184: Confrontation

After Tang Wulin's match finished, Shen Guyan lost interest in watching further. In his eyes, the vast majority of the other contestants were nothing more than trash, not even worthy of being used as a reference for The Five Little Ones' learning.

After Tang Wulin left, Shen Guyan took The Five Little Ones to a nearby restaurant.

The team competition was in the afternoon, and there was a high probability that the girl named Naer would participate. Shen Guyan was also quite curious about what kind of performance a Silver Dragon Spirit would show in this kind of competition.

By the afternoon, when Shen Guyan brought The Five Little Ones to the spectator stands, the competition grounds had already been adjusted. The arena used for the team competition was much larger than the one for individual matches, with the three-on-three team arena measuring over fifty meters in diameter.

One of the main reasons why the three-on-three team competition was not highly regarded was that powerful academies would choose the seven-person team competition. Only when they lacked enough people, or already had their primary team participating in the seven-person match, would they send a three-person team to compete.

Shen Guyan watched a few more matches below the stage with The Five Little Ones. The junior division's three-on-three didn't seem to have any particularly strong opponents, and the matches themselves were somewhat lackluster.

Half an hour later, it was finally time for Tang Wulin and the others representing Donghai Academy to make their appearance.

Tang Wulin walked at the very front, followed by the girl named Xie Xie and the girl named Xu Xiaoyan... "Huh?" Shen Guyan couldn't help but sit up straight. Indeed, Naer did not appear.

As they stepped onto the competition platform, their opponents appeared shortly after. Three teenagers who looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old.

When these three teenagers from the Ocean City Intermediate Academy saw that their opponents were three children clearly younger than them, their faces showed uncontrollable excitement.

In their age group, a difference of a few years meant a world of difference! This was because the years of Cultivation varied greatly. For a moment, all three of them couldn't help but beam with joy.

"Another three weaklings." Shen Guyan gave only a slight glance and immediately lost interest. Opponents of this level couldn't possibly force out Tang Wulin's true strength.

"Five, four, three, two, one, let the match begin!"

With the referee's announcement, Class Zero's first team match officially began. The Five Little Ones—Qin, Qi, Shu, Hua, Jian—also widened their eyes to watch seriously.

The result was exactly as Shen Guyan expected. From start to finish, the match was so fast it was almost dizzying.

Any Spirit Master student would certainly have combat training, but the degree of combat training varied. Combat training as nearly perverse as that of Tang Wulin and his group was extremely rare, not to mention that their talent was hand-picked from the entire Donghai Academy, and their teacher was that Donghai Little Changkong.

Hailing from Shrek Academy, Wu Changkong adopted many teaching methods that originated from Shrek Academy.

Previously, these few had only trained internally or faced Spirit Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform, perhaps unaware of their own level. But in a real competition, when facing other Spirit Masters, they finally discovered their own advantages.

Although there wasn't much to see in this battle, Tang Wulin did indeed release a plant-type control Spirit Ability. Although it was different from ordinary Blue Silver Grass, Shen Guyan could still distinguish that it was a form of Blue Silver Grass.

Most Blue Silver Grass Spirit Masters would experience a certain degree of mutation in their Spirit after fusing with a spirit soul. After all, Blue Silver Grass itself was too weak; as long as it fused with a relatively excellent spirit soul, it could basically mutate in a positive direction.

Just as Tang Wulin was leading his partners toward the exit, Shen Guyan saw Ye Xinglan leading Xu Lizhi to block their path.

Xu Lizhi gave Tang Wulin a helpless expression, while Ye Xinglan stared coldly at Tang Wulin, her eyes spitting fire as if she wanted to burn him to death.

However, Tang Wulin was unwilling to pay her any mind. "Let's go."

Xie Xie leaned into his ear and said, "Why do I feel like you two have some kind of deep-seated hatred?"

Tang Wulin shrugged his shoulders. "Not really. We just know each other."

Naer walked over at this moment. She didn't seem as easy-going as Tang Wulin. Her beautiful eyes looked at Ye Xinglan as she said coldly, "I've already learned about your behavior from my brother. What do you want?"

Ye Xinglan gave a disdainful snort. "We've also signed up for the competition. What do you think I want?"

Shen Guyan, watching all this from a distance, had a slight change in expression. Just a moment ago, he had received a message from the Shadow Guards that Ye Xinglan had brought Xu Lizhi to temporarily join an academy, specifically to appear in the upcoming matches and give Tang Wulin and the others a thorough beating.

As for Shen Guyan, Ye Xinglan didn't even know his name, and since he wasn't even participating in the competition, she could only wait until after the Grand Competition ended to find a way to locate him and 'teach him a lesson' personally.

At this moment, Ye Xinglan said triumphantly, "No one will object to us temporarily joining an academy. Tang Wulin, you just wait. You'd better pray that you lose before you meet me, otherwise, humph humph!" As she spoke, she brandished her small fist at Tang Wulin, her eyes full of a threatening aura.

The main reason why Shrek Academy students were so powerful wasn't how high their cultivation was, but their overall quality. This was true for combat, coordination, and Spirits. After all, at this age, it was unrealistic to say one's Soul Power far exceeded their peers.

Tang Wulin was about to say something, but was pulled back by Naer.

"Fine, then let's see what you can do! Brother, let's go." Naer pulled Tang Wulin away, not letting him say anything more.

"Big Brother Tang is so pitiful; they're very likely to run into opponents from Shrek next," Tang Shi said, speaking up against the injustice.

"Exactly, exactly! Shrek people are so shameless!" Wu Hua echoed.

Yu Qin thought for a moment, reached out to tug on Shen Guyan's sleeve, and said timidly, "Young Master, can you help Big Brother Tang and the others?"

Shen Guyan glanced at The Five Little Ones. If he helped Tang Wulin too much now, it would seem like he had ulterior motives. Moreover, he already had an intuition that Tang Wulin was very likely the son of the generational Sea God Tang San who had been left in the human world. Who knew if those Divinities with unknown abilities had left something on Tang Wulin.

Because of these uncertainties, Shen Guyan currently maintained only a shallow acquaintance with Tang Wulin; otherwise, he would have slapped the azure dragon mask on his face long ago.

Another reason was that Shen Guyan wanted to see how much skill Tang Wulin could display when facing students truly from Shrek, and in what form his so-called Golden Dragon ability would manifest.

These were all reasons why Shen Guyan had specifically come to the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.

Even if Tang Wulin had no relation to the Sea God Tang San, his forging talent was enough for Shen Guyan to make this trip personally. If cultivated properly, he would be the chief forging master of his Azure Dragon Society in the future.

As for Ye Xinglan, he had even beaten a Spirit Emperor from Shrek. Bullying a little sister like this wouldn't give Shen Guyan any sense of accomplishment.

Shen Guyan followed Tang Wulin's group to the bottom of the hotel. He was just about to go up and greet Tang Wulin, but unexpectedly ran into an old acquaintance here.