Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 450: Dugu Yan's Move - A Small Shock from a Poison-Attribute Soul Master
Although it's called a draw and the teams are randomly selected, according to an unwritten rule, the first match in the main tournament each year is always an exhibition match between the Royal Academy and a less powerful academy.

As usual, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team was the first to appear this year, and their opponent was Heaven Armor Academy, which had recently been defeated by the advanced soul master academy Pingding.

This Tianjia Academy is the sect team of Tianjia Sect. Their martial soul is the Tianjia Shield, a high-level martial soul that is purely defensive. It has excellent physical resistance. Furthermore, when multiple Tianjia Shield martial soul masters release their martial souls at the same time, a martial soul resonance will occur, further enhancing their defensive power. Therefore, Tianjia Sect is extremely good at multi-person battles.

Although they are a reclusive sect with little reputation, they have their own unique skills and can further enhance the advantages of the Heavenly Armor Shield Martial Soul through special formation methods.

Although the entire team, except for the captain who is a Soul Master and is stuck at the age limit of twenty-five, is full of Soul Venerables, their defensive power after forming a formation is so strong that even an ordinary Soul King would have a hard time breaking through it head-on.

The captain of the Tian Dou Royal Team is Dugu Yan, the vice-captain is Ye Lingling, Chen Ming is a member, and there are eleven other members.

The first battle was an exhibition match, lacking significant value, as the exceptionally strong Chen Ming didn't even participate. Instead, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling led Oslo, Yu Feng, Ning Zhongze, and two powerful attack-type Soul Masters into the battle.

The battle was ordinary, even unremarkable. The seven members of the Heavenly Armor Academy were all equipped with Heavenly Armor Shields. After forming a shield wall, they advanced slowly, gradually dismantling the seven members of the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy team in a slow and methodical manner.

Dugu Yan did not summon her martial spirit at first; she simply stood by Ye Lingling's side and watched as the other five fought against the Tianjia team.

After a long, drawn-out battle, the group of team members, who were only at the Soul Master level, couldn't even scratch the Heavenly Armor Shield of the Heavenly Armor Team. In a moment of carelessness, they were almost seriously injured by the Heavenly Armor Team's shield wall combined attack. If Ye Lingling hadn't used her skill in time, they would have been eliminated.

Just when everyone thought that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy had suffered a setback in its first battle, Dugu Yan, who had not yet made a move, finally summoned her martial soul.

Five spirit rings, one yellow, one purple, and one black, appeared beside him. A turquoise poisonous mist dissipated in the air, and the oppressive aura of the extremely high-quality Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor spirit spread outwards without any concealment, even making many spectators in the audience feel oppressed.

Feeling the aura of the Soul King and the oppressive force of a Martial Soul that surpassed the Heavenly Armor Shield by more than one grade, the members of the Heavenly Armor Team, who were originally full of excitement and thought they could defeat the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy Team and make a name for themselves, instantly had expressions of utter despair.

They had initially wanted to put up a fight, at least to continue demonstrating the strength of their family. However, Dugu Yan didn't even use her soul skills; she simply channeled her soul power and poison into them, and the once-fierce Heavenly Armor Team members collapsed one after another within just two or three seconds.

The members of the Tianjia team were all pale, foaming at the mouth, with lifeless eyes. Their muscles were completely paralyzed, their martial spirits vanished instantly, and they were as if their bones had been removed, limp and weak, with even the rise and fall of their chests becoming barely noticeable.

If Dugu Yan hadn't had no intention of killing and hadn't precisely controlled the intensity of the poison, these people would have almost died on the stage.

A teacher from Tianjia Academy, a Soul Emperor whose martial soul was the Tianjia Shield, nearly knelt on the spot after witnessing this scene in the spectator area. If all the younger generation of his clan were to perish here for the sake of a single competition, not only would the clan leader not be able to forgive him when he returned, but he himself would not be able to forgive himself either.

After signaling to the referee to announce the end of the match, Dugu Yan withdrew her poison, and Ye Lingling then used her soul skill to rescue the members of the Tianjia team.

It wasn't until the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team returned to their rooms that the spectators in the stands finally realized what had just happened, erupting in a deafening roar. Even on the stage of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Soul Kings were extremely rare. Moreover, both Dugu Yan's extraordinary soul rings and the deadly poison that instantly wiped out an entire team had undoubtedly shattered the worldview of these spectators.

Although the professional earth and wood soul masters cleaned up the remaining toxins on the arena, the other teams took to the field one after another, contributing a series of wonderful performances.

However, even after the first day ended, the most discussed topics were still the performance of the Tiandou Royal Academy team and Dugu Yan, as well as the black fourth ring on Dugu Yan's body.

Because of Dugu Bo's continuous breakthroughs and formidable strength in recent years, everyone only dared to discuss why, but no one dared to actually investigate how he did it.

As for the Tianjia team?

Although they were defeated quickly and thoroughly, no one believed they lacked strength. After all, whether in terms of martial spirit or spirit ring power, Dugu Yan's performance was completely outstanding.

Poison-attribute Soul Masters are experts at easily defeating weaker opponents; those below the Soul Saint level generally possess the ability to fight opponents of higher levels or even higher ranks. It's perfectly normal for a group of physical defense-type Soul Masters, whose highest Soul Power is only Soul Sect, to be instantly killed by a Poison-attribute Soul King. Even the Heavenly Armor Team themselves felt their defeat was entirely predictable.

After discovering that no one could stand against Dugu Yan, who possessed the cultivation of a Soul King and whose martial soul was the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, almost all the academies in the Heaven Dou region silently regarded the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team as the strongest team in the Heaven Dou Empire in this competition, and even had a very high chance of winning the championship in the finals.

As for why it's almost all instead of all?
That's because Tang San is in the Blue Tyrant Academy team!

Although Dugu Yan's poison skills were astonishing, and her spirit ring configuration and spirit power level were superior to Tang San's, Tang San remained confident and completely disregarded her.

"Snakes are afraid of realgar wine, so realgar wine can be used to detoxify them. Before I go on stage, I will soak my clothes in realgar wine in advance. When I go on stage, I will cover my mouth and nose. With the soul power of my Xuan Tian Gong, I will definitely be able to ignore the poison of this mere Jade Phosphorous Serpent King. When I get close, I will give her a blow and I will win."

To prevent others from revealing his perfect plan and his idea of ​​defeating Dugu Yan ahead of time, Tang San didn't reveal his thoughts even when Xiao Wu pressed him for answers. He simply kept saying that he had a way to counter the poison of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent King.

However, to Tang San's disappointment, in the following battles, his Blue Tyrant Academy never faced the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team, but only dealt with some ordinary advanced soul master academy teams.

Although Tang San's Blue Silver Grass lost its potential, it gained its current level of toxicity. With Tang San's level 46 soul power, and relying on the highly poisonous Evil Blue Silver Grass, he performed exceptionally well in battle.

This feeling even made him feel somewhat lightheaded, until he bumped into the Five Elements Academy team, a senior academy of the Heaven Dou Empire.

(End of this chapter)