"Dai Weisi, Spirit White Tiger, forty-ninth level attack system Battle Spirit Master."
"Zhu Zhuyun, Spirit Hell Civet, forty-seventh level agility-attack system Battle Spirit Master."
"Ying Wei, Spirit Inflated Buffalo, forty-fourth level attack system Battle Spirit Master."
"Tang Hongwei, Spirit Blazing Lightning Leopard, forty-third level agility-attack system Battle Spirit Master."
"Li Yang, Spirit Mirror of Reflection, forty-second level defense system Battle Spirit Master."
"Yang Xin, spirit ring of Flowing Water, forty-first level support system Spirit Master."
"Yang Hui, spirit ring of Flowing Water, forty-first level support system Spirit Master."
The spirit power levels of the Star Luo Royal Academy team members were very close to those of Peach Garden Academy's students, but their average spirit power was even lower than Peach Garden Academy's.
Considering Peach Garden Academy's previous matches, victory was highly probable.
Standing on the arena, Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi of Star Luo Royal Academy looked at Zhu Zhuqing with somewhat complex expressions.
Zhu Zhuyun sneered:
"My dear sister, it seems that after leaving the Star Luo Empire, you truly got lucky, to have found such a good Teacher."
Dai Weisi added:
"What a pity, no matter how excellent your team is, it's useless. You still have to marry my good-for-nothing younger brother and be dragged down by him.
Speaking of my good-for-nothing younger brother, he betrayed his own country and joined the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team. As a result, he was crippled in the first match and is now hiding somewhere. But once I report this matter to Father Emperor, both of you will face severe punishment."
"Don't worry, my dear sister, who told your man to be useless? But for Teacher Su's sake, even if Weisi ascends the throne, I will still give you some leniency."
After Zhu Zhuyun finished speaking, she glanced at Su Ran, who was behind the Peach Garden Academy team, looking calm and composed. Her eyes held both jealousy and a hint of infatuation.
This Teacher was truly beautiful. What a pity... she was engaged from a young age and had no choice of her own, otherwise, she might have gone crazy for him like other girls!
But why did Zhu Zhuqing have such good fortune, leaving Star Luo and becoming a disciple of such a good Teacher?!
Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun's taunts caused the expressions of several Peach Garden Academy students to change slightly. They looked at the solemn Zhu Zhuqing; it seemed this match was very important to Zhuqing.
Wang Sheng stood at the very front, taking a step forward, and said in a deep voice:
"So you are Senior Sister Zhuqing's elder sister, my apologies. However, our Peach Garden Academy has a motto: we must control our own destiny. If Senior Sister Zhuqing doesn't want to marry Dai Mubai, no one can force her, otherwise, we will all help."
Ning Rongrong also nodded. At the Academy, she and Zhuqing were old acquaintances. Although Zhuqing later broke her promise and competed with her for the Teacher, as the senior disciple, if her junior sisters and brothers had trouble, she would naturally support them:
"Does that crippled toad Dai Mubai even deserve my Junior Sister Zhuqing? Your Star Luo Empire's imperial throne, empress, or concubine positions, our Zhuqing doesn't care for them at all, bah!"
"Exactly! Don't care!"
The other members of Peach Garden Academy also said in unison.
Zhu Zhuqing looked back at Teacher Su Ran.
Teacher Su Ran smiled slightly, also looking at her.
Zhu Zhuqing's cold face instantly flushed a few shades.
"Zhuqing, go. Follow your heart. No matter how you want to fight this match, your Teacher supports you."
Zhu Zhuqing seemed to hear her Teacher's encouragement, and her eyes immediately filled with confidence. She turned, walked to the very front of the team, and said to her Peach Garden Academy teammates:
"Senior and Junior Siblings, I believe you've heard a bit about the matters between Dai Mubai and me. For this match, I want to be willful."
"I want to face Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun alone. This is the grudge of my marriage alliance with the Star Luo Dai family and Zhu family. The rule of the Star Luo Empire is that the strong have the right to speak. Dai Mubai and I have already gone our separate ways, but I can fight two against one. If I win, it will be enough to prove that I have the power to control my own destiny."
Zhu Zhuqing bowed to her six teammates: Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng.
Ning Rongrong nodded: "I agree with your strategy, Zhuqing. Go ahead, we'll back you up."
Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and the others looked at the members of the Star Luo Royal team:
"Then, leave the other team members to us. Don't worry, we will create an arena that is absolutely yours."
At this moment, the students of Peach Garden Academy became serious, gradually calming down from the joy and excitement of their Teacher's appearance.
Although they usually competed for their Teacher's favor, squabbling and laughing, they were a team and had long considered each other indispensable.
This was the state their Teacher hoped to see in them: unity!
...
"Good sister, even if you joined Peach Garden Academy, even if your strength has undergone a transformation, can you still resist the entire imperial family and the entire clan by yourself? That's impossible!"
"Just accept your fate."
"Your Peach Garden Academy is indeed powerful, probably relying on the teachings of that Peach Immortal Teacher, allowing you to cultivate powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skills, but this doesn't mean you yourself possess the ability to fight two against one, let alone with me and Weisi working together."
Zhu Zhuyun's graceful figure was on par with Zhu Zhuqing's, but her appearance seemed more mature. Seeing Zhu Zhuqing dare to face the two of them alone, Zhu Zhuyun was very surprised.
Before this, Zhu Zhuqing had not shown very outstanding performance in the competition, or rather, her performance was overshadowed by Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan.
Even in the 1v1 elimination rounds, her appearances were pitifully few.
And in the team finals, the Star Luo Royal team's biggest impression of Peach Garden Academy was how Peach Garden Academy used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Tianshui Academy's Martial Soul Fusion Skill before the rematch.
This match was actually not easy, because Martial Soul Fusion Skill was not Peach Garden Academy's specialty.
But this also meant that, so far, the cultivation methods practiced by the seven students of Peach Garden Academy had basically not been exposed.
Perhaps, the Teacher was waiting for this moment, allowing her to confront her destiny herself.
In Zhu Zhuqing's mind, only one sentence her Teacher told her when she became his disciple flashed by:
Don't complain about unfair destiny. Coming here, what you need to learn is self-improvement. When you truly trust your own strength, when you truly become strong, the clan? The imperial family? They will no longer be restraints on you. Instead, they will come to cling to you.
"Nine Nether Spirit Cat, possession!"
Zhu Zhuqing didn't waste words and directly activated her Spirit possession.
A dark purple flowing light appeared behind her, like a faint nether river. Her entire being seemed to have been honed from the Nine Nethers, and her aura was incomparably stronger than that of a Hell Civet. Her Spirit had transformed from a first-class Spirit into a peak Spirit.
Facing Zhu Zhuqing's Nine Nether Spirit Cat Spirit directly, Zhu Zhuyun actually felt a sense similar to bloodline suppression.
"Zhu Zhuyun, it's time to settle the grievances between us."
With a loud boom.
Zhu Zhuqing's four spirit rings appeared: yellow, yellow, purple, black!
But the spirit rings did not appear on her body; instead, they coiled around the Yama Pagoda behind her. A ferocious Yama statue crawled out from hell, extremely terrifying:
"Since you know my Teacher is extraordinary, why is your gaze still only focused on Martial Soul Fusion Skills? My Teacher's abilities have long surpassed all of your imaginations!"
"The foundation of the clan and imperial family's marriage alliance is because the children of the Zhu family and Dai family naturally possess the potential for Spirit fusion, releasing the power of the Hell White Tiger far exceeding two Spirit Masters of the same level."
"If I alone can defeat the Hell White Tiger, why would I need to rely on others?"
Zhu Zhuqing said coldly. When she fled from the Star Luo Empire to Heaven Dou, her 'good sister' had not stopped chasing her along the way.
If not for her good luck, she might have died long ago.
If not for becoming a disciple at Taoyuan, she would not have had the courage and ability to face her destiny alone.
It was time to settle the grievances between the sisters.
"Ten Halls of Yama · Black Rope Great Hell."
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