Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 190: The Most Abstract Episode

Compared to Ma Xiaotao, who was full of pride and high spirits on the stage, Situ Yu, the captain of the Yunluo team, looked very uncomfortable.

As the captain of the Yunluo team, his soul power level was only a Soul Master of the forties.

Although he was considered strong among Soul Masters due to his use of Soul Tools, he had no confidence whatsoever against Shrek Academy's genius Soul Emperor.

"Captain, should I go on?" A pretty young girl asked cautiously from the side.

She is the moon-gazing girl, and also the wronged one in the original story who was teased by Xu Sanshi for the entire game.

According to the original strategy, after Ma Yingjun was eliminated, it would be her turn to take the stage. However, whenever Shang Yue looked at Ma Xiaotao on the field, she felt a sense of trembling. Not to mention going on the field to fight, she didn't even have the courage to look Ma Xiaotao in the eye.

Why invite destruction with just three spirit rings?

Shangyue glanced at Ma Yingjun, who was grimacing and enduring the pain while his teammates helped apply medicine, and pursed her lips, secretly relieved that this simpleton had gone up first to draw some fire.

Situ Yu hesitated, and to be honest, he didn't know what to do now.

When the draw results came out, he was already prepared to lose, after all, his opponent was Shrek Academy, and winning was simply a pipe dream.

But if we just give up like this...

Won't Yunluo be embarrassed?

"Yunluo Team, please decide on your team members as soon as possible, otherwise you will be deemed to have automatically forfeited!" Situ Yu was still hesitating, but the referee on the stage would not give him much time to waste.

There are many matches to be played every day. Completing a major tournament in a month is already a tight schedule and a heavy workload. The number of matches each day is fixed. If each team wastes even a little time, will the matches even be played today?

The referee's words made Situ Yu's expression even more conflicted.

Are we going to fight or not?

Seeing that Situ Yu was really showing signs of going all out, Shang Yue hurriedly tugged at his sleeve, her voice anxious: "Captain, the other side is Shrek Academy! You don't need to fight a battle you can't win!"

She didn't want to get beaten up!

"Can't win at all? I hear..." Situ Yu smiled slightly, just about to show off, when he saw Ma Xiaotao's cold eyes on the stage.

"I heard...I heard...I understood!"

"We, Yunluo, concede defeat!"

Situ Yu acted swiftly and decisively, admitting defeat without hesitation, his words flowing smoothly and effortlessly.

The referee's lips twitched again.

After three days of elimination matches, this referee has presided over quite a few games. The other teams' battles are either full of fighting spirit or full of passion, but you guys are just making jokes, aren't you?

First, Ma Yingjun admitted defeat at the start, and then Situ Yu proudly conceded defeat.

Okay, okay, this is the most abstract episode yet.

But what can the referee do? They just can't beat him and don't want to be beaten. What did Yunluo do wrong?

Waaaaah~

"Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy concedes defeat. Shrek Academy wins the first round of the round-robin tournament!" The referee's voice echoed throughout the arena.

Although he knew that admitting defeat was the best option when facing Shrek Academy, Yunluo was still ridiculed by the other academies for admitting defeat and running away at lightning speed just because one of his teammates was eliminated.

They never even considered replacing Yunluo in their place; they probably wouldn't fare much better.

On the contrary, the audience showed no impatience whatsoever, and shouted the words "Phoenix Saintess" even louder.

Even after Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy's waiting area, the words "Phoenix Saintess" continued to echo in the Soul Arena, never fading away.

"Phoenix Saintess, huh?" Lin Yun looked at the returning Ma Xiaotao with a playful expression and teased her. Compared to Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy's lightning-fast surrender, he actually felt that Ma Xiaotao's title of Phoenix Saintess was more abstract.

It directly collaborated with the Holy Spirit Cult in a dreamlike way.

"It's just that the audience prefers it," Ma Xiaotao said with a slight smile and a graceful demeanor.

She didn't know the meaning behind the words "Phoenix Saintess," nor did she know the deeper meaning behind Lin Yun's words; otherwise, she probably wouldn't have been able to remain so calm.

However, this made Lin Yun seem to be deep in thought.

After observing her for several days, he discovered that Ma Xiaotao's personality had changed somewhat, but he didn't know whether the change was due to the purified evil fire or the mental imprint he had planted in Ma Xiaotao's mind.

The current Ma Xiaotao no longer has the arrogant and domineering attitude she used to have. Instead, she seems to have completely restrained her fiery rage and become peaceful and warm, which is quite different from her previous personality.

However, based on Lin Yun's guess, it's likely that both aspects are involved.

Firstly, without the backlash of the evil fire, Ma Xiaotao's flames were completely under her control, and she would no longer experience the burning sensation of internal fire.

Secondly, Lin Yun destroyed her pride. With someone pressing down on her, she naturally couldn't hold her head high every day, and her nostrils were on top of her head.

But to be fair, Ma Xiaotao does look much better this way. Putting aside her original arrogant demeanor and her Shrek superstitious nature, Ma Xiaotao is still very suitable to be a high-quality plush ball.

Okay, okay, it's getting abstract again.

Lin Yun quickly shook his head, banishing the risqué thoughts that kept popping into his mind, and then turned to think of something else.

In the original story, the day after defeating Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy, Wang Yan took the Shrek Academy group to the Starlight Auction House under the pretext of strengthening the team. It was at that auction that Huo Yuhao was reminded by Electrolux and purchased the Soul Devouring Carving Knife made of Life Gold.

According to the timeline...

That means tomorrow.

Even though there's still a considerable stock of Life Gold at the Lake of Life, it's always good to get more.

According to Electrolux, a piece of living gold the size of a carving knife would require the life force of the entire Star Dou Great Forest to be condensed for 200,000 years to form.

The life force of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, accumulated over millions of years, can only condense into a single drop the size of a tear.

We have to get our hands on this good stuff eventually.

Lin Yun's plans in Xingluo are almost nonexistent, except for the fact that he lured the Snow Emperor, the grand prize of the original top auction, to the Star Dou Great Forest, which resulted in the loss of the final grand prize, the 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo.

Everything else remains unchanged.

The Soul-Devouring Carving Knife should still appear at tomorrow's Starlight Auction.

Lin Yun glanced at Wang Yan, who was in a good mood beside him.

"The Shrek team now is not the old, weak, and disabled team from the original story. Will Wang Yan still use the excuse of strengthening the team to go to the Starlight Auction House?"

(End of this chapter)