Chapter 71 - Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament (1/2)

With the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament only one week away a lot of Academies were in a hurry with their last-minute preparations, of course even Shrek had its worries, they still hadn't decided who the substitute members would be, when Liu Erlong was still the Dean of the Academy she had a team prepared to participate in the tournament but with the entrance of Shrek's Seven Devils the whole thing changed and only a few members from the original team were left.

The new subs for Shrek's team were -

Tai Long - Vigorous Orangutan - Rank 38

Huang Yan - Lone Wolf - Rank 35

Jing Ling - Skeleton - Rank 35

Jiang Zhu - Healing Scepter - Rank 35

Xie Lingling - Nine Hearts Apple - Rank 48

The youngest among them was Jiang Zhu who was 18 years old and Xie Lingling who was 17, currently, they were in the meeting room of the academy along with Grandmaster, he was giving out a lecture on the how to's of the tournament.

The rules were so long that they almost felt dizzy listening to them,

”Grandmaster why should we bother about rules?? Isn't it fine as long as we win everything??”

Ma Hongjin naturally protested to this boring discussion, he had almost fallen asleep a few times too, Oscar was checking out Jiang Zhu from the start and was also barely paying attention, Xiao Wu and Rongrong were gossiping, Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai looked like they were paying attention but he knew that they were somehow sleeping with their eyes open, Tang San and the four substitutes were the only ones paying attention this made grandmaster to let out a huge sigh, not everyone can be like Tang San.

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On the day of the tournament,

In Heaven Dou Capital where the tournament was being held a lot of Spirit Masters had gathered from various Academies and the Spirit Arena was remodeled into the competition stage for the Tournament. A lot of spectators were also here to watch the qualifiers of the tournament, it was like a festival in the city.

Ning Rongrong shouted, this would be the first time for all of them to see so many people gathered at once, only Tang San kept a straight face, even the usually cold Zhu Zhuqing was excited from the atmosphere. For Tang San, this amount of people was nothing, he had seen tens of thousands of people gathered during his first life.

He had once gone to the Vatican due to the pope contacting a severe disease and to visit and pray for him a lot of people had gathered compared to that this was less.

All the Shrek Devils were wearing a green colored dress, it was an odd color, somewhat between yellow and green, Dai Mubai had called it Snot Green. There was an emerald design on the front which was the Shrek Academy's Logo and on the back a few words saying - Looking for Advertisers.

This made all of the Seven Devils and the substitutes embarrassed, they cursed their cheapskate principal for making them wear this. Upon seeing this a lot of people started to comment on them, naturally Flender, Grandmaster and the rest of the teachers had long fled leaving them to fend for themselves.

They all let out a silent drop of tear.

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In the VIP platform, Tang San saw a few familiar faces the Prince of Heaven Dou Xue Xing, the Three committee members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, The Emperor of Heaven Dou, on his left was a bishop of Spirit Hall, while on the right of the Emperor was a person he was quite familiar with Ning Fenghzi.

When he saw him, he was nervous but he didn't show it on his face, how was he supposed to face him when he had already cooked the rice with his daughter. By coincidence, their eyes met and Ning Fenghzi nodded slightly, seeing that Tang San also nervously nodded.

Ning Fenghzi saw the nervousness on his face but he didn't understand why he was so nervous but thought that it was due to the Tournament and didn't pay much attention.

”Preselection competition first round, Blue Sunshine Academy versus Purple Star Academy.”

”Preselection competition first round, Auckland Academy versus Blazing Radiance Academy.”

”Preselection competition first round, Heaven Dou Imperial Academy versus Shrek Academy.”

When they all heard Shrek Academy the faces of the participating Shrek Seven Devils dropped slightly, they had hoped to convince Flender to remove the advertis_e_m_e_nts or if worst comes to worst Tang San had decided to buy the advertis_e_m_e_nt rights for Tang Sect.

But with the match starting now they had no option but to go up with these dresses, a few people were jeering at them saying that they had set the matches up and were favoring the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. But Bishop Salas announced,

”I personally drew the lots there was no chance of any matches being fixed and I hereby declare that for any spirit masters academy reaching the finals the spirit hall will make an exception and let the participating spirit masters enter into the Spirit Temple directly”

This surprised all the spirit masters, the spirit hall's spirit temple was the most important place apart from the Pontiff's Hall and the Douluo Palace, it was every spirit master's dream to enter the spirit temple so everyone was motivated to the matches.

But the Emperor's expression was slightly dropped, the spirit hall openly recruiting the elites of the Empire was a n_a_k_e_d provocation to the Emperor's authority but the Emperor didn't say anything and looked at the bishop with a cold face.

Tang San also noticed this, he was able to observe this using his [Red God's Eye] this meant that the conflict between the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall existed and that he would surely get involved into it. He was happy that the conflict existed if it didn't then he would need to face the Spirit Hall by himself and that would be more problematic.

But when they got into positions everyone was surprised, they all jeered had Shrek given up the match??

In the VIP stands, even Ning Fenghzi was a little surprised at how bold Shrek was for their first match. He knew that the Heaven Dou Team wouldn't be able to match even one from Shrek's team, but even he was still under the assumption that they were all still Spirit Ancestors.

They had no positions, it was only Dai Mubai standing right at the front with Jiang Zhu right behind him. Tang San and the remaining 5 participants were chatting among themselves, this made the Heaven Dou Team ridicule them and they released their spirit rings, they were all Spirit Ancestors and they all had an ideal ring combination.

With their noble background, getting an ideal spirit ring combination isn't that difficult for them.

In the VIP stands, they were also discussing this,