Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 344 The Unlucky Shrek

Traditionally, during the opening ceremony of a major competition, the emperor of the host country is required to give a speech to make his presence felt.

But the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was already half-buried in the ground, with yellow mud even reaching his neck. He couldn't even get out of bed, let alone give a speech at the Soul Fighting Tournament. So the task of showing off on stage naturally fell to Xu Tianran.

When hundreds of thousands of people in the audience chanted "Regent" at the same time, Xu Tianran felt a sense of satisfaction, but not complete satisfaction.

Damn it, why isn't that old man dead yet? As long as he lives, I'll always be the Crown Prince!

This supreme power made Xu Tianran feel somewhat elated, but the words "Regent" were like a large green fly suddenly flying into a delicious soup, leaving him unsure whether to drink it or spit it out.

It's really tough.

But Xu Tianran still smiled and read from the script, ending the classic emperor-showing-off segment of every competition, and then announced the official start of the competition.

As is the tradition of each tournament, the champion of the previous tournament is always the first to take the stage in the knockout stage. This tournament is no exception. The Shrek team, as the first team to win the knockout stage, took the lead.

As for the result of the match, there's not much to say. Even if Shrek Academy's current generation is terrible, they are not someone that those minor characters whose names no one even remembers can mess with. They easily won their first victory.

The competition then became much more intense.

This year's competition has twice as many participating teams as previous years, with 328 teams. They have to complete the first round of elimination matches within seven days. In this first round, half of the teams that were just there to make up the numbers will be eliminated. Nobody wants to travel all the way to Mingdu only to be eliminated in the first round, so you can imagine how fiercely this elimination match will be fought.

Especially those disciples of sects.

Unlike the students in the academy, who are harmonious and loving under the guidance of their teachers, their spirit as soul masters is also restrained by the academy.

Having grown up in a sect, fighting and brawling were just basic skills for them. Targeting vital points with every move was commonplace in battle. After just seven days of elimination matches, the death toll of this tournament had already exceeded double digits.

Although the referees of the Soul Fighting Tournament performed consistently, stating that they couldn't protect anyone, this also underscores the excitement of this year's tournament.

so cool!

Only matches where every punch lands and every move draws blood are what the audience wants to see!

What kind of underground King of Fighters is this?

The Soul Hall team assembled by Lin Yun naturally won a knockout match. In the first round, it was impossible for the stronger teams to meet. This was already an unspoken rule. The Soul Hall, which had been marked by the Sun Moon Empire, would naturally not encounter a top-tier team right away.

As for those small fry, not only Lin Yun, but even Di Qiu'er didn't participate. Xiao Xiao alone took the stage and demonstrated what it means to take on seven opponents in a speedrun.

Facing a seven-person team whose strongest members were only Soul Masters, Xiao Xiao, the Soul Emperor who had been strengthened by Lin Yun, single-handedly overwhelmed all seven opponents.

The day after the knockout stage ended, the 164 teams that successfully advanced to the round-robin stage were regrouped. Due to the large number of teams in this tournament, the format of the round-robin stage was also changed. In the past, the round-robin stage had a maximum of 60 or 70 teams, and no matter how many times they played, it would take more than half a month to complete the round-robin stage. However, now there are twice as many teams, so the format of previous tournaments is naturally no longer suitable.

In the round-robin stage, each team needs to be drawn in their respective group and cannot lose more than three times. In other words, if a team loses three matches in the round-robin stage, they will be eliminated.

This is also to speed up the pace of the round-robin tournament.

Lin Yun's group assignments were fairly normal; there weren't any particularly strong teams. He didn't encounter the Body Sect, Shrek Academy, or the Sun and Moon Team. He only faced the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, whose strength was decent.

Shrek Academy was in trouble. In the group assignments, they not only encountered the Mingyu Sect, which the Tang Sect had faced in the original work, but also the Tianlong Sect, which had already been a match for Shrek Academy in the original work, as well as the most important Holy Spirit Cult!

That's right, Shrek Academy faced off against the Evil Soul Master in the round-robin tournament!

On the Soul Hall side, apart from having Di Qiu'er show off her Soul Saint cultivation with a 100,000-year Soul Ring during the battle against Star Luo Royal Academy, becoming the national goddess of the Sun Moon Empire, the other teams were all swept aside, achieving the top spot in the round-robin group with a winning streak.

On the contrary, Shrek Academy first got tricked by those members with bizarre martial souls when they fought against Mingyu Sect, and then they were caught off guard by the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, the captain of Mingyu Sect.

If Tang Xiaoxiannv's stats hadn't been so monstrous that she could overwhelm the Mingyu Sect with her Martial Soul True Form, Shrek Academy would probably have had to force Huo Yuhao to use his cheat code again and pull off a miraculous comeback.

They also struggled when fighting against the Tianlongmen.

The martial soul of Yu Tianlong, the captain of Tianlongmen, is inherited from the lineage of Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin from ten thousand years ago. It is the purest Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex. Even in the era of Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex martial soul was considered one of the most powerful.

In the original story, Yu Tianlong was defeated by Wang Qiu'er, and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus was completely stunned by the Golden Dragon.

In the current battle between Shrek Academy and Tianlongmen, Bei Bei, who has the only dragon martial soul in Shrek Academy, is being suppressed by Yu Tianlong!

Bei Bei's talent is indeed strong, but he is a full soul ring behind Yu Tianlong. Both of them are geniuses with the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul, and Yu Tianlong is not much worse than Bei Bei!

From beginning to end, Bei Bei was completely outmatched by Yu Tianlong. In the end, it was only after Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong dealt with the other members of the Tianlong Sect that they were able to defeat Yu Tianlong and achieve victory.

Without the gift from Moon before his death in the original story, Bei Bei wouldn't be able to release the Holy Light Dragon Awakening at will, especially after learning that the Shrek Academy team and the evil soul masters were in the same group. He had to save his Holy Light Dragon Awakening, which was the bane of evil soul masters, to deal with the Holy Spirit Cult!

Beibei felt frustrated, but he was helpless. After all, it was a tactical arrangement, and he could only follow it.

Otherwise, if he had used the Awakening of the Holy Dragon of Light, it would probably have been Yu Tianlong who was the one who was overwhelmed and beaten.

Apart from the two troublesome teams, Mingyu Sect and Tianlong Gate, the other teams did not cause Shrek much trouble and pushed all the way to the later stages of the round-robin tournament.

During the competition, Huo Yuhao naturally also participated in the so-called Mingdu Underground Soul Master Competition.

(End of this chapter)