In the afternoon, as the team competition was about to begin, Wu Zhangkong was still nowhere to be found. Therefore, the Dean, Long Hengxu, became the teacher leading them to the competition.
Long Hengxu was in a very cheerful mood. Judging from the results of the individual competition in the morning, the members of Class Zero were all very competitive, which made him full of expectations and confidence for the upcoming team competition.
"Children, are you ready?" he asked with a smile.
"Ready, Dean Long!" Jing Shaoyu replied on behalf of everyone.
Long Hengxu nodded and said, "Next, it's up to your performance. I don't know if your Teacher Wu has told you, but this Skysea Alliance Grand Competition is actually an assessment of Class Zero by the academy.
Class Zero is too special, with a small number of students but a large amount of resources invested. Therefore, the academy has always had doubts, worrying that investing so many resources will not achieve the desired results in the end. So, come on, children, the time to prove Class Zero is right in front of you! The ranking in this Skysea Alliance Grand Competition will determine the future of Class Zero and the proportion of resources invested!"
Jing Shaoyu said, "We will definitely do our best!"
Compared to the individual competition stage, the team competition stage was undoubtedly much larger. The team competition stage for a five-person team was a circular platform with a diameter of one hundred meters. Like the individual competition stage, the periphery of this circular competition stage also had a Soul Guidance Barrier.
Led by Long Hengxu, Jing Shaoyu and the others arrived at the competition venue. From Long Hengxu, they learned about their first-round opponents in the team competition, a five-person team from Spirit Sea City.
Spirit Sea City, like East Sea City, belonged to one of the five major cities of the Skysea Alliance and one of the Federation's eighteen first-tier cities. The strongest academy in Spirit Sea City was called Spirit Sea Academy, and Jing Shaoyu's first-round opponents were a small, unknown academy under the jurisdiction of Spirit Sea City, called Wave Flower Intermediate Academy.
The competition was about to begin. Jing Shaoyu led his four companions onto the competition stage, and the five-person team from Wave Flower Academy also walked onto the competition stage from the other side. They were all sizing each other up. Compared to the Jing Shaoyu's calm expressions, the five members of Wave Flower Academy showed obvious surprise and joy on their faces, simply because Jing Shaoyu's team was too young.
The five members of Wave Flower Academy were all between the ages of fourteen and fifteen, three boys and two girls, which was very similar to Jing Shaoyu's team. However, this similarity seemed to only be in terms of the gender ratio of the personnel. In terms of strength, the two sides would soon show a world of difference.
After all, it was the first round of opponents, and according to convention, their strength would not be too strong.
"Both sides, get ready." The referee on the competition stage announced.
Jing Shaoyu and the others immediately formed a formation. Tang Wulin stood at the front, followed by Xie Xie, then Jing Shaoyu and Gu Yue, and finally Xu Xiaoyan. This was the formation they used most often. On the other hand, on the opposite side, the two girls were actually standing at the front, followed by two boys, and finally another boy was standing at the back, forming a two-two-one formation.
The opponents directly released their Martial Souls and Soul Rings. The two girls standing in the front row, the one on the left was a Great Soul Master with two yellow Soul Rings, and her Martial Soul was Cheetah. The one on the right was also a Great Soul Master with two yellow Soul Rings, and her Martial Soul was a long spear. The three boys behind them were also Great Soul Masters with yellow Soul Rings, one with a Martial Soul of Fire Crow, one with a Martial Soul of Water Crane, and the boy standing at the back had a Martial Soul of a large flower.
A five-person team of all Great Soul Masters was a completely unconventional strength configuration! With such strength, they had a chance to enter the top eight of the five-person competition!
"Start!" The referee gave an order.
"Let's go, Wulin, Xie Xie!" The East Sea Academy side reacted quickly, Jing Shaoyu said loudly.
Tang Wulin and Xie Xie immediately launched themselves, rushing out like cannonballs. As they rushed out, they each released their Martial Souls. Blue Silver Grass emerged around Tang Wulin's body, but the main change was still his arm. The Gold Dragon Claw directly appeared. Xie Xie was much simpler, with a Light Dragon Dagger flashing in one hand and an invisible Shadow Dragon Dagger in the other, his aura sharp.
Of the three people behind Jing Shaoyu, only Jing Shaoyu made a move. He raised his hand, and a delicate staff appeared in his hand, which was the Staff of Stars. With his movements, the Staff of Stars lowered a scarlet Star Light Boiling, which sprinkled on Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, and their auras suddenly soared. At the same time, countless fireballs appeared in the sky.
Star Light Boiling plus Fire Burst!
The five members of Wave Flower Academy lacked practical experience. They released their Martial Souls first, but were preempted by their opponents. Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had already crossed the center line of the competition stage and were approaching them infinitely. The two girls in the front row only reacted under the reminder of the boys in the back row.
However, it was too late. Under the enhancement of Star Light Boiling, Tang Wulin's speed increased greatly. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the girl with the spear Martial Soul. The Gold Dragon Claw unceremoniously swung towards her.
The girl's face was horrified, and her body was stiff. She even forgot to defend, and just stared blankly at the golden Dragon Claw that was getting bigger and bigger in her eyes, motionless. If the referee hadn't taken action in time to save her, she would have been seriously injured by the Gold Dragon Claw.
On the other side, Xie Xie had already sneaked up to the boy standing in the last row. The Light Dragon Dagger and Shadow Dragon Dagger stabbed out at the same time. The boy could only raise his hands with a helpless expression and choose to give up resisting. His Martial Soul was called Blue Spirit Flower, a plant-based Martial Soul with healing abilities, which had good auxiliary abilities, but its combat power was almost zero. Therefore, when Xie Xie, a agility-attack type Soul Master, got close to him, he probably only had the choice of surrendering or dying.
In less than a minute after the start of the competition, the opponent instantly lost two members. The remaining three members were still in a daze. The girl with the Cheetah Martial Soul was the first to react. With a resentful expression on her face, her hands turned into a pair of black leopard claws, and she grabbed at Tang Wulin, who was closest to her.
However, this was completely an act of overestimating herself. Tang Wulin just raised the Gold Dragon Claw to block in front of him, and then pushed it hard. The girl's body fell backward uncontrollably, directly hitting the ground, and her hands trembled uncontrollably, directly losing her combat power.
After Xie Xie solved the auxiliary Soul Master, he turned around and attacked the remaining two boys. His Light Dragon Dagger cooperated with the Shadow Dragon Dagger, and the Twin Dragon Storm was instantly released. The boy with the Fire Crow Martial Soul was directly swept into this storm, and then was rescued by the referee and sent off the field. The boy with the Water Crane Martial Soul dodged Xie Xie's attack in time, but he flew into the sky and was hit head-on by the meteor fire rain summoned by Jing Shaoyu.
This five-person team competition ended just like that, taking no more than three minutes from start to finish. The team leader of Wave Flower Academy watching from the sidelines had their blood pressure soar, and in the end, they could only comfort themselves with the thought that their opponents were from East Sea Academy, so losing wasn't a complete loss.
The five of Jing Shaoyu who won the match didn't feel excited or happy because, in their opinion, winning this match was only to be expected. Although their opponents weren't low in realm, their actual combat experience was too poor, and their cooperation with each other was very rigid, without any tacit understanding. For them, winning against such a team could only be regarded as an appetizer before the next big battle.
"This competition was won so easily. How great would it be if the next competition could be this easy as well?" Xie Xie said with a leisurely expression on the way back to the hotel.
"Look at how smug you are," Xu Xiaoyan said, "It's just winning against a team from a small academy. I've inquired, and in this year's Skysea Alliance Grand Competition, in the youth group's five-person team competition, it's not just our East Sea Academy, there are also teams from Skysea Academy, Sea Land Academy, and Ninghai Academy. Among the five major cities, except for Spirit Sea Academy from Spirit Sea City, which didn't participate in the five-person team competition, the other three are all here.
They are our real opponents!"
"Xiao Yan, you've done a good job with the intelligence work!" Jing Shaoyu couldn't help but praise when he heard Xu Xiaoyan's words.
"Hehe, of course!" Xu Xiaoyan was very happy to receive Jing Shaoyu's praise, and said, "I wasn't idle when you were participating in the individual competition."
"So what if it's teams from Skysea Academy, Sea Land Academy, or Ninghai Academy, our Class Zero will definitely be able to defeat them all!" Xie Xie said, with his hands on his hips, full of confidence.
Looking at Xie Xie's confident appearance, the others couldn't help but reveal knowing smiles.
"Hmph! Aren't you afraid of your tongue flying away with the wind!" At this moment, a discordant cold snort came, and everyone frowned, looking in the direction of the sound, only to see Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi standing a few meters away, Ye Xinglan's face was full of coldness, and Xu Lizhi's face was full of embarrassment.
What happened next didn't change much. In order to take revenge on Tang Wulin, Ye Xinglan pulled Xu Lizhi to temporarily join an academy, just to be able to participate in the individual and team competitions to snipe Tang Wulin.
Regarding this, Jing Shaoyu could only say that she truly deserved to be a young lady from Shrek Academy, so willful.
Brothers, it's the end of the month, vote for monthly tickets, otherwise they will expire!
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