Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 61 Freshman Assessment! (Part 7) (66)

While Bei Bei dealt with the two Great Soul Masters, Xu Sanshi wasn't idle either. Although he was a defensive Soul Master, his Martial Soul, the Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield, still possessed some offensive capabilities. His first Soul Skill, Xuanming Tremor, had a powerful knockback effect, directly sending a Soul Master with only one ring of Soul Power, and a speed-attack type at that, flying away. After doing all this, Xu Sanshi even smugly raised an eyebrow at Bei Bei, looking rather irritating.

In this way, Bei Bei easily defeated two Great Soul Masters with just her first Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw, and her second Soul Skill, Thunderous Might. Xu Sanshi also defeated the remaining Soul Master with just his first Soul Skill, Xuanming Shock. The whole process was smooth and without any skill; it was all about overwhelming strength.

This thwarted Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya's attempt to find out Xue Weiwei's soul skills, leaving them both somewhat frustrated, while Zhu Ziyang seemed indifferent.

He was confident in his own strength. Not to mention that Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were only level 28 Great Soul Masters, he was confident that he could defeat even two Soul Venerables.

"Xiaoya, Ziyang, Nannan, you guys are so quick again!" After Beibei and her two friends came down from the exam hall, they immediately saw Zhu Ziyang and his two friends standing below. Beibei said with a look of surprise mixed with not being surprised.

"Hehe! Of course!" Tang Ya walked over with a smile, hugged Bei Bei's arm, and said, "You guys are pretty fast too!"

"Of course!" Xu Sanshi had a good relationship with Bei Bei and was also familiar with Tang Ya, so he boasted without any hesitation, saying, "If Bei Bei and I team up, we're absolutely invincible in the first year!"

"Tch! Bullshit, Ziyang, can you stand it?" Tang Ya pouted and shouted at Zhu Ziyang.

"Hehe, it's okay. We'll know if it's true or not when the finals come around," Zhu Ziyang said with a smile, seemingly unconcerned.

"See, Zhu Ziyang has good taste. I've also wanted to compete against you, the strongest first-year student, for a long time. I hope you won't disappoint me in the finals!" Xu Sanshi said with an eager expression on his face.

"Me too," Beibei replied with a smile.

In their conversation, they both seemed convinced that they and the other had made it to the finals.

"See you in the finals then." Zhu Ziyang's smile was confident and sunny, making people feel an instant goodwill towards him.

"You should pray you don't run into us before the finals, or we'll definitely beat you to a pulp!" Tang Ya said, brandishing her little fist at Xu Sanshi with a hint of threat in her voice.

Zhu Ziyang and his two companions returned to the classroom; the morning classes were not yet over.

"Why are you back? Isn't it still competition time?" The teacher, who was teaching the history of Soul Masters, looked at Zhu Ziyang and his two companions at the door with great surprise and asked with a strange expression.

"Hehe! Of course we came back after the competition. Don't you know our strength?" Tang Ya said with great enthusiasm.

"I see, then come in." The teacher smiled knowingly and let the three into the classroom, saying, "Tang Ya, you seem so happy, are you confident you can win the championship?"

"Hehe, Teacher Li, even if you don't believe me, you still have to believe Zhu Ziyang!" Tang Ya said cheerfully.

The three walked towards their seats, and the students looked at them with admiration and awe, then began to whisper among themselves.

"The class monitor and the others are amazing!"

"Nonsense, the class monitor was the only Soul Master during the freshman assessment, and supposedly the only person in the past five years to reach Soul Master level in their first year!"

"Indeed! I really don't know how the class monitor cultivated himself?"

"Is that even a question? I can't think of any other reason besides talent!"

"Yes, yes! That's right, that's right!"

"..."

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In the subsequent rounds of 32 to 16 and 16 to 8, Zhu Ziyang's team faced opponents from their own class, making it an internal battle between classes, which was quite unfortunate.

It was a misfortune for the class, and also for those two teams.

The opponent in the round of 32 to 16 immediately opened up, symbolically releasing his martial soul, and was then knocked out of the arena by Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya.

In the round of 16, their opponent was Lin Ziwei's team. They were full of fighting spirit, and despite facing their class monitor and Sister Nan Nan, they still chose to fight with all their might. Zhu Ziyang expressed his admiration for such an opponent and classmate. And then, nothing more happened. Their opponents worked very hard, and they won easily.

Zhu Ziyang's team easily entered the top eight.

Next up is the battle for the semi-finals.

Among the top eight teams, Class 4 only has Zhu Ziyang's team. The remaining seven teams are divided into three teams from Class 1, one from Class 2, one from Class 3, one from Class 5, and one from Class 6.

Although Zhou Yi, the homeroom teacher of Class 1, has a very unconventional teaching philosophy that Zhu Ziyang doesn't quite agree with, he has to admit that the students taught under such teaching methods are indeed stronger than those in other classes.

The fact that Class 1 accounted for 18 out of the first 64 teams is clear evidence of this.

Day 3 of the knockout stage, morning.

The quarterfinals are about to begin. Starting today, academy executives will be coming to watch the matches. Before the draw, Xia Yu specifically instructed the three of them to show their strength as much as possible. Even if they could win easily, they should not be careless and should try to leave an impression on the academy executives.

Because there are only four matches, the assessment area has been divided into four zones, each a square test room of 2,500 square meters. This scale is quite a test for first-year students, and the importance of tactics is immediately apparent.

Examination Room 1, the examination room on the left side of the first row, is one of the two examination rooms closest to the podium on the north side of the examination area.

Zhu Ziyang and his two companions stood in the southeast corner of the arena, while their opponents, three students from Class One, stood in the northwest corner, forming a diagonal formation.

The three students in Class One are all quite strong. After all, they are a team that made it into the top eight, and none of them got in purely by luck.

Their captain was a tall, expressionless young man. Zhu Ziyang was already among the tallest of his peers, but this young man was even taller, over 1.8 meters tall, with his exposed arms full of strong muscles. Zhou Tianhe was a level 27 power attack type Great Soul Master with the Martial Soul Wild Giant Ape.

To Zhou Tianhe's left was a girl with long purple hair, a beautiful face, and a faint smile on her face, giving people the feeling of a girl next door. Her name was Su Li, a level 24 control-type Soul Master, and her Martial Soul was the Spirit Heart Fox.

To Zhou Tianhe's right was also a girl, petite and cute, with two big, dark eyes that looked very pure and harmless. She was Yang Yumeng, a level 23 defensive-type Great Soul Master, whose Martial Soul was the Heaven-Returning Cauldron.

"Zhou Tianhe, Su Li, and Yang Yumeng from Class 1 of the freshmen team versus Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Ya from Class 4 of the freshmen team. Both sides, prepare!" Their examiner was no longer Liu Xue, but a middle-aged man around forty years old. Looking at the ready Zhu Ziyang's team and Zhou Tianhe's team, he loudly announced, "The match begins!"

It will be available at midnight tomorrow, guys, let's go!

(End of this chapter)