Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 207 Sweetness in the Ice and Snow City

The venue for the qualifying rounds was not diverse, but rather the most ancient style of ring, made of hard bricks.

As Tang San had predicted, the first person sent by Blazing Fire Academy was Huo Wushuang.

The person sent by Tianshui Academy was a Soul Master, which was pretty much as Tang San had predicted. Shui Bing'er would not be the first to appear, and other team members would be sent instead.

"My name is Huo Wushuang. May I ask what this young lady from Tianshui Academy is called?" Huo Wushuang's eyes lit up when he saw the little girl in front of him, and he immediately began to introduce himself.

"Michelle." This girl from Tianshui Academy did not appear in the previous three rounds of preliminary elimination matches, and at this moment she showed a rather aloof personality.

"It's a good name, but your personality is a bit cold." Huo Wushuang praised, then his martial soul manifested, a single horn grew on his forehead, his hands transformed into dragon claws, and the soul power surging around him was also somewhat scorching. "However, since your personality is a bit cold, then let me melt your ice and snow."

"If you have the ability, then give it a try." Michelle sneered, releasing her martial spirit. A cute little snowman appeared in her palms, with a round head and a round body, only the size of a doll.

Seeing that both sides had finished releasing their martial spirits, Chrysanthemum Douluo said, "Let the battle begin!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Michelle used her first soul skill.

"Ice and snow venues!"

As the first yellow spirit ring lit up, the snowman in Michelle's hand emitted a chilling aura, covering a radius of about thirty meters around it with a thick layer of frost.

Upon seeing this, Huo Wushuang couldn't help but retreat.

Although he could tough it out or melt the field with flames, he was aiming for a seven-man run and couldn't waste too much soul power. He needed to save more soul power to deal with the others, especially the genius of Tianshui Academy—Shui Bing'er.

After the venue was set up, Michelle used her second soul skill. The snowman in her hand seemed to come alive, jumping off her hand and swaying left and right as if it were dancing.

"What's the use of this second soul skill?" Huo Wushuang was dumbfounded, not understanding why it was necessary to make the snowman move, since it didn't seem to be moving very fast.

"Hehe, I still have a third soul skill." Michelle's only thousand-year soul ring lit up, and the snowman released another layer of frost. But strangely, this time, an ice crystal castle about ten meters high stood upright on the ground.

The castle was entirely made of ice, crystal clear, and the chill emanating from it even made Huo Wushuang sneeze. He then asked, "So, what exactly are the uses of your three soul skills?"

Originally, Huo Wushuang wanted to show his gentlemanly manners by letting the other party use her soul skills since she was a woman. However, he didn't expect that of the three soul skills, only the first one, "Ice and Snow Field," had any effect. The other two, "Snowman Activation" and "Creating Ice and Snow Castle," did not seem to be used for attack... No wonder she didn't appear in the preliminaries.

Huo Wushuang now suspects that this guy was sent out to deplete his soul power.

After all, the opponent is now sitting on top of the castle, and I don't have any specific ranged attack skills, so I can only try to melt the ice castle first.

"You love me! I love you! Our love is so sweet!"

Just as Huo Wushuang was about to make a move, Mi Xue suddenly started singing, and the snowman danced even more joyfully to the rhythm, even splitting into two snowmen. Then, the two snowmen split into four, and finally split into eight.

Eight snowmen, each the size of a doll, moved in unison, swaying in the castle to the accompaniment of Michelle's monotonous yet captivating song. Their round hands collided with the ice and snow castle, and the rhythm they emitted was so mesmerizing that even the audience outside the venue found it strange and didn't know how to evaluate this tactic.

While Huo Wushuang was watching the adorable snowmen and listening to the catchy song, he was momentarily brainwashed and almost sang along.

Fortunately, he bit his tongue sharply, snapping himself back to reality. He exclaimed in surprise, "A mental-type soul skill? A self-created soul skill?"

Immediately, Huo Wushuang became extremely vigilant!

Perhaps this guy is one of Tianshui Academy's trump cards...

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"Holy crap, this singing is so addictive!" Yu Feng hurriedly stuffed cotton balls into his ears, but he had already heard it, and his mind was still involuntarily singing along. He suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and was at a loss for what to do. "Damn it, even with my ears closed, it's still echoing in my head. What kind of bizarre soul skill is this?"

"It can't be considered a soul skill, but the singing is indeed very mesmerizing." Tang San's lips twitched. He never expected to hear a familiar singing voice in Douluo Continent... So the guys from Ice and Snow Honey City have come all the way to Douluo Continent?

Once his thoughts returned to normal, Tang San's gaze fell on Mi Xue, having probably confirmed her identity as someone like Mu Tian, ​​Wang Chen, and Xu Xing.

But did she transmigrate into a woman, or was she a woman in her previous life?

Hmm~ that's not important.

The important thing is that this time traveler didn't cause him any trouble. He must be the rational type, or perhaps he just wanted to live his own life and didn't care about the major forces in the outside world at all.

Another possibility is that she didn't read the "Douluo Continent" series in her previous life, didn't know the plot, and only thought that she had transmigrated to another world with extraordinary powers such as martial spirits and soul power.

"Can't that be considered a soul skill?" Xiao Wu asked, puzzled. "It's like a haunting, unforgettable sound."

"After all, we can instantly recall some familiar words and stories when someone mentions them, right? Her situation is similar to that." Tang San could see clearly that there was no soul power attached to the song. It was just that the snowman splitting and colliding with the ice castle caused it to become a device similar to an amplifier.

If Huo Wushuang were to attack directly, he would find that the thing wasn't actually that hard.

However, this was the first time that a Soul Master in Douluo Continent had encountered such a bizarre situation. Therefore, Huo Wushuang was extremely vigilant at this moment, his Soul Power circulated rapidly within his body, and his mind was almost stretched to the limit.

None of Michelle's three soul skills have offensive capabilities. Her purpose in appearing on the field was probably to throw Huo Wushuang off balance and to create a layer of ice crystals on the field so that the Tianshui students could benefit from it.

Through the detection glasses, Tang San analyzed that Mi Xue's first soul skill, Ice and Snow Arena, was not only a condensation of soul power, but also absorbed the moisture in the air and condensed it into real ice, which would last for a relatively long time.

Hearing Tang San's analysis, everyone suddenly understood. Huo Wu was even more surprised: "So, that means Mi Xue is actually very weak. It's just that my brother encountered this situation for the first time and was frightened, causing his whole body to tense up. Even if he wins, his mental and emotional state will decline, thus affecting his physical condition?"

"That makes sense." Tang San affirmed Huo Wu's statement, pushed up his detection glasses, and sighed, "That Michelle is a master of psychology. I reckon that when your brother has any aggressive thoughts, she will surrender immediately, or try to stall for time, making your brother even more anxious... After all, your brother seems to have quite the gentlemanly demeanor."

In the context of fighting spirit, so-called gentlemanly conduct means being exploited by female opponents.

"How despicable!" Yu Feng looked at Yu Tianheng. "Vice Captain, if you encountered a female opponent like this, who is also quite cute, would you suddenly make a move?"

Yu Tianheng turned away, refusing to answer the question.

Dealing with such a shameless female Soul Master is indeed a difficult situation.

Of course, such tactics can only be used in very formal continental elite competitions. In ordinary battle arenas, those battle teams will not show any mercy.

Not to mention situations outside of the Battle Spirit realm.

In addition, female Soul Masters who use this move need another trait: beauty, or at least not too ugly, otherwise it will provoke the opponent's anger and cause them to attack ruthlessly.

"Captain, what will you do?" Seeing that Yu Tianheng ignored him, Yu Feng pouted and asked curiously.

"My approach is to knock the opponent unconscious the moment the referee announces the start, giving them no chance to speak," Tang San explained one such tactic.

"Great idea!" Yu Feng's eyes lit up. "If I encounter her, I'll just use a gust of wind to blow her off the field once the competition starts."

However, women like Xiao Wu, Guang Ling, Huo Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Lan Yinzi didn't have as many scruples. Being women themselves, they could just go up and beat the other person up.

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Huo Wushuang couldn't take it anymore. He shouted and ran over, wanting to smash the ice castle with one punch and crush the snowmen.

For some reason, he felt very agitated and wanted to destroy everything in front of him!

however--

"Wait a minute!"

When Michelle saw that Huo Wushuang was going to get serious, she immediately shouted.

Although he couldn't understand what it meant, Huo Wushuang instinctively stopped and asked, "What kind of gibberish is that?"

"Ahem~" Michelle coughed, drawing out the sound, then looked at the referee: ┗(∧｀)┛, "I surrender!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo: "...Huo Wushuang wins."

Huo Wushuang's attack was a burst of energy!

But since the other side had surrendered, it was naturally not a good idea to continue fighting. However, his chest heaved, clearly indicating that he was furious—what exactly was Tianshui Academy doing sending out such a member?!

"She's still a two-dimensional character." Tang San gained a deeper understanding of Mi Xue.

When the second person from Tianshui Academy took the stage, Huo Wushuang noticed that the ice and snow field and the ice and snow castle that Mi Xue had built had not dissipated, but the other party had already withdrawn their martial spirit, as if they understood why Mi Xue was the first to take the stage—to create a field that was advantageous to Tianshui Academy.

After using a Soul Skill, the effect of the Soul Skill can continue to exist. This is generally the right of food-type support Soul Masters. Other types of Soul Masters rarely have the ability to keep the effect of a Soul Skill lasting for a certain period of time after using it.

I never expected that Michelle's soul skill would be so special.

"However, even with the advantage of the field, I will not lose!" Huo Wushuang was in a bad mood at the moment, so he went a little too far with the second student from Tianshui Academy, which also consumed more of his soul power.

Without a doubt, in this second match, the Tianshui students lost, and Huo Wushuang scored two points.

Next, the third and fourth students of Tianshui Academy were also defeated by him. However, he had already consumed nearly 80% of his soul power and could no longer face the fifth student, so he was eventually defeated.

At this point, he understood that Michelle's purpose, besides creating a location advantage, was to disrupt his mindset.

"Well done, Michelle." Shui Bing'er high-fived Michelle, a smile in her eyes. "If Huo Wushuang were to defeat all six of our Tianshui students, even if I eventually beat him, I might not be able to completely defeat the six members of the Blazing Fire Academy. The Ice Phoenix consumes a lot of soul power. Now, including myself, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue'er, there are three of us. As long as they can defeat two of them, the remaining four won't be a big problem for me."

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just that his mentality is too bad. People with the fire element tend to have a bad temper." Michelle said confidently.

"Blazing Fire Academy can win with tactics, but it's not certain against the Heaven Dou Royal Team One." Shui Bing'er looked towards the stands where the Heaven Dou Royal Team One was located, her gaze falling on Tang San, Huo Wu, Yu Tianheng, Xiao Wu, and Guang Ling. "I estimate that each of those five could take on seven opponents at once, and even the other team members and substitutes are extremely strong."

Michelle's mood also sank, and she nodded helplessly, saying, "Indeed, each of them is stronger than a human, especially Tang San, whose fifth spirit ring is 100,000 years old, and he killed a spirit beast that was more than 300,000 years old with one punch... Even though his body is not strong, he can unleash such powerful strength, which is truly incredible."

As a transmigrator, Michelle originally thought she could look down on everyone in the world. Even when she first saw Tang San's theory, she thought he was an old theoretical researcher and didn't take it seriously.

It wasn't until the first round of the preliminary elimination tournament began that she truly realized how terrifying Tang San was; at only fourteen years old, he had already become a Soul King!

But what shocked her even more was that Tang San was the master of martial spirit theory, not the old man she had imagined... In other words, Tang San had started organizing materials and preparing to publish his theories when he was six or seven years old.

Is this some kind of reincarnated demon?

Michelle even had a premonition that Tang San was the same kind of person as her, except that unlike her previous life where she spent her days eating, sleeping, working, and watching palace dramas, Tang San was probably a scientific researcher who wrote papers.

To be honest, Michelle was quite happy to meet a fellow countryman after transmigrating, but she didn't know how to approach him or figure out how to get back to Earth.

Although there are extraordinary powers here, Michelle really hopes to taste the Ice and Snow Honey City again...

"We really need to find a way to deal with this... What do you think of using a honey trap?" Shui Bing'er offered a terrible idea, interrupting Michelle's wandering thoughts.

"Captain, you wouldn't happen to have taken a liking to Tang San, would you?" Michelle, who knew Shui Bing'er well, knew that her captain was very proud and would not use her body to seduce others unless she was really interested in that person.

"Is there a problem?" Shui Bing'er didn't hide her emotions.

"Liking someone is fine, of course, but it seems like he has quite a few outstanding women around him," Michelle said quietly, inwardly scoffing: "Pah, men can have harems in another world, huh? But he's really handsome, and he's also very powerful. Being protected by him would definitely make me feel very safe."

"So what?" Shui Bing'er didn't care at all. "Isn't it perfectly normal for a powerful male lion to have multiple lionesses?"

"As long as he has the ability to conquer all the lionesses."

"Shui Yue'er and I are half-siblings, so I can accept this more easily than other powerful female Soul Masters."

"Of course, the premise is that Tang San is interested in me."

Michelle was speechless and could only change the subject: "I think the honey trap is still unreliable. Let's think about how to defeat the Heavenly Dou Royal Team when we encounter them."

"I think we can still use psychological tactics, since they probably don't know what I did in the first game."

Although Mi Xue suspected Tang San was also a time traveler, she thought he might have been a scientific researcher or something similar in his previous life, and such people generally don't pay attention to the entertainment industry, which might scare him away...

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The contest between Blazing Fire and Heavenly Water ended with Heavenly Water Academy emerging victorious. Just as Tang San had predicted, Huo Wushuang's mental state became unbalanced due to Mi Xue's actions, leading to a waste of too much soul power in subsequent challenges, ultimately causing the entire academy to lose to Heavenly Water.

However, the main purpose of the qualifying rounds is to showcase the strength of individual Soul Masters, and a points system is used. Therefore, it doesn't really matter if Blazing Academy loses, since they still have to compete against the other eleven teams to accumulate their individual points.

After the first match of the qualifying rounds ended, the second match began five minutes later. The teams that took to the field were not the Heavenly Dou Royal Team 1, but the Star Luo Royal Team and the Canghui Academy.

Indeed, Canghui Academy actually advanced to the third round. The Seven Asura Illusion of the Seven Ones was truly formidable, and they did not encounter any other powerful teams such as the three guaranteed admission teams or the four elemental academies afterward.

However, in terms of qualifying matches, Canghui Academy can be considered the worst, because its participants all have gem-type martial souls, and are all energy-type control or amplification-type support types. In terms of individual strength, they can be said to be the worst among the thirteen teams.

Even so, the students of Canghui Academy had no choice but to grit their teeth and participate.

The result was predictable: Canghui Academy was completely thrashed by Davis of Xingluo Royal Academy, and everyone there had a negative score of one point... It was foreseeable that they would remain at the bottom with a negative score in the subsequent qualifying rounds.

The Heavenly Dou Royal Team didn't actually take the stage until the second day, and their opponent was the Divine Wind Academy Team.

"Long time no see, Brother Tang San, no, now I should call you the Theory Master." Feng Xiaotian greeted him warmly, hooking his arm around Tang San's shoulder and saying with a grin, "I've gained quite a bit of insight into spinning, so don't be surprised when the time comes."

(End of this chapter)