"Now, your reliance, the Spirit Fusion Skill, is gone. Do you still want to fight?"
With one blow, Huo Wushuang knocked Dai Mubai off the stage, then turned and said to Tang San.
As soon as he said this, Tang San glanced at the suppressed Shrek Academy members, then looked at the Soul Elders on the opposite side whose condition hadn't diminished much. His expression turned extremely grim.
After Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were knocked off the stage, Shrek Academy now only had five people left, and besides him, everyone else was a Soul Venerable.
On the other hand, Blazing Fire Academy hadn't lost a single person, and every single one of them was a Soul Elder. The gap in strength between the two sides was too large; there was no way they could fight.
"Damn it, if only I could use hidden weapons!"
Tang San clenched his fists unwillingly. If he could use hidden weapons, what if the opponents were all Soul Elders? He could still defeat them.
However, this was ultimately just Tang San's imagination. One of the rules of the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was that pre-prepared weapons, food-type spirit skills, and other items could not be used, directly blocking his path to using hidden weapons.
If Tang San used hidden weapons, Shrek Academy would only face elimination for violating the rules.
As for secretly using them, there were so many pairs of eyes watching outside the arena, including powerhouses at the Soul Douluo and even Title Douluo levels. Unless everything was perfect, it wouldn't be that easy.
Although he knew it would be difficult to win now, if they were to give up like this, Tang San felt extremely unwilling. The Four Element Academies were too strong. Losing this match would greatly reduce their chances of entering the top five.
"This match, we Shrek Academy surrender!"
At this moment, Yu Xiaogang suddenly shouted towards the referee.
After hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, the referee quickly said, "Blazing Fire Academy versus Shrek Academy. Due to Shrek Academy's surrender, Blazing Fire Academy wins!"
As soon as this was announced, intense discussions immediately erupted at the scene. No one expected that Shrek Academy, which had performed well when facing other academies, would be defeated so easily in the confrontation with Blazing Fire Academy.
However, if one thought carefully, Shrek Academy's defeat was also reasonable.
In the second round of the preliminaries, Shrek Academy had already exposed their trump card, the Spirit Fusion Skill Nether White Tiger, early on because they encountered Elephant Armor Academy.
Now that their trump card had been exposed early, being targeted was inevitable. The reason Shrek Academy had won so easily before was simply because Shrek Academy hadn't encountered any other powerful opponents besides Elephant Armor Academy. Now that they had met Blazing Fire Academy, which could rank among the top four in the entire preliminaries, the aftereffects of exposing their trump card became apparent.
In the original work, Tang San might have been able to withstand Blazing Fire Academy's attacks and lead the team to victory by relying on the ice and fire immunity gained after consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Herb and the Fierce Flame Apricot.
But now these two immortal herbs had been eaten by Du Gu Bo. Without dual ice and fire immunity, and the boost from the immortal herbs, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was very weak at this point in time.
Although Tang San could rely on the cultivation methods, experience, Soul Ring age, and other advantages from his previous life to surpass ordinary control-type Soul Masters of the same level, when facing truly powerful control-type Soul Masters of the same level, the various shortcomings of the Blue Silver Grass would become prominent, making him feel powerless.
'There are no useless spirits, only useless Soul Masters' is at best just comforting words, and it cannot be taken seriously.
Certainly, an excellent Soul Master can become very strong through their own efforts even if they obtain a trash spirit, but this does not mean that his spirit isn't bad. In this situation, what's strong is the Soul Master, not the spirit. If he were given a powerful spirit, this Soul Master would only become stronger.
Tang San himself is the best example. Even though he used Profound Heaven Skill to give his Blue Silver Grass a cultivation speed not inferior to innate full spirit power, and enhanced his combat power through methods like Crane Controlling, Dragon Catching, Purple Demon Eye, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, he still couldn't hide his decline when facing truly excellent Soul Masters of the same level.
After receiving so many boosts, the final result is still like this. Doesn't this prove that Blue Silver Grass is a useless spirit?
Even Tang San is like this, so one can imagine what a true Blue Silver Grass Soul Master is like. Not only do they cultivate slowly, but their strength is also weak, with basically no redeeming qualities.
What? Blue Silver Grass has strong vitality? At best, that's just a D mixed in among a bunch of Es on a six-dimensional panel.
If that bit of vitality from Blue Silver Grass is considered strong, then what is Blue Silver Emperor?
One must know that Blue Silver Emperor is a top-tier spirit, while Blue Silver Grass doesn't even count as a low-tier spirit.
After this battle with Blazing Fire Academy, Shrek Academy seemed to have met their Waterloo. Not only did their battles become difficult, but they would also occasionally lose when facing strong teams,
Tianshui Academy VS Shrek Academy.
"Your Shrek Academy's strength is decent, but unfortunately, you are still not our opponents."
On the Spirit Fighting Stage, Shui Bing'er looked at the Shrek Academy members who were on the verge of collapse and said calmly.
And at this moment, Tang San, looking at the situation on the stage, a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes.
He saw that outside the large amount of frozen Blue Silver Grass, Ma Hongjun and Oscar had already fallen. Tai Long was injured all over, and the Nether White Tiger had also dissolved its fusion due to Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing running out of spirit power. Shrek Academy was already close to collapse.
Even Tang San himself had very little spirit power left in his body and couldn't support releasing a few more spirit skills.
"Was it really right for me to cultivate Blue Silver Grass first? If I had cultivated Haotian Hammer first, would the situation be different now?"
Even Tang San, having lived two lives, couldn't help but doubt his choices in the face of this situation.
Although after Yu Xiaogang's explanation, Tang San had understood Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao's plan, the Blue Silver Grass was truly too weak. If things continued like this, could he really wait until he cultivated his level to sixty?
A moment later, as the last person from Shrek Academy lost their combat ability, Tianshui Academy unsurprisingly won the victory.
"Tianshui Academy versus Shrek Academy. Tianshui Academy wins!"
Appearing along with the referee's voice were the dejected faces of the Shrek Academy members.
But Shrek Academy's nightmare did not end there, because not long after, they encountered another powerful academy, Thunderclap Academy!
"Bang!"
As the dragon claw formed by Yu Tianxin blasted the spirit power-depleted Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing off the Spirit Fighting Stage, the battle between Thunderclap Academy and Shrek Academy officially came to an end.
In this battle, Thunderclap Academy displayed overwhelming close-combat quality. At the cost of only eliminating two teammates, they broke through the Nether White Tiger and easily defeated Shrek Academy's seven members with the remaining five being almost unscathed.
In the Shrek Academy area, everyone was silent, their mood exceptionally low.
The gap was simply too large, large enough to cause despair.
At this moment, Yu Xiaogang suddenly stood up and spoke to comfort the Shrek Academy members:
"Children, don't give up! We still have hope of advancing!"