Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 200 Shrek Academy "Resurrection"

In the blink of an eye, the first round of the preliminary elimination tournament has come to an end.

However, a revival match will be held before the remaining winners can advance to the second round.

That is, Shrek Academy, which was defeated by the Heaven Dou Royal Team 1; Elephant Armor Academy, which was instantly killed by Star Luo Royal Academy; and Star Crown Academy, which ultimately lost to Spirit Hall Academy.

Teams that lose to the three teams that have secured a spot in the finals need to participate in a revival tournament to qualify for the second round.

Similarly, in the second round, teams that lose to the three teams that are guaranteed a spot in the finals will also have to participate in a revival round to advance to the third round.

Shrek Academy, Elephant Armor Academy, Star Crown Academy.

Of these three academies, Shrek Academy naturally left the worst impression on the audience. This is mainly because Oscar's martial spirit and skills were too underhanded.

Although battles between Soul Masters are not meant to be refined or elegant, they should not be so vulgar as to tear off the fig leaf and trample on people.

Everyone thought Shrek Academy would be the first to be eliminated.

Without him.

Because Shrek Academy doesn't have anything particularly outstanding about it.

Before the final revival match began, Yu Xiaogang also approached Bibi Dong, hoping she could change the corresponding rules.

"Why?" Bibi Dong looked at the man she once admired, her tone extremely calm, devoid of any emotion.

Sensing that slightly aloof attitude, Yu Xiaogang felt uneasy, but simply said, "This is unfair to Shrek Academy, Elephant Armor Academy, and Star Crown Academy."

Although Shrek's strength is not enough to win the championship, they should not have been eliminated in the first round.

However, Yu Xiaogang also understood that he couldn't just consider Shrek Academy; he needed to include the other two academies as well.

"Then why didn't they send someone to make the proposal? Or are you able to represent all three academies at the same time?" Bibi Dong questioned.

"Of course not." Yu Xiaogang sighed. "However, this is unfair to these three academies. Their strength should not stop at the first round."

"What's the difference? They'll still be eliminated if they face other strong teams." Bibi Dong insisted. "Besides, different arenas can showcase different people's performances. You don't necessarily need a high ranking to demonstrate your strength and wisdom."

"They were just unlucky..." Yu Xiaogang was somewhat speechless, but still forced himself to say it.

"Don't you always say that luck is also a part of ability?"

For some reason, when faced with the somewhat unreasonable Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong compared him to Tang San and suddenly felt that he was just so-so. Was it because too much time had passed?

"Also, the rules of the competition were agreed upon by me and the emperors of the two great empires. It's no use if you only come to me."

"I've been able to talk to you so much only because of our past relationship."

"Let's go. If you really want to prove yourself, just like Tang San, go through the information you've written down before. If you can summarize something useful, that will be a kind of proof for yourself."

Upon hearing the name "Tang San," Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists involuntarily—

It is him again!

That guy took everything from him!

After a long silence, Yu Xiaogang turned and left without saying a word. But before leaving, he said softly, "Bibi Dong, we may never see each other again, but at least I loved you."

After saying that, Yu Xiaogang strode out of the Papal Palace, his back view extremely dashing.

Bibi Dong gripped the scepter tightly, a surge of anger rising within her for no apparent reason. It wasn't because of the words "we'll never meet again," but rather because "at least I loved you"—

This is a world for the strong!

Weaklings have no right to say such things!

Compared to the original novel where Bibi Dong always held onto a lingering affection for Yu Xiaogang, the current Bibi Dong, having read many of the theories written by Tang San, unconsciously begins to compare herself to Yu Xiaogang.

In the past, she could still plead for Yu Xiaogang in her heart.

But now, Yu Xiaogang's attitude made her completely understand why the title of "master" was a joke to him.

The weak can be proud, but they must at least have the confidence to become strong.

Yu Xiaogang's ten theories are not a source of confidence, but a joke...

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The revival round adopts a free-for-all format, meaning that three parties compete on the same stage.

This is also to save time.

The conditions for victory are simple: either both sides concede defeat, or all members of both sides lose their fighting ability, which is not much different from a regular one-on-one team battle.

After the three sides entered the arena, Chrysanthemum Douluo began drawing lots to determine the playing field.

Ice and snow.

As the ice and snow field rose, Tang San, as a spectator, finally understood how the ice and snow field was made.

On the four sides of the arena, there are four icebergs, each containing a cylindrical soul tool with countless small holes that release white cold air.

The cold air emanates from the opening at the top of the icicle, merging together to form an artificial dark cloud that can bring down snow and ice and blow cold winds.

"It seems I guessed right. Ice and snow-like venues really are made using soul tools."

Tang San gazed at the four ice pillars thoughtfully. "Moreover, the cold air that comes out can condense together, which is obviously a structure similar to the flow route of soul power in a soul ring."

"I must say, Brother Tang, the civilization of your world was probably more advanced than that of the Holy Demon Continent a long time ago. Perhaps it experienced some great catastrophe and thus declined." Electrox saw something through the soul tool that could release ice and snow. "That thing is much more advanced than the soul tools you and Guangling researched. The flow of soul power is also extremely complex."

"Who can truly understand the affairs of ancient times?" Tang San's eyes were unreadable. He then asked Electrox another question, "If gods need faith, Brother Electro, do you think it's better for mortals to be foolish or wise?"

“Of course it’s ignorance,” Electrox blurted out, then paused, realizing what he meant. “So that’s how it is. Is it caused by the gods? After all, mortals’ wisdom is no less than that of the gods. The only difference is in power… Ignorance gives birth to faith.”

"This is just a guess. We don't know for sure yet, so we shouldn't be too hasty in our judgment." Tang San changed the subject and looked at the arena, where the revival competition had already begun.

Of the three teams, Elephant Academy is the most adapted to the ice and snow terrain, since mammoths mainly live in ice and snow regions, and Diamond Mammoths have excellent cold resistance.

As for the other two teams, none of the members from Shrek Academy were accustomed to the cold climate. Jiang Zhu even wore a thick cotton-padded coat before learning that the competition venue was ice and snow.

As a support character, she needs to be ready to heal her teammates at all times, and she can't use excess soul power to resist the frost; she needs to conserve it.

Meanwhile, at Star Crown Academy, not many people were able to keep warm, and they were all wearing thick clothes.

With Chrysanthemum Douluo's command.

All three parties have activated their Martial Souls.

Hu Yanzhuo, the captain of Elephant Armor Academy, didn't take the Shrek Academy team seriously at all. He only told three of his teammates to be on guard against their sneak attacks, while he led the remaining three and charged directly at the Star Crown Academy team.

After all, Star Crown Academy's performance was truly outstanding. After Xu Xing received the soul power starlight from the other team members, he directly reached the Soul Saint level and even possessed a domain-type skill, which was difficult for even the Soul Douluo-level martial soul fusion method of the Spirit Hall team to integrate.

If Xu Xing hadn't run out of soul power at the end, the Spirit Hall team would have been eliminated.

Therefore, Huyan Zhuo's first target was Xu Xing.

After all, this guy himself isn't strong, he's just a Soul Master. I just need to lead three people to break up their team and prevent them from using the Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

The Star Crown team certainly didn't dare to go head-to-head with Elephant Armor Academy. Moreover, in terms of raw strength, the members of the Star Crown team all possessed weapon spirits, and their physical bodies were not as strong as those of the muscular men from the Elephant Armor team.

Moreover, the speed at which a mammoth charges is not slow.

Therefore, in a four vs. seven situation, the Star Crown team was immediately scattered. Hu Yanzhuo even went straight for Xu Xing, ignoring the attacks of the others, and relied on his Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul to withstand the attacks, quickly arriving in front of Xu Xing.

A punch was thrown!

Xu Xing immediately hunched over, his eyes bulging out.

As a disciple of the Star Crown Sect, he naturally possessed martial arts skills, but compared to a tough and robust man like Huyan Zhuo, he was indeed somewhat weaker, especially since Huyan Zhuo's soul power was higher than his.

They have strong physical bodies, high soul power, and fast linear speed.

Furthermore, the icy and snowy terrain is not a weakening factor for Soul Masters with the Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul.

In terms of individual strength, Xu Xing only has an advantage over Hu Yanzhuo in terms of agility, but because he is wearing warm clothing, his agility is reduced, and this advantage is weakened.

After being hit by Huyan Zhuo's punch, Xu Xing was naturally unable to get up again.

"Heh, I thought you were something special, but you're just a silver spear candle, all show and no substance," Hu Yanzhuo mocked. "They were too arrogant to push the Spirit Hall team to that point, giving you time to use your Spirit Fusion Technique. I won't give them that."

Grabbing Xu Xing's hair, Hu Yanzhuo lifted him up with one hand, clenched his fist with the other, and slammed it into the other's abdomen again, while releasing his grip on Xu Xing's hair.

Instantly, Xu Xing was sent flying more than thirty meters away, losing his ability to fight.

"Having a good martial soul is just having a good martial soul." Tang San shook his head inwardly. "His own combat ability is too poor. Real combat is not a turn-based game of exchanging soul skills... Speaking of which, the Star Crown Sect focuses on offense and support, supplemented by control. The sect probably doesn't have any particularly powerful self-created offensive soul skills, which is in line with the concept of this era—taking the main function of the martial soul as the foundation."

"However, although the Star Crown Sect is gone, the Elephant Armor Sect may not necessarily be able to obtain the qualification for 'resurrection'..."

The three Soul Masters from the Elephant Armor Academy team who were wary of the Shrek Academy team had already been defeated.

One of them was defeated by Dai Mubai. After all, he was a Soul Master with high soul power. Even though the Diamond Mammoth was tough and thick-skinned, the three of them were Soul Venerables, and there was a difference in soul power between them and Dai Mubai.

Even so, Dai Mubai broke through his defenses and was somewhat out of breath.

As for the remaining two, Mu Tian and Oscar defeated them together, with Oscar taking the lead. After all, he possessed the Eight Spider Lances and was naturally poisoned by the Human-Faced Demon Spider. The Diamond Mammoth had strong vitality, but its resistance to poison was not very high.

As for how the poison was administered?

Oscar doesn't even need to consciously control himself; the toxins from the eight spider spears can penetrate the opponent's skin as soon as he touches them.

Seeing this, Hu Yanzhuo ignored the remaining Star Crown team and charged directly towards Shrek's side, braving Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fire Line, his target being Oscar.

But with his Eight Spider Lances, his agility was far beyond what Xu Xing could match. He instantly dodged Hu Yanzhuo's punch and quickly retreated. As he passed Ma Hongjun, he didn't forget to give him a large sausage to help him recover.

However, Ma Hongjun didn't really want to eat it at the moment—after experiencing the "self-inflicted trap" incident caused by Oscar's third soul skill, he felt that Oscar's first soul skill was very improper.

Even though I wasn't exactly serious before...

In the end, Ma Hongjun swallowed it whole.

After all, the most troublesome Star Crown team has been neutralized, so the next step is to deal with Elephant Armor team.

These thick-skinned creatures are extremely difficult to deal with.

Especially Hu Yanzhuo, even Dai Mubai would probably have a hard time dealing with him. The only way to win is through Oscar's poison.

"roar!"

Under Mu Tian's control, Haoyue ran towards Huyan Zhuo and spewed balls of flame at him.

Huyan Zhuo still chose to tough it out.

boom!

He punched one of Haoyue's heads, and the other two heads immediately bit into his shoulder.

"Damn it!"

Haoyue's teeth were still extremely sharp, piercing through the Diamond Mammoth's defenses and penetrating his flesh. Huyan Zhuo roared in pain and was about to raise his arms to clamp Haoyue's neck.

However, at that very moment, Oscar, using the speed of his eight spider spears, arrived behind Huyan Zhuo, and two of his spider spears pierced his skin, injecting poison.

"Hmm? It's really tough, it only pierced the skin!" Oscar felt the vibration from the Eight Spider Spears and was shocked by Hu Yanzhuo's defensive power, so he immediately retreated.

Although it only pierced the skin and penetrated the muscle, the poison had already entered, and it was only a matter of time before Huyan Zhuo collapsed.

However, in order to restrain Huyan Zhuo's movements, Oscar used his third soul skill: "I have a mushroom sausage!"

Without using the second soul skill, the third soul skill directly creates a "ZWB sausage", the length of which is not as exaggerated as shown in the first match.

but--

It's still an eyesore.

"Spray it out!"

With the support of soul power, the sausage that had been created began to swell, and then shot out clusters of white silk threads, like a spider hunting its prey, binding Hu Yanzhuo tightly.

Mu Tian controlled Haoyue to breathe fire, and Ma Hongjun seized the opportunity to use Phoenix Fire Line on it.

As the fire raged, Hu Yanzhuo felt pain, and the threads in Oscar's third soul skill also contained poison. In the flames, they turned into smoke, which Hu Yanzhuo inhaled, exacerbating the outbreak of poison in his body.

"Ah!" Huyan Zhuo cried out and plunged into the snow and ice.

However, the sudden change from hot to cold was so stimulating that he fainted.

"team leader!"

The remaining three members of the Elephant Armor team were shocked and wanted to check the situation, but they were entangled by the six members of the Star Crown team.

It wasn't that the Star Crown Team and the Shrek Team had any tacit understanding, but rather that they both knew that with Xu Xing unable to fight, the Elephant Armor Team was the most troublesome and had to be eliminated first.

After defeating Hu Yanzhuo, the Shrek team, except for Ma Hongjun and Huang Yuan who stayed behind to protect Jiangzhu, launched an indiscriminate attack on the remaining three members of the Elephant Armor team and the six members of the Star Crown team.

"Fourth Soul Skill: White Tiger Meteor Shower!" Dai Mubai used his fourth soul skill to launch a long-range area-of-effect attack, carpet-bombing the nine people.

This tactic worked as expected. The intense bombardment caused another member of the Elephant Armor team to be offline, while three members of the Star Crown team were either unable to dodge in time or were hit by the aftershocks of the explosions, rendering them unable to fight.

After all, this is an ice and snow venue, with ice and snow.

The energy attacks of the White Tiger Meteor Shower can be dodged, but the secondary attacks caused by these attacks landing on the ice and snow—ice shards splashing—are not so easy to dodge (similar to a grenade, the main area of ​​damage is the shards that splash from the explosion, not the explosion itself).

At this moment, all members of Shrek Academy are present, while the Elephant Team and Star Crown Team together have a total of four members.

So the four of them joined forces to fight Shrek...

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"The outcome is decided." Huo Wu knew that there was no suspense in this revival match, and Shrek Academy would be "revived" again to enter the second round of the preliminary elimination round.

To be honest, Huo Wu thought this revival match was quite ridiculous.

The Star Crown team was targeted by the Elephant Armor Sect immediately, which prevented Xu Xing from borrowing the soul power of his teammates to strengthen himself. He was the first to lose his combat ability. His Star Crown Martial Soul must have undergone some kind of mutation, becoming extremely powerful, but his actual combat ability was not strong.

Without the seven-in-one martial soul fusion skill, the Star Crown team has lost any chance of winning.

Shrek's victory was entirely due to Oscar; his eight spider spears were too bizarre, not only allowing him to move nimbly but also injecting poison.

The Elephant Armor Team has no means to counteract the toxins, putting them at a significant disadvantage.

Moreover, Shrek's final cooperation, with Mu Tian having Haoyue and Huyan Zhuo exert their strength to initially control the situation, Oscar launching a sneak attack, releasing poison, and binding the target, and finally Ma Hongjun and Mu Tian using fire together, the whole process was almost seamless, clearly having been discussed beforehand.

In addition, Dai Mubai's White Tiger Meteor Shower caught both the Star Crown Team and the Elephant Armor Team off guard, thus giving Shrek Academy a chance to win.

"The Shrek Academy team works quite well together. As long as they don't encounter the Four Elemental Academies, Canghui Academy, or the three main teams in the second round, they should be able to advance to the third round," Yu Tianheng analyzed, then looked at Tang San. "After the first round, there will be a day off, and the competition starts tomorrow. Which team do you think we'll be matched against?"

"How would I know?" Tang San shrugged, unconcerned. "Don't think of me as some kind of supernatural being. I don't have any ability to predict the future."

"However, the team pairings are definitely not arranged through a completely fair and impartial draw."

Yu Tianheng nodded: "That makes sense. Underhanded dealings are to be expected, a common problem among powerful forces... However, we are strong enough to win against any opponent!"

(End of this chapter)