Chapter 155: Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique

When Mu Yang returned to the Great Soul Arena, the eight teams of the first group for the fifth round of today's preliminary matches had already taken the stage.

There were five competition arenas. The reason why there were eight teams instead of ten in the first group was that two teams were absent—Blazing Fire Team and Shrek Team.

Since Shrek Academy had forfeited in advance, Blazing Fire Academy won automatically, meaning neither team needed to compete.

Seated in the stands prepared especially for the contestants, Mu Yang's gaze fell upon the northern arena, one of the five competition platforms—East, South, West, North, and Center.

On the northern platform, two teams were sizing each other up. One side was the Elephant Armored Academy Team, one of the Five Elemental Academies, while the other was the Canghui Academy Team.

"The contestants from both sides, salute, release your martial souls, and the match will officially begin in one minute."

The referee announced loudly.

The next moment, Mu Yang saw the seven members of Canghui Team form a peculiar formation. Six team members arranged themselves in a hexagonal shape, encircling the only four-ringed Soul Ancestor-level captain at the center. Then, the seven of them released their soul rings, and their gemstone martial souls materialized in their hands.

"Interesting~"

Seeing that all seven members of Canghui Team possessed gemstone martial souls, Mu Yang became intrigued. If nothing unexpected happened, Canghui Team was preparing to use their trump card to take down the Elephant Armored Academy Team.

Among the twenty-eight participating teams in the Heaven Dou division's preliminary round, based purely on paper strength, the top six teams were ranked as follows: Blazing Fire, Skywater, Divine Wind, Thunderclap, Elephant Armored, and Shrek.

However, this ranking was based only on the soul power levels of each team's main players.

In terms of true strength, Shrek could rank fifth, while Elephant Armored ranked sixth.

The reason was simple—Shrek had a four-ringed Dai Mubai and a three-ringed Zhu Zhuqing. When they performed their martial soul fusion skill, Netherworld White Tiger, their combined power could temporarily rival that of an early-stage five-ringed Soul King.

Moreover, Tang San and Xiao Wu were also four-ringed Soul Ancestors, and they had Ning Rongrong, a Soul Elder of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, providing support. This made Shrek Team strong enough to surpass Elephant Armored Team, which had four Soul Ancestors.

As for Thunderclap Team, their captain, Yu Tianxin, hailed from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. With a soul power level of 45, he possessed the powerful Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and his clan's inherited 'Dragonization' secret technique. His strength wasn't weak—he could match an early-stage five-ringed Soul King with poor soul ring configurations. Combined with the support of four other four-ringed teammates, Thunderclap Team could have ranked even higher than Shrek.

Due to the strengthening effect of Whale Glue on a soul master's physical attributes, both Elephant Armored Team and Thunderclap Team had members with over-limit soul rings. This allowed them to gain more soul power when advancing, leading to more four-ringed players than in the original story.

Only five teams could qualify from the preliminary rounds. This meant that if Canghui Academy wanted to advance to the qualifying and final rounds, they had to defeat at least two of the top six teams.

Since it was easier to target the weaker ones, Canghui Team naturally didn't aim for the top three teams—Blazing Fire, Skywater, or Divine Wind, each of which had a five-ringed Soul King. Instead, they set their sights on Thunderclap, Shrek, and Elephant Armored.

Although it was only the fifth round of the preliminaries, not even a fifth of the tournament had passed, it was reasonable for them to reveal their trump card to defeat Elephant Armored Team.

If they missed the chance to defeat the relatively weaker Elephant Armored Team, even if they managed to take down Shrek Team later, they wouldn't necessarily be able to overcome Thunderclap Team.

After all, Thunderclap Team had consistently ranked either first or second in past preliminaries and had built quite a reputation.

"Hey, little brother, do you see anything unusual?"

Beside him, Huo Wu asked curiously.

Hearing this, Mu Yang pointed at a member of Canghui Team on the arena with a soul ring configuration of yellow-yellow-yellow and said, "Canghui Academy is at least a legitimate advanced soul master academy. Even if they can't compare to our Elemental Academy, they shouldn't struggle to find ten contestants with optimal soul ring configurations. Since they sent this person onto the field, there must be a reason."

"Also, did you notice? All seven members of Canghui Team have gemstone-type martial souls."

Indeed, in other academy teams, most contestants had over-limit soul rings that exceeded the conventional optimal configurations. Yet Canghui Academy had suddenly sent out someone with a suboptimal soul ring setup, which seemed somewhat disgraceful.

"Really?"

Huo Wu raised an eyebrow and then hesitated before saying, "Could it be that all seven of them can perform a martial soul fusion skill together?"

Since it was related to martial souls, her first thought was a martial soul fusion skill.

Mu Yang rolled his eyes. "You're overthinking it! Martial soul fusion skills are mostly limited to two people. I've only ever heard of one three-person fusion skill. As for a seven-person fusion skill? Never heard of it, let alone seen it."

"That makes sense~"

Huo Wu laughed awkwardly.

As Mu Yang had said, a seven-person martial soul fusion skill wasn't theoretically impossible, but throughout the vast history of the soul master world, not even a five-person fusion skill had ever appeared.

Four-person fusion skills had been recorded, but those were from thousands of years ago.

Excluding the relatively common Netherworld White Tiger, the probability of two-person fusion skills appearing was already around one in ten thousand. The only recorded three-person fusion skill was the 'Golden Holy Dragon,' making its occurrence about one in a hundred thousand.

Following that logic, the probability of a seven-person fusion skill was even lower than that of a soul master with innate soul power below level one ascending to the status of a legendary deity.

Soon, the match on the northern platform between Elephant Armored Team and Canghui Team began.

At the start, the burly members of Elephant Armored Team, led by their captain Hu Yanli, charged forward in unison. They looked like a moving fortress, pressing toward Canghui Team with overwhelming force.

All seven members of Elephant Armored Team were direct descendants of the Elephant Armored Clan, towering and imposing, exuding a strong sense of oppression.

Facing this overwhelming force, the seven members of Canghui Team showed a faint trace of disdain in their eyes.

In the next moment, seven beams of multicolored light shot into the sky simultaneously. Centered around the gemstone martial soul of Canghui Team's captain, a massive, thirty-meter-high pillar of seven-colored light emerged, enveloping all seven members within it.

Instantly, only that dazzling, vast radiance remained on the battlefield, and Canghui Academy's seven members vanished completely within it.

Immediately after, the seven-colored light column expanded, spreading across the entire arena. Multicolored radiance burst forth from it, appearing harmless yet mesmerizing. Many ordinary spectators couldn't help but be captivated, their eyes filled with fascination and confusion.