81: Chapter 81 Su Ling's Sixth Soul Ring, Preliminary Rounds Begin

A 50,000-year spirit ring posed absolutely no problem for Su Ling's current body, nor did he need to release his external Spirit Bone to share the pressure.

Time passed slowly. Two and a half days later, Su Ling successfully integrated the light attribute into his Spirit.

Su Ling did not open his eyes immediately but looked at the System panel.

Host: Su Ling. Age: 20. Spirit: Primordial War Bow (Prototype, Incomplete). Soul Power: Level 62. Mental Energy: Level 91.

spirit rings: Yellow (320 years, water attribute), Yellow (652 years, wood attribute), Purple (1,358 years, fire attribute), Black (20,086 years, metal-earth attribute), Black (35,680 years, wind-thunder dual attribute), Black (50,188 years, light attribute).

Spirit Bones: external Spirit Bone Golden Dragon Armor (20,086 years), external Spirit Bone Void Wind-Thunder Wings (1,000,000 years), Wisdom Skull Bone (100,000 years).

Cultivation Technique: Concentration Technique (Third Level), Supreme Hunyuan Scripture (Basic Upper Volume).

Skills: Carefree Metamorphosis (Major Achievement), Eight Desolations Fist (Major Achievement).

By absorbing a 50,000-year spirit ring while crossing levels, Su Ling's Soul Power reached Level 62. What was even more commendable was that his Mental Energy had finally reached Level 91, which was the true Titled Douluo level.

While pondering, Su Ling heard voices outside.

"This is such good luck, Su Ling has obtained another Spirit Bone."

"But this time it's not an external Spirit Bone; it's a torso bone."

"The quality is excellent. I wonder if Su Ling will absorb it."

Su Ling had actually discovered the Spirit Bone earlier. However, this Spirit Bone was not what he wanted. Absorbing it now wouldn't have much significance, and besides, it was a torso bone, a relatively important part.

Opening his eyes, Su Ling reached out and put the Spirit Bone away.

"Su Ling, why don't you absorb this Spirit Bone?" Liu Erlong asked curiously. At least in their understanding, this Spirit Bone was already very good.

Su Ling said, "I won't absorb this Spirit Bone for now. What if I encounter a better one later?"

His statement was truly too pretentious; he was looking down on a 50,000-year torso bone?

"Brother Su, congratulations on becoming a Spirit Emperor." Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuxin came to Su Ling's side together, thanking him from left and right.

"It's alright, it's alright. But this is still far from enough. When you reach my age, you will be even stronger than me," Su Ling said.

"There is still time. Let's head back early. We have half a month to train together before we can go participate in the preliminaries," Liu Erlong said.

After packing up their things, Su Ling finally retracted the High-Level Protection Array, and then they left the Sunset Forest together.

Two days later! Inside Shrek Academy!

Liu Erlong joined forces with several teachers to form several seven-person teams of different types to spar with Su Ling's team.

Almost all the teachers in the academy were gathered to train Su Ling and his team with different lineups.

In these last ten-plus days, Su Ling and his team had to go through two Spirit battles every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and they were always facing opponents stronger than them.

Although they lost every time, only by losing could they more accurately find their own problems.

Of course, this also had to do with Su Ling's performance. If he went all out, it would be hard to say if these teachers could even win.

However, in order for everyone to get training, Su Ling only performed at the level of a normal Spirit Emperor.

By the last day of the Advanced Spirit Master Tournament preliminaries, everyone's Soul Power was as follows: Su Ling Level 62; Zhu Zhuxin Level 51; Zhu Zhuqing Level 51; Ning Rongrong Level 49; Jiang Zhu Level 46; Ma Hongjun Level 43; Oscar Level 43; Tai Long Level 41; Huang Yuan Level 38; Jing Ling Level 38; Luo Sha Level 35; Xu Yanyan Level 35.

There were twelve people in total: one Spirit Emperor, two Spirit Kings, five Spirit Ancestors, and four Spirit Elders.

To avoid Flender coming up with some strange clothing, Su Ling took the initiative to find Liu Erlong and went to Heaven Dou City to order a set of team uniforms.

Before Flender could even bring it up, it had already been settled, which made Flender very uncomfortable, as this meant he would earn less.

However, given the academy's current lineup, the preliminaries would be a breeze, and wouldn't it be a great opportunity to place heavy bets?

The next day, the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Tournament preliminaries began!

Su Ling and his group, led by Flender, Liu Erlong, and Feng Yuer, entered the venue together.

As the academies gathered in the Great Spirit Arena, Su Ling's System was quite active today.

It unlocked some new goddesses, though what Su Ling looked forward to most were still Shui Binger and Huo Wu.

As soon as they entered, Huo Wu's team was not far from Su Ling.

Seeing Su Ling's figure, Huo Wu was excited. After all, they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and it was impossible to say she didn't miss him.

Huo Wu's favorability had reached 90, and these days her mind was filled with Su Ling's image.

"Brother Su!" Huo Wu ran straight over, regardless of the fact that it was time for the team to assemble.

"Sister! Sigh..." Watching Huo Wu run off, Huo Wushuang could only shake his head helplessly. He didn't know why, but after that one time, Huo Wu had become completely obsessed with this person named Su Ling.

Every day, apart from cultivation, she only thought about Su Ling, and she didn't even see Feng Xiaotian.

Huo Wu's every move was in Feng Xiaotian's eyes. Seeing her run towards Su Ling not far away, he was furious.

He had also learned recently that the main reason Huo Wu ignored him was because of this Su Ling.

"Hmph, this time in the competition, I'll make sure to beat you until even your mother won't recognize you for daring to compete with me for Sister Huo Wu," Feng Xiaotian snorted coldly.

Just as she ran to Su Ling's side, Huo Wu felt a bit awkward.

Beside Su Ling, there were all beauties, each more beautiful than the last, and with great figures.

"Huo Wu, long time no see. It looks like you've improved a lot," Su Ling smiled.

At this address, the other goddesses sized Huo Wu up, wondering what kind of relationship this girl had with Su Ling.

Huo Wu said, "It's all thanks to you, Brother Su. My Soul Power has reached Level 47 now."

In the original story, Huo Wu's Soul Power at this time should have been Level 43. The medicinal herb Su Ling gave her was indeed very useful.

After all, it was a 10,000-year medicinal herb. Huo Wu hadn't even taken any Medicinal Pill to assist her, but if she had a high-level Soul Power pill, reaching Level 50 would not have been a problem.

"Huo Wu, congratulations!" Su Ling said.

"Brother Su, I'll say it again: if your team doesn't go far, you can come to me. I'm going back now." After Huo Wu finished speaking, she immediately returned to her team, as the speeches were about to begin.

Even for the preliminaries, the Heaven Dou Empire attached great importance to it.

Emperor Xue Ye came to watch the battle in person. In addition, there was Salas, the Platinum Bishop of the Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, accompanied by Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.

Besides them, there was Hu Yan Zhen of the Elephant Armored Academy, though the higher-ups of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect did not come.

"Brother Su, this Huo Wu is really funny, asking you to go to their side. She's only Level 47, does she really think she's that strong?" Ning Rongrong said with disdain.

"That's because she doesn't know how amazing you sisters are," Tai Long chimed in.

Over the past few days, Tai Long had witnessed how the sisters Zhu Zhuxin and Zhu Zhuqing, two Spirit Kings, were unstoppable even for those teachers when they cooperated.

After the speeches, Salas began the draw.

Each time a team was drawn, the emcee announced the result.

First round of preliminaries: Purple Star Academy vs. Canghui Academy. Blazing Academy vs. Auckland Academy. Shrek Academy vs. Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The third one called was Shrek's name. According to the plot in Su Ling's memory, it was basically the same.

However, this Heaven Dou Royal Academy team was the second team, which was far worse than the first team.

After the draw was completed, the major teams began to leave the venue one after another to go to the rest and preparation areas of their respective academies.

Since Su Ling's opponents were the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team, they were the first to appear.

In the preparation area, they had five minutes to adjust their lineup.

At this moment, everyone was full of enthusiasm and wanted to fight this first match.

"Boss, tell us, how should we fight?" Huang Yuan said loudly.

"For a team like the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's second team, it's not even your turn to take action, right, Boss?" Tai Long also said.

Su Ling smiled and said, "Indeed, I don't need to take action. In fact, the way I see it, I don't need to do anything for the entire preliminaries. Zhu Xin and Zhuqing, you two don't need to take action either. As long as we can maintain a top-five ranking and qualify, that's enough."

"That's right, what Su Ling said makes a lot of sense. We were going to remind you, but it seems there's no need. From now on, you can all decide for yourselves," Flender said. Sometimes, too much reminding actually hindered everyone's development.

However, when everyone heard that Su Ling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuxin were not playing, the others were eager to fight.

Su Ling said, "For this first match, Ma Hongjun, Tai Long, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Luo Sha, Xu Yanyan... forget it, Rongrong, you go up too."

Su Ling had originally considered whether Oscar or Ning Rongrong should go up, but after thinking it over, since Ning Fengzhi was here to watch, he decided to let Rongrong go up and try.

"Okay!" The few who were named were extremely excited. Only Oscar and Jiang Zhu were a bit disappointed, as they were of the support system, and Ning Rongrong was too, so they couldn't all go up.

"Get ready, and go straight to the field once you're ready," Su Ling said.

Meanwhile, inside the arena, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team had already appeared, completely unaware of what kind of opponents they were about to face.

On the high platform! "Fengzhi, do you think Rongrong will play this time?"

"She seemed to have reached Level 49 a few days ago. Rongrong is not even fifteen yet. If she really reaches Spirit King at fifteen, that would be the number one Genius," Bone Douluo transmitted via voice.

Ning Fengzhi said, "I think Rongrong will play. As for Su Ling, according to what Rongrong told us, with the Soul Power of her teammates, I estimate Su Ling won't play for the entire preliminaries."

"Wouldn't that be a pity?" Bone Douluo said.

"What's a pity? Someone like Su Ling will likely only take action during critical battles in the finals. How could such a battle be his turn? He could wipe out a whole team by himself," Sword Douluo said.

As they spoke, the people from the Shrek rest area came out.

"Look, Rongrong is on the field!" Bone Douluo said excitedly, as if he were the one going out.

Emperor Xue Ye said, "School Master Ning, are you optimistic about this Shrek Academy?"

Ning Fengzhi looked back and said, "Your Majesty, my daughter Ning Rongrong is in Shrek Academy, and she has already taken the field."

"I see. Then this Shrek Academy is indeed worth focusing on. I don't think School Master Ning would send his own daughter to an academy with a weak team," Emperor Xue Ye said.

The Shrek team entered the field and kept a distance of twenty meters from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

"Release your Spirits!" the emcee announced.

Both sides released their Spirits.

On Su Ling's side, there were three Spirit Ancestors and four Spirit Elders.

Ning Rongrong provided Support, and the main attackers were Ma Hongjun and Tai Long!

Luo Sha's Green Ivy Vine was also for control!

Compared to the opposite Heaven Dou Royal Academy second team, all seven people were Spirit Elders; not even one was a Spirit Ancestor.

After all, the first team couldn't even field seven Spirit Ancestors, so how could the second team have them?

However, among these seven Spirit Elders, five were of the attack system.

Their Spirits were Lion, Bear, Tiger, Leopard, and Wolf!

The five stood in front, seemingly intending to push through Shrek.

"The match begins!"

As the emcee's voice fell, Tai Long, a Level 41 Spirit Ancestor, took the lead, with Level 38 Huang Yuan and Jing Ling following on the left and right.

Ning Rongrong immediately activated her Support, which landed on the three of them.

With a 50% boost, Tai Long broke up the five-man team as soon as he went up, and Ma Hongjun immediately unleashed his Spirit Ability, Phoenix Fire Wire.

Along with the launch of the Phoenix Fire Wire, the Green Ivy Vine also spread out.

The entire Heaven Dou Royal Academy second team had no chance to counterattack at all. Their Soul Power was already far behind, and on top of that, they had Ning Rongrong's Support—how could they withstand that?

In one round of engagement, most of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy members fell, and the rest were controlled. It was a complete crush.

"We surrender!" the team leader of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team hurriedly said.

With just this, at least two of their members had lost their combat effectiveness. If they continued fighting, what would happen to the subsequent matches?

"In the first match of the first round of the preliminaries, Shrek Academy is victorious!"

"Is this Brother Su's team? They are already so powerful without him needing to take action," Huo Wu, who was watching from the sidelines, said.

"I wonder what level Brother Su's Soul Power is now. It shouldn't be worse than mine."

The Shrek group exited the Great Spirit Arena and returned to the rest area.

"Congratulations everyone on winning the first match. Keep up the good work in the future," Su Ling said.

"This Heaven Dou Royal Academy second team is too boring. Our first team could defeat them, let alone this second team, right, Boss?" Ma Hongjun said.

Su Ling said, "That's right, but you must not underestimate any opponent. Among the teams participating in this competition, there are no fewer than three teams that can defeat your current lineup!"

"No way, can there really be such strong teams?" Everyone looked at Su Ling, somewhat confused and puzzled.

Su Ling said, "Alright, today is the opening ceremony of the first day, and there is only one match. Let's go back to the academy first. We'll talk about those things later."

The group walked out of the Great Spirit Arena, but they ran into Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.

After chatting with them for a while, Su Ling took everyone back to the academy.

In the subsequent matches, Shrek's battles went very smoothly.

They easily defeated the opponents they encountered, even the Elephant Armored Academy, though they didn't win as easily as in the original story.

It was mainly because Su Ling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuxin did not play; otherwise, it would have been a complete victory within one minute.

Until this day's match, the team finally encountered a strong opponent, the Blazing Academy. This was the team that truly posed a threat to them.