Chapter 55: Liu Erlong

Looking at the mysterious Xun Yu, Nan Feihuang instead felt too lazy to press for answers; recently he had become obsessed with Kongming-style eccentric ways of speaking, and even if he asked, it would still be a riddle. "Fine, then I shall wait to see a good show, to see how much amusement the great internal affairs talent most relied upon by Cao Laoban can bring me."

"You two, why did you suddenly stop talking?" At this moment, Xue Ke asked, puzzled.

From her perspective, she could only see Nan Feihuang and Xun Yu's mouths moving slightly, followed by them staring wide-eyed at each other.

Her cultivation was shallow, and her knowledge of martial arts was also limited; she simply did not understand the method of Sound Transmission Secret Technique.

"It is nothing, Princess. Look, our opponents have appeared," Nan Feihuang suddenly said, pointing at the large screen.

They saw that on the large screen, two teams were displayed.

Both were Silver Soul Fighting Teams, but not the kind where every member was a Silver Soul; it was just that the teams contained people of the Silver Soul rank.

The grading of teams in the Great Soul Arena was not based on an average, but on the upper limit.

The person with the highest upper limit in the team determined the team's grade; furthermore, as long as there was one person in the team who had reached the Soul Elder realm of level thirty or above, it would be classified as a Soul Elder team, and it was very likely to encounter a team consisting entirely of Soul Elders.

The Great Soul Arena claimed to be the fairest place, but that was only relative; in many situations, one still had to rely on luck.

"Lan Ba Team?" Yu Tianheng's gaze was drawn to the name of the opposing team. Lan Ba—why did he feel these two characters were so familiar?

"Tianheng, has your Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family come to the Soul Fighting Arena to play?" Dugu Yan asked.

"Of course not, but these two characters... Right, it is Aunt!" A flash of inspiration struck Yu Tianheng's mind, and he immediately remembered what his grandfather had told him: he had an aunt who, using 'Lan Ba' as a name, had opened a Spirit Master academy within Tiandou City.

Moreover, this academy was quite special; it only accepted commoners and rejected all nobles.

Yu Tianheng was not very close with this aunt; after all, this aunt was the illegitimate daughter of his second grandfather, did not even carry the surname Yu, and had not even been entered into the family genealogy.

It was just that when he was very young, she seemed to have been forcibly brought back from the outside by his second grandfather, Yu Luomian, because of some very shameful matter, and he had met her a few times during that period.

After she left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family again, he had never seen her since.

Since he would encounter a team named 'Lan Ba' here, it was nine times out of ten related to this aunt.

Sure enough, when the two teams met in the contestant tunnel, the leader on the opposite side was precisely a beautiful middle-aged woman. Yu Tianheng immediately stepped forward to greet her, "Aunt!"

"You are... Tianheng?" the beautiful woman asked tentatively. She had not seen Yu Tianheng for a long time, and therefore did not recognize him immediately.

"Yes, I am Yu Tianheng. Long time no see, Aunt."

The beautiful woman nodded, "I truly did not expect that the team I am leading today would encounter you. I hope we can have a good match."

Having said that, she left with the seven people behind her.

It appeared that her relationship with Yu Tianheng was not very close either.

Dugu Yan looked at Yu Tianheng with a question, "Tianheng, you know the team leader on the other side?"

"Yes, she is my aunt, Liu Erlong. It is just that she has been away for many years and rarely returns home, so I only know her, but am not very familiar with her. She does not have many friends in the family; she is only relatively close with my grandfather," Yu Tianheng said.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was exceptionally arrogant. Those family Elders did not necessarily ostracize or suppress this illegitimate daughter—who was also of a different surname—to a severe degree, but at the very least, they would not truly treat Liu Erlong as a relative. At most, they treated her as a distant relative staying in the house.

However, Yu Yuanzhen was different. This Thunder Douluo placed extreme importance on family affection. Even when the Grandmaster was driven out of the family back then, he was actually opposed to it, but the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was not his personal dictatorship; he could not change what all the family Elders had decided.

Regardless, Liu Erlong was the daughter of his own younger brother, which meant she was his niece, and he naturally cherished her.

This was also why, although Liu Erlong did not particularly like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, she still valued the family; because in her heart, the two people most important to her, Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang, were both people of this family.

"Let's go, everyone, the spirit fighting is about to begin," Qin Ming was not very interested in the family affairs of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family.

So what if they met a relative? In any case, it was just a sparring-natured Soul Fighting match, not a life-or-death battle.

Arriving at the preparation room, Qin Ming said, "Everyone, I just observed the opposing team. They have three Soul Elders and four Great Soul Masters. In terms of level, they are a notch above us, as we only have Tianheng and Dugu Yan who have reached the Soul Elder level."

The team Liu Erlong brought today was a combination of four teenagers of similar age to the group, plus three youths around twenty years old.

In fact, Nan Feihuang had already recognized those four teenagers.

A big man, one with a gloomy complexion, one with a wolf-like temperament, and the last one was a beautiful girl.

This was clearly the future Shrek Second Team: Tailong, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and Jiang Zhu.

These individuals were the ones Liu Erlong was cultivating with all her might for the next Soul Master Tournament, which was why she had personally brought them to the Great Soul Arena to gain experience.

But at this moment, they were still young, and it was not the time when they appeared in the original work having reached the level of Academy Chief.

Those three youths around twenty years old should be seniors about to graduate from Lan Ba Academy.

This match was the seniors bringing the juniors to conduct practical combat training.

"We are not at a disadvantage. Although we have one fewer Soul Elder, the strength of classmate Feihuang is not the least bit inferior to a Soul Elder," Ye Lingling said.

Qin Ming nodded, "Lingling is right. Therefore, when we fight later, Feihuang, the extra Soul Elder will be left to you."

"Rest assured, Teacher Qin," Nan Feihuang readily agreed; he was eager to cross hands with a Soul Elder.

"There is one more point, and that is the support on the other side. She possesses a top-tier Support System Tool Spirit, the Healing Scepter. I once saw a record of this martial soul in the library of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Its healing ability is at least in the second tier among all healing martial souls, only a notch below the first-tier Nine Heart Begonia," Qin Ming reminded everyone, "Therefore, when you fight later, try to take her down first. Otherwise, you will fight very exhaustingly and it will evolve into a war of attrition."

Qin Ming's method was a quick victory. In fact, even if it really turned into a war of attrition, he had confidence they could win.

After all, as a healer, the Nine Heart Begonia never shied away from any martial soul.

"Yes, Teacher!" everyone replied.

Combat was meant to be swift; they would defeat their opponents in the fastest way possible. They were not interested in comparing healing abilities with the other side.

Once the tactics were discussed, very soon, it was time for the spirit fighting.

Under the urging of the Soul Fighting Arena DJ, the seven members of the Heaven Dou Battle Team walked onto the Soul Fighting Arena in the form of a team for the first time.

(End of chapter)