Chapter 147

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy elite tournament was in full swing, while Gu Xuan wandered with Ye Lingling deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, relying on the clues left by the Pure White Lotus to search for its traces.

However, Gu Xuan still didn't get too carried away, after all there are still many terrifying soul beasts deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, and this time only he and Ye Lingling came out alone, so he acted with great caution.

As for the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, Gu Xuan currently has no intention of letting Ye Lingling absorb it, after all he and Ye Lingling should participate in the finals later, and Tang Hao is also following to protect Tang San, so to avoid the risk of being discovered by Tang Hao, he can only temporarily keep the soul bone.

As for worrying that Tang San might not make it to the finals, Gu Xuan actually has no confidence in that either; although Tang San lost the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the new Shrek Six Monsters are also at Soul Ancestor level.

If they all participated in the preliminaries, they would be stronger than in the original, after all in the original the Shrek Academy's preliminaries only fielded three Soul Ancestors.

However, to be safe, Gu Xuan still decided to keep the soul bone for now.

Gu Xuan took Ye Lingling deep into the Star Dou Great Forest to search for her fifth soul ring, but the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament differed from the original in some ways.

The Shrek team still defeated the Elephant Armor Team, but they fielded Tang San, Dai Mubai, Meng Yiran, and Oscar—four Soul Ancestors—leaving only Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing from the Shrek Academy's Soul Ancestors unused.

But Tang San estimates that in the preliminaries they are likely to have to reveal their full strength, because the Godwind Academy and the Blaze Academy are very strong.

The captain of Godwind Academy, Feng Xiao Tian, is twenty-four years old, with soul power at rank forty-nine, just one step away from advancing to Soul King, and it is said he also possesses an extremely powerful self-created soul skill.

The captain of the Blaze Academy team, Huo Wu, has soul power at rank forty-five, and is said to be the girlfriend of Godwind Academy's captain Feng Xiao Tian; her strength is equally formidable, and the two academies appear to have some undisclosed dealings in private, so far they rank second and third respectively.

The Tian Dou division only has five spots, the top three have already been taken, leaving only fourth and fifth; also competing for those are the Thunder Academy's Thunder Team and the Skywater Academy's Skywater Team, both from the Five Elements Academy.

Tang San felt enormous pressure!

And the story of Feng Xiao Tian and Huo Wu begins from when Gu Xuan defeated them both.

After Gu Xuan initially defeated Feng Xiao Tian, he gave him some advice: 'A sycophant, a sycophant, licking to the end gains nothing!'

Later, after Feng Xiao Tian hit a wall with Huo Wu, he felt Gu Xuan's advice made perfect sense; although he still couldn't restrain his fondness for Huo Wu inwardly, he forced himself to calm down and temporarily stopped seeking her.

Afterward he obtained his fourth soul ring, then began to cultivate assiduously, because his self-created soul skill hit a bottleneck at the Twelvefold Slash, so he started to diligently train his soul power, and the strength of his innate full soul power was fully displayed.

In three years he leveled up as easily as drinking water, reaching the peak of rank forty-nine, only one step away from breaking through to rank fifty and becoming a Soul King.

And after he began to cultivate assiduously, with this big sycophant no longer by her side, Huo Wu began to suffer from anxiety and insecurity.

Then came a bit of melodramatic plot: Feng Xiao Tian focused solely on cultivation, ignoring romantic matters; Huo Wu finally couldn't take it, sought out Feng Xiao Tian, but he refused her several times on the grounds of cultivation.

Although he couldn't help but inwardly think of Huo Wu, Feng Xiao Tian also discovered that acting aloof was indeed useful, after all previously he had been the one fawning over Huo Wu, but now Huo Wu actually came to him of her own accord.

So he cultivated even more attentively.

After another year, he and Huo Wu got together; this time he was no longer a sycophant, but the dominant 'dog king'.

Because both young people are the elites of their respective academies, they have the greatest chance of inheriting their academies' legacies, and the two academies have also become more closely linked due to the youths' relationship.

Later, while getting along with Feng Xiao Tian, Huo Wu discovered that they actually possessed a martial soul fusion skill, and this discovery made their cultivation even smoother.

Thus Huo Wu's cultivation speed also increased considerably, two ranks higher than in the original, reaching rank forty-five.

Moreover, they have practiced this martial soul fusion skill for nearly two and a half years! Their strength has greatly increased!

What pleased Feng Xiao Tian most was that, thanks to the martial soul fusion skill, or because he was with Huo Wu and thus free of worries, his self-created soul skill began to advance rapidly.

By now, Feng Xiao Tian's self-created soul skill has reached the Twenty-Fourfold Slash, on par with the level he had when he appeared in the original; the only difference is that his soul power is now close to that of a Soul King.

Gu Xuan, having gone to the Star Dou Great Forest, still doesn't know that his earlier words actually changed the life of the 'Sycophant King' Feng Xiao Tian, giving him the template of a gratifying novel protagonist, gaining both power and beauty.

Moreover, Gu Xuan still doesn't know that although Feng Xiao Tian hasn't seen him again later, he already regards Gu Xuan as a close friend in his heart.

After all, without Gu Xuan's initial blow and that heartfelt advice, he wouldn't have his present achievements and fame and fortune both!

Moreover, he now has another purpose in participating in the tournament: to defeat Gu Xuan openly and honorably, which is also the promise he made to Huo Wu after they got together.

There's no way around it—Huo Wu bears a grudge.

Thus, with the affairs of Godwind Academy and Blaze Academy, they have secured the second and third places in the preliminaries.

As for why they aren't first, it's because first place has been firmly occupied by the Seven Treasure Team, this dark horse.

The Seven Treasure Team initially fielded seven Soul Ancestors, but the captain and vice-captain, the two main forces, did not appear; nevertheless, all seven Soul Ancestors still gave everyone a surprise.

Although Feng Xiao Tian was somewhat surprised by this, given his current strength, leading the Godwind Team to defeat the Seven Treasure Team is no problem.

But when they encountered the Seven Treasure Team, they were stunned; although they were all Soul Ancestors, Yang Pojun, Ma Bao, Zhan Yu, and Ning Rongrong's soul power reached as high as forty-seven, forty-eight ranks!

Moreover, the captain Du Gu Yan still didn't take the field! How the heck are we supposed to fight?

Ning Rongrong, a four-ring Soul Ancestor of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tower, has soul power reaching forty-eight, her divided attention control has been cultivated to the Six Apertures Crystal Clear Heart, and she can assist Ma Bao, Yang Pojun, Zhan Yu, Zuo Yan, and Li Li without issue; plus a forty-two-rank food-system substitute for endurance, even Feng Xiao Tian dare not confront them head-on.

After all, although his strength is great, his teammates can't keep up with the output, so in order not to reveal his trump cards, Feng Xiao Tian chose to concede, thereby establishing the Seven Treasure Team's first place in the preliminaries.

The Snow Night Emperor, and the Platinum Archbishop Salas of the Spirit Hall, also thoroughly confirmed that the dark horse Ning Fengzhi spoke of at the opening of the previous tournament was none other than your own team!

However, the Snow Night Emperor is fine, after all regardless, the Seven Treasure Team belongs to the the Heaven Dou Empire, and will later bring glory to the the Heaven Dou Empire.

But when the Spirit Hall's Platinum Archbishop Salas saw this, his gaze turned sinister; he hurriedly wrote a letter back to the Spirit Hall, to be personally opened by Bi Bi Dong.

ps: Typos will be corrected later.

The earlier foreshadowing is gradually surfacing, after all it couldn't have been just to let the protagonist show off at the start; it's basically giving the protagonist an experience boost.

(End of chapter)