Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 129 Making a Cup of Coffee

At this moment, the 67 teams that advanced from the knockout stage are all sitting in the players' rest area. Four of the eight participating teams will compete today.

They were all there to watch the game, or rather, to watch Shrek Academy's match. Traditionally, Shrek Academy would most likely be the first to participate in the game today.

When Ji Lin and the others appeared in the entrance passage, a tsunami of cheers resounded throughout the entire Star Luo Square. No matter how many shortcomings Shrek Academy had now, its reputation, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was still very high, and the people's voices were all for the name Shrek.

Ji Lin walked expressionlessly in the middle of the group, led by Ma Xiaotao. Ji Lin wasn't really interested in Shrek Academy's eternal glory, nor did he quite understand it. It was just a competition, wasn't it? Although the champion's reward was generous, and although it concerned the academy's honor, he couldn't help but think of how the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy had risked everything, even their futures and lives, to win in the original story.

Ji Lin has always believed that the idea of ​​students sacrificing their future and lives for the sake of winning a game, or academies that watch students die, is too distorted.

If it were a disciple of his Zizai Sect, he would rather lose the match than have his disciple sacrifice their future potential for the sake of winning a single match.

As long as he's still alive, he'll gain glory sooner or later.

Ji Lin also enjoys victory and glory; he likes the feeling of being the center of attention. However, if the price of winning a competition is never being able to break through to the Title Douluo level, then that victory is meaningless to him.

The rest area at Shrek Academy has twenty luxurious chairs, with maids attending to each other, and food, fruit, and drinks are readily available.

This isn't a competition; this is VIP treatment.

Other academies also have rest areas, but they are far less luxurious than those of Shrek Academy. The Star Luo Empire has truly given Shrek Academy a lot of face.

At this point, the host was already warming up the atmosphere, first announcing the list of colleges that had passed the first round of the competition. Then, he began to introduce the group assignments.

As Wang Yan predicted, Shrek Academy's group had eight teams participating, and Shrek Academy was, as always, the first team to take the field.

After a series of rambling remarks designed to stir up the audience's emotions, the host shouted in the most impassioned voice, "Next, please welcome the Shrek Academy team, the number one academy on the continent, and their opponents, the Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy team from the Star Luo Empire, to the waiting area. At the same time, please invite the captains of both teams to come to the stage to confirm their match format."

When the host introduces other academies, they always include the country prefix, but Shrek Academy doesn't add any country prefix.

Even though Shrek Academy is located within the territory of the Heavenly Soul Empire, no country dares to claim that Shrek Academy belongs to its own country.

Ji Lin clicked his tongue inwardly. Shrek Academy was so high-profile, no wonder it would be targeted in the future. Although the original Douluo Three Kingdoms were wary of the Sun Moon Empire, it was impossible for them not to have any thoughts about Shrek Academy. Especially the Heavenly Soul Empire, which had an incomparably powerful and independent Shrek City within its territory. Who could guarantee that the Heavenly Soul Empire's royal family did not harbor any resentment?

Shrek Academy has its own Shrek City, whose status has long reached a level that commands the utmost respect from any nation. At the same time, it is also accompanied by deep-seated fear from various countries.

Compared to Shrek Academy, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is also very powerful, but it is backed by the Sun Moon Empire and cannot compare to Shrek Academy's status.

Therefore, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy can only compete with Shrek Academy in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Battle Tournament.

On Shrek Academy's side, captain Ma Xiaotao stood up and walked towards the stage. The captain of Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy was a burly man with short blond hair, and the outline of his strong muscles was faintly visible under his white school uniform.

The two players went up to the competition stage at the same time. The process of drawing lots to determine the competition method was simple. The referee brought a round lottery box onto the stage and first had both captains carefully check it.

The lottery tube is transparent. There is absolutely no possibility of any behind-the-scenes manipulation. There is a small round hole on one side. The referee inserts three small balls representing different fighting styles into the hole. Then the tube is turned upside down. The two players then each hold one of the large round balls against their palms.

The referee shouted, "Three, two, one!"

Ma Xiaotao and the burly man simultaneously exerted force, flinging the large sphere into the air. If no smaller ball is flung out during this process, the referee catches the large ball, rotates it, and the type of ball that falls out is the correct one. If the smaller ball is flung out while the large ball is in the air, that type will be the correct one.

This was the first draw of the round-robin tournament. It went very smoothly; as the large ball was forcefully flung twenty meters into the air by the two players, a smaller ball fell out.

The balls come in three colors, with a striking contrast: red, yellow, and blue.

Red represents team battles, yellow represents individual battles, and blue represents two-two-three tactics. And this time, what fell out of that big ball was a small yellow ball.

The referee caught the small ball and simultaneously retrieved the large ball falling through the air. After showing the small ball to both team captains, he gestured to Emperor Xu Jiawei atop the imperial city walls before loudly announcing the news through his personal soul-guided megaphone.

"Shrek Academy will face Yunluo Advanced Soul Master Academy in a one-on-one elimination tournament. Both sides, please send out your first player."

Upon hearing that it was a one-on-one match, the audience's eyes lit up. This kind of match best showcased a Soul Master's strength and was what the audience loved to watch the most, especially the awe-inspiring moment when someone achieved a feat of defeating seven opponents single-handedly.

After stepping off the competition stage, Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy's rest area and asked Wang Yan, "Teacher Wang, who should we send up first?"

Ji Lin then spoke up, "Teacher Wang, let me go. I've already made my move once. As long as I don't reveal my second martial soul and let the other academies think I've used my full strength, it will mislead them."

Wang Yan hesitated upon hearing this. He considered Ji Lin his trump card, so was it too extreme to throw out such a powerful card right from the start?

However, he gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, then Ji Lin will go. Are you confident you can defeat seven opponents at once? If you can, then we will put even more pressure on the other academies, which will be beneficial for the subsequent matches."

Ji Lin waved to Wang Yan with his back to him and headed towards the competition stage.

The only thing echoing in the rest area was his last sentence: "Make me a cup of coffee. When I get back, the temperature should be just right."

Upon hearing this, Wang Qiu'er rolled her eyes in annoyance. This guy, he's at it again.

Xiao Xiao stared at Ji Lin's back with shining eyes and exclaimed admiringly, "Class monitor, so handsome!"

Wang Yan pushed up his glasses and remained silent. The others also twitched their lips. He was being pretentious, too pretentious!

Ling Luochen quietly made Ji Lin a cup of coffee, demonstrating his full initiative.

(End of this chapter)