Chapter 345 Unlucky Shrek
According to convention, at the opening ceremony of the competition, the emperor of the host country needs to go on stage to deliver a speech to make his presence felt.

But the emperor of the Sun-Moon Empire was already half buried in the ground, even up to his neck in yellow mud. Not to mention giving a speech at the Fighting Spirit Contest, he couldn't even get out of bed. Naturally, the task of going on stage to show off fell on Xu Tianran.

When facing hundreds of thousands of people in the audience shouting "Regent" at the same time, Xu Tianran felt happy, but not completely happy.

Damn it, why hasn’t the old guy died yet? As long as he doesn’t die, I will always be the prince!

This kind of power to rule the world made Xu Tianran feel a little ecstatic, but the three words "Regent" were like a big green-headed fly suddenly flying into a delicious soup. For a moment, he didn't know whether to drink it or spit it out.

A sad group.

But Xu Tianran still read the script with a smile on his face, ending the classic emperor-showing segment of every competition, and then announced the official start of the competition.

According to the tradition of every competition, the first team to play in the knockout round is always the champion of the previous competition. This competition is no exception. The Shrek team, as the first team to win the first game of the knockout round, took the lead.

As for the result of the game, there is nothing much to say. Even if Shrek performed poorly this time, it was no match for those extras whose names no one even remembered, and it won its first victory easily.

The competition became intense after that.

The number of participating teams in this competition is twice that of previous years. Three hundred and twenty-eight teams have to complete the first round of eliminations within seven days. In this first round, half of the teams will be sent away to make up the numbers. No one wants to travel thousands of miles to Mingdu only to be eliminated in the first round, so one can imagine how desperate this elimination match will be.

Especially those sect disciples.

They are not like the students in the academy, who are harmonious and friendly under the guidance of their teachers, and whose bloodiness as soul masters is restrained by the academy.

For them who grew up in the sect, fighting bravely and fiercely is just basic training, and aiming at vital points in battle is commonplace. Just by the end of the seven-day knockout round, the death toll of this tournament has exceeded double digits.

Although the referee of the Fighting Spirit Competition still performed steadily and said that he could not protect anything, this also indirectly shows the excitement of this competition.

so cool!
Only a match where every punch hits the flesh and every move draws blood is what the audience wants to watch!
What kind of underground boxing king?

The Soul Hall team formed by Lin Yun naturally won a knockout match. In the first round, it was impossible for the stronger teams to meet each other. This was already an unspoken rule. The Soul Hall, which had been marked by the Sun-Moon Empire, naturally would not encounter a first-class team right away.

When facing those small fish and shrimps, not only Lin Yun, but even Di Qiuer did not take the field. Only Xiao Xiao came on the field and performed a one-on-seven speed run.

Facing a team of seven whose strongest opponent was Soul Sect, Soul Emperor Xiao Xiao, who had been strengthened by Lin Yun, beat the seven opponents by himself and made them lose their minds.

The day after the elimination round, the 164 teams that successfully advanced to the round-robin tournament were regrouped. Due to the large number of teams in this tournament, the round-robin tournament format was also changed. In the past, there were only 60 to 70 teams in the round-robin tournament, and no matter how hard they played, half a month was enough to complete the round-robin tournament. Now that there are twice as many teams, the previous tournament format is naturally no longer applicable.

In the round-robin tournament, each team needs to draw lots in their respective groups, and the number of defeats cannot exceed three times. In other words, once a team loses three games in the round-robin tournament, it will be eliminated directly.

It is also to speed up the pace of the round-robin competition.

The grouping on Lin Yun's side can only be said to be quite normal. There were no particularly strong teams. He did not encounter the Body Sect, Shrek, or the Sun and Moon Team. He only encountered a team from the Xingluo Royal Academy that was fairly strong.

Shrek was in bad luck. Not only did they meet the Mingyu Sect that the Tang Sect had encountered in the original novel, but they also met the Tianlong Sect that had already faced Shrek in the original novel, as well as the most heavyweight Holy Spirit Church!
That’s right, Shrek Academy faced off against the evil soul master in the round-robin tournament!

On the Soul Palace side, except for the battle against Xingluo Royal Academy, when Di Qiuer showed off her Soul Saint cultivation with a hundred thousand year soul ring and became the national goddess of the Sun Moon Empire, the other teams swept the field and won consecutive victories to take first place in the round-robin group points.

On the contrary, when Shrek was fighting against Mingyu Sect, he was severely tricked by those members with extremely strange martial spirits, and then he was caught off guard by the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King led by the captain of Mingyu Sect.

If it weren't for the fact that Fairy Tang's stats were abnormal enough and she used her spirit avatar to overwhelm the people of Mingyu Sect, Shrek would probably have to let Huo Yuhao cheat again and turn the tide.

It was equally difficult when fighting against Tianlongmen.

The martial spirit of Yu Tianlong, the captain of the Tianlong Sect, is inherited from the lineage of Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin ten thousand years ago. It is the purest Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex. Even in the period of the Peerless Tang Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex was considered to be one of the most awesome martial spirits.

In the original novel, Yu Tianlong was defeated by Wang Qiuer, and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex was directly stunned by the Golden Dragon.

And now in this battle between Shrek and Tianlongmen, Beibei, who is the only dragon spirit of Shrek, is suppressed by Yu Tianlong!
It is true that Beibei has strong talent, but there is a full soul ring difference between him and Yu Tianlong. As a genius who also possesses the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex martial spirit, Yu Tianlong is not much worse than Beibei!
From the beginning to the end, Bei Bei was beaten by Yu Tianlong until he lost all his temper. In the end, it was delayed until Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong dealt with the other members of Tianlongmen, and finally they worked together to defeat Yu Tianlong and won the victory.

Without Moon's gift before his death in the original novel, Beibei would not be able to release the Awakening of the Holy Dragon of Light at will, especially after knowing that the Shrek team and the evil soul master were in the same group. He had to keep the Awakening of the Holy Dragon of Light that he used to defeat the evil soul master that day to deal with the Holy Spirit Church!

Beibei felt aggrieved, but he had no choice. After all, this was a tactical arrangement and he could only do it.

Otherwise, if he used the Awakening of the Holy Dragon of Light, the one who would be suppressed and beaten would probably be Yu Tianlong.

Except for the two more difficult teams, Mingyu Sect and Tianlongmen, the other teams did not cause too much trouble to Shrek, and they pushed all the way to the later stages of the round-robin tournament.

During the competition, Huo Yuhao naturally also participated in the so-called Mingdu underground soul instructor competition.

(End of this chapter)