Douluo Continent: Outwitting the Ceiling of Wisdom - Yuhao Faks His Death for Ten Thousand Years

Chapter 109 Two Exhibition Matches?

Xiao Hongchen offered this explanation, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curve upwards slightly, a barely perceptible tenderness flashing in her eyes. After a pause, she added, "However—at first, I only saw her as an ordinary senior sister with a proud personality," but after spending the past year with her, I've indeed felt that my opinion of her has become increasingly different.

Seeing his insincere expression, Huo Yuhao's smile widened, and he was about to tease him a bit more when Xiao Hongchen quickly raised his hand to stop him: "Stop laughing! Stop laughing! If you laugh again, I won't talk to you anymore!"

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh anymore, alright?"

Huo Yuhao suppressed a smile, tried to put on a serious face, and replied in a seemingly earnest manner.

He knew very well that Mu Xi was a young lady from a family of blacksmiths, and she was proud and occasionally a bit spoiled and willful.

Although Xiao Hongchen has become more composed and measured after ten thousand years, he still retains the arrogance and pride he once had as the young master of the Hongchen family of the Sun Moon Empire.

How could two people with such strong personalities and who are not weak at all, who spend every day together and are forging themselves, only have mundane learning and chatting, without any interesting stories or friction?

Huo Yuhao could almost imagine that when the two first met, they probably disliked each other and were secretly competing with each other.

Then, through their repeated forging and sparring, Xiao Hongchen, with her extremely powerful forging talent, "conquered" Mu Chen's originally proud heart, and gradually developed the tacit understanding and special feelings between them.

Xiao Hongchen glared at Huo Yuhao, who was clearly still suppressing his laughter. His ears burned slightly, but he stopped being coy.

He coughed lightly and quickly began to talk, slowly recounting the bits and pieces that had happened between him and Mu Xi in the Blacksmith Association over the past year.

The opening ceremony of the Tianhai Alliance Tournament was officially held at the magnificent Tianhai Stadium, the most magnificent stadium in Tianhai City.

This stadium is enormous, capable of holding 80,000 spectators at a time, making it the largest stadium in all cities of the entire Tianhai Alliance.

The stadium has a magnificent exterior with a huge dome covering the entire venue. Sunlight shines through the transparent glass of the dome, making the interior bright and airy, bustling with activity and excitement.

The Sky-Sea Alliance Grand Competition is undoubtedly the grandest annual event for the economic zone along the eastern coast of the Sun and Moon Federation.

As the third largest urban cluster in the Eastern Coastal Economic Zone, after the Mingdu Economic Zone and Shrek City Economic Zone in the western part of the Federation, this top regional event naturally attracted the attention of the entire Federation. Countless Soul Masters and the public were watching this peak showdown of young Soul Masters.

Every year, the competition produces a large number of talented young Soul Masters, who become the object of competition among various forces.

However, it is undeniable that although the Tianhai Alliance enjoys a superior geographical location, its economy has developed rapidly over the past ten thousand years, and its urban construction has undergone tremendous changes.

However, in terms of the foundation of Soul Masters, it is far inferior to those ancient cities on the continent—such as Mingdu, Tiandou City, Xingluo City, and Shrek City.

The Soul Master families' lineage and cultivation resources in these cities are far superior to those of the Tianhai Alliance.

As is customary for the competition, the opening ceremony mainly consists of various ceremonies and does not include any actual competition segments.

After the ceremony, the teachers leading each participating team went to a designated area to draw lots to determine their opponents and match times in the subsequent official competition.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao and the other first-year students from Class Zero of Donghai Academy were quite relaxed at this moment.

They sat in the stadium stands, looking down at the grand opening ceremony in quiet contemplation, their eyes filled with curiosity and anticipation.

Huo Yuhao's gaze swept across the center of the stadium, where he saw staff members methodically setting up a temporary platform, surrounded by spotlights and soul-guided amplification equipment.

He raised an eyebrow slightly, secretly guessing: This should be the venue for the exhibition match later. It's quite large, and it seems to have been specially prepared for the showdown between top academies.

"I'm really looking forward to it."

Sitting next to Huo Yuhao, Xie Xie stared intently at the platform being built, his face full of excitement. He couldn't help but say, "I already found out that there are two exhibition matches today."

The first match is the one everyone is most looking forward to: the showdown between Shrek Academy and the Central Academy of the Sun Moon Federation, which will serve as the opening match of the opening ceremony.

The second match will be between the winner of these two teams and the seven-man tournament champions from our Tianhai Alliance's previous grand competition.

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He paused, then analyzed clearly: "This arrangement is particularly reasonable. It can arouse our aspirations and fighting spirit as young soul masters in the alliance to be among the top soul masters of the continent at the same age through the first top-level showdown."

The second match also allowed us to clearly see the true gap between ourselves and the top players on the mainland.

With the groundwork laid in the first game, even if our Tianhai Alliance loses the second game, it won't be too discouraging; it's a win-win situation.

Hearing Xie Xie's detailed explanation beside him, Huo Yuhao nodded thoughtfully, pondering to himself:

Unlike the original storyline, these are actually two exhibition matches?

It must be said that this arrangement is indeed very ingenious.

Let Shrek Academy and Central Academy, two top academies, compete first. Even if the Tianhai Alliance's champion team loses to their winner later, it won't cause the alliance to lose face.

After all, the intensity of the first match had already set psychological expectations for the audience and the participants.

It is only natural that they lost to the winner of both the current and historical top academies on the mainland.

Perhaps some within the alliance are even secretly hoping that even if the Tianhai Alliance's representative team loses, they might still be able to defeat the losers from those two top academies, thus salvaging some face.

"This exhibition match arrangement is really good."

Xu Xiaoyan nodded her head, her face showing agreement.

"Otherwise, if we put our Tianhai Alliance team against a top academy right from the start, and they speedrun through, that would be too embarrassing."

Just as the group was talking in hushed tones, a soft yet urgent voice suddenly broke their conversation.

"I'm so hungry, does anyone have anything to eat?"

Huo Yuhao subconsciously turned his head and saw a chubby little boy darting around in the crowd in the audience.

With a look of longing for food on his face, he asked each passerby for food, his impatient appearance quite comical.

"Where did this little foodie come from?" Xu Xiaoyan blinked, her face full of curiosity, and couldn't help but whisper.

At the same time, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi, who were sitting on the other side of Huo Yuhao, all had a slight change in expression when they saw the school uniform that the chubby boy was wearing, and some were even dumbfounded.