Provided Xue Tianyu did not give them special training.
At this moment, Shui Binger led the other five girls forward to Blazing Academy and said with a calm smile, "Talking is pointless. We'll only know whether there's really a gap in strength after we fight."
"Have your captain come over too." Huo Wu flashed the captain's armband on her sleeve. "I don't want you to play pitiful after losing and claim we outnumbered you."
"Wait until you beat us first." Shui Binger looked proudly at Huo Wushuang. "If all seven of you can't even beat the six of us, wouldn't that be even more embarrassing?"
"You!"
Huo Wushuang merely wanted to show that he was not taking advantage of them, but he had not expected the other side to be so confident.
"It's fine, Brother. Just crush their confidence." Huo Wu did not believe that she and her brother, the prodigies of Blazing Academy, could be much worse than Skywater Academy.
"Then let's end this quickly!" Huo Wushuang nodded, suppressing his anger.
The match began immediately afterward.
Huo Wu directly summoned her fire shadow onto herself, and the temperature of the arena instantly soared!
"Unicorn Fire Dragon! Possession!"
Seeing Huo Wu go all out, Huo Wushuang did not hold back either, directly activating Martial Soul Possession.
The combined force of the two flame martial souls ignited the passion of the entire arena.
The other members of Blazing Academy's team charged toward Skywater Academy's six beauties alongside the brother and sister.
A mysterious smile appeared on Shui Binger's face. "Young people, don't be so impatient."
Blue light flashed around her body, followed by a shrill phoenix cry that resounded through the skies!
Then, as if heavy snow had suddenly descended, the temperature that had risen under the twin flames abruptly plummeted!
The phantom of the Ice Crystal Phoenix behind Shui Binger suddenly spread its wings!
A blizzard descended!
The flames around Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang were instantly suppressed!
The remaining members of Blazing Academy could not even summon their martial souls beneath the blizzard's cover!
"Im... impossible!"
Huo Wushuang's eyes widened, his face filled with shock.
A single martial soul had actually suppressed their entire team!
"Nothing is impossible. This is the gap between us now." Behind Shui Yuer, her Jade Dolphin martial soul appeared as well. A surge of water rippled outward, completely stripping Blazing Academy's members of their ability to fight.
The audience fell silent at that instant.
They... they were instantly defeated?
Everyone had thought this would be a hard-fought, evenly matched battle, but the gap was this huge?
At that moment, everyone looked at Xue Tianyu, who had been standing to the side without moving even once, with entirely different expressions.
Someone capable of leading such a powerful Skywater Academy could not possibly be ordinary.
Blazing Academy truly was not worthy of making him act.
"Why... why have you become so strong?"
Huo Wu collapsed to the ground unwillingly, covering her face as she wept. She had clearly investigated them before; Shui Binger had supposedly been about the same as her.
"Sorry, but we have a great captain. With Tianyu-gege's help, all of our strength has become incomparable to before," Shui Binger said with a smile.
Huo Wu looked at Xue Tianyu enviously.
It would be wonderful if he could help me improve my strength too...
The first match ended smoothly.
Everyone returned to the hotel where they were staying.
By then, Ice Empress and Snow Empress had already returned ahead of them.
"Hehe, congratulations to our Tianyu on winning his first match!"
Ice Empress held Xue Tianyu's hand and celebrated with a smile.
"The girls worked hard. I didn't make a move." Xue Tianyu smiled calmly.
"They were trained by you, so it is still your victory." Snow Empress shook her head and spoke calmly.
Xue Tianyu smiled. "I wonder whether my next opponent will be able to make me act."
"The goal of this competition is definitely the championship, right?" Snow Empress patted Xue Tianyu's shoulder. "I'll wait to see you standing on the winner's podium."
"Don't worry, Auntie Snow." Xue Tianyu said confidently, "It's only the championship. For me, it'll be effortless."
Beating Xiao Wu Senseless! Instantly Defeating Shrek, Tang San's Fury!
Very soon, all the first-round matches had ended.
The opponents for the second round were announced as well.
"Shrek Academy..."
Although he had long expected that he might encounter Tang San and the others, he had not expected it to happen so quickly.
However, Xue Tianyu's goal was the championship, so it made no difference to him whom he faced.
He only needed to win. Everything else was a problem for his opponents to consider.
For this match, Xue Tianyu still chose to hold the line, but in order to achieve the purpose of training, Skywater Academy's lineup underwent some changes.
Shui Yuer rested below the stage, while Shui Binger and Xue Wu led several other beauties onto the stage with Xue Tianyu.
This was not because Xue Tianyu looked down on Shrek Academy.
Many times, competing on the stage and watching from the rest area offered different experiences.
To make significant progress, neither could be neglected.
This was the period when the Soul Master Competition was at its lowest intensity, making it the perfect time for rotation. It would give every team member a chance for real combat and give the others a chance to reflect on their own performance in the arena.
At this moment, Shrek Academy's people only barely arrived after Skywater Academy had all taken the stage.
At the start of the competition, Shrek Academy had not fielded its full lineup either.
Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and the others brought two substitutes onto the stage.
Ning Rongrong and Oscar watched from below the stage.
Still, this meant they had brought out the five strongest fighters among the Shrek Seven Devils.
They had only left out Ning Rongrong and Oscar, the two support types, because they wanted to test the lower limits of the Shrek Seven Devils.
As for whether that might cause them to lose the match?
Tang San was extremely confident.
Losing was impossible.
He had already investigated Skywater Team's previous match. So what if Xue Tianyu had never acted?
Xue Tianyu was hiding his methods, but did that mean Tang San had no hidden methods of his own?
At the very least, his methods were enough to guarantee that he could kill Xue Tianyu!
Besides, in a normal fight, he might not be unable to defeat Skywater Academy.
Everyone now knew that Skywater was powerful, which made this the perfect opportunity to build Shrek Academy's reputation!
The moment Shrek Academy stepped onto the stage, Xue Tianyu saw several pairs of eyes staring straight at him.
What these people were calculating was already obvious.
If they wanted victory, knocking all six members of Skywater Academy unconscious would not be enough. They had to defeat Xue Tianyu.
The match began.
Dai Mubai directly used White Tiger Transformation, and his entire body swelled as though inflated.
He charged ahead first, intending to use his advantage in strength to take down one opponent.
At his side, Zhu Zhuqing followed like a cat melting into the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to coordinate with Dai Mubai's actions.
Tang San and Xiao Wu approached Skywater Academy's two substitute members from another direction.
Naturally, they would start by picking on the weaker targets.
At that moment, seeing Shrek's members charging over, Xue Wu immediately unleashed her Delicate Snow Silk martial soul.
"Soul skill, Dark Clouds!"
Xue Wu's martial soul possessed the ability to control the weather.
As she danced gracefully, an enormous dark cloud appeared above the arena, large enough to block out the sunlight.
"What a pointless display." Tang San ignored Xue Wu. Since she had not fought in the previous match, Tang San did not care about her at all.
The person they needed to guard against was the other beauty.
Shui Binger also saw that the other side did not seem to take Xue Wu seriously. Her eyes curved in a smile. Tang San would pay for that arrogance.
Then, a phoenix cry rang out from behind Shui Binger.
A top-tier ice-type martial soul, the Ice Crystal Phoenix!
Tang San narrowed his eyes. It was here!
According to his analysis, they could win as long as they restrained this phoenix.
Therefore, he left that task to Ma Hongjun, who also possessed a top-tier martial soul.
Another phoenix cry rang out.
Ma Hongjun activated his martial soul, the Evil Fire Phoenix!
"They're both phoenixes. Could you really be that much stronger than me?" Ma Hongjun sneered as the Evil Fire Phoenix charged at the Ice Crystal Phoenix with its strange flames!
Yet the next second, rain suddenly began to fall from the sky.
Xue Wu's second soul skill, Rainfall!
Raindrops the size of beans descended from the dark clouds, turning into a vast curtain of water in an instant.
These droplets condensed from Soul Power would not fall on herself or her teammates, but the enemy would be drenched like drowned rats.
If it had merely soaked their bodies, they could have accepted it.
But they were being soaked under the influence of the Ice Crystal Phoenix.
By the time Tang San realized the problem, it was already too late.
With a flap of the Ice Crystal Phoenix's wings, vast waves of frost swept forth, instantly freezing everyone drenched by the rain!
Terrifying power swept across the arena!
"Whoa!"
None of the spectators had expected Shrek Academy, which had performed so brilliantly in the first round, to still be completely crushed by Skywater Academy!
Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire Phoenix had not even displayed its power before he himself was frozen, ending his charge prematurely.
In the blink of an eye, only Tang San and Xiao Wu still possessed fighting strength on the entire arena.
Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had met the snowstorm head-on and were frozen most solidly.
"This... how..."
Tang San's expression turned exceptionally ugly.
He had never imagined that the Shrek Academy he led would be crushed so one-sidedly.
Seeing Tang San's dark expression, Xiao Wu felt heartache for him. She cast a hate-filled glance at the calm and composed Xue Tianyu, deciding to ambush him and win back Tang San's pride.
Xiao Wu kicked off with both feet, her body nearly turning into an afterimage as she charged toward Xue Tianyu through his blind spot.
Xue Tianyu made a grasping motion through the air with one hand, and deep-blue ice crystals condensed in his hand to form an emperor sword.
Then he gave Xiao Wu a simple swing.
Countless ice spikes burst from the ground, and Xiao Wu's shoulder was pierced by the suddenly appearing spikes while she was still several meters away.
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