Chapter 330: The Tree Stands Out in the Forest (Two in One)

"Shrek Academy, lower half."

"Sun Moon Royal High-level Soul Master Academy, upper half."

As Xu Sanshi and Meng Hongchen took turns to represent their respective teams to complete the draw, everyone's heart was quietly hanging.

Although the team that won the first place in the group is one level stronger than the second place team in each group, there is still a big gap between them.

For example, the Spirit Pagoda and the Holy Spirit Church, the former not only has a Soul Saint, but its captain is Huo Yuhao, who defeated the Soul Douluo in the Soul Master Competition five years ago. Now that five years have passed, no one knows how terrifying his strength has reached.

As for the Holy Spirit Church, although it was not well-known in the past few years, its performance in this competition is also terrifying. A Soul Douluo powerhouse under the age of twenty, coupled with the unprecedented soul ring and the strange means of the evil soul master, I am afraid that its strength is enough to rival the general Title Douluo.

There is no doubt that the overall strength of these two teams is much stronger than Shrek and Sun Moon Team, which only have one Soul Saint.

Correspondingly, it is natural that their draws received more attention.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Nan Qiuqiu nervously took out a piece of paper from the blind box and unfolded it.

"Spirit Pagoda, upper half."

Hearing this, Meng Hongchen on the side couldn't help but pout his lips, looking at the white figure standing at the front of the Spirit Pagoda team with a resentful look.

It was as if he was looking at a scumbag who turned his face away and didn't recognize people when he pulled up his pants.

Huo Yuhao had a bitter face and spread his hands innocently. The next second, the soft flesh on his waist was hit hard by someone beside him, and his body trembled.

"Holy Spirit Church representative team, lower half."

Three of the four teams have been determined, and the remaining Holy Spirit Church naturally does not need to draw lots again, and is directly assigned to the lower half where Shrek is.

After taking the lottery slip from Nan Qiuqiu, the official showed the words on the slip to everyone present, and then took out another blind box and handed it to Vina.

"Next, please ask the four team representatives to draw the opponents you will face in the next round of the top eight. This time, we will follow the opposite order of the teams, and the Holy Spirit Church team will be given priority in drawing."

Here it comes!

Hearing the words of the officials, the remaining four teams were inspired, and they all prayed in their hearts that they would not be the unlucky ones who faced the Holy Spirit Church.

Although this group of evil soul masters had almost no casualties except for the massacre in the battle with the Body Sect, the lineup of all soul emperors and a soul douluo was like an insurmountable mountain, which made everyone breathless.

After reaching the top eight, everyone was the top talent in their respective forces. As long as there was a slight chance of winning, no one wanted to roll up their bedding and go home.

When they met Shrek and Sun Moon Academy, they still had the idea of ​​fighting hard. Once they met the Holy Spirit Church and the Spirit Pagoda, there was really no hope.

Vina reached into the blind box expressionlessly and quickly grabbed a piece of paper. She glanced at the contents on it, frowned slightly, and handed it to the official in front of her.

"Body Sect, I need to draw again."

The official obviously did not expect such a coincidence. He first glanced at the ugly-looking people of the Body Sect with a subtle look, and then unfolded the paper and showed it to everyone present.

"Since the Holy Spirit Sect and the Body Sect were in the same group in the round-robin tournament, the result of this draw is invalid. Please ask the Holy Spirit Sect representative to draw again."

As if he was watching the fun, the official's voice was obviously a little louder when he said the words "Holy Spirit Sect representative".

Vina did not care about this little episode and quickly drew another card from the blind box.

This time, she was not even interested in taking a look, and directly asked the official to read it for her.

"The next opponent of the Holy Spirit Sect is-Mingdu Advanced Soul Instructor College."

As soon as this was said, everyone in Mingdu Soul Instructor College, including Xu Tianzhen, felt their eyes go dark.

But they calmed down soon. Except that their faces still looked a little bad, they didn't lose their composure too much.

After all, they were beaten by the Sun Moon Royal Academy yesterday when Meng Hongchen didn't appear at all. They already had a clear understanding of their own strength.

Anyway, they would lose no matter who they played against. It was just a matter of losing faster or slower.

It was no big deal.

After Vina, it was Nan Qiuqiu's turn to draw lots.

With the experience just now, she was not nervous this time. She randomly grabbed a piece of paper from the blind box, unfolded it and looked at it, and frowned immediately.

"Spirit Tower vs. Haotian Sect."

As she said this, she instinctively cast her eyes to the position where Huo Yuhao was, wanting to see the reaction of this big pervert.

Unexpectedly, after seeing the surprise on the face that made her unforgettable, Nan Qiuqiu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, feeling a little confused.

Looking at this reaction, did she really draw the best lot that this guy said?

This silly girl really got the chance!

Just as he was thinking that fools have good fortune, Huo Yuhao keenly noticed that someone from the Haotian Sect was looking at him.

Turning his head, he met Tang San's cold and resentful eyes.

Seeing the burning fighting spirit in the other's eyes, Huo Yuhao blinked and suddenly raised a playful smile.

He raised his hand and gave Tang San a thumbs-up without warning.

?

Looking at this familiar action, Tang San frowned in confusion.

But then, as if he had thought of something, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he subconsciously began to search for Xiao Qi in the team of the Spirit Pagoda.

Soon, he found the pink and blue figure who was smiling and communicating with her best friend.

Although her face was almost the same as in his impression, Tang San still found something different about the girl with the meticulous observation brought by the Purple Demon Eye.

It was as if she had experienced something important, and had grown beyond imagination in just one night, completing the transformation of her identity.

Now Xiao Qi's face has lost some of the immaturity of a girl, and her eyebrows have a hint of charm that symbolizes a mature woman.

Tang San looked back at the front of the team in a daze and found that Huo Yuhao was still looking at him.

The only difference from before was that the smile on this guy's face became brighter.

Boom——!! !

As if the universe exploded in his mind, an unprecedented anger rushed into Tang San's mind, and it attacked his reason with an unstoppable trend.

Almost in an instant, Tang San's eyes were filled with the terrifying bloodshot, and they looked scarlet. The overwhelming anger made his chest fluctuate violently like a blower.

It was feared that he would not be able to hold back the rage and madness in his heart in the next second, and would rush over to tear the flesh and blood, and suck the marrow from the bones.

How dare you! ?

Huo Yuhao! ! ! How dare you do this to Xiao Qi! ?

The thing he was most worried about still happened.

His precious daughter was actually captured by the enemy who pushed him into the abyss in his previous life.

For a moment, Tang San even wanted to take out the trident at all costs, and die with Huo Yuhao by attracting the attention of Tang San in the God Realm.

But soon this impulse was forcibly suppressed by him.

Not to mention that even if this method was used, Huo Yuhao might not be killed.

According to his previous speculation, this guy may have been targeted by himself in the God Realm, which means that he only needs to follow the plan and it is not a problem to win the final victory.

It is obviously not a good choice to choose to die with the opponent when he has a huge advantage.

And most importantly, it is too easy for Huo Yuhao to die like this, which is not enough to make up for what he has done in his past and present lives.

Wait, Huo Yuhao.

Tang San clenched his fists tightly, letting the unhealed injuries sting his nerves, and looked at Huo Yuhao with eyes as vicious as a venomous snake lurking in the dark.

I swear, I will make you pay a painful price for what you have done!

In this way, in the atmosphere of everyone's own ulterior motives, the drawing ceremony soon came to an end.

In addition to the two unlucky guys of Mingdu Soul Instructor College and Haotian Sect, the remaining Body Sect and Xingluo Royal College were selected by the Sun and Moon Team and Shrek Team respectively, becoming their opponents in the top eight.

On the afternoon of the day after the draw ceremony, the Empire officially announced the planned schedule, taking advantage of the two days of rest to warm up for the game.

However, as the saying goes, some are happy while others are sad, this schedule is destined to not satisfy everyone.

For example, a sloppy old man from Shrek Academy, as soon as he heard the news, he suddenly drank a mouthful of strong liquor because of the anger in his heart.

"Asshole!"

Slamming the gourd in his hand on the table, Xuan Lao burped while angrily scolding the bad behavior of the Sun Moon Empire.

"Secret operation! It must be a secret operation!"

"The Sun Moon Empire must have been instructed by Huo Yuhao, so it deliberately tampered with the draw ceremony and arranged the Spirit Pagoda and the Haotian Sect in a game!"

"A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. I should have thought of it long ago. Gulu-Gulu-"

I couldn't help but reward myself again. Under Xuan Lao's messy hair, his face seemed to be gloomy and about to drip water.

"Although I expected this group of evil soul masters to do this, I didn't expect them to be so unscrupulous!"

Hearing the voice of Master Xuan, Yan Shaozhe, who was standing beside him, also looked a little unhappy, but he still comforted him softly.

"Master Xuan, don't worry too much. This may just be a coincidence. Things may not be as bad as you think."

He knew what Master Xuan was worried about.

Tang San was seriously injured in the battle with Shrek yesterday, and today he was arranged to fight against the Spirit Pagoda. It is very likely that the Sun Moon Empire wanted to take advantage of Tang San's weakness to completely eliminate the Haotian Sect.

Even thinking about the bad side, it is not impossible that they want to use this to kill Tang San on the stage.

It's just that Yan Shaozhe thinks the probability of this happening is not too high.

"Coincidence? Shaozhe, you are still too naive."

Old Xuan shook his head, and his dim eyes once again shone with wisdom: "The cunningness of those evil soul masters is beyond your and my imagination. The more times like this, the more we must prepare for the worst!"

If it were in the past, he might have mistakenly thought that all this was a coincidence like Yan Shaozhe.

But when he confirmed Huo Yuhao's identity as a member of the Holy Spirit Church, he looked back at what had happened before, and suddenly realized that the series of events at the beginning were not groundless.

For example, the incident in which the twelve inner court disciples encountered a hundred thousand year soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.

A few days ago, he thought that this incident was just a coincidence, and subconsciously thought that Huo Yuhao planned everything after seeing Zhang Lexuan absorb a hundred thousand year soul ring and felt that she was qualified to inherit the position of the head of the Sea God Pavilion.

But then he thought about it carefully, and the truth might not be as simple as he thought.

Just imagine, how could an evil soul master be so kind as to take the initiative to help a stranger deal with a hundred thousand year soul beast?

With this thought in mind, he sorted out the course of events again, and then he realized the horrifying truth behind it.

There is no doubt that this incident was probably also caused by Huo Yuhao.

This guy is the culprit who killed the six inner court disciples!

After all, before this incident happened, there had been no hundred thousand year soul beasts in the mixed zone for hundreds of years.

This is also an important reason why he felt relieved to leave the team behind to go get the bird eggs.

But as luck would have it, Zhang Lexuan and the others encountered a 100,000-year soul beast just when he couldn't take care of the team!

It was as if someone deliberately took advantage of this period to attack the inner courtyard disciples.

Of course, if it was just this, it might not be enough to explain anything.

But according to the reports of several inner courtyard disciples who survived at the time, they had met Huo Yuhao the night before they encountered the 100,000-year soul beast, and told him the identity of Shrek Academy.

Now everything makes sense!

It is very likely that Huo Yuhao found out about the identities of Zhang Lexuan and the others, and found that they did not have a Titled Douluo-level leader around them, so he had evil thoughts and deliberately lured the 100,000-year soul beast into the mixed zone, wanting to use this soul beast to massacre the inner courtyard disciples of Shrek.

However, although this plan was good, he seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the inner courtyard disciples.

As the battle continued, Huo Yuhao discovered that Zhang Lexuan and others were actually on the verge of defeating the blood-eroded dragon lizard, so he changed his strategy in time, which led to the following series of events.

If not, why would he appear at the critical moment so coincidentally?

If he had not been prepared in advance, how could he, a one-ring soul master, help Zhang Lexuan win the battle against the 100,000-year soul beast?

And this kind of thing happened once in a while, but since he met Huo Yuhao, he would suffer heavy casualties almost every time he led a team because of various things.

Can a person's luck really be so bad that he would encounter problems as long as he led a team?

It might have been his fault when Tang San encountered the human-faced demon spider, but he was rescued in time and did not make a big mistake.

It was different with the death messenger.

Why did that evil soul master have the powerful skill of corpse explosion, and happened to have a soul skill that could escape from the hands of him, a level 98 super douluo?

Coincidences again and again, how can there be so many coincidences in the world?

How could he not suspect that someone was playing tricks on him?

Now it seems that the death of those inner court disciples may have something to do with him, but he was just used by others without knowing it.

Fortunately, he woke up not too late.

After all this, he will never make the same mistake again.

As he said, as long as it is related to Huo Yuhao, he must prepare for the worst!

Back to Tang San's matter, why did the Spirit Pagoda meet the Haotian Sect in the quarter-finals match by chance?

Perhaps part of the reason is that Tang San is now seriously injured, and it is a good opportunity to eliminate the Haotian Sect at the lowest cost.

But Xuan Lao is more inclined to another view, that is, the Holy Spirit Church is afraid of Tang San's existence.

After all, although Huo Yuhao is very powerful, Tang San is not bad either!

Seven rings can launch an attack that threatens the Titled Douluo, and even has a more powerful backhand, which is far beyond the scope of his peers.

If he continues to let it grow, it will only be a matter of time before he catches up with Huo Yuhao.

The most important thing is that Huo Yuhao's current strength is completely opportunistic. He relies on the means of the evil soul master to improve himself. His future ceiling has been completely locked, and he is not comparable to Tang San at all.

Just imagine that as early as five years ago, Huo Yuhao planned the Death Messenger incident because he was worried that Tang San would threaten his position, but Tang San successfully escaped in the end.

Now five years have passed, and Tang San's progress has not slowed down, but has become more exaggerated. Seeing his former opponent showing such potential, how could Huo Yuhao not be anxious?

There is no doubt that if the two of them were allowed to meet on the ring, Huo Yuhao would definitely do everything he could to get rid of Tang San, the hidden danger, on the ring!

However, Huo Yuhao did not know that this move actually exposed his deep fear and worry.

- He was afraid!

He was afraid of Tang San's potential!

As for why the Holy Spirit Church was not allowed to fight against the Clear Sky Sect, the reason was actually very simple, in order to further reduce Tang San's vigilance.

Although the Holy Spirit Church team had hardly caused any casualties on the ring, normal people would inevitably be wary when fighting against evil soul masters, which was not conducive to Huo Yuhao's action.

At the same time, if someone kills people in the ring in the name of the Holy Spirit Cult, it is likely to have a huge blow to the reputation that this group of evil soul masters have painstakingly built, which they cannot accept.

Thinking of this, Mr. Xuan slammed the table and stood up from his seat suddenly.

"No! Shaozhe, let's go find Tang San now! We must persuade him to give up the next match with Spirit Transferring Pagoda!"

Dong dong dong——

Retracting the palm of his hand that knocked on the door, the young Noumenon Sect disciple glanced at the bald old man beside him and spoke loudly after receiving instructions.

"Captain, the sect leader is here to see you."

silence.

After a while, Long Aotian's depressed voice came from behind the door.

"Come in."

After receiving the answer, the disciple opened the door but did not enter.

He stepped aside to get out of the way with a respectful expression. After Du Bushit entered the room, he thoughtfully helped to close the door and stared at the scenery outside the window with some boredom.

In the room, Long Aotian forcibly cheered up, stood up and saluted Du Bushai, and asked curiously.

"Sect Master, I wonder what you want from me?"

"Don't be too nervous, I'm just here to check on you."

Du BuShu waved his hand, and after briefly pondering for a moment, he took the initiative to bring up the topic: "I have heard about what happened in the morning. Don't think too much about Wei Na for the time being. It's your job to work hard to save her from the Holy Spirit Cult. What should be done most.”

Long Aotian trembled all over, and a look of pain flashed in his eyes.

"But Vina she"

Before he could finish speaking, Du Buushi interrupted him: "I know what you want to say, but haven't you ever thought that Wei Na did this to protect you?"

".Protect me?"

"right."

Du BuShu nodded slightly and expressed his inference: "You kid didn't even think before doing anything. You said you wanted to save her in front of the Holy Spirit Cult. If she agreed like this, what would those evil soul masters think? "

"There is no doubt that she may be severely punished, and you will also be targeted by those evil soul masters again."

Long Aotian's eyes brightened slightly: "Sect Master, what do you mean?"

"Looking at you like this, you must have figured it out?"

Du Bu Shou patted him on the shoulder and raised a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Yes, Wei Na probably showed such a decisive attitude in order to prevent you from taking risks to rescue her."

"It's precisely because she still misses you in her heart that she has to make up her mind to break up with you!"