Filled with excitement and vigor, the group returned to the villa. After washing up and having lunch, they headed to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena at exactly two o'clock in the afternoon.
Even though their strength had improved, they would not slack off. With Gu Xuan taking the lead, Qin Ming didn't even need to motivate them anymore; they would naturally push themselves to keep up with Gu Xuan's progress.
This made Qin Ming incredibly gratified, yet at the same time, he felt a bit helpless. Ever since Gu Xuan joined, his only remaining role was to help them refine their team coordination.
He didn't need to worry about anything else because Gu Xuan handled things even better than he did. Over the past month, Qin Ming often found himself studying Gu Xuan's cultivation methods, giving him the distinct feeling that he was the one "stealing" techniques from his student.
Speaking of the Great Spirit Arena, Gu Xuan had brought them another surprise: he hadn't lost a single match in an entire month.
Not a single loss. What kind of terrifying existence was that? Especially considering Gu Xuan was only Rank 33.
From the moment Gu Xuan began participating in duels until now, he has maintained a perfect record. He was already the owner of a Silver Spirit Fighter Badge, with points totaling a staggering 2,028.
The point system of the Great Spirit Arena was as follows: below 500 points was the lowest Iron Spirit Fighter Badge; 500 to 1,000 points was Bronze; 1,000 to 3,000 points was Silver; and 3,000 to 5,000 points was Gold.
Yu Tianheng and the others had been participating for over three years, yet even the highest among them, Yu Tianheng, only had 1,500 points. That total was the sum of his individual, duo, and team battles combined.
This was because as one's strength increases, the opponents matched against them also become stronger. Even for the current Rank 38 Yu Tianheng, it was impossible to claim he was invincible within the Soul Elder realm.
He was a genius, but there were some who had stayed at the Soul Elder rank for years or even decades. Against such "old foxes," even a genius like Yu Tianheng had no guarantee of a certain victory.
Now that a month had passed—and because the team matches led by Gu Xuan hadn't lost once—Yu Tianheng's points had reached 2,300. More than half of those points were thanks to Gu Xuan.
In one month, Gu Xuan had participated in twenty-six days of combat. He had taken four days off during that period due to injuries sustained from formidable opponents.
However, those twenty-six days included one individual match, one duo match, and one team match per day. This totaled seventy-eight matches.
The point system rewarded win streaks: a single win earned one point, but two consecutive wins earned four points, and three earned nine. Essentially, the points earned were the square of the win streak.
If a win streak was broken, the accumulation started over from the point of failure.
For example, if someone won ten matches in a row but lost the eleventh, they would gain 100 points from the streak (10 x 10) and lose one point for the loss, resulting in 99 points.
The same calculation applies to losing streaks for negative points.
In their three years, Yu Tianheng and the others had experienced a mix of wins and losses, which is why they only had around a thousand points.
Gu Xuan was different. In a single month, he had won twenty-six matches in a row across all three formats.
His points were calculated as 26 squared, multiplied by three. The 26 squared (676) was the points from his streak, and multiplying by three accounted for the three different battle modes. Thus, in just one month, he had amassed a terrifying 2,028 points, making him a distinguished Silver Spirit Fighter Badge holder.
He was less than a thousand points away from the 3,000 required for a Gold Spirit Fighter Badge. For others, this score might be unattainable in a lifetime, but for Gu Xuan, it didn't seem that difficult.
By now, Gu Xuan had become a major celebrity at the Great Spirit Arena and one of its biggest "money-makers." Due to his heaven-defying record, the Emperor Team had become the arena's ace team. If another team wanted to fight them, they now had to make an appointment in advance.
As for whether anyone would dare to accept a challenge from such a terrifying team, that wasn't an issue. The Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena was the largest in the empire and a gathering place for talent; it never lacked genius soul masters or ambitious teams.
With the rise of the Emperor Team, rather than being feared, more teams wanted to challenge them. Everyone wanted to achieve instant fame by being the one to defeat them.
Because the Emperor Team's reputation was so prestigious, even if a challenging team lost, it wasn't considered shameful. In the eyes of others, losing to the currently unstoppable Emperor Team was only to be expected.
Thus, the Emperor Team had become the undisputed number one academy team in the Heaven Dou Empire. Even Emperor Xue Ye, a busy man who usually paid no attention to such things, was personally delighted because this team hailed from the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Upon arriving at the arena, Gu Xuan followed his usual routine and signed up for an individual match first. His daily order of combat was fixed: solo first, then duo, and finally the team battle.
He required the others to follow the same strict order.
Some might argue that doing this meant they wouldn't be in peak condition for the final team match.
That was exactly Gu Xuan's goal. On a real battlefield, an enemy won't wait for you to be at full strength before attacking. While they were still in a setting where life and death weren't on the line, Gu Xuan wanted to familiarize himself and the others with that feeling, cultivating them into true elites.
After all, Gu Xuan couldn't stand alone in the future. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan had geniuses, but not many, and fewer still had Martial Souls that could compare to those from the great clans like Yu Tianheng or the Shi brothers. Since he had already formed bonds with these people, he naturally wanted to maximize their potential.
Who knew if one of them might eventually become a god? The Divine Realm was not a place ruled by a single person; it had its own distribution of interests.
His goal was godhood, but what about after that? He had to plan ahead.
Of course, this was predicated on him reaching that stage, but early preparation and investment were necessary.
Shortly after Gu Xuan registered for his solo match, his opponent was determined. It was another genius, a rising star with a fifteen-match winning streak who, like Gu Xuan, was from an academy.
When he received the opponent's data, a "just as I thought" expression appeared on Gu Xuan's face. He had been paying attention to this person for a long time.
Half a month ago, this person had brought his team to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena. In those fifteen days, he had secured fifteen consecutive solo wins. His team currently had a seven-match win streak, having lost once midway through.
That single loss didn't negate the opponent's strength. For Gu Xuan, this was a familiar name from the original records—the only person capable of contending with the Shrek Seven Devils after they had consumed Immortal Herbs.
'Feng Xiaotian, is it?' Gu Xuan thought as he looked over the files, his mind clear.
(End of Chapter)
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