Douluo Continent: The Rebirth of Huo Yuhao

Chapter 27 An Unexpected Incident

After Huo Yuhao emerged from seclusion, the Sun Moon Team unsurprisingly included him in all their subsequent matches. With Huo Yuhao on the team, the Sun Moon Team regained their previous momentum of effortlessly sweeping away their opponents.

As the perennial runner-up, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team receives attention second only to Shrek Academy. In the matches Huo Yuhao missed, some observant individuals have already noticed some flaws in the Sun Moon team's coordination and that the accuracy of their soul tool releases is not as good as before.

However, these flaws quickly disappeared as Huo Yuhao appeared, and many teams had already noticed this young man who disappeared as soon as he entered the arena. However, they could only roughly deduce that Huo Yuhao had some strange abilities and that his own strength was not strong, otherwise he wouldn't have hidden himself in every match.

If Huo Yuhao can be dealt with first, the Sun Moon Team should be thrown into chaos. However, judging from the strength shown by the Sun Moon Team, many teams do not have the ability to break through the lines to eliminate Huo Yuhao.

Soon, the round-robin tournament came to an end. Two teams from each group advanced, and the eight groups selected sixteen teams for a knockout tournament. From this fierce competition, the final champion was chosen.

The Sun & Moon team faced their final opponent. Having maintained a perfect record, they had already secured a spot in the next round. The final match would not affect their qualification chances.

However, no one wants to lose a match if they can win, so the Sun and Moon team held their final meeting of the round-robin tournament to discuss their opponent for tomorrow.

"Tomorrow, we will face the Apocalypse Team. This is a high-level Soul Master Academy from the Heavenly Soul Empire. One of their regular members is a Soul King, and the rest are Soul Masters, all with very good cultivation levels. Moreover, they have a very open attitude towards Soul Tools, so their students are all equipped with some Soul Tools. They practice both Soul Master and Soul Tool cultivation, making them a very powerful academy."

They've only lost one match so far, so their hopes of advancing remain. Tomorrow's match will be a do-or-die situation. No one can afford to be complacent; we must maintain our perfect record and advance!

Old Ma began his pre-battle pep talk. However, several formal trainees clearly didn't take his words to heart; even the weakest among them was no weaker than the opponent's only Soul King. Such a battle was truly uninteresting to them.

"Yuhao's guess was correct. One of the Shrek Academy's main players has already made his appearance. His name is Ling Luochen, a control-type ice attribute Soul King. Although Shrek lost a match, judging from the strength shown by that ice attribute Soul King, advancing shouldn't be too difficult."

No one expected Shrek Academy to actually pull off a miraculous comeback, advancing to the top sixteen with almost only a few reserve members. The Sun Moon Team and others were filled with anticipation for facing Shrek in the finals. The Sun Moon Empire had been dominated by Shrek for millennia and desperately needed a victory to boost morale. This heavy responsibility rested on the shoulders of every member of the Sun Moon Team!

Today, those sitting here are the hope of hundreds of millions of people in the Sun and Moon Empire, and they are honored to have done so.

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The competition proceeded as scheduled the following day.

The Sun and Moon team will face off against the Apocalypse team using a two-two-three strategy.

In the first match, Team Apocalypse fielded two Soul Masters, who predictably lost to Team Sun Moon's Soul King and Soul Master combination. Surprisingly, in the second match, Team Apocalypse fielded their only Soul King paired with a Soul Master, and they actually defeated Team Sun Moon's Soul King and Soul Master combination.

Based on the strength shown by the Apocalypse Team in previous matches, they shouldn't have been able to defeat the Sun and Moon Team. However, the Soul King suddenly pulled out a Level 6 Soul Guidance Shield that he had never used before, and charged to the side of the two Sun and Moon Team members despite their attacks, using the close combat advantage of a Soul Master to eliminate them.

In truth, the regular members of the Sun and Moon Team wouldn't make such a mistake. However, in previous battles, Huo Yuhao had taken on all the information gathering tasks on the battlefield. They only needed to fight according to Huo Yuhao's commands to achieve victory. This relaxed approach made them extremely unaccustomed to unexpected situations on the battlefield. Without Huo Yuhao's battlefield control, their combat strength declined significantly.

After the two came down, they were naturally scolded by Elder Ma, but the battle had to continue. In the final three-on-three match, Elder Ma still sent Huo Yuhao up. Even though his cultivation level was not high enough, the powerful assistance he could provide to his teammates made Elder Ma give him priority.

This was a three-on-three match, and Huo Yuhao's danger level was significantly higher than when he had a solid defense in a team battle. Meng Hongchen, worried about Huo Yuhao, volunteered to fight. After thinking for a moment, Elder Ma realized that the opposing team no longer had a Soul King player, making Meng Hongchen's participation more suitable, and agreed to her request.

However, just to be on the safe side, they still fielded another regular member, Soul King Lin Xi. This meant the opposing team had two Soul Kings and one Great Soul Master against three Soul Grandmasters. The Sun Moon Team's lineup seemed rather unusual, but their chances of winning were very high.

"The match begins." As the referee's voice fell, a long, icy blue sword suddenly appeared in Meng Hongchen's hand, and she charged straight forward. She was a melee soul master with extremely powerful close-combat abilities.

Huo Yuhao took the opportunity to activate his first and second soul skills. He used all three of Tianmeng's four soul skills except for Soul Impact, and also activated simulation to hide himself as usual.

After fusing with the Life Gold, Huo Yuhao experienced a tremendous increase in mental power and an astonishing recovery speed. Even without using Soul Impact, he could sustain himself for a long time while simultaneously activating his other four Soul Skills. How could such a treasure, highly praised by Elder Yi, be anything less than excellent?

After Meng Hongchen charged into the enemy formation, relying on Huo Yuhao's mental detection, she single-handedly overwhelmed three opponents, who were completely powerless to retaliate. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Lin Xi wouldn't need to intervene; Meng Hongchen alone could eliminate the three enemies.

However, an unexpected event occurred: a powerful and sinister force suddenly erupted from the body of one of the Apocalypse Team members. His martial soul was a spear, and with his cultivation level, he would have been unable to penetrate the soul guidance armor on Meng Hongchen's body, which was a high-level defensive soul guidance device.

Not to mention Huo Yuhao's mental detection; under normal circumstances, his attacks wouldn't even be able to hit Meng Hongchen.

I'm currently reading the error-free version! This is the first time I've published this novel.

But his spear pierced through Meng Hongchen's body. The blood-stained spear he threw with all his might seemed to have locked onto Meng Hongchen; the spear, which Meng Hongchen should have dodged precisely, strangely deflected and struck him. The armor, which was supposed to provide protection, was rendered useless, pierced through like a piece of cloth, along with Meng Hongchen's body.

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(End of this chapter)