Watching Goddesses Fight Was the Best

Huo Lie had expressly instructed the captains of each academy to step forward and draw lots, but the academies might not necessarily follow his arrangements.

Some academies might even hide their captains and send out temporary ones.

After all, the captain played a pivotal role. Perhaps a fake captain might even appear at the exchange tournament.

Feng Xiaotian was in no hurry to step forward. Huo Wushuang of Blazing Fire Academy was the first to come out.

Huo Wushuang was not only Huo Wu's older brother but also the captain of Blazing Fire Academy.

Feng Xiaotian remembered that Huo Wu seemed to be the vice captain, but she was basically the one who made the decisions, while Huo Wushuang protected his younger sister in every way.

Huo Wushuang stepped forward without hesitation because, although he was the captain, Huo Wu was the core of the team, and no one doubted him.

"Captain of Blazing Fire Academy, Huo Wushuang," Huo Wushuang introduced himself after stepping out of his academy's team, though he did not mention his Soul Power or Martial Soul.

Next, a young man who looked seventeen or eighteen stepped out from Thunder Academy. "Yu Tianxin, captain of Thunder Academy's team."

"Captain of Elephant Armor Academy, Huyan Li!"

"Captain of Skywater Academy, Shui Bing'er!"

"Captain of Godwind Academy, Feng Xiaotian!"

Feng Xiaotian knew the plot well and recognized that the five who had stepped forward, himself included, were all the future captains of the Five Elemental Academies. Not a single academy had hidden its captain!

As for Feng Xiaotian himself, he had no need to hide at all.

All five academies knew about his talent for Innate Full Soul Power, so what was there to hide?

Not only that, but Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang of Blazing Fire Academy even knew all his Soul Skills.

Though they knew his Soul Skills, fortunately, when the former Feng Xiaotian had fought Huo Wu, he had hidden quite a bit to make his deliberate loss to her look plausible.

For example, although he had used his Soul Skills, Feng Xiaotian had held back some of their power.

Another example was the Gale Twin-Headed Wolf's traits. As a dual-attribute Soul Master who combined speed and strength, he had shown Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang only a portion of his speed.

As for strength, how could Feng Xiaotian have used too much of it when fighting Huo Wu?

Huo Wu now thought nothing of Feng Xiaotian, perhaps because he had hidden himself so well before. His acting was beyond question, too, and this was also where Feng Xiaotian had performed best with Huo Wu.

The five of them stepped forward and lined up in front of Huo Lie!

Huo Lie then took out a fiery red box and said, "There are five slips of paper in here. The two teams that draw the number one will be each other's next opponents and the first two teams to take the field. The two teams that draw the number two will fight afterward. The remaining team will draw a blank slip and receive a bye. Does everyone understand?"

"Understood!" the captains of the five academies said in unison.

With that, Huo Lie went to Huo Wushuang, who had stepped out first. Huo Wushuang reached in and took a slip, followed by Yu Tianxin. But when it came to Huyan Li, the third in line, they discovered that his hand was a size bigger than everyone else's and simply would not fit inside.

Huyan Li was somewhat displeased. "I won't draw. Once you've finished, you'll know which one is mine."

Huo Lie nodded. "Elephant Armor Academy's captain this year is very clever."

But those words clearly displeased Huyan Qiang, Elephant Armor Academy's team leader. "What do you mean by that, Vice Dean Huo? Was our previous captain an idiot?"

Huo Lie was at a loss. Elephant Armor Academy really was a thorn in his side. He could only say helplessly, "Huyan Qiang, I never said that. If that's what you think, there's nothing I can do."

As they spoke, Shui Bing'er drew a folded slip as well. Huo Lie then came to Feng Xiaotian. Feng Xiaotian often visited Blazing Fire Academy to see Huo Wu, and Huo Lie naturally knew about it. After all, he was Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu's father.

Feng Xiaotian followed the behavior of the Feng Xiaotian in his memories and smiled. "Uncle Huo Lie!"

Huo Lie nodded. "Do your best! If you perform well and take first place in this exchange tournament, perhaps I can consider letting you pursue Xiao Wu in the future!"

Of course, this Xiao Wu was not that Xiao Wu, but Huo Wu.

Feng Xiaotian smiled in response. "Oh! Thank you, Uncle Huo!"

His memories told him that Huo Lie was a shrewd and calculating fellow. He had only one purpose in urging Feng Xiaotian to take first place: to make him lead Godwind Academy's team in giving it their all.

That way, not only would their academy's overall strength be revealed, but the other academies' strength would also be brought out.

Although everyone talked about hiding their strength, once they reached the arena, those words sometimes counted for little.

Once their eyes were red with battle, who the hell would still hold back?

Thus, in practically every previous exchange tournament, no academy had managed to hide its strength perfectly, unless it kept the people it wanted to hide off the field.

Feng Xiaotian drew a slip of paper, folded up tightly.

He opened it and found it completely blank. He had drawn the bye!

Even so, Huo Lie took the last slip out of the box and handed it to Huyan Li, who accepted it.

The five unfolded their slips so everyone else could see what was inside.

Huo Lie announced loudly, "In the first exchange match, Blazing Fire Academy will face Skywater Academy. In the second exchange match, Thunder Academy will face Elephant Armor Academy. Godwind Academy receives a bye!"

"Starting now, everyone has one incense stick's worth of time to prepare. The first match will begin when it burns out!"

The matchups immediately sparked a round of discussion!

"Blazing Fire against Skywater Academy? Isn't that the ultimate showdown between water and fire?"

"I have to say, this is the match I most wanted to see. It has our Blazing Fire Academy and the beautiful goddesses of Skywater."

"I don't want our Blazing Fire Academy to lose, but I also want to see the goddesses lose!"

"Yeah, it's such a hard choice!"

"Hmph, what are the Skywater goddesses compared to our goddess Huo Wu? She's the prettiest."

"I like watching a bunch of goddesses fight!"

The discussion continued, mostly about Skywater and Blazing Fire, with even more attention on Skywater.

After all, they were all first-rate beauties. In the Soul Master World, the ratio of female to male Soul Masters was already unbalanced. Out of ten Soul Masters, girls made up no more than thirty percent.

Fewer than thirty percent of Soul Masters were women, and beautiful ones were even rarer.

Even the least attractive person Feng Xiaotian had seen so far would have ranked average or even above average in his previous life.

That was also why the system had looked down on him when he first arrived. The average standard for Douluo's goddesses was already very high, so it was inappropriate to judge them by the standards of his previous world.

Feng Xiaotian glanced at Shui Bing'er beside him. "Good luck!"

Shui Bing'er smiled faintly as well. "Brother Xiaotian, your team is really lucky!"

Feng Xiaotian said, "There's nothing particularly good or bad about it. Every team has to fight a match anyway. It's just a matter of sooner or later."

Shui Bing'er nodded and said quietly, "You're right, Brother Xiaotian, but the later a team takes the field, the greater its advantage."

"Maybe, but this exchange tournament isn't worth much as a reference anyway!" The two talked as they walked back to their respective rest areas.

The sight of the two talking immediately left quite a few people feeling uncomfortable.

"Isn't that Feng Xiaotian? Hasn't he been pursuing our academy's goddess Huo Wu all this time? Why is he suddenly so close to Skywater Academy's captain?"

"Has he given up?"

"Maybe. I heard someone say the goddess Huo Wu doesn't like him at all."

"Great! Now we have one less rival!"

"Tch... looking like you do? Even with a hundred fewer rivals, I doubt you'd stand a chance!"

"Hey... you didn't have to say it out loud. Our friendship is broken from this day on!"

The people discussing it were all Blazing Fire Academy students watching from the sidelines. Huo Wu grew somewhat angry as she listened and really wanted to give them a scolding.

And seeing Feng Xiaotian and Shui Bing'er like that made Huo Wu feel as though she had lost to Shui Bing'er in some way!

(End of chapter)