Douluo: I started with Blue Silver Grass, and I counterattacked and defeated the gods

Chapter 163 The competition begins

The next morning, the weather was fine.

Zhou Ke was wearing a moon-white suit with some simple cloud patterns embroidered on it.

The tall and straight figure looks even more outstanding against the backdrop of this fitted outfit.

Coupled with that handsome and lively appearance, it is unforgettable.

Ever since he walked out of their exclusive room, members of other participating teams have been staring at him.

Other members of the main sect also wore similar tight-fitting outfits.

Only Jin Peng, who served as the team leader, was dressed differently from them.

The venue for this competition was not set up in Mingdu City, but in the suburbs on the east side of Mingdu.

Before Zhou Ke and his team arrived, a large crowd of spectators had already taken their seats there.

At the very center of the venue, the competition stage is ten meters high and over a hundred meters in diameter. In addition, it appears to be made of pure metal with no seams whatsoever.

At the edge, a pale yellow soul power shield shot straight into the sky.

This is not the most different thing from previous years.

It can be seen that in front of the auditorium blocks that are divided into uniform sizes, there is a soul guide screen that is more than 20 square meters in size.

This kind of soul guide device, which can project images within a certain area in real time, is only installed in a small number of high-end places in the original Douluo Continent and the Three Kingdoms.

But the Sun and Moon Empire placed hundreds of them in the venue.

The rest area for contestants is located on the east side of the competition stage.

At first glance, the rest area is divided into two areas.

The front part near the competition stage can accommodate about twenty participating teams.

What makes this area different from the back seats is that there is a specially built shelter above them, and they are not as simple as the other open-air seats.

With the huge financial resources of the Sun-Moon Empire dominating the other three countries, they can easily take out so many soul guide screens, so it is naturally not a difficult task to temporarily build some sheds.

But as mentioned before, the Sun-Moon Empire is a system that makes the hierarchy of classes visible.

Even if there is differential treatment, it will not be concealed but will be laid out openly.

It can be seen that many members of the teams who were not arranged under the awning had particularly unfriendly expressions.

Zhou Ke and others naturally sat under the arbour.

Especially since there were only nine of them including Elder Jin Peng, the seats in their row were not even full.

This scene was somewhat eye-catching in the eyes of others.

Zhou Ke sat upright in his seat with an indifferent look, his eyes inadvertently revealing a lack of interest.

There is no way. Anyone who has crippled an Extreme Douluo the night before will no longer be interested in a game like this.

But since you're here, just think of it as watching a cricket fight.

The people from the Body Sect arrived earlier.

After a while, the Shrek Academy led by Zhang Lexuan and Wang Qiuer arrived.

His gaze only stayed on Wang Qiuer for a moment. To him, people like Beibei, Xu Sanshi and others were just small ants that could be crushed to death with ease.

Following closely behind the Shrek group came the team from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy.

They did not have a teacher to lead the team, and the leader was this guy Xiao Hongchen.

Even though he was not stimulated by defeat like in the original timeline, it might be because of Zhou Ke's existence, or maybe he really grew up.

Xiao Hongchen looks extremely mature and has a reassuring temperament, at least on the surface.

Following behind him was Meng Hongchen, already a 20-year-old girl, and very charming.

The moment she saw Zhou Ke, her beautiful big eyes suddenly lit up, and her originally slightly cold expression suddenly became cheerful.

If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Zhou Ke felt like she would jump up with excitement.

Zhou Ke smiled and nodded politely to such a "little fan girl" of his, and even stretched out his hand to say hello.

Meng Hongchen also responded excitedly with the same action.

Perhaps knowing how much damage Zhou Ke could do to his love-crazy sister, Zhou Ke noticed that the guy's face froze for a moment, then he quickened his pace and came to the seat at Sun Moon Academy.

Zhou Ke not only paid attention to the Hong Chen siblings, but also nodded to the young man with deep blue eyes and short black hair in the Sun and Moon Academy team.

Seeing Brother Zhou nodding to him, Huo Yuhao almost couldn't suppress his excitement. However, he noticed from the beginning that the guy who had a deep hatred for him was sitting not far from them, staring at the Sun Moon Academy team.

In the end, he responded to Zhou Ke with only tiny movements and the help of blind spots in his vision.

After a few episodes, time continued to pass, and soon after the 167 participating teams arrived.

A chariot guarded by the Soul Guide Corps drove over from the avenue over there.

Xu Tianran, the crown prince of the Sun-Moon Empire, appeared surrounded by a group of officials.

Then they climbed up the specially built platform over there together.

Zhou Ke, who had extraordinary eyesight, noticed that the prince sitting in the wheelchair had a slightly imperceptible paleness on his face.

He immediately understood in his mind that it seemed that the prince who had already held the imperial power in his hands was also present at the battle last night.

"quiet!!"

With the help of a special soul guide, a deep voice, which was not particularly loud, spread throughout the venue.

Zhou Ke sneered. If he remembered correctly, the person who shocked the whole audience at this time in the original novel was the Dark Saint Dragon Long Xiaoyao.

It’s a pity that Long Xiaoyao is probably trying his best to save his life now, so naturally he won’t have another chance to appear.

He was the only one who could laugh. People like Xu Jiujiu and others from the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent who had close ties with their respective royal families all had heavy expressions on their faces.

Although they usually collected and stole information about the development of soul guides of the Sun-Moon Empire.

But when they arrived in Mingdu in person, everything they saw and heard still made them feel shocked.

When hundreds of thousands of spectators quieted down, another voice different from the previous "Silence" was heard.

"Dear citizens of the Sun and Moon Empire and guests from afar"

A very brief welcome speech was calmly read out by Xu Tianran in a wheelchair, and he also announced the start of the competition at the end of the welcome speech.

This also shows what kind of character this guy, who is currently still the crown prince but will soon succeed to the throne as emperor, has.

Zhou Ke did not continue to focus his attention on Xu Tianran, but instead used his eyes to scan the seated officials and people of noble status.

He was now very curious about one thing: after what happened last night, would the Holy Spirit Church still participate in this competition?

At the same time, he released his mental power and swept across all the participating teams. He did not find Zhongli Wu, but in the corner of the players' rest area, he detected a team whose half of the people exuded a dark aura and were filled with resentment.

"interesting."

This was somewhat unexpected. He thought that the Holy Spirit Church would remain dormant for a while.

However, this is still reasonable. The Holy Spirit Church sent Long Xiaoyao to test Du Bushi. Although he failed to gain anything, he paid such a huge price. If he gave up participating in the competition, it would be a loss.

As for whether a war will break out again?
I'm afraid Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu and others are just looking forward to it.

Because there are so many people coming to watch the game, if a war starts here, they can not only harvest a large number of souls, but also drag the Sun and Moon Empire into it.

The Sun and Moon Empire, or rather, Xu Tianran felt really numb.

The Holy Spirit Church is currently unable to deal with the Body Sect, which has two Ultimate Douluo, but it still has the strength to force them to fulfill their promise on the spot.

This is also one of the reasons why Xu Tianran's face looked a little bad.

But he is an ambitious man after all, born with great courage, in other words, he has a strong gambling nature.

While agreeing to allow the Holy Spirit Church to continue participating in the competition, he also made another preparation.

He was sitting at the first seat on the podium, with a gentle smile on his face, but there was an unconcealable gloom in his eyes.

After receiving his signal, a voice spread throughout the venue.

The rules of the competition were read out first, and then the players for the first match of the preliminary stage were announced.

"Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy vs. Dragon Slayer Sect. Please send seven players from each side to the waiting area."

According to the convention of previous competitions, the first game of each competition is played by the champion of the previous competition.

Since it was the champion of the previous competition, Sun Moon Academy did not need to use the trick of allowing Shrek Academy to have a bye in the preliminaries as in the original timeline.

Xiao Hongchen led the six team members towards the waiting area without any communication.

As for the Dragon Slaying Sect, they sent out seven people only after discussing for a while.

They come from the Douling Empire, with a thousand-year-long heritage, and they hold a certain contempt for soul guides and soul mentors.

But he faced the champion of the previous competition and his opponent who defeated Shrek, the number one academy on the continent.

He still had to put aside his contempt and entered the waiting area with a serious face.

Especially before entering the competition stage covered by the soul power shield, one could hear the thunderous cheers coming from the audience seats.

Even if they believe they are quite capable, they will inevitably suffer from certain psychological pressure.

This year's competition has omitted some of the tedious aspects of the previous one, such as the format of the competition.

The schedule from beginning to end is based on the competition mode of individual competition first and then seven-person team battle.

A win in an individual match will earn one point, a loss will earn no points, and the winner of a team battle will receive five points.

This scoring rule greatly increases the importance of personal strength and shortens the game time to some extent.

For example, in the individual competition, a team defeated the opponent's seven players with only two players, and won six points in the individual competition alone.

Then even if their opponents won the team battle and won five small points, it would be of no use.

Therefore, in this case, there is no need for a team fight, and the team that wins six points can be directly declared the winner.

The game starts soon.

The first person to take the field from the Sun and Moon Academy was their vice-captain Meng Hongchen.

The reason for this arrangement is not only because Meng Hongchen wants to show off in front of Zhou Ke for personal reasons.

At the same time, Mingdu is the home of the Sun and Moon Royal Academy.

In addition, since this is such a highly anticipated 'opening ceremony', they not only have to win, but also have to win beautifully.

Five years have passed, and Meng Hongchen has not only become more beautiful, but her strength has also improved greatly.

Although he has not yet broken through to the Seven-Ring Soul Saint, his soul power is around level 68.

What's even more terrifying is that she is a poison soul master.

According to Zhou Ke's observation, Meng Hongchen should have already absorbed the soul bone of the Green Scale Nine-Absolute Flower, and the choice of the sixth soul ring is probably also the Green Scale Nine-Absolute Flower.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for it to have such a horrific corrosive poison.

In the process of defeating seven people from the Dragon Slayer Sect, including the opposing captain, she didn't even use many soul guides.

After all, it is a horrible toxin that can corrode even metal surfaces on a large scale, let alone the mortal body of a soul master.

Unlike the other teams in the rest area, most of the people had frowned brows and expressions of fear on their faces.

Zhou Ke was not frightened by the daunting poison. He was thinking, Meng Hongchen was now developing in this direction, wouldn't it be inappropriate for him to give her that thing?

Amid the enthusiastic cheers from the audience, Xiao Hongchen led the team back to the rest area with a calm face.

It is precisely this style that makes other participating teams feel even more unpredictable.

Especially, Shrek Academy, which excludes the Body Sect and regards them as its most powerful opponents.

Xu Sanshi, who has always been very confident in his defensive abilities, also looked heavy-hearted.

The Xuanwu bloodline possesses both water and earth attributes.

His sixth soul skill is the water-based Xuanwu Realm, which can alleviate the corrosive poison of Meng Hongchen's physical attack method to a certain extent.

But he also had to admit that he could only alleviate the problem but not resolve it.

If he were to be infected by accident, he might not be able to resist it easily.

After all, that thing can even corrode metal.

Even he, who has the strongest defense, is like this, as well as the other people in Shrek Academy.

Except for Wang Qiuer who looked indifferent, there were several people whose faces were uglier than his.

For example, Xie Huanyue, he didn't think his elephant skin could defend against the opponent's corrosive poison.

Not to mention them, even Zhang Lexuan, who had the cultivation level of a Soul Douluo, was frowning secretly.

The corrosive poison is not only powerful in destructive power, it is also a terrifying neurotoxin. From the performance of those well-trained and powerful members of the Dragon Slayer Sect just now under the watchful eyes of the public, it can be seen how much severe pain it can cause.

Among the many participating teams present, perhaps only the members of the Body Sect could still maintain a calm expression, and were not at all moved by the powerful corrosive poison that Meng Hongchen had just displayed.

This also made many people who were paying attention to them feel a little surprised.

Are you pretending? Or are you 100% confident in your own abilities?
They will find out soon enough.

Because one of the teams in the second preliminary round was the Benti Sect.

(End of this chapter)