Bringing the gaze back to the ground.
As the convoy entered the narrow path, the Royal Knights felt the aura erupting from the mountain peaks on both sides and immediately adopted a defensive posture.
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"All on alert!"
Under the command of the Royal Knights' captain, the entire knighthood raised their lances, forming a defensive circle around the convoy.
In contrast to the knights, the participating team members seemed nonchalant.
After all, they had gathered so many talented Soul Masters here, and their leading teachers were also by their side.
Among them were many powerful Soul Masters at level sixty or seventy.
With such a team, they would not fear even an army of ten thousand.
Faced with this sudden attack, the Royal Knights demonstrated extraordinary qualities.
They first ordered the convoy to accelerate and rush out of the narrow path, while the knights stood on both sides, leaving space for the convoy, and directly raised their spears to meet the falling rocks.
Because the terrain on both sides was not high, the power of the falling rocks was not as great as imagined, so the knights were able to cope with the rocks on their own.
With the lances waving, not a single flying boulder broke through the knights' iron defense.
However, although the knights were well-trained, they gradually became unable to withstand the continuous onslaught of boulders.
Some oversized boulders even broke through the defense and smashed into the academy teams inside.
However, each academy was composed of Soul Masters, and at this time, they all demonstrated their combat skills.
Each academy quickly formed its own formation, released its Martial Souls, and directly shattered the boulders, demonstrating extraordinary resilience.
Although the fifteen teams seemed a bit scattered compared to the knights, and each acted on its own, the falling rocks alone could not defeat them.
With everyone's cooperation, the convoy was about to rush out of the unfavorable area and enter a wider area.
As long as they passed this section of the road, the knights could form a military formation and launch a charge against the enemy.
The cavalry, as a military unit, can only exert its greatest effect in a raid.
But the enemy seemed to understand this as well. Just as their convoy was about to rush out of the narrow path, a whistle sounded from the hills.
Thousands of black-clad ambushers suddenly rushed out of the hills on both sides, blocking the exit.
The knights, most of whom were arranged at the rear to cover the convoy, had not yet arrived, so in this situation, they could only rely on the strength of the academies themselves to deal with the men in black.
The fifteen scattered teams, composed of fifteen academies, collided head-on with the thousands of black-clad men.
However, to everyone's surprise, the black-clad men showed a high degree of coordination and combat skills when facing the academy teams.
Their individual strength may be weaker than the students and teachers, but they took advantage of their numerical superiority and adopted a multi-on-one encirclement offensive.
So, each academy had about less than twenty Soul Masters, but the black-clad men deployed more than a hundred black-clad men against each academy.
These black-clad men seemed to be very familiar with this large-scale battle. Their fighting style was simple and clear, and very cunning.
They tried their best to avoid the first and second Soul Skills with their skillful cooperation and speed, and the Soul King-level powerhouses among the black-clad men dealt with the more powerful Soul Skills.
Surprisingly, the Soul King-level powerhouses, who accounted for only a small number of the entire Soul Master population, actually appeared here in numbers of more than thirty.
Even more exaggerated was that in the siege against the Blazing Fire Academy, there were actually two Soul Sages and one Soul Douluo.
Moreover, the goals of these three people were very clear, and they were completely aimed at Quan Yi and Huo Wu.
Their sudden attack put the two, who were slaughtering all directions, in a dangerous situation.
Previously, the two, who had only shown the tip of the iceberg in the early stages of the preliminary competition, showed a powerful strength far exceeding their peers and even Soul Masters of the same realm when facing the siege.
But facing the siege of one Soul Douluo and two Soul Sages, their situation seemed precarious.
This scene was beyond everyone's expectations. No one had thought that such high-end Soul Master combat power existed in a bandit group.
The leading Soul Douluo directly unleashed his seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar.
The whole person turned into a huge golden eagle, rushing towards Quan Yi like a huge golden arrow.
His sharp eagle eyes had already locked onto Quan Yi, and the speed he burst out was definitely not something a Soul Sage could avoid.
In his pupils, Quan Yi's terrified face flashed, but he had no pity.
Instead, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, accelerating towards Quan Yi.
His purpose was very obvious, to take Quan Yi's life.
But at this critical moment, a dark figure rushed out from inside the convoy and slammed into the golden eagle.
"Bang!"
One black and one gold, the two figures collided violently, immediately setting off a huge shock wave.
The Soul Douluo, who had transformed into a golden eagle, was blasted back along his flight path by the powerful impact.
His handsome eagle face was also greatly distorted by the intense impact.
This conflict instantly attracted everyone's attention.
The crowd, who should have felt sorry for the early death of a genius, found that an equally tall and stalwart old man was standing in front of Quan Yi.
It turned out that Quan Li, who was hiding in the convoy, was wearing black Soul Power armor and used his iron fist to knock the Soul Douluo away.
"Who dares to hurt my grandson!"
Quan Li roared angrily, protecting Quan Yi and Huo Wu behind him with unparalleled domineering.
At the same time, an incomparably powerful Soul Power aura, accompanied by the nine Soul Rings behind him, soared into the sky.
Directly suppressing the entire battlefield.
"Nine, nine Soul Rings.
He's a Titled Douluo!"
The golden eagle, who was knocked to the ground, counted the number of Soul Rings behind Quan Li in disbelief, and a sense of fear arose in his heart.
Although they had previously obtained information about Quan Yi and the Quan family, they had never imagined that Quan Li, as the pillar of support, had broken through to the Titled Douluo realm.
Feeling the severe pain in his face, he knew that this was no longer a situation he could handle.
So, without hesitation, he immediately raised his head to the sky and let out a shrill cry.
Seeing the golden eagle sending a signal towards a certain place, Quan Li's face changed drastically, and his expression became tense.
He looked around, trying to search for something, and finally, he finally locked his gaze on the front.
At the front end of Quan Li's locked gaze, a man in white appeared at some point.
This man in white also locked his gaze on Quan Li, but his expression seemed very relaxed.
He sized Quan Li up and down with a slightly meaningful look, and let out an eerie laugh:
"So, the Iron Fist family has produced a Titled Douluo. No wonder Loldia called me out so quickly."
