"After watching yesterday's match, which academy would dare to challenge us?"
"Opportunity?"
"I feel like we might not even have the chance to use our soul skills, at least in the preliminaries."
Fire Wushuang had some ominous premonitions, which were quickly confirmed.
Preliminary Round, Match 3, Central Stage: Blazing Flame Academy VS Azure Radiance Academy.
However, Azure Radiance Academy conceded without even stepping onto the stage.
Azure Radiance Academy's strength ranks among the top in the twenty-eight teams.
Their team leader is also a Soul Sage with a somewhat infamous reputation, Shi Nian.
This person possesses a special martial soul similar to Huowu's Fire Shadow, called Dream Remnants.
This special martial soul can weave nightmares, preventing enemies from awakening and causing them to perish in torment.
Of course, besides these, what attracted Quan Yi's attention the most was the head soul bone hidden within Shi Nian's body.
Analyzing from the shape and energy form of the soul bone, it is a gem-type soul bone, very suitable for auxiliary-type soul masters and illusion-type soul masters.
This perfectly matches the Dream Remnants martial soul.
This martial soul, which specializes in mental control, is extremely fortunate to be equipped with a head soul bone that suits it so well.
Shi Nian is also very clever. Seeing that his opponent was Blazing Flame Academy, he decisively conceded, attempting to preserve his team's strength.
However, this action was met with boos from the entire audience.
Especially those nobles who paid high prices for entrance tickets to the general seating area, who unceremoniously cursed Azure Radiance Academy.
Amidst the booing, Fire Wushuang on the spectator stand sighed, "I knew this would be the result."
Quan Yi and Huowu, the two culprits, intentionally ignored their teammates' gazes and focused more intently on the match.
Today, Xue Qinghe's figure was not seen in the VIP seats.
For Qian Renxue, it is necessary to avoid direct contact with Quan Yi as much as possible.
The fusion fluctuations between their martial souls would be a fatal threat to Qian Renxue, who needs to conceal her identity.
It is also unknown whether the soul bone skill she uses for disguise can conceal this unique fluctuation.
Looking back at the stage, today's matchups were quite uninteresting. The intense confrontations that Quan Yi was hoping for did not occur.
In the four matches of the first group, Thunder Academy and Tianshui Academy easily defeated their opponents.
Quan Yi still didn't gather any useful information.
What was more interesting was that in the second group's matches, the Godwind Academy's combatants did not concede in advance like Azure Radiance Academy.
Just when the audience praised the opponent's courage and believed they would soon see the Soul Emperor's appearance, the opponent suddenly raised a white flag and surrendered.
The reason was simple: the opposing side seemed to have misjudged Feng Xiaotian's injuries.
Yesterday, Huowu's crushing victory over Feng Xiaotian led them to believe that Feng Xiaotian must have been seriously injured, and if Feng Xiaotian was removed, they might have a chance to defeat Godwind Academy.
Unfortunately, after stepping onto the stage, when Feng Xiaotian released an aura that showed no signs of weakness, the opposing side immediately surrendered during the martial soul activation phase.
This action instantly shifted the audience's dissatisfaction from Azure Radiance Academy to themselves.
Huowu was amused by the opponent's 'shamelessness'.
They didn't know that Huowu seemed to have inflicted heavy blows yesterday, but they were all just superficial injuries.
If they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, they could only say they misjudged Huowu.
In the third group that took the stage last, Shrek Academy was in the middle of the eight teams that appeared.
Shrek Academy, with two consecutive victories, had already shed the impression of being weak, and today they were also arranged by the organizers to be on the central stage.
Living up to the expectations of the audience and the organizers, Shrek Academy successfully achieved their three-game winning streak.
The third round of the preliminaries also came to an end.
Today, besides the matches, Quan Yi noticed that Huo Wuxie, as the dean of Blazing Flame Academy, directly took the still somewhat dejected Huo Wushuang to the area where Mars Academy was located for friendly negotiations.
Judging from the atmosphere of the conversation, although they were still somewhat unfamiliar with each other, overall it was considered harmonious and a successful exchange.
It seems that Huowu successfully persuaded Huo Wuxie yesterday.
In the afternoon, Quan Yi and Huowu reunited with Su Ling'er and Quan Ni, and together they returned to their residence in Heaven Dou City.
"Big brother, today's matches were too boring. When will big brother be able to play?"
Quan Ni, wearing a uniquely shaped dragon-shaped headband, expressed her dissatisfaction to Quan Yi in a sullen mood.
Quan Yi reached out and stroked her little head, comforting her, "There's no way around it, big brother is too strong, and people don't dare to fight me.
Alas, it's lonely at the top. This is the predicament that the strong must face."
"Lonely at the top!"
"Oh, how amazing. So the world of the strong is like this."
Quan Ni clenched her fists, her eyes shining brightly, excitedly savoring the artistic conception that Quan Yi described.
Su Ling'er, watched the conversation between the two siblings gently, and praised, "You still have a way, a word makes Xiao Ni happy."
Su Ling'er gave Quan Yi a thumbs up.
Quan Yi returned a smile. For children of this age, slightly chuuni lines are most likely to hit their hearts.
Just as he looked at Su Ling'er, Quan Yi felt a cold metallic touch on his hand.
It was the dragon-shaped headband on Quan Ni's head that began to move, bringing the dragon head close to Quan Yi's wrist and gently nuzzling it.
"Xiao Jin, thank you for continuing to protect Xiao Ni."
Quan Yi simply communicated with Xiao Jin through telepathy.
Xiao Jin nodded and turned back into a headband shape, coiling around the top of Quan Ni's head.
This is the defensive measure Quan Yi left beside his family.
Don't underestimate it just because it's only a part of the Darkgolden Yang Dragon Armor. Xiao Jin's body is constructed from the volume of an entire arm.
Before accepting the baptism of the Extreme Thunder Tribulation, it was half of Quan Yi's martial soul.
After accepting the baptism of the Thunder Tribulation, the strength of its body was greatly improved, and its soul strength was also comparable to a hundred thousand year soul beast, only lacking some experience compared to other soul beasts.
According to pure combat power, Xiao Jin is not weaker than a hundred thousand year soul beast, and is one of Quan Yi's reliable clones.
At dusk, Quan Yi and Huowu bid farewell to their family and returned to Sunset Forest again.
Arriving above the destination, Quan Yi stayed alone in the air, not in a hurry to descend.
He activated the Crimson Dragon Eyes, carefully watching the changes produced when the sun set at dusk.
Unfortunately, even until the sun had completely set, Quan Yi did not find the purple aura.
"It seems that I can only test it tomorrow at dawn."
Beside the Ice and Fire Spring.
Huowu inserted the second section of the bone wing, along with the tip that had been tempered yesterday, into the Yang Spring.
The length and volume of the second section were much larger than the tip. The moment the soul bone entered the Yang Spring, a piercing pain caused Huowu's body to tremble.
Fortunately, after yesterday evening's indirect tempering, the second section of the bone wing showed good toughness.
