Douluo: Start by taking control of the Holy Spirit Church Saint

Chapter 509 Soul Guidance Prodigy
At the same time, Hong Chen siblings and Nana also arrived at the Qingse Hotel. Chen An personally greeted them in front of the Qingse Hotel today. When he saw the three people appear, he hurried over to greet them.

Today, we have sent three powerful soul guides, two at level six and one at level seven, to form the judging panel this time.

Today's competition system is that the forty-eight people who qualified from the previous round will be divided into twenty-four groups for a knockout competition in this round, with two soul guides in each group, and there are no longer any restrictions on the soul guides produced.

The competition will provide a variety of rare metals and common metals for soul masters to choose from, but the time is limited this time to only two hours.

Two hours later, the soul guides could only take their latest soul guide device for on-site testing.

Each party can observe the opponent's soul guide without touching it with their hands. If they find that their soul guide is too different from that of their opponent, they can choose to admit defeat. If neither party admits defeat, they will fight in the prepared competition venue with their newly made soul guide without using any other soul guides and soul skills. Whoever wins will advance.

And it doesn’t matter whether you live or die!
Meng Hongchen curled his lips and said, "It doesn't matter whether you live or die. So today's bet is about who will win among these people?"

Chen An nodded and said, "There are many ways to bet. For example, how many qualifying matches there will be today, how many people will die. You can bet on all of these. Of course, the most important thing is the outcome of a single match. The competition will give a payout for reference based on the results of the previous matches, and the payout will be adjusted continuously with the proportion of the bets until the moment before the match begins."

Xiao Hongchen nodded, raised his hand, called Nana over in front of Chen An, and said, "One minute before the game starts, bet one million gold soul coins on each of us."

Hearing what he said, Chen An couldn't help but take a breath. This was just a gamble!
Moreover, they didn't even know who their opponent was, yet they made such a huge bet.

Moreover, placing bets just before the start of the game will minimize the impact on the odds. This behavior is not only confident, but also methodical.

The few of them quickly entered the VIP lounge, and Xiao Hongchen and the other two immediately saw No. 96 and No. 98 who were already sitting in the lounge.

They came earlier today and without their men. They were sitting together talking about something.

Seeing Xiao Hongchen and the other two coming in, No. 96 smiled and nodded to him, while No. 98 seemed much more indifferent, and there was a hint of disdain in his eyes when he looked at the three people.

"Hello, friend. Can we chat?" No. 96 bowed slightly and greeted Xiao Hongchen politely.

Xiao Hongchen smiled calmly and said, "Please sit down."

"May I ask your name?" No. 96 sat down on the sofa next to him and asked naturally.

Xiao Hongchen raised his eyebrows and said, "I am number 35, and I also know that you are number 96."

No. 96's eyes sparkled. The other party clearly refused to tell him his name. He was smart enough not to ask again. He just smiled and said, "No. 35, what do you think of today's game?"

Xiao Hongchen simply put on his usual arrogant attitude: "It is quite interesting. I think it is quite good to use the soul guide device made by myself to fight against each other."

Number 96 laughed and said, "I think so too. It seems that we have the same aspirations. I just looked at the draw and it seems that we will not meet in this round."

"It doesn't matter if we meet. Can I really lose to you?" Xiao Hongchen's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he looked like a young and frivolous man.

"Really? We'll have to wait and see." No. 96 smiled indifferently, stood up, turned and walked towards No. 98.

At this time, his face also showed a bit of disdain. He thought that his temptation was enough for the two arrogant young men and women.

Meng Hongchen curled his lips and didn't even look at the two of them. Want to test us? Then just test us slowly.

"Dear guests, the game is about to begin." The staff came in to announce.

No. 96 and No. 98 stood up at the same time. This time they did not give in, but took the lead and strode out.

Meng Hongchen snorted coldly behind the two of them: "What kind of person dares to show off in front of us?"

A fierce light suddenly flashed in No. 98's eyes. Just as he was about to explode, he was stopped by No. 96, who pulled him towards the Golden Hall.

The Golden Hall was still bustling. Today, the central round platform was finally able to accommodate all the contestants. Chapter 48 The soul guide production tables were neatly placed on the round platform, forming arcs.

Xiao Hongchen swept his eyes around and immediately felt that the VIP areas above, which seemed to be suspended in the air, were already full of people.

The ordinary area in the Golden Hall was packed with people. What had changed was that a platform appeared behind the competition stage. This rectangular platform was about five meters above the ground and was about fifty meters long, connecting almost one end of the Golden Hall to the other. It was made almost entirely of metal and was suspended in the air by steel cables.

That place is naturally the place where soul masters compete with each other. The area is restricted to a rectangle, obviously to reduce the need for dodging as much as possible.

Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye would definitely make some decisions when making soul guides when seeing this competition area.

Soon, the Hongchen brothers and sisters were brought to the competition stage by the staff, while Nana still watched the competition in the corner.

The soul guide production tables are all facing each other in pairs, and the opponent opposite each soul guide is their opponent who is decided by drawing lots in this round.

As for how the draw was done, the Xishui League, the organizer of the competition, has not yet given any explanation. This is a competition held by underground forces, so they don't need to explain anything.

Xiao Hongchen's opponent, No. 48, is a young man who looks to be about 26 or 27 years old. He is very ugly, with a flat nose, small eyes, and messy slightly yellow hair with a missing piece in the middle of his head.

The way he looked was really not flattering.

However, this man had a pair of very determined eyes. He didn't even look at Xiao Hongchen who was sitting opposite him, but was looking at the various rare metals placed on the competition table.

All soul guide production tables have a three-layer storage grid. Each layer is filled with various metals. The first layer is regular metals, and the two layers above are rare metals. There are as many as 32 kinds of rare metals alone.

Such extensive preparations are enough to even make a seventh-level soul tool. In order to test the abilities of these soul mentors, the Xishui Alliance can be considered quite generous.

And don't forget, the soul guide device produced belongs to the soul guide himself. Forty-eight pieces of such rare metals alone are already very precious.

At this moment, three small circular platforms slowly rose up in front of the competition stage, and an old man stood on each platform. The platforms rose until they were about one meter higher than the competition stage before stopping.

The old man standing in the center said in a deep voice: "Hello, soul guides and guests. I am the chief referee of this game. The game is about to begin. After I announce the start of the game, the time will officially start. The time limit is two hours. Within two hours, soul guides can do their best to create humans and soul guides. You have only one goal, and that is to defeat the opponent opposite you. The winner will advance."

When he finished saying this, all the competing soul masters raised their heads in unison and looked at their opponents.

Starting from this round, the rewards for winning the game become very generous.

Xiao Hongchen had already learned from Chen An that the winner of this competition would be rewarded with thirty-two rare metals, two kilograms of each, which are the same things they have on the competition stage.

For soul masters, a wide range of rare metals is definitely more attractive than gold soul coins. In the next round, it is said that the winner can get five kilograms, and the number of rare metals will increase to 48. A large part of these rare metals are banned by the Sun-Moon Empire, and their value is difficult to estimate.

When Xiao Hongchen was still at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, he knew the value of rare metals. However, now that he had left his hometown to follow Huo Yuhao, his wealth was naturally not as good as before. The yellow-haired soul instructor opposite Xiao Hongchen slowly raised his head and grinned at him, revealing a mouthful of uneven yellow buck teeth. "Hello, brother. My name is Gao Dalou. Come on, let's have a good fight."

Is this the tall building that Huo Yuhao mentioned? Xiao Hongchen remembered what Huo Yuhao had told them before, and immediately became interested in the slovenly yellow-haired soul mentor in front of him.

"Contestants, prepare." The referee shouted in a deep voice.

Gao Shou immediately lowered his head, and his eyes became sharp, staring at a piece of rare metal that he had already thought about.

Compared to others, Xiao Hongchen seemed much more leisurely and didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

"The game begins. Raise the soundproof shield." The chief referee shouted, and the twelve hourglasses placed in conspicuous positions turned at the same time.

When all the sand in the hourglass has run out, the time ends.

Today, the soul masters are all competing on the competition stage, and the soundproof shield can finally be raised, no longer prohibiting the audience from making any noise.

All the soul engineers got busy immediately.

Gao Dalou quickly extended his right hand, and a piece of rare metal that was as black as ink but with a few silver stars on it fell into his palm. There was an intoxicated light in his eyes, and his hands were dancing lightly as if they were wandering on the mountains and rivers of a beautiful woman.

Xiao Hongchen was quite interested in his appearance. He raised his hand and moved towards the rare metal on the side of the soul guide production table. Suddenly, a piece of rare metal flew towards him. It was very expensive.

Today, Xishui League provided so many rare metals, and Chen An is no longer the chief referee. In order not to make himself too obvious, Xiao Hongchen naturally couldn't just throw in a whole bunch of them.

Therefore, he could only choose more precious rare metals when making soul guides.

The situation of the tall building opposite was almost the same. What he had in his hand was Star Silver Steel, which ranked first in value among the thirty-two rare metals.

This rare metal has a very high density and a strong affinity for soul power. Any soul power injected into it can release more than double the original soul power through it, making it the best material for energy-gathering arrays. A one-kilogram piece of this is worth at least 100,000 gold soul coins if left outside.

Of course, for Mingdu, which now has at least tens of millions of people gambling, these are just small amounts of money.

Xiao Hongchen looked at his opponent Gao Dalou with an intoxicated look on his face, and was speechless. Has this person never seen Xing Yin Gang before? This is the first time he has seen it, so he is so obsessed with it.

Gao Shou didn't caress for too long. After about a minute, his face began to become cautious. He carefully fixed the star silver steel on the production table in front of him, and then touched it with his right hand from his lower back. A carving knife.

Xiao Hongchen is not in a hurry to make his own soul guide now. He has a strong foundation in soul guide making and can make soul guides much faster than other soul guides.

Moreover, Huo Yuhao also requested that he could not reveal his full strength too quickly, so he naturally could not make the strongest soul guide, and of course he must not lose the game.

Therefore, Xiao Hongchen decided to observe his opponent first to see what kind of soul guide his opponent had made, and then formulate a corresponding strategy.

Gao Dalou didn't seem to care about Huo Yuhao's observation of him at all. After getting the carving knife, he immediately started working on it.

An expert can tell the outcome with just one move. When Gao Dasha's first cut came down, Xiao Hongchen's heart trembled.

The carving knife in Gao Dalou's hand looked black and inconspicuous, but it seemed to be effortless when cutting into the famously hard star silver steel.

The blade of the carving knife shook three times in succession, and three evenly sized houses were carved out on the star silver steel. This kind of carving is called "one knife three shakes", which requires years of hard practice to complete.

Most people would never dare to use such techniques to carve on a rare metal like Star Silver Steel. Once the carving was done wrong, the rare metal would be wasted, or at least it would be impossible to make the core magic circle that he had originally planned.

Gao Dasha carved without any pause. After he carved once, the carving knife in his hand seemed to be alive. The speed was not fast, but each stroke was very stable without any mistakes.

He should not have been just admiring it just now, but more like exploring the structure of the Star Silver Steel, otherwise the speed would definitely not be so fast.

It only took a quarter of an hour to complete the carving of the entire core array tall building. A small metal block with a rectangular shape and many fine magic patterns and nodes on it appeared.

Against the backdrop of the silver light of the star silver steel itself, it looks even more breathtaking and extremely dazzling.

This guy is indeed a talent! Xiao Hongchen thought to himself...

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The core area of ​​the Star Forest.

Bang!
A huge black spider fell to the ground with a bang. Although it was not dead, it temporarily lost the ability to move.

“A 30,000-year-old human-faced demon spider. Is there no one taller than this?” Huo Yuhao sighed and turned to look at the Bear King beside him.

Not long ago, he brought Bibi Dong and followed the route guided by Di Tian, ​​and came directly to the jurisdiction of the Bear King, where they found a bear that was trying hard to give birth to cubs.

Then the Bear King reluctantly took him to an area where the human-faced demon spiders often appeared, and concealed his own breath. After all, with a fierce beast-level dark gold terror claw bear here, even the human-faced demon spiders, which were famous for their cruelty, did not dare to approach rashly.

This was the fourth human-faced demon spider that Huo Yuhao had encountered, and it was the oldest one they had encountered so far.

"These guys are extremely vicious and good at hiding. They don't obey our management at all and only pick on weak soul beasts to kill. If I weren't afraid of the extinction of this race, I, Old Bear, would kill every one I see." The Bear King said hatefully as he looked at the unconscious human-faced demon spider.

Huo Yuhao was speechless. Could you please not be so cruel? You almost wiped out the Thundering Hell Vine before. Are you planning to use the Human-Faced Demon Spider this time?
Bibi Dong pulled at the corner of his clothes and said, "Why not choose this one? A 90,000-year-old or even a 100,000-year-old human-faced demon spider might not be that easy to find."

“No.” Huo Yuhao rejected it decisively. “You should have the inheritance of the God of Love. If you don’t lay a good foundation before becoming a god, you will probably have a hard time moving forward.”

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao came to the front of the human-faced demon spider, stretched out his hand and scratched its abdomen a few times, and asked casually: "Old Bear, is this thing male or female?"

Hearing this, Xiong Jun looked at Huo Yuhao with a strange look in his eyes, but he still came closer: “Let me see…”

Bibi Dong found it extremely funny and couldn't help but scolding, "What? Do you want to try to stuff Xiao Huo in there?"

Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched suddenly, and he turned his head away in embarrassment: "I wouldn't go so far as to attack a non-human creature, would I? Do I look like that kind of person?"

"You don't look like that, you do!"

I originally wanted to skip this guy Gao Dasha, but then I thought, it would be a waste not to recruit such a talent, he can make a difference at the last moment, so I might as well accept him and give him to Kong Deming for training.

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