenly changed. Dai Huabin, who was confronting Wang Dong, suddenly retreated to avoid Wang Dong's attack, exposing Cui Yajie behind him to Wang Dong.
Wang Dong seized the opportunity and directly unleashed his second Spirit Ability, attacking Dai Huabin and Cui Yajie with full force. Cui Yajie, knowing she couldn't dodge, surprisingly used her second Spirit Ability directly on Huo Yuhao, aiming for a mutual destruction.
Just as the referee was about to intervene to save both Huo Yuhao and Cui Yajie, Huo Yuhao's figure suddenly dodged Cui Yajie's attack with an extremely strange footwork, while Cui Yajie was rescued in time by the referee and withdrew from the arena.
Dai Huabin's side was down one person.
After taking Wang Dong's second Spirit Ability head-on, Dai Huabin was enraged. He couldn't believe that he, a dignified Spirit Elder, was being suppressed by a Spirit Grandmaster. This was unacceptable to his proud nature, so he directly unleashed his third Spirit Ability.
Under the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, Dai Huabin surprisingly went one-on-two, suppressing both Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Initially, Dai Huabin, relying on a brief burst of power, was able to continuously threaten Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
However, Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao's coordination was incredibly seamless. After several defensive counterattacks, they managed to outlast Dai Huabin's offensive, gradually turning the tide and seizing the initiative.
After gaining the initiative, Wang Dong once again unleashed his second Spirit Ability, a blue laser beam pouring from his butterfly wings towards Dai Huabin. Dai Huabin hastily counterattacked, suddenly releasing his second Spirit Ability, White Tiger Light Wave, which collided with Wang Dong's second Spirit Ability.
One was fully prepared, the other hastily met the challenge. A Spirit Grandmaster's full-power strike met a Spirit Elder's hurried counterattack. As the two great Spirit Abilities collided, amidst a terrifying roar, Wang Dong floated up, his wings spread in the air, effortlessly neutralizing the impact.
Dai Huabin, however, was not so lucky. His legs sank knee-deep into the ground, and his upper body leaned back. His entire body glowed golden, and his White Tiger Vajra Transformation suffered a tremendous impact.
The current situation seemed very clear. Dai Huabin, with two fists, was no match for four hands and was suppressed by Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Zhu Lu couldn't deal with Xiao Xiao in a short time, and the battle was deadlocked.
However, Huo Yuhao's team had a clear advantage of three against two. As long as they dragged out the time and consumed their spirit power, they would achieve the final victory.
Dai Huabin launched several more counterattacks, all repelled by Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's flexible tactics. Not only did he fail to harm them, but he also accumulated more injuries on himself.
He finally realized he couldn't continue like this. He decided not to hide his strength anymore and roared, "If you have the guts, come at me head-on!"
A hint of disdain appeared at the corner of Wang Dong's mouth as he sneered, "Do you even understand what tactics are? How can you be the son of Duke White Tiger and not even understand tactics? You're utterly useless."
Dai Huabin's eyes gleamed with ferocity, burning with rage, but he did not attack again. Instead, he made a move that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong found utterly baffling: he deactivated the effect of his White Tiger Vajra Transformation and immediately ran towards Zhu Lu.
Seeing this, Zhu Lu on the other side also unhesitatingly abandoned Xiao Xiao and ran towards Dai Huabin.
Their actions left Huo Yuhao and his two teammates utterly bewildered, but Zhu Ziyang in the stands had already understood the purpose of Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.
"Here it comes, the legendary symbol of the Star Luo Empire, the Hell White Tiger!" Qian Duoduo and Cai Meier both exclaimed with solemn expressions.
Although the White Tiger Dai family was no longer the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, the Hell White Tiger had always been recognized by the citizens of the Star Luo Empire as the Empire's totem!
This was because the White Tiger Dai family had ruled the Star Luo Empire for nearly ten thousand years, and the Star Luo Empire's most prosperous period was also achieved under the Dai family's governance.
Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, who were about to converge, and suddenly felt a strong palpitation. He immediately realized their purpose and exclaimed, "Are they going to use a Spirit Fusion Ability?"
Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, who had converged with Huo Yuhao, also showed solemn expressions upon hearing this. They had previously encountered Spirit Masters with Spirit Fusion Abilities and understood their power.
As Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu embraced, black and white energy light waves appeared and disappeared, and a gigantic White Tiger, over two meters tall and eight meters long, appeared on the arena. The White Tiger was entirely transparent, with white fur and black stripes, purple eyes with double pupils, and its gaze coldly fixed on Huo Yuhao and his two teammates.
After the Hell White Tiger appeared, it charged towards Huo Yuhao and his two teammates with a terrifying, man-eating aura, without hesitation. Facing the irresistible momentum of the Hell White Tiger, Huo Yuhao and his two teammates made a move that even the teachers in the stands found a bit perplexing.
Xiao Xiao alone stood in the path of the Hell White Tiger. The small figure of the girl appeared so helpless and pitiful before the gigantic White Tiger. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong surprisingly emulated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu from earlier, embracing each other tightly.
This scene made everyone feel a little amused. What were they doing? Imitating others to use a Spirit Fusion Ability? But was a Spirit Fusion Ability that easy to possess? It was truly laughable.
The referee teacher was already ready to save people at any moment.
Zhu Ziyang's eyes twitched as he watched Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's actions; he seemed to have already seen the outcome. A female teacher, Zhou Yi, the head teacher of Class One for new students, shared his thoughts, a slight smile gracing her lips.
After Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong embraced, to the astonished gazes of the teachers, their figures vanished, replaced by a giant eye radiating blue, gold, and purple light. The moment the eye appeared, it instantly shot out a dazzling and terrifying beam of light, meeting the Hell White Tiger's paw!
Xiao Xiao was fortunate enough to face two great Spirit Fusion Abilities head-on.
The referee teacher timely rescued Xiao Xiao from the stage, otherwise, the collision of the two great Spirit Fusion Abilities would have been enough to crush her to dust.
Cai Meier and Qian Duoduo could no longer sit still. They abruptly stood up, looking at the scene in disbelief. It was hard to imagine witnessing a clash of two great Spirit Fusion Abilities during the freshman assessment.
As the collision between the Hell White Tiger and the giant eye concluded, the stage finally quieted down, revealing five figures: the exhausted Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, the exhausted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, and Du Weilun, who had taken the brunt of two Spirit Fusion Abilities.
Du Weilun was quite disheveled at this moment, with eight spirit rings circling around him, but his entire body had turned golden, and he had five claw marks on his back. On the ground in front of him was a thirty-meter-long, half-meter-deep gully, shimmering with dazzling golden light, gleaming brightly under the sun.
He was disheveled, but also pleasantly surprised.
The outcome of the match was already very clear.
Everyone in the stands could see that if Du Weilun hadn't intervened in time to block the two Spirit Fusion Abilities, the result of this freshman assessment would have been two dead and two severely injured! Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu would have surely died, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong would have been severely injured!
The freshman assessment concluded, and in the history of Shrek Academy, the first champion team with a one-ring Spirit Master emerged.
"I can't believe Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong could use a Spirit Fusion Ability!" Jiang Nannan exclaimed, "They probably didn't know each other before, yet in just three months, they could form a bond intimate enough to create a Spirit Fusion Ability. It seems they truly have a special connection!"
As someone who possessed a Spirit Fusion Ability, Jiang Nannan was keenly aware of how difficult it was to form one. After all, she and Zhang Lexuan had known each other for over three years before they could finally form a Spirit Fusion Ability!
"Haha! Indeed!" Zhu Ziyang nodded in agreement, but his heart was in turmoil due to Electrolux's words!