Tactical Arrangements for the Final

Although I'm a little curious as to why Ji Juechen is participating in this Soul Master Tournament, his presence makes the finals less boring.

Xu Xingyu sincerely hoped that he could meet his opponent in the individual battle, since he had never tried a battle of wills with anyone before.

However, there's no way around it; very few people in the Douluo Continent today cultivate their willpower, such as Sword Intent, fist intent, spear intent, and so on.

Although Xu Xingyu possesses some Sword Intent and spear intent, he primarily focuses on spear intent. However, in previous battles, he either didn't allow external assistance or his opponents were too weak to warrant using his spear.

I sincerely hope that the stories about Ji Juechen in the original novel are not exaggerated; it's not easy to find a worthy opponent (punching bag) for a cultivator.

While Xu Xingyu was still sighing, Wang Yan began to make tactical arrangements for the final.

In this team battle, Wang Yan plans to have Xu Xingyu unleash her previously hidden fourth Soul Skill Ziwei Star Lightning Rope, and work with the others to eliminate the Sun Moon Team directly.

In individual battles, the Sun Moon Team will definitely be highly wary of Xu Xingyu's combat power, and their first opponent will likely be someone who appears specifically to deal with Ziwei Star Lightning Chain.

After all, while the Ziwei Star Lightning Chain, Soul Skill that can seal Soul Power, is effective against all beings that use Soul Power in combat, as long as one's agility is high enough to avoid being caught by the chains, there is still a chance to turn the tide.

We'll have Ma Xiaotao go first in the individual competition to catch them off guard. All we need to do is beat all five of their members.

If Wang Yan's battle plan goes smoothly, then victory is assured without even having to play the final 2-2-3 match! Sun Moon Royal Academy will never be able to recover.

The reason for this situation is the unique competition rules of the finals. Unlike the semi-finals, all three competitions are held simultaneously, with only a 20-minute break in between.

Meanwhile, the finals of the Soul Master Tournament will adopt a scoring system: five points for team battles, seven points for individual elimination rounds, two points each for the first two rounds (2-2-3), and three points for the third round, for a total of seven points.

Such a team only needs to score more than half the points to win the game.

Finally, under Wang Yan's arrangement, the team members for the battle were Xu Xingyu, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Jiang Nannan, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Wang Dong'er.

The individual team members are Ma Xiaotao, Xu Sanshi, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, Dai Yueheng, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Xingyu.

As for the final two-two-three battle, although it shouldn't be necessary if the plan succeeds, Wang Yan still made some arrangements.

The first match was Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao, the second match was between Xu Sanshi and Dai Yueheng, and the third match was Xu Xingyu, Jiang Nannan, and Ma Xiaotao.

If anything unexpected happens, the order of appearance will change.

It's worth mentioning that Wang Yan actually let Huo Yuhao participate in the individual battle this time!

Everyone present was shocked by Wang Yan's action, because with Huo Yuhao's limited strength, appearing in an individual battle would simply be handing points to the opponent.

However, Xu Xingyu quickly realized that Wang Yan's arrangement must be related to the matter concerning Huo Yuhao that Xuan Zi had instructed him about.

To appease Huo Yuhao, they agreed to his request to participate in the individual match.

Of course, that's not all. A closer look reveals that Huo Yuhao's appearance in this battle against humans was relatively late.

Before him were heavyweight contenders like Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.

This adjustment was made by Wang Yan in case the Sun Moon Empire had any hidden trump cards.

If the Sun Moon Team really has a way to overcome the two powerful opponents, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, then to ensure Shrek can turn things around in the individual competition, they need to let Huo Yuhao go on stage to see the opponent's true abilities.

After all, Huo Yuhao possessed the ability to Spiritual Detection, and he could see things much more clearly than those of them sitting below the stage.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao's purpose in the marketplace was to probe the true nature of the enemy's abilities, see if he could find any weaknesses, and finally, by admitting defeat in time, he could pass this information on to Dai Yueheng, who would appear later.

From this perspective, Wang Yan had no expectation that Huo Yuhao could defeat his opponent one-on-one. However, there was nothing that could be done, as the Sun Moon Team would mainly rely on their regular players in this final.

Therefore, the people who will appear at that time will be at least at the Soul King level. If they are Soul Ancestor, then Huo Yuhao will still have some chance, but if they are Soul King, unless they are ice-attribute, then Huo Yuhao will have absolutely no chance.

For some reason, this gave Xu Xingyu a sense of déjà vu, just like when she was playing a game on Blue Star in her previous life, and she deliberately sent someone to die in order to give the other party an abnormal status, and then used another person to completely understand the other party.

In this scenario, all the experience points are taken by the next person to attack, while the person who was killed earlier gets nothing.

However, Huo Yuhao didn't seem to realize Wang Yan's plan. Instead, he was excited that Wang Yan would let him appear in the individual finals, and even confidently told Wang Yan that he would definitely perform well.

This left Xu Xingyu speechless, and she thought to herself, "Wait, where's your backbone when you criticized Wang Yan for planning to cheat in the competition? You're overjoyed just because you were given a spot to play, even if it was a death sentence. Is your dignity so cheap?"

If it were Xu Xingyu, he might eventually accept it for the sake of the team, but he would never be as grateful as Huo Yuhao.

However, upon closer reflection, Huo Yuhao's behavior in the original novel seems to reflect this as well. He harbored deep resentment towards the academy for not being selected as a formal core disciple during the freshman assessment, but his anger dissipated after the academy rewarded him with a Soul Bone.

Moreover, it was a Soul Bone given to his teammate, which is basically a tacit admission that the academy doesn't value Huo Yuhao much.

Xu Xingyu was completely baffled by Huo Yuhao's thought process. He wasn't stupid, so how could he not notice something so obvious?

However, in reality, Huo Yuhao did realize the meaning behind Wang Yan's arrangement. After all, having experienced so much, he no longer regarded Shrek Academy as the most important thing as he did in the original story.

He was so excited because he planned to beat his opponent badly on the field, which would surely earn him Wang Yan's praise and potentially make him more valued by the academy when he returned.

Then, at that very moment, he had the people from the Body Sect take him away and directly contradicted them by saying that he wanted to drop out of school and join the Body Sect.

It's fair to say that Huo Yuhao didn't have any good intentions either; he had plenty of wicked ideas in his head.