Douluo: The True Eye

Looking at Xiao Hongchen, dispatched by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, the Shrek Academy team couldn't help but feel a surge of shock and despair. Their last sliver of hope had vanished.

They knew that Shrek Academy had already lost once in the team battle. If they lost this individual elimination round as well, they would be directly eliminated and unable to participate in the subsequent matches.

Among the main team members, Dai Yueheng had already died in battle, Yao Haoxuan had been taken back to Shrek Academy due to injuries, and Ma Xiaotao had been taken away by Xuanzi because of her martial soul's condition.

Currently, Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng were both affected by the ice and fire poison of the Zhujing Ice Toad, losing their ability to fight.

The only one remaining with the highest soul power, Gongyang Mo, was still a support-type soul master and could definitely not be sent out for individual combat.

Moreover, the agility-type soul master Xixi was completely countered by Xiao Hongchen in terms of both soul skills and fighting style. The others had a significant gap in soul power compared to Xiao Hongchen.

Although Wang Yan often comforted everyone with words and theories, claiming that the Sun Moon Empire's soul masters relied on pills to increase their soul power level, that their combat power was weak, and that their soul power itself was too superficial and unstable.

In reality, everyone knew that this was just a means employed by the middle and lower-level soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire.

After thousands of years of development, the Sun Moon Empire had gradually improved their soul master's martial souls, which were originally weaker compared to those of the Douluo Continent.

In a true comparison, perhaps the bottom-level soul masters of the original Douluo Continent's three kingdoms were not even as good as the soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire. Most soul masters of the original Douluo Continent's three kingdoms could never break through the level 29 soul power bottleneck to become Soul Elders.

In contrast, third-level soul masters were a dime a dozen in the Sun Moon Empire, and even fourth-level and fifth-level soul masters could be stably produced through drugs.

Admittedly, in same-level confrontations, soul masters who took a lot of drugs would have unstable soul power, but they had enough soul power. With a difference of ten levels of soul power, a whole realm, and with soul tools to make up for their shortcomings, how could ordinary soul masters reverse the situation with far weaker soul power?

Moreover, the original Douluo Continent's three kingdoms had elixirs such as the Soul Ascension Pill and the Profound Water Pill, which could improve soul power and soul master aptitude without side effects.

How could the Sun Moon Empire, which started with soul tools and had deeper research in elixirs, not have them?

It was just that the original Douluo Continent's three kingdoms had been consciously restricting the checkpoints, controlling some of the more high-end medicinal materials to prevent them from flowing into the Sun Moon Empire.

This had curbed the development of the Sun Moon Empire, but even so, the advanced medicines produced locally in the Sun Moon Empire were more than enough to support some geniuses in their cultivation.

For example, Xiao Hongchen, known as the number one genius of the Sun Moon Empire in a century, was also a direct descendant of the Hongchen family, and his grandfather was a ninth-level soul master and a Titled Douluo, the head of the Mingde Hall.

With such a background and such an identity, Xiao Hongchen's soul power, not to mention compared to those extreme soul masters whose soul power and body had to be forced to far exceed the strength of soul masters of the same level because they needed to adapt to extreme attributes.

At least Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were definitely not much better than Xiao Hongchen at the same level.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were also about the same age as Xiao Hongchen, both fourteen or fifteen years old, but in this case, their soul power was a whole realm lower than Xiao Hongchen's, not to mention that Xiao Hongchen also had another identity as a soul master, which was enough to illustrate the gap in talent between them.

"Are we going to use a gauntlet match next?" Gongyang Mo smiled wryly. The feminine posture he originally had had dissipated a lot at this time, replaced by a faint sadness.

Wang Yan also seemed very embarrassed. If they were to use a gauntlet match to wear down Xiao Hongchen, then the players sent out in front would undoubtedly be cannon fodder.

Who should be sent next? No matter who is sent, it is not a good choice.

In the end, Wang Yan made a decision and looked at Xu Sanshi, saying, "Sanshi, I'm counting on you."

At this time, Wang Yan's words were extremely dry, and he could no longer say any words of encouragement.

Xu Sanshi nodded and said, "Don't worry, leave it to me, Teacher Wang. In any case, I will definitely let that guy from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy see the demeanor of our Shrek Academy students."

Although Xu Sanshi's words were very beautiful, reality was cruel. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of Xiao Hongchen's soul tool offensive, even if he tried his best.

Xu Sanshi, who forcibly activated the Xuanwu Seal at a critical moment, awakened the power of his bloodline, activated the divine beast bloodline, and had his strength soared, did not last long.

After all, due to the failure of the awakening ceremony in his childhood, the Xuanwu martial soul was in a sealed state all year round, and Xu Sanshi's development and control of it was not proficient.

But his opponent, Xiao Hongchen, was different. He also had the divine beast bloodline of the Three-legged Golden Toad. Although the origin of his bloodline was not as good as Xuanwu's, the strength of the divine beast bloodline on him and Xu Sanshi was about the same.

Moreover, unlike Xu Sanshi, there was no negative side to the divine beast bloodline on Xiao Hongchen, and he could completely control it. In this case, although the Xuanwu aura suddenly displayed by Xu Sanshi surprised him, it was only to that extent.

The seriously injured Xu Sanshi was sent off the stage by the Sky Fiend Douluo to be treated by a specialized healing-type soul master.

However, being seriously injured and forcibly stimulating the Xuanwu bloodline, whether Shrek Academy could support it until the finals, Xu Sanshi would not be able to participate in the next battle.

At this time, Xiao Hongchen still maintained an arrogant posture, looking down at the crowd under the stage, especially the participating members of Shrek Academy.

Although Xiao Hongchen had used a lot of soul tools just now, and his attacks were fierce, he actually didn't consume too much soul power because he had a high-level charging soul tool. At most, he consumed some physical strength.

But time waits for no one. Under the urging of the Sky Fiend Douluo, Jiang Nannan still took the stage.

She was good at physical skills, plus a few very special soul skills: gravity control, instant movement, and invincibility. For a while, Xiao Hongchen couldn't do anything to her.

But as time went by, Xiao Hongchen, who was not distracted by others, concentrated on using defensive soul tools to block several of Jiang Nannan's full attacks, giving her no chance.

Jiang Nannan, whose soul power level was only Soul Elder, slowed down her offensive after using several high-consumption special soul skills in a row.

Jiang Nannan's soul power was also almost completely exhausted after these few attacks. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, she didn't continue to stubbornly resist. Using the last bit of her soul power, she used Instantaneous Movement to avoid Xiao Hongchen's another attack, and then walked off the stage herself.

Seeing this scene, all the spectators couldn't help but let out sounds of disappointment.

At the same time, everyone became somewhat anxious and uneasy because of this.

Counting Ma Rulong, who had been defeated before, and Meng Hongchen, who had left the stage, Xiao Hongchen was only the third person sent by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. But now, Shrek Academy only had two more slots for participation.

Could it be that this time, the glory and winning streak that Shrek Academy had continued for so many years was going to be interrupted here?

Finally, it was Bei Bei's turn to play. As the captain of the reserve team, Bei Bei had been under a lot of pressure since the beginning of the competition.

In addition, his identity as Mu En's great-grandson also made him particularly value the glory of Shrek Academy.

Although he couldn't hear the discussions of the outside audience on the competition stage because of the soul guidance shield, he seemed to feel gazes poking at his spine.

If they lost here, if the glory of Shrek Academy was interrupted in this All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament that he participated in, then how would he face the senior and junior students in the academy?

How would he face his great-grandfather Mu En, and how would he face that self-proclaimed genius self?

The elegant smile that was always on his face seemed particularly stiff at this time. No matter how much pre-match psychological counseling he had received, it couldn't comfort Bei Bei, who was already standing on the edge of failure.

What's more, what he was undertaking was the last spot to exhaust Xiao Hongchen's strength.

What if he couldn't do it? What if it was because of his problem that Xixi missed the opportunity to defeat Xiao Hongchen?

Although these questions shouldn't be shouldered by Bei Bei, he couldn't help but substitute himself into that ending that might be spurned by everyone.

As the two sides approached step by step, the competition had not yet started. Looking at Bei Bei, the captain of the Shrek Academy reserve team, who had a pale face but was still trying to maintain his composure.

Xiao Hongchen sneered disdainfully, thinking: 'Heh, is this my future opponent? Maybe there's no need to wait until later, after all, he is no longer qualified to be my opponent now.'

Then, Xiao Hongchen raised his hand and said to the referee beside him: "Your Excellency Tiansha, we, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, admit defeat in this individual elimination round."

Without waiting for Tiansha Douluo to reply, Xiao Hongchen leaned forward and smiled slightly at Bei Bei, who was close at hand: "This time, I will make your Shrek Academy lose convincingly!"

Every word seemed to hit Bei Bei's heart heavily. Somehow, Bei Bei walked off the stage in a daze, and sighed as he looked at Xiao Hongchen, who was also leaving the stage to rest, behind him.

Tiansha Douluo announced on the competition stage at this time: "In this competition, in the individual elimination round, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy admits defeat. Next, the members of both teams will rest for thirty minutes, and the two-two-three additional match will officially begin in thirty minutes."

"Please both teams prepare and report the team members for the two-two-three additional match to me."

Wang Yan looked at Bei Bei, who had returned to the rest area and sat down somewhat dejectedly without saying a word, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him softly before saying.

"Now Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng's condition is almost stable. Let the healing-type soul masters of the competition organizers take over. Gongyang Mo, Ning Tian, ​​you must hurry up and restore your soul power and physical strength. You also have to take action in the next two-two-three system."

Then Wang Yan looked at Bei Bei: "Bei Bei, adjust yourself well, believe in yourself and believe in your teammates. The arrogance of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy will be the reason for their downfall."

"Xixi, according to the previous arrangement, you and Bei Bei will be in a group. You two will still play in the second doubles match."

"As for the first doubles match, Jiang Nannan, how is your soul power recovery?"

Jiang Nannan shook her head helplessly and said: "If it is half an hour, even with the help of elixirs, I can only recover about 70% of my soul power."

Hearing this, Wang Yan nodded: "Okay, then you and Gongyang Mo will be responsible for the first match. Remember, if the opponent is Xiao Hongchen, you must delay as much time as possible. If it is Meng Hongchen, be careful of her poison."

Jiang Nannan and Gongyang Mo both nodded, but even so, whether the current arrangement and expectations can be effective when the fight really breaks out is another matter.

"As for the three-on-three battle in the third match..." Wang Yan's eyes began to wander between Wang Dong, Ning Tian, ​​Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao, but he couldn't make a decision for a long time.

Because the gap was too big, letting a few two-ring and three-ring soul masters fight against the opponent's uniformly five-ring, fifth-level soul engineers, wasn't this a joke?

In the end, Wang Yan still named: "Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, ​​the three of you will play in the last match, I believe you can do it."

"Ah, me?" Wang Dong was a little confused, and then he realized that, apart from himself and others, Shrek Academy had no soldiers left to fight.

It's just that this job is a bit too difficult for her, a little three-ring Soul Venerable?

Although she still has a soul bone of good quality hidden on her body as a trump card, it is only a soul bone, and it has no ability to help her cross two major realms to defeat the enemy! There is no reason!

Ning Tian also smiled bitterly at this time, but still agreed, while Huo Yuhao nodded indifferently, because he was 80% sure that this last three-on-three would probably not happen.

After all, the lineups of the previous two-on-two matches were already remnants of the defeated generals who had been beaten to the point of being disabled by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, so how could they win any match and reach the final three-on-three final round?

Perhaps some people think that Xiao Hongchen's previous behavior was blindly arrogant. If he could do it, it would not be arrogance, but true strength.

Completely defeating Shrek Academy through three battles and severely damaging Shrek Academy's reputation, its value to the Sun Moon Empire is immeasurable.

Although Xiao Hongchen may not have thought so much, he simply wanted to avenge his teammates and slap Shrek Academy in the face.

In the end, under the healing of several healing-type soul masters, although the ice and fire poison in Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng's bodies was barely suppressed, they still could not fight in a short time.

Wang Yan had no choice but to submit this list of participating members, which looked even a bit unbearable, at the twenty-ninth minute.

As the thirty minutes arrived, Tiansha Douluo's emotionless voice sounded again: 'The first match of the two-two-three competition, two-on-two, please invite the members of both teams to the stage!'