Douluo Continent: Taking Tang San as a disciple, with a ten-thousand-fold return for teaching him.

Ma Hongjun sighed, "I thought you were going to surprise me, Master, by having all seven of us Shrek Seven Devils play in the last match... It seems I was overthinking it."

Chen Luo said, "There will be plenty of opportunities in the qualifying rounds. It's best to conserve our strength for now."

"Alright then." Ma Hongjun looked slightly disappointed.

Ning Rongrong didn't experience the same emotional fluctuations as Ma Hongjun; she remained relatively calm.

Oscar was slightly excited; it was finally his turn to go on stage again. Making sausages on ordinary days was nothing special; making sausages during a competition was much more exciting.

Jiangzhu showed no sign of disappointment when she was substituted. In the previous matches, her role was simply to provide logistical support for her teammates, who were all very strong, so she rarely even had a chance to score.

He never really had much of a presence, and there wasn't much difference between him on and off the field.

As for bringing on Oscar for this match, it was simply to counter Tianshui Academy's Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

Soon the final round of the qualifiers began. The other matches were not very interesting, with strong teams beating weak teams and ending in crushing victories.

Until the final match, Shrek Academy versus Tianshui Academy, all the spectators were on high alert.

When the contestants from both sides entered the arena, the Tianshui Academy team was undoubtedly the most eye-catching, filled with beautiful women with long legs.

Chen Luo's gaze fell on the group of girls from Tianshui Academy. He noticed that the infatuated scenes from the book were not present, and all the girls had cold expressions.

Then Chen Luo's gaze fell on Ma Hongjun, who was enjoying a special pastry. He glanced calmly at Tianshui Academy without any lewd smile or drooling.

It seems that Ma Hongjun's obsession with women began to gradually transform into food when he was in Soto City. After taking the immortal herb to completely resolve the problem of evil fire, he completely shifted his focus to food.

With no woman in his heart, Ma Hongjun is naturally a god when drawing his sword. Whether in cultivation or combat, he is excellent.

In fact, Chen Luo had considered having all seven members of the Shrek Seven Devils play in the final match so that they would have no regrets. However, for the sake of better operation in the subsequent promotion matches, he decided to let them live with regrets for the rest of their lives.

They've been conserving their strength for so long, so one last match won't make a difference.

With the referee's whistle, the match between Shrek Academy and Tianshui Academy began.

The first half of the match consisted of the most standard exchanges.

The only slightly unusual thing is that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass is countered by ice, making it difficult to exert crucial control.

In the latter half of the competition, Tang San seized the opportunity to unleash the Blue Silver Cage, working with Dai Mubai to knock two contestants from Tianshui Academy off the stage.

However, Tianshui Academy also successfully unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Technique, Snowflakes Falling.

Snowflakes danced in the air, each one as sharp as a blade, swirling and falling in mid-air, transforming into an icy vortex that swept towards the Shrek Academy students.

Tang San immediately used the Blue Silver Cage to provide defense for himself and his teammates. If one layer wasn't enough, then two or three layers would be used. With Oscar's healing sausage, their soul power was more than enough.

Meanwhile, the others had also consumed Oscar's Small Hunting Sausage to expel the abnormal cold condition from their bodies, preparing for a war of attrition with Tianshui Academy.

This was clearly not the situation that Tianshui Academy wanted to see. As the team leader, Shui Bing'er gritted her teeth and injected soul power again, causing Bingxue Piaoling to enter an even more powerful stage.

In mid-air, snowflakes condensed, and a giant ice phoenix, over seven meters long, appeared out of thin air.

Chapter 186 Victory in Qualifying

"Here it comes again, that damned Ice Phoenix. Shui Bing'er is really something, she could have saved this move for Shrek Academy, but she actually used our Divine Wind Academy as a test subject first, causing us to lose another match!"

From the spectator stands, Feng Xiaotian, the captain of Shenfeng Academy, frowned slightly.

Beside Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu spoke up: "If your Shenfeng Academy can't stop them, Shrek Academy definitely can't either!"

Feng Xiaotian laughed and said, "You have that much resentment towards Shrek Academy?"

Huo Wu said, "There's no resentment involved, I just don't want them to win."

Feng Xiaotian smiled and said nothing more.

Huo Wu then suddenly said, "Thank you for the matches the other day."

Feng Xiaotian shrugged: "There's nothing to thank me for. We were simply less skilled than them."

On the competition stage, the enormous ice phoenix slowly descended, carrying extremely terrifying soul power fluctuations, as if it could freeze everything.

Just as the Ice Phoenix was about to fall, all the Blue Silver Grass disappeared, and each of the seven Shrek contestants received a Small Hunting Sausage, followed by a Mushroom Sausage.

Small Hunting Sausage removes all abnormal statuses, while Mushroom Sausage allows one to fly.

Although the Ice Phoenix is ​​large, it still cannot cover all aspects of the entire arena. Even if it were to cover everything, it would have to fall to the ground to do so.

After consuming the mushroom sausages, the Shrek team sped towards the sky at incredible speed, skillfully avoiding the Ice Phoenix's attack.

The Ice Phoenix crashed down, releasing an extremely terrifying surge of soul power. The arena quickly froze, and the remaining Blue Silver Grass was instantly frozen into ice shards. However, no matter how strong the icy aura was, it could not harm the Shrek Academy members in the slightest.

Shui Bing'er's soul power was already exhausted at this point, so the outcome of the match was self-evident.

The audience was deathly silent. Shui Bing'er looked at the seven people in the air in disbelief, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "We admit defeat."

The match has ended, and Shrek Academy has won again.

Cheers erupted from the stands as the Shrek Seven Devils slowly descended, each with an excited smile on their face.

The preliminary rounds have ended, and Shrek Academy has advanced with a perfect record!

Upon seeing the result of the competition, Chen Luo simply wore a faint smile, showing no surprise.

The little monsters had already trained in advance, so dealing with Tianshui Academy was a sure thing; everything was as expected.

If the story unfolds as it does in the book, Tianshui Academy only unleashed its Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice and Snow, for the first time in this match against Shrek Academy, and Shrek only managed a narrow victory thanks to the overpowered Tang San.

However, perhaps due to Shrek's winning streak and the absence of any major surprises in the matches, the course of the qualifiers changed.

Elephant Armor Academy has won consecutive victories, while Divine Wind Academy and Thunder Academy have both been defeated by Shrek Academy. Among the five elemental academies, apart from Thunder Academy and Divine Wind Academy, any of them could be eliminated.

Perhaps in order to secure a more certain qualification, Tianshui Academy had already used its Martial Soul Fusion Skill in its battle against Shenfeng Academy before encountering Shrek Academy, forcibly securing a point.

Otherwise, Shrek Academy would not be able to gather the relevant information to make adequate preparations.

Chen Luo was certainly aware of how the plot was going to develop, but the training he arranged for the Shrek Academy members had to be realistic. All the training was based on clues, and it was best not to try to predict the future unless absolutely necessary.

After the match between Shrek Academy and Tianshui Academy ended, the preliminary rounds concluded and the awards ceremony began.

The final roster for the preliminary rounds remains unchanged: Shrek Academy, Divine Wind Academy, Thunder Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Heavenly Water Academy.

Originally, Elephant Armor Academy had a chance, but the "crushing defeat" of Divine Wind Academy by Blazing Fire Academy made Elephant Armor Academy completely lose hope.

Furthermore, compared to Shrek Academy's third-place finish in the book's plot, Shrek Academy is currently advancing with a perfect record, which can be considered as creating a winning streak record in the preliminary rounds.

The awards ceremony was quite simple, without much preamble, and we went straight into the presentation of the awards.

Each team received a reward of 10,000 Gold Soul Coins and a qualification certificate for advancement.

After receiving the reward, Flander couldn't help but complain, "The prize money for the exchange tournaments we participated in before, which were organized by the Heaven Dou Royal Family, was more than that for this Elite Tournament qualifiers. When did the Heaven Dou Royal Family become so stingy?"

Chen Luo appeared calm: "The Great Emperor Xueye clearly had more to say."

As expected, witnessed by everyone, Emperor Xueye announced the conferment of the titles of Viscount upon the captains and vice-captains of the advancing teams, while the other contestants were conferred the title of Baron. Such a generous gesture made even Bishop Salas of the Spirit Hall look on with doubt.

However, Emperor Xueye did not care and continued his speech, saying things like the imperial palace gates were always open to the contestants.

Flander laughed upon hearing this: "That's more in line with the way the Heavenly Dou royal family does things."

"I just don't know if the little monsters are willing to get involved with nobles. If it were me, I would immediately get rid of the so-called noble titles. Gold Soul Coins are much more practical!"

The awards ceremony ended quickly, marking the successful conclusion of the preliminary rounds.

To Chen Luo's surprise, all the little monsters in Shrek Academy refused the title of noble, and they all planned to exchange the so-called fiefdom for gold soul coins. No one wanted to be associated with the nobles.

The forced recruitment by the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family was ineffective not only for Shrek Academy and its academies, but also for other academies in general.

Noble titles are indeed something that countless ordinary people dream of, but for Soul Masters, the word "noble" is more of a derogatory term.

The stronger a power is, the more it knows the disgusting things and decisions made by so-called nobles, and naturally, it will draw a clear line if it does not want to be complicit.

Shrek Academy has finally made a name for itself through the preliminary rounds.

It's already quite an achievement to stand out from the preliminaries, let alone Shrek Academy, which entered the qualifying rounds with a perfect record.

There's no need to even mention the subsequent qualifying rounds; the preliminary rounds alone have already made Shrek Academy famous throughout the Heaven Dou Empire.

Of course, if Shrek Academy fails to achieve good results later, the higher it is praised now, the more it will be toppled by its supporters.

With a month to go before the qualifiers, Chen Luo had already devised a special training plan for the little monsters and was full of confidence for the next round.

In addition, there is more good news: Shrek Academy in Soto City has broken through the ranks in the Principality region and successfully entered the qualifying rounds.

After discussing with Flander and Liu Erlong, Chen Luo finally decided to let Yu Xiuyuan and the others come to train together. Even if Yu Xiuyuan and the others were only participating in the qualifying rounds for fun, they still had to take it seriously.

Chapter 187 You've Always Been a Genius

Shrek Academy, Dean's Office.

Flander leaned back in his chair, while Chen Luo and Liu Erlong sat opposite him.

The preliminary rounds have ended, and the next stage will be the qualifying rounds. As the team leader and core figures of Shrek Academy, Flander and his two companions naturally need to make plans for the next month.

"The qualifying rounds will still be held in the Heaven Dou Empire, but the venue has changed from the Heaven Dou Grand Arena to the Royal Enclosure. The ten teams that qualified from the preliminaries in the Duchy and Kingdom will also come to compete. We need to collect information on the other teams as quickly as possible and prepare targeted training," Chen Luo said.

Flander adjusted his glasses and smiled, "We are already very familiar with the four teams in the Tiandou Division. The information has already been collected. As for the ten teams in the other divisions, apart from our Soto City Shrek Academy, there are only nine teams that need to be studied."

"Actually, we don't need to be so rigorous. The teams in other regions are really not that strong, so we don't need to pay too much attention to them. Our real opponents are still our old rivals from the qualifiers."

Chen Luo looked very serious: "Being careful is the best policy. Even if the main team doesn't need it, the second team still needs this information very much."

Flander laughed: "The qualifying rounds won't eliminate anyone. Do you really expect Yu Xiuyuan's team to be among the top teams? That's completely impossible. I was already surprised that they were able to qualify, and I also have some doubts about the strength of other regions."

"In the qualifiers, the team can still demonstrate its strength, but in the knockout stage, it's all about individual ability. Their soul power level is generally not high, which is their weakness, making it really difficult for them to win."

Chen Luo raised an eyebrow: "Boss Fu, when did you become so fussy? Just collect the information and leave the rest to me."

"If you work hard, there is still hope; if you don't work hard, there is no hope at all."

"Even if this competition is just a training opportunity for Yu Xiuyuan and his team, we still need to do our best to help them go further."

"alright."

Flander asked, "What about the Shrek Seven Devils?"

Chen Luo said, "The goal is of course the championship! It's just a pity that we can't make any more personnel changes now, otherwise I really want to bring Yu Xiuyuan back to the main team..."

Chen Luo was also well aware that the second team's strength was very limited, and Yu Xiuyuan could only go further with the home team.

Flanders laughed and said, "Come on, your disciple chose this path himself, and given his personality, he won't go back to the main team."

"I will collect the information as soon as possible. In the meantime, let the little monsters rest and adjust for a day or two."