prynovel Chapter 31 : Chapter 31
Chapter 31 : Chapter 31
Chapter 31: A Terrifying Soul Attack! Xiao Xuan Was Nearly Killed in an Instant!
All three thousand of them were Grandmaster-level experts.
That made Xiao Xuan grin despite himself.
At this moment, the odds on Xiao Xuan winning had already risen to 1:12.5.
Looking at those odds, Xiao Xuan did a quick calculation. He currently had ten million. Even if he bet all of it, he would only make another hundred million at most.
Then he suddenly remembered something. He immediately jumped down from the arena platform and, under everyone's puzzled gazes, headed straight for the betting counter.
This betting counter belonged to the Colosseum itself, so it was completely reliable.
"Hello. This is a Peak Sixth-Tier Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor. How much can you value it at here?”
"I want to bet all of it on myself to win!"
Xiao Xuan directly put up his Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor as collateral.
Of course, putting it up as collateral did not mean he had to hand it over right away. As long as he was here in person, that was enough.
If he lost, the Colosseum naturally had its own ways of making him hand it over.
"What? A Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor? Only the top geniuses of Nanhai University, or some high-ranking military officials, are even qualified to exchange for something like this!”
"Are you sure you want to use it as collateral? We can value it at one billion!"
After taking a single look at the nanotech core in Xiao Xuan's hand, the Martial King in charge of betting hurriedly spoke.
"Do it. Count it as one billion and bet all of it on me to win!"
Xiao Xuan did not waste words.
"All right, I have already registered it for you!"
The Martial King hurriedly nodded.
Even without taking the exchange qualifications into account, this item was worth more than one billion to begin with.
And with its rarity on top of that, this valuation was already low. If it were sold outside, it would fetch at least two billion.
Xiao Xuan smiled and glanced at the odds. Sure enough, they did not move at all.
Although he had staked one billion, which translated to ten billion in the prize pool, the total pool had already climbed into the hundreds of billions.
His little bit of money could not stir up the slightest ripple.
With that thought, Xiao Xuan returned directly to the arena platform.
However, many people had naturally seen what he had done. Quite a few of them, seeing how confident Xiao Xuan was, began to hesitate.
In the end, many of them steeled themselves and bet a portion of their funds as well.
Even so, the odds still did not change much.
In the end, they stabilized at 1:10.3.
The moment Xiao Xuan saw those odds, he grinned from ear to ear. That was his ten billion.
He had struck it rich.
At that moment, when he looked at the more than three thousand Grandmaster-level experts across from him, they all seemed remarkably endearing.
"The gathering time is over. The battle is about to begin. Both sides, make your preparations.”
"Remember the rules. Life and death do not matter. The fight will continue until one side admits total defeat!"
At that moment, a host at the Martial Emperor level flew above the arena platform and spoke slowly.
The instant his words fell, all the Grandmaster-level experts around Xiao Xuan erupted with terrifying auras.
Powerful force surged from every one of them.
Each of them was pushing their strength as far as possible, hoping to contribute a little more to the task of killing Xiao Xuan.
"Tsk, tsk. So many people are preparing to kill me. I really am a little frightened."
Seeing this scene, Xiao Xuan could not help but laugh.
In the next instant, Lightning Power and Flame Power erupted from his body as well.
The two powers began to circulate madly around him. In only a few moments, that vast energy turned into a purple-gold membrane that directly enveloped his entire body.
He was confident, but he was not a fool. If he tried to take so much power head-on without putting up even the slightest defense, getting injured would be all too easy.
At the same time, he clenched his right hand in the air.
CLANG!
In an instant, a long saber condensed from flame and lightning appeared in his hand.
And the powerful aura radiating from his body instantly made the pupils of the Grandmaster-level experts present contract.
"This brat really does have something. No wonder he dares to be so arrogant. With strength like this, I might not even be his match in a one-on-one fight."
The burly young man at the front, a giant axe in hand, frowned.
"What? Even you are not his match? Could this brat really be a prodigy of at least Mid Silver rank?"
The giant-axe youth's words immediately astonished the few martial artists from Nanhai University around him.
"Not just that! Everyone had better go all out. Otherwise, if he starts killing us while fighting above his realm, we will not even have anyone to complain to!"
Zheng Xiaohe said gravely, then took the giant axe off his back.
That giant axe was also Fourth-Tier. As long as a weapon did not exceed the user's own level, using it did not count as breaking the rules.
Seeing this, the others quickly drew their own weapons as well.
"Multi-person battle, begin!"
In the next moment, the Martial Emperor in the sky gave a low shout.
In an instant, every attack poured toward Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Xuan did not waste words. He raised the flaming saber in his hand and drove it violently into the ground.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
In the next instant, endless lightning raced along the earth and roared outward in every direction.
The lightning was so fast that ordinary martial artists could not dodge it at all.
And this lightning even passed straight through all the incoming attacks before crashing directly into the martial artists who had not yet braced themselves.
"This is bad!"
Zheng Xiaohe, at the very front, turned pale with shock and hurriedly raised his giant axe to cleave at one of the bolts.
BOOM!
In the next moment, that terrifying lightning slammed into his giant axe, and an overwhelming force crashed directly into his body.
Zheng Xiaohe spat out a great mouthful of blood and was flung backward.
His flying body was like a billiard ball, smashing into a large group of martial artists behind him and sending them all hurtling off the arena platform. Whether they lived or died was unknown.
If even Zheng Xiaohe, the strongest among them, had ended up like this, there was no need to mention the others.
The berserk lightning lashed out in every direction, striking each martial artist in turn.
That incomparably powerful force blasted them away one after another, leaving them charred like blackened cinders as they flew backward.
In only an instant, one-tenth of the people on the entire arena platform had been cleared out.
The main reason was simply that there were too many of them.
And when the remaining nine-tenths saw this, all of their expressions changed in fright.
With one move, he had instantly wiped out more than three hundred people. And he had done it while fighting above his realm. Was he even human?
This was practically cheating.
At the same time, the powerful True Qi attacks unleashed simultaneously by those three thousand Grandmaster Realm martial artists all slammed into Xiao Xuan.
Deafening explosions resounded across the entire arena platform.
The blasts continued for more than ten seconds before finally subsiding.
Soon, the bombardment gradually died away.
In the next moment, completely unharmed and shrouded within the Thunderflame Armor, Xiao Xuan appeared before everyone once more.
At the sight of this, everyone present sucked in a sharp breath.
Xiao Xuan gazed calmly at his surroundings, as still as an ancient well, but his eyes were faintly bloodshot.
"Damn it, how is there a Soul Cultivator among them who can use soul attacks?”
"And that talent is at least Purple."
At that moment, Xiao Xuan was utterly dumbfounded.
He really had just been struck by a soul attack. The pain that came from his soul was like death by a thousand cuts.
Fortunately, the Thunderflame Adamantine Body could also weaken soul attacks to some extent.
Otherwise, that earlier attack really might have killed him on the spot.
Soul attacks could penetrate through any opening.
And for a martial artist, strengthening the soul was extraordinarily difficult.
If a martial artist wanted to resist soul attacks, the only method was to cultivate soul-defense arts.
Unfortunately, such arts could only defend against weak soul attacks. Against anything even slightly stronger, they were utterly useless.
That was why specialists in soul attacks held an extremely high status, because their battles were almost always fought above their realm.
Of course, by the same token, awakening a powerful Soul Cultivator talent was also extraordinarily difficult.
The difficulty of awakening a Purple Soul Cultivator talent was far greater than the difficulty of awakening a Silver Martial Path talent.
Because of that, a Soul Cultivator with Purple talent far surpassed ordinary holders of Silver talent in both combat power and rarity.
And on top of that, this person's realm had already reached the Fifth Heaven of the Grandmaster Realm.
Fortunately, the earlier soul attack had probably been mixed in with the attacks of the other martial artists and weakened in the process. Otherwise, Xiao Xuan might well have met a bitter end here.
"I was too overconfident. This time, it looks like I really need to start cultivating the soul path as well!"