Chapter 102 The end of the qualifiers

Chapter 102 The end of the qualifiers
The Tiandu regional qualifiers ended at a rapid pace, and the official rankings were finally completed.

The top five are Kamikaze Academy, Blazing Academy, Tianshui Academy, Shrek Academy and Thunder Academy. Apart from Shrek Academy, there are no other surprises.

Shrek Academy was indeed a dark horse before the start of the competition, but with the addition of Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, it was even considered the favorite to win the championship.

But after a brief period of hype, Shrek Academy lost successively to Shenfeng, Chihuo and Tianshui Academies, and could only barely rank fourth.

As for Thunder Academy, it basically lost to the top four, but judging from Yu Tianxin's look, it must be extremely unwilling to accept this.

The sixth and seventh are Xiangjia Academy and Canghui Academy.

Canghui Academy is also one of the dark horses in this Soul Master Competition. With all its members' martial souls having gem attributes and a unique formation, it does have a suppressive effect on weak teams, but it is not so easy to deal with strong teams.

These strong teams basically have top-level control-type soul masters, and they will never let them seize the opportunity to use formations.

As for when Canghui Academy faced Shrek Academy, it did not dare to use the so-called Seven Shura Illusion.

The Seven Shura Illusions are extremely powerful, but they are also extremely harmful to humans and can easily cripple opponents.

Ever since Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan joined Shrek Academy, with the descendants of these two Titled Douluo on their hands, if Canghui Academy really dares to take ruthless action, it will probably be killed in seconds. Didn’t they see that Dugu Yan’s grandfather was watching in the guest seats?

And Shi Nian had no chance to attack Tang San. After all, Tang San was surrounded by extremely strong guards, and his Soul Douluo Titan was his close protector. As long as Shi Nian was not too stupid, he would not cause trouble for Titan.

After the preliminaries, there will be a month's rest period, and other teams from various regions of the Tiandou Empire will also gather in Tiandou City, and then they will compete in the promotion matches together in the military camp outside Tiandou City.

Apart from occasionally drinking and chatting with Feng Xiaotian's people, Yang Ping'an basically spends the rest of his time practicing. Of course, if he has time, he occasionally likes to go to the fighting spirit arena to relax and earn some gold soul coins. As long as he is not short of money, it's fine.

During this month, Yang Ping'an felt extremely relaxed and began to gradually figure out some of his own soul skills.

For a long time, Yang Ping'an basically spent all his time on physical exercise and improving his soul power, or spent some time reading books, and basically never studied creating his own soul skills.

The main reason is that he feels that his innate soul power is too poor and his talent is far behind that of others, so he has no intention to study it.

Another aspect is that creating one's own soul skills consumes a lot of time and it is very easy to become addicted. For example, Feng Xiaotian almost ruined himself because of creating his own soul skills. For Yang Ping'an, wasting time is too shameful.

Now that Yang Ping'an has some time, he can also conduct research in this area.

Although Yang Ping'an liked to use external objects, he only used bows and crossbows or steel nets, purely because of their powerful power. He never thought about using weapons such as swords. Moreover, he did not have a weapon spirit, so there was not much point in learning them.

Yang Pingan felt that his self-created soul skills were mainly in the aspects of fists and feet, especially in the palm method. There were many wandering soul masters in Tiandou City, who either participated in soul fighting competitions or sought other ways out. There was also a supporting soul master industry.

The hotel where Yang Ping'an lived was very large and even had a backyard where he could occasionally practice his boxing.

In his previous life, Yang Ping'an was particularly fond of various martial arts dramas and was very addicted to them. He read all kinds of novels word for word and liked the heroic feeling very much. His current martial soul, the Purple Gold Mastiff, should actually be considered a Golden Holy Dragon in theory, but it had just grown up.

But even so, every punch and kick carried some special power, as if it was the legendary dragon power.

Especially after waving the palms, there was a trace of strong wind between each palm, as if it was filled with infinite power.

However, Yang Ping'an knew that this kind of self-created soul skill could not be mastered overnight, so he directly got a big cauldron, filled it with iron sand, and carried a heavy weight on his back, with his hands carrying a full 100 kilograms of weight. Then he hit the iron sand heavily with his palms. During the whole process, he made sure that his feet were like horse stance, and the rest of his body remained motionless except for his hands.

This process seems very simple, but Yang Pingan knows it very well, so martial arts training is something that is honed day by day. Even if it cannot be greatly improved in a short period of time, the control over soul power and body is also very important.

Another aspect that should be paid attention to when practicing martial arts is the control between movement and stillness. Even if the so-called martial arts skills are fictional, some ways of practicing martial arts are basically the same. Although they may not achieve the same effect as in martial arts novels, they can widen the gap between people and ordinary people.

For example, horse stance. The so-called martial arts training starts with horse stance, and horse stance requires improving the body's resistance, which is definitely the foundation of everyone's martial arts training.

For example, when I was a child in my previous life, I always heard a catchphrase: stand like a pine, sit like a bell, walk like the wind, lie like a bow. Although these are just ordinary requirements for being a person, they also contain some principles of martial arts training. Just as the saying goes, be quiet as a virgin and quick as a rabbit.

It’s just that all of this seems to contain the principles of martial arts, but it has been spread more widely and gradually turned into principles for how to behave in society.

Yang Ping'an didn't care about all that. He sat in the horse-stance posture every day, and seemed to be hitting the iron sand with all his strength.

And he seemed to have understood something of this. After each palm strike, he seemed to be able to feel the flow of iron sand, the reaction of the iron sand between each palm strike, and even the control of power between each palm strike.

Especially after using soul power, I always feel that each palm seems to become more smooth, even a bit like the Purple Gold Mastiff is deliberately guiding the operation of my palm technique.

Yang Ping'an couldn't help but marvel at it: this purple-gold mastiff is indeed a pure dragon, its dragon attributes are slowly beginning to reveal themselves, and it is even beginning to gradually influence himself in his thoughts and actions, guiding him to practice in the right direction.

What surprised Yang Ping'an even more was that the soul power in the Douluo World was like the internal force in martial arts novels. It could flow along the body and even act outside the body. Doesn't this mean that he is now like Xu Zhu in the novel, with the internal force transmitted by Xiaoyaozi but no knowledge of any of his moves?

In particular, Yang Ping'an vaguely felt that the Purple Gold Mastiff had always seemed a little indifferent to him, perhaps because he was unable to exert his full strength.

(End of this chapter)