Chapter 230: Battle, the Might of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul

"Both contestants have now stepped onto the battle platform. Next, the two contestants shall greet each other!"

Seeing that Lin Ye and Yu Tianheng had both ascended the battle platform, the host, Doudou, hovering in the sky while flapping her wings, announced loudly.

Upon hearing Doudou's words, Lin Ye and Yu Tianheng immediately walked toward the center of the battle platform. As they approached, the two clasped their hands and bowed to each other.

This was a relatively formal step that would take place before any soul battle.

"Your name is Jian Yi? To achieve a 28-win streak in the Suotuo Great Soul Arena—though the soul masters here are somewhat weaker—being able to secure 28 consecutive victories means your strength must still be quite impressive!"

After the greeting, Yu Tianheng couldn't help but say to Lin Ye with a fighting spirit.

"My strength will be known once we fight. It's too early to say anything now," Lin Ye replied indifferently.

"Haha! Well said. Only through battle can one truly understand an opponent's strength. However, records do reflect combat prowess to some extent, especially winning streaks. I hope today, you can let me fight to my heart's content!"

Hearing Lin Ye's words, Yu Tianheng burst into laughter.

"Fight to your heart's content? Don't worry, you certainly will today—because I will break your winning streak!"

Lin Ye smiled faintly.

"Heh, you want to defeat me? Eight people before you have said the same thing to me, but unfortunately, they all ended up as my defeated opponents!"

Yu Tianheng shook his head with a laugh.

"They are them, and I am me."

Lin Ye lightly shook his head.

"Then I'll be waiting to see!"

Yu Tianheng smiled dismissively.

"Next, the two contestants shall summon their respective Martial Souls or enter Soul Attachment. You will have ten seconds to prepare before the battle. Ten seconds later, when I announce the start of the battle, the match may officially begin. It will continue until one side admits defeat, loses consciousness, or falls off the battle platform!"

After Lin Ye and Yu Tianheng finished greeting each other and retreated to their respective sides, the host Doudou continued loudly.

"Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Soul Attachment!"

After retreating to his side and hearing Doudou's words, Yu Tianheng immediately let out a low shout, activating Soul Attachment.

With a deep dragon's roar, a massive blue dragon with broad wings and crackling lightning coiled around its body emerged from Yu Tianheng's body before instantly merging into him.

After the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's Soul Attachment, Yu Tianheng's figure did not undergo significant changes, but a golden lightning mark suddenly appeared on his forehead.

Then, as countless electric currents spread from the golden lightning mark across his entire body, fine blue scales covered Yu Tianheng's skin, his eyes turned into golden vertical slits, and his hands transformed—his left arm only slightly enlarged, with his palm becoming a clawed dragon's paw.

However, after Soul Attachment, Yu Tianheng's right arm swelled dramatically, becoming over three times thicker than before and nearly half again as long. The fine blue dragon scales turned into deep blue scales the size of gold soul coins, and his thick dragon arm crackled with lightning!

Compared to his left arm, which could only be considered partially dragonized, Yu Tianheng's right arm almost seemed to have truly transformed into a dragon's limb.

Lin Ye knew this was a special ability of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul: Dragonization.

After reaching the 30th rank, each additional soul ring would allow one part of the body to undergo Dragonization. The dragonized body part would see a massive increase in both strength and defense, almost equivalent to an incomplete version of the Martial Soul True Body!

After completing Soul Attachment, three soul rings—yellow, yellow, and purple—rose slowly from Yu Tianheng's feet, circling around him.

At the same time, a faint draconic aura emanated from Yu Tianheng's body, spreading outward.

Under the draconic pressure of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, many beast-type Martial Souls—especially serpent and lizard-type Martial Souls—would suffer a suppression of 10% to 30% of their combat power.

The degree of suppression depended on the quality gap between the Martial Souls and whether they were related to dragons.

The greater the gap in Martial Soul quality, the stronger the suppression. If a Martial Soul had inferior bloodline quality but still possessed draconic lineage, the suppression would be at least 30%, and could even reach 40% or 50%.

This was precisely why the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul was regarded as one of the continent's top-tier beast-type Martial Souls.

This draconic pressure ability alone allowed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul masters to gain a significant advantage in battle—not to mention the Dragonization ability, which was almost equivalent to an incomplete Martial Soul True Body.

While Yu Tianheng summoned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and entered Soul Attachment, Lin Ye also drew his Hidden Wind Sword and used the artifact Myriad Forms to simulate three soul rings—yellow, yellow, and purple—around himself.

After Lin Ye drew his Hidden Wind Sword, Yu Tianheng had already completed Soul Attachment, and a faint draconic pressure spread toward him.

However, this draconic pressure did not suppress Lin Ye in the slightest. Instead, it stimulated the third Martial Soul within his body—the Devouring Primordial Dragon Martial Soul.

Fortunately, the Devouring Primordial Dragon Martial Soul within Lin Ye had not yet fully awakened. Just as it was about to counter the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's draconic pressure, Lin Ye quickly suppressed it.

This was the Great Soul Arena, and he had already summoned his "sword Martial Soul." If a dragon-type Martial Soul were to appear within him now, he could probably forget about ever returning to the Suotuo Great Soul Arena!

"Battle, begin!"

As Lin Ye forcefully suppressed the restlessness of the Devouring Primordial Dragon Martial Soul within him, the host Doudou, seeing that both Lin Ye and Yu Tianheng were ready, shouted from the sky, declaring the start of the match.

"First Soul Skill, Thunderous Dragon Claw!"

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As the host Doudou announced the start of the battle, Yu Tianheng roared and activated his first soul skill, Thunderous Dragon Claw.

As the first soul ring around him lit up, a surge of turbulent soul power erupted from it, instantly flooding into Yu Tianheng's arms.

"Take this!"

After activating Thunderous Dragon Claw, lightning crackled around Yu Tianheng's arms. With a roar, he clenched the dragon claw of his right arm and charged at Lin Ye.

In the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's Soul Attachment state, Yu Tianheng's strength had multiplied several times over.

Though it couldn't compare to the truly top-tier strength-type Martial Souls, it was enough to rival high-tier strength-type Martial Souls.

And this was only for his non-dragonized body parts. With his dragonized right arm, Yu Tianheng's strength even surpassed that of ordinary top-tier strength-type soul masters.

Combined with speed second only to agility-type soul masters and the considerable defensive power of his dragon scales, Yu Tianheng was nearly invincible in Soul Attachment state against opponents of the same rank—without even using soul skills!

After charging fiercely toward Lin Ye, Yu Tianheng clenched his massive dragon fist and, with a roar, slammed it toward Lin Ye's chest.

The formidable power of Thunderous Dragon Claw, combined with the crackling lightning coiled around his right dragon arm, caused Yu Tianheng's dragon fist to tear through the air with a sharp "Crack!"

Facing Yu Tianheng's attack, Lin Ye, after suppressing the restlessness of his third Martial Soul, swiftly dodged to the side and thrust his sword at Yu Tianheng.

"Clang!"

The sharp Hidden Wind Sword pierced through the air and struck the dragon claw of Yu Tianheng's right arm. The collision between the sharp sword tip and the tough dragon scales produced a metallic clang.

Since Lin Ye was only exerting the strength of an ordinary Soul Elder, this strike naturally did not injure Yu Tianheng.

However, after failing with the first strike, Lin Ye immediately changed targets, rapidly thrusting his sword and unleashing countless sword shadows that slashed at various parts of Yu Tianheng's body.

For a moment, the sound of clashing metal rang out incessantly.

Although Lin Ye's "Jian Yi" persona was set as a tool-type Martial Soul user, making his strength unremarkable, tool-type soul masters far surpassed power-attack beast-type soul masters like Yu Tianheng in agility and technique.

After realizing that the dragon scales on Yu Tianheng's Thunderous Dragon Arm were too tough, Lin Ye shifted his focus to other parts of Yu Tianheng's body covered in scales.

Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul provided decent defensive capabilities, due to the Dragonization ability, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul masters did not possess outstanding defense before the 70th rank.

Thus, after Lin Ye used the Solitary Nine Swords to evade Yu Tianheng's dragon claws and instead slashed repeatedly at Yu Tianheng's less-defended body parts, Yu Tianheng was immediately suppressed.

He could only use his Thunderous Dragon Arm to protect his head, gritting his teeth as he was forced to retreat step by step.

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