Chapter 446: Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [446]
Although the matches were decided by drawing lots, and the teams were supposedly randomized, there was an unspoken rule that the first match of the main competition each year was always a showcase battle. The Royal Academy would face off against a relatively weaker academy to put on a show.
This year, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team followed tradition, taking the stage first. Their opponents were the Heaven Armor Academy, a newly promoted Advanced Soul Master Academy in the past year.
The Heaven Armor Academy was the team of the Heaven Armor Sect, whose martial soul was the purely defensive high-grade martial soul, the Heaven Armor Shield. With exceptional physical resistance and the capacity for martial soul resonance when multiple Heaven Armor Shield users released their martial souls simultaneously, their defense was further enhanced. This made the Heaven Armor Sect particularly skilled in group battles.
Although the sect was relatively unknown, being a reclusive sect, they had a unique specialty: they could use special formations to further amplify the advantages of their Heaven Armor Shield martial soul.
The team's captain was a Soul Ancestor who had reached the age limit of 25, while the rest were all Soul Elders. However, when they formed their defensive formation, even a typical Soul King would find it difficult to break through their defenses head-on.
The captain of the Heaven Dou Royal team was Dugu Yan, with Ye Lingling as the vice-captain. Chen Ming was one of the team members, along with eleven others.
Since the first match was a showcase battle, it carried little real weight. Chen Ming, whose strength far surpassed the others, didn't even take the stage. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling led Oslo, Yu Feng, Ning Zhongze, and two other power-attack Soul Masters into the fight.
The battle was uneventful, even dull. The seven members of the Heaven Armor Academy team, all using Heaven Armor Shields, formed a shield-wall formation and slowly advanced, attempting to overwhelm the Heaven Dou Royal team by applying pressure gradually.
At the start, Dugu Yan didn't summon her martial soul and simply stood beside Ye Lingling, observing the battle, while the other five clashed with the Heaven Armor team.