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--- Chapter 243 ---
The continental tournament's first-round has finished with a surprising result, and people were curious about what happened next.
The sudden appearance of Shrek Academy overshadowed other academies on the first day, but the winner hasn't decided yet because it's too soon to predict it.
The Holy Son's sudden appearances also shocked many people because they had never heard such information before. Even though some people know about the saintess, they don't know that the Holy Son exists.
The audience said the holy son was a good-looking young man with silver hair and red eyes. He possessed a bright complexion and a handsome face, which enchanted over 100 female audiences at that moment.
Not to mention his calm and composed aura, making him more mysterious and somewhat irresistible for defenseless young ladies.
That was what ladies in the audience explained to others who couldn't watch the first round.
However, the male audience clearly had the opposite description. A few unpleasant people directly give the holy son a weird reputation.
They called him "Lazy Holy Son." for some reason because they saw him do nothing but sleep on the side, which caused them to think he was a spoiled brat who hid behind the spirit hall's influential background.
In the end, two factions abruptly were created that day, but a few people from the anti-holy son's side weirdly disappeared from public eyes.
--- The next day ---
The first day passed without any problem, and 16 qualified teams have rested thoroughly to recover their strengths.
Though some questions were still unanswered, they arrived on the tournament stage, waiting for Liu Erlong to announce the second round.
The supreme pontiff and the holy son naturally walked on the viewing venue without minding people's gazes who curiously watched them.
Liu Erlong appeared on the stage and glanced at the mother-son pair with a wry smile. "That woman definitely likes to brag." She commented with a smile.
She shook her head and announced, "Well, let's start the second round."
Pa!
Liu Erlong casually snapped her fingers and abruptly caused 16 rock pillars to emerge from the ground.
BOOM!
The stage transformed slightly, but it was still the same flat stage with additional pillars, which caused the contestant to frown.
Tang San observed at the pillars with his purple demon eyes and swiftly discovered every single of them had numbers from 1-16 to match the qualified teams.
"Like what some of you have guessed, the pillars matched with the amount of the qualified team." Liu Erlong said with a calm expression.
"I've said the team order from 1-16 yesterday, so I want you all to move onto the pillars now." She added.
Shrek Seven Devils moved swiftly and reached the sixteenth pillar without any problem.
Tang San briefly moved his gaze to the other teams and quickly noticed a majority of them had reached their respective pillars.
"Some teams couldn't quickly reach their place because they couldn't climb such tall things like this pillar." Ma Xioatao commented while crossing her arms.
"This pillar is at least 100m above the stage, which means they have a clear disadvantage in this round." She continued, to which Tang San responded with a nod.
Ning Rongrong suddenly smiled and replied, "Then we should be okay as long as Oscar is on our team."
Oscar couldn't help but realize his spirit skill that could make others have the ability to fly works really well in this situation.
"Hehe, leave it to me." He proudly said while raising his chest.
Dai Mubai wryly shook his head and quietly whispered some words into Oscar's ear, which caused the white-haired boy's eyes to shine brightly.
"What are you two talking about?" Xiao Wu asked with a frown because these two had such evil looks for a second.
Dai Mubai and Oscar slowly moved their heads to hers and grinned widely at her. They explained a plan to trap other teams with Oscar's flying mushroom ability.
"You two are so evil," Xiao Wu gradually had the same wide grin as them.
A small flatform slowly floated to the air above 16 pillars, and Liu Erlong indifferently stood on it, looking at the contestant with a calm gaze.
"I'll explain the rule since all of you have arrived on the pillar." Liu Erlong said while pointing her finger at eight red fireballs on the center of the pillars.
"Your objective was to put down those fires." She declared. "However, every 5 minutes, one pillar will go down."
"If your pillars have dropped, you may overtake another team pillar by defeating their teams."
"What?! Doesn't that mean our team will be completely disadvantaged in this round?" A contestant from ironwood city's team complained.
Ironwood city's team actually was filled with soul masters who couldn't fly and only possessed quite powerful defensive capability. They survived the first round because none of the teams could crack their defense.
Liu Erlong glanced at the young man and coldly responded, "It's your problem. Not mine."
"Your team is maybe fortunate enough in the first round," She sneered lightly. "Yet, you do realize the other team at least has one or two members who could adapt in any situation."
"That member is the control-type spirit master, which your team doesn't have."
Liu Erlong kindly smiled at them and said, "Not to mention the other type of spirit master, as the agility type, if your team couldn't even have the most basic member, then it's your problem, not mine."
"If this place is a star dou forest, your team probably would have died."
The ironwood city's team shut their mouth in fear because Liu Erlong's eyes abruptly flared with murderous intent.
They couldn't refute a single word from her but didn't want to admit it because they were proud of their abilities. They could only try their best to survive this round.
"Then, I'll continue the explanation." Liu Erlong said. "If your team fell on the ground, then you'll be disqualified too,"
"Second Round, Chasing Fire, began!" She abruptly declared, which caught some team off guard.
BOOM!
Su Yanyu blasted herself with a wind explosion and propelled her body toward the fireball.
"Hmm?" She looked at the other team and saw a fire phoenix also reach the fireball at the same speed.
The other contestants also chased over the fireball, but a rain of projectiles suddenly fell over the entire stage.
"What's this..." Su Yanyu observed the projectile and saw it was mostly a metal needle.
"It's them again." She frowned while looking at the six other members of Shrek academy, who launched a series of projectiles over the stage.