Volume 1: Induction Section 38: Voices Strike West

After the meeting in the evening, Zhang Su's eyes from the nine major families, taking advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, ran back to his room early, locked the door tightly, for fear that others would come to find trouble, but fortunately, this Tiansoul Castle belongs to the territory of the Soul Hunting Company, and the newcomer battle ring competition is about to go, but no one deliberately ran to Zhang Su's room to find trouble, Zhang Su spent a sleepless night peacefully, and the day later, the rookie war officially began.

The location of the rookie battle was chosen on the dilapidated golf course in the courtyard behind the Heavenly Soul Castle, which was flat and wide, accommodating hundreds of people, so Zheng Tianqin arranged for people to temporarily set up spectator seats, referee seats and guest seats on the broken course overnight.

The three seats are distributed in a triangular shape, and in the middle is the rookie battle ring, which is a large round platform formed by interlocking wooden planks of different lengths side by side, half a meter high from the ground, with a diameter of about forty or fifty meters, and the following is a joint reinforcement with stone piers and wooden piers.

According to the regulations, both sides of the competition should enter from the east and west steps, and at the end of the game, they should leave the arena from the north and south steps, and the body will be judged as a loser if the body falls into the ring, and the soul is seriously injured or loses the ability to resist, and admitting defeat is also considered a loss.

"In the first game, Cao Xuanqing vs. Cao Meng."

Zheng Tianqin personally presided over the rookie battle, and played the role of announcer in the rookie battle, shouting down with an ethereal soul voice, announcing the start of the game to everyone in the venue.

The two sides of the first battle are from the Cao family, it is the duel between Cao Xuanqing of the Cao family who drew the No. 1 lottery and Cao Meng of the Cao family who drew the No. 2 lot, and by chance, the two people from the Cao family actually met each other in the first round, which is more like a civil war within the Cao family, and the two sides seem to have gambled on the status and personal dignity of the Cao family and stepped into the ring with great momentum.

From the discussion of everyone, Zhang Su learned that the son of the head of the Cao family had already exceeded the age limit of the Pu family's martial arts competition, so the Cao family first sent Cao Xuanqing, the eldest son of the second elder's family, to the soul hunting company to participate in the competition, because Cao Xuanqing's status in the Cao family was not high, and he was not particularly favored, so this time the Cao family sent the second son of the eldest elder's family Cao Meng to participate in the competition. As a result, I didn't expect the first game of the first round to face each other with the two sons of the Cao family.

Cao Meng is one year older than Cao Xuanqing, and he has cultivated for one year more than Cao Xuanqing, three months ago, when Cao Xuanqing was still a junior great soul master, Cao Meng had already reached the level of an intermediate great soul master.

However, since Cao Xuanqing came to the soul hunting company to participate in the newcomer training, he has locked himself in the soul building room almost every day and kept practicing, the ability to increase the absorption of soul power in the soul building room coupled with Cao Xuanqing's hard work, Cao Xuanqing's strength can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds, and he has risen two levels one after another, and he has been on par with the strength of Cao Meng, who has entered the senior soul master, and this speed of progress surprised Cao Meng.

There is not much nonsense in the battle between the two of the Cao family, and the two people competing within the clan seem to be calm on the surface, but in fact, there is an undercurrent surging and hidden murderous intentions, because these young people have been competing with each other for the status of the clan since they were children, and the grudges between each other have long been buried deep in their hearts.

Cao Xuanqing and Cao Meng came and went, advancing and retreating with each other, and Cao Xuanqing used all the eyes of Zhige, soul mimicry, and soul division as soon as he came up, and he had no intention of keeping his hands at all.

And Cao Meng seems to have similar soul skills, and at the same time released the three major soul skill combinations of the Cao family, if there is any difference in the abilities of the two, it is only that there are some differences in the cultivation of soul mimicry.

Cao Xuanqing mimicked the wolf soul and tore at Cao Meng.

Cao Meng mimicked the tiger soul, raised his sharp claws and slapped at the wolf soul that was rushing towards him.

Cao Xuanqing controlled the changes of the wolf soul, mimicked the appearance of a lion in front of Cao Meng, opened his bloody mouth, and bit Cao Meng's tiger soul in one bite.

Cao Meng's tiger soul transformed into an elephant again, stretched open the lion soul's big mouth, and threw a fierce whip at the lion soul with its big nose.

The souls of the two sides changed into various forms to fight each other, Zhang Su seemed to recall the scene when Sun Wukong and Erlang God chased and fought in the cartoon.

Until Cao Meng's soul transformed into a giant great white shark wandering in the soul dust, Cao Xuanqing bucked the trend, and actually transformed his soul into a flying ant colony composed of small ants, and wrapped Cao Meng's transformation into a great white shark tightly wrapped up, Cao Meng was really invincible, and when his soul was constantly gnawed by the ant colony, he finally shouted out the voice of admitting defeat, Cao Xuanqing took back the ant colony, and slowly walked off the ring without looking back.

"The third layer of soul mimicry, the Celestial Ant!"

Pu Zitong sat next to Zhang Su and said in surprise.

"Celestial ants?" Zhang repeated in confusion.

"Soul mimicry is a stage-type soul skill, cultivating to the soul mimicry level one is equivalent to cultivating a third-order soul skill, and what is transformed is the jackal, tiger and leopard, and the second is equivalent to the fifth-order soul skill, the giant lion, elephant, giant bear, shark and those huge forms can also be conjured, the triple is equivalent to the seventh-order soul skill, as big as Kunpeng, as small as the ant colony, they are all extremely terrifying existences, plus his combined soul skill soul division and resistance, he can raise the soul mimicry assistance to the ninth-order or even higher soul skill level, Coupled with the secret technique of the Eye of Zhige, which can see through the flaws of the enemy, Cao Xuanqing's strength is no longer comparable. Pu Zitong explained.

"To make you all admire like this, Cao Xuanqing has become very tricky." Zhang Su responded with a smile.

"According to the grouping, I can't touch him for the time being, you better pay attention to yourself, if you draw someone else, it's okay to say, but I will draw Ye Liao's old enemy, I can't save you this time, if you can't beat you, just admit defeat, don't wait for him to be ruthless to you." Pu Zitong reminded.

"yes, I see." Zhang Su didn't say anything big, but nodded obediently.

The battle continues, and the duration of each game is almost not more than ten minutes, and in most cases the people of the nine families have the advantage, unless both sides of the battle are from the company, there will be a scene of equal strength because of the same weakness, just after an hour, the competition of the sixth group is over, and the winner is the summer camp of the Xia family.

"In the seventh game, Zhang Su will play against Ye Liao, please enter the two sides."

Zheng Tianqin continued to serve as a announcer, shouting at the arena, although he didn't use any amplification equipment, he could make the sound resound throughout the venue, and then used some special ability.

"Brother Suo, your love story turned out to be a prolode, come on." It was Zhang Xuanting who spoke, and suddenly came out from Zhang Su's side, and he was sending encouraging voices to Zhang Su.

Zhang Su looked sideways, he didn't know when Zhang Xuanting and Jinggang sat next to him, hearing Zhang Xuanting talk about the novel, Zhang Su could only give Zhang Xuanting a helpless look, slowly got up and walked down the audience, walked to the east entrance stairs of the ring, and waited for Ye Liao to be in place.

At this time, Ye Liao slowly stood up from the other side of the audience, walked to the west entrance of the ring step by step, raised his middle finger at Zhang Su opposite Zhang Su, and made a contemptuous action at Zhang Su, but this kind of action is not elegant, and it does not hinder the progress of the competition, so whether it is the referee or the guest, they are all blind to this kind of personal grudge and pretend to be unknown.

Zhang Su was not angry, and when he saw that Ye Liao was already in place, he stepped into the ring, took a few more steps forward, and looked at Ye Liao calmly.

Under Zhang Su's gaze, Ye Liao also stepped into the ring, pinching his waist and looking at Zhang Su, although Ye Liao's height was half a head shorter than Zhang Su, but he put on a domineering look.

"Little Candle's wound healed?" Zhang Su whispered and teased at Ye Liao, although his voice was not loud, it was enough to reach Ye Liao's ears.

"Heh, now that no one is saving you, do you think about how you died?" Ye Liao responded angrily at Zhang Su.

"Brother, don't kill me, if you kill me, you will be condemned." Zhang Su responded with a timid appearance, keeping a certain distance from Ye Liao.

"Begging for mercy? Do we want to use the Body Soul Technique to fight again? Ye Liao said with a wicked smile

"Since it's a soul master ring, shouldn't you use soul power to duel?" Zhang Su said with a smile.

"Good!"

After Ye Liao said yes, he released his soul power violently, the soul power was surging and majestic, and he had the level of a senior great soul master, if Ye Liao had a soul power level that exceeded that of a junior great soul master when he first came to the company, but it was not at the soul power level of an intermediate great soul master, then now Ye Liao has advanced about one and a half levels in three months, and this advanced speed is not bad.

"Are you already a high-level soul master?" Zhang Su pretended to sigh.

"Scared, aren't you?" Ye Liao asked arrogantly.

Zhang Su didn't answer, his soul went out of his body, and he used the colored scale arm to control the amount of soul power released by himself, and when the soul power released reached the level of a junior great soul master, Zhang Su stopped emitting more soul power to the outside world.

"Junior Great Soul Master? Your foundation is still too thin, to this extent it is already your limit, right? Soul power alone is two levels behind, how are you going to compete with me? Ye Liao saw that Zhang Su only had the soul power of a junior great soul master, and laughed and mocked.

"White Phosphorus Arrow!"

Zhang Su didn't pay attention to Ye Liao, and directly used his seventh-order soul technique White Phosphorus Arrow, but Zhang Su didn't use all twelve, but took the lead in releasing six for a tentative attack, and shot at Ye Liao.

"Hmph, with your level of soul power, what if you release sixty of these small broken arrows? Let you see the strength of Lao Tzu, Yuanba Hammer! Seeing that Zhang Su was attacking directly towards him, Ye Liao continued to mock in a weird manner.

Although the speed of the white phosphorus arrow is not slow, it does not have enough strength and explosive power, Ye Liao is not in a hurry, and uses his soul power to condense a hammer weapon, much like the drum urn golden hammer used by Li Yuanba in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Seeing that Zhang Su's soul skill was easily broken by himself, Ye Liao was very happy.

Just when Ye Liao was about to be proud, Zhang Liao's soul hand waved, his fingers were picked, and then six arrows quietly revealed his body from the back of Ye Liao's soul, with Zhang Liao's fingers, these six arrows rushed out of the ground, attacking from Ye Liao's dead end, and stabbing upwards to Ye Liao's back ridge, because these six arrows hidden in the ground were intact, so their speed and power should not be underestimated, although only the soul power of the junior soul master cast, if the six arrows could pierce Ye Liao, Ye Liao would also suffer a lot of damage.

"Little trick, my conspiracy has long been seen through by me, Falcon Down!"

Ye Liao seemed to have expected Zhang Su's moves, his soul suddenly changed from a human appearance to an eagle's appearance, a pair of wings swung downward, and his body rose abruptly from the ground, extremely fast, and flew into the air in the blink of an eye, leaving Zhang Su's six dark arrows far behind.

Throwing off the pursuit of the white phosphorus arrow, the eagle that Ye Liao's soul turned into first stopped his body in mid-air, and the eagle eyes looked at Zhang Su, his eyes were full of arrogance and disdain.

When Zhang Su let the six dark arrows continue to fly towards the eagle, the eagle suddenly leaned over from the air and impacted, straight towards the white phosphorus arrow, the eagle's beak opened, and a white phosphorus arrow was held in one mouth, opening and closing up and down, and with a slight force, the eagle's beak directly bit the white phosphorus arrow condensed by Zhang Su's soul power, and in just ten breaths of effort, the six white phosphorus arrows were all smashed in the eagle's mouth, turning into soul dust and dissipating in the heavens and the earth.

Zhang Su was slightly surprised, he already knew that Ye Liao had a "Falcon Fall" soul skill, and he had also simulated and predicted this, but he didn't expect its actual power to be so powerful, and his attack was really a little careless, although as long as he had soul power, he could conjure up white phosphorus arrows at any time, but the soul power consumed by transfiguration again was not small, Zhang Su judged this mistake as a meaningless consumption.

"The falcon pendant of the seventh-order soul technique is really extraordinary."

Zhang Su looked at the eagle-like Ye Liao's soul flying in the air, and exclaimed, and then the only six remaining white phosphorus arrows were also withdrawn into the soul, and twelve white phosphorus arrows emitting dazzling white light were re-conjured, making them levitate in front of him, quite like an immortal royal object.

"You investigated me? Your little broken arrow is a seventh-order soul skill white phosphorus arrow, but your soul power is too weak to support the power of that seventh-order soul skill. Ye Liao looked at Zhang Su playfully and said mockingly.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Zhang Su ignored Ye Liao's taunt, squinted, and responded with a smile.

"What other moves do you have!"

The eagle-like Ye Liao hovered in the air at a great speed, as if he was flying to cheer for the impending victory.

Zhang Su nodded, and then formed a hula hoop-sized circle around the twelve newly released white phosphorus arrows in front of him, and the arrow circle spiraled and rotated, forming a ring of flashing white light. ”

Ye Liao saw that Zhang Su made a move, it was a blade ring formed by the combination of arrow circles, and his first reaction was that such an attack had sacrificed the original flexible attributes of the white phosphorus arrow, but the increase in power was not very much, and it was indeed a threat to ordinary soul masters, but against him who had already transformed into an eagle, the wide ring was the biggest loophole.

"Doomed!" Ye Liao sneered.

Ye Liao did not dodge, but instead swooped towards Zhang Su's soul, wanting to rush through the arrow ring and directly give Zhang Su's soul a fatal blow.

When Ye Liao's eagle-like soul and the arrow ring were about to come into contact, the eagle retracted its outstretched wings, narrowing the width of its body to the extreme, the eagle's beak facing forward, and its whole body was like a falling arrow, ready to pass through the wide central hole of the arrow ring ring and hit Zhang Su who was hiding behind the ring.

Just when Ye Liao's eagle soul rushed into the ring, the corners of Zhang Su's mouth rose slightly, and the right hand of the soul was raised, making a grasping posture towards the eagle soul, only to see a jade bracelet-like soul ring in the arrow ring appeared, and the jade bracelet soul ring released an extremely cold cold air, and in an instant, the cold weakened the original soul power of the eagle soul that fell into it, and greatly slowed down the speed of the eagle soul's swooping.

When the eagle soul entered the center of the ring, Zhang Su's soul power controlled the jade bracelet soul ring to shrink suddenly, tightly enclosed the eagle soul in the soul ring, and then his soul returned to the body, opened the Yuantian Xuan body, jumped sideways, dodged the line of the eagle soul's rapid fall, and walked leisurely towards Ye Liao's body.

"What is this?!"

Although Ye Liao, the eagle soul who fell to the ground, was not seriously traumatized, he also had a moment of trance, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was caught by a ring that exuded a cold air, let alone breaking free of the ring, Ye Liao could not even come back from the change of the eagle soul form at this time, and he was suddenly terrified.

"Don't be afraid, this is the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet, the cold qi of the Tiannan Han Toad inside freezes your existing soul fluctuations, and at the same time imprisons your soul form changes, but with your soul power, it is estimated that you will be able to break free in a moment." Zhang Su explained.

"Heavenly Bracelet? You use a Horcrux, it's a foul! ”

Ye Liao used his soul power to continuously dissolve the cold qi emitted by the soul ring, and at the same time broke free from the shackles of the soul ring, and his mouth was still shouting loudly.

"There are no rules prohibiting Horcruxes in the rookie war, no fouls!"

It was Cheng Ruosheng, the "yin and yang thief" who was sitting in the referee's seat, who spoke.

"What do you want to do to me?"

Ye Liao estimated that it would take about twenty or thirty seconds for him to break free from the soul ring of the Heavenly Purification Bracelet, and he asked with an idea.

Ye Liao thought that Zhang Liao would answer him, but Zhang Liao didn't pay attention to Ye Liao's words, and came to the location of Ye Liao's body in a few steps.

Ye Liao was furious, his soul power was fully opened, and he suddenly broke free from the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet, and attacked Zhang Su's body with his soul.

However, referee Zheng Pu didn't know where it came from, blocked in front of Zhang Liao, grabbed Ye Liao's soul, released a powerful soul power to deter Ye Liao, and said to Ye Liao with a cold face: "You have been defeated." ”

Facing the pressure of Zheng Pu's soul power, Ye Liao found that his spiritual sense had a tingling sensation, and he quickly covered his head, nodded vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Okay, okay, I admit defeat." ”

Hearing Ye Liao speak, Zheng Pu withdrew his soul power into his body, and then slowly put down the soul of Ye Liao in his hand, and instead showed a gentle smile to guide Ye Liao to leave quickly.

Ye Liao didn't dare to resist, he glared at Zhang Su fiercely and left the ring, the soul body was unified again, Ye Liao did not return to the audience, but rushed directly into the Heavenly Soul Castle and hid, of course he wanted to hide not Zhang Su, but the constant boos from the audience.

"The seventh winner of the first round, Zhang Su."

Zheng Pu exchanged glances with Cheng Ruosheng and Geng Wu on the referee's seat, and then announced.

Zhang Su bowed to Zheng Pu and the referee's seat, guest seat, and audience seat respectively into the arena, and then left the ring from the south staircase, and returned to his own seat in the audience again.

"I'm laughing to death, Zhang thinks you're okay, first hid the Horcrux soul ring in the aura of the arrow circle, trapped Ye Liao, and then pushed his body off the stage, a good move, I think this Ye Liao lost unjustly, his soul power is not weaker than yours, but he lost in IQ." Pu Zitong followed up in front of Zhang Su, patted Zhang Su's shoulder with a smile and said.

"The main thing is that he underestimates me too much, his soul power and moves have not been exhausted, he should still have a back hand left for the next game, and now he can only leave with those back hands, he should be so angry that he is depressed, let's watch the next game, by the way, who is your opponent?" Zhang Su was not very happy, but replied calmly.

"The Gongyi of the Gongyi family floats." Pu Zitong replied.

"Easy?" Seeing that Pu Zitong didn't seem to be nervous, Zhang Su asked.

"Well, two or three minutes."

Pu Zitong replied confidently.