Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

Since he already knew who his opponent was after arriving at the venue in the morning, Long You had already taken advantage of the time while the dean was speaking to complete a general analysis of the opponent's information.

Well, this group of opponents looks very well-equipped, but in reality, Long You thinks it will be relatively easy for them.

The reason lies with the control-type girl on the opposing team. According to Long You's analysis, her martial soul is the Azure Vine. It's a pretty good plant-type martial soul, very tough, and naturally poisonous. However, the Azure Vine also has a major problem: its vines are rather short.

For a plant-based spirit master who controls their spirit, a short spirit vine basically means a small actual control range.

This is good news for Long You, because it means that Long You has the possibility of quickly closing in using his soul skills.

Judging from Long You's current soul skill configuration, he is not good at offensive attacks. Against a first-ring soul master, he can rely on the level suppression of his thousand-year soul skills to achieve an instant kill, but against a great soul master, his Thunderous Might is insufficient for offensive attacks.

However, in team battles where there are many opponents, the opponent's control or support-type Soul Masters must be eliminated first. Otherwise, it's easy to suffer a silent loss.

Since Thunderous Strike, a mid-to-close range attack soul skill, cannot instantly kill opponents from a distance, Long You can only choose to find opportunities to close in and unleash his soul skill. If the opponent's control-type soul master has a relatively large control range, it would be difficult for Long You to get close, which is just right now.

Once they were on the field, they typically had about half a minute to discuss tactics and prepare. Long You didn't need to discuss anything, so after figuring out how to counter the little girl's control-type Soul Master, he turned his attention to the other two boys.

According to the analysis results from the Insight Glasses, the seemingly thin young man's Martial Soul is the Azure Cloud Sparrow. He's definitely a template for an agility-based Martial Soul Master. It's a pity that the young man, with only two Martial Rings, probably can't fly yet, otherwise Long You would likely be in some trouble.

The other rather muscular young man's martial soul was probably the Mighty Vajra Ape, a traditional power-attack type soul master who followed the strength route. Looking at those arms, Long You felt a pang of envy; they were long, strong, and had clearly defined muscle lines.

Both of these are easy to deal with. As long as they can't fly and aren't the kind of beings that can stand still and cast spells, the quicksand traps recorded in the Longyou Martial Soul are very effective against them.

The match began. Beibei and Tang Ya, who had already retreated, remained still, while Long You started walking alone towards the opposing trio. Just as Long You had analyzed before, the opposing control-type characters weren't good at large-area control. So, at the start of the match, everyone tacitly closed the distance.

The Insight Glasses allowed Long You to keep track of the precise distance between the two sides at all times, and also to notice the speed at which the soul power flowed within the three opponents.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides had closed to twenty meters, and that the speed at which the soul power flowed within the bodies of the Azure Cloud Sparrow Soul Master and the little girl Azure Vine had accelerated in an instant, Long You immediately knew that it was time to make a move.

Silently calling out to Xiao Yan in his mind, Xiao Yan, who was ready at any time, immediately cast an earthquake spell as agreed beforehand, followed by placing a quicksand trap under the feet of the Azure Vine (control type) and the Mighty Ape (attack type).

While Xiao Yan was busy, Long You wasn't idle either. With Xiao Yan around, soul skill release became voice-controlled, but that didn't mean the original manual release of soul skills was gone. So while Xiao Yan was casting soul skills, Long You was flipping through books, determined to achieve the effect of two people working together.

Why was Xiao Yan, the agility-based attacker, left out? It's because Long You wanted to take action himself. Agility-based attackers are generally nimble and have good balance. While an earthquake spell can temporarily interrupt the release of someone's soul skill, it's not enough to disrupt their center of gravity and balance.

If the center of gravity and balance weren't disrupted, the quicksand trap might fail to deploy. Therefore, after Xiao Yan unleashed the earthquake spell, Long You used two rock spikes on Qingyun Que. The precise location calculated by the Insight Glasses directly immobilized the Qingyun Que Soul Master in place.

At this moment, Xiao Yan timely added a quicksand trap to the Azure Cloud Sparrow Soul Master. On the other side, Long You also cast the Lightning Flash Soul Skill on himself, drawing a cool arc with flashing lightning as he arrived between the Mighty Vajra Ape and the Azure Vine Soul Master in the blink of an eye.

By this time, the young girl and the strong young man had overcome the initial panic and dizziness caused by being sucked into the quicksand trap, and were experimenting with ways to escape.

There's nothing we can do about it. Longyou's quicksand trap is basically a hundred-year soul skill; it's not real quicksand, and the depth of the quicksand is limited. Although the ground is soft and difficult to grip once you reach the bottom, making it hard to break free, it's still manageable if left unattended.

Especially the strong young man, the Mighty Ape, it didn't matter if he wasn't strong in the legs, as long as his arms were strong. The young man's arms were long and strong, and when he stretched them out, he could reach outside the quicksand trap and touch the hard ground.

Seeing the young man's soul power surging and his first soul ring lighting up, it seemed he would be free soon. However, Long You's mind wasn't really on the young man for the time being, because the little girl whose sky-green vines were already dancing around her was the real enemy.

With Long You and Xiao Yan working together, two overlapping bolts of thunder slammed into the little girl's head. In that instant, Long You almost turned the Thunder Strike soul skill into a plasma waterfall.

Judging from the fact that the flying azure vines turned to ashes, Long You's attack was successful; and judging from the fact that the referee immediately appeared to rescue the girl, Long You achieved his goal of sending the control-type girl off the field, which he had set before the start of the match.

However, it was precisely because Long You was fully focused on dealing with the control-type girl that the Mighty Golden Ape, an offensive type, managed to escape from the quicksand trap.

But it doesn't matter, Long You remembered this incident. With a wave of his hand, a thick stone shield of glory successfully blocked the fist of the Mighty Vajra Ape Soul Master, which was accompanied by a strong whistling sound.

"Boom!"

It must be said that the attack of a strength-type Soul Master is truly powerful. The four-centimeter-thick stone Shield of Glory showed obvious cracks and deformation under the blow of the Mighty Vajra Ape Soul Master's fist, which was enhanced by his Soul Skill.

But it's alright, Long You was prepared. Taking advantage of the moment when the Mighty Vajra Ape Soul Master's old power had dissipated and new power had not yet been generated, Long You summoned a Shield of Glory once again.

With a powerful thrust of his feet and the shield resting on his shoulder, Long You mustered all his strength and rammed into the unprepared Mighty Vajra Ape Soul Master, shield and all.