Chapter 58 The round robin ends

After Shen Ce was controlled by Huo Yuhao's mental erosion, the two Soul Masters, Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan, immediately came back to help and brutally besieged him.

As a powerful attack soul king, although Shen Ce wore a soul guide inner armor, he could not enhance his physical strength through soul possession like a beast soul master.

Moreover, after being controlled by Huo Yuhao, the sealing means engraved on the inner armor of the soul guide on his body could not be activated by itself. Moreover, Jiang Nannan's fighting style was mainly based on wrestling skills, and the defensive strength of the soul guide inner armor itself could not be used.

However, due to the difference in soul power between the two sides, Jiang Nannan and Beibei did not get too entangled with him. Instead, they took advantage of the unknown effect of mental cannibalization and directly knocked Shen Ce off the competition stage.

Shen Ce and others came to their senses only after they fell off the stage. It took them a long time to accept the reality that they were eliminated inexplicably.

After the strongest Shen Ce fell, the other people from Qianling Academy naturally had no other ability to resist Shrek and his group.

Because there is only Shen Ce, a strong attack spirit master in the team, all the spirit configurations are to ensure that Shen Ce's output can be maximized.

However, their own means of output were insufficient, so the other members of Qianling Academy were unable to break through Xu Sanshi's defense even after their defeat.

With the referee announcing Shrek Academy's victory in this team battle, the first game of the second round of the round-robin tournament finally came to an end.

For Qianling Academy, although they were defeated, the losses were not actually serious. In the upcoming group matches, if nothing unexpected happens, they still have a chance to fight for a qualifying spot.

In the following games, except for Qianling Academy with a special lineup and the extreme six protecting one.

The most threatening team in the round-robin tournament is the Zhengtian Academy, a well-established academy from the Tianhun Empire, which has a lineup of three Soul Kings.

But things are different now. This match is different from the previous battles in that only the reserve team is responsible for the difficult confrontation.

Due to the passage of time, the conditions of Ling Luochen and Xixi from the regular team have almost recovered. When facing strong opponents, these two regular students from Shrek Academy are responsible for the battle.

In the 223 match, Xixi and Ling Luochen were in one group, and Beibei and Xu Sanshi were in one group. With their cooperation.

Zhengtian Academy had no chance to last until the third round of three-on-three battle, and was defeated directly in the first two battles.

Moreover, due to the cooperation between Xixi and Ling Luochen, the two strongest Soul Kings of the other side were seriously injured. If nothing unexpected happens, it may be difficult for them to take action in this competition.

This is also the dirty fighting style inherited from the ancestors of Shrek Academy. After all, the strength of Zhengtian Academy is not weak. Compared with Qianling Academy and other academies which are easier to deal with, solving them first is more in line with the current tactical arrangement of Shrek Academy which is short of soldiers and generals.

Among the round-robin groups that Shrek Academy participated in, the remaining matches included no other team except Zhengtian Academy.

The strength of other academies is uneven, and none of them is very strong, not even as good as Qianling Academy in the first game.

And because he did not draw lots for a team battle, it was not Huo Yuhao's turn to play in the next few battles.

Ling Luochen and Xixi, who had almost recovered from their injuries, took Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan and other three Soul Sect members with them as a warm-up for rehabilitation and directly eliminated them.

However, because the schedule is relatively easy, there is naturally no scene in the original novel where Wang Yan tells the miserable situation of the starting team and tries to gain the sympathy and admiration of the spectators by playing the victim, in order to enhance and maintain the reputation of Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao was naturally happy about this. Now that he had obtained the Gold of Life, the most important purpose of coming to Xingluo City had been achieved.

Now that his soul power cultivation has reached a bottleneck at level 30, Huo Yuhao spends most of his time in the competition area, collecting information from the competitions of various forces.

He used the Eye of Truth to record and collect the composition models of the various martial souls and the composition methods of soul skills of all the contestants.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition is a highly anticipated event across the continent, although the rules state that only major Advanced Soul Master Academy and Advanced Soul Instructor Academy are allowed to participate.

But in fact, there are many hidden sects and family forces that will also send their younger generation of disciples, allowing these outstanding talents in their own sect to be disguised as students and sent to participate in the competition.

There are even some so-called "academies" that are actually subordinate institutions of hidden sects or family forces, used to screen fresh blood from the outside and serve as a breeding ground for providing talents to the sects and families.

Among these academies, the only ones who can come to the fore are the disciples from hidden sects or family forces, while the other outside students serve as substitutes.

The purpose of doing this is very simple. After all, those who can appear in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition are all geniuses of the younger generation, and they are the pride of this generation in various forces.

Participating in this grand event of the soul master world is extremely helpful for the younger generation to expand their social circle and broaden their horizons.

Moreover, this can also serve as a training ground for those disciples who usually live in secluded sects and do not communicate with the outside world.

After all, there are always higher mountains than others. If you look down on others in the sect, you will have to wait until you show up in front of your peers to truly realize your own worth, calm down, put aside your pride, and become the backbone of the sect and the family.

And it is in such a background that those high-level martial spirits and special spirit skill configurations that normally rarely appear in the outside world will be displayed.

After all, except for some special variations, powerful martial spirits can only be cultivated by systematic sects and families.

The selection of each soul ring is the result of trial and error by countless predecessors, and how to match them more appropriately and how to combine them to produce the strongest effect.

These systematic martial spirit configurations also greatly broadened Huo Yuhao's knowledge reserves, saving him a lot of time in trial and error of combinations.

Because all colleges had to take part in the round-robin tournament, some of the strongest students in some colleges did not use their trump cards for the sake of the subsequent knockout rounds.

However, Huo Yuhao, who possesses the Eye of Truth, has already seen through the structures of their soul skills hidden in their soul rings.

With the evolution of the Eye of Truth, even if the Eye of Truth in the golden awakening form is not activated, the Eye of Truth can now penetrate the hidden structures in other people's martial arts and bodies at a deeper level.

After using his mental power to deduce and calculate, although it took some extra time, Huo Yuhao was able to finally figure out the effects of the soul skills hidden by those soul masters, as well as how they were composed and operated.

During these few days, Huo Yuhao gained more than he did in Shrek Academy for a year.

Although one of the reasons was that Huo Yuhao could only hang out in the outer courtyard before, and his own strength was not strong enough.

However, during the short break after the round-robin tournament, a new round of exciting 16-to-8 elimination matches was about to begin. On the eve of the elimination matches, in addition to the scheduled break, a top auction was held in Xingluo City.

However, in the original novel, an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone that was compatible with the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and came with the Ice Explosion Technique appeared at this top auction.

At the same time, the ninth-level soul guide platform that sealed the Snow Empress also appeared.

However, this time Huo Yuhao did not go to the Far North to subdue the Ice Emperor as his martial soul during the previous vacation.

In this case, the Ice Emperor should also protect the Snow Emperor, and with the Ice Emperor protecting her, it is naturally impossible for the Snow Emperor to be captured by the human soul guide at the vulnerable moment of her transformation.

Moreover, in the original novel, it was also full of doubts that Snow Emperor was captured by humans during her transformation stage. After all, the place where Snow Emperor was when she transformed was also the heart of the Far North.

Although there is only one Snow Emperor in the entire Far North, and there are generally no other soul beast tribes living in the Snow Emperor's territory.

But outside the snow area is the habitat of two ferocious beasts, the Ice Emperor and the Titan Snow Demon King, and there is also an unknown and hidden ferocious beast, the Ice Bear King.

It is undoubtedly difficult to bypass the territories of these three without provoking them.

Unless in the original novel, this ninth-level soul engineer happened to enter the core of the Far North from the territory of the Ice Blue Emperor Scorpion tribe that had lost its leader.

This would also make sense as to why a soul bone from the Ice Blue Scorpion clan in the Far North would appear in this top auction.

It was only under such circumstances that he obtained the soul bone of the Ice Scorpion, and it happened that the Snow Emperor was in the transformation period.

It had to be a coincidence that he found that place. Even if Xue Di didn't go looking for the Ice Bear King to protect her, she still felt it was safe enough for her to retreat alone and transform peacefully.

Of course, it is also possible that it is not that the Snow Emperor does not want to look for the Ice Bear King, but because of the Ice Emperor's loss of contact, if there is no Ice Bear King to balance the situation, the Titan Snow Demon King, who already has ulterior motives, may become restless, so the Ice Bear King is needed to mediate from the outside world.

It was precisely because of the accumulation of various factors that Xue Di was captured, but these circumstances were too coincidental.

Although it does make sense, after all, all the gains of this unknown soul engineer eventually fell into the hands of the original owner, Huo Yuhao.

As Huo Yuhao was originally chosen by Douluo Star as the son of destiny, it cannot be said that it is excessive for him to enjoy such treatment.

However, Huo Yuhao is now very curious about this top auction.

I wonder what kind of treasures will appear at this top auction after the loss of the Ice Scorpion's soul bone and the Snow Emperor embryo.

And will the new treasure be suitable for my current self? After all, the development path I have chosen now is completely different from Huo Yuhao in the original work.

Led by Wang Yan, after dinner, everyone came to the Starlight Auction House.

What was different from before was that the reception maid this time was replaced by Qingya, the auctioneer from the previous auction.

It is obvious that it is because of the Shrek Academy behind Wang Yan that the Starlight Auction House provides special services.

After all, compared to ordinary maids, well-trained auctioneers are much better in every aspect.

Led by Qingya, everyone came to Auction Hall No. 1.

Compared to the auction halls I have seen before, the largest auction hall No. 1 in the Starlight Auction House is undoubtedly much more luxurious.

Various kinds of precious wood, jade, and ornaments piled up to create a sense of luxury. They were said to be things that, although they could not provide any benefit to soul masters in their cultivation, were extremely valuable in the market.

In addition to these, a customized soul guide device and light guide screen is also used for display.

This is a soul guide device produced in the Sun-Moon Empire and used for people's livelihood. Although its grade is not high, it does not consume soul power to activate it, and it has already reached the forefront of all the countries on the continent.

The only difference is that the alternative energy source is a kind of mineral that inherently contains weak energy, and this soul guide only adjusts the energy supply route.

Therefore, the overall structure does not have a particularly great reference value. It can only be said that this concept is still too immature. After all, the main research direction of the Sun-Moon Empire is still various types of soul guides used for warfare.

Just as Wang Yan was being played around by the auctioneer's elegant chatter, the auction finally officially began.

As the golden light of the soul guide light screen emerged, the soft golden light attracted everyone's attention.

Then, under the introduction of Xu Jiujiu, the princess of the Xingluo Empire and also the top auctioneer of this auction, each precious item was bid up to a high price by the crowd.

The golden soul coins flowed like water, which was jaw-dropping.

But for Huo Yuhao, most of the things exhibited at this top auction were of little value to him.

After all, his current strength is too weak. What use would it be even if he got an eighth-level soul guide or a ninth-level soul guide?
He couldn't use them with his soul power, and he had to wait until Huo Yuhao's soul power was able to control these advanced soul guides.

With Huo Yuhao's strength, he can naturally find a better substitute if necessary.

Most of the items that make it to auction may be of good quality, or may be considered rare treasures in the eyes of ignorant people.

But in the eyes of some big forces, that's all. Truly priceless treasures will never appear at auctions, and at most will only circulate among the top powers.

As for the appearance of something as valuable as the Conferred God Platform that sealed the Snow Empress' embryo, it can only be said that its original purpose was for the Emperor of Xing Luo to fish for trouble and harm the Sun and Moon Empire.

Otherwise, even if something of this value was left to rot in the national treasury, it would be impossible for it to flow out.

Soon, after a set of fixed soul guide shells were auctioned off, the next lot was originally produced from an ice scorpion, carrying a soul bone with ice explosion skills, but this time
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