Douluo Jueshi: Picking up Firefly at the Beginning

Chapter 187 Royal Knights

He was not interested in the open and secret struggles between the Tiandou Empire and the Spirit Hall. After all, he was just here to poach talents.

After the preliminaries, the promotion round will be held. The venue has been changed from the Tiandou Great Fighting Arena to the Royal Paddock. The five qualified academies will compete with the qualified teams from the principalities and kingdoms under the Tiandou Empire.

The qualifying round is different from the preliminaries. It is an individual elimination round that reflects personal strength.

There is a month of preparation time before the qualifying round begins.

After leaving the Tiandou Soul Fighting Arena, Liuxing and Liuying did not leave with Chihuo Academy. The Rose Hotel they booked in Tiandou City had not expired yet, and the living conditions in the Rose Hotel were much better than those at Chihuo Academy.

Besides, they don't need the Blazing Academy's simulated training ground to assist in their training.

After returning to the hotel room, Liuxing turned on the communication soul guide.

'Meteor: My game is over, how are you guys doing?'

'Xu Tianzhen: Great, I also want to go to your place and bully the weak ones.'

"Nan Qiuqiu: The thought of being able to beat up the Shrek Seven Devils when they were weak makes me feel so good. They will all become gods in the future."

"Ye Guyi: That's not necessarily the case now. At least the Spirit Hall won't let the Shrek Seven Devils grow up according to their original destiny."

"Meng Hongchen: Gu Yi, you wouldn't tell anyone that Xiao Wu is the transformed form of a hundred thousand year old soul beast, would you?"

"Ye Guyi: How is that possible? That's a hundred thousand year old soul beast. Many of us need it. If we tell the Spirit Hall now, we won't have a chance later."

"Liuxing: This matter can't be concealed for long. The Shrek Seven Devils are very famous in our world, and many people know that Soft Bone Douluo is a transformed soul beast."

"Meng Hongchen: That's probably only known to the people of Shrek Academy. At least I didn't know much about the Shrek Seven Devils before."

Gu Yuena: After all, ten thousand years have passed, and history only records a rough outline of the past. The only people who know the most about that period of history ten thousand years ago are probably Shrek Academy.

'Meng Hongchen: Shrek Academy seems to have become very low-key due to the death of Dragon God Douluo.'

"Liuxing: Sister Meng, are you all doing well in Shrek Academy?"

Meng Hongchen: We're fine. Shrek's teachers treat us all equally and teach us everything we need to know. However, they definitely don't teach us the core knowledge. At least their inner court disciples have the privilege of training at the Golden Tree once, but we don't.

Meteor: That's perfectly normal. Being able to treat everyone equally in education is already quite good. Your brother must have gotten a lot of beatings.

"Meng Hongchen: At the beginning, the group of inner court disciples didn't like us very much. My brother often fought with them on the fighting stage. But later, as the fighting went on, our relationship suddenly improved. I really don't understand what you guys are thinking."

Meteor: Haha, this is how boys communicate, using fists to understand each other.

During the one-month rest period, all the advanced students were digesting the gains from the competition. Tang San was in a dilemma because he was crushed and defeated by Meteor. If it were not for the advice of Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, he would have wanted to add a spirit ring to his Clear Sky Hammer spirit.

Tang San was undoubtedly proud. Before he met Meteor, everyone said he was a genius and a monster. Even Dugu Bo, the Titled Douluo, called him a little monster. It was impossible for him not to feel inflated in his heart.

But after encountering the meteor and being defeated overwhelmingly, his arrogance seemed to have deflated, leaving him in confusion.

Fortunately, Poison Douluo rushed back in time to stop Tang San, otherwise he would have given up the mediocre Blue Silver Grass and chosen to major in the Clear Sky Hammer.

A month is not a long time. Meteor and Firefly spent most of this month meditating and practicing together, and their cultivation level also broke through from level 55 to level 56.

There are still a few months left before the two of them turn fifteen. With their cultivation speed, even with the shackles of extreme attributes, they should be able to break through to about one level by the age of fifteen.

The promotion match of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition is not as lively as the preliminaries. In order to protect the privacy of the soul masters and for security reasons, no spectators are allowed to watch the promotion match.

This rule is completely different from that of Meteor's team. There are spectators throughout the entire game, even the finals.

But here, soul masters still adhere to the principle of confidentiality, although in Liuxing's opinion, this does not make much sense.

The promotion competition is still divided into two empires. The thirty teams that have passed the qualifiers will compete in their respective empires, while the three teams that have entered the finals in advance will not participate in the promotion competition.

In the Tiandou Empire, a total of fifteen teams, including the five teams that qualified from the Tiandou City qualifier division, had completed the registration process in the morning and were gathered at the location of the promotion competition.

Those who can advance to the qualifying round after layers of selection are undoubtedly elites.

Under the Tiandou Empire, each major duchy and kingdom has two qualifying spots. In addition to the five qualifying teams of the Tiandou Empire, plus the five kingdoms and duchies, there are a total of fifteen teams.

Compared with the five major academies in the Tiandou Empire, the academies of the principalities and kingdoms need time to familiarize themselves with the environment, and they all come with many promises from the kingdoms or principalities they represent.

If they achieve good results, the rewards they can get are even greater than Emperor Xue Ye's promise.

After all, those kingdoms and principalities have a greater thirst for talents. Who doesn’t want to have more powerful soul masters in their hands?

In the war on Douluo Continent, the soul master has long become the decisive factor on the battlefield.

The number of high-level soul masters is also the fundamental measure of a party's strength. It is precisely because of this that the status of the Spirit Hall is so transcendent that even the two major empires dare not offend it easily.

Although they knew very well that those kingdoms and principalities were secretly supported by the Spirit Hall, they dared not speak out.

The Royal Hunting Ground is located fifty kilometers southwest of Tiandou City. The terrain in the hunting ground is varied and the area is vast. It is the place where royal personnel hunt and train.

On weekdays, no civilians are allowed to approach. Ten thousand Royal Knights are responsible for patrolling and guarding, and also train here, rotating every three months to maintain combat effectiveness.

The Royal Knights are considered one of the most powerful forces in the hands of the royal family of the Tiandou Empire.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and conflict, and to prevent the strength of each academy entering the promotion competition from being spied on by other academies, all fifteen advanced soul master academy teams entering the promotion competition were arranged to rest in different places.

The Heaven Dou Empire's royal family had clearly prepared for the promotion tournament. When Liu Xing arrived with Blazing Academy, the first thing he saw was the massive Royal Knights. The Heaven Dou Empire's Royal Knights were uniformly clad in bright silver Mingguang armor, a thick, protective armor. Even their mounts were carefully selected, Heavenly Soul Horses bred from certain soul beasts. These horses possessed limited offensive power, but were incredibly fast, possessed immense endurance, and could carry greater loads.

It can be said to be the best mount for heavy cavalry.

The horse is also covered with armor, and the weight of the knight and the Ming Guang armor cannot affect the speed of this horse.

Once such a cavalry unit launches a charge, its power will be extremely astonishing.

The Royal Knights have always been an elite team created by the Tiandou Empire's royal family, with a total of 50,000 people, among which captains with levels above 100 are composed of soul masters.

Such an army is very expensive and other principalities and kingdoms cannot afford it.

However, Liuxing compared this army with the army of the Sun and Moon Empire and gave it an average evaluation.

Meteor was not comparing the Soul Guide Corps and the Royal Knights of the Sun-Moon Empire, but an army composed of ordinary soldiers.

Because the army of the Sun-Moon Empire is so luxuriously equipped, once they meet on the battlefield, even though both are composed of 50,000 people, the Sun-Moon Empire's army will definitely win.

If it were the Soul Master Corps of the Sun-Moon Empire, then these 50,000 Royal Knights would be even more vulnerable.

Compared to the original Douluo Three Kingdoms in Liuxing's world, the Tiandou Empire is even weaker. Not only is the number of soul masters far less, but even ordinary armies cannot compare.

At least the original Douluo Three Kingdoms were not weaker than the Sun-Moon Empire in terms of ordinary military forces; they were only weak in soul guides.

There is no way around it. Whether it is the quality of equipment or the number of soul masters, Liuxing and his team have an absolute advantage.

I'm afraid many people will find it hard to accept this point since there has been no formal contact between the two continents and no fighting between the armies.

After showing their qualification certificates for advancement, the group from Blazing Academy walked towards the hunting grounds, escorted by fifty fully-armed royal knights.

After climbing over a small hill, the view in front of everyone suddenly opened up. What appeared before them was a vast grassland. The wide view made people feel relaxed and indescribably comfortable.

On the grassland, a large number of military camps formed a circle, and the venue for the promotion match was right in the center of the camp.

The Tiandou Empire's move was obviously to let the Royal Knights watch the soul masters' battle in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of these soldiers.

This also shows how much importance the Tiandou Empire attaches to the Royal Knights.

Everyone from Blazing Academy was taken to a large military camp, where they were assigned five barracks to rest in. The military barracks were certainly not luxurious, but they were very clean.

Apparently he had been prepared before they came.

Liuxing and the others will live here until the end of the promotion round.

The promotion tournament also uses a round-robin system, but because the number of teams has been reduced a lot, the competition time has been reduced from one month to half a month, followed by another half-month break. The finals will be held at the junction of the Tiandou and Xingluo empires, that is, Wuhun City.

There are only five barracks, so Liuying and Huowu can only share one barracks. Liuxing can only share one barracks with Huo Wushuang.

The promotion round does not have multiple arenas taking place at the same time like the qualifiers. Instead, there is only one competition venue, which is the Grand Campus of the Royal Knights.

The campus field has been renovated, and an area of ​​100 meters in diameter has been designated as the competition field in the center. Compared with the qualifier arena, the space here is wider, and it is naturally easier to display one's strength.

On the north side of the university grounds, facing south, a temporary VIP seat was built, which is also the referee's seat. This time there were not as many VIPs coming to watch the game as last time.

There were fewer nobles. Looking around, except for Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Platinum Bishop Salas and a few others in the first row of the VIP seats, the seats in the back were occupied by people dressed as military generals and some high-level officials of the Spirit Hall and Tiandou City Spirit Temple.

After all, team battles are quite chaotic and many things are not easy to see clearly, but promotion matches are different. Every student will show their personal strength in front of everyone. This is also the best way to evaluate the strength of a soul master. opportunity.

Outside the Grand Parade Ground, a full 10,000 Royal Knights surrounded the entire field, their helmets and armor shining. The Royal Knights in the front row stood on the ground, while the ones in the back row sat on their mounts, forming a huge circle.

Between the large circle formed by the knights and the competition venue, fifteen participating teams have arrived. Even the teams that have a bye today are no exception. Even if they don't have to compete, they still have to clearly see the strength of their opponents.

The rules of the game are very simple. Each team sends seven players to participate. Each player must fight until they are defeated. The winner will face the next opponent until all seven players on one side are defeated.

The teams that passed the preliminaries in different divisions were divided together. Liu Xing saw Tang San's figure at a glance. At this time, Tang San was also looking at him with fighting spirit in his eyes.

Obviously, he did not give up just because of one failure. After all, the use of hidden weapons was prohibited in the previous competition, and he did not use his strongest means at all, so he was very unwilling to accept the loss.

He had previously killed a Soul Saint using the Yama Note, a hidden weapon ranked third in the technique category.

He also had the fifth-ranked Mechanical Item, the Mother-and-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Gallbladder, in his hand. According to Poison Douluo, he used this Mother-and-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Gallbladder to challenge a peak Douluo at level ninety-five and forced him to retreat.

You have to know that Dugu Bo is only a Titled Douluo of level 92, three levels lower than his opponent, but he can rely on the Mother and Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Gallbladder to catch the opponent off guard. You can imagine how terrifying the power of this hidden weapon is.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Dugu Bo himself is a Titled Douluo.

But even so, Tang San believed that if there were no restrictions on the competition rules, he would not lose to Liu Xing.

With such a trump card, he was able to get out of his decadence so quickly.

Emperor Xue Ye stood up from the VIP seat and announced loudly through his soul guide: "The promotion tournament officially begins today. Over the next fourteen days, I hope that the teams from each academy will fully demonstrate their strengths and show the demeanor that a soul master should have. The competition begins."

As soon as his voice fell, shouts like a landslide and tsunami sounded in unison, "Long live, long live, long live."

The Royal Knights raised their lances high, and the clanging sound of their armors and their loud shouts immediately startled the participating soul masters.

(End of this chapter)