The elimination round had begun.
Xue Lei Han’s first match was on Field No.
1.
There were ten students on the stage, fighting each other.
The last student standing on the stage would earn the chance to advance.
The rules were very simple, yet extremely cruel.
It was possible to face attacks from nine other students at the same time.
And that was exactly the situation Xue Lei Han was in right now.
His eyes calmly swept over the nine classmates facing him.
As expected, they all targeted him at once, because Xue Lei Han’s strength was obvious and no one dared to underestimate him.
Sword-drawing technique.
Xue Lei Han drew his sword without making any sound.
Attacking without warning was the best choice.
Swish!
Xue Lei Han didn’t even use his soul skill.
Using the momentum of drawing his sword, he suddenly charged toward the two students directly in front of him.
Under their horrified gazes, he sent them flying off the stage.
They didn’t even have time to summon their martial souls before being eliminated.
Xue Lei Han had not used the blade of his sword.
To him, these students were the future hopes of the Heaven Dou Empire.
It wouldn’t be good if he caused them broken limbs or fractures.
In the instant before the Azure Rose Thorn Sword reached them, Xue Lei Han had flipped it to use the flat of the blade, so at most they would only be left with bruises.
The remaining classmates quickly reacted and frantically summoned their martial souls.
“Let’s attack together!” One student signaled the other seven with a look.
Immediately, different colored lights emerged from their hands, feet, or behind them.
The soul power on the stage instantly became dense.
Six yellow soul rings and one white soul ring flickered with intense light behind the different students.
That student shouted: “Now!” Everyone unleashed their strongest soul skills, aiming them at Xue Lei Han who held the sword.
The violent bombardment stirred up clouds of mist, making it impossible for the referee and Dream God Machine and the other teachers to see the situation inside clearly.
“Unfortunately, it’s not strong enough.” When receiving the attacks from those classmates, Xue Lei Han activated his Mysterious Ice Body Protection, making his body as cold and bone-piercing as Nine Nether Mysterious Ice.
The Azure Rose Thorn Sword bloomed with brilliant ice crystal light.
Stepping with measured paces, Xue Lei Han used the flat of his sword to knock them one by one off the stage.
In his eyes, those classmates’ attacks were not enough to break through his Ultimate Ice first soul skill.
He was confident that even ordinary Soul Venerables could not easily shatter it.
“This kid… it’s already over just like that?” An elder sitting to the left of Dream God Machine on the viewing platform opened his mouth in surprise.
Dream God Machine smiled proudly and said, “Not bad.
His Highness the Third Prince wields the strongest Sword Martial Soul.
The most noteworthy highlight of this competition is the clash between His Highness the Third Prince’s Azure Rose Thorn Sword and Yu Tianheng’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.” He paused, then continued, “We have all seen His Highness the Third Prince’s year-long hard work.
Just ask, which seven-year-old child could forgo playing, forgo resting, and devote himself wholeheartedly to the martial path?” Dream God Machine glanced at the person to his left and said, “Just ask, Soul Douluo Zhi Lin, what were you doing when you were seven years old?” Zhi Lin’s face reddened.
He glared at Dream God Machine angrily and said, “When I was seven, I was still hovering around level twelve.” “Now you finally understand how rare and precious His Highness the Third Prince is.
Born in the imperial palace yet not indulging in pleasure, holding the position of Third Prince where he could live a worry-free life in the palace, yet he chose to step onto the path of a soul master.” Dream God Machine smiled and said, “This is exactly our ultimate goal in fighting for the Heaven Dou Empire, a Title Douluo born from the imperial family!” At this point, Dream God Machine breathed heavily for a moment.
Seeing Xue Lei Han win another match on the stage, he nodded in satisfaction.
“I believe that when His Highness the Third Prince uses the soul skills of the Azure Rose Thorn Sword, he will already be able to defeat Soul Venerables across ranks.” Zhi Lin also sighed and said, “It’s just a pity that His Highness the Third Prince’s personality is still too indifferent.” “That only shows you haven’t observed enough.
His Highness the Third Prince is definitely a person with a cold face but a warm heart.
He is exactly like I was when I was young.” “You just keep bragging.” Zhi Lin snorted and turned his gaze back to the stage.
After knocking the last student off the stage, Xue Lei Han sheathed his sword.
Cold air emanated from his body, and even his clothes were covered with a thin layer of frost.
The smooth marble platform of the stage was already covered in ice.
This was the second soul skill of the Azure Rose Thorn Sword, Mysterious Ice Sword Qi.
It infused the cold air of Ultimate Ice into the Azure Rose Thorn Sword, releasing a chill that seemed capable of freezing the soul.
“Xue Lei Han, congratulations!” As soon as he stepped off the stage, a slender figure blocked his path.
The person smiled beautifully, it was Dugu Yan.
“Mhm, you work hard too.” The cold air made Xue Lei Han’s voice exceptionally icy.
Dugu Yan couldn’t help but shiver.
She clearly felt the bone-piercing cold from Xue Lei Han’s body and a pressure coming from his martial soul.
Dugu Yan understood as well.
Snakes would hibernate when encountering ice, and Dugu Yan’s martial soul was the Jade Phosphor Snake.
Looking at the youth in front of her who was a few years younger, she felt a heavy pressure.
Seeing Dugu Yan standing there in a daze, Xue Lei Han casually picked a spot in the back, sat down, and began watching the matches.
The cold air also gradually dissipated under his control.
“There isn’t a sword-type martial soul of the same kind…” Xue Lei Han said indifferently.
He had originally wanted to fight someone with a sword martial soul to find deficiencies in his own swordsmanship, but encountering a soul master with a similarly powerful sword martial soul was extremely difficult.
“Are you looking for an opponent, Xue Lei Han?” Dugu Yan saw that the cold air around Xue Lei Han had disappeared and breathed a sigh of relief.
She sat down beside him.
“Mhm.” Xue Lei Han nodded while watching the people on the fighting stage.
Dugu Yan saw his indifferent attitude and did not lose heart.
After all, Xue Lei Han’s personality had been like this since he was four years old.
The only ones who could make him smile were his closest people, Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Ye, Empress Mu Xue’er, his eldest brother Xue Qinghe, and his second brother Xue Beng.
However, the power struggle between the Crown Prince and the Second Prince must have troubled Xue Lei Han a lot, which was why he left the palace to become a soul master.
Dugu Yan’s gaze became even gentler, and she couldn’t help but sigh softly.
The young girl’s heart was filled with complex emotions.
Xue Lei Han heard the sigh beside him.
He glanced at Dugu Yan without changing his expression and asked, “What’s wrong?” “It’s nothing.
I’m just a little happy, that’s all.” Dugu Yan replied with a brilliant smile.
At this moment, she didn’t look like the Snake Witch her classmates saw at all.
Instead, she truly looked like a youthful and beautiful girl.
“Oh.” Xue Lei Han gave a simple “oh” and continued watching the stage.
“Next match: Xue Lei Han versus Yu Feng!” The referee’s voice rang out.
Xue Lei Han walked down from the spectator seats.
After a full day of elimination matches, the two highest-scoring students from each group had now been selected.
They would compete head-to-head.
After that, winners would be drawn from the group victors for one-on-one battles.
Arriving on the stage, Xue Lei Han drew his sword and assumed a posture that looked very casual to outsiders.
But only those who understood sword martial souls could tell that sometimes, the most comfortable posture for oneself was the strongest one.
Yu Feng on the opposite side took a deep breath.
He also understood the power of His Highness Xue Lei Han’s swordsmanship, but the most important factor was that moving cold air, which strongly countered his martial soul.
He would have to end this quickly.
Yu Feng stared intently at Xue Lei Han, trying to find some flaws in his movements.
Xue Lei Han suddenly moved.
Seeing Yu Feng standing there foolishly wasting time, he felt bored.
“Snow Mountain Sword!” Accompanied by the cracking sound of freezing, Xue Lei Han used his self-created soul skill right from the start, Snow Mountain Sword.
Man and sword instantly arrived in front of Yu Feng.
Only then did Yu Feng snap back to his senses.
He summoned his martial soul and agilely leaped backward.
“Boom!” The sword slammed heavily onto the stage.
Massive ice pillars burst out from both sides of where Xue Lei Han had struck.
Yu Feng broke out in a cold sweat down his back.
He then activated his first soul skill.
Accompanied by a bird cry, his fist instantly struck toward Xue Lei Han’s left side.
Xue Lei Han calmly raised his left hand, which was already covered in thick icy cold energy.
“Slap!” Yu Feng’s fist was steadily caught by Xue Lei Han.
Immediately after, Yu Feng’s entire right arm was frozen by Xue Lei Han.
A purple and a black soul ring quietly appeared on Xue Lei Han’s Azure Rose Thorn Sword.
The entire venue fell silent for a moment, then erupted into waves of exclamations.
“How is this possible!” “This is defying the heavens.” “Sister, is this real?” Countless observing students were completely shocked by the colors of Xue Lei Han’s two soul rings.
Zhi Lin on the viewing platform also opened his mouth wide and stammered, “T-this… how is this possible?” The upper limit of the first soul ring was at most a hundred years, but this was already a thousand-year-old one.
Judging by its color, it wasn’t even a newly advanced thousand-year soul beast.
The second soul ring was even more outrageous, it was actually a ten-thousand-year soul ring.
Dream God Machine was stunned for a long while before finally bursting into loud laughter: “The Heaven Dou Empire’s future Title Douluo will definitely include the Third Prince!
Heaven blesses Heaven Dou!
Heaven blesses Heaven Dou!” Xue Lei Han faced the commotion from the audience and sighed inwardly.
His indifferent eyes met Yu Feng, who was covering his right arm and slowly retreating.
There was no joy or cruelty in his gaze, only deep, ancient-well-like calmness.
“I surrender.” Yu Feng weakly raised his left hand.
His opponent, who was two or three years younger than him, could defeat him.
Yu Feng estimated that Xue Lei Han’s soul power was just over level 20.
Yu Feng was completely convinced, both in strength and in his heart.
Xue Lei Han nodded at him.
It had to be said that Yu Feng’s explosive speed in that instant had impressed him.
After the referee announced the match result, Xue Lei Han walked off the stage.
He had just discovered another function of his second soul ring’s soul skill.
In addition to coating the sword with his unique ice sword qi, it could also apply a portion of the cold ice sword qi to his own body.
Just now, he had covered part of his hand with sword qi, allowing him to freeze Yu Feng’s right arm.
Why does it feel so similar to the Ultimate Ice martial soul?
Xue Lei Han pondered while exploring during battle.
“It seems I’ll only know after the Ice Phoenix awakens or when I find a second soul ring for Ultimate Ice.” Xue Lei Han silently looked at the opponent before him, Yue Feng Ling.
The other party was a female soul master, and her martial soul was Cake.
She was one of the rare food-type soul masters in Heaven Dou Academy.
However, no matter how beautiful Yue Feng Ling looked, in Xue Lei Han’s eyes she was just a soul master.
Having spent a long time around the beautiful little Lolita Dugu Yan since childhood, he had become immune to beautiful girls.
The fashionably dressed, beautiful girl opposite him was currently eating cake.
Facing Xue Lei Han, there was still a trace of fear in her eyes.
“I concede!” Yue Feng Ling yielded in front of Xue Lei Han’s cold air, but she was not discouraged.
After all, she was an auxiliary soul master and did not charge forward waving her fists like assault-type soul masters.
As soon as Xue Lei Han stepped off the stage, a pair of eyes filled with blazing fighting spirit immediately locked onto him.
Xue Lei Han looked over and saw Yu Tianheng stand up and walk down step by step.
“Soon, we will decide the winner.” Xue Lei Han said flatly to Yu Tianheng.
Upon hearing this, Yu Tianheng couldn’t help but laugh heartily.
He patted Xue Lei Han’s shoulder hard and turned to leave.
“I’ll be waiting for you.
See you on the stage!”