Douluo Dalu: Shooting the Sun

Chapter 143 Post-War Awards

The match between Tiantou Team 1 and Tiandou Team 2 is the last match of the last round. After this battle, all the results of the matches and the rankings have been announced.

Tiandou Team 2 ranked first with a perfect record. Both in terms of the scene and the oppression on the enemy, it was terrifying, and the first place was well deserved.

At this time, Tiandou Team 2 maintained an undefeated record of 28 games, ranking first among all teams.

Tianshui College achieved a record of 26 wins and 2 losses, ranking second. The two losses were to Tiandou Team 2 and Kamikaze College respectively. However, due to the win-loss record, it ranked ahead of Tiandou Team 1.

Tiandou Team 1 achieved 26 wins and 2 losses, ranking third. The two defeats were to Tiandou Team 2 and Tianshui College respectively.

Chihuo Academy ranked fourth, with a record of 25 wins and 3 losses, only losing to the top three. Due to the win-loss record, it ranked ahead of Shenfeng Academy.

Kamikaze Academy achieved a record of 25 wins and 3 losses, ranking fifth. The three losses were to Tiandou Team 1, Tiandou Team 2 and Chihuo Academy.

Thunder Academy ranked sixth with a record of 23 wins and 5 losses, and all the losses were to the top five teams.

These are also the top six teams in the Tiandou region, and all six teams have qualified for the qualifying round.

Unfortunately, Xiangjia Academy ranked seventh, and it seemed to be the only time in recent years that it failed to enter the promotion match. Huyan Zhen's face turned black with anger.

Canghui Academy is a bit disappointing. Even though it has the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, which allows it to occasionally gain an advantage against strong teams, its strength is still relatively too weak. Once other teams are prepared, it will be difficult for it to display its skills.

In particular, the team leader Shi Nian of Canghui Academy disappeared mysteriously, causing great chaos within the team, which resulted in the inability to deploy many targeted tactics. As a result, they experienced many disastrous defeats and were eliminated.

As for the Shrek Academy that rose to prominence in the original novel, which was not renamed Blue Bully Academy, it was still at the bottom of the list and had not won many games.

After the game, with the help of the healing soul master, everyone in Team Tiandou gradually recovered. However, Tang San seemed rather depressed at this time, and there seemed to be a hint of hatred in his eyes.

After the competition, there was an award ceremony. It was a grand ceremony. The captains of the top six teams came on stage to attend the ceremony. The award presenters were Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, the leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Saras, the platinum bishop of the Spirit Hall.

The captain and vice-captain of Tiandou Team One are Tang San and Yu Tianheng, the captain and vice-captain of Tiandou Team Two are Yang Podi and Yang Pingan, the captain and vice-captain of Tianshui College are Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, and the other teams are composed of two people who performed well on the field, and basically they are also the two people with the highest spirit power in the team.

Yang Podi, as the captain of Tiandou Team 2, was the only one who did not play in the entire preliminaries, which even attracted everyone's attention.

In particular, some viewers even wondered, who is this person? Why is he the captain of Tiandou Team 2? You know, in the entire preliminaries, Yang Ping'an, as the only soul king in the Tiandou region, is almost a unique existence, and both soul power and combat power are far superior to others.

Even the captains and vice-captains of other teams were puzzled. What qualifications did this person have to be ranked ahead of Yang Pingan? Could it be that he was even stronger?

You should know that in all the games, almost every team will have rotations and set up different lineups according to different opponents, except for Tiandou Team 2, which has the same lineup from beginning to end. It seems that they have never set up any targeted tactics, and they purely rely on their strong strength to defeat their opponents.

Huo Wu, who was quite active, quietly asked Yang Pingan: "Yang Pingan, you are not the captain of Tiandou Team 2. What is the strength of your captain?"

Yang Pingan just smiled and said, "You will know later. If Big Brother plays, there will be no game."

When the people around heard this, their faces seemed to become more solemn.

Some people at the scene seemed to have heard the news that when Yang Podi joined the Tiandou Royal Academy, he had reached level 35 at the age of twelve. This was news seven years ago. Now, after seven years, he is probably at the Soul King level. Are they still people of the same age?

Tiandou Team 2 has always had a Soul King hidden, so how can the other teams compete? Could it be that they are really here for the finals?

Many teams have now received the news that the golden generation that the Spirit Hall is now touting has now gradually begun to emerge in everyone's sight. According to the Spirit Hall, there are three Soul Kings in the golden generation, one is at level 51, two are at level 52, and all of their members are above level 45. This soul power is simply a crushing defeat.

In the entire Tiandou Division, apart from the Tiandou Team 2, only Tang San has reached level 45 in spirit power. No one from other teams has reached level 45 or above. Apart from Tang San, only Feng Xiaotian has reached level 44. Even the highest spirit power of other teams is only level 43. The spirit power of the captains is not as good as that of ordinary members of the Spirit Hall team.

And now the Tiandou Team II seems to have the strength to challenge the Spirit Hall Team. It is known that there are already two Soul Kings in the Tiandou Team II. With the addition of Dugu Yan who is at the peak of level 49, I am afraid that by the time of the finals, there will be three Soul Kings.

It's a pity that there are still three Soul Masters in Tiandou Team 2, which caused countless people to complain.

Of course, what was surprising was that Team 2's Soul Master Yang Tianyue actually broke through to Level 39 through continuous battles with Yu Tianheng, Tai Long and Tang San during the battle with Team Tiandou. This immediately shocked countless people.

As one of the more dazzling members of Tiandou Team 2, Yang Tianyue's information has gradually been known to everyone. He is only thirteen years old, his martial soul is the Soul-Breaking Spear, and his innate soul power is level nine, which is already level thirty-nine. According to his age, he can still participate in the next Soul Master Competition, and even the next Soul Master Competition. How strong will he be by then?

Now in the entire Tiandou region, Yang Pingan has been called the number one genius in the Tiandou region, Tang San is called the number two genius in the Tiandou region, and Yang Tianyue is actually called the number three genius in the Tiandou region. In the eyes of everyone, these three people can be said to have unlimited potential, and they are basically the seedlings of Titled Douluo.

Tiandou Team Two, in particular, shocked everyone. It seemed that those Soul Sect members all had the potential to become Titled Douluo. Some people even suspected that Ye Lingling would become a rare auxiliary Titled Douluo, which is rarely seen in hundreds or even thousands of years.

Before everyone could come to their senses, the award ceremony had already begun. What was rare this time was that Emperor Xue Ye personally presented the awards. In the past, it was always the Prince or the Crown Prince who was responsible for this.

After an impassioned speech, the host finally spoke: "Next, your majesty, the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect's Sect Master Ning, and the Platinum Bishop of Saras will personally present the qualification certificates and prize money to the six teams that have entered the promotion match."

The reward for advancing to the qualifying round is a notebook that clearly states the ranking of the advancing teams, the names of all the team members, and a bonus of 10,000 gold coins.

After the awards ceremony, three award presenters spoke.

The first person to speak was of course the Emperor Xue Ye of the Tiandou Empire.

Emperor Xue Ye took the microphone and said with a smile on his face: "Children, first of all, congratulations to you. You have successfully qualified for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition."

"As the supreme ruler of the Tiandou Empire, I am proud of you. You are all the hope of the empire's future. As the captain and vice-captain of each team, your strength has played the most important role in the competition. Therefore, I have decided to confer the title of Viscount on the twelve of you. The other students from your five academies will be conferred the title of Baron. After you graduate, the door of the imperial family will be open to you at any time. Your fiefdoms will be uniformly distributed after you graduate."

Everyone could see that Emperor Xue Ye was in high spirits at this moment. After all, the first and second place in the Tiandou region were both from the Tiandou Royal Academy (Tiandou Team 1 and Tianshui Academy had the same score, actually tied for second, but only ranked third because they lost to Tianshui Academy). This was an event that had never happened in history, and the Tiandou Royal Academy had never achieved such a good result.

Of course, everyone at the scene was speechless. Yang Podi from Tiandou Team 2 did not play in the entire preliminaries, so how could he play an important role in the competition?

However, the Platinum Bishop of the Spirit Hall, Sarath, seemed dissatisfied: "Your Majesty, this is inappropriate, isn't it? In the past, there were no knighthood awards in the Spirit Master Competition."

Emperor Xue Ye also seemed to be dissatisfied with Sarath: "Your Excellency Bishop Platinum, the reward of the title is an internal matter of our Tiandou Empire and has nothing to do with the Spirit Hall."

Emperor Xue Ye continued to speak to the crowd: "I am here to make a promise to all the participating teams. If any of your teams can win the final game, the team's titles will be promoted one level, and the word "Royal" will be added to the prefix of the academy, and it will receive financial support from the empire."

Everyone present seemed very excited. After all, according to the rules of the empire, as long as one was a viscount, he would have his own fiefdom, and the land would at least be a small city. If one achieved the final victory and became an earl, the reward would be really great. The earl's territory was very large, and it could even be said that he became a high-ranking official in the entire empire.

At this time, the face of Platinum Bishop Saras was very gloomy and looked very ugly. However, Ning Fengzhi next to him was smiling throughout the whole process, as if he had known the decision of Emperor Xue Ye for a long time.

Emperor Xue Ye seemed to be unsatisfied and continued, "The next promotion match will be held in the Royal Paddock. In the promotion match, the top three students with the most wins will be provided with the soul beasts needed for the next promotion by the Empire. You can choose any soul beast you want, and the Empire can guarantee soul beasts under 30,000 years old."

When Emperor Xue Ye finished speaking, he couldn't help but glance at Yang Ping'an, the only Soul King in the Tiandou region. Although he didn't know how long it would take Yang Ping'an to advance next time, the time limit of 30,000 years seemed to be specially prepared for him.

Everyone at the scene seemed to be even more excited. Almost everyone at the scene had the highest soul power in the team, and basically they had reached the Soul Sect realm. Their next soul rings were all needed to break through to the Soul King realm.

In Yang Podi's eyes, and even in the eyes of everyone, the fifth soul ring is the most important of all soul rings, and it is also the most difficult to choose among all soul rings.

Any soul master with a little bit of goal in mind would choose a ten thousand year soul ring for the fifth soul ring. However, due to the physique of a soul master, the range of choices for a ten thousand year soul ring is very small, only between ten thousand and twelve thousand years. No matter how old the soul beast is, it won't be much higher. This has led to many people being unable to find a suitable soul beast for their fifth soul ring.

However, without a ten thousand year soul ring as the fifth soul ring and a suitable soul beast, it is basically impossible to break through to the Titled Douluo, and even breaking through to the Soul Douluo is rare.

The reward from Emperor Xue Ye can be said to be a great temptation to many people, especially those soul masters who do not have a big force behind them.

Next came the conversations of Sarath and Ning Fengzhi, which were basically all lines of enticement, but not as explicit as those of Emperor Xue Ye.

Yang Podi watched all this coldly, knowing that the conflict between the two sides had become increasingly intense, especially after the Tang Hao incident. Unfortunately, Yang Podi had no intention of getting involved from the beginning to the end.

Chapter 144 Gravity Training

After receiving the rewards, everyone returned to their own teams, and Yang Podi also returned to Team 2.

After returning to the team, Yang Podi spoke directly to Teacher Li Xiang: "Teacher Li Xiang, there is still a month before the promotion match. I plan to take the team to my Poyi Clan for some training and will not be returning to Tiandou Royal Academy."

Teacher Li Xiang and Teacher Anya also nodded and left alone to return to Tiandou Royal Academy.

But the younger sister Yang Tianyue was a little curious: "Brother, we have achieved such good results, can't we relax for a while? What other exercise plans do you have?"

Yang Podi looked at Yang Tianyue with a hint of doting affection. "Although your performance was good, your opponents in the finals will be even stronger. Next, I will put you through some extreme pressure training, and strive to improve again in the short term."

Yang Tianyue asked curiously, "What is extreme stress training? I don't think I've ever heard of it."

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. You will know it when the time comes."

After Yang Podi finished speaking, he turned to Niu Meng beside him and said, "Is Uncle busy recently? Please inform Uncle and ask him to come to the Poyi Clan soon. We need his help with the subsequent training."

Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San and everyone else from the Tiandou team back to the Tiandou Royal Academy.

After Yu Xiaogang and the others returned to Tiandou Royal Academy, both Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were obviously not in a good mood. No one had expected that they would lose the last game so badly.

Yu Xiaogang gathered everyone together and comforted Tang San and the others: "Xiao San, this is just an ordinary game. I hope you don't feel pressured. Although the opponent is strong, we are not completely without hope of winning."

"For this match, you should analyze our opponent and our own shortcomings."

Tang San thought about it carefully, and finally straightened his face before speaking: "To be honest, before this game, I didn't expect the strength of Tiandou Team 2 to be so strong, especially Yang Pingan. His combat power has probably long surpassed that of an ordinary beginner soul king."

Yu Xiaogang also nodded: "This Yang Ping'an has indeed performed well, and his strength is very strong. In terms of personal ability, he is probably the strongest in the Tiandou region."

Tang San thought about it and continued, "Teacher, I find it very strange to fight against the Tiandou Second Team. They hardly make any unnecessary moves. During normal battles, their actual strength cannot be seen, but once they start to move, the combat power they display is terrifyingly strong."

"And when I fought with them, I felt that they had very good control over their soul power. During the entire battle, there was basically no soul power wasted. Every soul skill they released was very clever, as if it was planned in advance. Just like the old saying goes: Quiet as a virgin, fast as a rabbit. And they used their soul power very delicately, as if the way they used soul power was completely different from ours."

Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but nodded. "It's just as you said. After the entire soul fighting game, everyone in Tiandou Team 2 still has at least half of their soul power reserves. In my impression, very few soul kings can use their soul power to this extent. Only soul emperors or even soul saints can use their soul power so skillfully."

Tang San couldn't help but say: "Teacher, do you know how they train? They can actually train Soul Sect and even Soul Lord to this level."

There was silence for a while, and then everyone looked at Tailong and Bai Xiaofei. These two people came from Tiandou Team 2 and were relatively familiar with Tiandou Team 2.

Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei looked at each other, and finally Tai Long said hesitantly: "We don't know exactly how Big Brother trained us. We left Tiandou Team 2 a year ago, and Team 2 also left Tiandou Royal Academy a year ago. Basically, there is no news about Team 2. I'm afraid Big Brother has arranged some special training."

Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei were originally about the same strength as Niu Meng, and they were only one level apart in the past. But now it seems that the gap in strength is getting bigger and bigger, especially in combat ability, Niu Meng has far surpassed both of them.

Yu Xiaogang thought about it, but still had no clue, so he continued: "Xiao San, please continue to analyze, what else do you find?"

Tang San was also silent for a moment, and finally spoke: "The biggest surprise in the game was Ye Lingling. I didn't expect that she, a support-type spirit master, would have such offensive power. She was able to break my Blue Silver Prison in the first place, and also suddenly attack and injure Xiao Wu. All our plans against her failed. Teacher, do you know how Ye Lingling's move destroyed the Blue Silver Prison and injured Xiao Wu? It seemed to be very powerful, and Xiao Wu was hit by her because she was careless for a moment."

Yu Xiaogang sighed: "This should be Ye Lingling's self-created soul skill, but I don't know how it was created. I'm afraid only Ye Lingling herself knows."

When Ning Rongrong heard this, her eyes seemed to sparkle, and she was very envious of Sister Lingling's self-created soul skill.

Tang San continued his analysis, "Team Two's coordination was incredibly tacit, especially their timing. They didn't give us any time to react, as if they'd practiced it many times. I felt like they all coordinated perfectly, especially with their timing. They were able to find our mistakes almost every time. That's how Bai Xiaofei and Ning Heng were eliminated."

"Teacher, how should we train next?"

Yu Xiaogang looked at everyone and said, "For the next month, I will arrange combat training for you all. Through combat, we will increase your coordination. You will fight against Erlong and strive to become stronger."

When everyone heard that they were going to fight against Liu Erlong, they all seemed to be trembling with fear. Liu Erlong was known as the Horn of Killing, and when she fought, she was desperate and extremely bloody. This time, everyone was going to suffer.

Tang San thought for a moment, then said to Xiao Gang: "Teacher, I want to practice in seclusion alone. Through the battle with Team Two, I personally feel that I have gained some insights."

Yu Xiaogang thought about it and finally nodded. He knew something about his favorite disciple Tang San. He had rich combat experience, but the Blue Silver Grass was always a limitation to him, especially in this Soul Master Competition, where he encountered fire-attribute soul masters many times. The shortcomings of the Blue Silver Grass seemed to be infinitely magnified.

After Yang Podi and his group returned to the Poyi clan, only one day later, his uncle Niu Mang also came to the Poyi clan.

Uncle Niu Mang looked at Yang Podi with a bit of confusion: "Podi, aren't you guys preparing for the promotion match now? Why do you need me to come?"

Yang Podi glanced at everyone and said, "Uncle, this is nothing for the competition. Next, I would like to ask uncle to help train everyone. This may be better for everyone."

Niu Mang was speechless for a while: "Why did you ask me to come for this training? You are not going to ask me to fight with you, right? I am a Soul Douluo after all, isn't it a bit too much for me to fight against a few kids?"

Yang Podi smiled and said, "Of course I'm not asking my uncle to fight them. Their strength is far from enough. I just want my uncle to put pressure on them."

"Create pressure? How can I create pressure on them?"

Yang Podi just smiled and led everyone to the plum blossom pile.

Yang Podi said to everyone: "In the next period of time, please ask uncle to apply a gravity pressure to the entire range of the plum blossom pile. The pressure at the center reaches the Soul Emperor realm, and gradually decreases from the middle to the edge. The pressure at the edge is the Soul Lord realm."

"In the next period of time, everyone needs to stay on the plum blossom pile as much as possible, except for going to the toilet and taking a medicinal bath. Whether it is training or drinking water, I hope you can adapt to this kind of life and exercise under heavy pressure as soon as possible, including meditation. After a month, you will have a qualitative improvement."

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Judging from the situation, this exercise seemed to be extremely difficult. Although they didn't know what the effect would be, everyone obeyed unconditionally.

The most depressed person was his uncle Niu Mang. When he was called over by his nephew, he was turned into a humanoid pressure mimicry environment. He was speechless for a moment.

Yang Podi continued, "Everyone should practice and meditate in a stressful environment that they find appropriate, and they should also regularly push their limits. You've all been through a month of continuous combat, and you're now well-equipped to absorb combat experience. Combined with meditation, you should all be able to make breakthroughs."

Little sister Lian Yang Tianyue suddenly thought of something: "Brother, we all train like this, are you training with us too?"

Yang Podi shook his head: "With my current soul power and physical strength, it can no longer put pressure on me. I need a more extreme training environment."

Just as Yang Podi said, Yang Podi's current soul power level has reached level 67, and his physical fitness is even stronger. In terms of strength, he is not even inferior to his uncle. He can't put too much pressure on himself at all. If he wants to continue to improve, it will probably be very difficult. It is better for him to meditate on his own.

Uncle Niu Mang is a soul douluo of level 82. Ever since he and grandpa helped me hunt for soul rings last time, Yang Podi gave my grandpa a thousand-year-old spiritual herb. After uncle took the spiritual herb, uncle Niu Mang devoted himself to cultivation and his strength has improved.

My uncle’s martial soul is a plate-armored giant rhinoceros, a pure defense-type soul master. Defense-type soul beasts are basically power-type soul beasts, so my uncle is also very good at gravity control. Because of this, I asked my uncle to help with the training. Moreover, among those who received training were his son and Niu Kui, a member of the Yu clan.

Instead, my uncle quietly spoke to me: "Break the enemy, do you think this training method is useful? Why has no one thought of it before?"

Yang Podi was speechless for a while: "This training method is indeed good, but the requirements for the assisting soul master are extremely high. At least the soul saint who can control gravity must be there, and soul douluo and titled douluo are better. Where can we find so many high-level soul masters in this world? How can high-level soul masters have so much time to do this thing?"

"And this kind of training has a special requirement, which is that it requires extremely high medicinal baths. Otherwise, if it continues for a long time, it may easily cause permanent damage to some organs of the body."

My uncle Niu Mang was also speechless. You all know that high-level spirit masters don’t have so much time to help with training, but you still called me over. Is my time so unimportant?

Speaking of this, Yang Podi couldn't help but think of the Light of the Seagod. The Light of the Seagod was the effect of the Seagod's divine power. It must be said that the Seagod's divine power was indeed all-encompassing. It didn't even require a medicinal bath, nor would it cause damage to the body. It could even greatly enhance the soul master's physical fitness. It was simply unsolvable.

Yang Podi's own gravity pressure training method was also basically inspired by the light of the sea god, but it was relatively simple. After all, there is still a big gap between soul power and divine power.

Just when Yang Podi and his group were training, Ning Fengzhi, Jian Douluo and Ning Rongrong came to the Jiuxin Begonia family with valuable gifts.

And looking at Ning Fengzhi's attitude, he seemed very sincere. He even directly stated that as long as Ye Renxin could obtain the self-created soul skills of the Nine-Hearted Begonia clan, he would provide more important gifts, whether it was soul bones, herbs, or even gold soul coins, as long as Ye Renxin asked for it.

But Ye Renxin was completely confused at this moment. Ning Fengzhi's actions made him bewildered. He was just a healing soul master. Although he had some fame, he would not make the leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect make such a fuss and send him such a valuable gift.

Finally, after some communication, we understood that Ye Lingling had used a series of self-created soul skills in the soul master competition. The power was so amazing that it could seriously injure Xiao Wu of Tiandou Team 1. It was a miracle.

Ye Lingling is only a healing spirit master, and all her spirit rings can only be healing spirit skills. If she can learn such a self-created spirit skill, it should also be suitable for the spirit masters of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. If the spirit masters of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect can also master it, their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved, and they can also get rid of the weaknesses of auxiliary spirit masters.

In the end, Ye Renxin shook his head, saying that Ye Lingling had been training in the Tiandou Team 2 for a long time and had basically no time to go home. The self-created soul skills she mastered were not owned by the Jiuxin Haitang family, and she was probably mastered during the training process.

Ning Fengzhi and Jian Douluo looked at each other. They had long known the relationship between Ye Lingling and Yang Podi. Could it be that this self-created soul skill was thought up by Yang Podi?