Chapter 129 Undercurrent
The Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy and Shrek Academy can be said to be old rivals. In previous years, the Sun-Moon team has launched charges towards the championship more than once, but they were interrupted this time.

But this year is different. First of all, the strength of the Sun and Moon Team has been significantly improved compared with previous years. Secondly, the strength of Shrek Academy has declined.

Yes, the strength of Shrek Academy has actually declined compared to the previous class and even the class before that.

You should know that when participating in the last competition, Shrek had a senior sister, Zhang Yuexuan. In addition, there was another Soul Emperor among the main players, and the other five players were all Soul King-level powerhouses.

The reserve team at that time had no chance to play at all and basically just came along for the sightseeing trip.

It’s not like this year, the reserve team members basically appeared in every game, without missing a single one.

The difference between the two is rising and the other falling, and in the eyes of the audience who don't know the reason, it seems that the strength of the two is similar.

The Sun and Moon Team might have a chance this year.

You should know that the worst player of the Sun-Moon Team has the cultivation level of a fifth-level soul mentor.

As reflected in the gambling, it can be seen that the number of people betting on the Sun and Moon Team this year has increased significantly compared to previous years.

Although everyone is from the Star Luo Empire and they all hope that Shrek Academy, which is more inclined towards them, can win, the Golden Soul Coin does not recognize place.

"The Sun-Moon Empire's ambitions are growing." The Star Luo Empire sighed as it looked at the members of the Sun-Moon Team.

"Your Majesty, please be at ease. From my observation, although the Sun-Moon Empire has great ambitions, its strength cannot support its ambitions." Dai Hao stepped forward in time to support the comedy.

"Yes, with you stationed at the border, I can rest assured in the imperial capital no matter how ambitious the Sun-Moon Empire becomes." As he spoke, he lost track of where the conversation went.

"I will definitely live up to your Majesty's trust." Dai Hao replied in a deep voice.

“Haha, my dear, there’s no need to be so serious. The game is about to start, and I don’t know if Huo Yuhao will appear.”

"This match is crucial. That kid is only a three-ring soul master. I'm afraid he won't be able to play."

Hey, this guy is so arrogant. Before anyone else recognizes him, he has already put himself in the position of a father.

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"Please ask the captains of both teams to come on stage and draw lots!"

Ma Xiaotao and Ma Rulong walked up from both sides of the ring, looking at each other with provocative eyes.

"The draw is over! I declare that Shrek Academy will compete against Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. The format of the competition is a two-two-three battle!"

Different from the previous competition format, I don’t know what happened this year, the format of the final changed significantly.

You should know that in the past, the finals were not divided into different formats, but all three formats were compared, and the final two out of three were the best.

But this year, a draw was used to decide which of the three competition formats would be held first.

There are three games in total in the 223 battle. The first two games are played by two people in a group, and the last game is played by three people in a group. The team that wins the last two games wins.

Although the format of the game is decided on the spot, the order of appearance is determined in advance. It is impossible for both sides to make adjustments to the personnel at will. Doing so would be unfair to the team that plays first.

The first game, as the beginning of the final, is actually a crucial game. Therefore, in this game, both sides chose to send out their strongest players.

"Let's go." Ma Xiaotao looked at the Sun and Moon team on the opposite side, stood up without hesitation and walked towards the ring. Xixi followed behind him silently as usual.

On the other side, in the Sun and Moon Team, Ma Rulong stood up, stretched his neck, and took big strides forward.

"I really want to know how strong this so-called Shrek genius is."

A male team member behind him caught up with him in small steps, and walked towards the ring with Ma Rulong arm in arm.

"Captain, this time it mainly depends on you."

"Don't worry."

"That's good!"

With both sides standing on both sides of the ring, under the expectant gazes of countless spectators, the referee announced "The match begins!"

The next moment, Ma Xiaotao and Xixi displayed their martial spirits, ready to go; the soul guides on Ma Rulong and another male team member began to hum and started to work driven by soul power.

At the same time, Ma Rulong had already grasped the Sword of Judgment in his hand.

"As Yuhao said, these Sun Moon Empire bastards have lost their dignity in order to win."

After Ma Xiaotao glanced at the Sword of Judgment, he also secretly paid some attention to the storage soul guide.

"Since you dare to play dirty tricks, don't blame me for being rude."

"Do it." Ma Xiaotao gave the order in a low voice. Before she finished her words, Xixi turned into a golden lightning and rushed towards the other party.

However, Ma Xiaotao, who had the strongest fighting force, stopped where he was.

On the other side, Ma Rulong didn't have time to think too much because Xixi had already attacked.

A quick attack soul king is not so easy to deal with, especially for a soul engineer. Soul engineers have no shortage of means for both single and group attacks. The only thing they lack is how to deal with quick attack soul masters.

The speed was too fast and too difficult to handle.

Ma Rulong could only try his best to strengthen his own defense while holding the Sword of Judgment in his hand at all times to guard against enemies that might suddenly appear.

"Ding!"

Xixi held a golden dagger in her hand, with lightning surging, and slashed at the opponent's breastplate, causing a white firework to emerge.

Before Ma Rulong could react, Xixi suddenly disappeared like a shadow.

Then--

He suddenly appeared next to another team member and attacked, using the same move to chop the opponent's chest.

"How is it?" Ma Xiaotao asked in a low voice after Xixi came back.

"Don't worry about using it, they won't die." Xixi responded.

"That's good." Ma Xiaotao's eyes turned dangerous. "You bastards of the Sun-Moon Empire, prepare to die."

Then, Ma Xiaotao quickly took out a huge fixed-type soul guide cannon from the storage soul guide device and carried it on his shoulder.

Input soul power and aim it at Ma Rulong.

Ma Rulong felt a piercing chill coming from his back. When he noticed the huge soul guide device that Ma Xiaotao was carrying, he could not help but feel panic in his eyes.

what is this? !

This big guy is at least level seven or eight. How can we play with it?
Ma Rulong didn't know what to do for a moment.

Although he also had an eighth-level soul guide, the Sword of Judgment was specially made to deal with Ma Xiaotao, and in terms of combat power alone, it was actually no match for the eighth-level fixed-mount soul guide cannon. "Captain, what should we do?" Another team member also noticed the fixed-mount soul guide cannon on Ma Xiaotao's shoulder.

"What else can I do? Defense!" Ma Rulong threw out all the invincible protective shields on his body, forming layer upon layer of protective shields around him to protect himself.

"Hmph, do you think you can block it with a protective shield? You little bitches of the Sun-Moon Empire, go to hell!" Ma Xiaotao input her soul power and aimed it at the two of them. As the soul power was input, the patterns on the outside of the fixed-type soul guide cannon lit up one after another, and a faint red light began to appear at the muzzle of the charged cannon.

The next moment, a huge shell was fired from the fixed red cannon and instantly hit where Ma Rulong was.

In an instant, just a moment, the dozens of invincible protective shields set up by Ma Rulong shattered like paper.

Ma Rulong and another team member were seriously injured before they could even make a move and fell to the ground helplessly.

Even a huge hole was blown out in the competition arena.

All the spectators watching the game fell into complete silence.

Is this a game? Is this a war?

How could anyone use such a weapon of mass destruction in a competition?

Is this a competition or a murder?

"Assholes! You actually used this kind of soul guide in the competition. If that's the case, what's the point of competing? Everyone should just compete with each other in terms of financial resources!" The leader of the Sun and Moon Team flew to Ma Rulong's side to check on his injuries. After confirming that Ma Rulong was not in danger of life, he started to scold Shrek.

"Old man, please be polite." Ma Xiaotao said without any guilt, "If you hadn't been the first to use the eighth-level soul guide, how could I have bullied the weak?"

Upon hearing this, the head coach of the Sun and Moon Team suddenly changed color, but Ma Xiaotao continued to output.

"Do you have the guts to show everyone what level of soul guide the sword in your hand is? Is this the soul guide he made himself? A level 6 soul guide is actually using a level 8 soul guide. You're not afraid of being embarrassed if you tell others about it."

"Also, you are using an eighth-level soul guide, so we naturally won't bully you. The one in my hand is also an eighth-level soul guide. We are all eighth-level against each other, so no one is bullying anyone."

"Okay, we admit defeat." The leader of the Sun and Moon team looked at Ma Xiaotao with resentment, then took two team members to the competition arena.

With the opponent stepping down, the game was officially decided.

Everyone who reacted started cheering for Shrek!
"Shrek's strategy this year is really very different from previous years." On the high platform, Xu Jiawei said with interest: "Before, Shrek was always serious and swift in the competition. Why did it start to take such a strange approach now?"

"Well, Ma Xiaotao is clearly a Fire Phoenix Spirit Master, with a spirit power of level 69. Even without using this level 8 spirit guide, she can defeat the two opponents. I don't know what Shrek is thinking."

"Perhaps this is Shrek's response." Xu Jiujiu guessed: "The soul guide in the hand of the man opposite is clearly an eighth-level soul guide. It may be for this reason that Shrek chose not to use the power of a soul master, but also took out an eighth-level soul guide."

"Makes sense."

The discussion ended and the next game was about to begin.

And the next game is about to begin.

A 223 match is different from a one-on-one match. After each match, the players in that match must step down to play another match. There is no possibility of a single player defeating three players on the stage.

"It's now up to you." After Ma Xiaotao and Xixi left the stage, the next to take the stage were Ling Luochen and Cangyue.

There are two people, one is a control soul mentor, and the other is a melee soul mentor.

The two parties can reach a cooperation.

In this match of the Sun and Moon Empire, the opponents consisted of a man and a woman.

Before the soul masters reveal their soul guides, no one knows their strength.

A man and a woman each showed their soul guides. From the soul guides alone, it can be seen that the man should be a long-range soul guide, while the woman is a close-range soul guide.

Ranged and melee combat also achieve a good coordination with each other.

It can be said that this was a rare evenly matched match.

Many spectators in the stadium began to cheer. They liked watching this kind of evenly matched game where the winner could not be determined until the last moment.

"on!"

There's nothing much to say, just do it.

Ling Luochen summoned his martial soul, and the ice element gathered and rushed towards the two people opposite.

Cangyue equipped himself with his soul guide and rushed towards the two people with great energy.

The people on the opposite side were not afraid of the Shrek team members' moves. On the contrary, they tacitly used their soul guides to shatter the oncoming frost and continued to attack Cangyue.

Snow-white balls of light kept rushing from the front. Cangyue adjusted his posture, and when he couldn't dodge them, he cut the balls of light in half with a knife.

“Come on!” Seeing that Cangyue was also using a melee soul guide, the female members of the opposite Sun and Moon Team ran towards Cangyue holding a pair of golden sword-shaped soul guides.

It seems that he is planning to have a close combat battle with Cangyue as a soul master.

But today's battle obviously cannot be decided by the two of them.

Without waiting for the other party to walk in front of Cangyue, a soul power ray from Cangyue's sleeve suddenly shot towards the other party. It was the soul power paralyzing ray purchased from the auction that day.

Although this soul power paralysis ray has little effect on a level 5 soul king and can only paralyze the opponent for one second, one second is enough to create a huge advantage in the arena.

Cangyue took this opportunity to close the distance between the two, and the next moment he slashed at the opponent's neck with a knife, apparently aiming for his life.

At the most critical moment, the opponent's passive soul power protection shield was triggered, which allowed the opponent to escape.

But even so, the female soul instructor looked at Cang Yue with a look of shock in her eyes.

But Cangyue didn't care about that and continued to swing the melee soul guide in his hand to chop at the opponent.

However, the next moment, several soul power light balls flew towards Cangyue.

Before Cangyue could react, an ice wall suddenly stood up in front of him, blocking the light balls.

This is the remaining two people who are playing the game with the battle between them as the balance point.

Seeing that Cangyue and the other person couldn't determine the winner in a short period of time, Ling Luochen intended to take the initiative towards another long-range soul instructor, but the other party was obviously faster than him.

Therefore, when Ling Luochen turned to face the opponent, the opponent had already prepared the fortress tactics.

In an instant, countless shells attacked Lin Luochen, and Ling Luochen hurriedly summoned an ice wall to block himself.

But the ice wall was just formed by Ling Luochen using the natural accumulation of ice elements, and it was not his soul skill, so the defense of this ice wall was actually not very high.

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, the ice walls on all sides broke one after another. Ling Luochen had no choice but to retreat while building an ice wall to delay the opponent's attack.

(End of this chapter)