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“Tsk, then the answer is obvious.” Huo Yuhao frowned and said solemnly, “He went there for the ninth-level soul guide shell that was awarded as a champion.”
After guessing He Caitou’s purpose, Huo Yuhao leaned against the wall of the corridor with a serious look on his face.
If He Caitou really wanted the ninth-level fixed-type soul-guided cannonball, he probably didn't want to take it back to Shrek.
But I want to use it myself.
Chapter 339 The round robin begins
Pingfanmeng, Qingxia Hotel.
"Number 92, advances." With the referee's calm voice, it was announced that a player had passed the first round of the main competition.
Huo Qiuer snorted lightly, took the reward of gold soul coins and rare metals neatly, and left.
The topic of the first round of the competition is to make any kind of fourth-level soul guide device. It is not a difficult problem for Huo Qiuer now, but it also exposes some of her problems.
Her soul engineer level is only level four, but she is extremely skilled in production and engraving, and can easily pass the assessment.
However, if there was a sharp-eyed senior soul instructor nearby, he would be able to see that although Huo Qiuer's movements were fluent, she had fallen into a theoretical bottleneck and it would be difficult for her to make further progress without guidance.
In the VIP room, the beautiful leader of the Ordinary Alliance, Shangguan Weier, watched Huo Qiuer's departing back with interest.
Although Huo Qiuer's identity has not been investigated yet, with her vision, it is clear to her that she is capable of Huo Qiuer's strength.
A subordinate beside him stepped forward respectfully and said, "Alliance leader, the origin of number 92 is still unclear."
Shangguan Weier smiled, but her tone was chilling. "You've been with me for so long, and you can't even do such a small thing?"
A few drops of cold sweat flowed down the subordinate's forehead. He hurriedly said, "Alliance leader, her intuition is really too sharp. Our people dare not follow too closely."
"Humph, you don't even have this much foresight." Shangguan Wei'er snorted coldly, "With such a strong force, we can tell where it comes from with just a little analysis."
The subordinate replied: "Alliance leader, you mean...she is from the Royal Soul Instructor Academy?"
Shangguan Weier speculated: "Looking at her strong soul power and vigorous blood, I'm afraid her main training is not soul guide, but soul master route. She has reached the level of soul emperor at such a young age. If I guess correctly, with such a talent as a soul master, this No. 92 should be from the three countries on the mainland."
The subordinate was surprised and asked: "There is such a genius soul guide in the three countries of the mainland?"
Shangguan Weier shook her head: "Compared with her soul master talent, her soul mentor talent is not that surprising. It should only be around level four, and at most no more than level five."
The subordinate said, "Alliance leader, the fourth-level soul master is probably a bit low. If we participate in the finals, we may not be a match for the Xishui Alliance."
Shangguan Weier insisted: "No, I think she is fully qualified to participate in the finals on behalf of the Ordinary Alliance."
"For the soul guide competitions held by underground forces like us, the confrontation soul guide competition is the mainstream. I am looking forward to what kind of strength she can show."
"In the next soul guide competition, send someone to test her strength thoroughly."
"Yes."
……
The round-robin tournament finally began. The thirty-two teams were divided into four groups, and each group of eight teams had to compete against each other.
Huo Yuhao disappeared quickly after drawing the lots and returned to the Holy Spirit Church team. If there was no competition, he would try his best to avoid exposing his true identity.
“Your Excellency the Holy Son.” Upon seeing Huo Yuhao, everyone in the Holy Spirit Team hurriedly saluted. Only the team leaders Zhang Peng and Ma Xiaotao remained calm.
Huo Yuhao asked in a nonchalant tone: "The draw results for the round-robin tournament are out?"
"Yes, Lord Saint." Jili blinked his sinister eyes and smiled, "After the royal family's manipulation, our group did not get too strong opponents."
He handed over a piece of paper with the names of the participating teams.
Huo Yuhao took the grouping information and glanced at it.
Those powerful forces were intentionally staggered and dispersed into four groups. Huo Yuhao focused on the teams that were connected to him.
Among them, the Snow Demon Sect and the Xingluo Team were divided into one group, the Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect Team were divided into one group, and the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy and the Holy Spirit Team were divided into one group.
The teams of the three major forces on the continent were staggered. There were several powerful sect teams in the same group with Shilaike from the Main Body Sect, which was obviously intentional. As for the other teams in the same group as the Sun and Moon and Holy Spirit teams, their strength was slightly inferior.
“What a good fortune you drew.” Huo Yuhao said with a wry smile.
"Your Excellency the Holy Son, apart from the Sun and Moon Team, there are no other opponents worth worrying about in our group." Jili said with a flattering smile.
Huo Yuhao asked: "Then how do you plan to deal with the Sun Moon Team?"
Zhang Peng said calmly, "Don't worry, Holy Son. When we fight them, we will lose on purpose. In the end, only us and the Sun-Moon Team will advance to the quarterfinals."
“Yeah.” Huo Yuhao said calmly, “I hope you don’t have to bother me to participate in the round-robin tournament.”
Jili and others hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, Master Saint."
Huo Yuhao seemed to have remembered something and reminded: “The leader has ordered that everyone should keep a low profile in the competition. Do you understand?”
He narrowed his eyes and swept a cold light over Jili and others.
Everyone in the Holy Spirit Team nodded hurriedly.
"If you kill someone in the competition and make the prince unhappy, it will be troublesome."
Huo Yuhao smiled casually, but there was a hint of danger behind his smile.
"We will follow the leader's orders." The Holy Spirit Team replied hurriedly.
However, among the crowd of responses, there was a cold voice of opposition.
"Kill them if you want. People have died in previous matches before. Others can kill our people if they have the ability." The one who spoke was naturally the Fire Phoenix Saint Ma Xiaotao. Her tone was emotionless, as if the people of the Holy Spirit Team were no different from insects in her eyes.
But no one in the Holy Spirit Team dared to speak out, as the status of the Saint was even higher than that of the elders.
Huo Yuhao glanced at Ma Xiaotao indifferently.
Although she was brainwashed, she still exuded a very familiar feeling.
Huo Yuhao did not continue to refute, but chuckled and agreed: "Yes, Lady Saint is right. As long as others have the ability, they can certainly kill our people."
"As long as others have the ability..."
Ma Xiaotao glanced at him coldly under her bamboo hat and stopped talking. A strange atmosphere quietly formed.
No one in the Holy Spirit Team dared to speak.
They didn't know why there was a very subtle relationship between the Son of God and the Holy Daughter, but they didn't dare to inquire about it.
Huo Yuhao looked at the grouping paper in his hand again and turned his attention to the fourth group, which was the group his Dragon Tiger Sect was assigned to.
The strength of this group is far inferior to the other three groups. The academies or sects of the other seven teams are only first-rate in terms of reputation and strength on the continent, far inferior to the Shrek Body Sect.
"That's exactly what I want." Huo Yuhao was secretly happy. This grouping allowed him to avoid a lot of trouble.
Among the seven opponents of Longhumen, there will not be any top-notch masters like Long Aotian, who can ensure that he can defeat seven opponents alone without exposing too much of his abilities.
However, the name of one team caught his attention.
Tian Meng's voice rang in his ears: "Yuhao, your first game seems to start tomorrow afternoon."
“Hmm.” Huo Yuhao looked at his opponent in the first round of the round-robin tournament and murmured to himself.
"Mingdu Soul Instructor Academy..."
This is another well-known soul instructor academy in the Sun-Moon Empire with a long history and impressive strength.
It’s a pity that it has always been suppressed by the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy which is also located in Mingdu, resulting in outsiders’ evaluation of it as the runner-up for thousands of years.
However, this time their team has several very capable players.
"Is this team strong? Is it worth your attention?" Ice Emperor asked when he noticed that Huo Yuhao was lost in thought.
Huo Yuhao said: “He is not very strong, but there is someone in Mingdu College who needs to be paid attention to.”
"People? Who?" Bingdi paused and asked, "Male or female?"
Huo Yuhao: "..."
He didn't know why Bingdi was so curious about the issue of gender, but he answered truthfully: "Her name is Xu Tianzhen, a female."
There was a clear silence in the spiritual sea for a few seconds, and then Tian Meng's weak voice came out: "Yuhao, you have changed..."
"..."
Huo Yuhao was silent for a moment, then responded in a low voice: "She is Xu Tianran's biological sister, the only princess in the direct line of the royal family, and her title is Princess Tianzhen."
Bingdi continued to ask: "So you care so much about the princess?"
“Of course.” Huo Yuhao bluntly expressed his concerns, “I have a bad feeling in my heart.”
"What premonition?"
Huo Yuhao paused for a moment and said, “My original plan was to help Brother Cai Tou get revenge and then support him to take the top position.”
"But now I vaguely feel that his desire for revenge is too strong and may be far beyond my control."
"I have to prepare a plan B for myself."
Xue Di said leisurely: "So your second plan is to abandon your senior brother and rely on this innocent princess to ascend to the throne?"
They found it hard to believe that Huo Yuhao would make such a choice.
Huo Yuhao laughed evilly: "Xue Di, you think I am vulgar. If I really wanted to rely on the princess to ascend to the throne, I would have done so a long time ago."
"The prince consort is, after all, just an appendage and cannot touch the center of imperial power. With my ambition, there is a more direct choice."
Hyotei asked in confusion, "Then why are you so interested in this innocent princess?"
"Because her martial soul is the inherited martial soul of the Sun and Moon Royal Family, the Sun." Huo Yuhao pondered.
"This may be one of the few opportunities for me to directly come into contact with the Sun Martial Spirit."
……
The round-robin tournament consists of four matches per group in one and a half days, seven rounds in total, and fourteen days in total.
The next afternoon, it was Huo Yuhao's group's turn to play four games.
Since the round-robin matches are not as tense as the knockout matches, the losers will not be eliminated directly, which makes the intensity of the competition between teams slightly eased.
However, the strength of these 32 teams is at the top level in the continent, and various tactical combinations are also present, making the game more exciting than the knockout rounds.
The third match of the first group was between the Snow Demon Sect and the Xingluo Royal Academy.
This match was very strange. Both sides seemed to want to conserve their strength. The players in the individual elimination rounds only fought to a certain extent and did not go all out. The two sides fought back and forth.
In the team battle stage, both sides presented a wonderful game, which drew cheers from the audience.