Douluo: Ant Power Breaks the Sky

Chapter 77 Background
Yu Xiaogang stood in front of everyone, his eyes swept over all eleven Shrek team members, "Now I will announce the lineup. Dai Mubai, you will go on stage first, followed by Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San."

Shi Yi felt a little emotional when listening to his teacher's arrangements. No matter in which world, there are always differences in closeness and distance between people. Shi Yi estimated that according to the strength of the Shrek people, the Shrek substitutes now basically have no chance to play.

This is also related to the competition system of the promotion match. Everyone knows that team fighting spirit is more focused on performance, which is why the tickets of the Four Elements Academy are the best-selling. However, in the world of soul masters, personal strength is the most important. The significance of the promotion match is to allow contestants to show their personal strength in front of major forces. Of course, Yu Xiaogang will give priority to people on Flanders' side for such an opportunity. Of course, in terms of personal strength, there is indeed a gap between the substitutes and Shrek's original team.

Tai Long couldn't help but ask, "Master, don't we have to send seven people to the promotion match?"

Yu Xiaogang looked at Tai Long and said calmly: "The strength of the three of them is enough."

"..." Tyrone opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, because the people from Shrek were indeed much stronger than him.

In the final ranking of the promotion match, in addition to the big points, the small points of wins are also extremely important. If there is a big draw, the ranking will be based on the small points.

This is why Yu Xiaogang could so calmly exclude the substitutes from the game. In Yu Xiaogang's view, since the strength of Shi Yi and others has been exposed, and only two assistants and Ma Hongjun have not played, then it is natural to get as many points as possible.

Shi Yi didn't say much after seeing this scene. This is why he wanted to take Yu Xiaogang as his master. No matter in which world, a person's success not only depends on his own efforts, but sometimes also requires some opportunities. Background and relationships, these seemingly empty things, still have their role. Although Tang San in the original work is gifted and has his own plug-ins, to be fair, is Yu Xiaogang really useless?
At least in Notting City, Shi Yi couldn't find anyone with a stronger background than Yu Xiaogang.

Without Yu Xiaogang, Tang San wouldn't even know about Shrek Academy, or even the existence of Seagod Island. Perhaps he would still become a strong man, but he would never be able to develop and expand the Tang Sect so smoothly, or even overthrow the Spirit Hall. The development of power can never rely on just one person.

There are many people who are born with full soul power like Tang San, but in this era, in the original work, only Bibi Dong and Tang San became gods. The two have many things in common. Even as strong as Bibi Dong still needs to use the power of the Spirit Hall to hunt hundred thousand year soul beasts for himself.

After all, personal power is limited. This sentence is still applicable in this world, at least before becoming a god. Otherwise, there would not be so many forces, sects, and families.

Just as Shi Yi was lost in thought, Emperor Xue Ye stood up from the VIP seat and said loudly through the soul guide: "The promotion competition officially begins today. In the next fourteen days, I hope that the teams from each academy will give full play to their own strengths and show the demeanor that soul masters should have. Let's begin."

As soon as his voice fell, shouts like a landslide and tsunami sounded in unison, "Long live, long live, long live."

The Royal Knights raised their lances high, and the clanging of their armor and their loud shouts undoubtedly demonstrated the style of a great country.

The competition proceeded very quickly. Once there was a gap in strength between soul masters, victory or defeat was often decided in a flash. Whoever had stronger soul skills and a higher level of soul power could easily defeat the opponent, just like Shi Yi's performance in the team competition.

There is no rest time in continuous fighting. Although it is not a many-to-one fight, being able to fight multiple opponents in a row proves one's upper limit in a sense.

Just like the Blazing Academy on the field now, Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu directly defeated an unknown team on the opposite side.

Such a game is very fast. If it weren't for the need to recover the soul power and physical strength of others, Shi Yi even felt that he could defeat all the members of all teams in one day. When he was tired, he could let Xiao Yi come out to play. After all, Shi Yi did not need to expend soul power to defeat most people.

When Huo Wu walked back from the competition venue, she stared at Shi Yi without any hesitation, but without any provocative action. The team competition was won by Shi Yi alone, and she was not stupid enough to think that anyone could defeat Shi Yi in a one-on-one fight.

Soon, it was Shrek's turn to compete. Shi Yi also yawned. It was meaningless to think that such a boring competition would last for fourteen days.

Shi Yi's eyes were wandering, and he began to look around the girls unconsciously. When he saw a familiar pair of water-blue eyes, the next second the other person turned her head away like a frightened deer.

Shi Yi smiled slightly when he saw this and was about to look away, but he saw the other party secretly turned his head and looked at him again, as if to confirm whether Shi Yi had looked away. Shi Yi also imitated Tian Shui's dancing on the stage that day and winked at Shui Bing'er.

Shui Bing'er also gave Shi Yi a face-saving look and then looked away.

This scene was also noticed by Xuewu who was standing by, and she couldn't help but joked, "Hey, Bing'er, you're progressing quickly. Are you already flirting with each other?"

Upon hearing this, the people of Tianshui instantly split into two teams. One team looked at Shui Bing'er, and the other team looked towards Shi Yi.

Shi Yi looked at the girls from Tianshui looking at him with smiles, and felt a little embarrassed so he quickly looked away. Shui Bing'er blushed and lowered her head like an ostrich.

Shi Yi was bored again and could only look at the field obediently. After watching for a while, Shi Yi was even about to fall asleep. The soul masters of this era have not developed too many skills, and the profession of soul master is more "professional" than imagined. Looking at the whole field, most of the soul masters were repeating, summoning martial spirits and releasing soul skills to fight.

The more outstanding ones will have some small designs or special applications for their soul skills. As for close combat, beast soul masters will just fight each other, and only weapon souls have some rules or routines.

This is also the characteristic of soul masters of this era, extremely simple martial soul battles, and such simple battles are almost like playing with someone like Tang San who is very cunning. The strong attack system will get wounds before they even touch Tang San, the agility system will play a chasing game with Tang San, and the opposite control system will cover him with firepower.

Tang San's extremely delicate techniques and body movements also made the VIPs watching the game extremely enjoyable.

The Blue Silver Grass that was restrained by the Four Elements Academy in the team battle became an extremely powerful hidden weapon in front of other academies. Shi Yi estimated that even if Tang San met someone from the Four Elements Academy now, he would not be afraid of attribute restraint, because a single fight is different from a team battle.

The opponent needs soul power to activate his attribute ability, but Tang San has a huge advantage in martial arts. He is not afraid of consumption in a single fight. Possessing the Tang Sect's unique skills, Tang San is not inferior to the general strong attack system even in close combat.

After Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing dealt with five opponents respectively, Tang San also successfully dealt with the other side's last two opponents.

The distinguished guests in the audience seats were also particularly surprised at Tang San's performance. At this time, all the things that Tang San had not shown in the team battle were shown.

Ning Fengzhi was also surprised when he saw this scene, but thinking about Tang San's background, he didn't seem to be too surprised. As the world's number one weapon spirit, the outstanding disciples of the Haotian Sect often have skills that match it. The skills of the Haotian Sect are well-known in the spirit master world. The masters of the Haotian Sect basically don't use spirit skills except for the spirit body, because the power brought by the mature skills is not weaker than any spirit skills. "Although this skill is extremely clever, it is not like the Haotian Sect's open and close style, but more like the style of the agile attack spirit master. Could it be that it is self-created? Although the cultivation method of this blue silver grass is very similar to that of the Ju Douluo of the Spirit Hall, the method used is completely different." Ning Fengzhi said secretly in his heart.

"Uncle Gu, can you figure out what's going on?" Ning Fengzhi asked softly to Gu Rong who was not far away from him.

Gu Rong shook his head slightly and said, "It's a bit like Juhuaguan, but it's not the same as Juhuaguan. Although the martial soul attributes are the same, Juhuaguan's fighting style is basically to use soul power to control the petals to cover the opponent, but this kid uses the leaves as a weapon soul like a flying knife. His technique is very delicate, allowing the leaves to hit the opponent at all kinds of tricky angles, and his body movements are also very flexible. The advantage of this is that the power of the leaves has multiple blessings of the body, soul power, and skills. Although the range and frequency are not as good as Juhuaguan, the attack that defeats the opponent is often a clever move at the critical moment."

Ning Fengzhi nodded and said, "I think so too, but this is not enough..."

With disciples like Shi Yi as examples, Ning Fengzhi didn't believe that Tang San was limited to this.

Thinking of this, Ning Fengzhi smiled slightly. He was not in a hurry. If he met a suitable opponent, a child like Tang San would naturally reveal all his cards. Because Tang San's last name was Tang, he had the confidence, but...

Ning Fengzhi set his eyes on Shi Yi. His reason told him that basically everything about Shi Yi had been revealed, but his intuition told him that there were still more surprising things about Shi Yi. However, Shi Yi was different from Tang San. A person without background would often guard against the attention of others. Of course, Shi Yi was now considered a person with background.

For a smart man like Shi Yi, if Shi Yi really has something hidden, its value must be higher than what is shown now.

Of course, everything was just his guess, or he might just be overthinking it. After all, what Shi Yi showed was shocking enough.

"Increasing physical strength can increase the age of absorbed spirit rings, but how can the age of already absorbed spirit rings be increased?" Ning Fengzhi thought secretly.

Ning Fengzhi has been keeping an eye on Shi Yi ever since Shi Yi revealed his soul ring, but Shi Yi has not behaved in any unusual way. Perhaps this is what Shi Yi has been hiding.

The first round of promotion was perfect for Shrek Academy, and it was easily resolved with only three players who had already played.

In the subsequent matches, the other three teams that qualified from Tiandou City also won. The undefeated record of the five soul master academies representing the Tiandou Empire immediately made Emperor Xue Ye very satisfied.

After the first day of competition, the deans of each academy came on stage to draw lots. The dean of Blazing Fire Academy was not very lucky. He looked at Shrek's lot in his hand with an extremely ugly expression. The other three elements who qualified with Shrek were relieved, while the people of the Kingdom and the Principality were puzzled because they had not seen Shi Yi's strength.

After the first day of competition, Yu Xiaogang took advantage of the crowd and said straight to the point: "Your opponent tomorrow is Blazing Academy. The list of participants will be based on the current one, plus Xiao Yi."

After saying that, everyone slowly dispersed. Just as Shi Yi was about to return to his room, a figure flashed to Yu Xiaogang's side.

Liu Erlong looked at Yu Xiaogang and said without hesitation: "Since Xiao Yi is on the field, why not replace Dai Mubai, Zhu Qing, and Xiao San with Tai Long, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling."

Yu Xiaogang frowned upon hearing this. He understood what Liu Erlong meant. Although it was safe to let Shi Yi be the last one to fight, letting Tai Long, Huang Yuan and Jing Ling fight with the people from Chihuo Academy was not necessarily a good opportunity to show themselves. They might even get injured.

Liu Erlong glared at Yu Xiaogang and said, "I have the final say, that's it."

Shi Yi also smiled at this time and said, "Master's Wife, the teacher is also worried about them. When Blazing Academy sees the list of players tomorrow, I estimate that they will most likely give up, because those people from the Kingdom and Principality don't know my strength yet, and Blazing Academy won't fight head-on. Giving up and using us to destroy a team is what they want to see. It's better to wait for Shrek to meet those Kingdom and Principality teams, and then send in Tai Long, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling and other students, so that they won't be too stressed."

Yu Xiaogang also hurriedly said at this time: "Xiao Yi is right. If we meet other teams, I will naturally let them play. Don't worry."

Liu Erlong looked at Yu Xiaogang and snorted, "Then why didn't you let them play today?"

"This..." Yu Xiaogang winked at Shi Yi when he heard it.

"This...what is this, Yu Xiaogang, don't try to use your sect or noble tricks on me. Even if you lose, you have to let them lose a few games." Liu Erlong said unhappily.

"Everyone take turns. Today it's Xiaosan and his friends, and next time it'll be Tailong and his friends." Shi Yi chuckled.

"Yes, Xiaoyi is right. Let's take turns." Yu Xiaogang said quickly.

"Stop trying to smooth things over here." Liu Erlong glared at Shi Yi unhappily.

"Master's wife, this situation is normal. From an emotional point of view, the teacher will naturally favor us. But the arrangement made by the teacher is indeed the best choice. Since we have all played on the field, we should make the best use of them. Didn't the fat guy not play on the field? If we can solve the problem quickly and reduce the injuries of the team members, why not do it?" Shi Yi said cautiously.

Hearing this, Liu Erlong also sighed and said, "I understand what you said, but for them, this is also the last competition. They are different from you. Except for Tailong who was born in the power family, Huang Yuan and Jing Ling are from civilian families..."

"Teacher, how can you do this? At least give him a chance to show himself. Master's wife, I think you are right." Shi Yi said to Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang's face turned dark, and Shi Yi gave him a helpless look, then slowly left.

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(End of this chapter)