After the opening ceremony, the drawing of lots determined the order of matches. With Qin Ming absent, Yu Tianheng, as the captain, naturally had to take on the responsibility of leading the team, and reviewing match information was also his job.
When they saw Yu Tianheng returning, everyone hurriedly asked, "Tian Heng, who is our first-round opponent in the finals?"
Now the competition had entered a knockout stage, and they would be eliminated with just one loss. Therefore, even the Royal Fight Team didn't dare to be careless in the slightest.
"We're in the fifth match today, no need to worry. The opponents aren't anything special, they're from the Star Luo Empire's Long Kui Academy. Even if Xiao Tian and Gu Ran don't play, I alone can take on their entire team." Yu Tianheng seemed very relaxed.
He didn't plan to trouble Tianlin in the first match, but upon hearing the name of this academy, Tianlin suddenly turned his head and said, "Tian Heng, what did you say the name of this academy was?"
"Long Kui, what's wrong?"
"Tian Heng, I absolutely have to be in this match, or my sword will throw a tantrum." Tianlin said decisively. Although his Demon Sword didn't have a sword spirit residing in it, when he heard the name Long Kui, he still seemed to feel the Demon Sword in his body tremble slightly.
Tianlin wouldn't become hostile to Long Kui Academy just because of a name. After all, this was the Douluo Continent, not the world of Chinese Paladin. Who here would know who Long Kui was? The academy probably didn't have any malicious intent in taking this name. But since the Demon Sword wanted to fight, he had no choice but to go. He would just have to show some mercy then.
"It's just the first match, already itching for a fight?" Yu Tianheng was slightly taken aback. He didn't think Tianlin wanted to go on stage because of an academy name, or that his sword would throw a tantrum. He was clearly just itching for a fight. "Alright, then I'll revise the list. You go have fun this time, I won't go."
Yu Tianheng wasn't interested in weak teams like Long Kui. It didn't matter whether he went or not, so he crossed out his name and replaced it with Tianlin's.
Royal Fight was the fifth match, with four matches before them, including one with the Spirit Hall representative team. However, the Golden Generation didn't play. Some of the weaker teams in the early stages weren't worth their time.
Even so, the Spirit Hall team was all Soul Ancestors above level forty-five. If the Golden Generation was added, their average level was indeed a bit higher than Royal Fight's.
In addition, in the fourth match, Shrek ran into Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One. This was truly a coincidence. The two sides, who were supposed to meet in the preliminaries, ended up meeting in the first round of the finals due to Tianlin's intervention. It seemed that Team One was destined to be unlucky, there was no way around it.
They finally qualified to participate in the finals, but they were still just a one-round wonder.
In this match, Oscar's newly acquired Fourth Spirit Ability finally appeared. It was no longer the amplifying Excitement Sausage, but the more bizarre Invisibility Sausage.
As the name suggested, after eating this Invisibility Sausage, one would gain invisibility for three minutes. Not just the body, but even the aura would be concealed. This Spirit Ability was undeniably powerful. The Shrek Seven Devils all went invisible right from the start, and Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One couldn't catch them at all.
As a result, Shrek just launched a surprise attack and knocked them all off the stage.
As expected of the Spirit Ring that Ning Fengzhi had chosen for Oscar, this Spirit Ring was so powerful in this kind of seven-person team battle. What about on the battlefield? It would probably become a super weapon for sneak attacks. Even more terrifying was that this Sausage could be used simultaneously with the Flying Mushroom Sausage.
If given to a power attack type Soul Master together, he would be a super assassin who combined strength, speed, and elusiveness in a short period of time.
However, this invisibility also had a drawback, which was that it wasn't very effective against people with extremely strong mental power. As long as someone was human, they would have mental fluctuations. When Shrek was invisible, Tianlin could still clearly sense the location of each of them by perceiving the mental fluctuations.
"Let's go, Xiao Tian, it's our turn."
After Shrek, it was Royal Fight's match. Dugu Yan was on stage for the first time today and seemed a little impatient.
To Ning Fengzhi's left, Dugu Bo revealed a rare kind smile, filled with love and pride.
"Tian Heng isn't going out for this match? Is he trying to conserve his strength?" Yu Yuanzhen said with some regret. He had finally managed to come and watch the match, but his grandson wasn't playing.
"No, I don't think it's about conserving strength. Otherwise, Tianlin wouldn't have appeared. Perhaps, Tianlin is just itching for a fight." Ning Fengzhi guessed pretty accurately. To be precise, it wasn't Tianlin who was itching for a fight, but the Demon Sword that was itching after hearing the name Long Kui.
Tianlin just wanted to tell the Demon Sword that Long Kui wasn't here.
Long Kui Academy had a total of three Soul Ancestors and four Soul Grandmasters. Such a lineup was so weak to Royal Fight that even the Spirit Hall didn't send many people to watch the match, because such an academy probably couldn't even force out twenty percent of Tianlin's strength. What was the point of watching?
On the Royal Fight Team's side, it was a 1-4-2 formation. Tianlin stood alone at the front, Yu Feng and Oslo were on both sides of the Soul Fighting Stage, Dugu Yan stood in the center, Ye Lingling stood at the back, and the two defense-type, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, stood in front of the two girls respectively to protect them, in case they were attacked by the opponent's agility-type.
In other words, on the frontal battlefield, Tianlin had to single-handedly crush the opponent's formation.
This made many Academies feel that he was a bit arrogant. Although Long Kui wasn't anything special, they were still a team that had made it to the finals, and they must have their own unique strengths.
"With such a small matter, I can do it, so how could Xiao Tian not be able to?" Yu Tianheng said with a smile.
On the Soul Fighting Stage, the Long Kui Academy was initially apprehensive, but even a clay figure has some fire in him. The Royal Fight displaying such a formation was clearly looking down on them.
Most importantly, Long Kui had three Soul Ancestors, two strength-based and one control-based, which was a significant advantage against a single strength-based opponent.
"Come on." Tianlin held the Demon Sword horizontally, and five Spirit Rings appeared. The stunning color scheme shocked the Academy from Star Luo. Absorbing beyond one's level should have a limit, but Tianlin had completely exceeded their imagination.
Faced with such a Spirit Ring configuration, Long Kui didn't dare to attack proactively. Seeing this, Tianlin simply took the initiative.
Moon Shooting Cold River.
He hadn't used this introductory Shu Mountain swordplay in a long time, but he used it again today. There was no other way; the Seven Kill Swordplay and advanced Shu Mountain swordplay were too lethal for them, and they definitely couldn't withstand it.
"Fourth Spirit Ability, Flame Heavy Punch!"
"Fourth Spirit Ability, Raging Sand."
The two Soul Ancestors from Long Kui also attacked simultaneously. Their Spirits were a Sand Hippo and Flame Gauntlets, both decent Spirits, and they immediately used their strongest Fourth Spirit Abilities.
Under normal circumstances, even a Soul King would retreat in the face of such an attack without using any Spirit Abilities, but Tianlin didn't budge an inch.
The tip of the Demon Sword collided with the Flame Gauntlets first. Affected by the Ultimate Fire within the Demon Sword, all the flames were extinguished in an instant, and the Flame Gauntlets became ordinary gauntlets.
"What?"
Seeing his flames extinguished, the Soul Ancestor didn't have time to be shocked. He was met with a 'shua' sound, and his wrist was directly cut.
Tianlin retracted his sword in time at the last moment; otherwise, his entire arm would have been pierced by the Demon Sword. Now, only his wrist was injured, temporarily losing his combat power.
Just then, a burst of sand suddenly rose from the ground, enveloping Tianlin completely.
"First Spirit Ability, Jade Scale Red Poison." Dugu Yan acted quickly. Her First Spirit Ability was a support-type Spirit Ability, Excitement Poison, used to enhance states, but this time, unexpectedly, the target wasn't her own team, but the sand Soul Master.
Feeling his strength and speed rapidly increasing, the man was still confused as to why the opponent was buffing him. At that moment, the Ice Fire Jade Scale Flood Dragon spewed another burst of Jade Scale Red Poison.
As mentioned before, Dugu Yan's support poison, although extremely effective, had side effects. He had to detoxify after the battle, and he couldn't receive such toxins continuously within a day.
Now, Dugu Yan used it twice in a row on the sand Soul Master, causing him to completely lose his mind. Commonly known as, over-excitement, he was releasing Spirit Abilities indiscriminately, not distinguishing between friend and foe.
For a time, the entire arena was filled with sand spewed out by the Sand Hippo.
His teammates, who were close to him, were all trapped by his sand.
At this moment, Tianlin seized the opportunity to break out of the sand.
His right leg swept out, creating a strong tornado. This wasn't a Spirit Bone Skill, but a hurricane blown out by borrowing the rich wind-attribute energy contained in his Spirit Bone.
Except for the sand Soul Master, everyone else was a sitting duck at this moment, and they were all swept up by the tornado and blown out of the arena.
Finally, Yu Feng and Oslo rushed forward at an extremely fast speed, each grabbing an arm of the sand Soul Master and throwing him out of the arena.
"This, they won just like that? What did Royal Fight do? Did they even use Spirit Abilities?" Someone in the audience said in disbelief.
"They did. Dugu Yan used her First Spirit Ability twice, and that was it. The two defense-type Soul Ancestors and the Nine Heart Begonia didn't even make a move."
Everyone couldn't help but sigh. No matter what, Long Kui had made it to the finals, but Royal Fight won too easily.
Dugu Yan's control method was completely different from Huan Yin's before. Because Huan Yin's Spirit Abilities needed to charge up, Royal Fight at that time was a slow-paced team. But now, Dugu Yan's poison would take effect instantly once it hit, and Royal Fight's offensive was fully unleashed.
This is actually the true form of the Royal Fight Team.
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