Huo Yuhao saw the beautiful figure and was first stunned, then immediately reacted. "Why are you here?"
The other six had not seen Gu Yuena before and all took up a battle stance, afraid that the visitor was not friendly.
Gu Yuena lifted the long silver hair in front of her forehead, her beautiful eyes lazily turning towards the huge trench that Huo Yuhao and the others had created with their martial soul fusion skill earlier. Something more seemed to be in her eyes.
"So the terrifying aura I sensed before was actually created by you," Gu Yuena said, not looking at them, as if talking to herself. "This level of energy is in no way weaker than the divine power possessed by a god..."
"Do you know something?" Huo Yuhao forced himself to endure his weakness and walked over. He actually had many questions about this martial soul fusion skill. One must know, ten thousand years ago, the three-in-one martial soul fusion skill used by the Buddha's three teachers, the Golden Iron Triangle, was not as terrifying as this fusion skill of theirs.
Gu Yuena shook her head. "It's very likely that your martial souls underwent some mutation during the fusion process, which caused the fusion degree to exceed one hundred percent, thus allowing the power of your martial soul fusion skill to reach such a level."
"Just now, I sensed you burst out with this kind of energy and thought something had happened to you, which is why I rushed over."
Huo Yuhao's heart warmed. This Silver Dragon King had inherited the good of the Dragon God. Even if she always said she would lead the soul beast lineage to take revenge on humans, in reality, she had not even randomly killed a few people. At the end of the Dragon King Legend period, she was even willing to sacrifice herself for the peace of the two races.
"Thank you," Huo Yuhao thanked her sincerely this time. He figured that even if they hadn't used the martial soul fusion skill, Gu Yuena would have rushed to the rescue in the shortest possible time.
"Hmph! Don't misunderstand. You are a partner of my soul beast lineage. I was just worried that if you died, my soul beast lineage would once again lose the hope of becoming gods!" Towards Huo Yuhao's thanks, Gu Yuena still maintained a cold posture, then turned her head away and added a sentence.
"I absolutely, absolutely did not come to save your life! Remember that!"
The next moment, her figure once again transformed into a silver light and disappeared before the seven of them.
Huo Yuhao's group of seven, you look at me, I look at you. For a time, none of them knew what to say.
"This is not a place to stay for long. I'm afraid people from the Star Luo Empire will come to check soon. Let's leave here first," Ju Zi was the first to recover and suggested.
"This is simple," Huo Yuhao directly used Kamui, putting all seven of them into the other dimension. At the same time, he did not forget to also put the corpse of the Death-Courting Douluo, Cheng Gang, inside.
Not long after the seven had escaped into the other dimension, several powerful auras arrived here. And one of them was precisely the behind-the-scenes guardian of the Shrek participating team this time, Yan Shaozhe.
When they saw the scene of utter devastation before them, they all couldn't help but feel a chill run down their spines.
What kind of existence was fighting here just now?
...
In the Kamui space, relying on the sharpness of the Soul-Slaying Blade, Huo Yuhao very easily completed the dissection of the Death-Courting Douluo's corpse. Because the scene was too spicy for the eyes, he first sent the five girls from Ju Zi's group to the side and, together with Xie Huanyue, got a lot of good things from Cheng Gang's body.
As a Guardian Douluo, Cheng Gang was surely a very rich man. Huo Yuhao not only plundered tens of millions of gold soul coins from him but also excavated several soul bones of varying years from his corpse. He figured this fellow usually did no small amount of this kind of thing. It was just that now the roles were reversed, and he himself had also come to such an end.
"Fatty, we've struck it rich!" Huo Yuhao's two eyes shone. Besides not having a torso bone, Cheng Gang's body had every other part of a soul bone, and they were all of the ten-thousand-year level.
"Hehe, so much money, so much money!" Xie Huanyue delightedly pounced into the small mountain of gold soul coins before him and directly began to swim in the mountain of gold.
Casually tossing the dissected corpse of Cheng Gang into the undead plane, Huo Yuhao then called the girls over.
"Divide the spoils, divide the spoils!" Wu Feng's beautiful eyes shone brightly. She directly grabbed a piece of soul bone with one hand and admired it with great relish.
"You all can choose. I have my own plans for my future soul bones," Huo Yuhao was the first to withdraw from the distribution of the soul bones. He had told Xie Huanyue and the others this long ago. The moment his voice fell, Ju Zi also stood by his side. She had obtained a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye head soul bone that was a matching set with her soul spirit from Huo Yuhao in her early years and naturally would not compete with these juniors.
"If we fuse with his soul bones, we won't be discovered by the people of the Star Luo Empire, right?" Nanmen Yun'er whispered, cautiously pulling at the corner of Huo Yuhao's clothes.
"They're all fused into our bodies. What the hell can they discover?" Xie Huanyue's gaze swept over the few soul bones and directly chose a Great Strength Ape right arm bone.
Wu Feng chose a Blazing Tyrannosaurus left arm bone, while Ning Tian took a Stardust Illusion skull.
Unexpectedly, the remaining Meteor Falcon leg bones were actually a matching pair. This made Cui Yejie and Nanmen Yun'er, who had not yet been assigned a suitable soul bone, a little embarrassed.
"Give them all to Yun'er," Huo Yuhao directly said. This pair of leg bones looked as if they were tailor-made for Nanmen Yun'er's Jade-Green Bird martial soul. "When we go back, I will find a suitable soul bone for Yejie again."
Now, in their small group, Nanmen Yun'er was the weakest one. Before Huo Yuhao found a way to help her evolve her martial soul, the upper limit of her Jade-Green Bird martial soul was already set. If not for always cultivating with Huo Yuhao, I'm afraid her soul power level would have been left far behind by the other few girls long ago.
"Alright then, I'll listen to you!" Cui Yejie knew that Huo Yuhao would definitely not treat her unfairly. There was no need for pretense between them long ago. She ran off with a giggle.
"Thank you, Yuhao..." Nanmen Yun'er's beautiful eyes welled up with a mist. How could she not know that everyone was concerned about her, the weakest one? At the same time, she secretly swore in her heart that in the future, she would definitely not drag everyone down!
"Take it. I have connections on the soul beast side. A mere soul bone is very easy to get," Huo Yuhao came forward and rubbed her hair. For this gentle, home-loving girl, Huo Yuhao had always been very doting.
In this past year, how could Nanmen Yun'er not feel how good Huo Yuhao was to her?
As if mustering up all her courage, Nanmen Yun'er suddenly stood on her tiptoes and, with an extremely fast speed, gave Huo Yuhao a peck on the lips, then ran away as if fleeing.
A sneak attack? Huo Yuhao was stunned by Nanmen Yun'er's sudden kiss. This instantly made the other few girls unhappy.
"Ahhhhhh! Yun'er, that fish-stealing cat!" Wu Feng went crazy on the spot. Among everyone present, she was clearly the one who had taken a fancy to Huo Yuhao first.
"Ahem," seeing that his backyard was about to catch fire, Huo Yuhao pretended to be calm and quickly turned to walk outside. "It's getting late. We should go back to the hotel."
Xie Huanyue didn't want to stay and be their punching bag. The moment Wu Feng flew into a rage, he directly activated his second soul skill and slipped away.
Ju Zi followed at Huo Yuhao's side, still with a smile on her face. It was just that one of her hands had long since been firmly pinching the soft flesh of his waist.
Huo Yuhao let out a long sigh. So a harem is not so easy to have...
This night, Huo Yuhao had nowhere to go and could only choose to stay in the Kamui space for a night—
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As time went by, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament had already entered the fourth round of the round-robin. With the return of the two great Soul Kings, Chen Zifeng and Xixi, plus a level-five soul tool master who had originally been eliminated, the Shrek team gradually showed their original style.
Wang Yan let out a long breath. His whole person actually had a sense of relief as if he were about to collapse. With all the official team members returned, Shrek Academy had finally recovered its strong team style. The pressure on his, the leading teacher's, shoulders had also been lightened by too, too much. The subsequent round-robin matches would also be much easier.
As usual, the Shrek Academy representative team did not stay for long. After the match, they quickly left the venue and returned to the hotel. What was left behind was only the other academies who were enthusiastically discussing the official members of Shrek. How to fight against them had already become the hottest topic of today.
In the next three matches, neither Shrek Academy nor the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy encountered an opponent that could pose a threat to them again. They advanced with a high song of triumph, defeating their opponents one after another, and respectively ranked first in their groups with a perfect record of seven wins, advancing to the cruel knockout tournament to come.
The leading teachers of all the participating teams went to the Star Luo Imperial Palace to draw lots. The lineup for the knockout stage was already out. One by one, they called their own team members for a meeting.
The academy that Shrek was pitted against in the round of sixteen was an old opponent. The number one academy of the Dou Ling Empire, the Dou Ling Royal Academy.
The official team of the Dou Ling Royal Academy this year had five Soul Kings and two Soul Ancestors. Their strength was very strong. And, the Dou Ling Royal Academy was not complacently conservative. Although they were an advanced soul master academy, they were also the best soul tool master academy in the Dou Ling Empire.
Through his observation of them, Wang Yan had discovered that almost every one of their contestants had a soul tool and could use it proficiently in the competition. At least two of them were real soul tool masters. With Soul King strength combined with soul tools, this opponent was not easy to deal with.
The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, after tens of thousands of years of development, its competition rules had been constantly changing, especially the final knockout tournament.
In order to make the competition more exciting, and also to better display the overall strength of the participating academies, the competition format would be different from the previous ones.
The final knockout tournament would no longer be like the round-robin, where the competition format was decided by drawing lots. Each knockout match would be held over two days, with a team battle and an individual elimination tournament respectively. Losing the team battle did not mean one was definitely eliminated. In the individual elimination tournament held the next day, if one could defeat all seven of the opponent's members with three or fewer members, then one could turn defeat into victory. And the team that won the team battle only needed to defeat three of the opponent's members with a seven-person wheel tactic to ensure they advanced.
The return of all the official team members now filled Wang Yan with the confidence of certain victory. They still needed the victory of four knockout matches to secure the final championship. Although the subsequent matches were all difficult, they would not be as difficult as the few matches the preparatory team had faced at the beginning.
Just as Wang Yan was preparing to arrange the tactics for tomorrow's team battle for the contestants, a knock was suddenly heard at the door of the conference room.
Wang Yan frowned slightly and shouted in a deep voice to the outside, "Didn't I say that the service staff should not come and disturb us?"
A pleasant female voice came from outside the door. "Sorry to disturb you. I am not a service staff. I am from the Starlight Auction House."
The Starlight Auction House? Hearing this somewhat familiar voice, Wang Yan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
A woman in a long black dress stood outside the door. She looked to be twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the age where a woman has a mature charm yet does not lose her youthful aura.
The preparatory team of Shrek all recognized her. It was precisely the auctioneer from the day they had participated in the auction, Qing Ya.
Qing Ya's gaze fell directly on Wang Yan. She smiled faintly and saluted him. "Hello, Teacher Wang. I apologize for disturbing everyone so abruptly."
Seeing that it was her, Wang Yan's gaze immediately softened a little. He coughed lightly and said, "Is there something you need? Also, how did you find this place?"
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Author's Note: The tournament is also nearing its end. I've directly skipped the one-on-one fighting plots that you all don't like to watch much. There's nothing much to see before Shrek and Sun Moon meet. The original novel didn't have much characterization for those unlucky official members. The protagonist group is not in the Shrek camp, so I won't deliberately describe it. The top-tier auction is coming. The Snow Empress is also coming.