Douluo Continent: I, an evil soul master, work nine-to-five in the Tang Sect.

Chapter 95 Devastating Victory

While Luo Chen and Tai An were talking, the first competition of the freshman assessment began. However, the first team to appear was Wu Feng and Ning Tian from Class 9 of the freshmen.

Even though Tai'an had an overwhelming strength among the freshmen in Class 9, giving him absolute dominance over the other freshmen, Mu Jin still paired Wu Feng and Ning Tian together.

Theoretically speaking, with Ning Tian's assistance, Tai'an's strength would definitely be elevated to a higher level. However, in the freshman assessment, the cooperation among the team members is what truly matters.

Moreover, Mu Jin doesn't believe that with Tai'an's current strength, there is any team among the first-year students in the outer academy that can compete with Tai'an.

Adhering to the principle of treating every student fairly, Mu Jin still grouped Wu Feng, who was a strong attacker, and Ning Tian, ​​who was a three-ring Soul Master, together. With the cooperation of Wu Feng and Ning Tian, ​​plus Nanmen Yun'er's agility-type flying martial soul, even if they really faced a strong attacker three-ring Soul Master, they would have a good chance of winning.

However, the control-type Soul Master and the support-type Soul Master assigned to Tai'an's team were completely incomparable to Ning Tian. To Tai'an, they were more like accessories, serving no purpose at all.

After all, given his current strength, to have any effect on him, it would have to be something like Ning Tian, ​​a support-type three-ring Soul Master with the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda Martial Soul. Only such an amplifying Soul Skill could be effective against him in the competition.

However, there was a reason why Mu Jin allocated the trainees in this way. In her opinion, Tai An alone, even without teammates, was already qualified to compete for the championship.

Under its influence, Ning Tian, ​​Wu Feng, and the other two, who had become even stronger than before, also saw a significant improvement in their overall strength. They were no less capable than the other three-ring Soul Masters in the first year of the outer academy and were also qualified to compete for the championship.

It can be said that even if the academy makes other arrangements for Luo Chen, with these two preparations, Mu Jin already has a great chance of winning and taking the championship of the freshman assessment.

However, her idea was beautiful, but reality was cruel. No matter what considerations she had made beforehand, she ultimately overlooked one point, which was the Martial Soul Fusion Skill!

Now, most of the new students have a general idea of ​​what to expect from this new student assessment. In terms of individual strength, there are only a handful of first-year students in the entire outer academy who have broken through to the Soul Master level of the third ring.

There are very few monsters like Tai'an, who are only two-ring Great Soul Masters but whose strength can suppress or even defeat four-ring Soul Masters.

Therefore, everyone's guesses about the champion team almost all fell on those three-ring Soul Masters and monsters like Tai'an, and no one expected that there were other possibilities besides that.

That is a martial soul fusion skill with an extremely low probability, almost impossible to appear among first-year students in the outer academy.

Other students might not know this, but Luo Chen and Tai An were quite aware of it. After all, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had recently used their own Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the two of them had estimated its power.

Therefore, in Tai'an's eyes, the biggest obstacle he would encounter in his attempt to win the freshman assessment championship was neither Luo Chen nor those three-ring Soul Masters, but Huo Yuhao's team, which possessed a thousand-year-old Soul Skill and even a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Tai'an was quite confident about this. Although Huo Yuhao's strength had improved a lot and Wang Dong had the strength to contend with a three-ring Soul Master, neither of them was strong enough to fight against a four-ring Soul Master.

Therefore, as long as he defeats Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong before they unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, he will naturally be able to win the championship in this freshman assessment.

As for the other team in Class 9 of the freshmen, with Ning Tian, ​​a support-type three-ring Soul Master, as the core and Wu Feng, a red dragon martial soul, as the output team, Tai An did not take them seriously at all. After all, they were defeated opponents and were not worth his consideration.

However, Luo Chen naturally guessed what he was thinking and couldn't help but feel a little sad for him. If it were a normal freshman assessment, with Tai'an's current strength, winning the championship would be a piece of cake.

However, the assessment for this year's freshmen is not so easy at all. Even though Tai'an has personal strength that other students cannot match, he is facing the chosen ones of this plane, including the most powerful connections on the continent.

With such a lineup, let alone his ability to defeat a four-ring Soul Master, even if Luo Chen himself were to take the field, there's a risk of him failing.

Moreover, aside from Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's unconventional and almost overpowered team, there are two other teams capable of unleashing Martial Soul Fusion Techniques, and their individual strength is equally formidable. No matter which team they face, Tai'an will not be able to win easily.

Therefore, according to Luo Chen's prediction, Tai'an is probably out of the running for the championship in the freshman assessment this time, but they still have a chance to compete for the runner-up position.

There are a total of 310 teams participating in the freshman assessment. Apart from a very few students who do not need to participate in the assessment due to their martial soul or personal reasons, nearly half of these first-year students from the outer academy will be eliminated and leave Shrek Academy.

Therefore, in this new student assessment, every student will do their best to pass the assessment and avoid being eliminated by the academy.

The competition at Shrek Academy is fierce. To maximize the students' fighting spirit, Shrek Academy has set up a rule with a 50% elimination rate, which is something almost no other academy has ever set.

Only Shrek Academy, which never lacks fresh blood, could set such outrageous rules. However, most of the students who can enter Shrek Academy are not just pretty faces.

Even if they ultimately fail Shrek Academy's assessment and are eliminated by the academy, there are plenty of other academies willing to accept these eliminated students, because Shrek Academy considers these students with low overall quality to be of no value in training them.

However, for other academies that are not well-known, do not have many resources, or are not even qualified to participate in the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, these students are extremely rare geniuses.

After all, many students at Shrek Academy have the best spirit ring configuration, which is almost standard. However, for other students, let alone having a thousand-year spirit ring at the third ring, even having a hundred-year spirit ring at the second ring is extremely rare.

Most students' first spirit ring is just an ordinary ten-year spirit ring. This is the most common phenomenon on this continent because spirit masters with low talent have very few resources.

Without a powerful background, it would be impossible to absorb a suitable spirit ring at the first spirit ring stage, or even an ordinary ten-year spirit ring, which would cost a huge sum of money.

As for higher-level hundred-year and thousand-year soul rings, one must ask at least a Soul Master level expert with extensive experience in hunting soul beasts to have a chance of obtaining them. After all, although there are quite a few soul beasts of this type, the number of Soul Master experts who can capture and hunt them is extremely small.

This is why many Soul Masters, even when they have cultivated to the third or fourth ring, cannot equip themselves with a thousand-year Soul Ring. Hunting a thousand-year Soul Beast as their third Soul Ring requires far too many resources, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Therefore, they can only settle for a hundred-year Soul Ring.

Alternatively, one can venture into the Star Dou Great Forest on their own to hunt soul beasts and obtain the desired soul ring. However, this is extremely risky, as many newly promoted soul masters perish in the Star Dou Great Forest every year. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest is an absolute forbidden area for ordinary humans!

Even for Soul Masters, it is quite dangerous; a single misstep could cost them their lives in the forest.

Someone like Luo Chen, who, having just awakened his martial soul, could enter the Star Dou Great Forest alone to hunt down hundred-year-old soul beasts and even successfully absorb a hundred-year-old soul ring, is extremely rare.

Under normal circumstances, a Soul Master who has not yet absorbed a Soul Ring, even if he has awakened a Power Attack type Martial Soul, is at an absolute disadvantage when facing Soul Beasts. Even the most ordinary ten-year Soul Beasts have their own innate Soul Skills!

Therefore, only monsters among monsters can forcibly kill a soul beast and obtain its soul ring using a human body. Even if a human who has not yet obtained a soul ring has a martial soul like Bei Bei's Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, it is impossible.

However, to kill a hundred-year-old soul beast and absorb its soul ring in a one-on-one battle in the Star Dou Great Forest is extremely difficult. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest is full of dangers, and without special means, entering alone is simply courting death.

Even if you manage to kill a hundred-year-old soul beast, the scent of blood will likely attract even more powerful, bloodthirsty soul beasts nearby, putting you in a desperate situation. This is why many soul masters would rather choose a low-level soul ring than risk acquiring a high-level one.

However, the main reason is that they don't have enough resources. Even academies like Shrek Academy can't guarantee that every student in the academy will have the best soul ring ratio. After all, every teacher is an extremely valuable resource for Shrek Academy.

Only the top three teams in the freshman assessment, or students who are listed as core disciples by Shrek Academy, are qualified to be personally led by the academy's experts to obtain suitable spirit rings.

This also makes it clear that the vast majority of students who are able to enter Shrek Academy with the best spirit ring ratio and stronger strength than their peers are disciples from large families and do not lack resources.

For students like Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao, who have no family background, to enter Shrek Academy, they either need to have monstrous talent or possess terrifying luck and an indomitable will to defy fate.

This is why Shrek Academy has remained at the pinnacle of the continent for tens of thousands of years, without showing any signs of decline.

The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. All the geniuses go to one place, while the weak are scattered all over the continent. Under such circumstances, how could Shrek Academy possibly decline? It will only get stronger with each generation!

"Class 9 of the freshmen team wins this match!"

Under the watchful eyes of Luo Chen and Tai An, Wu Feng and his classmates from Class 9 of the freshmen class defeated their opponents in the first match with overwhelming force.

Throughout the entire match, Wu Feng and his two companions did not even use their own martial spirits or soul skills. They simply relied on their basic physical skills and physique to decisively defeat the three opponents.

Although the three opponents were all two-ring Great Soul Masters with the best Soul Ring ratio, to Wu Feng, who was not far from becoming a three-ring Soul Grandmaster, they were no different from ordinary humans who had not yet awakened their Martial Soul.

The first competition of the freshman assessment ended very quickly. From start to finish, including the time for both sides to introduce themselves, it didn't even take a minute.

Luo Chen and Tai An, watching from the sidelines, showed no surprise. Although Wu Feng, who now possessed level 25 soul power, could not surpass them in strength, he was still a nightmare for ordinary students.

Not only does the team possess a top-tier fire-attribute beast spirit like the Red Dragon, but it also benefits from the amplification of the support-type Soul Master Ning Tian, ​​along with a formidable agility-type Battle Soul Master. With such a combination, the overall quality of Wu Feng's team is absolutely unmatched by ordinary teams.

Even in a competition for second and third-year students, Wu Feng's team is not weak. After all, among second and third-year students, only a few have the strength of a three-ring Soul Master.

It can be said that this year's freshman assessment is almost the most exaggerated in the history of Shrek Academy. Not only are there monsters like Luo Chen and Tai An who are enough to crush the senior students, but there are also more than one team that can release martial soul fusion skills.

Even within Shrek Academy's tens of thousands of years of history, this is an extremely rare occurrence!

At this moment, after Wu Feng won the first match of the freshman assessment effortlessly by his own strength, Mu Jin, who was observing from the teacher area above the competition venue, couldn't help but smile.

This was all deliberately arranged by her. She would never easily reveal her full strength before encountering a strong opponent. The reason for this arrangement was to win the championship in this freshman assessment!

(End of this chapter)