The atmosphere was exciting. The crowds were cheering, watching an elegant lady with a cat martial soul battle.
"Quiet Nether Cat wins!!" The manager announced, earning another wave of cheers.
"Flender… perhaps I shouldn't ask but, the history between MuBai and ZhuQing is…" Grandmaster said as he observed the match that just happened while stroking his chin.
"Well, I didn't ask them for privacy's sake. But I could take a guess."
"Just juding by their martial souls," Flender was certain anyone could guess just by observing their martial souls.
Knock knock
"Come in." Flender said.
Creak
"Good day, are you two the ones in charge of the nine devils of shrek?" asked a man with glasses.
"Yes, do you need something?" Flender responded.
"Please come with me, I have something to discuss with you."
At the manager's office,
The room was filled with furniture that was practical, not a lot of decoration. There were shelves of books containing records of all soul masters that were registered.
The manager looked serious and helpless at the same time.
"A few days ago, a noble in the city founded a team consisting of soul elders to enter the battle colloseum. Every match they bet on, they would win."
"The team is already… silver grade"
Flender and grandmaster gasped at this relevation.
"To be a silver grade soul master, you would have to be a level 40 soul ancestor and above" they both though to themselves.
"That's right… but these soul masters are only at the level of soul elders" the manager continued.
"I won't lie to you, but we are unable to find a suitable team that is strong enough to face them in a fight." The manager said. "We're also not gaining as much money" the manager thought.
"So… what do you want us to do about it." The grandmaster inquired, but he already knew what the manager is going to say.
"We would like you to consider pitting the Nine Devils of Shrek against the Heaven Dou Emperor Team"
"What?! Are you crazy?!" Flender slammed his fist onto the table, his veins bulged in anger.
"Are you trying to cause my students to get crippled, they're obviously too stro-" Flender yelled but was interrupted by Grandmaster.
"Hold on, Flender." Grandmaster held Flender's shoulder.
"What will you guarantee us, if we take this offer?" Grandmaster inquired, to which the manager broke out a drop of sweat.
"We can make our conditions…" the manager leaned forward and pulled out a piece of paper for contracts.
In the Heaven Dou Emperor Teams resting room,
A young teenage girl with blue hair and piercing green snakelike eyes clung to a young man, with brownish gold hair draping down to his neck. They sat comfortably on a couch in ther resting room.
"Why can't you leave some for us?! We always sit at the back while you did all the fighting" a young teenage boy with dark bluish silver hair complained to the captain.
"With our boss's might, the trash can easily be taken care of instantly" a young teenage boy with golden blonde hair with a black hood.
"Plus, you seem to be the only one complaining, can't you take it like Fu Tian does?" The blue haired lady gestured towards Fu Tian, who was took up an entire couch for himself to lay on.
"He's always been lazy, we're completely different!"
Hahahahaha
Everyone laughed at his frustration.
Grandmaster and Flender were heading to the guest room to meet with the person in charge of Heaven Dou Emperor Team.
"Are you really sure about this?" Flender questioned his friend.
"If they only challenge those who are weaker than us, they will never be able to beat those above them and ascend beyond their limits." Grandmaster replied as he pushed open the door to the guest room.
Creak
A young man with pale red flowing hair, and adorned in a noblelike outfit, stood up and immediately greeted them.
"Long time no see, Principal Flender"
A sense of familiarity immediately hit Flender.
"So it is you, Qin Ming!" Flender said happily, seeing one of his graduates.
"How have you been?" Flender patted Qin Ming's shoulder.
"Life is as good as it allows me to be" he replied humbly.
"Right, let me introduce you to my good friend, Xiao Gang. You can call him grandmaster" Flender gestured to Grandmaster who only made his presence known now.
Both grandmaster and Qin Ming bowed to each other.
"Let's get back to business and discuss about the match, shall we" Qin Ming gently reminded why they were here.
"Yes yes, of course. As straightforward as usual" Flender and Grandmaster sat with Qin Ming.
In the meeting hall prepared for Shrek Academy,
"Tomorrow, you all will be facing a silver badged team. The manager has given us a list of their members. I will be pointing out, which of these you want to caution of." Grandmaster said as he held a stack of papers containing the information of the opponent.
"Firstly, their team leader. Yu Tian Heng, his martial soul is the most powerful beast type martial soul, belonging to the top 3 martial soul sects in soul land. The blue lightning tyrant dragon."
"Strongest beast type martial soul eh? I might want to give it try!" MuBai boasted loudly.
"Don't! and I mean it, do not engage with him in a one on one. He is a genius born every hundred years, having one of the purest forms of the blue lightning tyrant dragon. Based on calculations, he will become the next clan leader." Grandmaster stated.
"You think you can take him on?" Ying Xuan whispered to Liu Yan.
"I maybe strong, but there are definitely limits. I would say I'd probaly suffer a lot of wounds if I do win." Liu Yan whispered back.
"Pay attention." Grandmaster eyed both of them, to which they kept their head straight and listened.
"The second person, is Du GuYan, she wields the Jade Phosphorus Snake martial soul."
"Wait a minute, grandmaster. You're not telling me that she is related to… that cold blooded control class titled douluo, are you?!" Oscar suddenly mentioned.
"That's right. Except for that titled douluo, no other person than Du GuYan wields a martial soul called Jade Phosphorus Snake."
"But why are they a control type if they have a snake martial soul?" Tang San couldn't help but ask.
"The same reason you can be an effective control class soul master, poison."
"A soul master who has natural poison in their martial soul… then it will be even harder to detoxify." Tang San revealed.
Oscar's second soul skill that can detoxify poison would not work.
"What if we strike her down first?"
"She's definitely going to be placed in the back, defended by a defense class soul master"
Everyone grabbed a piece of paper to look at their opposing team's information.
"Dark turtle martial soul, that's the strongest martial soul in terms of defense!" Oscar was shocked, this lineup is very extreme and balanced.
"How are we even supposed to beat this when even MuBai can't completely destroy his defense!" HongJun exclaimed, with a heart heavy with defeat already.
"There's two of them" Liu Yan mentioned Hong Jun.
"WHATTT!!" HongJun screamed.
"Why don't we just kneel down and surrender at this point" he continued
Ma HongJun took another look at the lost and immediately got excited.
"Look, they have another bird martial soul person. I can deal with that!" He said excitedly.
"He has one more soul ring compared to you, and his wind bell bird martial soul allows him to control wind and fly." Grandmaster told HongJun.
"Forget I said anything at this point." He tossed the paper.
The team was at a loss for words.
"We can win!" Tang San suddenly declared.
"They aren't the only team with a top grade assault class martial soul, MuBai's white tiger is just as powerful!"
"We also have ZhuQing's unmatched speed"
"We all just have to believe in ourselves and do our best to fight them. We won twenty seven matches in a row. One loss can't derail us by much! We can do this!" He delivered his speech of motivation. Making the team more hopeful.
"Xiao San, I am allowing you to use the Eight Spider Lances. But! If you can avoid it, don't use them." Grandmaster pointed at Tang San and instructed him.
"Yes, teacher!" Tang San immediately replied.
As everyone began to leave.
"Liu Yan, stay here for a bit" grandmaster called out.
"I'll see you back at the dorms then" Ying Xuan told, before leaving with the rest.
Creak
The door closed shut.
"What do you need me for, Grandmaster?"
"Liu Yan, the person in charge of Heaven Dou Emperor Team has asked a favour from me."
"How… does that concern me?" He asked slightly indifferent, Qin Ming never asked Grandmaster and Flender of any favours before.
"He has an extra team member who he is sending into a one on one. You… know him." He placed a paper on the table for Liu Yan to see.
"…"
"Fu Tian eh… this will be interesting." Liu Yan smiled. It's been a while. Let's see how strong you've gotten this time.
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Hello my fellow readers, here is another chapter.
I am still trying to get back into the state for more creative thinking for writing chapters. So it might be very late when you see this. Sorry abou that.
Anyways, as usual. If there are any mistakes do let me know.
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