Chapter 307 Princess, please be careful (two in one)

Although there were many episodes during the process, the third round of knockout rounds ended smoothly within one day as expected.

In addition to the twenty-one teams that have won all three knockout rounds, the remaining eleven teams that have qualified for promotion have also been born at the end of today's game.

According to the rankings, those who advanced were the Holy Spirit Sect, who took the initiative to admit defeat in the third round of eliminations, and the Proud Sword Sect, who was let go by the Spirit Transferring Pagoda and finally stepped on the line to advance.

After passing the brutal knockout selection, these 32 teams will get a three-day rest period so that each participant can adjust his or her state to the best to cope with the following group stage.

Three days later, they will be randomly assigned to four groups and compete in a group round-robin match that seems to be much more relaxed but is actually more brutal.

During this period, each team will have to play one game against one of the seven other teams in its group every two days until they have played seven games in a row.

Finally, the top two teams with the most wins in a single group can successfully advance and form the quarterfinals of this competition together with the top two teams from the other three groups.

Although the round robin will not be like the knockout round, because it will be eliminated after losing only one game, the eight-to-two format also gives every promoted team a sense of urgency.

After all, unless special circumstances occur, each team only has one chance to fail.

Of course, the only ones who are nervous about the competition system are the contestants.

For those spectators who spend money to buy tickets, they naturally hope that the competition will be as intense as possible.

For example, one of the two most talked-about things among the audience today is the conflict between the two top forces, the Noumenon Sect and the Holy Spirit Sect.

Although they felt a little regretful that the two teams did not fight in the end, it also successfully raised their expectations for the next encounter between the two teams.

The top lineup, fighting and fighting with all their strength, even if the captain of the Holy Spirit Cult has not yet shown his strength, everyone has already regarded him as a soul saint who is on par with Long Aotian.

This is a team that has clearly shown hostility to each other since the competition was held, and both have Soul Saint players on their teams.

It is conceivable that when the empire officially announces the group list and the audience sees that the Noumenon Sect and the Holy Spirit Sect are divided into the same group, the ticket prices for the game will be horribly increased.

And another thing besides this is naturally the soul system displayed by the Spirit Transferring Tower team.

Perhaps to ordinary spectators who are just outsiders and join in the fun, this incident does not seem to be anything remarkable, but don't forget that there are not only ordinary people sitting in the spectator seats, but also people like Nan Shuishui. The head of the sect, as well as the leading teachers and team leaders of each college.

They can sit in this position and lead a qualified team to compete in Mingdu. Let's not talk about anything else. At least they still have some perspective on things.

Not to mention that Tang Ya deliberately put away his martial spirit in the third individual match in order to fully demonstrate the existence of the soul. He defeated his opponent solely by relying on the spear made of black jade bamboo and the soul's own abilities. .

Without exception, after seeing the soul displayed by Tang Ya, these people were all shocked into an unprecedented state of shock.

Of course, no matter how powerful Tang Ya showed his soul to be, it was still just an example.

Coupled with the 100,000-year-old soul ring that even titled Douluo may not be able to possess, although it did bring a huge shock to everyone when it appeared on the stage, it also left people with an unrealistic feeling.

Huo Yuhao had long expected this situation, and he had the foresight to arrange for Nana to be the second contestant to appear in the individual competition.

Not only is he a Soul Emperor, but his soul is also a well-known empty demon leopard that is about 20,000 years old.

Compared with Tang Ya's obviously unattainable top-level configuration, Nana's configuration is obviously more user-friendly.

Although if you think about it carefully, you will find that this set of configuration is still luxurious to the extent that it surpasses most soul masters, but it gives people a feeling that if they grit their teeth and work hard, they can have it, which successfully dispels some of the doubts in everyone's minds. concern.

The most important thing is that Nana's fighting ability is not weak at all!

Her martial spirit itself is a ghost with very strange abilities, combined with the soul guide that Huo Yuhao tailor-made for her, and the 20,000-year-old empty demon leopard.

It is no exaggeration to say that her performance can definitely be regarded as the strongest among the soul emperors who have appeared in the competition so far.

If she hadn't chosen to take the initiative after defeating two opponents in a row, it would definitely not be a problem to defeat the remaining four contestants of the Proud Sword Sect by herself.

So much so that some people began to suspect that if it weren't for the sake of saving face for the Proud Sword Sect, she would even be able to overturn the subsequent team match by herself.

The displays of two consecutive people completely changed everyone's understanding. If after seeing everything Tang Ya showed, they could still comfort themselves with chance, then Nana's appearance convinced everyone that the soul is really a person. A brand new system that is different from traditional soul rings.

Although they still don't know what the soul is like, the fact that a soul can give the host more than one soul ring, provide help during the battle, and cooperate with the host tacitly are enough to make most people present. The soul master was moved by this.

When they were shocked by the soul system and thought about the name of the Soul Pagoda, they had already understood its meaning.

Of course, they had ideas, but those smart people were not in a hurry to come to the door.

After all, if the Soul Pagoda intends to keep this technology private and just show off, then it is useless for them to come to the door.

On the contrary, if the Soul Pagoda wants to make this epoch-making technology public and use it to do something, then it should find a time to make a public explanation in front of the public.

It is impossible to wait for so many forces to come to the door and then explain one by one, right?

That would be a mouthful of nonsense.

The soul matter has started well today, but the turmoil caused by Tang Ya and Nana's appearance is more than that.

Compared with paying attention to the soul, many people are more amazed at the terrifying lineup of this emerging force.

The first is Huo Yuhao, who became famous for defeating Dai Hao in the last soul master competition and was considered impossible to defeat by major colleges.

Five years have passed, and now he has an ice-attributed martial soul with five ten-thousand-year soul rings. Considering the performance that crushed the Earth Dragon Gate and was comparable to Meng Hongchen, everyone tacitly agreed that Huo Yuhao's cultivation was far beyond the Soul King stage.

Of course, it is meaningless to explore this guy's cultivation. Five years ago, he was able to defeat Soul Douluo. This time, I'm afraid it was just a whim, and even the referee of the Titled Douluo was beaten by you.

Then there are Tang Ya and Nana, who made their debut today.

The former may not be as good as Meng Hongchen in combat performance, but people with discerning eyes can more or less see that she let the water in the battle, and the extra 100,000-year soul ring is also real.

In addition, both of them are first-class beauties. Since Tang Ya appeared today, her popularity has soared, and the discussion about her and Meng Hongchen's combat power has not been concluded until the end of the game.

As for Nana, she is also a contestant whose combat power is enough to rival the Soul Saint.

Although it was only his first appearance, he was compared with Long Aotian, the weakest soul saint in the competition, because of his outstanding performance.

With the strength of these three, if they were placed in any previous competition, any team would have won the championship as long as they won one of them.

And now, these three top fighters gathered in the Spiritual Pagoda.

In addition, Wang Donger and Jiang Nannan, although their strength is not so exaggerated, are also top-level contestants, making the championship of the competition seem to have lost suspense all of a sudden.

What else can the other teams fight for? If they can get into the top four, they will be considered successful.

The sky gradually darkened.

As if the absurd and exciting experience in the morning aroused their lust, after watching the morning game, Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi returned to the palace for lunch as agreed at the beginning.

There was no need for verbal communication. After a simple lunch, the two of them tacitly changed their schedule to continue to watch the game in the afternoon.

Then they couldn't wait to start a fierce fight in this unnoticed palace.

In order to make Orange realize his mistake, Huo Yuhao even secretly used his senses to magnify his feelings and taught him a lesson.

Of course, whether the result of this final reflection was to correct the mistake or to make it worse after getting the taste of it, and whether he would dare to do it again next time, that was unknown.

When Huo Yuhao reluctantly pulled himself out of Orange's gentle embrace and returned to the hotel, he immediately saw the figure who seemed to have been waiting in the corridor for a long time.

Even though he had already guessed the purpose of the other party's visit, Huo Yuhao still showed a hint of confusion on his face, asking knowingly.

"Long time no see, Your Highness. I wonder what Your Highness wants to talk to me about?"

"I remember someone said he was going back to the hotel to take care of something this morning. Why did he come back from the hotel at this time? Or..."

Looking up and down at the boy in front of him, Xu Jiujiu couldn't help but curl his lips, as if he had finally caught the other party's handle, and couldn't hide his pride: "Or has someone been swaggering around with another identity today?"

Sorry, I actually used two identities.

"It's not a good habit to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, Your Highness."

Huo Yuhao shrugged, still talking nonsense: "I just finished my work. After that, he went out for a walk, and didn't know what His Highness meant by using another identity. "

"Humph, you almost never tell the truth in front of me, so I don't believe you."

"Your Highness came here late at night, it shouldn't be for these trivial matters, right?"

Unable to figure out why Xu Jiujiu always had such a big grudge against him, Huo Yuhao was a little helpless: "A single man and a single woman have a tryst late at night, it doesn't matter if I, a commoner, have a bad reputation, but Your Highness should be careful."

After these words came out, Xu Jiujiu's cheeks suddenly flushed, and after glaring at Huo Yuhao in shame and anger, she continued to be stubborn.

"Sorry, I don't care that much about reputation, and I don't think it's a big loss to have a little scandal with the number one genius on the continent, but you are."

As a gust of fragrant wind blew in her face, she leaned in front of Huo Yuhao and smiled slyly: "I wonder what your girlfriends will do after hearing the scandal?"

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Huo Yuhao's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, and he raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, I was wrong, please tell me what you want to say, Princess."

"Haven't you guessed it?"

With some difficulty, Xu Jiujiu withdrew his gaze and pursed his lips: "When I asked you what soul technology was, you didn't tell me. Now I have seen it, so how do you plan to run this business?"

"It's very simple. Come to the Spirit Pagoda, pay the money, and then our people will be responsible for helping to hold the ceremony to obtain souls."

Xu Jiujiu nodded, and then waited for a long time but Huo Yuhao didn't continue to say the rest of the words, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

". Is it that simple?"

"It's that simple." Huo Yuhao nodded, and then continued to add as if he thought of something.

"Currently, among the members of the Spirit Pagoda, I am the only one responsible for the soul business, so if you want to officially open, you may have to wait until I recruit a group of soul masters for training."

"I'm not asking this, although this is also very important." Xu Jiujiu was a little incoherent, and it took a long time for him to reorganize his words.

"What I want to ask is, just pay the money? Are there no other requirements?"

"Yes." Huo Yuhao frowned, looking very serious.

"Because the soul ritual requires complete willingness from humans and soul beasts, if you want to obtain souls, you must first get the approval of the soul beasts."

"At the same time, in order to prevent the phenomenon of forcing soul beasts to sign soul contracts, every soul master who obtains souls is considered to have accepted the rules issued by the Spirit Pagoda by default. From now on, they will not actively and maliciously harm any soul beasts. Once discovered, they will be hunted down by the Spirit Pagoda and the Holy Spirit Church."

Xu Jiujiu was stunned for a long time, and asked hesitantly: ".Did you just say the Holy Spirit Church?"

"Huh? Did you?" Huo Yuhao spread his hands innocently: "Maybe Your Highness heard it wrong."

You are talking nonsense! I clearly heard the Holy Spirit Church just now!

You bastard, you still said that you have nothing to do with the Holy Spirit Church!

However, even though her chest was shaking with anger, Xu Jiujiu had no way to deal with this guy. She finally suppressed her annoyance and continued to ask.

"Then what's the situation with your charges?" Seeing Huo Yuhao's appearance of a profiteer, she couldn't help but frowned: "You are not relying on the fact that you are the only one, so you charge a sky-high price?"

"There are two main modes of charging. One is to build a good relationship with the soul beast you like and get the recognition of the soul beast. The other is for our Spirit Pagoda to help find a suitable soul beast."

After saying that, Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and gave a summary: "You can understand that the former is to let the soul masters find their own partners, and then develop step by step to marriage, and the latter is blind dating."

"I understand." Xu Jiujiu nodded slightly, waiting for Huo Yuhao's next words.

"If it is the former, our Spirit Pagoda will first strictly check the state of the soul beasts to make sure they are not under duress or controlled by some special abilities. If everything is in line with the normal process, we will only charge the cost of the ceremony."

"For example, if a one-ring soul master comes to us and wants to obtain a soul that can give him a second soul ring, he needs to pay ten gold soul coins. If it is a two-ring great soul master who wants to obtain a third soul ring, he needs to pay fifty gold soul coins."

"By analogy, the fee for the soul ceremony will increase five times in a step-by-step manner for each step up. This is because the more powerful the soul master, the longer the age of the soul beast he needs, which will increase the burden on our staff."

Hearing this, Xu Jiujiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This price is reasonable. Even if a soul douluo is promoted to a titled douluo, it only needs to charge less than 800,000 gold soul coins.

800,000, although it sounds like a lot, for a normal soul douluo, this money is nothing at all.

As for the tiered charging, she didn't have any special ideas.

After all, from what Huo Yuhao meant, holding a soul ceremony for a high-level soul master may also require the dispatch of a high-level soul master.

Asking a soul king to help and asking a titled Douluo to help are naturally not the same price, this kind of thing is normal.

After thinking about it, she suddenly asked again: "What if someone who doesn't have a soul ring wants to come to the Soul Pagoda to get the first soul ring? How much do you plan to charge?"

Huo Yuhao glanced at her and said softly: "Free."

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Xu Jiujiu was stunned for a moment, then took a deep breath, touched his chest and saluted: "Huo Yuhao, your generosity is admirable."

She knew that this "free" gave those poor soul masters who had only about level one innate soul power and could not enter the primary soul master academy due to family background and other reasons, resulting in an opportunity to obtain the first soul ring.

Just like Huo Yuhao in his previous life, at that time he went to the Xingdou Great Forest alone and almost died at the hands of a ten-year wind baboon. From now on, the probability of such incidents will be greatly reduced.

Although he is an evil soul master, he is surprisingly a good person.

Pah, what am I thinking about? This licentious guy will never be a good person in his life!

"If I don't bring my own soul beast and need your Soul Pagoda to help me find a suitable soul beast, how much should I charge?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, but I must include the labor cost, maintenance cost, and various miscellaneous costs of finding soul beasts."

Huo Yuhao showed a face of a profiteer again, mumbling for a long time while counting his fingers, and finally waved his hand under Xu Jiujiu's dark face and gave a conclusion.

"Triple the previous price!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something again, his eyes lit up: "Oh, by the way, after the Soul Saint stage, each soul master's physical fitness is different, so we will charge a part of the fee on the original basis for those soul masters with higher requirements."

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Xu Jiujiu took a deep breath. Although the price was still not expensive, she felt a little aggrieved when she saw Huo Yuhao triple the price in front of her and even charged extra fees.