A rare look of gravity appeared in Di Tian's golden eyes.
His handsome face tightened slightly, and his fingers rested unconsciously on the armrest of his seat.
That little girl named Xu Xiaoyan... If he were to go up and fight her, he feared he would be directly controlled and unable to move.
What kind of mechanism is this? It's too underhanded, right?
Di Tian's mouth twitched slightly. He felt that as the dignified Beast God, a being who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, it was somewhat absurd for him to have such thoughts about a human girl's Domain skill.
And it wasn't just Xu Xiaoyan's absolute Domain; even the overlapping of Xiao Xiao's three Domains was quite difficult to deal with.
Di Tian took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, complex emotions surging within his golden eyes.
These humans... are truly too exaggerated.
He felt that he had only been staying peacefully in the Star Dou Great Forest for ten thousand years, so why had the outside World changed so much?
Back when Tang San and his group were fighting on the Douluo Continent, at least they didn't affect the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest. He, Di Tian, could still steadily guard the Lake of Life and watch the changes in the outside World with cold eyes.
But now...
Di Tian's gaze swept over the powerhouses from different factions in the audience, then fell back onto the two figures recovering their states on the competition stage, a sense of crisis he had never felt before rising in his heart.
If everyone possessed the talent and strength of Xiao Xiao and Xu Xiaoyan, then even if all the Vicious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were added together, they probably wouldn't be enough.
Not to mention that there was also a Tang Wulin in this academy who was suspected to be the Reincarnation of the Dragon God.
Even if he could defeat those human Geniuses, he would have to kneel before the Reincarnation of the Dragon God. After all, that was Lord Dragon God, and he could not afford to be the slightest bit disrespectful.
Di Tian slowly leaned back into his chair, his golden eyes narrowing slightly, his gaze filled with complex thoughts.
During the time he was deep in thought, the scoreboard above the competition stage changed again, and the list of personnel on the right began to scroll once more.
Names flashed alternately, and after a few breaths, two new lines of names appeared steadily at the very top of the list.
Second match!
[Blood God Army · Ling Luochen] VS [War God Hall · Wu Siduo]
When Ling Luochen saw her name and the name opposite her listed together on the light screen, her heart couldn't help but sink slightly.
It was said that when school first started, Wu Siduo's strength was basically second only to Tang Wulin in the entire class, and her talent was extremely high.
Moreover, Wu Siduo came from the War God Hall, so she definitely possessed a Domain skill.
Although Ling Luochen had learned some things in the Blood God Army, she had absolutely no idea what Wu Siduo's Domain skill was or what its effects were.
This match was all about information asymmetry.
Ling Luochen took a deep breath, a look of seriousness flashing in her cold eyes.
She walked quickly onto the competition stage and stood on the other side, her gaze falling on the agile figure opposite her.
Wu Siduo also stepped onto the competition stage at the same time. Her figure was slender and light, her eyes filled with calm Battle Intent as she nodded slightly towards Ling Luochen.
After the two stood still, a line of text lit up on the light screen above the audience.
[First match rules: Mecha battle]
Seeing this rule description, Ling Luochen's brows couldn't help but furrow slightly. Mecha battle... this was her weak point.
After all, Ling Luochen was human, not a god. Although she knew the power of Spirit Tools, she had only mastered them to a certain extent; she had spent more of her time on her Spirit.
Just at this moment, Lin Feng stood on one side of the competition stage, raised his hand slightly, and waved his slender fingers gently.
Two pitch-black rays of light appeared from his Storage Soul Tool and landed on the open spaces on both sides of the competition stage. They were exactly two identical black-rank mecha, both seven meters tall.
"Board the mecha."
Ling Luochen took a deep breath, walked quickly to one of the mecha, and leaped lightly into the cockpit.
On the other side, Wu Siduo also entered the mecha cleanly and efficiently.
The two black mecha stood up on the competition stage simultaneously, but the fluidity of their movements was vastly different.
The moment Wu Siduo's mecha stood up, the entire motion was as smooth as flowing water, without the slightest hesitation or wobbling, as if that steel body were a part of her own body.
Although there was no major problem with Ling Luochen's operation, compared to Wu Siduo, it was still quite lacking.
On the competition stage, the two mecha began to engage. Wu Siduo's mecha was like a bolt of black lightning, drawing a sharp arc across the stage, arriving in front of Ling Luochen's mecha almost the instant it had steadied itself.
Then, she drew the sword from within the mecha and slashed directly at Ling Luochen. Ling Luochen hurriedly parried, but it didn't take long before she was defeated.
The gap between the two was simply too large. First match, Wu Siduo wins.
"Trash, can't even control a mecha properly."
At this moment, Xuan Zi looked at the scene before him and couldn't help but snort coldly, his tone full of hatred. Ling Luochen, that traitor, hadn't done her undercover mission well, and now she was making a fool of herself on the competition stage; if that wasn't trash, what was?
After Lin Feng restored both of them to their peak states, the second match appeared.
[Second match rules: Comprehensive Battle]
Ling Luochen decided that no matter what, she would give her all in this battle, even if giving her all might not yield any results.
Wu Siduo lowered her posture slightly, her hands hanging naturally at her sides, and her entire person had entered a state of combat readiness.
The instant the match began, a layer of intense ice-blue light erupted from Ling Luochen's body. The temperature in the air dropped suddenly, and a layer of white ice mist spread rapidly from her as the center, enveloping the entire competition stage like a surging tide.
As the ice mist rose, visibility was drastically reduced, and the entire competition stage seemed to turn into a vast expanse of white.
Xuan Zi saw this scene and snorted coldly again, his mouth curling in a disdainful arc. "Flashy Spirit Ability, what's the use of pulling these tricks?"
However, Ling Luochen's actions did not stop there. Under the cover of that ice mist, her figure quietly disappeared from Wu Siduo's field of vision.
Immediately after, pieces of crystalline ice began to condense in the air around Wu Siduo. Those ice crystals floated in mid-air, and the surface of each ice crystal reflected the figure of Ling Luochen.
Countless Ling Luochens appeared within the ice crystals, whether in front or behind, left or right, making it impossible for anyone to distinguish which one was the real body.
The next instant, countless ice spikes shot out from those ice crystals simultaneously, like a dense rain of arrows, pelting towards the position where Wu Siduo was!
However, Wu Siduo's reaction was astonishingly fast; she responded almost entirely based on intuition and instinct.
Just a moment before the ice spikes reached her, she lunged forward, her body suddenly expanding and changing in mid-air, transforming into a strange giant tiger with a translucent texture throughout its body.
The Hell White Tiger opened its large mouth and let out a deafening roar! Roar—!!
The roar carried a powerful wave of air that surged in all directions, shattering countless ice spikes in mid-air into powder, which then fell down as fine, scattered ice crystals.
And just as Wu Siduo broke through, a ten-meter-tall ice giant, condensed entirely from ice, slowly stood up, its massive body exuding a chilling cold.
The ice giant took a step, and the entire competition stage trembled slightly beneath its feet, the aura it radiated being oppressive.
Yan Shaozhe sat in front of the light screen of the Counterfeit Shrek Academy, watching the scene where Ling Luochen summoned the ice giant, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, his eyes filled with heartache and regret.
Ling Luochen was originally a student of their Shrek Academy... If they hadn't sent her away back then... Yan Shaozhe shook his head, his heart filled with bitterness.
On the competition stage, the ice giant had already collided with the Hell White Tiger. A giant fist crashed down, but the Hell White Tiger dodged nimbly to the side, while its front claws swept out with the force of breaking through the air, carving several deep claw marks into the ice giant's chest, sending ice fragments flying.
Each collision released a powerful wave of air that surged towards the audience.
Xie Xie sat in his seat, shivered violently, wrapped his arms around himself, and couldn't help but mutter, "So cold... Is the cold air from this ice giant too exaggerated? I can feel it even from this far away..."
Ling Luochen did not stop there. She condensed Ultimate Ice in her hands once more and pushed it violently towards the Hell White Tiger. That ball of ice-blue light quickly solidified in mid-air, transforming into an ice-sculpted giant tiger almost identical to the Hell White Tiger, which bared its fangs and brandished its claws as it pounced towards Wu Siduo.
Ling Luochen controlled both the ice giant and the ice-sculpted Hell White Tiger, these two behemoths, as they fought and maneuvered against Wu Siduo's Hell White Tiger. For a moment, it actually formed a two-on-one situation, forcing Wu Siduo to retreat and dodge.
Immediately after, Ling Luochen took out two specific Puppets given by the academy from her bosom and threw them onto the ground. The moment the Puppets hit the ground, they expanded and grew larger, turning into humanoid Puppets. Ling Luochen intended to use the Blood God Army's battle formation, but before using it, she needed to accumulate power first. The current ice giant and ice Hell White Tiger should be able to hold off Wu Siduo for a short while, right?
She only needed fifteen seconds, just fifteen seconds, and she could activate the battle formation!
Wu Siduo was naturally aware of what Ling Luochen intended to do, but she had no intention of letting Ling Luochen accumulate power. The aura around her body changed suddenly, and a layer of pale silver light spread outwards from her body as the center.
This was Wu Siduo's Domain skill, Nether Illusion Realm. After using this Domain, Wu Siduo would enter an ethereal state, allowing her to pass through physical and energy attacks, as well as pass through obstacles, lasting for ten seconds.
Everyone's gaze remained on the stage. Although the stage was full of ice mist, under Lin Feng's manipulation, everyone could still see the match clearly. They saw the ice giant smash towards Wu Siduo.
"Why isn't she dodging?" Tai Tan looked at this scene and couldn't help but be stunned. If this thing were to smash into him, he felt it wouldn't feel good either, but this little girl named Wu Siduo actually wasn't dodging?
They saw the ice giant's attack pass directly through Wu Siduo's body, and the ice spikes emitted by the ice-sculpted Hell White Tiger also passed through her body; all attacks were ineffective!
Why not dodge? Because she wasn't afraid!
The next moment, Wu Siduo's figure appeared in front of Ling Luochen's chest, her sharp claws needing only one step to finish off Ling Luochen.
"... I lost." Ling Luochen couldn't help but sigh. In this battle, as expected, she was still powerless.
Everyone didn't look down on Ling Luochen because of her defeat. After all, if Ling Luochen's moves were placed elsewhere, they could be said to be quite monstrous. Especially when the original Shrek Seven Devils saw this scene, this was completely at a level that could crush them.
It was just that her opponent was even more monstrous.
The rules for the third match quickly appeared. [Third match rules: Weapon battle]
Wu Siduo chose sharp claws, while Ling Luochen chose a long spear. Wu Siduo originally possessed the Hell Civet Spirit, so she was handy with this weapon, and soon, she took the victory again.
Wu Siduo became the first person to achieve three consecutive victories.
Tai Tan looked at the two figures on the competition stage and couldn't help but exclaim, his face full of amazement. "This battle is truly awesome... Are humans nowadays this capable of fighting?"
"I wonder how Xiao Qi is doing?"
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