Chapter 174: The Giant Wild Squad

Yang Wudi needs to stay long-term in the palace to detoxify for the Tian Dou Emperor, so the Tian Dou Imperial House granted the Po clan special privileges and care.

"I originally thought we needed to use the Ultimate Attribute to unleash the poison pill's true power to have a chance to kill the Blood Stabber, but I underestimated the poison pill's power."

Du Gu Bo and Yang Wudi arrived at a side hall of the palace, and felt a pang of regret that they could kill a title Douluo of the Spirit Hall.

"Having absorbed two Immortal Herbs and refined them using the Ice and Fire Dual-Aspect Eye, your poison skill is extraordinary and may not need the Ultimate Attribute."

Du Gu Bo merely nodded; he had already gained some insight while urging the development of his poison skill.

Because of Xue Qinghe's matter, many factions' attention is entirely on the Tian Dou Imperial House.

If the Tian Dou Imperial House encounters a major problem, it would greatly affect the entire the Heaven Dou Empire.

With the Tian Dou Emperor stepping forward, this influence was gradually suppressed.

Yet many forces still try to probe the changes occurring within the Imperial House.

Xue Qinghe is the crown prince of the the Heaven Dou Empire; his status is extremely high, so this situation cannot be concealed.

What the Tian Dou Imperial House now intends is to delay as much as possible, and after the influence wanes, announce the matter.

What needs to be done now is to boost the Fourth Prince's status and influence, no longer the previous playboy image.

Tie Li learned from Du Gu Bo about the changes within the Imperial House and was quite shocked that Du Gu Bo and Yang Wudi killed the Stab Pig Douluo and the Snake Spear Douluo.

But upon further thought, it seemed reasonable.

The two of them absorbed Immortal Herbs, their strength far surpassing that of their original timeline, incomparable to ordinary title Douluos.

Du Gu Bo took Tie Li back to the Tian Dou Imperial House Academy, but at this moment the academy had only one of the three Committee Members left as a guard; the other two were needed to help the Imperial House handle troublesome matters.

Regarding the events in the palace, Tie Li was not very interested; as a Soul King himself, he could not offer much help.

The next day after returning to the academy, he received a summons from his team.

Zhao Tianhe selected a battle team for the Second Team as their opponent; Tie Li needed to reacquaint himself with the coordination among the team members.

There is little time left before the Soul Master Competition, and Tie Li, returning to his team, needs time to blend in.

Although they had a basis for cooperation before, after such a long gap, some unfamiliarity is inevitable.

The Second Team has a dedicated conference room; Zhao Tianhe, with the Second Team's core members, discussed tactics, as they will face an old‑guard team from the Grand Soul Battle Arena.

This Team Soul Battle match is a scheduled battle rather than auto‑matching, because Tie Li is a Five Ring Soul King; according to the Grand Soul Battle Arena's matching system, the team is matched based on the member with the highest Soul Power Level.

They might be matched against a team led by an All Soul King, or a mixed team of Battle Soul Sect members and Soul Kings.

But whichever it is, it is not a friendly option for the Second Team; the disparity in Team Soul Battle strength is too great to be worthwhile for training.

"The Giant Wild Team's captain is a Level 48 strong‑attack Battle Soul Sect, whose martial soul is a Black‑Patterned Tiger,

the vice‑captain is named You Lian, a Level 45 control‑type Battle Soul Sect whose martial soul is Ghost Vine; within the Giant Wild Team, these two are the ones to watch most closely."

Zhao Tianhe analyzed the Giant Wild Team for everyone, noting that it is an All Soul Sect team whose strength should not be underestimated.

Tie Li took the Giant Wild Team's data and examined it carefully.

Inside the conference room, besides the Second Team's official members, there were two substitute players.

"Are they a dual‑control field team?"

Tie Li saw another control‑type Soul Master in the data, a familiar name.

Yanxi, Level 41 control‑type Battle Soul Sect, martial soul Ghost‑Shadow Mirror.

"The other control‑type Soul Master's soul skill leans toward supportive control, not pure control," Zhao Tianhe explained.

In the Giant Wild Team's Team Soul Battle records, this control‑type Soul Master's performance was unremarkable, mainly disrupting opponents to create openings for teammates, often causing people to subconsciously overlook her role.

But Tie Li had once joined the Yan Team in the Grand Soul Battle Arena and faced a large Soul Master team called the Juya Team, where one of the control‑type Soul Masters was her.

Her second soul skill was impressive, allowing her to use a Soul Master's shadow to replicate the master's dark shadow body, possessing fifty percent of the original's combat power.

A second soul skill this strong implies either an exceptionally high‑quality martial soul or that the absorbed Soul Ring came from a top‑bloodline Soul Beast;

or perhaps the Soul Beast she absorbed possessed a soul bone, with both the Soul Ring and soul bone originating from the same Beast, both taken by the same Soul Master, yielding a synergistic boost greater than the sum of its parts.

Her second Soul Ring is a Hundred-Year Soul Ring, indicating she hunted a Hundred-Year Soul Beast; such beasts rarely yield Soul Bones, and those bones provide only minimal enhancement to a Soul Master—if another master absorbed that bone, they might only gain a modest attribute boost and a mediocre soul skill.

But if Yanxi absorbed that bone, the co‑origin Soul Ring and bone would reinforce each other, making her second soul skill unique, and her Soul Bone Skill certainly formidable.

Tie Li had long speculated about her situation.

In this document, there was no mention of Yanxi's second soul skill, perhaps to avoid exposing it to prying eyes, it was deliberately omitted.

"Their team's composition is nearly perfect; among All Soul Sect teams, few are as refined as theirs," Zhao Tianhe said.

One strong attack, one agile attack, one support, with dual control fields and dual defense protection—this is excellent among Battle Soul Sect teams in the Grand Soul Battle Arena.

The higher the Soul Power Level of a team, the harder it is to achieve a perfect lineup; conversely, lower‑level teams can have Soul Master configurations that approach perfection.

To keep the team's overall Soul Power Level from lagging behind other teams, many teams heavily skew their Soul Master lineups, such as four strong attacks with one support and dual defense, or five agile attacks with dual control fields.

In this match against the Giant Wild Team, only Tie Li has a Soul Power Level advantage; everyone else is at a disadvantage.

Gu Qi's Soul Power Level reached Level 42 and could have broken through to Level 43 before the Soul Master Competition; his earlier encounter at Xin Yue Sect left him seriously injured, costing much healing time—otherwise he could have advanced to Level 43 months earlier;

Ning Ning successfully broke through to Level 40 the previous month, acquiring the Fourth Soul Ring.

Among the other four, Tuo Yu has the highest Soul Power Level at Level 37, while Mu Wei and the others are only Level 35.

The two substitute players also have Soul Power Levels of Level 35, both strong‑attack Soul Elders, serving as Tie Li's backups.

Zhao Tianhe began outlining the plan, primarily targeting the opponent's main control‑type Soul Master, who has consistently performed exceptionally in past Team Soul Battle matches.

(End of Chapter)