Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 362 Both Advance
Emotions are closely related to a person's mental state.

As the inheritor of the God of Emotions, Yi Shuihan possesses extremely high mental strength. If Yun Hui had not cultivated the Purple Demon Eye, a method for cultivating mental power, even with that 90,000-year-old head soul bone, his mental strength would only be comparable to hers, with neither being superior to the other.

But since the Tang Clan's unique skills originated from the high-dimensional world of the Bashu Tang Clan, they are a super cheat code for dimensional reduction attacks in the low-dimensional world of Douluo Continent.

As the saying goes, no matter how talented you are, you can't beat someone who's cheating.

With the 90,000-year-old head bone skill combined with the Purple Demon Eye, Yi Shuihan only saw a strange black and white twin flower blooming before his eyes, slowly withering away.

As the black and white petals withered one by one, Yi Shuihan's spiritual power was also continuously depleted along with these petals. Until there were no more petals left on the twin flower bud, he collapsed to the ground, his spiritual power exhausted, and fell into a deep coma.

"Thirdly, the task was exceeded."

Without Yi Shuihan's control, the five kitchen knives—the Holy Radiance Blade, the Demon-Devouring Blade, the Righteous Yang Blade, the Proud Heaven Blade, and the Xuanji Blade—were neatly arranged in front of Yun Hui.

The swords are indeed fine, but unfortunately, with so many people watching, she can't just take them for herself. That would provoke public outrage, and no inheritor of a deity wants to see their inherited artifacts stolen by others. So, she can't openly seize them at this stage.

After Yun Hui lifted the Judgment Scales' stripping of the Holy Radiance Blade and the Demon-Devouring Blade, these two divine artifacts of light and darkness, like the other three kitchen knives, transformed into streams of light and returned to Yi Shuihan's body.

Yi Shuihan's defeat means that the Eat & Drink team has lost the individual competition and will need to participate in the afternoon's team competition against the loser between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Four Elements Academy.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Four Elements Academy have joined forces. The outcome will not depend on strength, but only on the result of the agreement between the two teams.

In terms of overall team strength, if the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique is taken into account, the Four Elements Academy is slightly better than the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School; if not, it is far inferior to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

The Seven-in-One Fusion Technique is a fusion of soul skills, not a fusion of martial souls. Therefore, when facing a true master, the process before the fusion is completed is a fatal flaw.

In the match between the Four Elements Academy and the Spirit Hall in the round of six, the Spirit Hall seeded team was unaware that the Wind and Fire Team had the trump card of the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, and thus lost due to the information gap.

Now that the seven-in-one fusion technique has been exposed, the Eating and Drinking Team is on guard and no longer has the confidence to win.

Therefore, to ensure that the two teams advancing to the finals are all from our own faction, the safest approach is to send the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to the team competition to snipe the Eating and Drinking Team.

Therefore, when it was Fire Dance's turn to appear in the Wind and Fire team, Yun Hui decisively chose to concede defeat, not as an individual, but on behalf of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's seed team.

Thus, the fifth round of the knockout stage, the individual competition, came to an end.

Four Elements Academy won the individual competition and advanced to the sixth round of the tournament, becoming the first team to advance to the finals.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School lost the individual competition against the Eating and Drinking Team and will need to compete in a seven-on-seven team competition this afternoon to compete for the last spot in the finals.

After the show.

The base of the Eating and Drinking Team.

Yi Shuihan woke up in a daze.

"Boss, you're awake."

Xu Wei handed a glass of water to Yi Shuihan, who was sitting next to him, after seeing that the eldest brother had woken up.

Of the four inheritors of the divine power, Li Cang and Xiong Lai were still unconscious, and Xu Wei himself had only recently sobered up and was still feeling dizzy.

Now that Yi Shuihan has awakened, Xu Wei has finally found his pillar of support and hurriedly poured out his heart:
"The team competition starts in an hour. Given the team's current state, should we continue participating?"

"..." Yi Shuihan silently finished the water in his cup, and after a moment of silence, asked:
"Who won the individual competition? Was it the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?"

"No." Xu Wei shook his head.

"The Four Elements Academy won the individual competition. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School member conceded defeat on behalf of the team after defeating you, so..."

"Therefore, our team's opponent is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, not the Four Elements Academy."

Yi Shuihan, rubbing his still slightly throbbing head, said in a deep voice:
"Well, to prevent us from advancing to the finals, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is actually willing to give up the glory of advancing to the finals as the victor and instead try to ambush us. Such attention to us is a kind of respect in itself."

"Boss, do you mean we should forfeit the team competition later?"

Xu Wei asked, still confused.

Yi Shuihan did not answer immediately. He first weighed the pros and cons in his mind and made his final decision after thinking it through:

"Currently, two of our four divine inheritors are gone, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has three divine inheritors. It's a two-against-three situation, and our chances of winning are slim."

"The soul bone rewards for the top three in the competition are not much different. Only the soul bone reward for the champion is far more different from that of the second and third place. Since there is no hope of winning the championship, it is better to give up."

"Old Xu, go and tell the team leader to go to the tournament committee and have the team concede defeat."

"I know, I'll go right away."

Xu Wei nodded and dragged his obese body out of the room.

Half an hour later.

The news that the Eating and Drinking Team had withdrawn from the team competition spread rapidly throughout Wuhun City through the tournament committee.

Because the Eating and Drinking Team forfeited, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School won without a fight and automatically advanced to the sixth round of the competition, where they will meet the Four Elements Academy in the finals.

The finals were originally scheduled for the morning of the day after tomorrow, but after several parties argued their case and obtained the consent of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Four Elements Academy, the Spirit Hall had no choice but to compromise and change the date of the finals to tomorrow morning.

The two teams that advanced to the finals have joined forces, and everyone knows who the champion will be, so there's no need for a one-day rest period.

In addition, the soul bones of the top three teams in the competition will be awarded together after the final champion is determined.

Soul Masters can't feel at ease until they have obtained a Soul Bone, a treasure they consider invaluable.

The top three teams want to end the competition early and get the Soul Bone, while the other forces hope to end the competition as soon as possible. Since they can't gain any benefits from the major competition, they should start looking for other opportunities.

into the night.

After a busy day, Xue Qinghe quietly sneaked into the Hall of Worship at the top of Wuhun City under the cover of night.

The mark of the Angel God's inheritance glowed faintly, and a spatial vortex appeared between the hands of the six-winged angel statue.

She tore off the human face mask, revealing her original female face, and walked to the angel statue, feeling a strange sensation in her heart.

"Strange? Why do I feel that the angel statues in the Hall of Worship are different from the angel statues in other parts of Wuhun City?"

(End of this chapter)