Chapter 207: The Finals Begin

Four days later, in front of the Pope Palace, the opening ceremony of the Finals finally officially began.

Both Heaven Dou and Star Luo each had fifteen teams qualify, and adding the teams guaranteed entry by the Two Great Empires and the Spirit Hall, there were a total of thirty-three teams; they were all elites of the younger generation on this continent, symbolizing the future of the continent.

Teams that could enter the Finals would not be weak; from this point on, the substitute members of all academies would exit the stage, and they would face the battle with their full main lineups.

Bibi Dong did not attend the opening ceremony; she generally would not appear until the top three academies emerged, which made Nan Feihuang somewhat disappointed, as he had originally wanted to see what this original work's first villainess Pope actually looked like.

Just how beautiful must one be to turn an Angel Douluo into a Secret Room Douluo?

After the opening ceremony came the drawing of lots to determine the order of the matches; as the captain, Nan Feihuang naturally had to shoulder the responsibility of leading the entire team, and reviewing match information was also his job.

When they saw Feihuang walking back, everyone asked hurriedly, "Captain, who is our first-round opponent in the Finals?"

Now that the competition had entered a knockout format, one would be eliminated after losing just a single match, so even the Gu Lei Team did not dare to be the slightest bit careless.

"We are in the third match today, no need to worry, the opponent is not some remarkable character, just the Balak Academy from the Balak Empire; even if E Lai and I don't go up, you all can beat their entire team," Nan Feihuang looked very relaxed.

"Don't be careless; in the Preliminary Tournament and the Promotion Tournament, every academy usually has hidden cards, and they will only truly show their strength in the Finals. Besides, for this first match, I intend to let Feihuang rest; from here on, you can only rely on yourselves," Lan Xue said.

Therefore, Lan Xue hoped that Nan Feihuang could rest for a few more days.

Only when they had exhausted every means and found they still could not win would the Gu Lei Team be considered to have truly beaten all opponents into submission and obtained the championship.

He did not intend to hold back any strength, perhaps to catch the Spirit Hall off guard in the future.

As long as they won this match, they would have a bye in the next round, and with a long rest period, they could fight the third round with the best energy.

Nan Feihuang snapped his fingers, "E Lai, I give you a task for this match: try your best to let your teammates rest; you handle Balak."

Despise the enemy strategically, but respect the enemy tactically!

Actually, that was exactly what Lan Xue meant; she looked down on Balak Academy from the bottom of her heart, so she did not want to send out Nan Feihuang, but she also did not want those going on stage to be overly careless.

Although Feihuang was bellicose, he did not say anything; just as his mother said, among the thirty-three teams in the Finals, Balak was ranked at the bottom and was truly too weak.

"Yes!" everyone said in unison.

Therefore, he would expose the Gu Lei Team's strongest combat power so that they could prepare.

It is only meaningful to defeat an opponent who is serious to the extreme.

If one's soul power is insufficient, the light consequence is that memory gradually degenerates and one becomes an idiot, and the heavy consequence is that the soul shatters and one dies.

Even if he went into battle, there would be nothing to play with.

This Balak was also unlucky; they met Shrek in the first match of the Promotion Tournament, and in the first match of the Finals, they met Gu Lei again.

Another reason was that Nan Feihuang had just used his Martial Soul Avatar not long ago; an Avatar is completely different from ordinary skills, as it not only consumes soul power but also consumes soul power significantly.

Since he had come to the arena, he would crush them with absolute strength; even against the Spirit Hall Academy, he did not want to win by a surprise attack. He wanted the Spirit Hall to make full preparations and face the Gu Lei Kingdom with a guarded mindset.

This was also to increase the academy's reputation.

A championship academy is very attractive; when the Four Elements Academies were forced by the Spirit Hall to leave their original locations in the original work, they all came to Shrek out of admiration.

These Spirit Masters of the Four Elements Academies were all talents, and it was not impossible to win them over.

The breakthrough point was Senior Sister Shui Bing'er; their two families were old acquaintances.

In the future, when Tianshui Academy was forced away by the Spirit Hall, and there was not even one academy in Tiandou City worth them joining, he could then offer an invitation, and perhaps there would be hope to pull this senior sister to his side.

Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu were good friends; through her, he could also befriend Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian was a sycophant of Huo Wu.

This snowball, it just gets bigger and bigger!

The competition officially began; today's matches had three teams with a bye: the Spirit Hall, Heaven Dou, and Star Luo, the three academies guaranteed entry as seeded teams.

The remaining thirty teams would decide the top fifteen.

Gu Lei Academy was in the third match; the first match was Shrek against the Longkui Academy from the Star Luo Empire.

The result was obvious: of course, Shrek won; although the strength of this team was far inferior to the original work's period, it was not something a minor academy could compare to.

Tang San and Dai Mubai, two low-level Soul Ancestors, had strength comparable to mid-to-high-level Soul Ancestors under the enhancement of Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, which was quite good.

Plus, Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing were both quite decent in strength among Soul Elders; as long as they didn't encounter the level of the Five Elements Academies, they generally fought quite easily against ordinary academies.

Next on stage were Blazing Academy and Kamikaze Academy; these two rival academies met again.

Unlike the original work, the two did not merge this time; after all, Huo Wu had not been beaten by Tang San to the point of almost losing confidence, so she did not yet think of attaching herself to others.

In the Preliminary Tournament, these two academies had already met, and the result was Blazing Academy winning, but it was not because Blazing's strength was stronger than Kamikaze's, but because of Feng Xiaotian's intentional loss; it was not a knockout match then, so losing one match was no big deal.

But now it was different; losing any match in the Finals meant elimination.

No matter how much Feng Xiaotian liked Huo Wu, it was impossible for him to continue to throw the match at such a time; he unleashed his full strength and, relying on the Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, successively knocked Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang off, helping Kamikaze Academy achieve victory.

Actually, Nan Feihuang felt that if Feng Xiaotian really wanted to pursue Huo Wu, his current decision was the correct one; compared to a sycophant, Huo Wu's personality would one hundred percent prefer a good young man who strives for progress.

A large part of the reason why Feng Xiaotian was able to pursue her in the original work was his desperate hard work over five years, showing an unyielding spirit of struggle.

Improving from level 44 to level 61 in five years.

One must know that Dai Mubai, who had eaten an Immortal Herb, only improved from level 45 to level 63.

The two were not much different; this was the true cultivation speed of innate full soul power, simply comparable to the Shrek Seven Devils who had eaten Immortal Herbs.

If Feng Xiaotian had done this earlier, with his talent, he might have already made Huo Wu look at him with admiration.

After the match between Blazing and Kamikaze ended, it was finally the Gu Lei Kingdom's turn to go on stage.

After many matches, Dian Wei finally stood on the ring again.

He walked with heavy steps at the very front of the team; even Vice-Captain Nan Feiling and Lv Lingqi, who had shone brilliantly in the Promotion Tournament, gave the center position to him.

Meng Yiran laughed, "Yo, this big guy is finally going to appear again; the Flying General is not pretending anymore, is he? He seems to dislike playing the pig to eat the tiger, but prefers to directly show that they are a group of male lions."

(End of chapter)