Chapter 40 Self-created Soul Skill, Fingerstyle
Because he was standing very close, Xia Liang could clearly see the entire process of Dugu Yan being possessed by the Green Phosphorus Snake spirit.
Compared to normal state, after being possessed by the Green Phosphorus Snake, not only did Dugu Yan's lower body completely turn into a snake body, but even her emerald green eyes shrank into snake eyes, her purple hair became darker, and her aura became stronger.
Seeing that both sides had already activated their martial spirits and were ready to fight at any time, the host quickly moved to the fighting spirit stage and shouted into the loudspeaker soul guide in his hand, "Then both of you, fighting spirits, begin!"
The passionate voice aroused the enthusiasm of the audience. Amid the enthusiastic cheers and shouts, Dugu Yan simply moved back twenty meters and did not launch an attack.
In this soul fight, she already has the advantage in soul power and soul rings. If she attacks first, she will definitely be booed by the audience.
"Master Xia, considering your hard work for our students every day, I can let you have three moves. Within three moves, I will only defend and not attack. After three moves, I will let you know the consequences of trying to challenge me!"
After saying the last word, a sinister look flashed in Dugu Yan's eyes. If it were someone else, she would definitely use the green phosphorus snake venom to end the battle directly without saying a single word.
Fighting spirits above one's level allowed killing people.
But the dishes cooked by Master Xia in front of him did have a unique taste. If he was accidentally poisoned, no one in the entire academy would be able to taste such delicious dishes.
Xia Liang appreciated Dugu Yan's kindness and immediately changed his tactics. After the one-meter-long Iron Bone Knife in his hand disappeared, his first soul skill Netherworld Transformation and second soul skill Iron Bone were activated at the same time.
Xia Liang quickly raised his right hand, and the bones at the tips of his five fingers shot out like bullets, flying towards Dugu Yan's position with a violent sound of breaking through the air.
Dugu Yan obviously did not expect that the opponent would have a soul skill for long-range attack. Facing the five finger bones flying at her, she subconsciously swung her emerald green snake tail to sweep forward.
"Yanzi, don't defend, get out of the way!"
Hearing the urgent shouts of his teammate Yufeng coming from the viewing area, Dugu Yan immediately stopped sweeping his snake tail forward and quickly crawled on the floor of the fighting arena, narrowly avoiding the five finger bones being shot at.
At this moment, five finger bones shot straight onto the wall below the audience seats.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Five crisp buzzing sounds rang out in succession; that was the sound of five finger bones penetrating the wall.
Seeing five black holes suddenly appear on the wall, not only the audience in the auditorium, but even Dugu Yan who had just turned his head to look behind him could not help but stand there in a daze.
If I had used my snake's tail to block these five extremely penetrating finger bones, wouldn't my snake's tail be pierced with five holes like the wall?
"You, you are not a defensive soul master!" Dugu Yan looked at Xia Liang with some anger and embarrassment.
At this time, the finger bones that Xia Liang shot out in his right hand had all recovered.
In fact, the five finger bones just now were not the bones of his own fingertips, but a part of the skeleton martial soul, which came from the skeleton's right arm. Even if all five finger bones were fired out, they could grow again due to the consumption of soul power, and would not hurt the skin and flesh.
This move was a self-created soul skill that Xia Liang learned a year ago. He named it Finger Strike, which is the homonym of the word "bullet".
With the burst of soul power as the driving force, the bones at the fingertips can separate and shoot out quickly like a gecko breaking off its tail.
With the 100% power amplification from the first soul skill Netherworld Transformation and the hardness enhancement from the second soul skill Iron Bone, coupled with the penetrating power from being polished into a sharp point and the aid of a spiral trajectory formed by the soul power burst, the power of this finger-shot can easily penetrate the iron crystal slab by at least five centimeters.
Self-created soul skills will grow as the soul master grows.
In other words, the higher the soul power level in the future, the more powerful the self-created soul skill finger-picking will be.
Yufeng's martial soul is the wind chime bird, which has the attribute of wind. He can judge the power of an arrow by the wind speed generated by shooting it with his fingers.
That is why he was able to remind Dugu Yan in time.
However, even without Yufeng's reminder, those five finger-shots would not have really hurt Dugu Yan.
Because when launching the skill, Xia Liang had already reduced the consumption of soul power and weakened the overall power of the finger-shooting in advance. This degree of injury can be healed with the soul master's soul skills.
Before Dugu Yan could react, Xia Liang's right hand had already made a pistol motion and pointed forward. With the sudden burst of soul power concentrated on the fingertips, a bean-sized finger bullet flew out of his finger at such a speed that it was like a flash of cold light.
Who would be willing to accept such a fact?
Dugu Yan only felt a tremor between his eyebrows, and immediately twisted his snake body to avoid to the left front.
After narrowly avoiding the flying finger bullet, she had no time to steady herself before another finger bullet came and forced her back several meters.
The Skeleton's right arm has five fingers, which means it can fire five finger bullets in succession in a short period of time.
Just before these five finger bullets forced Dugu Yan back to the edge of the fighting arena, Xia Liang moved. As his feet accelerated forward, the dark purple ribs covering the right half of his body quickly grew a giant skeletal hand full of flesh and blood.
Under the control of his mind, the ten-meter-long skeletal hand pushed forward violently, and the two-meter-wide metacarpal bone hit Dugu Yan quickly.
The domineering palm force stirred up a strong wind. Dugu Yan first endured a palm strike from the giant skeleton hand, and then was blown away by the strong wind and fell heavily onto the fighting spirit stage.
This cross-level fighting spirit challenge ended in such a hasty manner.
Not only Dugu Yan herself, but all the audience present were unable to react.
It all happened so suddenly that Dugu Yan was eliminated before she even had time to use a single soul skill.
Sitting blankly on the floor under the fighting arena, Dugu Yan watched Xia Liang walk to the edge of the fighting arena, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Looking down at Dugu Yan's gaze, Xia Liang smiled and said, "Just three moves, thank you for letting me win. You lose this cross-level soul fight."
It was a very plain sentence, but when it reached Dugu Yan's ears, it made her tremble all over.
You lose. This declaration is even more aggressive than the fingerstyle just now.
What Dugu Yan felt most deeply was shame.
I vowed to let the other person take three moves first, and originally thought that the fight would be over after three moves.
But he didn't expect that he would make things worse and become the loser.
After looking at Dugu Yan sitting in the audience for a few seconds, the host finally reacted and announced loudly into the loudspeaker soul guide in his hand, "Congratulations to Bone King, you have successfully challenged the opponent. Your record is eleven wins and zero losses. Dugu Yan lost, with a record of twenty-five wins and one loss. Mr. Bone King, you can go to the front desk to register your points later. Thank you for bringing the opponent to the audience."
The lobby of the Grand Fighting Spirit Arena, at the front desk.
After showing the fighting spirit badge to the receptionist and registering the points, Xia Liang not only received a large bag of gold soul coins as a reward for fighting spirit victory, but also received 10,000 gold soul coins from Dugu Yan as a bet for fighting spirits above his level.
Add to that the bet of 30,000 gold soul coins and the odds of 1 to 3 in the cross-level fighting spirit gambling.
The total profit from this soul fight was as much as 100,000 gold soul coins.
The Great Fighting Soul Arena is worthy of being the largest casino in Douluo Continent. The money earned here is far more than that earned in the mercenary industry.
With this money, he could start a whale rubber business with the Shui family in Tianshui City.
After depositing one-third of the gold soul coins into the silver bracelet, Xia Liang deposited two-thirds of the gold soul coins into the small red grid of the three-color ring, storing them separately in two soul guides, so that even if one of them was lost, he would not lose everything.
Just as he was about to leave the front desk, Dugu Yan suddenly ran out from the direction of the fighting arena entrance.
Xia Liang stuffed the tricolor ring into his belt and was about to leave, but Dugu Yan quickly opened his arms to block him.
"Master Xia, do I still want to run away after I win?"