The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

However, if the members of the Holy Spirit Team are too blatant and publicly violate the rules and fairness of this competition that has been passed down for thousands of years, they will also face enormous public criticism.

This is something Xu Tianran does not want to see.

"Imperial Advisor, tell your men not to go too far."

"Hmm," Zhongli Wu responded faintly.

“They will only appear when needed. And their bone age is indeed no more than twenty years old. To some extent, this does not violate the rules of the competition. I think after watching the match between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Your Highness's opinion should have changed.”

Before Xu Tianran could respond, Jing Hongchen let out a cold snort.

“Master Hongchen.” Xu Tianran reached out to stop Jing Hongchen. Although he disliked Zhongli Wu’s unauthorized actions, Yu Tianhuang of Shrek Academy did indeed pose a great threat to him.

At only seventeen years old, he already possesses such strength and such a terrifying ratio of spirit rings. With such talent, it is highly likely that he will grow to a level that is beyond his control within ten years.

It is understandable to eliminate such geniuses prematurely if they cannot be used for one's own benefit.

Just as Orange had thought, Xu Tianran's attitude towards Shrek Academy was completely changed because of Yu Tianhuang's talent and strength.

History is always written by the victors. Once he has unified the continent, who can really investigate what he did?

However, for some reason, Orange did not accompany Xu Tianran to watch the game this afternoon.

The competition is about to begin.

On the competition stage, Zheng Zhan announced loudly: "The two participating teams are the Holy Spirit Sect Team and the Tang Sect Team. Both teams' players, please proceed to the waiting area."

The Tang Clan team, led by Bei Bei, stood up and walked towards the waiting area.

On the Holy Spirit Team's side, entering the waiting area were six young evil soul masters exuding a sinister aura, along with one woman in black robes. The six youths clearly kept their distance from the woman in black robes, their eyes revealing a mixture of respect and fear.

Just then, three more women entered the Tang Clan's rest area. They were Zhang Lexuan, Wang Qiu'er, and Ning Tian.

According to the rules, the rest area is only open to teams that need to play during the group stage. However, considering the relationship between Shrek Academy and Tang Sect, and Shrek Academy's special status, no one said anything.

Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei exchanged a glance, and then sat down with Wang Qiu'er and Ning Tian in the Tang Sect rest area.

She was there for two reasons: one was that she was worried about Beibei and the others, and the other was that she wanted to learn about the Holy Spirit Team's abilities in advance by watching the game.

If the Holy Spirit Team advances to the final stage, they will have a one in four chance of facing Shrek Academy in the quarterfinals.

To encourage competition, the teams that advance as the top seed in the group stage will have their quarterfinal opponents drawn from the other four teams that advance as the second seed.

Moments later, the Tang Clan team and the Holy Spirit team were already in position in the waiting area.

"Individual elimination round, first match. Both teams take the stage."

On the Holy Spirit team's side, a short young man quickly stood up and darted onto the competition stage.

On the Tang Sect's side, Jiang Nannan bent her long legs, lightly touched her toes, and landed in the center of the competition platform with the speed of a second move.

Not long after, the member of the Holy Spirit Team also walked to the center of the arena, his eerie dark green eyes fixed on Jiang Nannan. His pupils moved, seemingly sizing up Jiang Nannan, and a creepy smile appeared on his face.

Jiang Nannan's eyes were filled with disgust and coldness.

Zheng Zhan stopped between the two and said in a deep voice, "Both sides, state your names."

"Tang Clan, Jiang Nannan."

"Holy Spirit Sect, auspicious."

If Xu Zihuang were present, he would be able to instantly recall information about auspiciousness from his past life.

A six-ring Soul Emperor-level evil Soul Master, whose Martial Soul is the Brain-Eating Beast.

Jiang Nannan is not like Bei Bei. Facing an evil soul master of this level, she might pay the price for the decision she insisted on making.

Chapter 392 Reality and Tragedy

Unbreakable Douluo Zheng Zhan turned around and glanced at the direction of the podium before raising his right hand high.

"Game start!"

He also noticed the changes in the Holy Spirit Team members. He could sense that each member of the Holy Spirit Team possessed at least the cultivation level of a Soul Emperor.

Especially the two women who seemed to have the same body type.

Even with his Title Douluo-level strength, he felt a faint threat from him.

If possible, he actually hoped that the Tang Sect team could annihilate these evil soul masters here. Although he was from the Sun Moon Empire, as a legitimate soul master and soul master instructor, he had no good feelings towards those evil soul masters with their sinister aura.

However, he was somewhat powerless to do so. He had received instructions from Xu Tianran beforehand to relax the restrictions.

Two yellow, two purple, and one black—five perfectly matched spirit rings instantly rose from beneath Jiang Nannan's feet.

Upon releasing her martial spirit, her body didn't change much, except that she became taller and more slender. Her ears stood up and lengthened.

This clearly shows the difference in spirit quality between Jiang Nannan and the rest of the Shrek Academy students. Her admission to Shrek Academy's inner court was largely due to her several powerful spirit skills.

The Soft Bone Rabbit isn't even considered a high-level martial soul.

Having just completed his spirit possession, Jili instantly overwhelmed Jiang Nannan with his aura. Both had optimally matched spirit rings, but Jili had six spirit rings pulsating around him.

Jili's body curled up slightly, then relaxed. A cool, pale blue aura burst forth from his body.

Suddenly, his short body swelled up, and his black robe was torn apart, revealing an extremely bizarre figure.

The first and third spirit rings beside him were lit up. Gilly's upper body was covered with a layer of blue-gray scales, and its body had become very strong, but its lower limbs had become shorter and more muscular. Its head had become triangular in shape, with protruding lips revealing sharp fangs.

Because his head had completely transformed into the shape of his own martial soul, his original appearance was no longer recognizable. His face was also covered in scales, and his small eyes gleamed with a ferocious and deep light.

Jili's limbs became abnormally thick, each with three claws at the front. It stomped its right foot hard on the ground.

With a deafening roar, a gray-blue shockwave swept towards Jiang Nannan. The shockwave condensed in the air into the shape of a gigantic, menacing maw, filled with a salty, fishy stench, as if it were about to devour Jiang Nannan.

Although Jiang Nannan did not recognize what Jili's martial soul was, she knew that the closer a soul master with a beast martial soul's transformation was to the martial soul, the more they could unleash the true power of the martial soul.

Moreover, Jili is a six-ring Soul Emperor. With her current cultivation level, she would probably have difficulty dealing with an evil Soul Master of this level.

However, Jiang Nannan also had her own convictions. In her view, as long as such evil spirit masters survived, countless ordinary families would be torn apart.

Jiang Nannan leaped up with a cold expression, dodging the gray-blue aura that had condensed into the giant maw of a brain-eating beast. Immediately afterward, her purple, third-generation soul ring, a symbol of a thousand years, shone brightly beside her.

The instantaneous teleportation was launched without warning.

Instead of retreating, Jiang Nannan advanced and appeared in front of Jili in the next instant.

The emotional turmoil caused Jiang Nannan to lose some of her usual rationality. To approach her opponent so rashly without understanding the abilities of her martial soul was truly reckless.

However, Jiang Nannan wasn't entirely without this consideration. Firstly, all her soul skills required close-range combat to be used, and with her Invincible Golden Body skill, she could at least guarantee a safe retreat.

"Gaga—" Jili let out a sharp, eerie laugh, and with a stomp of his large feet on the ground, he instantly vanished in a blur.

The Brain-Eating Beast martial soul has almost no weaknesses, except for its poor performance in ranged attacks. Not only is its strength and defense astonishing, but its speed is also incredibly fast.

Jiang Nannan was startled, feeling an extremely palpitating aura, and instinctively released her fourth soul skill, Invincible Golden Body.

A golden light instantly enveloped her entire body, making her delicate form appear as if it were plated with gilded gold, dazzling and radiant. As the invincible golden body shimmered with light, a purplish-black tongue shot out from behind her and struck the invincible golden body's protective shield.

"Bang—" A clanging sound, like metal colliding, suddenly rang out.

Jiang Nannan turned around and saw Jili's figure clearly.

At this moment, the black spirit ring that was ranked sixth next to Jili was radiating a deep light, and strange black energy was wrapped around its blackish-purple tongue.

Having received instructions from Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, Geely held nothing back from the very beginning.

Just then, Beibei, who was in the waiting area, seemed to sense something and her expression suddenly changed drastically.

The moment Jiang Nannan's invincible golden shield came into contact with the black airflow, its dazzling golden light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Nannan, as the person directly involved, felt it even more acutely. Her soul power seemed to be swallowed up by this black energy flow, rapidly dissipating.

The Invincible Golden Body can indeed block attacks below the God level for three seconds, but the prerequisite is that you must have enough soul power to cast the Invincible Golden Body soul skill.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. No one expected that Jili would possess a skill capable of devouring soul power. Although he couldn't use this soul power for his own purposes, he did indeed effectively counter Jiang Nannan's fourth soul skill, Invincible Golden Body.

Jili's sixth spirit ring was taken from an extremely rare ten-thousand-year-old scorpion tiger. It was the spirit of Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng. The scorpion tiger is a subspecies of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Although it is not as powerful as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, it has inherited the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's abilities to a great extent.

The scorpion tail behind the scorpion tiger can also devour soul power like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Jili's sixth soul skill evolved from this, which is used to break through various protective soul skills.

It can be said that the soul ring of that ten-thousand-year-old scorpion tiger was a perfect match for his brain-eating beast martial soul. For this reason, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng himself planned to take Jili as his personal disciple after this competition.

On the competition stage, the once-dim Invincible Golden Body shattered with a crisp explosion.

"Oh no!" Bei Bei, who had rushed onto the stage the moment before, was now terrified and shouted, "Stop! The Tang Clan concedes the first match!"

But he was still a step too late.

Time seemed to stand still on the competition stage.

"Pfft—" The dark purple tongue pierced Jiang Nannan's left calf. It seemed to encounter some resistance and didn't go straight through.

A strange excitement gleamed in Jili's sinister little eyes. Then, it shook its head violently, its tongue pulling a strange, deep-seated bone from Jiang Nannan's left calf. It was the left leg bone of the ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Shadow Leopard that Jiang Nannan had once fused with.

The bone, stained with warm blood, slid onto the competition stage.

Jiang Nannan's face instantly turned deathly pale, and her left leg was also a bloody mess. Blood stained the competition platform within a radius of several meters crimson.

Forcibly stripping a soul bone is almost an irreversible injury for a soul master.

"Bastards!" Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Dai Luoli, and Tang Ya roared at the same time, following closely behind Bei Bei as they stepped onto the competition stage.

The same applies to Zhang Lexuan, Wang Qiu'er, and Ning Tian.

A gasp rippled through the audience. This sudden and bloody scene caught everyone off guard.

Jiang Nannan's appearance was not much inferior to Tang Wutong and Wang Qiu'er. Anyone would feel sorry and indignant that such a beauty suffered such a terrible injury.

However, Jili on the competition stage did not intend to let Jiang Nannan off the hook. He caught the left leg bone of the Ten Thousand Year Ghost Shadow Leopard with his right hand and shot his tongue at Jiang Nannan's brow again.

Only then did the Unbreakable Douluo Zheng Zhan hurriedly release his pure white, jade-like Unbreakable Divine Shield to protect Jiang Nannan.

With his cultivation level, he could have easily provided timely assistance, but unfortunately, he had received orders from above. All he could do was try his best to save Jiang Nannan's life.

Jili, with his Soul Emperor cultivation, could not possibly withstand the power of a level nine soul tool, no matter how strange his methods were. He withdrew his tongue as if he had been electrocuted.

Jiang Nannan lost consciousness and fainted on the spot.

Seeing Jiang Nannan's miserable state, Zheng Zhan sighed inwardly. This girl's bright future was likely ruined. At the same time, he worried that the evil spirit master's methods were too insidious. Their Sun Moon Empire's current crown prince's choice to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult might be inviting a wolf into their home.

Zheng Zhan turned around and saw Ji Li's sinister gaze. Already in a bad mood, he snorted angrily.

"What are you glaring at me for?! You trying to kill someone in front of me?!"

Zheng Zhan's aura as a Title Douluo instantly forced Jili to retreat more than ten steps. Then, he deactivated the soul guide shield around the arena.