One must know that Dai Huabin didn't have someone like Huo Yuhao that could secretly aid him! Wang Dong also knew that, in a one-on-one fight, he was no match for Dai Huabin. From another point of view, his Radiant Butterfly Goddess martial soul was a combination of the assault and agility systems, while Dai Huabin's White Tiger martial soul was both the purest and the strongest assault type martial soul. In a direct fight, unless he had something such as Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing that could help him foresee his enemy's actions, he wouldn't stand a chance.
Of the freshmen this year with the highest battle prowess… Dai Huabin—the son of the White Tiger Duke—was certainly one of the most talented.
"Year 2 Class 1, Dai Huabin." Dai Huabin's powerful voice suddenly echoed outwards. The advancement test had yet to begin, yet his body had already begun emitting a firm, steely aura. As such, he seemed like a volcano about to erupt.
Yan Shaozhe's eyes lit up up when he saw this. He said to the nearby Du Weilun, "Is this the strongest student in Year 2?"
Du Weilun nodded and replied, "The White Tiger Duke's posterity is truly outstanding. His natural talent is actually even a bit higher than his older brother's, who didn't have this level of cultivation at his age. Furthermore, I've heard from Zhou Yi that he's put much more effort into cultivating than his peers. Based on his current cultivation speed, it's extremely likely that he'll break through to the Soul Ancestor level in one to one-and-a-half years. If that really does happen, he'll go down in history within the academy."
"It's not that easy to become a Soul Ancestor," Yan Shaozhe said with a faint smile, "however, this child truly is outstanding. Let's keep an eye on his performance."
Dai Huabin didn't wait for the referee as he announced, "I choose a thousand year soul beast."
Based on Wang Dong's precedent, the referees weren't surprised by Dai Huabin's choice. Once they'd asked Dai Huabin if he was ready, they immediately sent out his opponent.
Coincidentally, Dai Huabin's opponent was extremely similar to his martial soul.
A low roar echoed as a nimble, two meter-long, tiger-like soul beast leapt out of the beast cage.
Once it had leapt out of the iron cage and landed, it began to carefully observe the nearby Dai Huabin. Its body was pale-yellow, and had long, dark-green stripes running through its fur. Its figure was a bit smaller than the Flaming Demon Tiger that Huo Yuhao had seen, but it appeared to be more agile. Its two eyes emitted a dark-green radiance as it observed Dai Huabin. It was a Wind Tiger—one of the fastest amongst wind-attributed tiger-type soul beasts.
The Wind Tiger seemed to realize that there was a dangerous aura coming from Dai Huabin's body, as it didn't move forward, but instead began to move laterally. It was obviously planning to use its speed in order to probe its enemy's abilities and strength. Its four paws trailed along the ground as if it were cotton; they didn't make a single sound.
The dangerous aura emanating from Dai Huabin's body suddenly lessened, which caused the Wind Tiger to charge. However, Dai Huabin didn't even release his White Tiger martial soul when he saw this. This action left the referees surprised. What was this student trying to do?
After gauging the situation, the thousand year Wind Tiger judged that the threat represented by Dai Huabin wasn't all that great. A green light flickered through its eyes as its four paws were suddenly pressed flat against the ground. Afterward, its body suddenly accelerated towards Dai Huabin like an arrow. It looked like a green bolt of lightning as it pounced towards Dai Huabin, as its speed was much faster than other, similarly wind-attributed soul beasts. Needless to say, its attack power was also many times stronger as well. Wolves and tigers were already on two different levels, let alone a hundred year soul beast and a thousand year one.
The distance between the two parties was almost instantly reduced. The Wind Tiger's two front paws opened in midair as it flashed forwards, which revealed its sharp claws. The tiger shot proceeded to shoot ten foot-long blades of wind towards Dai Huabin as it shot towards him. Its trailed behind the blades it had sent towards Dai Huabin, as its body was the strongest weapon it had at its disposal. The sharp claws at the end of the tiger's palms glittered with green glint as it approached Dai Huabin as well, which caused a large amount of wind-type soul power to fluctuate as they cut through the air. This in turn made its claws gain even more penetrating power.
Despite being faced with the attack of a thousand year Wind Tiger, Dai Huabin still didn't evade. Instead, the roar of a tiger suddenly echoed; he had at last released his White Tiger martial soul. Once he had, he immediately attacked the Wind Tiger fearlessly. His fighting style was different from Wang Dong's, however. What he relied on wasn't skill, but absolute strength, as both his first and third soul rings simultaneously lit up.
Dai Huabin's body suddenly began to emit the aura of a White Tiger now that he'd released his martial soul, which caused the thousand year Wind Tiger to involuntary show a panic-stricken expression. The White Tiger stood at the apex amongst tiger-type soul beast; wild White Tigers were considered kings amongst tiger-type soul beasts. This Wind Tiger, however, was now in midair. Even if it were faster, it still wouldn't be able to dodge in its current situation. It would have to wait until the end of its attack to display its superior speed.
Dai Huabin's thousand year soul skill caused his body to suddenly expand; it reached its peak condition instantaneously. Under normal circumstances, when he used his third soul skill, he would require a certain amount of time in order to complete this transformation. Despite this, he had reduced that time to the minimum; one could imagine what kind of toll this had on his body. If one were to look at his outward expression however, they wouldn't notice anything amiss.
Dai Huabin's White Tiger Shield began to emit a layer of white light now that he'd activated his White Tiger Vajra Transformation, while his tiger-like claws turned golden.
The spectators all thought that Dai Huabin should've first tried to resist the thousand year Wind Tiger's attack before he attempted to counterattack. He didn't plan on doing that however. What he planned to do was something that the average person would never attempt.
Dai Huabin didn't pay any attention to the ten wind blades approaching him. He also ignored the two powerful tiger claws filled with destructive power closing in on him. Instead, he aimed at the Wind Tiger's head with both of his claws. If one were to see this, one would simply think that it was suicidal!
Even the widely-experienced Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun were greatly surprised by his actions. Was this really the fighting style of a twelve-year-old? He looked even more ferocious than a soul beast!
At this point, the Wind Tiger had already been influenced by the White Tiger's aura released by Dai Huabin. Because of this, it had become somewhat scared.
The wind blades it had flung towards Dai Huabin struck his body one after another. Even though the White Tiger Shield had been strengthened by the White Tiger's Vajra Transformation, it wasn't able to completely nullify ten successive strikes from a thousand year soul beast. Bloodstains appeared on Dai Huabin's shoulders and chest, yet this didn't even cause him to flinch; it was as if he couldn't feel any pain. After they were weakened by his White Tiger Shield, the Wind Tiger's wind blades were only able to leave a few superficial wounds on his body.
Both Dai Huabin and the Wind Tiger's claws closed in on each other at the same speed. However, based on the time they'd attacked and their arm's lengths, it seemed like the Wind Tiger's claws would reach Dai Huabin first.
This was a battle of brute force! Who would win?
When two tigers meet each other, the most valiant will win!
The Wind Tiger was already somewhat scared. When it saw that it was about to collide with Dai Huabin, it promptly retracted its claws and tried to grab ahold of his arms; It wanted to stop its opponent's attack.
However, Dai Huabin had already displayed this sort of reckless fighting style. How could he possibly be scared? He suddenly released a deafeningly loud roar. This roar contained the dignity of the king of the beasts, and if one were to look into the Wind Tiger's eyes, they would notice that its pupils had instantaneously widened. Under the effect of his mental counterattack, the speed of its claws immediately slowed down by a bit. At the same time, Dai Huabin suddenly infused his legs with strength, which caused his body to shoot forwards like an arrow.
By doing this, he made it so that the Wind Tiger's claws would only hit his shoulders, while at the same time making it so that his own claws would gain even more speed.
"Peng––" The Wind Tiger's claws smashed into Dai Huabin's shoulders. At the same time, its pupils shrank as Dai Huabin's two golden claws ruthlessly smashed towards the Wind Tiger's head from both sides.
At that moment, their fearful fight had reached its peak. The Wind Tiger's muffled groan echoed outwards. The moment it was about to be hit, it suddenly opened its jaws wide in a last ditch attempt to bite Dai Huabin's palms.
However, Dai Huabin was determined to win; would this really make him stop? He recklessly smashed his claws into the Wind Tiger's mouth, ripping apart the Wind Tiger's cheek muscles, the Wind Tiger's sharp teeth piercing his palms in the process. Despite this, he managed to grab hold of the Wind Tiger's long, sharp teeth and break its jaw so that it couldn't close its mouth.
At this time, his second soul ring suddenly lit up, which caused a ball of white light to ruthlessly explode inside of the Wind Tiger's open mouth. This was the White Tiger's Fierce Light Wave!
"Stop." Du Weilun's voice echoed from atop the high platform. The two had fought for only a short time, yet the victor and the loser were already clear.
However, Dai Huabin was already brimming with killing intent. In his mind, what he was fighting wasn't the Wind Tiger, but Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. He took advantage of the fact that the Wind Tiger was still in a daze in order to arch his body backwards and cut open its soft abdomen, while at the same time, he used his claws to tear the tiger's lower jaw apart with a cracking sound. Its stomach was cut open at the same instant as he tore apart its jaw.
As the Wind Tiger's body lay atop of Dai Huabin with its belly cut open, Dai Huabin immediately became drenched in blood.
The referees had arrived in the arena, but there wasn't anything they could do at this point. The battle had already ended, and as if to mock them, a purple ring of light rose from the Wind Tiger's body.
A kill!
There had only been a single collision between Dai Huabin and the Wind Tiger, yet Dai Huabin had savagely overwhelmed the Wind Tiger—a thousand year soul beast—with brute force, and had torn its body in half. Dai Huabin's body was drenched in the Wind Tiger's blood. The students from both Class 1 and Class 2 had all become pale-faced, while some female students couldn't even bear to continue looking.
Only Zhu Lu had an extraordinary splendor in her eyes. After all, this was the man whom she most admired! She loved to see how valiant Dai Huabin was.
"Dai Huabin, didn't you hear me tell you to stay your hand?" Du Weilun's angry voice rang out. The death of a thousand year soul beast wasn't exactly a small loss to the academy. It wasn't easy for them to capture a thousand year soul beast and domesticate it, nor was it easy to soothe Gong Changlong.
Dai Huabin indifferently replied, "A battle between soul masters and soul beasts is always one of life and death. Since it wanted to kill me, why couldn't I kill it? Besides, I couldn't stay my hand. If I had, its counterattack could've injured me. In order to obtain full marks, I needed to avoid the error that Wang Dong made. I didn't have the 30% chance of failure that he did. As for the academy's loss, I'm willing to compensate the academy for it."
Du Weilun furrowed his brows tightly. Even though Dai Huabin was powerful, he was still too vicious. Furthermore, the personality of a rebellious student like him would grow stronger and stronger as his power increased, which would make it harder to control him.
Du Weilun glanced towards Yan Shaozhe, who nodded slightly and whispered a few words to him.
Du Weilun sat back down and spoke in a low voice, "Dai Huabin, you have obtained a hundred marks as your base score for choosing a thousand year soul beast during the advancement test. The way you met force with force also embodied the strong points of an assault-type soul master. However, your technique was somewhat lacking. You've obtained 45 marks for your battle technique. You will also have to compensate the academy's loss within ten days. If you don't, the academy will strip you of your status as a core disciple." Not only that you did not listen to examiner you 20 marks are detected not only that your attitude toward soul beast is not good at all for all soul master so you have give the same soul beast that you kill with higher cultivation base and well train to academy within two months and other compensation that are tell by academy due to understand and accept it,
"Yes." Dai Huabin had somewhat regained his composure by this point. He naturally wouldn't go against Du Weilun's word. He bowed slightly, saluted, then walked back towards his class with large strides.
He'd obtained a total of a hundred and twinty five marks! This was an outstanding result that was score upto now.
In reality, Dai Huabin's performance truly had neared perfection. Though his hands had been injured, he'd retained his fighting strength. Moreover, he'd valiantly killed a thousand year soul beast in battle despite being only twelve years old! Having such a cultivation at his age was extremely rare, even in the history of Shrek Academy; this was the main reason that Dean Yan Shaozhe had still given him such a high score.
Yan Shaozhe could tell that a student like Dai Huabin was different from Wang Dong: Though he had a steadfast personality, Dai Huabin could break too easily. He could only guide him slowly. Giving him a high score would benefit his confidence in himself. That, and Yan Shaozhe was confident that he could control his rebelliousness. After all, he'd taught many other students who'd been even more rebellious. Furthermore, Shrek Academy was proud of its ability to train monsters. It wasn't worried about people with bad personalities; it was only worried that they wouldn't have the ability to back said personality up.
When Zhou Yi saw the blood-drenched Dai Huabin walking towards to her, she furrowed her brows. "Huabin, head back and clean yourself up. You've already passed."
However, Dai Huabin shook his head. He towards Yuhao, then raised his right hand's index finger and pointed at Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao was currently gazing straight at him. At that moment, Dai Huabin realised that Huo Yuhao's gaze was extremely calm—so calm that it almost icy. He didn't seem to have any intentions of cowering in front of his blood-drenched, savage appearance. On the contrary, he didn't relent at all when their gazes met.
Huo Yuhao knew that Dai Huabin was telling him, 'It's your turn now.' After a another class 2 student go there to show his amazing defence and score 85,
"Indeed, it's my turn now." Huo Yuhao clenched his fists tightly once he'd finished speaking. He nodded towards Wang Dong, then strode towards the arena with large strides.
It took a few minutes for the arena to be cleaned up. Once it had been, the referee sent Huo Yuhao's test form to the tall stage.
"Class 1, Huo Yuhao." Huo Yuhao reported his name calmly. As he did so, he stood tall and straight. Not only was he much more robust compared to a month ago, he was also quite a bit taller. Suddenly, the referee noticed that he was somewhat similar to Dai Huabin. Was it in his appearance? They seemed to be slightly similar. However, it had more to do with the confidence they both exuded; the confidence that they would definitely win.
"Are you still going to choose a hundred year soul beast?" The referee's impression of him was still fresh in his mind; this was the student who'd alerted even the Beast King two days ago.
Huo Yuhao shook his head. "I choose a seven hundred year soul beast."
"A seven hundred year soul beast?" The referee was stunned. "Huo Yuhao, you need to carefully think about this. You're only a two-ringed Soul Grandmaster and also spiritual type soul master ; a seven hundred year soul beast is still a bit too much pressure for you. You saw what just happened! Even if we wanted to help you out, in a close-combat fight like this, it'd still take time for us to reach you."
Despite his warning, Huo Yuhao confirmed his decision unhesitatingly. "Teacher, I've decided to take on the test's highest-ranked opponent, a seven hundred year soul beast."
He spoke very loudly, thus those atop the tall stage, as well as the other students, were all able to hear him clearly.
Dai Huabin's pupils contracted as a trace of astonishment appeared in his eyes. He's choosing a 700 year soul beast? What could he be relying on? He can't even use his second soul skill… is he just relying on his Spiritual Shock? That skill's not too bad, but it's nowhere near enough to take on the likes of a 700 year soul beast. Could he even manage to break its defences if it were to simply lie down and let him attack it?
He's courting death! Does he think that they're pushovers because Wang Dong and I were able to defeat them?
Dai Huabin had obtained 125 marks, while Wang Dong had obtained 150 marks. In other words, Huo Yuhao just withdraw from it he already win the bet. At the same time, the academy had requested that he not use his second soul skill during the test. In exchange, they had guaranteed that he would score at least 30 marks in order to ensure that he passed the advancement test.
Du Weilun had undoubtedly made a decision like this in order to see what he was capable of. If he hadn't, Huo Yuhao would be able to pass the test solely by relying on his Imitation, just like his performance the other day!
"Let him." Du Weilun's voice rang out from atop the tall stage.
"Alright." The referee responded. The arena had already been fully cleaned up by this point.
"Huo Yuhao, are you ready?" The referee asked.
He nodded.
The referee gestured towards the arena, then reminded him, "Pay attention to your safety. If you don't think that you can beat your opponent, do your best to protect yourself."
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, but he didn't reveal any emotions on his face, as he was currently fully concentrated on the upcoming battle. As such, he couldn't even spare the effort required to say a word of thanks.
He was just a two-ringed Soul Grandmaster after all. Furthermore, he couldn't even use his second soul skill. In a situation such as this, the difficulty of taking on a 700 year soul beast could be imagined. Of course, he naturally understood that he was somewhat inferior to Wang Dong and Dai Huabin in terms of direct fighting strength. The only reason he dared to take on a 700 year soul beast was because of his confidence in his Spiritual Detection and the Ice Empress' two soul skills and Tang sect skills.
A pale golden light flickered as two soul rings rose from beneath his feet.
Wang Dong and Dai Huabin's three rings hadn't surprised any of the other students, but the students from Class 2 immediately cried out in surprise the moment his soul rings appeared.
Both of them were white, which represented two ten year soul rings! Yet, would anyone truly dare to underestimate these ten year soul rings? Two days ago, they had both been blood-red. At this point, almost no one who could tell what rank his soul rings truly were.
Yan Shaozhe's gaze was fixed on his body, and his eyes flickered slightly. Even though he didn't have a martial soul like the Spirit Eyes that could enhance his eyesight, his spiritual perception and vision weren't any less than Huo Yuhao's when he was using his Spiritual Detection due to his cultivation.
"What a strange skill. When he activates it, even I can't sense the intensity of the aura from his soul rings. Is his second soul ring truly a ten year soul ring?" Du Weilun furrowed his brows.
Yan Shaozhe shook his head. "There's no way it's a ten year soul ring. We've seen thousands upon thousands of soul rings. How could a soul ring that's capable of imitating the aura of a hundred thousand year soul ring possibly be a ten year soul ring? If it were only a ten year soul ring, could he really have scared hundred or thousand year soul beasts? If I were to make a guess, it's very likely that his soul ring is a thousand year one, just like Wang Dong's."
Du Weilun was stunned. "That can't be right. His first soul ring's only a ten year one; how could his second one be a thousand year one? His body shouldn't have been able to withstand absorbing one."
Yan Shaozhe shook his head. "Don't forget that he has twin martial souls. Furthermore, it's extremely likely that his second martial soul had a late awakening. Though this occurs very rarely, it could've changed his physique. However, you mentioned that he left the academy by himself, and that he's an orphan. There's almost no chance that he'll be able to kill a thousand year soul beast by himself. Is there anyone outside the academy who could help him out?"
At that point, their conversation stopped for the time being, as Huo Yuhao's opponent had appeared.
Surrounded by an intense aura of heat, a fire-wreathed lion charged out from the beast cage.
It was no wonder they were the highest-ranked opponents a student could challenge during the advancement test. Not only were the soul beasts Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, and Huo Yuhao faced 700 year ones; they were all tyrannical existences such as lions, leopards, and bears too.
Huo Yuhao felt somewhat strange when he saw the Flaming Lion King. He thought back to his match with Wu Feng. It was that match that had resulted in him obtaining stable footing in Class 1 and in sending Wu Feng to rest for the week.