Chapter 127: Selection

Although not adept at agility, and lacking much in the way of long-range attack capabilities, she looks like a wooden stake.

However, her extremely strong defensive capabilities and abnormal resistance allow her to withstand the vast majority of her opponents' soul skills to close the distance, and then finish them off with her huge, thick bear paws.

Zhou Heng used his spiritual power to examine the martial soul origin she displayed and discovered that it was a rather special type; it seemed to be a Tool Spirit while simultaneously possessing some characteristics of a Beast Spirit, which was something Zhou Heng had never seen before.

It is just a pity that change of this kind is irreversible; every soul ring a Spirit Master obtains causes changes to their martial soul, and the Baoyu Beast Martial Soul is a type that is extremely susceptible to the influence of soul rings.

The Baoyu Beast Martial Soul of today is already a carved stone, with traces of acquired changes so severe that the original mysteries can no longer be seen.

Zhou Heng watched for a while and felt that he would likely have to start from the stage when the Baoyu Beast Martial Soul was still a gemstone to see the secrets within.

After thinking it over, Zhou Heng added a trip to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to his schedule.

This time, it is not only to witness the Baoyu Beast Martial Soul, but also to witness the miraculous nature of the legendary Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda; that percentage-based amplification that ignores levels is a capability that remained unique even until the Dou 4 era, when combat power inflated and collapsed.

Moreover, Zhou Heng still has a Tulip of Romance in his possession, which is very special to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

As long as it is handled well, this Immortal Herb can likely be exchanged for quite a few benefits from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

After about two hours, the battle on the field finally came to an end.

As the captain, Dugu Yan selected ten people from these dozen or so students, who were considered to have joined the team.

The academy team's starting lineup consists of seven people, and there must also be seven substitutes to ensure that there is no one unavailable in the event of an accident with a starting player, and to allow for temporary adjustments based on the enemy's formation.

The original dozen or so people were already the result of several rounds of careful screening.

They were all actually qualified to be substitutes for the team, but although some had decent soul power and martial souls, they were ultimately lacking a certain talent in battle.

Either they were too dull in a fight and did not know how to be flexible at all.

Or they did not dare to fight hard at all, lacking that spirit of going all out in one breath.

As for the Support-type Spirit Master in the team, having Ye Lingling is enough.

Although the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy also has several decent support-type martial souls that can provide attribute amplification, none of them are particularly suitable.

Either their team coordination ability is not good enough, or their soul power level is too low to support high-intensity combat at all.

If these people were disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, or if the amplification provided by their martial souls could approach that of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Dugu Yan could still tolerate these flaws.

After all, the amplification of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is too strong.

But the fact is that these support Spirit Masters are still far too lacking; neither their martial souls nor their personal qualities are fit for the intense stage of the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Among these ten people selected by Dugu Yan, there was also Ning Zhongze, the Baoyu Beast Martial Soul Spirit Master whom Zhou Heng had noticed earlier.

However, Zhou Heng did not pay any extra attention to the other party beyond their martial soul.

The Baoyu Beast Martial Soul, after absorbing its soul ring, was still a little bit lacking.

At the same time, Zhou Heng also noticed that Dugu Yan did not seem to intend to keep a spot for herself on the team.

Seeing Zhou Heng's confusion, Dugu Yan did not avoid the others and explained directly in front of everyone.

"Xiao Heng's strength is stronger than all of us; his strength is something even my grandfather praises incessantly, and his own strength is not on the same level as ours.

With his current strength, there is no longer much need for him to coordinate in the school team. There are still several years until the Spirit Master Tournament, and in these years, his own growth will be even greater than ours.

Incidentally, I want to say one thing here. There are two teams, the starting lineup and the substitutes, totaling 14 people. And the positions of the five of us—myself, Xiao Ming, Lingling, Yu Feng, and Aosiluo—will certainly not be shaken.

And there are ten of you, among whom one will inevitably be eliminated.

I will conduct a one-year assessment, and during this year, I will score your various performances; the one with the lowest score among them will withdraw from the tournament stage."

Hearing Dugu Yan's words, the students who had finally been selected could not help but stir for a moment.

They were not questioning Zhou Heng's strength or anything; after all, Zhou Heng's deeds in the Hunting Soul Forest back then were still circulating, and his legend was currently spreading throughout the academy.

They did not dare to compare their own strength to his now. What's more, he had been dragged away by the Poison Douluo for special training for more than three years.

His talent was recognized even by the Poison Douluo, and he was even officially declared to be his grandson-in-law, which caused quite a stir in Heaven Dou City at the time.

That is the Poison Douluo, not just a Title Douluo, but also a Super Douluo.

With such talent, coupled with more than three years of training, who knows how much he has grown? Who knows what level his already formidable strength could develop into?

Even if we take a step back, even if he does not join the school team for training, he can still learn from the Poison Douluo.

Even a fool can understand how much growth one can achieve by practicing with a Super Douluo whose cultivation has reached level 95.

These selected students just looked at each other, worried that they would be the one to be eliminated.

They were all the best of the best, and all of them were conceited.

If they were to become the only one eliminated in the final process of ten choosing nine, then for them, it would be better to have been screened out in the previous round of selection.

Dugu Yan looked at Zhou Heng, asking with her eyes how her performance was.

And Zhou Heng replied with an encouraging look.

For the next period of time, Dugu Yan selected several students and had them spar with each other. She also divided the remaining people into two teams and had them compete against each other.

The best way for Spirit Masters to understand each other is to have a fight; after colliding for a while, they will be able to understand what level the other party is at.

During the observation period, the members of the previous Heaven Dou Imperial Academy team were also commenting from the sidelines.

As participants and runners-up of the previous tournament, this group of people still offered quite a few incisive opinions.

When these ten people became familiar with each other after fighting for a while, Dugu Yan organized these ten people into one team, and then she, Ye Lingling, Yu Feng, and Aosiluo formed another team to compete against each other.

Although Zhou Heng had been standing there the whole time, looking very relaxed.

But Dugu Yan was well aware that Zhou Heng's combat power was completely beyond what ordinary Spirit Masters could imagine.

If Zhou Heng were also pulled in, no matter which side he joined, it would cause a one-sided slaughter for the other side.

It could even be said that if Chen Ming were to fight her fourteen people alone as a team, the result would not be much different.