Ma Xiaotao walked in front with her head held high, followed by Ling Bai, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
The members of the Douling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy also walked towards the stage and looked solemnly at Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yuheng who were making their debut.
In the round-robin tournament, Ling Bai and Ling Luochen were invincible under the amplification of Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao. The six-winged angel and the ultimate ice element had already made the Douling team feel stretched. Now, there were two regular players who were around 20 years old and at least at the level of Soul King. The seven members of the Douling team suddenly had tense faces and were under great pressure.
The two sides exchanged greetings before the game. The captain of the Douling Team was a tall and thin young man. He stepped forward and stopped five meters away from Shrek Academy. He said, "It is an honor to be the first opponent of all the members of Shrek Academy. My friends and I will do our best."
After that, he turned his gaze to Dai Yueheng and said with a smile: "I saw you in the last Soul Master Competition, Shrek reserve captain, White Tiger Dai Yueheng."
"Lone Bamboo Sword, Martial Soul Purple Bamboo."
Dai Yuheng smiled and said the other party's name and martial spirit, which means I remember you too. Although they were both reserve team members in the last competition, they also represented their respective colleges in the competition. Dai Yuheng and Gu Zhujian were the captains of the reserve team and left a deep impression on each other.
The two sides distanced themselves from each other and retreated to both sides of the competition venue to set up their battle formations. The three main offensive soul masters of Shrek, White Tiger, Evil Fire Phoenix and Six-Winged Angel, formed an arrow, and behind them were the control-class soul masters Ling Luochen and three weaker reserve team members.
At the front of the Douling Team was a burly young man who was over two meters tall. Gu Zhujian and others hid behind him, as if they had some secrets to hide.
"The game begins!"
At the referee's command, the two teams moved instantly. Ning Tian from Shrek's side took the lead, with a magnificent Seven Treasures Glazed Tower suspended in his palm, and the three increases of strength, speed and attack fell into the bodies of the four regular players.
With the world's best auxiliary Seven Treasures Glazed Tower, Huo Yuhao does not need to use the Spirit Eyes to add icing on the cake. He only needs to release the Ice Jade Scorpion to provide Ling Luochen with the ultimate transformation.
Huo Yuhao was very depressed. Ever since Ling Luochen absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, he no longer wanted to assist Ling Luochen. However, for the sake of Shrek's eternal glory, he had to hold his nose and continue working.
Ling Luochen pointed his ice rod far ahead. The blue sky was covered with dark clouds. The temperature of the competition venue dropped sharply and an ice and snow storm gradually gathered in the clouds.
On Ma Xiaotao's side, the blazing phoenix flames rose up with a whoosh. There were eight games in total from the knockout round to the promotion round. Every time the Shrek Academy game ended, she could hear the excited cheers of the audience at the Star King Hotel. At that time, she really wanted to join the battle regardless of everything and enjoy the victory and glory with Ling Bai and others. Now she finally got her wish.
"Shrek! Shrek! Shrek!"
The Fire Phoenix is one of the mythical beasts widely circulated among the people. The audience was stunned for a second, and then burst into deafening cheers at the top of their lungs.
"No, what the hell is she doing?"
Dai Yuheng, who was not far away, wiped his eyes. "My soul ring has not been released yet, why did you suddenly install it?
" "The active volcano couldn't help but erupt."
Ling Bai said with a smile that the workers were happy to see Ma Xiaotao firing on all cylinders. It was fun to slack off for a while, and it would be fun to slack off all the time.
Compared to the excitement of the audience, Wang Yan in the Shrek rest area almost kicked over the table in anger. It was obvious that Ma Xiaotao didn't want to hide herself, she wanted to fight to her heart's content!
Dai Yueheng is from the White Tiger lineage, and the White Tiger martial soul is a frequent visitor to soul master competitions. Anyone with a little experience can know his ability characteristics and his several soul skills that have remained unchanged for thousands of years. His hidden strategic value is relatively low, so Wang Yan arranged for him to take the lead, and Ma Xiaotao tried her best to hide her strength and give the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Master a surprise in the final.
The plan was naturally a good one, but the problem was that Ma Xiaotao had a hot temper and had been holding back for eight games, so she was already itching to attend. How could she possibly listen to him? The six soul rings of yellow, purple, and black were shining, and the scorching red flames condensed into a handsome fire phoenix, perfectly highlighting the beauty and strength of the Evil Fire Phoenix Soul Emperor.
"well..."
Dai Yueheng was speechless and silently withdrew his White Tiger Martial Spirit. He was no longer needed in this game.
"Cry——"
The loud cry of a phoenix resounded throughout the venue, and wild phoenix flames burst out. Under the 40% strengthening of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower, the huge flaming wings suddenly flapped with the flashing of Ma Xiaotao's third soul ring, and a circle of blazing flames spread in a ring. With this flap, her figure soared up and rushed straight towards the Douling Team.
The burly young man stared at the red figure like a meteor. After taking a deep breath, a huge platinum-colored shield appeared in his hands, and five yellow, purple and black soul rings rose under his feet.
Diamond Shield, Level 52 Defense Soul King!
The young man thrust the Diamond Shield into the ground fiercely. The oppressive feeling of the Evil Fire Phoenix at this moment was needless to say. The black fifth soul ring lit up, and a strong white light bloomed. The huge Diamond Shield expanded, one divided into two, two divided into four, four divided into eight...
The Vajra Shield formed a vast shield wall in an instant, blocking attacks from all directions like a fortress. Strong white light shone on each Vajra Shield, and the solid feeling seemed to be above Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Shield.
Diamond Barrier, an extremely powerful group defense spirit skill.
In order to resist Ma Xiaotao's first wave of attack, the Douling Academy made more efforts than that. In front of the Diamond Shield, thick earth walls rose from the ground. They also had a rare elemental soul master. The fourth soul skill of this earth element soul master, the Wall of Earth, combined with the Diamond Fortress, the Douling team's defense was like a solid wall.
"Well done!"
The more the opponent resisted, the more excited Ma Xiaotao became. Her ten thousand year spirit ring shone brightly. Under the astonished gaze of the six members of the Douling Team, Ma Xiaotao dived down in the air without hesitation. Her second, fifth, and sixth spirit rings shone brightly. At this time, her whole body was burning with blazing flames, like a phoenix descending to the earth. Half of the competition stage was reflected in a fiery red by the phoenix flame on her body.
"Bang——"
It was like a high-explosive bomb falling into the Douling Team's formation. Ma Xiaotao used her second soul skill, Phoenix Rising from the Ashes, to strengthen the power of her flames. She used her fifth soul skill, Phoenix Piercing the Clouds, to break through the surface and break out of the Diamond Fortress. Her sixth soul skill, Phoenix Meteor Shower, fell from the sky, and huge burning flaming meteors fell towards the Douling Team.
The Douling Team never expected that their proud King Kong Fortress would be as fragile as a piece of paper in front of Ma Xiaotao, and they immediately fell into chaos.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ling Luochen's long-prepared Extreme Ice Sky Wrath and Ling Bai's instantaneous Ten Thousand Feet Brilliance began to reap heads, while Ma Xiaotao chased after the captain of the Douling Team, Gu Zhujian, and another Terrorclaw Bear Soul King, and knocked out the Vajra Shield Soul King and the Earth Element Soul Master with two punches.
"Crack—"
The Zihuang Bamboo was broken into two halves by Ma Xiaotao, and the last member of the Douling Team, the captain Gu Zhujian, fell down staggeringly. The outcome of the team battle was clear.
At the end of the game, the huge difference in combat power between the two sides meant that the Douling Team had no time to use a series of trump cards that they had carefully prepared.
Before leaving the competition venue, Ma Xiaotao stared at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy with burning eyes. She slightly opened her plump red lips and silently uttered seven words:
You are next.
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, which was watching the battle, was in complete silence. The Shrek team, with all its members out in the battle, was too terrifying.
Evil Fire Phoenix Soul Emperor Ma Xiaotao almost suppressed the entire audience. Although Dai Yuheng did not make a move, based on his strength five years ago, it is highly likely that he broke through to the Soul Emperor level.
Ling Bai's individual combat power is even higher than Ma Xiaotao's. No one has been able to force him to reveal his trump card in the nine games so far. Ling Luochen in the extreme ice state is also a top-notch control-type soul master.
"Seraphim, Fire Phoenix, White Tiger, Ice Element, Seven Treasures Glazed Tower, Ice Jade Scorpion, plus the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex or the Black Nether Turtle, this should be the strongest team battle lineup sent by Shrek Academy."
Old Ma sighed and said, each of the four main players of Shrek is as good as a god, Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao each have their own strengths, and the last member is just to make up the numbers, so it doesn't matter who he is.
Xiao Hongchen could no longer maintain his absolute confidence before the game. He clenched and unclenched his fists several times, and finally said fiercely: "Mr. Ma, Shrek actually only has four regular players who are a threat. The others are just a bunch of rabble. When grandpa's things arrive, Sun and Moon... will win!"
"Sun and Moon will win!" The Sun and Moon team cheered together.
"Can you please not hurt Ling Bai?"
Meng Hongchen raised his hand to destroy the heated atmosphere and said weakly: "Especially his face. He is so handsome. It's a pity to disfigure him."
Xiao Hongchen, Ma Lao, and everyone from Sun and Moon: ...
Shrek and his crew returned to the Star King Hotel to prepare for tomorrow's individual competition.
"Ma Xiaotao, come with me."
Wang Yan opened the door of the Shrek conference room and called Ma Xiaotao away in front of everyone. The latter walked into the room with her head held high and without fear.
Everyone outside the door looked at each other in bewilderment. After a moment, Dai Yuheng gave a thumbs up and said admiringly, "Teacher Wang is a warrior. He dares to provoke the active volcano in the inner courtyard. Isn't he afraid that Ma Xiaotao will roast him into a skewer in anger?"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh softly. After a brief chat, they went back to their rooms to rest.
Two hours later, Ling Bai suddenly heard a door slamming in the corridor, and then his own door was banged on.
Ling Bai smiled helplessly, got up and opened the door. As expected, Ma Xiaotao's angry face appeared behind the door.
"Hey, are you furious?"
Ling Bai looked at Ma Xiaotao's messy red hair and made a teasing remark, looking like he was enjoying the fun.
"I'm almost pissed off to death by that useless Soul King!"
Ma Xiaotao walked in angrily, sat down on the sofa, picked up the teapot and poured herself a cup of tea very naturally, gulped down three cups, and said angrily:
"I was fighting hard on the competition stage, and Wang Yan came back and scolded me. We won so beautifully, but he actually said that I didn't care about the overall situation!
Please judge for yourself, am I ignoring the overall situation?!"
From a group perspective, Wang Yan's approach is certainly correct, but if it comes to interests, in Ling Bai's eyes, Ma Xiaotao, the genius Soul Emperor and future Titled Douluo, is countless times more important than theoretical teacher Wang Yan. He smiled and said,
"We have known Teacher Wang for almost a month, and you still don't understand his coaching style?
There are no perfect individuals, only perfect teams. Every meeting is repeated seven or eight times. I am not surprised that he taught you. "
"Why should he teach me? He is a teacher from the outer courtyard who only reached the Soul King level at the age of 40. I seriously doubt whether he can beat Xu Sanshi. There are dozens of experienced Soul Saint Soul Douluo teachers in the inner courtyard, but he is the one who is in charge of arranging tactics. Did that guy get in through the backdoor?"
Ma Xiaotao was really angry and dared to say anything. Her breasts were trembling and her beautiful pink eyes were about to spit fire. She said angrily:
"What he meant just now was that if I don't execute the tactics and continue to pursue individualism, he will keep me on the bench even if it means I will be fired by Shrek!"
"Oh, bird training." Ling Bai suddenly realized.
"Could you not be so blunt!"
Ma Xiaotao was even more furious. She was a phoenix, not a bird!
"You have eight hundred tricks in your body. Help me think of a solution!"
"Can you please say something more obedient?"
Ling Bai was displeased. Why was someone cursing when asking for help?
"I took on Tianling Academy by myself and defeated him. Why don't you defeat him as well?"
Ling Bai, the dog-headed military strategist, came online and gave advice: "You are the first choice. Ling Luochen, Dai Yueheng and I will support you no matter what. Tell the reserve team privately tonight that you will be the first to play in the individual match against Dou Ling tomorrow.
You are the Evil Fire Phoenix Soul Emperor and the only direct disciple of Dean Yan. Teacher Wang has neither strength nor background, so it is nonsense for him to hold you back.
Why bother with so many things? Just go on the field and pick out a team of Dou Ling to prove to him that in the face of absolute strength, tactics are completely dispensable.
Continue to perform well in the quarterfinals, crush the whole team in the team battle, and take the lead in the individual competition to fight against seven teams. The same will be done in the semifinals and finals. Use the powerful strength of the evil fire phoenix to slap him in the face. "
"Yes, slap him hard in the face!"
After being influenced by Ling Bai's words, Ma Xiaotao's blood immediately boiled, and she imagined the scene where Wang Yan's jaw dropped. But as she thought about it, she suddenly realized something was wrong, and asked suspiciously: "Wait, I crushed the whole team in the team battle, I wiped out the team in the individual competition, I fought all the battles, what are you doing?"
"Eh?" Ling Bai was shocked. "Who are you? Get off Ma Xiaotao quickly. She won't be able to react!"
"Okay, okay, you've been treating me like a fool, haven't you?" Ma Xiaotao said with empty eyes, "I fought to prove myself, and you stayed in the back and slacked off, and the abacus beads fell on my face!"
Seeing that his plan was exposed, Ling Bai said confidently: "I have fought in wars all my life, can't I enjoy myself?"
"You've already enjoyed seven..."
Ma Xiaotao counted on her fingers. Ever since the first round-robin match against Qianling Academy's Ice and Fire Dual Control Thousand Strike Spears, Ling Bai had hardly taken any serious action again. War was your lie!
"Well, then... I've enjoyed it my whole life, so I can understand if I enjoy it a few more times!"
Ma Xiaotao: (_)