Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 368 Another Case of Extortion (Daily 10,000 words)

Amidst the deafening cheers, the seven victorious warriors returned to the waiting area with smiles on their faces.

The moment their team battle plan was perfectly executed, they knew that the championship was already in Shrek's hands.

Wang Yan quickly went to greet them and then announced the seven spots for the next individual competition.

The seven people are: Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan.

The remaining six people were just there to make up the numbers. The reason was simple: the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy's soul power reserves were basically depleted in the team battle. The Hongchen siblings couldn't hold on for a while, Ma Rulong's soul power reserves were less than 30%, and Lin Xi, who was slapped away by Dai Yueheng at the beginning, couldn't recover in a short time.

Including Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, the Sun Moon Royal Academy has a total of nine Soul Kings, plus Ma Rulong, a Soul Emperor.

Currently, the only remaining candidates with real combat capabilities are the three Level 5 Soul Masters and three reserve members of the Sun and Moon Team.

Although on the surface it seems that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy can still barely put together a team of all Soul Kings, several of the seven people at this time are negligible, and the remaining people are only of average level.

The first opponent the Sun and Moon team had to face was Ma Xiaotao, who had never appeared in team battles and whose soul power level was as high as level 70.

According to Wang Yan's calculations, Shrek Academy's winning probability is now almost 100%.

Old Master Xuan's old face was beaming like a chrysanthemum, clearly quite satisfied with the current outcome.

Wang Yan nodded after receiving a correct answer and turned his gaze to the waiting area of ​​the Sun and Moon side.

They suddenly lost several key players, and the team leader was in a flurry of activity before finally determining the participants and their order for the individual elimination rounds.

Mika and Xiao Xiafeng were quite exhausted, and Ma Rulong was sucking hard from his milk bottle. No one could say how much fighting power they would be able to exert in the end.

Xiao Xiafeng is still just a food-type Soul Master and can only fight using Soul Tools.

In any case, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy only had a handful of members left, so the supervising teachers had no choice but to try anything as a last resort.

"The individual elimination rounds begin, with the first players from both sides taking the stage. Shrek Academy – Ma Xiaotao. Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy – Li Yan."

Li Yan, one of the original team members who was replaced by the Hongchen siblings, has the Li Fire martial soul. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was at the bottom of the original team members.

Faced with Ma Xiaotao, who hadn't even played in the team battle, Li Yan was completely dumbfounded. Although neither of them had played, the gap between them was enormous, nearly twenty levels of soul power. He simply couldn't think of any way to buy himself more time.

Yes, Li Yan hadn't even thought about winning the match; he was only thinking about how to buy more time so that Ma Rulong and the others could recover as much soul power as possible.

Even so, Li Yan was still helpless against Ma Xiaotao, who was a formidable figure.

In the end, Li Yan successfully withstood Ma Xiaotao's attacks for three seconds—after all, the invincible shield only lasted for three seconds.

Ma Xiaotao merely imitated the Shrek team's tactics during the battle to scare Li Yan. She didn't even actually unleash her soul skill, yet she still managed to frighten Li Yan into revealing his invincible shield, thus saving a significant amount of soul power.

When Li Yan saw Ma Xiaotao, who had been charging aggressively towards him, stop attacking immediately after discovering that he had activated the invincible shield and was now smiling at him, a feeling of grief and indignation rose in his heart.

Their Sun & Moon team was actually outmaneuvered twice by Shrek Academy using the same tactic!

"The first match of the individual elimination rounds in the finals, Shrek Academy wins."

Huang Jinxu hadn't expected the first match of the elimination round to have such an outcome. Ma Xiaotao won the first match without even losing any blood, and her soul power didn't even decrease much, which left him somewhat amused and exasperated.

This year's Shrek Academy has undergone a significant style change compared to previous years. Not only are all members adept at using soul tools, but the battle rhythm in soul combat has also changed from the aggressive, storm-like style to something more unpredictable.

This Shrek is much more troublesome than the Shrek of the past.

No matter how shocked he was, the referee still had to do his job. After regaining his senses, Huang Jinxu decisively announced Shrek Academy's first victory.

The match was won so easily that even Shrek's own people found it somewhat unbelievable.

"Is it really possible for someone to fall into the same pit twice?"

Wang Dong muttered in shock, while Huo Yuhao understood the reaction of the Sun and Moon team member.

Under excessive pressure, it's perfectly normal for combat movements to become distorted. When facing a formidable enemy for the first time, the fearlessness of youth can often lead to an exceptionally brilliant performance.

However, after fighting and losing to such an opponent, the pressure will increase exponentially. This is because you are very clear about the enemy's varied attack methods, but you don't understand them very well. As a result, you are at a loss for what to do, and even the ordinary attacks that you could initially defend against become impossible to defend against.

Hearing Huo Yuhao's patient explanation, Wang Dong nodded in sudden understanding.

No wonder I was able to exchange a few blows with Huo Yuhao when school first started, and we were evenly matched. But afterwards, when I went to the Soul Arena with Huo Yuhao, I got beaten up worse and worse. So that's why.

"The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is sending its next team member. You, get down here right now."

On the field, Huang Jinxu fulfilled his duties as a referee.

Li Yan stepped off the stage in a daze.

He still can't accept it. During the team fight, he watched his teammates being tricked out of their invincibility shield and was extremely anxious, wishing he could go up and turn the tide. But as soon as the individual match started, his invincibility shield was also easily tricked out by Ma Xiaotao.

Ma Xiaotao was in a very good mood at this moment, and her eyes were burning with phoenix fire, full of fighting spirit.

She couldn't believe she missed out on something as interesting as tactical blackmail, but thankfully she managed to get on board in the first individual match.

In the subsequent matches, Ma Xiaotao's performance was absolutely phenomenal.

Even without obtaining her seventh spirit ring, Ma Xiaotao's spirit power of level 70 still completely overwhelmed these spirit kings who were over level 50.

The fiery phoenix soared into the sky, reborn from the flames. In just six individual matches, it melted and deformed the entire Soul Arena, forcing the referee to temporarily stop the final individual match and urgently arrange for personnel to repair the Soul Arena.

(End of this chapter)