Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 281 The Battle of Fate
The competition preparation area, the area where the second team of Tiandou Royal Academy is located.

Regarding the result of the draw, Xue Qinghe sighed:
"The opening match of the last tournament was between the second team of the academy and Blue Tyrant Academy, and the opening match of this tournament is again between the second team of the academy and Shrek Academy. This is really fate."

It was precisely because the second team of Tiandou Royal Academy lost to Lanba Academy in the opening match of the last competition that Emperor Xue Ye was furious and reduced Xue Xing's power, allowing Xue Qinghe to obtain half of the power of the Royal Academy.

With Xue Qinghe joining the academy's leadership, the strength of the Royal Academy's Team 1 this time far exceeds that of the previous one. Even Team 2 ranks among the top teams in this tournament because of the Soul Sage Tang San.

No matter what the reason is, it cannot change this fact.

Xue Qinghe had some idea as to why Yu Xiaogang chose Shrek Academy as their opponent.

In order to prevent Yu Xiaogang from getting what he wanted, he specifically instructed Tang San, saying:
"Brother Tang San, Shrek Academy is our Heaven Dou Empire's academy after all. We are all family members. Please be careful during the competition and be gentle."

"This is your first match, there are so many eyes watching you, be careful someone suggests disqualifying you again."

Tang San showed some impatience towards these words and said:

"I have my own plans, so I won't bother you, Your Highness!"

After saying that, he led the other six main players of Team 2 to the arena in the center of the fighting arena.

The teammates of Tiandou Royal Team 2, except Tang San, are all noble dandies who came here to gild themselves. They are all over 20 years old, but their soul power has barely reached the level of a three-ring Soul Master, and there is not even a Soul Sect leader.

But these team members have no strength, and they have all the bad habits that nobles should have.

On the stage, they all looked down upon the Shrek Academy across the way, their eyes full of contempt.

The seven main players of Tiandou Royal Academy's second team were Tang San and six noble dandies, while among the seven main players of Shrek Academy, Lin Rong could only barely recognize three of them.

The reason why they can be identified is because these three people were mentioned a lot during the competition stage in the original book.

The four substitutes in the original novel now only have three people left because Tai Long followed Tang San to Tiandou Royal Academy.

Huang Yuan who possesses the Lone Wolf spirit, Jing Ling who possesses the Skeleton spirit, and Jiang Zhu who possesses the Healing Scepter spirit.

Among them, Huang Yuan and Jing Ling have very obvious characteristics due to their martial spirits, and they can be recognized with a little recognition.

As for Jiangzhu, although her martial soul healing scepter will not bring obvious changes to the martial soul owner, she is the only woman among the seven Shrek team members, and she is the most recognizable one among the three substitutes.

"Three Soul Sects and four Soul Lords. The substitute trio actually broke through to Soul Sect, which is seven or eight levels higher than the original soul power level."

"Heh, soul bones again. When did Flanders become so generous?"

In Lin Rong's perception, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling and Jiang Zhu are all four-ring soul masters.

Among the three, Huang Yuan and Jing Ling are both level 43 Soul Masters, while Jiang Zhu is a little bit short, only level 41.

But considering that auxiliary soul masters practice slowly, it is normal that Jiangzhu's soul power is two levels lower than the other two.

Lin Rong didn't recognize the remaining four members of Shrek Academy.

The four of them had varying levels of spirit power, some high and some low, but none of them exceeded level 35. This strength could barely be considered a core force in the previous competition, but in this competition, if they were not Soul Sects, they would not even be qualified to be cannon fodder. As a member of the Heaven Dou nobles, Lin Rong could tell their strength without even needing to sense them. Except for Tang San, there would not be a Soul Sect.

This is indeed the case. In their perception, the soul power levels of those playboys are between level 31 and level 33, which are inferior to the four soul masters of Shrek Academy.

"Soul Master has two yellow and one purple, Soul Sect has two yellow and two purple, this soul ring ratio should be correct."

Lin Rong focused all his attention on Tang San, thinking:
"Soul Saint, let me see what level your soul ring ratio has been raised to under the devouring power of the Dark Blue Silver Emperor."

"The seven spirit rings are three purple and four black? Or seven black?"

In that fight, the seven spirit rings on Tang San only appeared for a moment before being retracted. Because the control system completely defeated the strong attack system, and it was a close-range sneak attack, the battle only lasted for a moment before Yan was stepped on by Tang San.

Therefore, everyone knows that Tang San is a Soul Sage, but they still don’t know what the ratio of his soul rings is.

In the arena.

As the referee announced the start of the game, the fourteen soul masters on the field revealed their martial souls and soul rings one after another.

The audience present, like Lin Rong, did not pay attention to the other thirteen people, but instead focused their attention on Tang San.

Although the news that Tang San is a Soul Sage has been confirmed, without seeing it with their own eyes, they still couldn't believe that there would be such a young Soul Sage in the world.

Soon, thick vines with a hint of blue mixed in with the darkness appeared at Tang San's feet, and the spirit ring that symbolized his spirit master status also emerged.

Purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

A total of seven soul rings, two purple and five black soul rings appeared in front of everyone.

"Only five ten thousand year spirit rings? However, the color of the two thousand year spirit rings is purple with black, it seems that they are very close to ten thousand years old."

This thought not only appeared in Lin Rong's mind, but also in Xue Qinghe's mind who was watching the game in the preparation area.

At this moment, Xue Qinghe had already inherited the Angel God's throne, and he became more and more curious about Tang San's methods of increasing the age of his spirit rings.

"Only when a god's successor successfully inherits the throne will his spirit ring configuration be improved."

"So even if Tang San obtained the inheritance of a certain god, it is impossible for him to improve his spirit ring ratio to this level now."

"First there was the exquisite Tang Sect hidden weapon, and now there is this method to increase the age of the spirit ring. Tang San, oh Tang San, I am really more and more curious about you!"

On the other side, Yu Xiaogang left the fighting arena directly after drawing the lots. Otherwise, if he saw Tang San’s spirit ring ratio, he would be very angry.

In the arena, Tang San enjoyed the cheers from the audience because of his spirit ring ratio. He felt much happier. Even the look he gave the seven Shrek contestants became much kinder. He thought to himself:
"Although Yu Xiaogang and I have a grudge and he was once a special teacher at Shrek Academy, you once had a good classmate."

"For Tyrone's sake, I will let you lose with dignity. In exchange, it won't be too much to devour some of your vitality."

(End of this chapter)