Chapter 109: Round-Robin

As he had anticipated, soon another heavyweight bomb exploded.

"What did you say? Domain skill!!"

Wang Yan's breathing became rapid.

After inquiring about Zhou Sichen's, Tang Wulin's, and Wang Dong's soul skills, when it came to Huo Yutong's turn, she actually told him she still had a domain skill hidden.

Huo Yutong nodded seriously.

"Yes, the name of that soul skill is Snow Dance Blazing Sun."

Anyway, her having a domain skill would eventually be exposed, so she didn't mind proactively telling Wang Yan, the teacher who had taught her for a year.

"Snow Dance Blazing Sun..." As a theorist, Wang Yan naturally was very familiar with that name, "Is it the Imperial Cold Heaven from the Snow Emperor's Three Absolutes?"

He instantly understood why Huo Yutong's battlefield with the Death God Emissary looked like that; it was obviously due to the influence of Snow Dance Blazing Sun.

Counting the Imperial Palm and Imperial Sword she had previously displayed, she had now completely mastered all three of the Snow Emperor's Absolutes.

This is simply unimaginable; could a pure Ice Sky Snow Girl martial soul really do this? If it weren't for this idea being too crazy, Wang Yan would almost suspect that Huo Yutong's martial soul was not an ordinary Ice Sky Snow Girl, but the legendary Snow Emperor itself.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm his rapidly racing heartbeat.

"Yutong, how great is the consumption of this domain skill, Snow Dance Blazing Sun? If you unleash it at full power, how long can you maintain it?"

Huo Yutong roughly calculated in her mind and said:

"If I don't use other soul skills, it's about half a minute; if I use other soul skills, the time will shorten further."

What she actually meant was the duration of casting Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain; anyway, Wang Yan and the others had never seen the Snow Emperor, so they couldn't distinguish Snow Dance Blazing Sun from Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain.

"Half a minute? It's a bit short, but still impressive."

After all, a domain skill's release affects the entire arena; the Myriad Spirit Forest is, in a sense, a large-scale domain skill, and under its control, the time spent in a match is even less than half a minute.

Human greed knows no bounds; for a Soul Elder like Huo Yutong to possess a domain skill already exceeds expectations, and for it to last as long as half a minute is even more than hoped for—there's no point in asking for more.

Wang Yan let out a sigh of relief and sat down.

"Great, now our individual and team matches have some guarantee; as long as we don't face opponents that are excessively beyond reason, we don't need to worry too much."

In the individual match, having Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin holding up should allow us to replace many weaker opponents, and in the team battle, considering their four soul fusion techniques, we don't need to worry too much.

"The trouble is the 2-2-3 format."

Hearing him say that, Wang Dong asked doubtfully:

"What's wrong with the 2-2-3?"

Wang Yan sighed and explained:

"Our team relies too much on Yutong and Wulin; aside from the two of us, we currently have no means to contend with a Soul King, and even if Wulin wanted to fight a Soul King, he would need the boost from his Soul Fusion Technique with Yutong; the 2-2-3 format, which forces our team to split into three parts, is highly disadvantageous for us."

"So that's how it is."

Wang Dong suddenly understood.

Bei Bei frowned and asked:

"Teacher, based on past experience, how many teams could have multiple Soul King-level members?" Wang Yan thought for a moment and spoke cautiously: "I'm actually leading a team for the first time, so my opinion may not be reliable, but I estimate that at least the top eight teams all have multiple Soul King-level fighters, and according to probability, we in the round-robin will likely face teams of that caliber."

Hearing that, the Shilake Academy reserve team all tensed up.

In other words, they are likely to face last year's top eight before Ling Luochen and Dai Yaoheng recover.

This is undoubtedly not good news, but with the opponents in the round-robin still unknown, Wang Yan couldn't come up with a good solution.

He took a deep breath, put on a smile, and tried to cheer them up.

"That said, don't burden yourselves with too much psychological pressure; Ling Luochen and Dai Yaoheng will likely be healed by the halfway point of the round-robin, and as long as our luck isn't terrible, facing top-eight-level opponents in the second half will reduce our pressure considerably—just stay calm."

Although he said that, it only highlighted the predicament of Shilake Academy's situation even more.

The match actually has to rely on lucky scheduling; from this we can see they are utterly powerless against opponents of past top-eight level.

If they were assigned to a team battle or individual match, they might still have a fighting chance, but if they truly got the 2-2-3 format, there would be nothing they could do.

Bei Bei clenched his fists, hesitated a moment, and said to Wang Yan:

"Teacher, I want to have a private talk with Wulin; is that okay?"

"?" Wang Yan looked somewhat puzzled, but still nodded: "Of course no problem, how much time do you need?"

"Two minutes will do."

Bei Bei said that, grabbed Tang Wulin's arm, pulled him out of the meeting room, and brought him to a deserted corner.

Tang Wulin saw his demeanor; although he didn't know what he wanted to say, he could also tell the upcoming topic was important.

"Senior brother, what do you want to say?"

Bei Bei took a deep breath and spoke solemnly.

"Wulin, if we encounter the past top eight before Dai Yaoheng and Ling Luochen recover, and we happen to draw the 2-2-3 format, I hope you can give up teaming with Yutong and instead team with me."

"Sure, that's possible... but why?"

"Because I have my own trump card, and you can also help me make that trump card even stronger."

Bei Bei's expression was serious.

"You also know that Mu Lao is my mysterious ancestor, so I'll just tell you straight: my martial soul is the same as my progenitor's, both possessing the power of the Holy Light Dragon. However, compared to my progenitor, my Holy Light Dragon bloodline is unstable; normally it manifests as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and only when I deliberately stimulate it can it briefly mutate into a Holy Light Dragon, granting me some cross-tier combat ability. I've recently discovered that your Golden Dragon King bloodline can help stabilize my Holy Light Dragon bloodline."

He owed this discovery to that half-month adjustment period, during which he had several times been grouped with Tang Wulin, and when teamed with Tang Wulin he was surprised to find his bloodline subtly showing a trend of evolution.

Although this trend is very subtle, it truly exists; without a doubt, Tang Wulin's strength has a significant positive influence on him.

As long as he can team with Tang Wulin, he can unleash power close to that of a Soul King, which would free up Huo Yutong, the team's current strongest, to go to other squads; if both squads win, the Shilake Academy team can secure victory.

Tang Wulin never expected Bei Bei to hide such a secret; after pondering a moment, he nodded.

"Alright, I understand."

He believed that the steady senior brother's words were surely backed by confidence.

(End of Chapter)