"You want Xiao Jiu to instruct you? Does your teacher agree?"
Shui Xin Rou was visibly dumbfounded and then asked.
"I promised my teacher that if we could get Xiao Jiu's guidance, we'd make it to the finals! So, Sensei agrees."
Zi Jing finished and led the rest of the team towards Xiao Jiu with a deep bow, "Please! Our botanical academy has never made it to the finals before, we don't want to be spectators and we want to showcase our botanical academy in the highest ring on the continent.
This time is the strongest line-up we've ever had, and I hope to win for the college!"
Each of these girls curtsied and bowed, watching Shui Yue'er and the girls smack their lips.
This time, there were only five places to advance.
And with the absolute strength of Skywater Academy, Shrek Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Divine Wind Academy, plus Thunder Academy, Fae Beast Academy, the chances of Botanical Academy winning were slim.
They were really resigned to only going to Martial Spirit City once as a spectator, it would be a regret that they would let out.
Xiao Jiu smiled, "I was able to comprehend the Wooden Domain because of you guys, many of my self-invented spirit techniques were also inspired by your Plant Academy, I'm a person who doesn't like to owe people favours, I will help you guys and get a spot in the finals!"
"Thank you!" The girls from the Plant Academy were immediately overjoyed and immediately surrounded Xiao Jiu, which caused Shui Yue'er to feel a crisis as she bumped into Shui Bing'er.
"If we don't launch an attack, he'll really be snatched away."
Shui Bing'er grunted and didn't say a word.
While Xiao Jiu had to plan up tactics for the Botanical Academy, he asked, "In the single match, Ning Rongrong and Oscar among the Shrek Seven Monsters are one of the biggest shortcomings and basically have no fighting power, so there are actually only six of them."
With the loss of Tyrone, Shrek had one less power output, which was considered a not-so-subtle disadvantage in the promotion round.
Xiao Jiu asked, "Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mu Bai, Ma Hongjun, Jing Ling, and Tang San, are you guys sure about one through several?"
Zi Jing said leisurely, "The greatest characteristic of our plant department is our strong control, like Dai Mu Bai and Jing Ling who don't have displacement spirit skills, any one of us can go through two in one, a complete victory!"
"I understand." Xiao Jiu nodded and said with a flash of his eyes, "The tactic I'm giving you guys is to hold back and consume!"
"With Zi Jing starting, your Red Flame Thorn has strong fire resistance, so your task is to eliminate Ma Hongjun, and then consume as much of Tang San's spirit power as possible, so that your subsequent team members can use wheel warfare to eliminate them one by one."
Xiao Jiu continued, "The biggest role of a control spirit master is endless control, you have to get the maximum control effect with the minimum cost, either by incapacitating your opponent or by making them consume more spirit power to use to get rid of your control."
"You have to hold theirs back, let the enemy advance and you will retreat, let them retreat and you will control them, and let them get into endless trouble."
Xiao Jiu said, giving the Botanical Academy the ideas of the holding back stream, as well as some techniques for using the wood system's own spirit techniques, and targeted tactics to specifically deal with Ma Hongjun, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhu Zhuqing.
His strange and bizarre thoughts caused the girls of the Plant Academy to stare in awe.
Each one of these girls listened to him with rapt attention, until the referee called out to them, then they realised that it was their turn to take the field.
The Shrek Academy, on the other hand, was commanded by Tang San, who had no concern for the Botanical Academy; Ma Hongjun had restrained them to death with a single Evil Fire Phoenix, and with his pressure, absolutely nothing would go wrong.
The first fighter was unsurprisingly Jing Ling, the martial spirit skeleton.
And the Botanical Academy was surprisingly the captain, the Red Hot Thorn Spirit Master, Zi Jing, a level 44 Battle Spirit Clan!
"What? Why is she the first one on the field?" Tang San frowned, the captain of the Botanical Academy, but one of the few with the highest spirit power in this competition, was facing Jingling who was only a Battle Spirit Elder, this was complete crushing!
As expected, the battle hadn't even lasted twenty seconds before a thorny restraint from Zi Jing directly bound Jing Ling to death, and the thorns on the red-hot thorns pierced into Jing Ling's body, causing him to scowl from pain, defeating him in seconds without any suspicion.
"Little San, let me on!" Dai Mu Bai said angrily.
"No, your spirit power is only level 41, and the control system restrains the strongest attack system the most." Tang San shook his head, not that he didn't trust Dai Mu Bai, but Dai Mu Bai hadn't taken the Immortal Herb and his strength hadn't improved much at all.
Not to mention the captain of the Plant Department Academy, even an opponent a Spirit Elder might narrowly beat Dai Mu Bai, this was the reason for the martial spirit restraint.
"Fatty, you go!" Tang San commanded.
"Good, watch me!"
Ma Hongjun laughed loudly and walked towards the field with great vigour, he was an evil fire phoenix spirit master, someone who specialized in restraining plant-based martial spirits, his goal was not too big, just a casual one through seven would do.
After he got on the field, he sold out and said, "Sister, Brother San told me to get on the field, you can be a little lighter later, I am very afraid of pain!"
With that, he directly turned on his martial spirit, the Evil Fire Phoenix, and three spirit rings rose up on his body, he looked like he was sure of victory, where he was pretending to be 13, waiting for his opponent to attack him.
The corners of Zi Jing's mouth hooked, this dead fatty was so lewd, she didn't have to be polite, two red hot thorns in her hands, flung them towards Ma Hongjun.
Ma Hongjun didn't dodge, letting the red hot thorns wrap around him directly, then he laughed, and the evil fire on his body burned along the thorns, pretending to be more thorough.
"Now, the other side has missed the mark." Flender laughed out loud, the plant met the fire, it was not restrained to death?
But the next moment, he could not laugh, only to see the flames burning, the red hot thorns although a little wilted, but did not immediately burn off, the control effect is still there.
"Pity, my Red Inferno Thorn is resistant to fire!"
Zi Jing coldly snorted as the fourth spirit ring on her body lit up, "Spear of Thorns!"
This was an imitation of Xiao Jiu's ground thorn spirit skill, a crimson thorn stabbed out like a spear, piercing straight into Ma Hongjun's large stomach.
"My Turn!" Ma Hongjun shouted strangely and immediately sent out his third spirit skill, Phoenix Wing Heavenly Flight.
A pair of flaming feather wings appeared behind Ma Hongjun, allowing him to fly in the air, which allowed him to dodge the spear of thorns in a shocking manner.
He did not dare to wave again this time and opened his mouth to spit out a line of phoenix fire, burning off the red-hot thorns that had entangled him, and flew into the sky with his heart pounding.
At this moment, the people watching the battle were in an uproar.
"The Red Inferno Thorns are actually resistant to fire?"
"Isn't that the same as Tang San's Blue Silver Grass? This is going to be bad luck for this fatty."
The people from the other academies were all gloating, while Tang San had an ugly look on his face.
Not only because the Red Inferno Thorn was resistant to fire, but also because he had seen Zi Jing's current movements.
Zi Jing didn't release her spirit technique, she just carried the Red Inferno Thorn and looked up at the sky, just standing there, calm and terrifying.
"Not good, she's really trying to consume Fatty's spirit power!"
Tang San's heart sank, a bad premonition rising to the forefront of his mind, he felt that his opponent was tricky.
Tang San quickly analyzed his opponent's thoughts and immediately realized that something wasn't right.
Ma Hongjun had used a flying spirit skill, and every additional second he spent in the sky, he had to continuously consume spirit power.
While Zi Jing, who was standing on the ground, wasn't losing spirit power at all, this was to consume Ma Hongjun alive, and even Zi Jing didn't even want to have a head-on clash with Ma Hongjun.
This was the kind of outcome Tang San was most unwilling to see, which was the Plant Academy fighting a war of attrition with Shrek.
"First Spirit Skill, Phoenix Fire Line!"
Ma Hongjun finally moved, opening his mouth and spewing out a line of fire, while Zi Jing flung the Red Hot Thorn in her hand, which rooted into the ground on the far side, and she pulled hard, then with a forceful pull on her feet, the person quickly dodged the Phoenix Fire Line's attack range.
Using a little spirit power, she had perfectly dodged Ma Hongjun's first spirit skill, it was so worth it.
"Little fatty, I'll see how long you can fly in the sky?"
Zi Jing didn't attack, a perfect rendition of the essence of the holding stream, using the smallest cost to obtain the greatest battle result.
Tang San's heart sank to the bottom, while Xiao Jiu nodded in satisfaction, Zi Jing was quite obedient.
Shui Bing'er's beautiful eyes swept a glance at Tang San and Xiao Jiu, now rather than Ma Hongjun and Zi Jing competing, it was more like Tang San and Xiao Jiu, the brothers, battling each other across the sky, clashing their tactics, and battle concepts.
Ma Hongjun's attack spirit skill was just one, his second spirit skill, Bathing Fire Phoenix, was to increase the power of his flame attacks, but he couldn't even hit anyone, so there was no need to use his second spirit skill.
After using the Phoenix Flame several times in a row, he found that he could not burn the opponent at all by attacking from high altitude. And his spirit power had already been depleted by 20%, but his opponent was still almost at full spirit power, so he was bound to lose if this went on.
"Let's fight!"
Ma Hongjun flashed his feathered wings and swooped down towards Zi Jing, to close the distance to cast his spirit skill and increase the hit rate.
If she had followed Zi Jing's past battle thoughts, she would have used her second spirit skill, City of Thorns, at this moment to build an indestructible defense against her opponent's attack.
Instead, the strategy Xiao Jiu had given her was to run! To make full use of the thorns in her hands to hold the opponent back and consume as little spirit power as possible.
It was too uneconomical to use a second spirit skill to ward off the opponent's first spirit skill.
Zi Jing trusted Xiao Jiu so much that she flung a red-hot thorn in one hand towards the distance and fled as fast as a spider man, a control spirit master, hardened by her interpretation into an agility spirit master.
"Don't you run! Let's have a real fight!"
Ma Hongjun caught up with the fire, after each lunge down spitting out flames, Zijing quickly fled, although the flames sometimes grazed her, but the red hot thorns resisted fire, this damage could not threaten Zijing at all.
Everyone saw this speechless scene, Ma Hongjun was chasing like a bomber with his phoenix wings, while Zijing was running like a spider, after three minutes, Ma Hongjun's spirit power had directly used up 50%.
He did not dare to land, for if he did, he would be controlled endlessly, so he could only continue to chase.
However, a sudden change occurred.
The Purple Thorn that had been fleeing turned back, and with a flip of the Red Flame Purple Thorn in his hand was bound to MaHongjun
"Not good!"
Tang San exclaimed, after running for so long, Ma Hongjun had slowly let his guard down, and at this time when he suddenly attacked, Ma Hongjun was obviously a little confused, and also looked impatient, the first moment did not reflect that this was a trap, but his heart was happy that the other party finally wanted to face him head on.
So Ma Hongjun opened his mouth and was about to spit out the Phoenix Flame Line.
"Too late!"
The corners of Xiao Jiu's mouth curled up in a smile.
He had expected such an outcome, and as the spirit master most adept at sneak attacks, his advice to Zi Jing was to turn back while using the killing spirit skill, Spear of Thorns, to take advantage of a person's inertia of heart with a mindful reckoning.
Bang!
A Red Inferno Thorn Spear had long since pierced out, and with a poof, it directly pierced through Ma Hongjun's shoulder, piercing his body.
The red hot thorns were full of thorny thorns, and the pain was so intense that Ma Hongjun almost passed out, and the phoenix fire that he spat out with his mouth was out of focus and didn't even burn on Zi Jing.
The thorns were wrapped around Ma Hongjun's neck, and with the slightest force, Ma Hongjun would be declared dead.
"Botanical Academy, win!" The referee immediately announced the result.
There was an uproar on the viewing platform, this tactic was too obscene, the whole time just running and then taking a cold hit, directly taking away the opponent in one wave, I have to say, it was too ruthless!
"This is a complete insight into Ma Hongjun's spirit skills, tactics, and even his heart, it's too scary."
The master's face was quite ugly, he had seen more than others, this was not just an understanding of spirit techniques, combat, but also involved a lot of heart factors, the opponent's lead teacher must be a master of tactics.
This was what allowed Zi Jing to consume just over 10% of her spirit power and perfectly resolve Ma Hongjun.
"One through two, ah, and knocking out the most threatening Flame-based Spirit Master to the Plant Academy! It's perfect."
"This is going to put Shrek Academy in danger, knowing that there are four Spirit Sects in Plant Academy!"
For a while, everyone whispered, all sighing in awe at the battle.
But most of them were still optimistic about Shrek.
"Shrek Academy has Tang San, who can save the day, so he shouldn't lose."
Everyone analyzed the situation and felt that Tang San's twin martial spirit, with the external spirit bone and that strange pace, could completely manage to wear seven in one.
At this moment, Zi Jing raised her hand and said, "Tang San, come up. I'll send you down as well, to show you that the Clear Sky Hammer really isn't good!"
As a control system, she wasn't afraid of the Clear Sky Hammer, especially the one without a spirit ring.
"Little San, let me go on!" Dai Mu Bai leapt to his feet.
Tang San shook his head and said, "I'll go!"
According to the rules of the competition, anyone who was knocked out of the ring would be considered a loser.
Four spirit rings surfaced on Tang San's body, and he nodded slightly and said, "Tang San, please enlighten me!"
After saying that, the Blue Silver Grass in his hand shook and flung it towards Zi Jing.
"Xiao Jiu was indeed right, people have habits that they can never change, for example, you like to start your attack with the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit first, but your Blue Silver Grass is too weak!"
"Third spirit technique, Thorn Constraint!" (T/N: I read it as croissant just now. Silly me!)
Zi Jing didn't choose to conserve her spirit power as she did against Ma Hongjun, the strategy Xiao Jiu gave her was to give Tang San as much damage as possible and consume his spirit power.
Therefore, as soon as she got her hands on it, it was a powerful control skill, and the red-hot thorns swam sinuously like a python, following the path Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had twisted over and lunged straight over, binding Tang San straight away.
"That's too domineering, both are at lose!"
The crowd was stunned for a moment, for Zi Jing had no defence at all, and as she bound Tang San, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass also bound her.
"My Blue Silver Grass is poisonous!" Tang San grunted.
"Is that so? But my Red Hot Thorns have thorns!"
As Zi Jing felt her body go numb, she urged her spirit power to make the Red Inferno Thorns squirm, the hard wooden thorns sticking into Tang San's body, causing Tang San to frown, it really hurt!
The wooden thorns of this Red Inferno Thorn were fiery and biting.
"Xuan Yu Hands!"
Tang San used his Xuan Yu Hands and pulled hard to rip off all these red-hot thorns, before he squared up to the purple thorns.
In his heart, he was secretly surprised that he had been set up by his opponent.
He thought that his opponent would do the same as in the previous fight, mainly by holding back and consuming, so he started with the Blue Silver Grass entanglement test, but he didn't expect his opponent to go head-on directly and come up with a two-way fight.
"Originally, I wanted to have a good fight with you, but I had to win, so I'm sorry!"
"Ghost Shadow Movement!"
Tang San wasn't hesitating, he couldn't spar with his opponent on consumption, his Blue Silver Grass was basically no threat to his opponent, he chose to fight in melee combat, these spirit masters with great long range attacks were generally not good at melee combat.
Xiao Jiu smiled, my guess was exactly right, next is the moment to witness!
Tang San, let me show you the battle technique I have researched against your Ghost Shadow Movement.