Soon the referee walked over and declared
"Both sides salute, non competitors withdraw from the stage."
Whether it was Heaven Dou Imperial Academy of Shrek Academy, both sides unwillingly forced themselves to bow in salute to their counterparts. The superfluous withdrew from the stage, only leaving seven people each to participate in this first match.
On the Shrek Academy's side, JoyBoy stood the furthest followed by Dai Mubai and Huang Yuan behind him on his left and right sides respectively. Tang San was in the center, with Tai Long and Jing Ling on either side. Jiang Zhu stood the furthest back.
On the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy side, besides the man and woman who spoke up before, the remaining five were all robust people, standing in a line in front, obstructing the two behind them like a wall. That petite captain stood in the center, doubtlessly this side's control system Spirit Master. And that young woman stood in the rear.
"The qualifying competition's first round, first match, formally starts."
The referee's announcement declared the official start of the first round of the qualifying competition of the current Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament. Similar to the spirit arena, the tournament gave one minute for both sides to deploy their spirits.
While coldly gazing at the other side, Dai Mubai raised his hands to his chest, shouting
"Brothers, release spirits! White Tiger Body Enhancement."
As both sides released their spirits, all the spirit rings that appeared made surprised voices immediately spread through the spectator seats.
Two yellow and two purple, four dazzlingly beautiful spirit rings flashed around Dai Mubai. Huang Yuan at his side released two yellow and one purple spirit ring. Tai Long, Jing Ling as well as Jiang Zhu behind, also each released two yellow and one purple spirit ring. None of these five lacked an optimal spirit ring configuration.
But what startled the audience the most, and even caused shock, was the person in the central position of the Shrek Academy's formation, Tang San. Two yellow, one purple and one black, four spirit rings simultaneously appeared around him.
Not just the spectator seats, even the VIP section now cried out in alarmed surprise. Who could have imagined that in the first round of the preselection competition, they would actually see a ten thousand year spirit ring appear on stage. Of course, everyone ignored JoyBoy who was just standing in front of the Shrek Academy's formation silently without releasing his spirit ring as they were all focused on Tang San's ten thousand year old fourth spirit ring.
Compared to the Shrek Academy side, the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team's spirit rings were inferior, they didn't lack in quality; being able to represent Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in battle, these students also all had optimal spirit rings. After all, relying on the strength of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's formidable teachers, as well as the power of nobility, getting hold of optimal spirit rings wasn't too strenuous.
Unfortunately, right now the seven people on stage didn't have one Spirit Master at the fortieth rank, and all had three spirit rings. As they saw Tang San, and his muted black ten thousand year spirit ring, they couldn't keep their pupils from contracting, dully.
JoyBoy ignored everyone's reaction and calmly waited for referee's signal to start the battle. The moment he saw the signal from the referee, he used the 'Soru' technique of marine six Rokushiki from the One Piece anime to disappear from his position and reappear directly in front of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team's member standing on the leftmost side.
Before the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team members could even react, JoyBoy kicked the opponent in front of him on his chest in such a way that he was directly pushed out of the stage without causing any heavy wounds on the opponent. While taking action, JoyBoy made sure that the spirit power that others were able to sense from him was at Spirit Ancestor level and not use any attribute boost.
While everyone from both teams were stunned and blankly stared at him, JoyBoy kicked two more members from the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team standing in the front, out of the stage in similar way, before their petite captain angrily shouted
"What are you staring at, fight!"
Before they could take action, black light floated around Tang San. He didn't even give the opponent's control system Spirit Master the chance to act, before his ten thousand year spirit ring ability Blue Silver Prison had already launched. Without any warning, more than a hundred strands of black Blue Silver Grass suddenly rushed out of the ground, becoming four solid cages, completely trapping Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's remaining four members within.
Cries of alarm resounded in the whole arena, some spectating Spirit Masters shouting the words 'crowd control'. Crowd control, a control system Spirit Master's most menacing tool in battle, appeared in this first round of the qualifying competition.
The next person JoyBoy kicked out of the stage was the petite captain. The moment JoyBoy kicked towards the petite captain's chest, Tang San removed the cage of Blue Silve Grass surrounding the captain showing his superb control skills.
JoyBoy didn't know whether it was fate or a freak coincidence, but when the cage of Blue Silver Grass was removed, he saw that the petite captain for some reason had tried to jump upwards while trying to move back to dodge his kick while using his spirit ring abilities.
That petite man's spirit was a Ring, categorized as a Tool Spirit. His control relied mainly on this ring, but needed time to use high level spirit abilities. If he had power attack system Spirit Masters to block the enemy offensive for him, that bit of time wasn't much. However, as he saw three of his team members kicked out of the stage and he himself was restrained by that Blue Silver Prison, his heart was already in disorder. Right now, where would there still be time to launch spirit abilities?
Helplessly, he could only use his first and second spirit ability to strengthen the Ring's attributes and block while moving in such manner. This resulted in JoyBoy's kick breaking through his ring and kicking him in an area which in polite terms can be described as 'Below the Belt'.
Everyone in the surroundings saw it and heard the sound of something popping followed by the petite captain's loud miserable squeal of pain/despair while he was literally flying out of the stage. Every male in the area felt a chill after seeing what happened and hearing the petite captain's miserable squeal. When they looked back at JoyBoy, they saw that he had already moved towards his next opponent.
JoyBoy didn't even stopped for a moment after kicking the petite captain and moved to kick the only female member of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team. Since she was female, he knew that kicking her on the chest would be inappropriate. So he kicked in the direction of her stomach.
When Tang San removed the cage of Blue Silver Grass surrounding her, everyone saw that instead of standing in a defensive position, she was trying to crouch down in fear after hearing her team captain's miserable squeal, which resulted in her face being in front of JoyBoy's kick.
Seeing her face in front of his foot, JoyBoy decreased the strength behind his kick to make sure that he doesn't end up breaking her neck and killing her. After she was kicked out of the stage, everyone saw that she had a footprint on her face with a broken nose.
When JoyBoy looked towards his next opponent to kick him out of stage, he saw that Dai Mubai and others were giving them a solid beating, so he stopped in his place and observed them. He noticed that just like in the novel, Dai Mubai and others had directly used their thousand year spirit rings against their two opponents making their battle becoming bloody.
From the start of battle till now, only six seconds had passed. After two more seconds miserable shrieks, sounds of snapping bones, and blood blossomed from their direction followed by a shout
"Stop, we concede."
When the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team's coach saw that their circumstances were too embarrassing and far from reassuring, he hastily threw in a white towel. In addition he quickly went on stage, preventing the Shrek Academy team from continuing.
The referee had already been stunned since as early as when the White Tiger Meteor Shower's dazzling light appeared. Let alone a match between academies, even if it was a spirit battle in the Great Spirit Arena, it would still be rare for such a miserable scene to appear.
Right now, all the eighty thousand spectators in the Great Spirit Arena were completely silent. If previously the Shrek Academy team member's clothes had been the target of their ridicule, then by now those snot green uniforms seemed dazzling.
Tang San's gaze coldly swept across the audience, seemingly using his expression to tell them who the strong was. Shrek's seven, using their own tyrannical strength, had choked all insults to them. Contempt or disdain, these expressions had disappeared long ago. What remained was only shock and disbelief.
"Referee, I must file a complaint. They basically weren't competing, but murdering. They've violated the rules of the competition. I demand they be judged."
Seeing two of his team members covered in blood, bones broken and tendons snapped, the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy coach snarled at the referee. The referee had already come back to himself, and immediately gazed strictly at the Shrek Academy team members.
JoyBoy took out his glasses and wore them. Then with a gentle smile, he politely asked
"Respected referee, I only want to ask you one thing, are they dead?"
The referee looked distracted a moment, turning his head to look at the seven members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team on the ground. Indeed, even though these two of them were severely injured, they still breathed and shouldn't be in danger of dying. As for the petite captain and the female member, their wounds weren't that bad.
JoyBoy nodded at Tang San, who then indicated Jiang Zhu behind him and said
"The ability of our auxiliary system Spirit Master is healing. She deployed her spirit at the beginning, releasing the healing capability. This healing ability is enough to cover the whole stage. That wasn't in order to heal us, but rather for them. If we really wanted to kill them, would we heal the opponents? But it seems they don't need our healing. Senior Jiang Zu, stop."
Tang San's voice was very loud, and he carefully amplified his voice with spirit power to spread across the whole arena, letting everyone hear. The referee looked at this side, then again at that side, and for a moment he also didn't seem to know just how to call it. At this moment, another two referees ran up, and after the three bowed their heads to talk it over, the first referee loudly declared
"Preselection competition first round, first match, Shrek Academy's victory."
This was an under ten second victory.