Douluo Continent: It Became Huo Yuhao's Golden Finger!

Chapter 296 The Tournament Begins, the Plan Launched!

Huo Yuhao politely replied, "Your Highness, it's been a long time."

After a long while, his gaze lingered on the clothes of Huo Yuhao and the others; they were the uniforms of the Holy Fire Sect.

He couldn't help but sigh, "Looks like this year's Shrek Academy is in trouble!"

The previous Shrek Academy champion team's main players were either too old or had left to form a new team.

Perhaps their ten-thousand-year reign will end here?
"Then Your Highness will be disappointed." Zhuge Lan said with a smile, "Shrek Academy is backed by a place of inheritance after all. Putting aside everything else, they still have one or two Soul Masters."

Xu Jiujiu's eyelid twitched violently.

Contra?!

What kind of tiger and wolf words is this!
In previous years, there weren't even any Soul Saints with seven rings in the Soul Master Competition. How come the upper limit has been raised to Soul Douluo?

And seeing how relaxed the other party is, does that mean the Holy Fire Cult also has a Soul Douluo?

—If she knew that the Holy Flame Cult had a Title Douluo, I wonder what she would think.

"Ahem!" Dai Luoli smoothed things over, saying, "Brother, Sister Jiu Jiu, we're all family, why don't we sit down and talk?"

He was engaged to Xu Yun, so naturally he wanted to be closer to her.

Xu Jiujiu thought so too, and waved to the people below to check in.

They followed Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the Holy Fire Sect.

“Speaking of which, Yuhao, you are also a citizen of my Star Luo Empire, and Luo Li is now my brother-in-law.”

"Have you never thought about returning from the Douling Empire and going back to your homeland?"

"Luo Li is the prince consort; he can't take the position of Duke of Baihu. Yuhao, if you're interested..."

Faced with the prolonged probing, Huo Yuhao smiled and shook his head.

“Princess Jiu Jiu, the Holy Fire Sect is now the state religion of the Dou Ling Empire. No matter the reason, let’s not mention this matter.”

"What about your future child? You could send one back to inherit the title of Duke of White Tiger!" Xu Jiujiu continued to try and win him over.

Huo Yuhao remained silent this time, only shaking his head.

At this time.

A hotel staff member jogged over and enthusiastically led the way for them.

This time, Huo Yuhao is not representing the Tang Sect as in the original work, but the Holy Flame Sect, which is at its zenith. The Sun Moon Empire dares not be negligent in the slightest before tearing off the mask of civility.

They took them directly to the top-tier room on the top floor, which made Xu Jiujiu, who had come along, a little unhappy.

Just now, a servant came to inform them that their Xingluo National Academy had only been assigned to the second tier.

However, as a princess, she would not show these things.

After getting acquainted with the place and chatting for a while, they got up to say goodbye.

Dai Luoli warmly saw the person out, also wanting to familiarize herself with the place.

“Your little brother is quite shrewd for his age,” Beibei reminded him. “But if a conflict arises in the future, he might have a hard time getting caught in the middle.”

As a core member of the Holy Fire Cult, he could naturally sense something unusual.

Huo Yuhao didn't seem inclined to elaborate on this.

"Get ready, the opening ceremony is this afternoon."

“Everything went according to plan.”

"If it can be done, then none of these will be problems."

The arena was located on the east side of Mingdu. The huge martial arts arena where the Temple of Light was situated was temporarily converted into an open-air fighting arena.

This serves both to demonstrate the power of the Temple of Light and to facilitate treatment.

—The Temple of Light is fully responsible for the personnel for this Soul Master Competition.

The legions of the Sun and Moon Empire are only responsible for maintaining order.

at this time.

The open-air arena was already packed with people, with over 30,000 soldiers maintaining order so that spectators could enter in an orderly fashion.

The arena is ten meters high and over a hundred meters in diameter, radiating a silvery-white metallic luster. It is entirely forged from the fourth-level rare metal, Ganghun, and is known as "Little Black Gold." Its body has the defense of a seventh-level rare metal.

It has extremely poor ductility.

That's the Sun and Moon Empire; no other organizer could have afforded such extravagance.

Around the arena, there is a ring of grooves that activate a soul-guiding barrier that overturns the steel soul metal arena. Extending outwards from the steel soul metal arena, huge light-guiding screens are erected every hundred meters.

There are over a hundred in total!
This allows even the most peripheral spectators to watch the most exciting matches live in this open-air arena that can accommodate over a million people.

This is not.

As all the teams lined up to enter the arena for the first time, their images were projected onto the optical guide screen.

Logically speaking.

The team leading the way is usually the previous champion team, but this time it's the team from the Temple of Light.

As the Grand Master of the Light Temple, the national teacher of the state religion, it's reasonable for him to lead the delegation as the organizer, accompanied by several "attendants."

It's just a coincidence that they were all participants.

Following closely behind is Shrek Academy, where the dashing Zhuge Qiu'er is extremely eye-catching.

But after the teams left, the audience who had watched the previous Soul Master Competition were puzzled.

"Why is there only one Soul Master? Is he from the previous Shrek Academy team?"

"The rest are all new faces."

"The previous captain, Huo Yuhao, shouldn't be over 20 years old yet, right?"

"Have you forgotten that he is the vice leader of the Holy Fire Cult?"

"So, it seems like several members of the Shrek team were from the Holy Flame Cult back then?"

"Can this year's Shrek Academy team retain their championship title?"

"Huo Yuhao from the previous year was such a prodigy, I think it's unlikely."

Just the team configuration alone has sparked such a heated discussion.

This shows Huo Yuhao's popularity.

The third team was the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Lan Yu, as the captain, stood tall and proud, followed by Xiao Hongchen with a sour face and Meng Hongchen, the milk cow, and others.

Interestingly.

Lan Yu was dressed in the attire of the head of Mingde Hall, serving as both the teacher leading the team and the team captain.

Jing Hongchen, the dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, couldn't even get a seat on the high platform this time.

This shows how ruthlessly their power was taken away.

The next team is from the Holy Fire Cult.

Ma Xiaotao, as the leader of the team, entered the field of vision along with Huo Yuhao and other familiar faces.

For the first time, the crowd erupted in thunderous cheers!

"Huo Yuhao!"

"The Holy Fire Cult!"

"Contra!"

This one wave alone gave away 12 luck points.

Five years ago, Huo Yuhao would have done a somersault to celebrate.

But now
It's nothing more than a mosquito's leg.

Subsequent teams gradually appeared.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng from the Spirit Pagoda appeared together with Xu Jiujiu from the Star Luo National Academy.

This means they gave up the Spirit Pagoda team and joined the Star Luo National Academy to compete for a higher ranking.

Also.

In the previous Soul Master Competition, the Spirit Pagoda formed an all-Soul Spirit team primarily to showcase its Soul Spirits.

With the Star Luo Empire as their backer, there's no need for those fancy tricks this time around.

The Ice God Temple of the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Body Sect appeared one after the other.

There was no Snow Demon Sect this time.

Princess Vina of the Heavenly Soul Empire appeared in the Body Sect's team, causing a small commotion.

But what surprised everyone the most was that the reclusive Haotian Sect actually sent a team to participate this time, and the leader was an "old acquaintance".

(End of this chapter)