Chapter 210: The Plan Begins

After briefly explaining what had happened to Yi Lao, Su Yu did not bring up the matter again; after all, there were too many suspicious points. Moreover, Su Yu felt more like he had become a chess piece rather than a player in a game.

Sun and Moon Street.

"How do you plan to handle the arrangements for the latter part of the competition? Are we going to act directly to trap and kill the elites of the Three Great Empires, or let them finish the competition before making a move?" Su Yu looked at Luo Yu before him; clearly, for some time, he and Luo Yu had not been exchanging information.

Luo Yu took out a plan. There was not much on it, but it recorded the general strategy for this operation: "The initial plan was to act directly once the timing was right, but later, Xu Tianran had new ideas. In other words, Xu Tianran also wanted to win for once, so he agreed to my request. However, after this competition ends, it is estimated that the people from the Three Great Empires will find it very difficult to walk out of Mingdu."

"Do you mean that the Holy Spirit Cult has also started to intervene?" Su Yu found it hard to believe that the Holy Spirit Cult had actually joined the operation this time.

Luo Yu nodded. "During the few days you were unconscious, they reached a secret agreement. I don't know the specific content, but the Hall Master did tell me a little. If it weren't for the concern regarding the old fellows in the Sea God Pavilion and the Body Sect, they would likely have mobilized Soul Douluo-level or higher experts to act directly after the competition ended."

"No matter how things develop, we will always have to face it. However, I don't know if we can avoid Qiankun Wenqing Valley." Thinking of this, Su Yu could not help but feel a sense of helplessness.

If it were only the Sun Moon Empire, Su Yu would have had much more confidence in coordinating with Luo Yu to avoid Qiankun Wenqing Valley, but with the addition of the Holy Spirit Cult, that would be...

"By the way, did you participate in the Soul Guidance Competition of the Xishui Alliance?" Su Yu thought of the generous rewards of that competition and could not help but ask.

Luo Yu nodded and said, "At first, the Hall Master did not intend to let me participate, but now there is no one among my peers who is my opponent, so the Hall Master later tacitly allowed it."

"What was the result?" Su Yu actually just wanted to know how miserable those unlucky ones were.

"It was alright, it's just that the Hall Master kept wanting me to withdraw from the competition..."

This was likely because the Hall Master was worried about his disciple being lured away by people from the Holy Spirit Cult. In fact, what he was most worried about was not being lured away, but rather that the people from the Holy Spirit Cult would play dirty.

After all, the Holy Spirit Cult had done such things many times.

If it weren't for the sake of survival, who would want to be in cahoots with the Holy Spirit Cult? If the events of eight thousand years ago had succeeded, things wouldn't have ended up in this state; it was truly somewhat miserable.

Not to mention the ceding of land, payment of indemnities, and the many unequal treaties of those years; for the Sun Moon Empire of today to be able to catch up again, that would be truly impressive.

"The subsequent matters will be left to you. I am going to go into deep cultivation for a period of time. I will tell you how to handle specific matters. The current Sun Moon Empire is too lacking in a victory." Su Yu looked at himself before him and muttered to himself.

Indeed, if it weren't for the repeated failures, the Sun Moon Empire would not have chosen the desperate method at the time: a blitzkrieg against the Heaven Soul Empire and the Dou Ling Empire, only for the army to be defeated before the gods.

The situation of the body, fundamentally speaking, was not stable at all, because Xue Di had not yet fully awakened from her slumber. Once an accident happened to Su Yu, an accident would also happen to Xue Di. The greatest possibility was that Su Yu needed to go into deep cultivation for a period of time; at the very least, during this period of deep cultivation, he should try to avoid combat.

As for the matter of combat, that would be left to Luo Yu. After all, the Sun Moon Empire this time was not some "perennial runner-up."

The outside world needed to shift its attention, and the best candidate to shoulder this attention was Luo Yu: captain of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy representative team, Core Disciple of Mingde Hall, personal disciple of Jing Hongchen, right-hand man of His Highness the Crown Prince, and an irreplaceable soul figure in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy...

Coupled with the glorious record of having once defeated the Shrek exchange group, under the blessing of these many halos, it would be difficult for people not to notice!

When Luo Yu returned to Mingde Hall, it was already sunset.

After returning to Mingde Hall, he gathered the participating personnel. This pre-battle meeting was very different from the past.

"Luo Yu, is there anything that needs to be explained in this meeting?" Meng Hongchen had some guesses in her heart; according to past conventions, Luo Yu never attended these meetings.

Although she was the Hall Master's granddaughter and in terms of status basically no one could surpass her, she knew exactly what kind of powerful potential this person before her possessed, and she was also clear about Luo Yu's importance to Mingde Hall and even the Sun Moon Empire.

In previous research, the research on Number Two had always stalled repeatedly. Since Luo Yu took over, although his strength was not as good as others, his ideas, solutions, and degree of understanding of Number Two had reached a terrifying level that surpassed everyone!

This was Mingde Hall, the gathering place for the top Soul Engineers of the Sun Moon Empire!

Therefore, whether it was Jing Hongchen, or the siblings Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, they all knew what Luo Yu represented, so they had absolutely no objections to Luo Yu serving as captain this time.

"I am not arranging tactics for this pre-battle meeting; I am only going to briefly tell you about our current situation and the powerful enemies we need to face. Fang Wei, you tell us your views on the Shrek Battle Team and the Tang Sect Battle Team from the start of the competition until now." Luo Yu looked at a team member sitting in the corner and spoke.

Perhaps because of the butterfly effect, the team members participating this time had also changed, but the two main characters had not changed.

"Captain, do you really want me to say it?" The team member whose name was called was clearly somewhat nervous, and for a moment, even his breathing became much heavier.

He looked at Luo Yu, his eyes filled with a trace of shock, as if he were telling of his inner tension and unease.

"Speak. Let's pool our wisdom; you won't necessarily be blamed if you say it wrong." Luo Yu's gaze flashed as he looked around at everyone.

Hearing these words from Luo Yu, Fang Wei seemed to have unloaded a burden. After calming down, he continued: "I heard that the current Tang Sect Battle Team is the champion team of the previous All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duel Competition, but it seems their captain, Su Yu, did not participate this time for some reason. The core of this team is that person named Su Yu. If he is not there, I think our chances of winning will be greater. However, I still feel that although our chances of winning will be greater, in terms of individual strength, apart from the two seniors Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, and you, Captain, just in terms of individual strength, it is very difficult for us to beat the Tang Sect and Shrek..."

"Captain, I also agree with Fang Wei's statement. The captain of Shrek is Huo Yuhao, and he has now become a Soul Emperor and is also the Master of the Body Sect. We have no way to fight at all, unless..." Another team member hesitated for a while, then looked at Luo Yu with eyes filled with the light of hope.

Luo Yu tapped the table and said, "What are you looking at me for? Is the answer on my face? Is there a way to deal with it?"

"Actually, there is..." Xiao Hongchen gave a dry laugh and then continued, "As far as the current situation is concerned, whether it's the two-two-three, the team battle, or the round-robin, our pressure is actually very high. Let's start with the Shrek team. That fellow named Wang Qiu Er is simply a humanoid tyrannosaurus. Her strength is just as perverted as Su Yu's was back then. The most terrifying thing is that behind her, there is also a top-tier martial soul like the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to buff her, which makes her strength at her peak completely surpass that of a Soul Emperor, and even most Soul Saints may not be her match. And this is not the biggest threat."

Having said this, Xiao Hongchen took out a Soul Guidance Device that recorded images. "This is the footage of Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's pair from Shrek's battles. From the records so far, the coordination between the two of them is not as simple as just being a couple; I even suspect that they, like Meng Hongchen and me, possess a Martial Soul Fusion Skill!"

"What! A Martial Soul Fusion Skill!!"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves. This sentence shocked everyone present. They had thought that one Wang Qiu Er was already terrifying enough, and now an even bigger piece of news had broken!

"Brother, are you sure your guess is true?" Meng Hongchen looked at Xiao Hongchen with some worry, but the latter's face was clearly not joking.

Just as everyone fell into silence, Luo Yu spoke: "As far as I know, Dai Huabin comes from the White Tiger Duke's lineage, and Zhu Lu also comes from the Zhu Family lineage of the Star Luo Empire. The Zhu Family and the Dai Family have intermarried for generations. In their two families, a pair possessing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill will appear in every generation. Dai Yaoheng from the previous session did not have anyone from the Zhu Family with him, so Senior Xiao Hongchen's guess is correct. They do indeed possess a Martial Soul Fusion Skill: the Nether White Tiger!"

"Captain, are you talking about that Martial Soul Fusion Skill from the legends of the first generation of Shrek in Shrek Academy, the Nether White Tiger!"

Another team member spoke, unable to hide his surprise and despair regarding the Shrek Battle Team between his words.

"Alright, alright, Lu Jiuyu, the Captain hasn't even spoken yet, what are you in such a rush for? The Captain was someone who could fight that freak Su Yu to a draw back then, and the Captain is also a Level 7 Soul Engineer; naturally, he has a way to deal with those fellows from Shrek. Otherwise, why would the Hall Master let Luo Yu serve as captain? Lu Jiuyu, we haven't even met them yet, how come you've started to boost others' morale and destroy our own prestige? If you keep talking nonsense like that, I'm going to beat you up."

Looking at the flustered Lu Jiuyu, a muscular youth clenched his fists and glanced at Lu Jiuyu with full disdain.

Compared to this muscular man, Leiqier, who was over two meters tall and covered in muscles, Lu Jiuyu, who was only one meter sixty-something, looked like a little dwarf. Watching the muscular Leiqier who had raised his fists at him, he subconsciously shrank back a little.