FE-Chapter 80: Yuhao, You Can't Let My Sister Succeed Easily
"Haha, with Yuhao, you can give me some small cheats. It feels so good; I can shoot so accurately with my eyes closed."
After acquiring perspective and automatic aiming, the word "invincible" faintly glimmered between Xiao Hongchen's eyebrows.
Meng Hongchen temporarily formed a two-person team with Nana and continued to advance in the middle area of the venue, occasionally carrying away several other teams.
"That's Xiao Hongchen, who claims to be invincible among his peers. Why does he look so happy?"
"Didn't we hear that a dark horse player named Huo Yuhao broke his record on the creativity list? How can this pretentious guy be so arrogant?"
Some students in the surrounding venues looked at Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen in amazement.
"If I'm not mistaken, the person Xiao Hongchen with seems to be Huo Yuhao."
"It's over! Xiao Hongchen is already arrogant enough. Coupled with Huo Yuhao, who is even more ridiculous than him, Xiao Hongchen is going to be crazy."
"He seems to be coming toward me with his soul cannon. Ah, don't come over here!"
A team saw Xiao Hongchen talking with Huo Yuhao and noticed the metal cannon barrel turning toward them. They were immediately frightened and panicked, taking out the soul guidance protective shields they had accumulated for a long time, ready to defend themselves at any moment.
"Haha, this is the romance of the soul guidance of artillery."
Xiao Hongchen urged his soul power to control the rows of soul cannons formed in front of his chest. Through the mental detection map in his mind, he locked onto the team of students around him and fired fiercely.
Explosions erupted one after another in the venue, and students were constantly sent out.
Faced with Xiao Hongchen's highly precise saturation artillery fire, the affected students had little power to resist whatsoever.
After all, in addition to being regular participants, with Huo Yuhao's help, even if the students around him activated their best defensive soul guidance devices, they would only struggle for a brief moment before being eliminated immediately.
Feeling his soul power was depleting, Xiao Hongchen produced a sixth-level bottle from his storage soul guidance device, replenished his soul power with a few gulps, and continued the bombardment.
The students targeted by Xiao Hongchen, solely based on proximity, lacked the opportunity to retreat strategically and were complaining bitterly.
"I originally thought that Huo Yuhao was the light of righteousness, but I didn't expect that he would be an accomplice to evil... Oh my God, who can deal with these two evildoers?"
"From my observation, Huo Yuhao didn't attack at all from the beginning. He's likely being forced and held hostage by Xiao Hongchen..."
A student was analyzing logically when suddenly his eyes widened. Damn, so many shells were flying toward him.
"Brother Huo, if you're being forced by Xiao Hongchen, just nod and give us a look, and we will all work together to rescue you."
"Why are you still here? Look at how many people are left around; we are almost wiped out by Xiao Hongchen."
Xiao Hongchen puffed out his chest and continued to condense the soul guide cannon, relentlessly outputting firepower.
The sound of explosions kept ringing out, and the number of students participating in the selection rapidly dwindled.
Although Huo Yuhao did utilize the spirit detection shared soul skill, he made the soul ring transparent and invisible by simulating the soul skill.
In the eyes of the other students, Huo Yuhao was merely being held by Xiao Hongchen's shoulders, and it seemed he hadn't even released his soul skills yet.
In reality, Huo Yuhao's contribution was significant in allowing Xiao Hongchen to unleash such fierce firepower and eliminate a large number of players surrounding them.
"Brother Xiao, why don't you hold back a little? Don't shoot so hard; just let a few shots go." Huo Yuhao urged Xiao Hongchen to tone it down, as the entire trial site was almost under Xiao Hongchen's divine influence.
When the other students saw the shells coming toward them, they knew it meant elimination and felt completely at a loss, lacking any sense of experience or participation.
"That's unnecessary," Xiao Hongchen grinned, casually lifting his hair.
"All the students present know that I, Xiao Hongchen, am invincible among my peers. After being pounded by my bombardment, they must have admitted defeat and come to admire me from the bottom of their hearts." Huo Yuhao listened to Xiao Hongchen's arrogant speech but did not remove the spiritual detection sharing he maintained.
"Oh?" Huo Yuhao raised his eyebrows, a hint of amusement flashing in his eyes. "Brother Xiao, since you're shooting shells so happily now, can you please not disturb us when your sister and I are busy at night?" He has almost mastered the design of the battle armor.
Meng Hongchen also needed to participate in the design of the battle armor, but whenever the two of them studied and drew sketches together at night, Xiao Hongchen, who was protecting a big cabbage, always supervised from the side.
"Hiss, this, this..." Xiao Hongchen took a deep breath, hesitating immediately.
Whenever he thought of the big cabbage he had guarded, which had now been handed over to the Blue Hair boy, and how supportive the farmer was, bitterness filled his heart.
A hint of hesitation reflected in Xiao Hongchen's eyes as he looked at Huo Yuhao dimly.
You are too ruthless; it's unfair to make demands halfway through something.
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly: "Why, Brother Xiao, are you enjoying yourself now, but reluctant to let me go once it's my turn?"
Looking at Huo Yuhao's smile, with its rare mischievous charm, made Xiao Hongchen feel uneasy.
After a long hesitation, Xiao Hongchen asked with difficulty: "Yuhao, what you and my sister are doing at night, is it a serious matter?" Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, indicating that it was a serious matter.
Xiao Hongchen looked sad, leaning closer to Huo Yuhao and whispering, "How far have you two progressed?"
Huo Yuhao pursed his lips thoughtfully: "We just kissed before, and I slept peacefully last night after taking the ten-thousand-year whale glue."
Xiao Hongchen suppressed his emotions and stared at him with burning eyes: "As long as you, Yuhao, promise to maintain this level with my sister, I, as the eldest brother, will naturally not interfere with you two."
Huo Yuhao blinked: "I can do that, but your sister sometimes can't help herself..."
"I know this too." Xiao Hongchen interrupted Huo Yuhao's words, patting his shoulder and giving him a meaningful look.
"Yuhao, you must learn to protect yourself!" Xiao Hongchen's tone turned serious.
Huo Yuhao remained silent and simply looked at him.
Meng Hongchen can be quite proactive at times. If he continues to act uninterested in women, that would be mean.
Xiao Hongchen also realized this and smiled awkwardly: "Uh... haha."
"Yuhao, what I mean is that you can't let Meng succeed easily."
During the time Xiao Hongchen paused firing, the students around him also gained a precious opportunity to breathe.
As for Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu, who had previously encountered Huo Yuhao, they avoided Xiao Hongchen the entire time, fearing they would become his next targets.
Zhou Xinghao fell into a brief contemplation, looking at Xiao Hongchen, who was casually being hit by high-precision artillery shells, and then glanced down at the base of his metal turret.
He felt a significant disparity among soul masters in the firepower output category.
"Damn it, this Xiao Hongchen is too powerful; much stronger than the rumors suggest." Zhou Xinghao's tone was filled with frustration. He thought he was only slightly lower in cultivation than Xiao Hongchen, and that they were evenly matched in terms of artillery.
Now it seemed that his artillery was nowhere near the same level as Xiao Hongchen's, and there was no comparison at all.
Lan Xiu observed the cheating duo as they wreaked havoc and sensed something was amiss. As a turret-type soul engineer, he would never possess such an outrageous hit rate.
"Brother Lan Xiu, I think that Huo Yuhao, who is colluding with Xiao Hongchen, seems useless."
Zhou Xinghao scratched his head in confusion: "I've been observing for so long, but I haven't seen Huo Yuhao exert any strength."
Lan Xiu's eyes shone with insight as he thought seriously for a moment: "Fatty Zhou, do you feel that Xiao Hongchen's hit rate is too high? The shells fly toward the targeted students as if they have eyes, and almost no one misses."
Zhou Xinghao started and exclaimed: "Damn! I wanted to say this just now. Xiao Hongchen must have opened something dirty; otherwise, he'd never be this powerful. No one knows the hit rate of the artillery soul guide better than I do."
After a while, Xiao Hongchen had essentially achieved his goal through continuous firing, bombarding most of the venue.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With a few soul-guidance shells fired by Xiao Hongchen, the last remaining students in the opposite area were eliminated.
Soon, he encountered Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu once again.
The two had been wandering around in the opposite direction of Xiao Hongchen. Though Xiao Hongchen had already detected them, he didn't want to retaliate, so he simply ignored them.
Now that all the other students in the venue had been cleared, it was Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu's turn.
Just a moment ago, Meng Hongchen and Nana had fought side by side for a while. Nana, wielding a short blade, showcased agile movements, using her long legs to leap and swiftly slash at other students.
Meng Hongchen, having drawn the sketches of legs with Huo Yuhao not too long ago, couldn't help but compare her legs to Nana's.
She approached Huo Yuhao, lightly touching his wrist, and whispered: "Yuhao, do you like Nana's long and voluptuous legs?"
Huo Yuhao was taken aback: "Hmm? What do you mean?"
He contemplated for a moment before a smile appeared on his face: "Sister Meng, Nana and I are just teammates in a temporary team. We don't have any sort of relationship. How can I say I like her?"
When Meng Hongchen heard this, obvious joy shone on her face. She looked charming and vibrant.
"Yuhao, what exactly did you do with those drawings we made?"
Huo Yuhao couldn't reveal the truth. Instead, he smiled and said: "You'll find out soon; it won't take long."
At that moment, Xiao Hongchen launched an attack on Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu, casually firing off several soul guidance shells.
Lan Xiu immediately deployed his exclusive soul guidance device, Jiuyao. Nine metal balls arranged in an arc hovered in the sky, emitting nine rays of silver light that wove a light net before him.
The silver light waves emitted by Jiuyao were peculiarly rebounding rays.
His martial soul being pure mental power and lacking a medium to release it meant that, without the soul engineer profession, Lan Xiu could not even fight others normally.
The Jiuyao soul guidance device had been specially crafted for him based on core magic array drawings passed down from his ancestors.
In the original novel, Lan Xiu was a leading soul master among the regular members of the Sun Moon Team in the Second Soul Master Competition, and his cultivation had even reached the level of a six-ring soul emperor.
He possessed quite good talent and demonstrated an extremely impressive performance.
In the Second Soul Master Competition, Lan Xiu effectively blocked the attacks from Wang Qiuer of the Shrek team with the silver light barrier formed by Jiuyao.
In that match, Wang Qiuer's fighting ability was significantly restrained.
It's known that Wang Qiuer's golden dragon martial soul represents ultimate power. Before meeting Lan Xiu's Jiuyao, she had always been invincible, far ahead of the Shrek team in competition.
Yet Lan Xiu's Jiuyao successfully blocked Wang Qiuer's attacks multiple times.
The value of his exclusive linked soul guidance device is evident.
Several soul-guidance shells fired by Xiao Hongchen were intercepted by the silver light barrier created by Lan Xiu through Jiuyao.
"Hmm? What kind of soul guidance device is this?"
Xiao Hongchen was taken aback. It must be significant. No wonder he managed to make it to the end of the selection competition.
Lan Xiu's hands moved rapidly, causing the nine metal balls in the air to quickly converge. Soon after, the nine silver lights combined into one, shining brilliantly as they shot straight toward Xiao Hongchen.
Simultaneously, all the cannon barrels on Zhou Xinghao's metal base gleamed with bright light, ready to unleash their power.
"Oh." Xiao Hongchen couldn't help but laugh loudly. This was the first team in the entire selection competition that had the chance to attack him.
"Yuhao, help me deal with those nine metal balls. I'll manage the other turret soul engineer," Xiao Hongchen said to Huo Yuhao. He felt that breaking through the silver-white barrier would take some effort; it was much easier to let Huo Yuhao blow it up all at once.
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and directly showcased the Angry Buddha Lotus Flame that had been developing since the beginning of the selection.
Seeing the white and purple lotus seat in his hand, Lan Xiu's face changed, and he quickly withdrew his nine metal balls.
Zhou Xinghao, confused, asked: "Brother Lan Xiu, why don't you fight them?"
"My martial soul is mental power, and my perception is superior to yours. The lotus in his hand will directly destroy my Jiuyao."
Hearing this, Zhou Xinghao was shocked. He understood how formidable Lan Xiu's Jiuyao was.
Although Lan Xiu's current cultivation level was only as a Soul Ancestor, the soul skills unleashed by Soul Kings with good martial souls could easily bounce back.
Upon seeing Huo Yuhao with a lotus, he was so frightened that he decisively withdrew Jiuyao.
On the high platform, Lin Jiayi observed the situation in the trial field and remarked: "Master, the selection competition can be concluded."
"This selection competition has proven very effective. Nana, Zhou Xinghao, and Lan Xiu—three talented students—were selected. Along with our three children already chosen, the reserve team currently consists of a total of six individuals."
Jing Hongchen waved his hand and replied: "It's alright. When the reserve team is needed, Xiao Xiafeng, who has the steamed bun martial soul, can be extracted from the regular team. The absence of one person is not a big deal."
In the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, transformed into a girl with blonde hair and red pupils, held a half piece of the golden pendant of living beings, with a smoothly cut surface, and carefully contemplated it.
"Huh? That human isn't in Shrek Academy. How did he venture so far away..."
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