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"Grandpa."
Dugu Yan patted Poison Douluo's shoulder, then jumped to Dugu Bo's side, giggling, "Tell me, what kind of benefits did you get from the captain?"
"I can't say that." Dugu Bo affectionately ruffled Dugu Yan's hair, then looked around cautiously, "Grandpa can only tell you that in this lifetime, there is hope for me to break through to a higher level of soul power."
Realizing the seriousness in his grandfather's words, Dugu Yan didn't ask further.
"Senior Poison Douluo."
Yu tianheng and the others finally had the opportunity to greet.
"Well, you're all doing well." Poison Douluo scanned the others, noticing that their soul power had all improved, especially Huo Wu and Yu tianheng. Their soul power was more condensed, and the fluctuations emanating from them were minimal.
It was obvious that there had been intensified training in soul power control before this Continental Elite Tournament began.
Then, Dugu Bo turned to Tang San and said, "Little Monster, before the start of the second round, there will probably be many people coming to test you. I came here this time to deter those small fries."
"Understood, thanks." Tang San thanked him.
"Why thank me? That's being too formal, isn't it?" Dugu Bo chuckled, "If it weren't for you, I'd still be troubled by the poison from my own Martial Soul..."
"Grandpa, can you say that? Isn't it risky if someone overhears?" Dugu Yan asked worriedly.
"I've already controlled the poison from my Martial Soul, it's been neutralized. Others knowing that I was poisoned before and can no longer be controlled is not a big deal." Dugu Bo snorted, "Besides, some people probably already guessed about my past poisoning. After all, there's a book in the Hall of Souls called 'The Legend of the Poison King'. It's easy to connect it to my situation, they just don't quite understand how I managed to cultivate to the level of a Titled Douluo while poisoned."
"That's true." Dugu Yan suddenly realized that her grandfather's Martial Soul poison was no longer a problem, so it was futile for others to target him based on that.
"I'll take my leave now, Yan Yan, and Little Monster." Dugu Bo came and went suddenly.
"Captain, do we still want to continue watching the matches?" Yu feng yawned, "After this match, the next ones are so boring, mostly Soul Kings, with very few Soul Emperors."
Oslo added, "There are over a hundred advanced academies in total. Even if ten matches can be held in a day, the first round will probably take about ten days."
Although there had been some changes in the Soul Master world due to Tang San's theories, resources were limited. For most advanced academies, the personal strength improvement of Soul Masters wasn't significant. Research was mostly focused on cooperation between teams.
However, unfortunately, Tang San hadn't published much about teamwork. He had released "The Self-Analysis and Positioning of Soul Masters", but there wasn't much research on how to arrange teams. The main focus was on strengthening Martial Souls and personal strength.
But these theories hadn't been published yet.
Or rather, before he became powerful himself, publishing these theories would only invite trouble, more harm than good.
Therefore, for most academies, the personal strength improvement of students wasn't significant.
"Let's watch. The Martial Souls and Soul Skills of students from other academies are quite interesting. We can learn something." Tang San didn't intend to leave, "During this time, just relax. After all, with the previous intense training, mental relaxation, combined with physical and spiritual improvement, will be greatly beneficial to soul power and mental strength."
Yu tianheng nodded, "That's not bad. For example, the team from the Elephant Armor Sect still has very good defense, and that kind of array formation, like a military formation, should play a significant role on the battlefield."
The array formation of the Elephant Armor Sect relied on the same Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul, forming a formation, and then charging forward.
It's very simple.
But such an array formation was effective for the vast majority of Soul Master teams.
Diamond Mammoths were tough-skinned and thick-fleshed, with sharp tusks like swords and machetes. Coupled with the Mammoths' charging speed, which wasn't slow in a straight line, when seven or more Diamond Mammoths formed a formation, their power was indeed formidable.
There were drawbacks, though, being too straightforward and lacking in variation.
In this Soul Duel Tournament, they could crush most academy teams, but when encountering Soul Masters who could use poison, mental attacks, or flight, they were easily countered.
Although Diamond Mammoths had resistance to poison, they were not completely immune to toxins.
If there were more than twenty of them, their power could greatly increase, but seven were not to be feared.
In short, as Yu tianheng said, such an array was most suitable for the battlefield.
Tang San even added a prefix to it—
The battlefield of the era of cold weapons.
During the discussion among Tang San and others, the Star Luo Royal Family team achieved victory with the fusion skill of their Martial Souls, the Netherworld White Tiger, crushing their opponents.
Although with the strength of Dai Weisi and the others, they could have won quite easily even without using Martial Soul fusion, in the first match, Tang San displayed his hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, and Dai Weisi also wanted to demonstrate his own power, so he also used the Netherworld White Tiger as a trump card.
As for the issue of revealing the trump card?
Dai Weisi himself didn't mind. Apart from personality factors, the fusion of the Dai Weisi family and the Zhu family in the Soul Master world was extremely famous.
As long as there were members of the Dai Weisi and Zhu families in the Star Luo Royal Family team, every teacher and member of each academy would speculate on whether they had a Soul Fusion, and would be on guard accordingly.
The Netherworld White Tiger was already an open card and couldn't be hidden.
Therefore, it was better to just use it outright, openly telling everyone: the Star Luo Royal Family team had the Netherworld White Tiger, and if anyone had the ability, they could come and try to crack it.
This was not a matter of confidence, after all, the Netherworld White Tiger was such a thing that even if it was openly announced to others, the vast majority of academy students could only stare in disbelief.
It's a simple principle—
Strength speaks for itself.
Can't beat it.
"Dai Weisi is challenging us." Tang San laughed as he saw the Star Luo Royal Family team win, and Captain Dai Weisi looked towards their direction, gesturing with his fist.
Compared to Dai Mubai, Dai Weisi was higher in terms of personality, aura, and strength.
After gesturing back to Dai Weisi, Tang San watched the next match.
The third game is Canghui Academy VS Mars Academy.
The venue was a lake.
Among the Canghui Academy team, there was another acquaintance of Tang San: Huo Yuhao.
The two white and one purple soul rings made most of the audience speechless.
"What's up with that guy from Canghui Academy? He actually has white soul rings, and two of them!" Yu feng rubbed his eyes, suspecting he might be seeing things.
You should know that among the over one hundred advanced academies, the members qualified to participate in this competition are, at worst, Soul Emperors with two yellow and one purple soul rings.
White soul rings were seen for the first time.
And there were two of them!
But the third soul ring was of the thousand-year level... this soul ring configuration was really strange. Could it be that before being discovered by Canghui Academy, this guy had been living in some remote area?
"The color of soul rings doesn't actually represent much." Tang San knew the level of Huo Yuhao's two soul rings, but didn't envy them too much, "The main benefits that soul rings can bring to Soul Masters are two: strengthening/evolving Martial Souls and Soul Skills. The remaining major function of high-age soul rings is that after absorption, they can provide a certain degree of enhancement to the body's speed, and provide more energy that can be directly refined into soul power after breaking through to the next stage of Soul Master cultivation."
"Huh, so that guy's two white soul rings should have pretty good soul skills, right?" Huo Wu crossed her arms and squinted her eyes.
"His Martial Soul is his eyes, it's mental-type." Tang San analyzed for Huo Wu, Yu tianheng, and the others based on what he should know. "And, the first two soul rings might not be ten-year soul rings."
"Not ten-year soul rings?" Yu feng exclaimed, "But they're clearly white!"
"The white of his soul rings is abnormal." Tang San pushed up the detection glasses on his nose. "Ordinary ten-year soul rings, even if they're ninety-nine years old, are that kind of pale white, but his two soul rings seem like white jade, giving off a warm feeling."
"And the diameters of those two soul rings are not right, they're a whole circle larger than that thousand-year soul ring, as if some kind of force is deliberately suppressing them..."
"Of course, this analysis isn't just based on my initial impression. At the edge of the town outside the Star Dou Forest, Xiao Wu, Guang Ling, and I fought him."
"At that time, he could probe us with his mental abilities, as if he had ulterior motives."
Hearing this, Huo Wu was slightly stunned and asked, "He's so bold? Wait, does that mean you three let him escape?"
Yu tianheng was surprised and began to consider the reasons why Huo Yuhao was able to escape from Tang San's hands, asking, "Was it because Canghui Academy had a large group of people at the time, including Soul Kings, and even Soul Saints leading the team?"
"Captain, why didn't you tell us if you were wronged?" Yu feng said, "When we meet Canghui Academy on the field, we'll definitely go all out and let them know the price of bullying our captain."
"No." Tang San sighed, feeling a bit helpless. He hadn't expected that his status would have risen so high unconsciously. "But the reason he got away wasn't because his personal strength surpassed ours, but because he was too lucky."
"I had a mental clash with him and could sense that his mental power wasn't pure, there were other wills... Those two soul rings should be similar to my fifth soul ring, obtained through sacrifice."
Hearing the word "sacrifice," everyone except Xiao Wu and Guang Ling was shocked.
"Sacrifice, isn't that something only ten-thousand-year soul beasts with intelligence can do?" Influenced by Tang San, Yu tianheng and the others also knew some secret information about soul beasts that hadn't been announced to the public.
For example: Ten-thousand-year soul beasts can be sacrificed.
And also: Plant-type soul beasts can possess the intelligence of animal-type soul beasts at the ten-thousand-year level after ten thousand years, and can also sacrifice prematurely (Nine Lives Resurrection Grass), or mutually fuse to sacrifice (Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot Nourishing).
Could it be that Huo Yuhao's two soul rings were both ten-thousand years old?
(End of this chapter)