Chapter 102 Xuan Zi Wants to Assassinate

At this moment, the voice of the competition host sounded: "Let us first invite the players from Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy to the stage." As the words fell, a team of people in golden uniforms walked onto the stage.

"Okay, the members of Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy have come on stage. Next, let me invite the first academy on the continent, Shrek Academy, to come on stage."

The host's high-pitched voice pierced the clouds, and fierce cheers suddenly broke out in Xingluo Square. Even the Xingluo Emperor who was sitting on the top of the city wall couldn't help but slowly stand up, a hint of excitement on his face.

Then, the seven members of the Shrek reserve team came on stage one after another. After Bei Bei stepped onto the stage, he turned around and said to his companions behind him: "No matter what, we must win this game. There is news from the academy that Master Xuan is on his way with five disciples from the inner courtyard. We must not lose this game!"

Hearing this, everyone nodded vigorously. They all understood what this game meant. It would be a huge joke if Shrek Academy participated in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Fighting Competition and was eliminated in the first round.

The referee standing in the center of the venue slowly raised his right hand. At that moment, more than 100,000 people in the entire Xingluo Plaza suddenly fell silent at the same time. Everyone stared at the vast competition stage with wide eyes.

As soon as the referee raised his hand, the players from both teams immediately began to take their positions. The seven people from the Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy quickly lined up in a typical traditional formation, with three soul masters in the front, who looked to be strong attack or defense soul masters. Then, two soul masters were on both sides slightly to the back, who should be agile attack soul masters.

In the center of the back, there are two soul masters standing one in front and one behind. It seems that they should be a control-type combat soul master and an auxiliary-type weapon soul master respectively.

This position is called the three-two-one-one formation, and is the best seven-man arrangement that has been tested in countless battles.

On the other hand, the Shrek Academy's positions were very casual. As the referee announced the start of the game, a girl hidden in the Shrek Academy team took a step forward. In her hand, a seven-story, colorful exquisite pagoda appeared. Several auxiliary rays of light shot out from the top of the pagoda, instantly covering the bodies of the four four-ring soul masters in front of her.

Her name is Ning Tian, ​​and she is the young master of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, the world's number one auxiliary sect. Originally, she was not among the people participating in the Continental Soul Fighting Competition, but because two inner courtyard disciples of Shrek Academy died and five were seriously injured, except for the four Soul Masters, the other three outer courtyard disciples only had two rings.

Wang Dong's strength and background are very strong, so he was not replaced. Xiao Xiao has twin martial souls and his strength is also pretty good. Only Zhu Lu is the most useless. Without Dai Huabin, she cannot perform martial soul fusion skills, and her strength is only two rings. Finally, after discussion by the top management of Shrek Academy, it was decided to let Ning Tian replace Zhu Lu.

Although Ning Tian is an auxiliary spirit master, his strength has reached the third ring. At the same time, he also possesses the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower, which is known as the world's number one auxiliary spirit.

With Ning Tian's assistance, the four soul rings on He Caitou's body lit up at the same time, and more than ten metal tubes appeared on his body in an instant, which were obviously fixed soul guides.

Under Ning Tian's amplification, He Caitou's body trembled slightly, and the fixed soul guide on his body instantly released a large amount of rays and shells, which poured towards the people of Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, causing them to lose their composure in an instant.

At the same time, the other three four-ring soul masters, assisted by Ning Tian, ​​charged forward at the same time. The four soul rings, two yellow and two purple, shone brightly at the same time. With their powerful martial souls and the auxiliary effect of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul, they burst out with amazing fighting power, and ended the game like a landslide.

After Shrek Academy easily won the victory with its reserve team, the audience burst into cheers again, and the soul masters and soul instructors from various academies also praised the powerful strength and profound heritage of Shrek Academy.

For Shrek Academy, winning the first battle was like overcoming a huge crisis. Although they won the game, they were still in a heavy mood at the moment, not only because of their current embarrassing situation, but also because of their observations of the game situation of their biggest rival, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy.

Afterwards, the Sun-Moon Empire Royal Soul Instructor Academy also won the competition with a crushing victory.

Xiao Yan did not play in this round of competition. He was not planning to come to the competition, but Jing Hongchen knew that he was looking for a treasure that could restore his soul power. Later, Jing Hongchen promised Xiao Yan that as long as he participated in the competition, he would give him the medicinal herbs that he had collected for many years that could enhance his spiritual power.

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Shrek Academy conference room.

At this time, Master Xuan had already arrived with Ma Xiaotao and others. The teacher sitting at the top, Wang Yan, looked to be about 40 years old, with an extremely ordinary appearance. His cultivation was not even as good as Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yuheng who were sitting on his left, but everyone was very respectful when they saw him, which showed that his coaching ability was indeed good.

After a brief analysis of the previous match, Wang Yan's face immediately became serious. He said, "The strength of this Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy team is far beyond my expectations. The Luoyun Academy that played against them today is ranked in the top three in the Sky Soul Empire, but they were suppressed by the attacks of the soul instructors of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. They had no chance to engage in close combat at all and were completely defeated in less than three minutes."

"In our previous match, if the opponent had not been intimidated by the prestige of Shrek Academy, it would have been impossible for them to win so easily."

"Xiaotao, how are you and Dai Yueheng injured?" Wang Yan first looked at Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng and said.

Ma Xiaotao said: "After a month of rest and recovery, plus the recovery of some natural resources provided by the academy, I should be able to play in a few days. If I want to force a shot, I can play in the next game, but I am afraid that this will further affect the injury."

Dai Yueheng stretched out his golden tiger paw made of soul guide, shook it at everyone, and said seriously: "My situation is similar."

"Xixi, Chen Zifeng and I will probably need about ten days to recover." Ling Luochen whispered after looking at Xixi and Chen Zifeng.

"That's good." Nodding, Wang Yan slowly stood up. After a moment's silence, he said, "Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao are my students, and I am relatively familiar with their abilities. However, I don't know enough about the five of you, which will affect the tactics I will arrange. So, I hope you can tell me your spirit skills, which will make it easier for me to arrange tactics in the future."

Hearing this, everyone began to introduce their own soul skills one after another.

Ten minutes later, Wang Yan frowned and continued, "Now that everyone knows each other, I will arrange the tactics for the next round-robin tournament. I have said before that there will be three battle modes in the round-robin tournament, namely single elimination, three-two-two coordinated operations, and seven-on-seven team battles. With the strength shown by our Shrek Academy in the first round, there is no doubt that there will be only eight teams in our group. In the eyes of others, the other seven teams are only competing for a qualifying spot, and we should be the ones who will definitely qualify. We are going to take advantage of their mentality and arrange the tactics more flexibly."

"There will be sixty-seven teams entering the round-robin tournament, divided into eight groups, three of which will have nine players, and the remaining five will have eight players. In other words, we will have seven games in the group stage. We will get two points for each win, no points for a loss, and one point for a draw. Four groups will play every day, one round every two days. After seven rounds, plus an extra game for the nine-player group, the round-robin tournament is expected to last about fifteen to sixteen days. Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yuheng will return in the second or third round. If all goes well, the other inner court disciples will also return in the fifth round. By then, our strength will be greatly enhanced."

"We won't know which group we are in and our opponents until tomorrow morning. With our reputation, we will probably be the first to play in the round-robin tournament." "Teacher Wang, what do you think we should do if we meet the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy in advance? The seniors in the inner courtyard have not fully recovered yet. With our current strength, we may not have much chance of winning against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy?" Wang Dong scratched his head and said after hearing what Wang Yan said.

“If I had met the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy earlier…” Wang Yan’s head felt like it was pricked by a needle, and he was suddenly speechless, not knowing what to say.

At this time, the old man Xuan, who had been drinking wine and eating chicken legs not far away with a gloomy look in his eyes, spoke. He slowly put down the wine gourd and chicken legs in his hands, stood up, put his hands behind his back, glanced at the students of Shrek Academy, and said in a deep voice:

"You don't have to think too much, just win the second round first. If Shrek Academy really meets the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy in advance, I will also prevent the main players of their team from participating in the competition for a short period of time, just like the disciples of the inner courtyard."

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A week passed quickly. In the round-robin matches during these few days, Shrek Academy did not meet the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. But on the eighth day, Shrek Academy's next opponent was drawn to be the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy.

At the same time, the competition system they drew was a single-elimination tournament. The so-called single-elimination tournament is one-on-one. If someone on one of the teams is very strong, it is entirely possible that a one-on-seven situation will occur.

Tomorrow morning, Shrek Academy will face off against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy.

In the evening, Jing Hongchen took Xiao Yan and the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen for a stroll in Xingluo City. In his words, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy had won a complete victory in the previous few games, so they should come out to relax and celebrate.

It was during the competition period, and Xingluo City was bustling with people coming and going. After taking Xiao Yan and others to taste some special food of Xingluo City, Jing Hongchen generously took out a handful of gold soul coins and handed them to the female clerk who came to pay the bill.

But just as they walked out of the store, they saw Wang Yanzheng and his seven reserve team members appearing on the street not far away.

"What are they going to do? Except for the few regular players who are recovering from injuries, all the others are moving together. Could it be..." Touching his chin, a hint of doubt flashed in Jing Hongchen's eyes, and he immediately made a decision and said.

"The current situation of Shrek Academy is not optimistic. If their regular players cannot play in the next game, it is hard to say whether they can enter the third round. If they go out together at this critical moment, I am afraid it will not be a simple relaxation and play. Let's go and follow them to see what happens."

After saying that, Jing Hongchen followed with Xiao Yan and the other two.

Along the way, Wang Yan, the teacher in charge of Shrek Academy, had been talking to the members of his reserve team. Then, they walked towards the largest auction house in Xingluo City.

After a while, perhaps because they had a disagreement or for some other reason, Wang Dong seemed not to want to attend the auction with the others. Then, he suddenly turned around and left, while the others entered the auction hall.

"Soul Guidance Device, I don't need this broken thing, it's annoying just looking at it." Wang Dong cursed as he walked back, "The main reason is that when I see the Soul Guidance Device, I feel like I've been bewitched and have a splitting headache and feel nauseous."

"Oh my God, why are you doing this to me? Could it be that that bastard did something to me?"

Wang Yan was obviously well prepared and had completed all the formalities beforehand. He then took his students to the registration office to collect the number plates to be used for the auction, and then, under the guidance of a girl in a red dress, he went to a specific auction hall.

Jing Hongchen had been quietly following behind Wang Yan and the others, and behind Jing Hongchen and the others, there was also a man. The man was tall, with a half mask on his face, a brown wine gourd in his hand, and a scarlet light flashed in his eyes from time to time... He looked very creepy.

"Hmph, Jing Hongchen, I don't believe that you will always stay by their side. Xiao Yan may have a peerless Douluo guarding him, but what about your grandson and granddaughter?" Xuan Zi said coldly with a weird smile on his face.

After entering the auction house, Jing Hongchen stepped forward to negotiate with the person in charge of the registration office. Afterwards, the four of them took masks and put them on their faces to hide their identities. The same was done by the Shrek Academy that had entered the auction house earlier.

The seats of Jing Hongchen and others were not far from those of the Shrek Academy group. They could observe each other's every move just by looking up.

As the auction began, a female auctioneer in a purple dress and with a dignified and beautiful appearance came to the booth in the auction hall. After bowing and greeting everyone, she began to introduce the characteristics and specifications of this auction.

After hearing that this auction was for soul guides, Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen all smiled contemptuously and said, "Hasn't Shrek Academy always looked down on soul guides? Now that its strength has been greatly reduced, it actually wants to buy soul guides to enhance its own combat power? How ridiculous."

"But these rubbish soul guides alone are still unable to make up for the strength gap between us and our team." At this time, Jing Hongchen's eyes were full of confidence and pride, and his tone was affirmative as if he was stating a fact.

As for the mysterious gift item mentioned by the female auctioneer named Qingya, no one, Jing Hongchen or the other two, cared about it at all.

As the auction was drawing to a close, the item that the female auctioneer Qingya called the mysterious gift item finally made its grand debut.

Jing Hongchen had indeed made a misjudgment before. After this auction item was displayed, he could no longer maintain his previous indifferent expression. It was a carving knife used by soul engineers. It was black in color, with a simple style, and complex patterns engraved on the blade. A domineering and sharp aura emanated from it.

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