Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 137 Blue-Gold Spirit Herb! Shrek Academy's Regular Team!

Shrek City, Tianying Pavilion.

Inside a private room, six young people—three men and three women—were raising their glasses in celebration. These six were Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Xue Weiwei.

To celebrate Jiang Nannan's successful admission to the Inner Academy, Tang Ya specially booked a banquet at Tianying Pavilion as a gift for her best friend. As for the deposit, it was naturally paid by the young master Bei Bei.

"Waaaaah~ Nan Nan, after you go to the inner courtyard, I'll be all alone in the dormitory!" Tang Ya said, feigning sadness.

"Isn't this what you want?" Jiang Nannan, however, wasn't buying it. She directly saw through her little scheme and laughed, "This way, Beibei can come to your dorm to find you without any worries, right?"

"Uh-huh~" Tang Ya blushed instantly when her thoughts were exposed. She raised her hand, pretending to tickle Jiang Nannan, and said, "You little rascal, Nannan, I'll shut you up!"

The two girls started playfully fighting. Everyone present couldn't help but laugh.

Although none of the six people present were older than fourteen, their soul power level was at least level 32.

Tang Ya naturally had the lowest soul power; her Blue Silver Grass martial soul was truly a drag on her progress. If Tang Ya hadn't worked extremely hard and received continuous assistance from elixirs, she probably wouldn't have been able to reach level 32 at the age of thirteen. However, from now on, Tang Ya should no longer be limited by the quality of her martial soul.

The girl was extremely lucky. During her vacation, when she went to find her third soul ring with Beibei, she originally intended to absorb a high-quality plant soul beast soul ring as Zhu Ziyang suggested. However, by a twist of fate, she absorbed a fairy spirit herb that had just reached the age of a thousand years and made it her third soul ring.

The Immortal Spirit Grass is a top-tier plant soul beast with life attributes. It is extremely rare and has extremely demanding growth conditions. Once it matures, it possesses extremely abundant life energy. It is said that the Ten Thousand Demon King, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, devoured an Immortal Spirit Grass with nearly ten thousand years of cultivation, which evolved its life level and allowed it to grow from an ordinary Demon Eye Tree into the current King of Five Hundred Thousand Ferocious Beasts.

After absorbing the Immortal Spirit Grass Soul Ring, Tang Ya's soul power reached level 32 in one fell swoop, and even her martial soul evolved from the ordinary Blue Silver Grass martial soul into the top-level plant martial soul Blue Gold Spirit Grass with pure life attributes! It can be said that Tang Ya is now a genius whose talent is no less than that of Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi and others.

Therefore, Tang Ya felt increasingly grateful and respectful towards Zhu Ziyang. She attributed most of her transformation to Zhu Ziyang. She understood very well that if Zhu Ziyang hadn't enlightened her in time, correcting her long-standing mistake of pursuing the Blue Silver Grass spirit ring, she would have inevitably followed in the footsteps of her parents and predecessors. She wouldn't have sought the Heavenly Star Vine as her second spirit ring, nor would she have encountered the Immortal Spirit Grass on her journey to find the Black Jade Bamboo! All of this stemmed from a few words Zhu Ziyang had spoken back then!

Tang Ya felt an immense gratitude towards him, which filled her with hope for the revival of the Tang Sect! Although her martial soul was no longer Blue Silver Grass, given that she was currently one of only two members of the Tang Sect, it was best to break the outdated custom that "only those with Blue Silver Grass can become sect leaders." Once the Tang Sect was revived, she would definitely give Zhu Ziyang the position of Chief Elder! These were the girl's biggest thoughts after breaking through to the third ring.

Besides Tang Ya, the other three also possessed soul power exceeding level 35. Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were both at level 36, seemingly neck and neck, while Xue Weiwei's soul power was exactly level 35. With their talent, they might reach the Soul Master realm by their fourth year. No wonder the outer court teachers hailed this graduating class as the "Generation of Prodigies," because at this rate, decades later, this class would produce at least four Title Douluo-level powerhouses!

The last time multiple geniuses with the potential to become Douluo appeared at the same time was in the year of Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er, which was nearly a hundred years ago.

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Life at the academy had settled into a routine. On this day, a group of inner academy disciples gathered together in the inner academy's martial arts arena.

The next Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament will be held in two years. Shrek Academy, as the number one academy on the continent, has won the championship for countless consecutive years. Despite this, it still attaches great importance to the tournament.

As is customary, Shrek Academy sends two teams with fourteen members to each Soul Master Competition. Seven of the main team members come from the Inner Academy, and seven of the preliminary team members come from the Outer Academy. Generally, the preliminary team members of this year will become the main team members of the next year, so the main team members of each year are always genius students who have participated in the Soul Master Competition twice.

However, this year was an exception. The preliminary teams, which should have been the main selection teams, were severely short-handed. Ma Xiaotao, who had previously served as the captain of the preliminary teams, had indefinitely withdrawn from the team due to issues with her martial soul, and her return was uncertain. In addition, two other preliminary team members withdrew from Shrek Academy for unknown reasons and never entered the inner academy.

This resulted in the preliminary team, which would be the main force of this year's Soul Master Competition, having only four members left, which is absolutely unacceptable. This is why we are in this situation today.

All inner court disciples who will be under twenty years old in two years have been urgently summoned to the training ground. The academy's higher-ups are preparing to select three students from among them to join the main team and become the main force in the competition.

Currently, among the disciples in the inner courtyard who meet this condition, apart from the four regular team members and Ma Xiaotao, there are only four others, among whom Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan are prominently listed.

On the training ground, the four regular team members and the four candidates had all arrived, and the elder presiding over today's selection was Xian Lin'er.

"Elder Immortal, everyone has arrived." It was Zhang Lexuan who spoke; she was there to assist Xian Lin'er and act as the referee.

"Well then, let's get ready to begin," Xianlin'er said calmly.

At Xian Lin'er's command, the eight inner court disciples each took action. The four selected members retreated behind Xian Lin'er; they were:

Acting Captain, Dai Yueheng, offensive type, level 55 Soul King, Martial Soul: White Tiger.

Team member, Ling Luochen, control type, level 48 Soul Master, martial soul ice.

Team member, Gongyang Mo, support type, level 51 Soul King, martial soul Rainbow Dragon.

Team member Chen Zifeng, offensive type, level 49 Soul Master, Martial Soul: Soul Chasing Sword.

"Yueheng, who do you think will become our teammate?" Gongyang Mo approached Dai Yueheng and asked softly. He was tall and slender, with a handsome face, a true heartthrob. However, his gentle temperament and slow movements gave his good looks an unusual kind of delicate beauty. He would always unconsciously fidget with his pinky finger while speaking, giving people a feeling of pity and tenderness.

"If you talk to me like that again, I'll pluck your feathers!" Dai Yueheng said in a low voice, barely suppressing his discomfort.

"Hehehe, don't be angry!" Upon hearing this, Gongyang Mo immediately calmed down, raised his head and puffed out his chest, and even had a bit of a handsome and dashing air about him.

"I don't know about others, but Junior Brother Ziyang is definitely capable of becoming our teammate," Chen Zifeng said in a deep voice. He was of medium build, with a calm demeanor and a warm smile, and he was quite familiar with Zhu Ziyang.

"Zifeng is right. Although Ziyang is only thirteen years old, his soul power is already as high as level 45, which is even better than Ma Xiaotao. Unless the academy wants to sideline him, he will definitely become our teammate," Dai Yueheng said. He had a very good impression of Zhu Ziyang.

"What we lack isn't Zhu Ziyang, but an agility-type Soul Master." Ling Luochen's expression changed. She was probably the first among the four to know Zhu Ziyang. She said, "Based on the configuration of a normal team, we should be focusing on Xixi and Nannan. One of them will definitely become our teammate."

Ling Luochen's words are absolutely correct; this is also what Xian Lin'er thought.

She directly appointed Zhu Ziyang to the starting team, which was also Mu En's idea. In Mu En's words, it was to give Zhu Ziyang some opportunities to hone his skills.

Then, she added an unfamiliar name to the list—a Soul Guidance Department student who was about to enter the Inner Academy. Xian Lin'er designated him as a reserve member of the main team, temporarily adding him to the team. This decision was made for Ma Xiaotao's sake. As the strongest main team member currently, even if Ma Xiaotao couldn't return to the team temporarily due to her martial soul issue, the academy would reserve her. Unless Ma Xiaotao was truly unable to compete after two years, Dai Yueheng would always be the acting captain.

Xian Lin'er didn't consider Yao Haoxuan. To be honest, Yao Haoxuan's martial spirit and abilities were somewhat useless in the team.

What Xian Lin'er really needed to consider was the agility-type Soul Master for the main team. Only Jiang Nannan and Xixi met the requirements. In fact, if it weren't for the potential negative impact, Xian Lin'er would have directly chosen Jiang Nannan as the main team's agility-type Soul Master. After all, Jiang Nannan was her mother's personal disciple, the disciple of the continent's number one agility-type Soul Master—how could she be bad?

However, she was only thinking about it. After all, Jiang Nannan's soul power was only level 41, and the possibility of breaking through to Soul King in two years was slim. Xixi, on the other hand, had a soul power of level 45, making her more likely to reach Soul King. Shrek Academy's regular team couldn't have anyone below the Soul King level, but Xian Lin'er was still willing to give Jiang Nannan a chance.

Therefore, Xianlin'er decided to have the two compete against each other, and the winner would become the last official player.

(End of this chapter)