With a plan to solve the financial crisis, Tang Sui's mood visibly improved. Even her opponent in the current one-on-one soul battle, standing across from her, could sense her excellent spirits.
The host had already introduced both participants. Upon hearing that Tang Sui was a support-type soul master, the slender woman opposite her showed surprise. However, it only lasted a few seconds before she quickly recovered. Looking at Tang Sui, who was much smaller in comparison, she smiled alluringly, "Little sister, this is no place for fragile support-type soul masters like you to play. If you don't want Big Sister to hurt your delicate skin, you can still admit defeat now."
Hearing the woman's words, Tang Sui, beneath her silver mask, blinked her sapphire eyes sparkling with a faint shimmer and said crisply, "Sister, thank you for your advice. However, the last person who said that was quickly carried off the stage."
At the sound of such a childish voice, the woman faltered. Just as she was contemplating Tang Sui's apparent young age, a whistling sound suddenly came from the side.
"!"
The woman's expression shifted slightly as she caught the direction of the wind. Her body, possessing extensive combat experience, instinctively dodged, narrowly avoiding a white blur that zipped past where she had just been standing.
Three yellow hundred-year soul rings revolved around the woman's slender form, instantly completing her martial soul's fusion. Her body displayed characteristics similar to a feline martial soul. Her eyes had transformed into crescent amber pupils, and her fingertips were covered in a layer of pale yellow energy, manifesting as long claws that glinted under the rotating lights.
"You!" The woman's face darkened as she looked at Tang Sui, but her gaze snapped with shock upon seeing the three deep purple soul rings pulsating around Tang Sui.
"What?! Three thousand-year soul rings?!"
The woman's pupils dilated in disbelief. The audience, seeing Tang Sui reveal her soul rings for the first time, also leaped from their seats in astonishment, staring at the petite figure standing between two distinct jade-white masks on the stage.
"Th-three thousand-year!"
The host, also seeing Tang Sui's soul rings and complete martial soul form for the first time, nearly dropped his fake glasses again.
After the initial shock, the woman quickly recovered. She stomped her black boots on the ground, her figure a blur of afterimages as she charged towards Tang Sui!
What if she has three thousand-year soul rings? Since you're a support soul master, your offensive power is bound to be your weakness!
In the spectator stands, Zhao Wuji and Flander, who were still monitoring the one-on-one duels, clenched their fists in worry for Tang Sui.
But not entirely.
Because in the next second—
Tang Sui chuckled softly. Her clear blue eyes met the woman's excited gaze directly. She did not use her third soul skill to immunize all physical attacks, as Flander and Zhao Wuji had expected.
Why wasn't she dodging?
The woman, her mind almost filled with the excitement of about to strike her prey, felt a flicker of doubt. Her overly stimulated brain regained some clarity, but the force with which she tore through the air became much more cautious. She was wary of Tang Sui's other masked martial soul, the one that had stopped beside her, moving again to attack her.
No matter what hidden tricks or soul skills you have, I can handle them all!
"Kong Kong—"
A faint emerald light flashed in the empty eyes of the fox mask, which had been left far behind by the woman. Its grinning expression seemed to mock the prey that had unknowingly fallen into a trap.
The ape-faced mask beside Tang Sui did move, but it instantly disappeared from its spot, making it impossible for the woman to track!
"What?!" The woman recoiled in fright, her pupils constricting. She stomped her boots heavily on the ground, leaving a trail of smoke to force herself to stop.
However, her figure, which had shot out like an arrow from a bow, could not be fully retracted. She could only slow down, which played right into Tang Sui's hands.
"Careful on your right?"
A devilish whisper sounded. The woman, with caution, did not look to her right. She performed several agile somersaults to retreat.
The fox mask, having missed its target, did not pursue. Instead, it grinned at the woman's direction. Even Tang Sui calmly looked towards— the woman's back.
Was there something behind her?
A chill rose from her scalp. The moment this thought surfaced, the woman's body instinctively twisted her head, coming face-to-face with two enormous red eyes that had silently crept behind her.
The woman's brain jolted. All her thoughts turned blank. She stood frozen in a defensive posture.
"What a brilliant Empty Fort Strategy!"
Seeing this, Zhao Wuji couldn't help but slap his thigh, chuckling as he watched the woman, who was now frozen by the ape mask, get directly struck and sent flying by the fox mask. He said to Flander beside him, "Boss Flander, you have no idea, the old Dragon Duke himself fell for this trick and was immobilized!"
Flander adjusted the frame of his glasses, his smile somewhat stiff.
How did this girl's martial souls seem to become more and more terrifying?
On the stage, the woman, who had been smashed and landed heavily on the ground, lay defeated and unconscious.
Standing on the floating platform, Tang Sui looked at the athlete who had been defeated for the second time, shaking her head slightly and retracting her dropped jaw. She announced the result of this one-on-one soul battle:
"Congratulations to 'Zhi Mian Bai Xiang' for winning this one-on-one soul battle! Achieving a second consecutive victory!"
A strange silence hung over the audience for a few seconds before it erupted into scattered applause that quickly grew passionate.
Everyone began shouting Tang Sui's nickname.
As Tang Sui gracefully left the stage under the fervent or surprised gazes of the audience, her peripheral vision caught sight of a few retreating figures in the spectator stands near the player's tunnel. Her eyes beneath the mask flickered, and she thought that tomorrow's one-on-one duel might not be as easy as it was now.
But it didn't matter. Her ultimate trump card hadn't even been revealed yet =v=
—Author's Notes—
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