Chapter 438: Aftermath
My name is Zhao Faming. I’m 22 years old this year and am a genius in the third year of the Battle Soul Academy.
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I’ve always disliked the word genius because I felt that using the word genius to describe a talent like me was belittling.
It is the same even in the Battle Soul Academy where geniuses gathered.
The King’s Cup is a comprehensive competition where the top young generation of the entire war zone gathered.
Two years ago, I only watched.
This year, I plan to participate because this year is very special.
Of course, with my strength, it might be a little difficult to get into the top four, but it should be very easy to get into the top eight.
In Zone One, hehe, looking around, there are no fourth-year students.
I can definitely become the zone seed.
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Wang Che’s Heaven Trampling Overlord is a little powerful, but I should be able to become the seed in the competition zone.
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Hmm, An Ye, this abnormal fellow, was actually defeated. If Wang Che takes out other soul pets, I definitely won’t be his match. However, I discovered that I quite counter him. If I encounter him, if he doesn’t use other soul pets, I have a high chance of winning and becoming a seeded contestant in the first zone.
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Very good, we matched up. The last round on the tenth day. It seems that this is a fated encounter! On a narrow path, the strong wins! As long as he doesn’t take out a second soul pet, I will definitely win!
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The dragon wind domain! The heavens are helping me! It seems that the heavens are on my side. I have the advantage in terrain, soul pets, and martial soul!
How can I lose?
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Space Lock and Divine Attachment landed!
As expected, in the sky, this is my territory! Everything is going according to my plan, going perfectly! Martial soul evolution, soul pet combination attack, combined soul skill, it’s too perfect! With a genius attack sequence, no soul pet or Contract Soul Master can not lose their fighting strength under such an intense attack! Even Wang Che, who is standing on the Heaven Trampling Overlord, cannot summon a second or third soul pet in time!’
This is the price of being careless!
I won.
The seeded contestant of the first zone will definitely be in the top 16. As long as I win another match, I’ll reach my goal.
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‘I… lost.’
At this moment, Zhao Faming looked at the imposing Heaven Trampling Overlord in a daze.
“Impossible, this is impossible!”
Zhao Faming muttered, “How can it be unharmed under such a powerful attack? Moreover, it became so strong? No, this is an illusion. This must be an illusion!”
Boom!
In the next moment, the bone wings on Heaven Trampling Overlord’s back moved slightly and flew to the Wind King Eagle’s side as if it had teleported!
A Wave Fist blasted over instantaneously. It was unbelievably fast!
The Contract Soul Master was stunned. As a soul pet, the Wind King Eagle was also stunned.
Its mind was filled with thoughts. Why could this Heaven Trampling Overlord walk out unscathed from the Divine Destruction Storm?
Until this punch came, it was caught off guard and suffered a full impact.
With a punch, it was instantly sent flying. Its size changed and it returned to its original state. Its wings were twisted and it fell from the sky.
On the other two sides, the Shuttle Spirit and the Reverse Demon Puppet were shocked.
The Shuttle Spirit was intelligent and directly teleported to Zhao Faming. The Reverse Demon Puppet roared at Heaven Trampling Overlord.
The red-faced demonic puppet was very aggressive and fearless!
Then, Bear Treasure pounced forward and flew to it. The shadow formed by its huge body enveloped it.
Cold sweat broke out on the demonic puppet’s body. The red face disappeared and it trembled in fear.
“Their main force is gone.”
Wang Che patted Bear Treasure’s shoulder, “Just wait for the other party to admit defeat. There’s no need to bully them.”
From a cultivation point of view, the Wind King Eagle was the main force. After the martial soul evolution, it had temporarily become a Transcendent soul pet. Without it, although these two were still very strong, their cultivation was basically too low.
“Roar!”
Bear Treasure nodded and looked at Zhao Faming.
Wang Che also watched.
Bear Treasure’s talent in combat was completely obvious from this match.
Wang Che did not give any orders the entire time.
However, from the beginning, Bear Treasure had roughly sensed how the other party would deal with it.
Divine Might was only effective after it was activated.
If it had used it from the start, it would definitely have given itself away. Therefore, even if it was controlled, it did not use brute force to break free immediately.
That’s right, the combination of the Space Lock and the Divine Attachment, the two trump card soul skills, had indeed controlled Bear Treasure tightly.
However, the Titan True Body was immune to control. It was just that with the combination of the two trump cards, the control effect of that move was too high.
If it used its Divine Might at that time, it could also be immune to the Space Lock. It was not impossible to forcefully break free.
But if that was the case, it would definitely be a bitter battle.
Moreover, like the Overlord’s Strength, activating the Titan True Body at the same time and using these two ancient overlord powers consumed a lot of soul power.
In that case, it was clearly the same as An Ye previously. It was even less optimistic.
Once the other party sensed something, he would use the Shuttle Spirit to dodge and not attack anymore.
The outcome would definitely be Bear Treasure losing from running out of soul power.
However, if it did not use its Divine Might and break free from the chains, the other party would definitely take this opportunity to unleash its strongest attack!
Bear Treasure immediately seized this opportunity…
Until the other party released a series of ultimate moves!
Especially the combination soul skill formed by the Mental Impact!
This allowed the power of Divine Might to be maximized!
The combination soul skill formed by the four Sweeping Clouds was completely absorbed by the Divine Might!
This was far greater than when he fought An Ye previously!
At this point, Bear Treasure’s actual combat training was completed.
In terms of Divine Might and Overlord’s Strength, it was indeed invincible.
However, if it was not used well, it would be easily beaten.
If they were used immediately, Bear Treasure would be drained to death by these powerful contestants.
After the battle with An Ye, the next few battles were rather difficult because many contestants had already figured out the effect of the Overlord’s Strength.
After understanding the effect, they would naturally avoid it.
Among them, a few contestants also took Zhao Faming’s path. They did not fight in close combat and used attribute attacks to fight.
However, compared to Zhao Faming, it was much worse. Moreover, the terrain was not always Wang Che’s disadvantage.
That was until he met Zhao Faming.
He summarized all of Bear Treasure’s previous battles. From the beginning to the end, it could be said that there were good offensive arrangements.
However… the current Bear Treasure was no longer the Bear Treasure from the first day.
At the last moment, it activated its Divine Might and turned the situation around!
Wang Che was rather satisfied.
He was still thinking that if Bear Treasure lost this match, then if it went to fight for the top 16 positions next, it would probably have to go through many difficult battles.
The air was very quiet.
The flying energy in the dragon wind domain had already been completely absorbed by the few Sweeping Clouds.
The audience was stunned.
Zhao Faming returned to his senses and looked at his Divine Wind Eagle before looking at Heaven Trampling Overlord.
It was very bitter, especially the journey in his heart. It was like riding a roller coaster as he suddenly fell from the sky. The intense weightlessness made him feel unreal.
“Strength-based soul skills are useless, and even soul skills that combine attributes and mental strength are absorbed?”
Zhao Faming closed his eyes.
Who could beat this?
Of course, if he had known in advance, Zhao Faming felt that he would not have lost so badly.
“I admit defeat.”
Zhao Faming sighed.
He didn’t expect that he actually couldn’t even beat one of the opponent’s soul pets?
Thinking about it, it seemed that the other contestants in the first zone had never fought the other pets before.
It was not embarrassing.
Zhao Faming felt much better.
After he admitted defeat, the match ended.
He was not stupid enough to choose to continue fighting.
He could but what was the point?
In the end, the ones injured were his soul pets.
Even if there was a trace of hope of victory, Zhao Faming would not admit defeat. For example, if the Wind King Eagle was not punched down by the other party.
However, it was obvious that the other party had held on to this opportunity and cut off his last hope.
It was very decisive.
“It’s over.”
Wang Che patted Bear Treasure on the shoulder, “Next is the top eight, the top four, the semi-finals, and the finals. Hmm, you shouldn’t be the only one going on stage anymore.”
“Roar!”
Bear Treasure was even more excited!
Was it finally going to fight with Big Brother and Second Brother?
‘Am I too weak?!’
‘No, I can’t embarrass Big Brother and Second Brother!’
At this moment, the audience also returned to their senses and let out a commotion!
It was as if it found this victory unbelievable!
They were also incredulous by the process of the first zone!
One Heaven Trampling Overlord could really suppress all the contestants in the entire competition zone?
For a moment, the audience was discussing this Heaven Trampling Overlord…
Especially this last match, how did it win?
What was the final form of the Heaven Trampling Overlord?
In the air.
The Heavenly Kings were silent, especially the Star Flame Heavenly King.
He looked at the Dragon Fighting Heavenly King at the side. The two of them looked at each other and actually felt the same way.
“It can even absorb such a powerful attribute combination soul skill… What’s going on with this Heaven Trampling Overlord?”
The Star Flame Heavenly King frowned slightly.
“So what if he lost? What else can it be?”
The Dragon Battling Heavenly King waved his hand, “Good fellow, not only are strength-type soul skills useless, but even attribute soul skills are useless. There shouldn’t be such a heaven-defying ancient soul beast in the Remote Antiquity Era, right? It can’t be that he gathered the advantages of a few soul pets, right?”
The other Heavenly Kings laughed.
“Glazed Heavenly King, you’re the most knowledgeable and know more about ancient soul beasts in history.”
The Star Flame Heavenly King coughed, “I won’t ask Professor He. Do you know? Yu Jin, you’re so familiar with Professor He, you should know, right?”
The Oracle Heavenly King smiled and said, “I know, but I don’t know much. The Glazed Heavenly King should know more than me.”
The Glazed Heavenly King thought for a moment and said, “That should be Divine Might. It’s the overlord power controlled by the Heaven Devouring Beast of the Remote Antiquity Era. In the Remote Antiquity Era, this Heaven Devouring Beast and the Bear Emperor were enemies. I didn’t expect to see their overlord powers in the present world, and they’ve even gathered on a soul pet.”
“This Heaven Trampling Overlord is indeed unique.”
“However, it’s still too young and its cultivation is not high. It will still take a long time to completely master these two powers.”
“In the future Nine Continent Cup, we might be able to see two overlord powers in their complete forms. Most of these mysterious powers of the Remote Antiquity Era have already disappeared in the present world.”
At this point, the Glazed Heavenly King smiled and said, “Actually, the gene characteristics developed by our modern soul pets, the inheritance awakening, is a deeper development of the soul pet’s potential. It’s not inferior to the overlord power of the Remote Antiquity Era. However, normally, one has to have at least ten thousand years of cultivation to begin developing the gene characteristics. Only after a hundred thousand years of cultivation can it appear relatively mature.”
“Inheritance Awakening, Super Beast Soul Armament, Martial Soul Evolution, Extreme Soul Skill, Mechanical Fusion, and so on. They are all powerful paths developed in recent times.”
“Compared to the overlord power of the Remote Antiquity Era, they’re actually not inferior.”
“Some might even be stronger.”
Many Heavenly Kings nodded.
The modern society formed by soul pets and Contract Soul Masters was developing forward.
Although soul beasts of the Remote Antiquity Era or the Fallen Ancient Era were very strong, the power they controlled was also very mysterious.
However, compared to modern soul pets and Contract Soul Masters, they were definitely not stronger.
Modern soul pets and Contract Soul Masters would only be stronger and control greater power.
However, at this stage, soul pets were all considered basic. They had to lay a good foundation, stabilize their cultivation, master the soul skills they had learned, and develop a variety of soul skills in battle.
It would not involve a higher level of power.
It was already not bad for the King’s Cup to have gene characteristics and martial soul evolution.
However, even if it appeared, it had only just stepped through the threshold. In this aspect, Contract Soul Masters and soul pets still had a long way to go.
“In that case…” The Star Flame Heavenly King sighed, “Wang Che’s Heaven Trampling Overlord will also have an inheritance awakening in the future. It will also have a martial soul evolution, extreme soul skill, mechanical fusion, and so on. Can it be considered a soul pet that combined the power of the ancient and modern era?”
“Of course.” The Glazed Heavenly King nodded slightly.
“So, I wonder what height this Heaven Trampling Overlord will reach in the end?”
As the Heavenly Kings discussed, their eyes began to flicker.
“Don’t forget, this kid still has two soul pets that haven’t gone on stage yet.” The Dragon Fighting Heavenly King thought, “He entered the top 16, so there are only four matches left. However, in the top 16, if he wants to only use one soul pet, it should be impossible.”
“I took a look. A few of the other divisions are indeed quite powerful. We have a few disciples of the Heavenly Kings who seem to have lost.”
“What’s wrong with that?” The Star Flame Heavenly King did not feel embarrassed at all, “The Master only leads the way. Although they are our disciples, the path of a Contract Soul Master is filled with endless changes. Even we can’t interfere with the opportunities of the Myriad Beast Mountain. What they can obtain inside is up to them.”
“Not many of our masters are Heavenly Kings of the previous generation anyway.”
“There’s never a lack of geniuses in the war zone. What’s important is who can reach the end…”
“Jade Cloud Heavenly King, I realized that you’ve been watching the other side from the beginning… Aren’t you interested in such an exciting match?”
As the Star Flame Heavenly King spoke, he suddenly looked at another Heavenly King.