Chapter 490 Brother, times have changed! (1)

After arriving under the rostrum, these people immediately dispersed and surrounded the rostrum. About fifty of them stood still on the spot, turning into soul-guided turrets amidst the clanging sound, and the terrifying muzzles of the guns were all exposed to the outside world.

The other golden-clad guards also released different soul tools, forming a somewhat strange formation. Among them, about ten heavy cannons attracted Huo Yuhao's attention the most. Based on his level of soul guidance tools, he could tell that these heavy artillery were at least level seven soul guidance tools and above.

But now, these soul guides can be said to be something only children play with. The Sun Moon Empire is clearly bringing these things out now to confuse the public and allow others to mistakenly judge the level of the Sun Moon Empire's soul guides.

Vina murmured: "The Royal Soul Engineer Group, this is one of the true core forces of the Sun and Moon Empire."

"Huh? How many people are there in the Royal Soul Engineer Group?" Huo Yuhao asked.

Long Aotian stroked his forehead and said helplessly: "You are still the dean of the Royal Military Academy of the Sun and Moon Empire, how come you don't even know these things?"

"The secular army has no meaning for today's war. This is the era of technology." Huo Yuhao shrugged.

"There are only a thousand members of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps of the Sun and Moon Empire. This is already half the strength. They are all composed of soul engineers above level five and equipped with the most sophisticated soul guidance tools. The division leader of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps is a A ninth-level soul master who only accepts orders from the emperor of the empire, he is the trump card among trump cards. His importance to the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire is second only to the royal enshrinement hall." Wei Na also explained.

"Isn't it said that the emperor is seriously ill? Is he in good health?" Ning Tian said in surprise.

At this moment, a group of people arrived from afar. Also escorted by the Royal Soul Engineer Group, a neat array of soul guide cars arrived under the rostrum.

This team of chariots and horses is entirely golden. At the front is a dragon chariot that looks like a small palace, pulled by thirty-two horned scale horses. Behind it are guards and a large number of people in gorgeous clothes and official uniforms. Officials of the Sun and Moon Empire.

Although soul guidance vehicles now exist, such chariots are still a symbol of status and represent traditional imperial power.

The dragon chariot stopped in front of the rostrum, and the two maids standing on it lifted the curtain embroidered with anemone patterns. Immediately afterwards, a wheelchair was pushed out, with a handsome young man sitting on it.

"It's him!"

Everyone in the Noumenon Sect was surprised to see that the person who came out of the dragon chariot was not the Emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire, but the Crown Prince Xu Tianran.

Only the emperor can ride the dragon chariot. What it means for Xu Tianran to openly ride the dragon chariot is obvious.

Immediately afterwards, everyone's eyes froze again, and they suddenly saw that the person pushing the wheelchair was Tangerine in palace clothes.

The oranges are still so beautiful, and the skin seems to be more delicate. Compared with the last time we met, her beautiful eyes were a little more majestic, and her eyes flashed as noble as a queen.

There is another person following Ju Zi, isn't it the leader of Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen? This important figure in the Sun and Moon Empire is also a powerful ninth-level soul mentor.

"Meet the regent, meet the regent."

Except for the Royal Soul Engineer Group that was deployed, all the officials present knelt down and saluted Prince Xu Tianran.

Regent? It seemed that the old emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire was not dead yet. Huo Yuhao smiled lightly.

I wonder if the old emperor and the regent will be able to withstand this wave of psychological pressure after their arrangements are fully revealed.

A delicate little hand fell on Huo Yuhao's shoulder. Huo Yuhao turned around and saw Ning Tian's eyes.

"I'm fine." Huo Yuhao laughed and shook his head.

Ning Tian smiled slightly and said, "It's okay."

As she spoke, she quietly held Huo Yuhao's right hand. Feeling the warmth from his palms, Huo Yuhao's waist couldn't help but feel a dull pain again.

It was really terrifying to think that he, a godly and powerful man, had walked out the door holding on to the wall the morning before yesterday.

While Huo Yuhao was thinking wildly, Juzi had already pushed Xu Tianran into a soul guide elevator, followed by Jing Hongchen and four other old men.

As the elevator rose, people in the distance could see their young regent. Cheers suddenly burst out one after another. His Highness the Prince turned out to be very popular.

Naturally, the ministers did not have access to the elevators, so they could only climb the steps on the side of the rostrum to the high platform.

Xu Tianran's arrival also means that this continent's elite competition for young advanced soul masters is about to begin.

Orange pushed Xu Tianran to the center of the podium. She did not sit down, but stood next to Xu Tianran. The Princess Regent refused to sit down, and the other ministers naturally did not dare to sit down after they came up panting, so they all stood on the rostrum.

Xu Tianran nodded to Orange, who slowly stepped forward and came to the prepared soul amplifier. Her beautiful voice quickly spread throughout the audience.

"quiet."

A deep voice suddenly sounded, and strong pressure spread throughout the entire place instantly. The moment this voice appeared, everyone felt their eyes darken, as if there was a dark cloud pressing over them, and even their breathing became rapid.

All the discussions disappeared instantly in this low voice. The entire competition venue and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the viewing area suddenly became quiet, and you could hear a needle drop.

What kind of strength is this? It was actually able to produce such terrifying pressure. With his own power, he can make hundreds of thousands of people tremble. Is this kind of strength really what a soul master can achieve?

"Dark Holy Dragon, Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao." Huo Yuhao chuckled.

The powerful roar of the dragon, the powerful dark attribute aura, who could it be if it weren't for the ninety-ninth level Extreme Douluo?

He is the only remaining Ultimate Douluo among the Black and White Holy Dragons, the ninety-ninth level supreme being, Dragon King Douluo Long Xiaoyao!

He was actually there, and he personally took action in order to build momentum for the Sun and Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao is now absolutely sure that the Holy Spirit Cult has an extremely close relationship with the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire.

The battle armor of the Royal Soul Engineer Group has the aura of abyssal creatures, and the person responsible for guarding Xu Tianran is the Ultimate Douluo of the Holy Spirit Sect, and the Holy Spirit Sect has a cooperative relationship with the abyssal plane.

It’s very interesting to connect these few things.

Only then did Orange clear her throat, and her beautiful voice spread out through the amplified soul guide and reached everyone's ears. If Long Xiaoyao's voice is a display of supreme strength, then Orange's voice is a display of the high technology of the Sun and Moon Empire's soul guide.

"Every citizen of the Sun and Moon Empire and guests who have come from afar. Here, on behalf of His Highness the Regent, I welcome you. At the same time, on behalf of His Highness the Regent, I announce that the continent-wide Young Senior Soul Master Elite Competition will now begin."

A very simple opening statement, without unnecessary nonsense or high-sounding official articles. This is Xu Tianran's style. Everything speaks with strength. In his opinion, talking nonsense is just a waste of time.

"The regent is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old."

The people of the Sun and Moon Empire collectively knelt on the ground and saluted the regent who, although he was in a wheelchair, would soon ascend the throne and become a new generation of emperor. Xu Tianran was sitting in a wheelchair, still smiling, and stretched out his right hand to Orange who returned to his side.

Orange put her right hand in his palm, then sat down next to him, with a faint smile on her pretty face.

Xu Tianran clapped her hand and said nothing, looking calmly at the competition stage below.

"My dear friends, please take your seats."

Xu Tianran said lightly, until now, the ministers of the Sun and Moon Empire dared to sit down. There is a corresponding nameplate in front of each seat. You can't sit in this wrong seat because it corresponds to the status of the ministers.

Sitting on the other side of Regent Xu Tianran was actually not Jing Hongchen, the master of Mingde Hall, but a man wearing a black robe with gold trim.

This man has an expressionless face and wears a silver mask, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly. Jing Hongchen, the leader of Mingde Hall, is sitting on the other side of the orange.

"The rules of the competition will be announced below."

A loud voice sounded, and then the rules of this competition were read out, which was the same as the instructions given to each team.

After the rules were read out, an old man walked up to the loudspeaker in front of the rostrum and said loudly: "The first match of the knockout round in the preliminaries will be between the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slayer Sect. Both sides will select seven players and enter the waiting area."

The waiting area is a special area in front of the pergola rest area. It is actually seven chairs placed twenty meters apart. A smile appeared at the corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth. No wonder he gave Shrek Academy a bye in the first round. It turned out to be this calculation.

According to the rules of previous competitions, the first game should have the previous champion. Shrek Academy had a bye in the first round of this competition. Naturally, the second place in the previous competition, the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, appeared in the first game of the first round. This was undoubtedly a trick played by the Sun and Moon Empire. head.

Soon, Huo Yuhao saw his old acquaintances. Brother and sister Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were walking at the front, followed by five unseen young soul mentors, who entered the waiting area directly.

In the first round, they encountered the unlucky Dragon Slayer Sect from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and they had already sent seven people into the waiting area. However, what surprised Huo Yuhao was that from his observation, the seven people participating in the Dragon Slaying Sect looked confident, not at all timid because their opponent was the runner-up in the previous competition.

These guys are really brave.

In fact, Huo Yuhao didn't know this. After allowing sects to participate in this competition, most sects do not think highly of the academy.

After all, there is a time limit for the academy's training of students. Except for a very few special beings, the academy's training of students is still very different from that of the sect.

That's right, I'm talking about your Shrek Academy, oh no, Shrek Sect!

Joining a sect most of the time means staying in the sect for life. Many sects with long histories have their own unique features.

In the initial continent-wide senior soul master elite competition, sects were included in the competition, but it was later canceled for unknown reasons.

The Dragon Slayer Sect is a sect that has been inherited for more than a thousand years. It comes from the Dou Ling Empire. It is a traditional soul master sect and has always had a deep-rooted rejection of soul guides.

They were more dismissive of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team and did not feel at all that this was a must-lose game.

"The referee enters, and the first contestant from both sides' individual knockout rounds appears." The voice of the old man in charge of presiding over the rostrum came out.

The referee is an old man in his fifties, whose cultivation level cannot be seen before the martial spirit is released. Astonishingly, the first person to appear representing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was Meng Hongchen.

As the person whose cultivation level is second only to Xiao Hongchen in the team, she actually appeared first in the first game, which shows that the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is bound to win this first game. This is not just a matter of victory or defeat, it is also related to the face of the Sun and Moon Empire.

On the Dragon Slaying Sect's side was a young man of short stature. His appearance was somewhat special, his head was somewhat flat, and his stature was not tall, but he looked very thick.

A pair of palms are particularly large, spread out on both sides of the body, like cattail fans.

At this time, the people watching the battle from a distance continued to remain quiet. The tight time limit meant that they had not yet fully awakened from the previous pressure of Dragon King Douluo.

"Individual knockout matches will end until one party loses combat effectiveness or admits defeat, or the referee will decide the outcome. Try not to injure the opponent. Do you understand?" the referee said to both parties in a deep voice.

"understood."

The young man who represented the Dragon Slayer Sect looked fierce. After agreeing, he turned around and walked in his own direction without even the most basic etiquette of giving names.

According to the rules of the competition, before the battle begins, both sides must maintain a distance of 100 meters at one end of the competition stage. This will be more fair to some soul masters and soul mentors who are good at long-range attacks.

Meng Hongchen has changed a lot in the past five years. She has become a grown-up girl, with a slender figure, full of charm, and long flowing hair. Although her appearance is not as stunning as that of Ning Tian and Jiang Nannan, she can still be regarded as a first-rate beauty.

But the opponent turned around and walked away without even taking another look. This kind of disregard really made Meng Hongchen very angry. There was evil in his eyes. He snorted coldly and turned towards the edge of the other side of the competition stage.

Soon, both sides stood at one end.

The referee raised his right hand high, and the moment his palm fell, the first battle of the new continental youth soul master competition officially began.

"boom!"

As soon as the referee's right hand landed, a low roar erupted from the feet of the young man from the Dragon Slayer. The hard metal ground forced him to create a dent, and his short and stocky body shot towards Meng Hongchen like a cannonball.

The superficial contempt does not mean that you really underestimate the enemy. Fighting with the soul master to shorten the distance is undoubtedly the most important thing.

The dragon-slaying sect member's soul ring lit up at the same time as his body jumped out. From the powerful force he burst out, it was easy to tell that he was an attack-type fighting soul master. Possessing tyrannical explosive power, his cultivation level can even be comparable to that of agility attack type war soul masters in a short period of time.

Two yellow, two purple and one black, the five best-matched soul rings also rose from this young man. You must know that in previous competitions, the five-ring level contestants were already quite powerful, and the six-ring level contestants were already quite powerful. Only a handful of top colleges have it.

This dragon-slaying sect was not well-known, but it was able to send out a five-ring soul king as soon as it came up. The sect's background was evident, and the leaders of many college representative teams were all shocked when they saw it.

However, at this time, Meng Hongchen was not in a hurry to step forward, but walked forward as if taking a leisurely stroll. A circle of icy blue halo slowly spread outward from her feet, two yellow, two purple, and three black, and seven soul rings slowly rose, making all the participating members of the Dragon Slaying Sect watching the battle change their expressions.

It turned out to be Soul Saint? ! (End of chapter)