I am the son of the Dragon God in Douluo Continent.

Shrek Academy ultimately won the individual match against Star Luo Royal Academy. Having won both the team battle and the individual battle, Shrek Academy naturally advanced to the finals.

On the second day, the other semi-final match between Sun Moon Royal Academy and Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy also officially began.

The final result was no different from the original story; the Sun Moon Royal Academy still won.

However, during the competition, Xu Xingyu discovered that besides the three people mentioned in the intelligence, there was another person from the Sun Moon Royal Academy who had never appeared.

He was a man with long, dark green hair, whose defining characteristics were coldness and handsomeness. He carried a long sword on his back and wore ancient costume. For some reason, he gave Xu Xingyu the feeling of a swordsman from a martial arts novel on Earth.

This made Xu Xingyu very curious about his identity, so she specifically asked Wang Yan about it. He also said that he did not know who this student was and had no information about him.

Only Elder Xuan had privately probed the other party's cultivation level and knew that this person had just reached the Soul Emperor level. As for why he hadn't appeared yet, it was probably because he was regarded as the ace of the Sun Moon Royal Academy.

What's strange is that, according to Elder Xuan's private observations, this person is somewhat out of place with the other students of the Sun and Moon Royal Family, and he does things his own way.

Several times, Sun and Moon wanted him to play, but he refused, claiming that the opponent was too weak. He would openly disobey even his instructor's orders.

This reminded Xu Xingyu that there was indeed such a person at the Sun Moon Royal Academy who met Wang Yan's requirements, and since there was no accurate number in the original work, it was only known that he was probably in his twenties when he appeared.

Therefore, it's not impossible that he's still within the age range for the competition. The question is why the Sun Moon Royal Family would allow this guy, who gives them so much trouble, to participate in this Soul Master Competition.

Indeed, this person's combat power is far beyond that of ordinary people. Even Ma Xiaotao would lose more often than she would win against him. After all, it is rare in the world for someone to cultivate sword intent to such a level.

That's right, this person is none other than Ji Juechen, the Sword Maniac Douluo from the original work!

Ji Juechen can be considered a prodigy in Douluo Continent to some extent. In Xu Xingyu's words, his biggest mistake was being born in Douluo Continent.

If he had been born in any other fantasy world, he would definitely have become a powerful figure standing at the pinnacle of the continent.

Because his cultivation method is different from other Soul Masters and Soul Mentors, he only uses Soul Rings to break through his own limits, and he has never used Soul Skills from beginning to end.

He would only bury himself in cultivating his sword intent and use his soul power to forge his sword, making it sharper and more resilient.

This template, even if it weren't a protagonist template in other worlds, would certainly not be a background character.

However, as everyone knows, Douluo Continent is a world bound by the theory of bloodline, and without a good bloodline, there is no chance of rising to power.

The idea that there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters, is utter nonsense!

In the Douluo Continent, the quality of a martial soul and the bloodline it possesses determine its upper limit.

Ten thousand years ago, Tang San was able to cultivate into a god using Blue Silver Grass, simply because it was not Blue Silver Grass but the top-tier martial soul, Blue Silver Emperor.

Even if such Blue Silver Grass doesn't awaken, its cultivation speed will inevitably be much faster than that of normal Blue Silver Grass.

This can be seen when Tang San was cultivating his spiritual power during his third and fourth rings, he unintentionally transformed the surrounding Blue Silver Grass into the same Blue Silver Grass as himself. This shows that even without awakening, the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline still provides a certain bonus.

Therefore, saying that Tang San is a loser who made a comeback is pure nonsense. If he had such powerful bloodline power and hadn't achieved anything, he might as well have jumped into the river and committed suicide.

However, Ji Juechen is different; he is the only man in the history of Douluo Continent who has not been completely bound by the theory of bloodline.

At the age of six, he awakened a martial soul that was not quite a sword, and his innate soul power was only level three. He could be described as an ordinary person among soul masters.

If he could achieve Soul King level cultivation before the age of forty, he would be grateful. However, Ji Juechen, through his own efforts, managed to reach Soul Emperor level cultivation at the age of twenty.

The extent of the difference, and the amount of effort and dedication required in the process, are unknown to most people.

The reason he was able to do this was because after he obtained his own sword spirit, he became obsessed with swords.

Aside from meals, he spends all day practicing swordsmanship or cultivating his soul power, then uses that soul power to temper his sword, which resembles a meteorite iron rod.

In addition, they will always recklessly challenge people who are stronger than themselves, forcing themselves to break through by facing the pressure of a huge gap.

As mentioned before, he never uses soul skills from his soul rings during battle, because in his eyes they are all foreign things, not his own, and far less reliable than his own sword and the sword intent he has painstakingly cultivated.

This results in a significant difference between his fighting style and that of a Soul Master or Soul Instructor.

He neither uses spirit ring skills nor spirit tools during battle. If it weren't for the fact that he needs spirit power to enhance his abilities during battle, people would doubt whether he is really a spirit master.

Therefore, Xu Xingyu did not think that the Sun Moon Royal Academy would allow Ji Juechen, an outlier, to appear in the Soul Master Competition, because the battle between the Sun Moon Royal Academy and Shrek Academy was, to some extent, a battle of ideologies.

Shrek Academy, on the other hand, believes that traditional Soul Masters should not rely on any external objects in order to become true powerhouses. Soul tools are just flashy and fancy things; they're fine for storage, but not for combat.

On the other hand, the Sun Moon Royal Academy is a staunch supporter of soul tools, believing that soul tools, as a military force, are by no means dispensable and that the outdated profession of soul master will be eliminated sooner or later.

The soul tool, a groundbreaking product, will continue to evolve, and perhaps one day we will no longer need to use soul power as a medium to use the soul tool.

This is why Xu Xingyu was puzzled as to why the Sun Moon Royal Academy allowed Ji Juechen to participate, because his presence did not conform to the Sun Moon Royal Academy's philosophy.

The main reason Ji Juechen was allowed to join the Sun Moon Royal Academy was because he could challenge the experts of their Mingde Hall, thus improving the practical skills of their top students.

But why is he being asked to participate in the Soul Master Competition now? Could it be that the wielder of the Sword of Judgment this time is not Ma Rulong, but Ji Juechen?

In that case, this competition might be much more interesting than Xu Xingyu imagined. It seems like this one will be quite fun.