Sotou City Great Soul Arena.
This is Soto City's largest Spirit Master competition platform, mainly divided into three competition formats: 7v7 Spirit Master team battles, 2v2 dual Spirit Master duels, and 1v1 Spirit Master duels. The winning team receives generous rewards.
And this month, the Sotou City Great Soul Arena is even more lively than usual, bustling with people.
This is solely because three powerful teams have emerged this month, making the Soul Fighting Competition extremely exciting.
At the beginning of the month, a Spirit Master team called the Berserker Team, whose members were all above level 35, swept through the rookie teams, achieving seven consecutive victories.
Just as the Berserker Team was aiming for ten consecutive victories to directly advance to a bronze-level team, the Shrek Team emerged, defeating the Berserker Team. For the next half month, the entire Sotou City Great Soul Arena became the exclusive domain of Shrek Academy.
Team Battle - Shrek Team, 2v2 Three-Five Combination, 2v2 Avenger Tiger-Phoenix, 1v1 Thousand Hands Asura, 1v1 Evil Eyes White Tiger, and other team names became the biggest highlights in Soto City.
With an extremely powerful stance, they treated the Sotou City Great Soul Arena as their hunting ground, perfecting their dueling skills there. In less than a month, they transformed from Iron Soul Fighting Teams to Silver Soul Fighting Teams at an almost abnormal speed.
Just as everyone regarded the Shrek Team as the most potential and strongest team of their level in Soto City, a Royal Fight Team, whose members were also Spirit Elders, showed their prowess, and no one could contend with them in the Spirit Elder Soul Fighting Competition.
At the invitation of Manager Ao of the Sotou City Great Soul Arena, the Royal Fight Team and the Shrek Team dueled today.
The battle was extremely fierce, with both sides engaged in continuous fighting for over half an hour, but the final result was: the Shrek Team narrowly won.
"Wonderful, it's truly wonderful! I didn't expect Spirit Elder teams to be able to achieve such results."
"The Royal Fight Team members are really strong. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit is amazing. I was even zapped by his lightning while sitting in the stands. I almost peed my pants."
"You hussy, I don't think you peed your pants from the electricity, but rather you were wet with admiration for that Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, weren't you?"
"Pah, aren't you? You were shouting louder than me just now!"
"I wasn't mesmerized by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. I prefer that Thousand Hands Asura. Didn't you see the purple spider lances that burst from his back at the end?
Just like his name, Hell Asura, he's truly charming. He single-handedly took down several members of the Royal Fight Team. I really want to see what he looks like under his mask, he must be very handsome!"
"I'm really looking forward to the Shrek Team's battle in the Gold Soul Arena. It must be incredibly exciting!"
"I heard the Shrek Team has another special battle tomorrow. I can't wait!"
"Look quickly, there's also a notice here, Shrek Team PK Peach Garden Battle Team."
"I wonder what kind of team this Peach Garden Battle Team is?"
...
Just after the Silver Soul Fighting Team duel, the people at the Sotou City Great Soul Arena were discussing the performances of the Royal Fight Team and the Shrek Team, and many girls were swooning.
Soto City VIP room.
"What? A teacher from Heaven Dou Royal Academy actually came from our Shrek!"
Upon hearing that Qin Ming was a former student of Shrek, and that Yu Tianheng, the captain of the Royal Fight Team, was Grandmaster's nephew, several Shrek students were filled with surprise.
Qin Ming smiled faintly: "Hello, junior brothers and sisters."
"How is the academy doing recently?"
"Sigh, don't even mention it. The academy was already on the verge of bankruptcy, and these students are our last batch. We originally wanted to cultivate them, make a name for ourselves, and see if we could revive the academy. Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, a Peach Garden Academy popped up next to our academy, snatching away several of our Little freaks."
Flender sighed, feeling a bit dejected.
Although the Shrek Team had almost no defeats in the Sotou City Great Soul Arena this month, he was still somewhat worried.
"Peach Garden Academy? I've never heard of it before. How dare this academy open next to Shrek? With Teacher Zhao's temper, he should have overturned this academy on the first day, right?"
Qin Ming looked at the Immovable King Zhao Wuji. His teacher was a fierce and intimidating person. Let alone someone opening an academy next to Shrek, even if someone dared to say something similar to snatching students from Shrek's students, he would directly beat the other party into paralysis.
Feeling Qin Ming's gaze, Zhao Wuji rubbed his head, a little embarrassed, and said sheepishly:
"That was my old temper. I was young and hot-headed. Now I won't be so impulsive. Everyone should be reasonable."
"You're reasonable with those you can't beat, and you use force with those you can beat, right?" Xiao Wu pouted in the corner, muttering.
At this moment, Flender sighed heavily again:
"Sigh… who says otherwise? We won't hide it from you, if it were an ordinary Spirit Master, let alone Old Zhao, whoever dared to snatch students from our Shrek, I wouldn't let him off."
"Then why does this Peach Garden Academy still dare to snatch students from our Shrek?"
"There's no choice. The teachers of this Peach Garden Academy indeed have some real talent and knowledge, and his own strength is not inferior to mine and Old Zhao's, so it's really hard to fall out with him."
"Before today's competition, I passed by the main gate of Soto City and seemed to see a promotional banner saying that our Shrek has another competition tomorrow, against a team called Peach Garden, and they even specially made a promotional board. Is this the team from Peach Garden Academy?"
Qin Ming truly lived up to his reputation as someone who could become a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy at such a young age. After hearing Flender and the others' words, he immediately understood something.
"That's right, it's Peach Garden Academy."
Grandmaster finally turned around faintly and said:
"This is both of your incompetence."
"Since the academy is destined to close, why not take a gamble?"
"So I made a bet with Su Ran, the teacher of Peach Garden Academy. Tomorrow, the Shrek Team will have a life-or-death battle with their Peach Garden Academy. If they win, Shrek will probably cease to exist, but if we win, the academy will be revived, and we can also gain three or four Little freaks to complete our team, and obtain a large amount of gold coins."
"Not only will Peach Garden Academy compensate us with ten thousand gold coins, but this time I also asked Manager Ao to help plan this special duel event. If we win, we can also get a 20% cut of the event ticket sales, which is a considerable income."
After speaking, Grandmaster stood with his hands behind his back, head held high, ready to receive everyone's adoration.
As expected, Tang San was thoughtful:
"So, Teacher, this month you wanted us to stand out and win in individual and 2v2 Spirit Master duels with as much flair as possible, all to accumulate more popularity for our team, and then make a big profit in this team battle agreed upon with Peach Garden Academy?"
"Xiaogang, it really is you. You're so good at making money!"
Hearing about making a big profit, Flender's eyes lit up.
However, his mood quickly sank again: "But we have to win first, Xiaogang. Do you really have absolute confidence in winning?"
"Dean Flender, your Shrek Team can even beat my Royal Fight Team, and you're still afraid of this Peach Garden Academy team?"
Qin Ming was somewhat disbelieving. The Royal Fight Team he led was not a weak team; its members were hidden talents, yet they still narrowly lost to Shrek.
"Qin Ming, you don't understand. The students of this Peach Garden Academy are taught very well. You'll see tomorrow." Flender said.
"Hmph."
Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly:
"Individual strength is individual strength. Even if his individual students are well-taught, so what? If a support doesn't properly play support but instead learns defense, they might perform well in a solo duel, but in a team battle, that's putting the cart before the horse, being penny wise and pound foolish."
"Team battles require cooperation and tacit agreement. This is Peach Garden Academy's disadvantage."
"What's more, our advantage has grown even bigger now."
"Grown bigger? How so?" The Shrek members were a bit confused, and even Tang San was somewhat puzzled.
"Originally, because we only had five Little freaks, we had to spend a lot of money to hire two older Spirit Elders to join us and adapt to each other. But they ultimately couldn't meet the standard of a freak, nor were they academy-approved students, which held back our team. Our chances of winning were only about fifty percent."
"But now, our chances of winning have risen to seventy, or even eighty percent!"
Yu Xiaogang looked at Qin Ming:
"This is a heaven-sent opportunity."
"Qin Ming, you are also a student of Shrek, aren't you?"
"Qin Ming, now is the time for you to repay the academy's kindness in educating you. We need your help for the Shrek Team."
Qin Ming was stunned: "Ah? Me?"