Chapter 103
After the entire qualifying round of the promotion match was over, there was a full month of rest time. Yu Xiaogang planned to organize everyone to undergo intensive training. Everyone seemed to respect this, especially Yu Tianheng, who almost followed Yu Xiaogang's lead.
However, Yang Xiong directly asked Yu Xiaogang for a month's leave, mainly saying that he had encountered a bottleneck in his practice and wanted to practice in seclusion. Yu Xiaogang was quite dissatisfied at first, but Tang San had already asked for leave for the same reason before, so it was impossible for him to favor one over the other, so he finally agreed.
The entire preliminaries were a huge blow to Tang San. He originally thought that he had unparalleled talent, but his performance in the preliminaries was not satisfactory.
Many people have conducted some research on Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and have come up with many ways to restrain it, especially using fire-attribute soul masters. The Blue Silver Grass will basically be burned to ashes quickly when it encounters fire, and both the formation and tactics will be quickly disrupted.
It can be said that the Shrek team stumbled throughout the entire qualifying round. Even though their average spirit power level was the highest in the Tiandou region, they did not gain any advantage in the confrontation with strong teams. In particular, their disastrous defeats to the Shinfeng Academy and Tianshui Academy made Tang San lose face.
Compared to Tang San, Yang Xiong has also been thinking about various issues recently, especially the issue of future development, so he simply asked for leave and returned to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect to practice in seclusion.
Of course, the Shrek team has another problem. Now the entire team has three level 39 soul masters. Perhaps it is possible for them to break through again in a short period of time. By the time they really reach the finals, their strength will be greatly improved.
Originally according to Yang Xiong's plan, all his soul rings were to absorb power-type soul rings, and at the same time expand from this aspect. All soul rings had the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and finally certain high-level attributes were added, such as space, light, darkness and the like.
But after going back to the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire this time, Yang Xiong felt as if he had always underestimated the method of the Five Elements Soul Ring, and also underestimated the power of his own martial soul.
Although he had completely absorbed the two external soul bones of the Silver-Horned Tyrannosaurus Rex this time and even gained a lot, Yang Xiong always felt that this world was not as simple as he imagined. His claws seemed to represent some kind of power, especially the unexpected feeling in the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire.
However, the martial soul of the original body is more mysterious than he had imagined. Since the martial soul is one's own body, and everyone's body contains infinite potential, it is completely different from an ordinary martial soul.
For example, it is very difficult for an ordinary martial soul to change its form, and it is even more difficult to evolve. However, the original martial soul seems to be getting stronger every moment. From the time it awakened at the age of six to now when he is fourteen, the originally very weak martial soul has gradually become comparable to the top martial soul after Yang Xiong's hard training and a lot of investment in body refining.
The changes in a pair of dragon claws, on the contrary, can prove the extremely terrifying plasticity of the martial soul. Especially since the martial soul contains so much content, such as skin, blood, muscles, bones, bone marrow, pores and even hair. These are all part of the martial soul, and each part seems to have the possibility of development and awakening.
You must know that in later generations, original martial spirits are extremely rare, and also extremely powerful, like opportunities bestowed by God.
The original body martial soul is also known as the martial soul with the highest degree of compatibility between body and martial soul. You should know that in the entire Douluo world, there are only three ultimate Douluos who can perfectly integrate body and martial soul, but the original body martial soul can reach this level without any training, which is a miracle.
The whole body martial soul has another great advantage, that is, both the eyes and the brain are part of the martial soul. As the body is refined and grown, the mental power also grows very rapidly, which can be said to be far superior to soul masters of the same level.
For the next month, Yang Xiong meditated in seclusion, thinking about the development and changes of his martial soul, as well as his next plans and even some subsequent plans.
According to the current situation, this trip to Wuhun City is probably unstoppable, but what role should I play? Should we allow the Spirit Hall to win the championship and then reach its peak of momentum and dominate the world in one fell swoop, or should we have a real fight?
After two years of getting along, Yang Xiong still has certain feelings for the Shrek team. Although he is not very close to Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai and others, and even these people have their own shortcomings, it has not reached the point of mutual hatred.
Especially Tang San, although his behavior is quite extreme and even a little bit double-standard, he is far from being as disgusting as later generations. It can only be said that power makes people swell and human nature distorted. Perhaps this is also the influence of the martial arts world on people's hearts.
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Time flies, and soon a month has passed, and the promotion competition is about to begin.
After a month of seclusion, Yang Xiong felt as if he had re-acquainted himself with his martial soul. His whole body and mind became extremely clear, and some things that he could not understand before were now clearer to him.
One of the biggest gains was that the Purple Demon Pupil had finally been cultivated to the peak of the Microscopic Realm. It could be said that in terms of mental power, it had surpassed Tang San, but there was still a considerable gap to the third realm, the Mustard Seed Realm. In order to reach the Mustard Seed Realm, mental power needed to undergo a qualitative change and be released. According to estimates, it would probably have to reach the Soul Saint level to do so. Of course, if one had a head soul bone, it should be possible to do so much earlier.
The entire Shrek team seemed to have undergone some changes. Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu seemed to have become closer, and the biggest change was in Tang San.
Tang San actually broke through to the Soul Sect realm within this month, especially after he absorbed the fourth soul ring, his soul power reached level 41.
According to Ning Rongrong, Tang San's fourth spirit ring is a six thousand year old human-faced demon spider, which is absorbed beyond the age of the spirit ring. The name of the spirit skill is Spider Web Binding, which is a good control-type spirit skill. It can use blue silver grass to form a huge spider web to trap the enemy. It can control a single enemy and a group of enemies, depending on his own use. However, this human-faced demon spider did not bring Tang San any external soul bones, and Yang Xiong felt that Tang San's blue silver grass seemed to have become much more resilient, but its shortcomings were still obvious.
If the qualifying round is a test of teamwork, then the qualifying round is a pure test of individual ability.
The promotion match was held in the parade ground outside Tiandou City, surrounded by tens of thousands of troops. It was also a completely closed competition. In addition to the relevant contestants, only some high-ranking officials and nobles of the empire could participate. It was not open to ordinary people.
Tang San was still in charge of arranging the lineup for the promotion match. It was obvious that Yu Xiaogang had really put in a lot of effort to train Tang San, and even his heart was focused on one thing. At least Dugu Yan, who was also a control type, did not have such treatment.
I don't know if it was an intentional arrangement, but Yang Xiong was actually arranged to be the seventh player in every game, as the team's last trump card. This basically ensured that the team would not lose.
Compared with the stumbling in the preliminaries, the Shrek team performed very well in the promotion matches, which could be described as crushing the enemy with ease.
The entire Tiandou Royal Academy Shrek team has a total of six Soul Masters, especially Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, Dugu Yan, and Tang San. The combat effectiveness of the four of them is very strong, and they can basically perform a one-on-many show.
Half a month passed quickly, and there was no disturbance in the promotion match. The Shrek team ranked first without any suspense. Both Yu Tianheng and Tang San performed very well.
Yang Xiong seemed very casual about this kind of deployment of troops and didn't care at all whether he would play or not. Anyway, the promotion match was more like a selection of talents by nobles and sects, which had no meaning to him at all.
Compared to Yang Xiong who did not play from beginning to end, Tang San was definitely the most eye-catching presence in the entire promotion match. He was either arranged to be the first to play or the third.
There were a total of fifteen qualifying teams from the entire Tiandou Empire. Except for the five teams from the Tiandou region, the teams from other regions were relatively weak. Tang San and his companions defeated three or four teams at once many times, and their powerful combat power was extremely surprising.
The most exciting battle in the entire promotion tournament was between Tang San and Feng Xiaotian. Unfortunately, even though Tang San tried his best, he was still defeated by Feng Xiaotian in the end, even though Tang San showed off his mantis leg soul bone in this battle.
But the Blue Silver Grass was still too fragile after all, and the Clear Sky Hammer did not have any spirit rings.
Finally, after a hard battle, Tang San's body couldn't hold on any longer and he fell to Feng Xiaotian's Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes of the Wind Demon Wolf.
Tang San's confidence was hit again, but in comparison, Tang San's talent and opportunities made Sarath and others more interested in him.
However, although Feng Xiaotian won the individual battle with Tang San, both of them were only the first to attack, and Feng Xiaotian himself was extremely exhausted. The other members of the Shinfeng Academy did not have the combat effectiveness of Feng Xiaotian, and the team was quickly defeated by the Shrek team, without even Yang Xiong having to take action.
It can be seen that Feng Xiaotian is still quite depressed. No matter how strong his personal ability is, he can't defeat the Shrek Soul Sect.
Tang San's performance also attracted the attention of some interested people, especially the host of the conference, the Platinum Bishop Salas of the Spirit Hall.
No matter from which perspective, with twin martial souls and external spirit bones, Tang San will probably be the number one enemy of the Spirit Hall in the future.
But neither Tang San nor Yu Xiaogang seemed to understand the current undercurrent, and of course Yang Xiong didn't care so much.
Yang Xiong observed this fight carefully, Tang San's Tang Sect skills were indeed very good, especially the Mysterious Jade Hand and Ghost Shadow. The Mysterious Jade Hand allowed Tang San to take on Feng Xiaotian's ordinary wind blades with his bare hands, while the Ghost Shadow allowed Tang San to compete with Feng Xiaotian in speed.
However, Yang Xiong was also very clear that the foundation of all Tang Sect's martial arts was actually the Xuantian Gong. Without the Xuantian Gong as a foundation, the practice of other martial arts would be much slower, especially the Purple Demon Pupil, which would be even more difficult to reach a higher level.
Ning Rongrong also practiced the Purple Demon Pupil for more than a year. Although she had also entered the subtle realm, her practice speed had obviously slowed down a lot since then. At least she did not show the talent and speed she had when she first started learning.
However, Yang Xiong felt that his Yin-Yang Meditation Method seemed to have a complementary effect with the Purple Demon Eye. Both the Yin-Yang Meditation Method and the Xuantian Gong came from Taoism. In terms of level, the Yin-Yang Meditation Method seemed to be more profound and was basically the foundation of everything in Taoism, just like the source of all exercises.