89: One Year of Improvement
It must be said that Liu Erlong really cares about Yu Xiaogang. Knowing that the Shrek team lacks substitutes, he actually introduced the best disciples of Lanba Academy, Tai Long and Jiang Zhu, to Flanders.
Yang Xiong didn't know what happened between them. In the end, Tai Tan met Tang San. Tang San revealed his second martial spirit, the Clear Sky Hammer, and then Tang San had a little follower, Tai Long.
Even Yang Xiong felt that things were unpredictable. He didn't expect that after a lot of twists and turns, he returned to the original plot.
Time passed quickly for more than a year, and it was very close to the Soul Master Competition, or it was also very close to the graduation time in Yang Xiong's mind.
After a year and a half of hard training, Yang Xiong improved six levels in this year. Now he is level 38, which is the most improved among all people.
Compared with Yang Xiong, others have also improved significantly.
Among them, Dai Mubai broke through to level 42, and is the only Soul Sect among all people, but Dai Mubai is already seventeen years old.
Tang San's soul power has now reached level 39, but it is only one level higher than Yang Xiong. Xiao Wu is level 38, the same level as Yang Xiong.
Oscar has been training hard with Yang Xiong for a year, and his soul power has reached level 36, which is a full four levels higher in a year.
Ning Rongrong is also level 36, but she has just broken through.
Zhu Zhuqing and Qin Shuang are both level 34. These two girls are very hardworking in their training, but unfortunately their innate soul power is relatively low, and I am afraid they will not be able to improve in the short term.
Especially Qin Shuang, she likes to practice in the gravity simulation environment, and the training time is longer than Yang Xiong. She even has to fight Zhao Wuji every day like Yang Xiong. The gravity simulation environment seems to be customized for her.
In contrast, Ma Hongjun is only level 33, the lowest soul power level among all people. He was actually surpassed by Qin Shuang and Zhu Zhuqing, which made Flanders very embarrassed. After all, Ma Hongjun is his direct disciple.
Judging from the speed of the Shrek people's cultivation, even if they reach the finals, there will probably be at most four Soul Masters. Only Yang Xiong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu have the hope of breaking through again. The others are far behind.
Without the immortal grass, the Shrek people are not as outstanding as in the original novel, but in terms of talent and cultivation speed, they are indeed far ahead of their peers, especially by the time of the next Soul Master Competition, it will not be a problem for all members to become Soul Masters or even multiple Soul Kings.
However, I am afraid that they can only play a supporting role in this Soul Master Competition, at least there is no hope of winning the championship.
The day before the Soul Master Competition, all the teachers and students of the Shrek team of Tiandou Royal Academy gathered together again, and Yu Xiaogang and Flanders explained the rules of the Soul Master Competition in detail, including all the contents of the preliminaries and promotions.
It can be seen that Yu Xiaogang and other teachers are very confident. Although they will not win the championship, they are still confident of being in the top five in the preliminaries. Normal high-level soul master academies generally have only one or two soul masters. Although the second team only has one soul master, Yang Xiong, Tang San and even Xiao Wu have the combat power of soul masters, and the others cooperate very well.
Moreover, compared with other teams, Shrek and his team recently went to the Sunset Forest for training, and their combat experience is relatively rich. They have even seen a lot of blood, which is definitely not comparable to those ordinary teams.
The current Shrek team can't preserve its strength like the original work, and soon confirmed the main lineup.
The seven main players are Dai Mubai, Tang San, Yang Xiong, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Tai Long, and Oscar, and the substitute lineup is Qin Shuang, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun and Jiang Zhu.
Among them, Tai Long's soul power level has reached level 38, which is even the same as Yang Xiong among the main players. After all, he was originally the captain of Lan Ba Academy.
Although Yang Xiong tried every possible way this year, even asking Lin Gong to create pressure for him, he still couldn't make the pair of Exploding Dragon Claws completely merge with himself. This made Yang Xiong feel that his pair of dragon claws were becoming more and more extraordinary. It might not be so easy to completely merge them. Maybe it was because the dragon bloodline of the pair of dragon claws was too strong that it couldn't be completely absorbed.
Yu Xiaogang still followed his own plan and let Tang San be responsible for the team's layout and tactical arrangements. After all, he was the only control-type spirit master in the team.
Yang Xiong didn't care so much. Anyway, he didn't take this spirit master competition too seriously. It was enough for him to contribute 70% of his strength in the competition, and he wouldn't pay too much attention to the rest.
Compared with Yang Xiong's calmness, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were much more nervous. They both wanted to show themselves more.
During this year, Yang Xiong's spirit power was getting closer and closer to Tang San, which put Tang San under great pressure.
Originally, Tang San felt that he had unparalleled talent and practiced quite diligently. Unfortunately, if both of them continued to practice at this speed, he might be surpassed by Yang Xiong. By then, his innate full soul power would become a joke. As the leader, Yu Xiaogang, especially as Tang San's teacher, believed that Tang San was absolutely unparalleled under his training. But his apprentice seemed to be surpassed by his teammates. Wouldn't his training alone become a joke?
However, Yang Xiong had never shown his spirit skills. They had no idea about Yang Xiong's spirit ring skills and what spirit beast he came from. Even though the two had analyzed Yang Xiong many times, they still had no understanding.
Yu Xiaogang even hinted at Yang Xiong in various ways, but unfortunately Yang Xiong pretended not to know. Anyway, this person had no strength to force him.
Of course, there were also many rumors outside, saying that if the two teams of Tiandou Royal Academy were combined, it might make the team stronger. Even the leader of the first team, Qin Ming, expressed this.
Unfortunately, this kind of news ended in vain. The internal structure of the first team of Tiandou Royal Academy was originally complicated, and everyone had their own background. If the two teams were really integrated, the cooperation might not be as good as it is now, especially the three major education committees valued the potential of the second team more than the current strength.
The Heavenly Soul Master Competition finally began. After the renovation, the original Heavenly Soul Fighting Arena looked more high-end, and even more than a dozen small soul fighting arenas were expanded inside.
The entire Heavenly Soul Fighting Arena was crowded with people, especially outside the Great Soul Fighting Arena.
The Shrek team walked among all the teams in silver battle robes.
The first team to play was of course the Heavenly Soul Royal Academy Team 1, followed by the Heavenly Soul Royal Academy Shrek Team. It was originally supposed to be the Tiannuo Royal Academy Team 2, but the three major education committees and the crown prince Xue Qinghe named it this way out of respect for the Shrek team.
If the Great Soul Fighting Arena was crowded outside, the Soul Fighting Arena was packed with people, and even cheers could be heard from time to time.
Sitting in the center of the guest seats was Emperor Xue Ye, and on both sides were Ning Fengzhi and a high-level member of the Spirit Hall, who should be the Platinum Bishop Saras of the Heavenly Soul Area of the Spirit Hall, and the real host of this Soul Fighting Competition.
Although Yang Xiong has participated in many soul fighting competitions, he has never participated in a competition like this that is watched by the entire continent. No wonder Yu Xiaogang and others attach great importance to it.
After the Platinum Bishop Saras drew lots, the opponent of the Shrek team of Tiandou Royal Academy turned out to be the Blue Tyrant Academy, which made Yang Xiong speechless.
Originally, the Blue Tyrant Academy was at the bottom of the Tiandou region, and now even the captain has been poached to the Shrek team, and the combat effectiveness can be said to be extremely poor.
As a result, they were caught off guard by Shrek as soon as they entered the field. All the members were knocked down in just half a minute. Before Yang Xiong could exert any strength, all the opponents were knocked off the stage.
According to Tang San's arrangement, although Yang Xiong entered the field, he stood relatively far back in the entire formation, mainly acting as a defensive soul master to protect Oscar and Ning Rongrong, two assistants, and at the same time acting as a surprise soldier in the battle process. After all, with Yang Xiong's speed, he can be regarded as a quick attacking soul master.
Yang Xiong himself was also happy to be idle. He would not do anything to turn the tide. He was already worthy of everyone by showing 70% of his strength.
Yang Xiong paid special attention to Liu Erlong. Even though Lanba Academy suffered such a disastrous defeat, she, the dean, seemed to be completely unconcerned. She was completely focused on Yu Xiaogang, which made Yang Xiong speechless. Douluo Continent deserves to be called the love continent. How come these women put love more than their careers?
Of course, Yang Xiong also had a very strange question. Normally, Xiao Wu should not participate in this kind of soul master competition, especially since there were masters like Jian Douluo in the stands, and even other Title Douluo masters might occasionally appear. But Xiao Wu seemed to be fearless and actually participated in the competition, which made Yang Xiong begin to doubt it.
In the next few days, the Shrek team of Tiandou Royal Academy won consecutive victories. Several soul masters were extremely dazzling, while Yang Xiong, who stood at the end of the team, performed relatively averagely.
Originally, Yang Xiong was not very interested in this kind of competition, but everyone around him was discussing it, and he couldn't help but watch the battles of other teams.
The Five Elements Academy is indeed a strong team. Each team performed very well, especially the captains of each team. Their strength has basically reached the Soul Sect realm. Their various soul ring skills are also very good. From the perspective of their background, they are indeed far beyond the reach of Shrek and others.
Yang Xiong even saw his elder brother Yang Wei on the field. Although he was only a substitute for the Purple Star Academy, he now has a soul power of level 35, and his Iron Sword Martial Soul has a very strong attack power. He is also a rare weapon spirit soul master in the fighting spirit competition.
As we all know, the difficulty of cultivating weapon spirits is far greater than that of beast spirits in the early stage. Although Yang Wei's soul power level is average, he has been cultivated by many resources of the sect, and his physical fitness is very good in all aspects. In particular, the sect has a special inherited sword method, which is not comparable to ordinary spirit masters.
Yang Xiong also thought secretly. After all, this is his own elder brother and the person closest to him in this world. Should he pay special attention to him and even make some plans for his future? Especially this elder brother was very good to him when he was a child, but he has his own cultivation method and his father's cultivation, so the two sides did not communicate too much about cultivation issues.
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