"Why did you hold back? "
These words were not loud, but the broadcast equipment still picked it up for everyone to hear. It felt like a slap in the face, especially for the ice snow goddess. Did this mean their opponent wasn't going all our despite knowing that they may lose? Even if it was a lie, it was still an insult for them
But Tang Wulin could care less about how they felt. He meant what he said. His reason was simple, if he could stop the attack just now so easily, why couldn't Gu Yue?
It was true that they used the dragon God transformation in the previous timeline. But now Tang Wulin knew that Gu Yue was at spirit abyss realm, so how could she possibly lose here even if she was facing a martial soul fusion? She may not have the strong physique as him, but her control over the element was more than enough to make up for it
This was also Tang Wulin's worry. He knew Gu Yue won't go all out. He predicted she probably challenged the academy so that she could force Tang Wulin to rush over. Unfortunately, he was right on the money.
He rushed out of the Tang sect without hesitation as he heard the news. At the mechanic Area, he just grabbed a random black mecha pilot who was minding his own business repairing his own mech. If mech had any speed regulation laws, tang Wulin's probably broke all of them as he rushed to the arena. Even the pilot was surprised at how the kid was controlling the mech.
And that pilot was now sitting inside the black Mech that was floating above the arena. This didn't go unnoticed as several camera focused on the mech. The pilot was already instructed by Tang Wulin to return to the HQ right before he jumped down. So he did what he was told.
Everyone present now had the idea of who he was, especially from the uniform he wore. This was the so called captain the Shrek representatives mentioned. His arrival was dramatic and imposing while the words he spoke was even more ridiculous.
"...if I didn't, would you have come so quickly?", Gu Yue smiled. Her face had the satisfied look as if everything was as she predicted.
Tang Wulin couldn't help but sigh. This reminded him about how they came to their end in the previous timeline. It wasn't a pleasant feeling.
But Long Chen was the first to snap back to reality. "Not only do you arrive late at such an important event, you even have the audacity to make up such a blatant lie?! ",he shouted, as he got ready to attack
The other two figures were also ready to attack, especially after seeing tang wulin stopped the ice slash.
But Tang Wulin didn't bother replying. He just stayed there.
Long Chen didn't like this one bit. Earlier when those dragons rose from the ground, he could feel his martial soul tremble for reasons he didn't understand. It was an unpleasant feeling and he didn't like it one bit.
He charged at the source of the feeling, with no hesitation. His all four soul rings started to glow showing he was going to use everything he had. Even if he is the soul called captain of the Shrek team, Longchen was not backing down.
But then, tang wulin raised his hand. It was covered in scaled and transformed into a claw. He pointed his finger at Long Chen, without turning around.
The next instant, Long Chen felt his body was frozen in place. No, it wasn't his body, it was his Martial soul that was too terrified to move. No matter how much strength he used, his own Martial soul refused to listen.
Next, Tang Wulin pointed the finger down to the ground. As if on cue, Long Chen felt as if he limbs turned jelly. His legs couldn't support his body, and he was on his knees!
It was a shocking sight to behold. An extremely strong martial soul was forced to the ground in an instant. They would have thought it was a soul skill but the boy who caused this event didn't release his soul rings!
Long Chen was sweating buckets. He didn't understand what was going on. All her could feel was the pressure weighing him down. There was clearly distance between tang wulin and him, but he felt as if the finger pointing to the ground was was pressing his martial soul to its knees!
"Xiaoyan!"
Without hesitation, Xu xiaoyan arrived at tang Wulin's side, heeding to his call. She knelt down beside him, and wrapped her arm around Gu Yue's shoulder for support. Tang Wulin nodded at her in acknowledgement as he got up.
He walked forward to face his opponents who tensed up, ready to charge any moment.
But Wulin did not attack them. He just walked up to Long Chen and pat his shoulder and said, "you're lucky you're a dragon" as he walked past him. Throughout the short exchanged, Tang Wulin did not even bother to glance at him!
Long Chen was confused, but subconsciously felt relieved. He was sweating buckets when that imposing arm pressed down on his shoulder.
The sky tiger martial soul fusion did not wait any longer. Everyone understood the fact that this person who took out their captain was by no means simple. The giant body of the beast rushed forward with you ferocious growl.
"Oh, little kitty wanna bite? ", Jun spoke with a smirk, within Tang Wulin's spiritual sea, while old Tang simply shook his head and sighed.
Tang Wulin didn't speak a word. His body was covered in golden scales, which again transformed translucent. Two golden ring that appeared behind him started glowing brightly, which left every viewer in awe.
"golden dragon body"
"Golden dragon tyrant body"
Tang Wulin met the charging tiger head on. His fist collided with giant paws of the beast that slashed towards him. The ground beneath him cracked, his scales were glowing majestically as it burned through his blood essence.
But the attack was completely cancelled out and overpowered infact. The sky tiger was launched back by the punch. It stopped it's momentum by clawing the arena floor. But before it could get ready, Tang Wulin was already above him, his fist descending upon the tiger, and punched it, right on the head.
As the tiger got plastered to the floor, Tang Wulin prepared for his next attack, but he could feel extremely cold every rushing towards him. The ice slash from the ice snow goddess.
The golden rings were replaced three black rings as Tang Wulin pointed his two fingers at the incoming attack.
His fingered projected a sharp golden blade like blade. Tang Wulin used it to make a smooth circle infront of him. While he did this, the blue silver vines wrapped around the sky tiger, immobilising it completely.
"Blue silver emperor, first soul skill: bind"
"profound circle"
Tang Wulin used his two moves simultaneously. While one restrained the Martial soul fusion, the profound circle sucked in the entire cold slash like a vacuum. The next instant, the cold slash that almost took out his entire team was now trapped infront of him, shining like a glowing orb.
Tang Wulin walked away from the orb of violent and cold energy, towards the source. His steps quickened. His image blurred and the next instant, he was near ice snow goddess, wielding a gold scaled spear in hand, tendrils of lightning shooting out of his legs.
The ice snow goddess was taken aback, but was quick enough to pary the incoming attack, defending herself using the icy sword. The icy breath permeated into the golden spear freezing it from the inside dispite its toughness.
In the meantime, the profound circle behind him exploded, surprising everyone except Tang Wulin who's face was expressionless.
The cold energy trapped within, violently burst out catching the trapped sky tiger completely off-guard. The extremely cold fog cover the end of the arena. When it cleared, an icy statue of a gigantic tiger with wings came into view.
But it didn't last long as it grumbled down the next instant, revealing two bodies of the sun and moon academy students, covered in frostbites. Their body were shaking violently from the cold, and their breathing was fast. They were quickly teleported away from the arena.
The entire stadium was silent, except for the sound of weapons clashing. The sun and moon academy were in disbelief. Just one person came in like a storm and blocked their path of Victory. He had taken out their captain with just a finger, now taken out one of their trump cards using their own move. And now he was clashing against their strongest martial soul fusion on equal footing. Even if they did win, their faces were already stinging with the unseen slap Tang Wulin had delivered.
The ice snow goddess was enraged. Her own teammates were now the victim of her own attack. The feeling of not being able to help out her teammate and injuring them was filling her up. It reflected in her following hits which was becoming more and more violent. Her beautiful face held a frown of resentment towards Tang Wulin.
"That's payback for hitting my friends! ", Tang Wulin yelled at her. His spear shattered by the final clash, but his body twisted around, whipping his leg forward for a kick. Illusory tail of a dragon covered leg. The ice snow goddess couldn't help but defend against the tyrannical force descending towards her. The moment the two clashed, lightning exploded at the point of contact, pushing the ice snow goddess back.
"golden dragon sweeps its tail"
"leg soul bone skill: lightning explosion"
But the ice snow goddess wasn't going down easy, as she she was able to quickly regain her balance and fly back towards Tang Wulin and resume the clash.
*shatter*
The golden scaled spear wielded by Tang Wulin shattered into splinters, each piece covered in frost. It was a brief moment, everyone who were paying rapt attention to the clash could clearly see what happened. The icy aura penetrated the spear and froze it from the inside, compromising its durability. A brief moment of relief filled the hearts of the Sun and Moon academy members.
Stress on the word, 'brief'....
Because Tang Wulin didn't bother with the broken spear. If anything, he anticipated it. After all, he was using a makeshift spear against a martial soul fusion.
Even when the spear shattered, Tang Wulin's gaze never faulted.
"ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!"
With a laundromat cry that made every beast martial soul tremble, his hand clenched into fist launched forward to do what he did best- punch his way through with brute force!
The fist covered in scales went straight for the face, but was defended by the ice sword. The brief moment of relief everyone felt was washed away as the sound resembling thunderclaps erupted.
The terrifying sound and the cry of Tang Wulin's rage left a profound image on everyone's hearts.
The goddess herself felt her heart tremble. It wasn't the fear of the martial soul due to bloodline suppression, no. This was the pure, human fear felt when facing danger. When one finds themselves against raging beast!
"...Asura God, this might get out of hand... "
But old Tang didn't respond to Jin. He remained silent, observing for now..
All this happened in small instance of the clash. And the next instant, Tang Wulin's left claw slashed down.
The ice snow goddess barely moved away but the slash had chipped away the edge of the sword slightly.
But it didn't end their, as the next punch came, then next, then next.
The ice snow goddess was flying throughout the arena to cushion the blow she was receiving, her sword was a cracking, her soul power running out, and fatigue was piling up. But she could stop, the horrifying roar of her opponent would completely devour her if she did.
She could feel the rage behind each of those punches. She could feel the oppressing force behind it. It was telling her if she stumbled, even for a second, she, no, they will die. Both the girls behind the fusion will...
Despite floating throughout the arena, Tang Wulin was always on their tail. Using Blue silver vine that erupted from the ground, reaching high up as his footing. Soon, the arena showcased a marvelous display of lustrous vines dancing around. The decipating frost adding up to the display. Even with the terrifying exchange going on, this display didn't lose its brilliance.
"Wulin, calm down!" ,Jin was shouting at Wulin who didn't seem to hear him. The sixth scene was cracking, and mad golden dragon was becoming restless, in response to Tang Wulin's rage.
Tang Wulin, who was unaware of all this, continued to vent his rage. The world he spoke to her that starry night resounded in his ears, the image of her spear pieced figure reappeared in his mind. It was as if a severe would has reopened, followed by unbearable pain.
"Let's end this!", with those words, Tang Wulin motioned his hand as if grabbing the air. As he did, a golden light accumulated in his arm. It reformed instantly into an illusory spear. It wasnt the trident for it was double headed golden spear.
As the illusory spear finally clashed with the icy sword,
*shattered*
It cracked. The ice sword of the ice snow goddess was rendered powerless as it shattered like glass. It was at this moment that everyone in the Sun and Moon academy finally knew, they (f*cked up) had no hope of winning.
The ice snow goddess fell to the ground but still didn't break the fusion. She knew it was hopeless but she didn't fall down. She stared at the figure who gracefully landed in front of her.
The golden illusory spear danced in Tang Wulin's hands and it sounds around for it's final strike at their opponent. The spear was positioned in his right arm for a stab,
"Wulin's enough!"
"Don't hit them with that spear!"
The spearhead stopped half an inch away from her forehead, pointing right in the middle of her eyes. The martial soul fusion turned to glittering light simultaneously. It disappeared into nothingness leaving behind the two unconscious bodies.
Tang Wulin also came back to his senses. He finally understood what he was doing, how careless he was. If that spear had so much as graced the ice snow goddess, these two girls would have been dead. For it was the spear that sucks away the life energy from anything around it. Forged from the bone of the golden dragon king
It was the Golden Dragon Spear.