Douluo Continent: Saving Zhang Lexuan at the Start

Chapter 76: Targeted by Du Weiren

The next day at dawn, Ye Ying was dragged by Ye Qiukong to the Tianhun Hotel.

After knocking, Han Ruoruo opened the door. After explaining everything, Ye Qiukong handed Ye Ying to Han Ruoruo and left.

Han Ruoruo blinked her beautiful brown eyes, then knocked on the door of the room where Ye Ying and Zhang Lexuan were.

Zhang Lexuan opened the door, and she was quite surprised when she saw Ye Ying being held by Han Ruoruo. "Sister Ruoruo, what happened to Brother Ying?"

Han Ruoruo shrugged innocently and casually handed Ye Ying to Zhang Lexuan, "I don't know, a person who claimed to be Ye Ying's father brought him to me."

"Uncle Ye?"

After receiving the leaflet from Han Ruoruo, Zhang Lexuan murmured in confusion before thanking Han Ruoruo.

After Zhang Lexuan closed the door, Ye Ying stopped pretending to be asleep and wrapped her arms around her soft waist.

As she inhaled the delicate fragrance of orchids, Ye Ying felt much better.

The price of overthrowing the Heavenly Gang was too high, to the point that Ye Ying was now in excruciating pain wherever he was touched.

Zhang Lexuan was also quite surprised. She carried Ye Ying to the bed and gently stroked his straight short hair.

Her gentle, watery eyes revealed concern as she softly said, "What's wrong? I feel like you're acting a little different, Ying-ge."

Ye Ying did not hide anything about what happened last night, and told everyone about her becoming a disciple and how she was favored by her father after rebelling against the Heavenly Gang.

Upon hearing the rest, Zhang Lexuan's beautiful eyes revealed a look of horror.

Generally speaking, the larger the family, the more rules and regulations there are.

After all, she herself came from a noble family; her father was a duke personally appointed by the Heavenly Soul Empire, so he could empathize with her.

To her surprise, the young man beside her, or rather, her uncle Ye Qiukong, was so bold, always thinking about things that challenged the family rules.

Despite the pain all over her body, Ye Ying still managed to turn around, gently stroking Zhang Lexuan's soft, smooth face, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, only I and my father in the Ye family dare to do this. No one else is qualified!"

Hearing Ye Ying's words, Zhang Lexuan suddenly understood something. "That's true. However, we need to be careful from now on. Du Weiren might let us play in tomorrow's round-robin match!"

Yesterday, Ye Ying forcibly thwarted Du Weilun's little scheme. Although he dared not retaliate openly, he would definitely resort to underhanded tactics behind the scenes.

"Don't worry, at most he just wants to embarrass me. As for the information about me, he has probably already secretly handed it over to other Soul Master academies."

This is the limit of what Du Weiren can do. After all, he is just a nobody, and as shrewd as he is, he certainly wouldn't expose himself to the power struggles of major forces.

Just as Ye Ying had expected, by the afternoon, the pain in Ye Ying's body had disappeared, and Du Weilun summoned everyone from the regular team and the reserve team to the meeting and analysis room.

In front of a black conference table that is about two and a half meters wide and eight meters long, there are nine rather luxurious-looking chairs on each side.

Sitting in the center of the conference table, Du Weiren saw that everyone had arrived and began to explain the rules of the round-robin tournament.

"The round-robin tournament divides the 67 qualified teams into eight groups, with three groups having nine teams and five groups having eight teams. Each team needs to play against the other teams in its group in a round-robin format. A win earns two points, a draw earns one point, and a loss earns zero points. The top two teams in each group advance. Our group has exactly eight teams, which means we need to play a total of seven matches in our round-robin tournament."

Afterwards, Du Weiren introduced the two formats of the round-robin tournament to everyone: one is an individual elimination tournament, and the other is a best-of-three format.

The individual elimination round is easy to understand; it's a survival of the fittest.

But when it comes to the 2-2-3 system of competition, Ye Ying understands and is already prepared.

After explaining the rules of the competition, a smile appeared on Du Weilen's otherwise unremarkable face, and the lenses of his glasses emitted a slightly dazzling light under the soul guide lamp.

"In tomorrow's match, our academy will play the third game against Yunluo Academy from the Star Luo Empire. This academy is not very strong, but they are quite adept at using soul tools."

Du Weiren spoke casually, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.

He was a very traditional Soul Master who looked down on Soul Tools from the bottom of his heart, believing that Soul Tools, or Soul Masters who used Soul Tools, were weak and incompetent.

Changing the subject, Du Weilun turned his gaze to Ye Ying, "If I remember correctly, both Ye Ying and Zhang Lexuan are from the Soul Guidance Department. Why don't you two go on stage tomorrow and exchange ideas with the students of Yunluo Academy?"

Ye Ying's expression remained unchanged as he gently grasped Zhang Lexuan's soft, jade-like hand. He knew that this old bastard would definitely make things difficult for him.

Previously, when the Ye family was gathering intelligence, they had already discovered that this year's Yunluo Academy class could be considered the strongest in a hundred years.

In the past, they only had Soul Masters and Soul Sects paired together, but today they actually have two Soul Kings.

Although they have only recently broken through, Shrek Academy is still a very competitive team in their group, vying for a spot in the next round.

After all, apart from Shrek Academy, only one other academy from the Douling Empire had a Soul King in charge.

Although this year's Yunluo Academy has the strongest lineup in a century, it is still no match for Shrek Academy.

In order to attract attention, they are very likely to do everything in one go and arrange for both Soul Kings to be placed in the first round at the same time.

It's normal for them to lose, after all, they were facing Shrek Academy. But if they had won, Yunluo Academy would have made a profit!

So, why would Du Weiren put him in the first round? Is there any need to guess his intentions?

Losing wouldn't have much impact on the Ye family, but it's impossible for Soul Masters to fight without getting injured.

Han Ruoruo and the others immediately guessed that Du Weilun wanted to teach Ye Ying a lesson.

Aside from Ning Yu and Dai Tianyong, who were gloating, the others were about to say something when Du Weilun stopped them, saying, "Hey, don't rush; you know, this was arranged between the academy and Ye Ying's family."

Ye Ying had no way of knowing what the others were thinking, but it certainly wasn't anything good.

A cold glint flashed in Zhang Lexuan's beautiful eyes. "Alright, since it's Director Du's kind offer, Ying-ge and I certainly won't let him down!"

Ye Ying was the man she had chosen to spend her life with, and she wouldn't allow anyone to bully him. If she weren't currently limited in strength, she would at least teach Du Weilun a lesson!

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