Volume I: Induction Section 41: Tricks
"Today's competition is over, and tomorrow will be the semi-finals and finals of the rookie battle, I hope you all have a good rest."
At the end of the three rounds, Zheng Tianqin announced.
After three rounds of competition, the thirty-two newcomers who participated in the rookie battle have competed for the top four, namely Ji Kuo, Zhang Su, Pu Zitong, Gu Yueming, according to the group, Zhang Su's opponent in the semifinals is Ji Kuo, and Pu Zitong's opponent in the semifinals is Gu Yueming, in addition to Zhang Su, who advanced to the semifinals with the strength of an intermediate soul master, Ji Kuo and Pu Zitong are both junior soul king levels, and Gu Yueming is an intermediate soul king.
"I didn't see it, you can actually redevelop the seventh-order soul technique, and you can defeat the summer camp of the high-level great soul master at the level of an intermediate great soul master, it's amazing." After the game, Zhang Su went to dinner with Pu Zitong and Fan Zengming, and Fan Zengming praised Zhang Su.
"Hey, Brother Fan, have you also watched the rookie battle?" Zhang Su was puzzled, because Zhang Su had never seen Fan Zengming's existence near the competition field.
"Well, because I was afraid that the team leaders would protect their shortcomings during the game, the company arranged the team leaders to the top floor of the Heavenly Soul Castle and allowed the team leaders to watch the game from a distance." Fan Zengming explained.
"I see." Zhang Su nodded to make it clear.
"This is for your own good, Hou Baiye didn't mention how angry he was when he saw you defeat Ye Liao, if it was near the ring, Hou Baiye might have rushed out on the spot." Fan Zengming said with a smile.
"Don't talk about this, what kind of power do Ji Kuo and Gu Yueming have, the soul power bubble created by Ji Kuo looks quite weird, as long as it touches it, it will cause the soul power to melt, and the bubble can spread all over the ring, it looks very difficult to deal with; There is also that Gu Yueming, although it is reasonable to defeat Tao Haolong, but he doesn't seem to really make a move at all, no matter what soul technique Tao Haolong releases to hit Gu Yueming's soul, it doesn't work, but Gu Yueming's seemingly simple soul power training injured Tao Haolong, this kung fu is like a golden bell cover iron cloth shirt. Zhang Su asked.
Among the remaining three opponents, Zhang Su was not familiar with Pu Zitong's tricks in addition to being familiar with them, and he didn't know what the principle of their moves was, so it was difficult to find a way to crack them.
"Let's talk about Ji Kuo first, Ji Kuo's soul skill is one of the unique cheats of the Ji family of the nine clans' Xianqi Palace', and the bubble released is formed by the condensation of soul power, which is a range of soul skills, also known as domain soul skills, and the yin and yang tricks of the three major referees are very similar, using soul power to change the range of space attributes, so that it can be transformed into their own home field, yin and yang tricks can make the space become the Taiji yin and yang realm, Cheng Ruosheng can be the master of this yin and yang domain, and' The Immortal Vapor Palace is to turn the space into a soul bubble domain, and Ji Kuo has become the master of this soul bubble domain, so it is not impossible to talk about how to defeat Ji Kuo. Fan Zengming explained, and then bought a pass.
"What's the solution?" Zhang asked puzzled.
"First, it takes time for him to create a temporary domain, so you can strike ahead of his temporary domain before it is deployed, and don't give him a chance to use his domain soul skills." Fan Zengming said a way to deal with it.
"Anything else?" Zhang Su continued to ask.
"The soul bubble of the Immortal Vapor Palace is not aggressive, but the soul wave resonance generated by the rupture of the soul bubble interferes with the normal operation of the opponent's soul power in an unconscious state, this interference is very subtle, it is as difficult as the vibration of butterfly wings to attract the opponent's attention, but then it will cause a butterfly effect, once the soul master does not suppress this interference at the first time, its soul wave resonance will spread, forming layers of expanding soul power waves in the soul master's body, At this time, the soul master has to spend more spiritual sense and soul power to control the part of the soul power in the body that is about to get out of control, and the soul power released externally will naturally continue to weaken, so there is the effect of surrendering without a fight, so as long as you find out the tiny soul wave resonance point generated by itself when the bubble bursts at the first time, and then suppress it at a very fast speed, it can be easily resolved. Fan Zengming explained.
"Brother Fan is worthy of being engaged in intelligence, and he can get his hands on such a secret soul technique principle." Pu Zitong listened on the sidelines and unconsciously admired.
"That's not it, it's just a conclusion from the reasoning in the process of Ji Kuo's use of soul skills, and then I secretly checked Tao Haolong's injury, thinking that this possibility is relatively high, we are not only collecting intelligence, but also learning to analyze." As he spoke, Fan Zengming showed an esoteric expression.
Zhang Su listened to Fan Zengming's explanation, but he had some bottom in his heart, if the principle of action of the Xianqi Palace was the same as what Fan Zengming said, the bubble array of the Xianqi Palace was not a threat to himself, Zhang Su had been cultivating without fear and distraction, and his spiritual strength had long been beyond that of an ordinary soul master, plus after cultivating the Tablet Soul Tuo, his perception ability became extremely keen, no matter how small the resonance point entered the soul Zhang Su could detect it, and he would not easily let the other party cause a butterfly effect in his body, but this was not what Zhang Su was most worried about.
"Brother Fan, does this Ji Kuo have any other soul skills? I don't believe that he only has this trick, when he fought against Cao Xuanqing, the voice of Gu Xiao always felt a little strange. Zhang Su continued to ask.
"I'll answer this, the Ji family also has another secret technique called 'Soul Flute', which can blow out the soul power sound wave that lingers around the beam, and can assist the soul wave resonance caused by the Immortal Vapor Palace, causing the opponent's soul power to melt faster, in addition, the soul flute, as a sixth-order soul skill, can swing a powerful soul power like a weapon condensed by the soul, and it is not easy to resist, Ji Kuo's mastery is the combination of the 'Immortal Vapor Palace' and the 'Soul Flute', and so far he has not tasted defeat among his peers." Pu Zitong took over and explained.
"I see, then let's talk about Gu Yueming, he gives me an even more bizarre feeling, I don't know what his ability is, it seems that every game is crushing the opponent with powerful soul power, as if he didn't even use soul skills." Knowing Ji Kuo's hole cards, Zhang Su continued to listen to Gu Yueming's news.
"His soul skill is called 'Bai Qi', he has no external objects, stands without loads, concentrates his powerful soul power on his soul, acts with his own soul, every punch and kick is a soul skill, every blow is extremely strong, plus the exercise he cultivates 'Realm Shang Nanshan' is a peerless exercise, the soul dust absorption rate can reach eighty-five percent, and he can quickly replenish his soul power in battle, so the combination of 'Realm Nanshan' and 'Bai Qi' has made him powerful today." Fan Zengming explained.
"Now that we know the reason why he's strong, wouldn't it be easy to defeat him?" After listening to Fan Zengming's explanation, Zhang Su felt that Gu Yueming was not particularly mysterious.
"No, this is the reason why he is strong, even if you know the reason why he is strong but you can't find a way to defeat it anyway, this is really powerful" Pu Zitong shook his head and said with some unconfidence.
"Having said that, is there no way to deal with it? His exercises and soul skills are all protracted combat types, so can't he break them with a single blow with all his strength at the right time? Zhang asked puzzled.
"You are too naΓ―ve, Gu Yueming is an intermediate soul king level, and a full blow of the same level can't defeat his soul blessed with soul power, not to mention that I am one level below him." Pu Zitong shook his head and said.
"What about the Body Soul Technique? If you can't use your soul power, you can fight your body, and throwing his body out of the arena is also a victory. Zhang Su continued to give advice.
"The White Soul Technique can directly strengthen the soul, and the power of strengthening the soul attachment to the body to open the Body Soul Technique is far more powerful than directly using the Body Soul Technique, and it is not a level at all, so it is still not feasible." Pu Zitong continued to shake his head.
Zhang Su had no other way, but from Pu Zitong's explanation, Zhang Su thought of an idea, but he didn't say it.
The three of Qi Cheng discussed for a while, and then they each went back to their rooms to rest.
Zhang Su tossed and turned for a while and couldn't sleep, and secretly ran to the soul building room to intensify his cultivation for a whole night, saying that it was cultivation, but he used the characteristics of the soul building room to strengthen his soul power, so that his soul power was stable at the level of a senior soul master, and he kept it full at all times.
"Today's rookie battle semifinals began, the first game was played by Ji Kuo against Zhang Su, and the players from both sides entered."
Early the next morning, the semifinals were held as scheduled, and Zheng Tianqin once again announced the start of the game in that high and ethereal voice.
In the audience, Ji Kuo stood up, paced to the ring, bowed to the referee, and then stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the empty ring opposite like a king's minister overlooking a river and a mountain.
"What about Zhang? Zhang suspicion! The game was about to start, and Zhang Su didn't appear around the arena, Zheng Tianqin couldn't help but shout at the top of his voice.
The newcomers in the audience also talked a lot when they saw that Zhang Su did not appear, some said that Zhang was afraid, and some said that Zhang Su had eaten a bad stomach, anyway, all kinds of assumptions are endless, and most people's understanding of Zhang Su's failure to show up is: cowardice but self-knowledge.
"Zhang Su! If you don't come out again, you'll abstain, huh? Two or three minutes passed, Zheng Tianqin continued to shout, he knew that Zhang Su was unlikely to be Ji Kuo's opponent even if he came to power, but he also hoped that Zhang Su could play in a fight, otherwise the reputation of escaping from the battle would not be conducive to Zhang Su's impression in the Pu family.
Five minutes have passed, and Zhang Su has not shown up.
Zheng Tianqin turned his eyes to Mr. Nan Guo and the referee's seat, several people made eye contact with each other, and then they all nodded, as if they had unified their opinions, Zheng Pu stood up, ready to announce the results of the game.
"Ahh Yes! Sorry! I accidentally slept through it, and I really couldn't sleep in the soul building room, and I was really comfortable to sleep in Gonggong, but I almost didn't get up. Zhang Su suddenly rushed out of the back door of the Heavenly Soul Castle, and rushed all the way to the ring, shouting loudly, because Zhang Su's shouting was too vague, no one knew what Zhang Su was talking about, only to see Zhang Su rushing into the ring unkempt.
Zhang Su, who rushed into the ring, grabbed his hair indiscriminately, and quickly bowed to the referee's seat and the guest seat to apologize: "I'm sorry, I slept." β
Seeing that Zhang Su was coming, Zheng Pu thought for a moment, sat down again, looked at each other with the other referees, guests and Zheng Tianqin, and then turned his head to Zheng Tianqin and said, "Since you are here, let's start." β
Zheng Tianqin took a breath, nodded, and shouted again at the top of his voice: "The first competition of the semifinals begins. β
Zhang Su folded his hands and thanked the people in the referee's seat and the guest seat, and then wiped his sleepy-eyed face with his hands to cheer himself up.
"Miss Pu, what is my brother doing, did you just wake up? How can you fight against Ji Kuo at the junior soul king level in this state, isn't that a loss? Zhang Xuanting approached Pu Zitong in the audience and asked.
"It's hard to say." Pu Zitong's eyes stared at Zhang Su carefully for a moment.
"What's not to say?" Zhang Xuanting was puzzled.
"You sense Zhang Su's soul power." Pu Zitong prompted.
"Soul power? I'll go, how did Brother Su become a senior Great Soul Master overnight, and his soul power is rich and strong, not vain at all, this Senior Great Soul Master against the Primary Soul King, it's really a bit hard to say, after all, Brother Su can use the strength of the Intermediate Great Soul Master to overcome the existence of three high-level Great Soul Masters. Zhang Xuanting probed Zhang Su's soul power, and was really startled by the soul power exuded by Zhang Su.
Looking at the ring again, Ji Kuo was also keenly aware of the changes in Zhang Su, and said to Zhang Su: "Advance in one night?" It's not like it, the soul power is so strong that it doesn't look like a person who has just advanced, could it be that you hid your strength before. β
Zhang Su didn't plan to continue to hide, so he released his soul power completely, he knew that Ji Kuo in front of him was a junior soul king, and if he didn't show his strength at the first time, he might not even have the opportunity to use it, although the soul power level was still one level worse than the other party, but in terms of the degree of soul power, the current Zhang Kuo was almost not much weaker than Ji Kuo.
Seeing that Zhang Su didn't answer, Ji Kuo took the lead in making a move, his soul was out of his body, Short Xiao condensed, Xiao Sheng was together, and soul power bubbles kept emerging from Short Xiao, occupying a part of the martial arts ring in an instant.
Zhang Su saw that Ji Kuo made a move, and naturally there was no reason to hide it, his soul was out of his body, and the white phosphorus arrow was sacrificed, and he consumed a Sanqing Array again, and released the Three Green Phosphorus Arrow Array, and the twelve arrows flew in the direction of Ji Kuo from all directions like bees, and he was about to surround Ji Kuo.
Ji Kuo also knew the power of the white phosphorus arrow, and he didn't plan to take it head-on, so he dodged out of the encirclement of the white phosphorus arrow, raised Gu Xiao, and played it, Xiao Sheng's voice changed from tactful and melodious to rapid and sharp, and the condensation of soul power bubbles accelerated, but it was smaller than the bubbles that were condensed first, like semi-finished products produced in a hurry.
Ji Kuo's flexibility is a bit beyond Zhang Su's imagination, but even so, Zhang Su is still not in a hurry, because the means he has prepared are not only white phosphorus arrows.
Zhang Su's soul returned to the body, and opened the Yuantian Xuan's body to the Xuanshu stage, the weeping soul palm continued to blast out pressure air masses, and the air masses hit the bubbles on the scene, many bubbles were broken and scattered by Zhang Su, few were broken, and many were scattered, some bubbles were shot out of the ring by Zhang Su, and a foothold was cleared in the ring, although the Weeping Soul Palm was only a fifth-order soul skill, but it had some special restraint effects on Ji Kuo's soul bubbles, which was also the method that Zhang Su figured out in the soul building room at night.
As Zhang Su's weeping soul palm continued to slap the space in front of him, after a while, most of the bubbles on the field were knocked away, and the number of bubbles blown out by Ji Kuo's short Xiao was far less than the speed at which Zhang Su cleared the field, and Ji Kuo also found that his moves didn't seem to work very well.
"I have a bit of ability, I actually thought of using my body soul technique to hit a pressure air mass to disperse these soul bubbles of mine, but it is enough to show that your body soul skill is powerful, otherwise I can't blow all my soul bubbles away with just a fifth-order soul skill." Ji Kuo didn't show a panic after his bubble soul technique was blown away, but praised Zhang Su.
"You don't only have the Immortal Qi Palace Soul Technique, now that the bubbles can't gather, you can use whatever means you have." Zhang Su responded calmly.
"Heh, it looks like you already knew I had other means." When Ji Kuo heard Zhang Su's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Zhang Su with a smile.
Zhang Su didn't speak, and nodded at Ji Kuo.
"That's good, originally this trick was reserved for Gu Yueming's guy, but now it's going to be used in advance, the Immortal Vapor Palace soul skill has two forms, the low-level form is the soul bubble, and the high-level form is this, Wudu!"
Ji Kuo completely released his soul power, and detonated the soul bubble that had been blown away by Zhang Su, after the soul bubble burst, the entire ring was filled with fog-like water vapor, no, it should be called soul vapor, this soul vapor continued to spread towards the ring under Ji Kuo's control, as if to turn the entire ring into a hazy fog.
Seeing that these mist were constantly eroding towards him, Zhang Su slapped it with his Weeping Soul Palm again, but this time, Zhang Su's Weeping Soul Palm seemed to have slapped into the void, and it couldn't stop the spread of this soul power mist at all, Zhang Su could only move towards the center of the ring to avoid the slowly spreading mist, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he was eroded by the mist.
"There it is." Just when Zhang Su retreated to the center of the ring, Zhang Su suddenly thought of a solution.
Zhang Su first collected the white phosphorus arrow into his soul to avoid being eroded by the mist, opened the Yuan Tianxuan body again, and at the same time sacrificed the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet, causing it to change into a soul cloth about half the width of himself, and then wrapped his body inside, and then used his soul power to urge the cold qi in it to gush outward.
As soon as the cold air came out, the soul mist around Zhang Su was instantly solidified, and the soul mist particles kept falling to the ground, Zhang Su saw that the cold qi was indeed useful, so he hid his figure in the cold qi of the soul ring, relying on the protection of the cold qi to continue to pursue Ji Kuo, and kept approaching Ji Kuo.
"I almost forgot you had a special Horcrux, but how long can your cold last?" Ji Kuo saw that Zhang Su sacrificed the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet, but he didn't confront Zhang Su head-on, his soul possessed, and he turned on the body soul technique to avoid the pursuit of the soul ring in the field, wanting to wait until the cold qi in the Tianjing Bracelet was exhausted, so that his soul mist would work again.
Just when Ji Kuo was once again proud of avoiding the pursuit of the Tianjing Bracelet Soul Ring, suddenly, a hand that appeared out of nowhere grabbed Ji Kuo's collar, and after that hand made a throwing gesture towards the air, Ji Kuo was thrown out of the ring in a daze, and fell out of the ring.
Ji Kuo looked around to find the owner of the hand that grabbed him, and after that, he was surprised to find that the owner of that hand was Zhang Su.
"How is that possible? Weren't you still in that soul ring? Ji Kuo asked with a look of horror and puzzlement.
"Are you mistaken, who is there in the soul ring?" Zhang Su replied with a smile, and then put away the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet with his hand, a tiny rice seed was hidden in the soul ring, and it was also quietly collected into the soul by Zhang Su, Zhang Su's movements were very natural and did not attract the attention of others.
In fact, Zhang Su did not move after the cold air of the Tianjing Bracelet Soul Ring froze a safe area for himself, but turned on the stealth effect of the colored scale armguard, and cleverly hid the body shape in the initial position, and then let the Wraith Seed hide in the center of the Tianjing Bracelet Soul Ring to control the soul ring, because the soul fog of the Xianqi Palace and the soul ring of the Tianjing Bracelet were blocked, many people only saw Zhang Su's hazy figure in the soul ring, but they didn't find that it was just a soul clone conjured up by the Spirit Seed, and even Ji Kuo didn't find it.
The pursuit path of the soul ring is a triangle, which was designed by Zhang Su, in order to deliberately force Ji Kuo to the center of the ring where Zhang Su was originally standing, but Zhang Su, who was invisible, suddenly appeared when Ji Kuo fled to his side, and the Yuan Tianxuan body opened, and Ji Kuo was caught and thrown out with a charged throw, and Ji Kuo was inexplicably thrown out of the field without even having a chance to react.
"The game is over, winner, Zhang Sue!" There was a voice from the referee's seat, it was Zheng Pu's voice announcing the result, and the voice was much higher than usual.
Just when everyone didn't understand how Zhang Su suddenly appeared and how he threw Ji Kuo away, in the audience, Gu Yueming's eyes squinted slightly, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly, as if she understood something.
Zhang Su returned to the audience to recuperate, and the second game began immediately, and ten minutes later, the second game ended, Pu Zitong, defeated!