Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition

Watching the three of them—excluding Lan Kai—looking exceptionally disheveled on the field, Wu Zhangkong nodded to himself, acknowledging Lan Kai's strength while contemplating how to provide targeted corrective guidance to Tang Wulin and Gu Yue.

Xie Xie, conversely, did not require such correction; he had performed well enough. It was simply that his opponent was too formidable, possessing not only far greater strength but also speed and reflexes that surpassed Xie Xie as an agility-type soul master.

Facing Lan Kai, even if Xie Xie could develop a self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, he would likely have few opportunities to succeed.

The awkwardness of his performance was not his fault, but rather a common flaw inherent to agility-type soul masters.

This flaw was not impossible to overcome, but it was a matter for soul masters at the level of a one-word Battle Armor Master or higher to consider and research.

As for Tang Wulin and Gu Yue...

Fully utilizing the advantages of one's own abilities was not a mistake, but failing to recognize the issues during the process was inexcusable.

Tang Wulin's strength was impressive, yet his close-quarters combat technique remained too crude. Although he could compensate for this deficiency to a certain extent with his Blue Silver Grass, and the properties of his Golden Dragon Claw allowed him to ignore the gap in technique to some degree, he should not have lacked even the most basic defensive awareness. He had allowed his right arm joint to be struck repeatedly by Lan Kai without once considering that his strength might diminish as a result.

Perhaps, as Tang Wulin's bloodline awakened further, the likelihood of such problems recurring would decrease, but since Wu Zhangkong had already identified them, he would not allow Tang Wulin to continue down the wrong path.

As for Gu Yue... she seemed even less capable of understanding the meaning of coordination.

Although she had attempted to orchestrate a scheme using Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, Lan Kai had ignored her entirely, turning the battle from a one-versus-three into a one-versus-two and a one-versus-one.

If Gu Yue had better coordinated her attacks and control with the offensive efforts of Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, the three of them might still have suffered a crushing defeat, but they certainly would not have been so disheveled.

Last semester, Gu Yue had been able to coordinate with Tang Wulin; how had she become so much more of a lone wolf after returning from the vacation?

Did she only want to team up with Lan Kai? That didn't make sense either; their relationship was not particularly good. Gu Yue seemed to constantly want to defeat Lan Kai, while Lan Kai held no extra sentiment toward her and had not held back during the fight.

If it weren't for the fact that Lan Kai could still maintain coordination with the others, Wu Zhangkong would have no idea whether he should even let them participate in the upcoming Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.

The individual tournament might be one thing, but for the team tournament—especially the seven-person team event—could these eight students of the Zero Class truly achieve sufficient coordination on the field?

Although Eastsea Academy hoped the Zero Class could make a mark at the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, if they could not perform in the most important team event, Wu Zhangkong himself would feel a sense of regret.

As for the individual tournament, Wu Zhangkong was not shameless enough to claim the results Lan Kai might achieve as a product of his own teaching.

"Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition? Juggler, you don't expect me to go and deal with those people from Shrek Academy, do you?"

When Lan Kai heard Juggler demand that he participate in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, he immediately wore an expression of disbelief.

The Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition was a tournament held by the eastern region to prepare for the Federation-wide competition; in terms of prestige, it was actually quite average.

After all, while the eastern region was economically developed, due to historical and geographical reasons, its foundation in soul masters could not compare to other regions.

As for the opponents, Lan Kai wasn't boasting, but even if he were to participate in the youth division for fifteen to twenty-year-olds, he could easily crush them.

As for the rewards of the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, neither Lan Kai nor Juggler thought much of them.

Given Juggler's status in the Spirit Pagoda, aside from the inability to print the sheer volume of cash the Tianhai Alliance could offer, anything the Alliance could provide, Juggler could easily obtain.

As for the Special Airborne Armor that Juggler and Lan Kai wanted to attempt to manufacture in this world, the Tianhai Alliance lacked the strength to even come close to achieving it.

"That's right, the people from Shrek Academy.

"This 'Number One Academy in the World' is quite something. They are incredibly arrogant, and it is time to dampen their spirits and show them what the true combat style and conduct of a soul master should be."

Juggler nodded, naturally turning the very words someone had once used to dismiss him back onto Shrek Academy.

After all, ninety-nine out of every hundred people who came out of Shrek Academy were overbearing and unscrupulous.

Back in the day, Juggler had been affected by this very conduct from Shrek Academy. If it weren't for the few genuinely pure individuals in the Sea God Pavilion, he would have wanted to replicate his past actions and cut down Shrek Academy's Golden Ancient Tree as well.

Therefore, Juggler was more than happy to cause trouble for the people of Shrek Academy—especially for the disciple of that certain silver-moon donkey who had once provoked him and ended up being put down by a single strike of his blade.

"In short, you want me to find a way to get them to participate in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, and then defeat them head-on, right?

"If only Shrek Academy valued the Federation-wide competition, this wouldn't be so troublesome."

Lan Kai immediately understood his task and couldn't help but feel a sense of mental fatigue.

If this were ten thousand years ago, things would have been much simpler; he could have just joined a strong team and beaten the Shrek Academy representative team to their knees in the tournament.

But now, Shrek Academy was the undisputed, peerless number one; no academy dared to call itself an opponent of Shrek Academy. Consequently, aside from sending a representative team to exhibition matches to showcase their power, Shrek Academy had no interest in the vast majority of tournaments.

Therefore, if one wanted to find a reasonable opportunity to cause trouble for the people of Shrek Academy, the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition was indeed a decent opportunity.

"Don't worry, given Shrek Academy's style of conduct, it will be easy for you and your classmates to goad them into participating.

"However, since the card for Ultraman Belial has been finalized ahead of schedule, your training must be adjusted accordingly.

"You wouldn't want to do something you'd regret for the rest of your life because you couldn't control your power after transforming, would you?"

"Juggler, don't you think that coming from you, that's a bit of a dark joke?"

Recalling Juggler's past experience of tormenting Kurenai Gai with the Ultraman Belial card, Lan Kai felt that Juggler's words were a bit of black humor.

Although what he said made sense—the power of Ultraman Belial was not easily borrowed; both Kurenai Gai and Natsukawa Haruki had suffered greatly for it.

What's that? You say Asakura Riku? He was Belial's own son; could that possibly be the same thing?