The villain really doesn't want to steal the heroine.

……

The expressions of several elders changed drastically, and they looked at each other in surprise and confusion.

Even Victoria Posey suddenly realized, "No wonder you recommended him. He is truly a young talent!"

Although all nine elders are qualified to recommend a young talent, they cannot make a recommendation casually.

At least it must fully meet the description of these four words.

First of all, you must be "young", no older than 180 years old, and have the blood of the mermaid clan!

There is no doubt that Wanxing will definitely meet this requirement.

Secondly, he must be handsome enough. Mermaids and elves are obsessed with looks!

The key is that they live in a matriarchal society, so they have higher requirements for men's appearance.

Fortunately, Wanxing has the blood of Latifah Poseidon, the previous generation mermaid princess, and the first Duke Russell is also good-looking, otherwise he would not have been favored by Latifah Poseidon, who is obsessed with looks.

Every subsequent generation of Duke Russell possessed wealth and power, and naturally married top beauties as their wives.

Therefore, when it comes to Wanxing's generation, the appearance has reached the peak of human beings, only slightly inferior to that of the readers.

Finally, you need to be outstanding enough, possessing outstanding talents or remarkable achievements.

For example, a dragon knight like Wanxing can be considered an outstanding achievement!

After Victoria Poseidon finished speaking, she waved her jade-like arm, and a vast and ancient arena suddenly rose up in the square in front of the palace.

At the same time, eight young male mermaids walked out of the palace and stood behind an elder respectively.

Seeing this, Victoria Posey announced, "Since the deadline for nominations has expired, we will follow custom and select the best candidates to participate in the celebration."

As she put her hands together, columns of azure water enveloped Wanxing and the other eight male mermaids.

The scene in front of Wanxing's eyes instantly changed, and he appeared on an ancient arena.

Then, he heard Victoria Bosai announce the rules: "To qualify for my daughter's engagement, you must be the strongest of the contemporary mermaids. You should all be familiar with the specific rules. Although it's a free-for-all, it's a one-on-one duel. The winner stays, and the loser leaves. This continues until only one person remains."

"Sister, they will definitely attack my child in a round-robin battle. This rule is too unfair!"

Latifah Poseidon shouted hurriedly.

First of all, she herself is not popular, and most of the elders dislike her.

In addition, her descendant Wanxing has human blood, so it is a foregone conclusion that she will be besieged!

If the competition rules are really followed, it means that Wanxing has to defeat all the recommended candidates one by one, and the difficulty will increase.

After all, these eight recommended people were carefully selected and trained by the elders. They can be said to be the top eight strongest young people of the mermaid clan.

In the glorious realm, their actual combat capabilities are not too bad, and they all have their own killer weapons.

Even if her descendants are dragon knights, they are only at the heroic level after all, and there is a possibility of failure in the face of such a situation.

"My willful sister," Victoria Poseidon patted Latifa Poseidon's shoulder with a smile and explained, "Being able to put aside their differences and unite is also their ability. If you want your offspring to marry my daughter, naturally you have to prove that he is more powerful. It's only fair!"

As she was explaining, Wan Xing had already identified the detailed information of the eight opponents - their ages were all between 170 and 180 years old, all at the Brilliant Realm, and all of them possessed a piece of Sanctuary-level equipment, which was obviously given by their respective elders.

This made Wan Xing, who had always been calm and composed, feel a chill in his heart.

Because he also had similar artifact fragments of the Poseidon suit and knew their terrifying power.

Wan Xing became alert, while the eight opponents looked at him coldly and whispered to each other.

"Who is this human and how dare he be qualified to compete with us for Princess Sylphy?!"

The mermaid frowned in dissatisfaction at the Great Elder's recommendation.

The Second Elder's recommender echoed, "That's right, we all overcame numerous obstacles and challenges to gain the Elder's recommendation, yet there are still people trying to snatch it from our grasp!"

"Oh no! The Third Elder said that guy is a dragon knight! And he has the bloodline of the legendary elder Latifa!"

The person recommended by the Third Elder screamed and his expression changed. He had completely lost the calmness and confidence he had before going on stage and began to panic.

As the top creature in this world, the dragon would scare anyone, not to mention that the other party has inherited the blood of Latifah Poseidon, the strongest of the mermaids. How can they be defeated?

Seeing their morale was low, the Great Elder's recommended mermaid encouraged them, "Why are you panicking? Princess Sylphie is definitely one of our pure-blooded mermaids. She's just a dragon knight, isn't she? Who's afraid of whom? The eight of us pure-blooded mermaids won't necessarily lose to this half-blooded human."

"That's right. The eight of us will kick this half-blood human out first, and then we can compete fairly!"

The person who recommended the Second Elder also echoed with full confidence.

The others nodded in agreement. In this situation, are there any other options? It's impossible to just give up without even trying, right?

"Yanifa, you will be the first to go into battle and test the depth of this half-blooded human!"

The Great Elder's Recommended Mermaid gave an order.

A sturdy mermaid responded cheerfully, "Okay!"

He was recommended by the Ninth Elder. His own strength and foundation were the weakest among everyone, so he came with the mentality of focusing on participation.

Since he couldn't compete for the first place anyway, it made no difference to him whether he debuted early or late.

"I, Yanifa, challenge you here. Do you dare..."

Before he could finish his words, he was blasted out of the arena by a huge dragon's tail.

As the weakest among the eight opponents, Yanifa's level is only LV60, and like the previous octopus sea monster, he has just completed his promotion.

Wanxing killed the octopus sea monster when he was at the super level, let alone now.

He directly let Xingyi transform into a dragon, then moved through space to get close to Yanifa, and eliminated him with a tail flick, leaving no time for the opponent to react.

Chapter 114: Excellent Props

Wanxing, who possesses the inheritance of the God of Wisdom and the God of Earth, is now as powerful as Xingyi, but his sustained combat capability is still not as good as that of the dragon.

The other side has united and is preparing for a round-robin battle. Although Wanxing's output is high enough, his fighting spirit and magic power reserves are still at the heroic level. He may not be able to hold on to the end in the face of a round-robin battle.

So he let Xingyi take the lead, while he kept a low profile and conserved his fighting spirit and magic power, so that he could strike a fatal blow at the critical moment.

Yanifa was killed instantly, causing the other seven mermaids to be filled with rage.

The mermaid [Yanifu] recommended by the Great Elder angrily scolded:

"You despicable half-human! Yanifa was still talking, and you actually attacked me by surprise!"

"Is this despicable? Then isn't it even more shameless that you openly formed an illegal team and fought me in a round-robin format?" Wan Xing shouted from behind Xing Yi, trying his best to create the illusion of lack of confidence, attempting to play the pig and eat the tiger.

This is a profoundly intelligent strategy: by displaying weakness, one confuses the enemy, lowering their alertness while maintaining a strong fighting capacity, ultimately achieving victory. Successful implementation of this strategy requires not only military talent but also a high degree of wisdom and determination.

[Yanifu] fell into the trap when he heard this, and thought Wanxing was afraid of their round-the-clock battle.

So he said righteously: "The rules set by the clan leader are free-for-all, we are just making reasonable use of the rules."

Wan Xing spread his hands, attacking his opponent with his own spear. "Since it's a free-for-all, the battle begins the moment we enter the arena. Why do we need to announce our names? I'm not breaking any rules, am I?"

"you……"

[Yanifu] pointed at Wanxing in anger, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't know how to refute. He could only put down his hand in resentment and go to find the other six mermaids. After a brief conversation, a mermaid named [Binxi] came out to fight.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

"Mom!"

In a short period of time, Xingyi defeated three opponents in a row.

The spatial movement, combined with the dragon's hundreds-meter-long body, sent the opponent flying with a single claw. After the dragon's might intimidated the opponent, it devoured him in one gulp. The multiple dragon breaths, with no blind spots in sight, forced the opponent out of the arena...

However, as the mermaids who came on stage later became stronger and stronger,

Xingyi also had to reveal more and more of her cards.

For example, if you can't feel pain or use physical attacks, you can resist the opponent's attacks.

For example, after being injured, you can recover instantly through super-speed regeneration.

There's even the Star Sealing Technique, a dragon language magic that's almost invincible in single combat. Even though these opponents are at the Brilliant level, if the target's level is one level higher than Xing Yi, they'll still be completely sealed for 1 minute.

Standing still on the ring for a minute, and facing a giant dragon that is over hundreds of meters long, how can you not lose?

When the Star Sealing Technique appeared, a total of seven opponents had already been defeated by Xing Yi.

In other words, the only opponent left on the field is [Yanifu].

Not only were the other party's eight elders shocked, but even Latifah Poseidon's own Latifah Poseidon opened her mouth wide in disbelief: "This is... the Dragon Language Magic of the Star Dragon King!"

Victoria Poseidon was also a little surprised and said, "Dragon King species? No wonder it's so powerful!"

Although the mermaid clan knew that the dragon was the top creature in this world and was extremely powerful.

However, because the living areas of the two sides are far apart, the mermaids have never had a war with the dragons, so they do not have an accurate concept.

Even because they have always ruled the sea clan, the mermaid clan feels that their strength is quite good.

No matter how powerful a single dragon is, the mermaids can still fight if they unite.

But the scene before her made Victoria Posey realize that this was not just a small difference, but a complete difference in grade.

"Weak half-human, are you only capable of hiding behind a giant dragon? Do you dare to come out and fight me fairly?"

[Yanifu] almost gritted his teeth and spoke word by word, obviously feeling extremely stimulated.

He has completely understood that they cannot defeat the giant dragon in front of them by attacking one by one. This is not a round-robin battle at all, it is clearly a tactic of adding fuel to the fire!

Unless all eight of them attack at the same time from the beginning, they will have a chance to defeat the dragon!

But it was too late now, he was the only one left.

The only chance of winning is to use provocation to force the weak half-blood human to fight him in a duel.

"Fair? You're talking to me about fairness?"

Wan Xing said with a smile: "Why didn't you play fair when you eight of you beat me?"

"you……"

Finding fairness unsatisfactory, [Yanifu] pondered for a moment, managed to come up with an excuse, and continued to goad him, "Fairness aside, if you want to compete for the qualification of Princess Sylphy's fiancé, shouldn't you demonstrate your own excellence?"

"If you only dare to hide behind the dragon the entire time, even if you win the duel with the help of the dragon, will Princess Sylphy marry the dragon or a coward like you?"

"Good good!"

Wan Xing applauded the other party and sneered, "Xing Yi is one of my strengths. If you want a dragon knight to show off his excellence, the first thing you have to do is show off the dragon!"

Upon hearing this, [Yanifu] thought that his provocation had failed again and began to rack his brains to think of other plans.

"But..."

Wan Xing's voice rang out again: "Your words are extremely racist. Not only do they insult my personality, they also insult my intelligence! That's why I want to beat you up myself!"

When [Yanifu] heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and added fuel to the fire, "What's wrong with me discriminating against you? If you have the guts, come and hit me yourself!"

"I've never seen a request like this in my life. Xingyi, you just stand aside and watch..."

As soon as Wan Xing finished speaking, Latifa Poseidon in the audience became anxious: "Silly child, don't fall for your trick!"

"Don't worry, Grandma, I'm not just doing this to vent my anger, but also to leave a good impression in front of my fiancée and mother-in-law."

Wan Xing then fixed his gaze on Victoria Poseidon and asked, "The winner of this duel will only be eligible to attend the celebration with Sylphy. Whether or not they can finally get engaged will depend on what you and Sylphy agree on, right?"

"Not bad!" Victoria Poseidon nodded encouragingly and looked at him with approval.

"In that case, I must do my best to show all my advantages in order to increase the possibility of a successful engagement!"

Wan Xing turned his gaze back to [Yanifu] and smiled crookedly, "And this kind-hearted person who asked me to beat him is the perfect tool to demonstrate my abilities."

Chapter 115: Admitting defeat