Although the person fighting on the stage was also wearing a soul-guide face mask, just by looking at the blue-purple vines on the arena that moved like huge, agile pythons, Ao Siqin knew that this person was Tang San.
"You're all done fighting already?" After regrouping with his teammates, Ao Siqin spoke up to ask. He had been arranged for the fourth match on his side, and it hadn't taken very long. How had this bunch finished so quickly and gathered together already?
Seeing Ao Siqin come over, Ma Hongjun took the initiative to explain."The matchups for this sub-arena came out pretty fast. Boss Dai and Oscar signed up for a two-on-two soul fight, and my one-on-one soul fight also got an opponent on the spot.
Since we weren't worried about clashing with our own team anymore, Rongrong and Zhuqing simply didn't go to other arenas. Xiaowu also took the chance to sign up for a one-on-one soul fight here first. If Xiaowu doesn't leave, Tang San definitely won't either—he just signed up a bit later, so his fight is only starting now."
"So it turns out I just left too early." After hearing Ma Hongjun's explanation, Ao Siqin understood. In the end, this group hadn't been in a hurry to split up from the very beginning. It was only him—thinking that the battle might take a long time—who had proactively broken away and gone to another sub-arena as soon as they entered. Otherwise, one sub-arena could have easily accommodated everyone; there'd been no need to disperse.
"Alright, I didn't consume much just now, and judging by your condition, you also won pretty easily. Little San is about to finish as well. Let's not waste time—let's go register for a two-on-two right away."
Seeing that Tang San had already seized absolute control of the fight on the arena, Ao Siqin had no intention of continuing to watch and directly urged the little fatty to go register with him.
By the time Ao Siqin and Ma Hongjun finished registering and came back, Tang San had already stepped down from the soul-fighting stage and was eating a recovery sausage provided by Oscar.(The sausages had all been prepared before coming to the soul-fighting arena, so no soul power was consumed in this regard. Ao Siqin also had hamburgers in reserve, but purely in terms of recovery effect, the sausages were a bit better.)
They casually found a corner spot in a rest room. All the students who had completed their subsequent registrations were seizing the time to adjust their condition.
Twenty minutes later, Ao Siqin received a notification from the arena staff: the two-on-two soul fight he and Ma Hongjun were participating in would be up next, and their opponents' team name was "Boomerang Blades."
Pulling the little fatty up from the ground, Ao Siqin walked out of the rest room and arrived at the waiting area beside the arena. At this moment, there were already two young men around twenty years old waiting there.
"Those two are our opponents?" The little fatty had clearly noticed them as well.
"Yeah, most likely. Soul Masters around twenty years old—Soul Elders. Their talent can't be considered bad. Judging by what they're wearing, they should be quasi-graduates from Canghui Academy."
"Canghui Academy? What kind of academy is that?"
Ao Siqin wasn't surprised by this question at all. This guy had always paid little attention to things outside Shrek Academy, so it was perfectly normal for him not to have heard of Canghui Academy.
Looking at the school uniforms on the two Canghui Academy students in the waiting area, a flicker of uncertain light flashed in Ao Siqin's eyes. In his memory, this Canghui Academy played quite a significant role in the early part of the plot.
If not for Ao Siqin's influence, a clash between Canghui Academy and Shrek Academy should already have occurred by now. The incident happened not long after Tang San and the others first enrolled, and it was precisely due to their performance in that conflict that Ning Rongrong truly integrated into the Shrek team.
Rolling his neck and pulling back his unconsciously wandering thoughts, Ao Siqin decided to explain Canghui Academy to Ma Hongjun.
"Canghui Academy is a fairly well-known advanced soul-master academy located in the Barak Kingdom. The quality of its teaching is good, and it's always had the habit of sending its stronger students to compete in the Grand Soul Arena.
From this, we can tell that our opponents this time should be solid, orthodox academy-trained types with decent strength. We absolutely can't take them lightly.
Also, although the academy is located within Barak Kingdom's territory, it isn't under the jurisdiction of Barak's royal family. Instead, it answers directly to the Heaven Dou Empire. Being able to ignore the authority of the local power means this academy's underlying strength is quite formidable. Of course, how strong Canghui Academy is doesn't really concern the two of us—I'm just reminding you that this fight won't be easy. Don't relax your guard just because you won your one-on-one easily earlier. These are Soul-Elder-level opponents."
"Got it. I'm still just a Great Soul Master—I won't make mistakes in something like this."
Seeing Ma Hongjun's unusually serious expression—clearly different from his usual demeanor—the corners of Ao Siqin's mouth couldn't help but lift slightly. The little fatty might look straightforward and carefree, but in reality he was very competitive and hated dragging others down because of himself.
Earlier, because he didn't want his soul-master-level strength to hold back Oscar, who was then only a Great Soul Master, he had ignored the troubles of his evil fire erupting and insisted on cultivating with all his might.
This was evident from the fact that Ma Hongjun's current soul power was level 29, rather than the level 26 Ao Siqin remembered.
Now, this uncharacteristic seriousness precisely showed how much Ma Hongjun cared about this soul fight—he didn't want to drag Ao Siqin down due to his own strength.
"No need to tense up so much. My Flame Armor Shield's defensive ability is trustworthy enough. As long as we play it steady, we won't lose. Besides, at most another month and you should be able to break through. There's no need to put that much pressure on yourself."
As Ao Siqin spoke to reassure Ma Hongjun, he took out two hamburgers shrunk down to about the size of egg yolk pastries and handed them to him.
Taking advantage of no one paying attention to this side, Ma Hongjun opened the mouth portion of his soul-guide face mask and stuffed both hamburgers into his mouth, then let out a muffled "mm."
"What's this? A little tsundere reaction after being called out psychologically?" Ma Hongjun's response made Ao Siqin's eyebrows rise uncontrollably.
At that moment, the cheers from the audience around the arena suddenly grew much louder, and immediately afterward Ao Siqin heard the referee on the stage announcing the winner.
Taking a deep breath, Ao Siqin began adjusting his physical and mental state. He had been a bit too relaxed just now. Now it was his turn to go on stage—he had to focus and bring his body into a slightly excited state.
The process of walking from the dark waiting area onto the brightly lit soul-fighting arena felt somewhat magical. After taking up position in a corner on one side of the arena, Ao Siqin seized the time to swallow the first and second soul-skill hamburgers he had been holding in his mouth.
Carefully listening to the referee—who was also acting as the host—briefly introduce the two teams' situations, Ao Siqin knew this was one of the few chances before the start to gather information about the opponents.
"Thirty-seven matches, twenty-five wins. That's a pretty high win count. Logically speaking, these two should already be fighting at the Bronze Soul Fighter level. Still staying at Iron Soul Fighter level—I don't know whether it's because the intervals between their matches are too long, or because the arena hasn't reached the point of point settlement yet.
But one thing's certain: their soul-power levels won't be lower than level thirty-five. The soul-power gap is huge. Even with my soul-skill support, Ma Hongjun's disadvantage in soul power is impossible to make up for. We probably can't afford to drag this into a battle of attrition.
In that case, we need to quickly find a chance to close the distance and engage them in close combat. They're both tool-type martial souls—their physical defense definitely can't compare to beast-type soul masters. If the little fatty fights hand-to-hand, he shouldn't be at too much of a disadvantage."
By the time the referee finished the basic introduction, Ao Siqin had already constructed the basic strategy for this fight in his mind. As the referee's "Begin!" rang out, both sides swiftly released their martial souls.
If one were to talk about the spectacle of martial soul release, among the four people present, the most eye-catching was undoubtedly Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix. However, the two yellow soul rings on Ma Hongjun's body were even more striking than his martial soul itself. Sure enough, this immediately drew ridicule from their opponents:
"Hah! A mere Great Soul Master dares to participate in a Soul-Elder-level soul fight. Should we say you're overestimating yourself, or that your teammate is too careless? You're basically here to hand us free wins."
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