Douluo Dalu - Volume 07 - Great Spirit Battle

by Tang Jia San Shao

  Grandmaster looked towards Oscar,

  “Little Ao, you don’t need to be too humble. Yes, in real combat you can’t fight with them. But you never stopped helping the team. If I am correct, you were the only one that used all your spirit power. Because of your Soaring Mushroom Sausages, everyone was safe. Tang San admittedly controlled the situation, but if not for your support, this fight would not have been ours. More correctly, every one of you had a key role in today’s fight. Since you are a team, then, not a single one of you can be taken out. Let alone, as a Food System Spirit Master, your real use isn’t on the Spirit Battle Arena. If you went to the frontlines of a war, the continuous fighting capability that you can give to everyone would be way more than those in Mad Battle Team.

  Flender, who was aside, heard this and couldn’t help but laugh.

  “Grandmaster, you didn’t come back just to praise them, right?”

  Grandmaster smiled,

  “Of course not, I just wanted to tell them they are the best, but not perfect. Tomorrow I allow you to stop fighting at the Spirit Battle Arena for one day. But, other than resting, you have to reflect on today’s gains and losses. The day after tomorrow, you each have to tell me what you learned. Ok, I need to go now. Remember, when we aren’t here, don’t cause trouble, especially not with any Spirit Master. It is very likely you will meet a Spirit Master that belongs to a giant family.”

  Flender said,

  “Grandmaster is correct, don’t cause any trouble. However, if bullies you, don’t lose face for our academy either.”

  Ma Hongjun stuck out his tongue secretly and looked at Oscar, laughing out loud. A few days ago, they just provoked a Spirit Ancestor and Ma Hongjun even fried a certain part of that person.

  Grandmaster and the others walked out of the hotel. Flender said,

  “Xiao Gang, These children bring me more and more surprises. Looks like it was a good idea to give them all to you to train.”

  Grandmaster replied,

  “This is also due to their talent. Against a team that is five levels higher than them and three more spirit rings, they still won. This isn’t only because of their spirits’ or spirit rings’ quality anymore. Their cooperation is also crucial.”

  Flender sighed,

  “But I still lost. Compared to Tang San, Ma Hongjun is way behind. After teaching this many years, I’m still worse than you.”

  Hearing Flender surrender, Grandmaster smiled again.

  “That’s obvious, but its rare that you admitted it.”

  Flender said grumpily,

  “Do I look like I don’t admit losses?”

  Zhao Wuji, who was beside them, aptly interrupted,

  “It seems so. Last time we made a bet, you lost ten golden spirit coins, and you never admitted it.”

  “You….”

  Grandmaster laughed.

  “Flender, I suddenly want to drink beer. Since you admitted your loss, then be our host.”

  “Ok, let’s see how I drink you all to death[Both sides drink the same amount and see who falls first.].”

  Flender said fiercely, but the joy in his eyes exposed his real emotions. Seeing Grandmaster again, for some reason, the long lost emotion of happiness came back.

  Because all the teachers left, Shrek’s Seven Monsters naturally lost their restrictions. Dai Mubai hasn’t forgotten what he said previously, and he didn’t go far either. In a close restaurant, he ordered a full table of good dishes paired with two kegs of good wheat beer, inviting everyone to eat with him.

  “Little San, I salute to you. Thank you for your prompt support earlier.”

  Dai Mubai picked up his wheat beer and raised it towards Tang San.

  Tang San smiled and raised his beer towards Dai Mubai as well, and they both drained their cups. Of course he knew that Dai Mubai wasn’t saying thank you for himself. Though he was pulled away, he wasn’t in any real danger.

  He was thanking Tang San for pulling Zhu Zhuqing back in her dangerous situation.

  “Little San, I salute you as well. Though I’m not as strong as you, but I’m afraid you aren’t as good in drinking.”

  Oscar said slyly while raising his cup.

  Before Tang San raised his cup, Xiao Wu blocked it.

  “Oscar, you want to get him drunk? I’ll drink with you.”

  Saying that, Xiao Wu showed her “big sister” persona, draining her own cup in one gulp.

  Oscar grudgingly drank his as well, but in the corner of his eyes he saw Tang San drink as well.

  “Good, A good taste for wine means a good moral standing. I salute everyone.”

  This time the person who stood up was Ning Rongrong.

  Part 3 (TL by Jax)

  She didn’t hurry and drink, standing there and looking around her, her eyes reddening,

  “When I first came to the school, I gave everyone a lot of trouble. What third brother and little Ao said then wasn’t wrong, if I had continued as I was, perhaps I truly never would have been able to understand what a “friend” really is. After so many days, after training together with everyone, fighting together, together experiencing trials of life and death. Thank you all, my companions. This cup, I drink to you all, at the same time, to say to all of you what I have always not managed to say. I’m sorry.”

  After saying that last word, Ning Rongrong finished the cup in one mouthful. As she drank, two sparkling tears flowed down her soft white cheeks.

  “Rongrong, don’t drink so fiercely.”

  Oscar reminded kindly. Seeing Ning Rongrong’s current appearance, the happiest would probably be him. Since the first time he saw her, he had decided on his target[ *wink wink*], but instead ending up wounded. Now, Ning Rongrong had already become this cute. Its commonly known that children have the most flexible characters, and the just 12 year old Ning Rongrong had already become so different from what she was just a few months ago.

  “Rongrong, we are companions, and even ‘brothers’, now, and forever. We had all already accepted you from when we were in the Star Dou Great Forest. In the future, don’t say such things. Come, everyone drink! But, because you are all too young, drink lesser.”

  Oscar suddenly commented,

  “Rongrong, why do you call Tang San, third brother, but only call me little Ao ? Don’t you think thats a little unfair?!”

  Ning Rongrong’s whole face turned red, Glaring at him unhappily, but not replying.

  To the side, Ma Hong Jun spotted some clue,

  “ Little Ao, no wonder you’re the second oldest, you really are second rate[ Pun: Two (二) can mean stupid in the Beijing dialect.]. I wish I had this kind of discriminatory treatment.”

  Oscar was a smart person and immediately thought better of it, looking deeply at Ning Rongrong, so excited, he almost laughed and quickly said:

  ”Right, right,it’s my fault, I’ll drink as punishment.”

  Wine is one of those types of drinks where the more you drink the more bonded you are to each other. But also, the more you drink, the less you’re in control. this included Dai Mubai, who shouted to drink less at the start, in the end, could only drink non-stop. Even though the seven of them were quite young, as Spirit Masters, their tolerance levels were already far beyond that of a normal person, in addition, after that period of training, their ability to digest alcohol was undoubtedly strong. This drinking session lasted a full four hours before ending.

  The next day when everyone sobered up, they could barely remember anything. Only that, the person with the greatest drinking ability, was the one who was last to stay awake.

  It was neither Dai Mubai with the greatest spirit power, nor was it Tang San with the greatest overall strength, but the one with the 7 Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, Ning Rongrong.

  At that time, the first to collapse was Ma Hongjun, Fatty’s drinking limit was obviously nothing special, the second was Oscar. Closely following was Xiao Wu. Who would would have thought that the fourth to fall over would be the oldest, Dai Mubai. Zhu
Zhuqing and Tang San fell at the same time, and in the end, the one who didn’t fall was Ning Rongrong.

  Ning Rongrong not only didn’t collaspe, but she also drank the most. While drinking, it was practically all one cup in one gulp, with the great vigor she had before as a delinquent. But according to Ning Rongrong herself, this was her first time drinking.

  After that, whenever the other six people in Shrek Seven Devils recalled of this matter, there was only one word on their mind: “Genius”.

  The spirit battles continued. Within the next month, Shrek Seven Devils’ battles in the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena’s fields could even be described as the wind creating the waves[ idiom for successful and prosperous]. In that month, the Shrek Seven Devils participated in twenty seven team fights. Twenty seven battles and twenty seven victories. Within the thirtieth ranked range, they had no competition.

  In the individual battles, Three Five Combination also attained a good record of twenty seven successive victories.. Tang San and Xiao Wu compatibility and teamwork was so strong that they left their opponents helpless.

  Dai mubai and Oscar’s Dual Winged White Tiger combination attained a total of sixteen wins and eleven losses in twenty seven fights. This was mainly because Mubai was fighting alone. Oscar’s sausages, in the end, in a spirit fight type of battle arena, could only do so much after all.

  Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing’s Seven Treasure Civet combination scored a little better than the Dual Winged White Tiger group, after all they participated in the twentieth ranked Spirit Grandmaster level two versus two spirit fights. They obtained a good record of twenty two wins and five losses in twenty seven fights. Of which eight were consecutive victories, earning them quite a bit of points.

  For the individual competitions, Shrek Seven Devils were even more astounding. Dai Mubai in the thirtieth ranked range, besides meeting with control Spirit Masters twice and losing, won 25 rounds. Tang San’s luck was superb, and he never met a fire type[ pokemon] opponent, with his inferior thirty two ranks, in the thirtieth ranked Spirit Elder grade he unexpectedly maintained complete victory.

  After all, against his Spider Web Restraint, without a way to conquer it, for those in his level range, it is very hard to escape. Xiao Wu was worse by a little bit. Although her teleportation was very extraordinary, several times she encountered opponents who just happened to restrain her ability, but still had twenty victories.

  Ma Hongjun, in the twentieth ranked range was very successful and won twenty three battles of the twenty seven. Zhu Zhuqing’s individual competition record wasn’t inferior, winning only one less battle than Ma Hongjun.

  Counting it like this, Tang San won the most out of everyone. Although the points scored in the three types of Great Spirit Arena battles were counted separately, relying on the many consecutive victories[ Recall that in the arena, the number of points earned with each match multiplied every five wins for individual matches.], his points increased very quickly.

  If it wasn’t for the rules at the Great Spirit Arena, that the extra points earned from consecutive matches would only be added at the end of each month, right now they wouldn’t just be in iron rank spirit fights.

  Still, Shrek Seven Devils’ stunning performance already garnered the Great Spirit Arena’s attention, if not for their fighting spirit badge rank being too low, and thus not meeting the minimum requirements of the Central Spirit Battle Arena of at least a silver rank, perhaps they would already have been invited to participate in the Central Great Spirit Battle arena.

  When the Shrek Seven Devils arrived at the Arena this time was just the second day of the month, this month’s altogether thirty days, with the exception a rest day, after today’s spirit battles, the one month period would be over. Then, they would get their points calculated. at that time, they would definitely not be in the current iron rank.

  Even more praiseworthy, in the Shrek Seven Devils, their captain, Evil Eye White Tiger, Dai Mubai’s spirit power had broken through the 38th rank. This is not just because of his hard work in cultivation, but also because of these four months of body strengthening training and actual battles.

  At the same time increasing spirit power were Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, reaching the twenty eighth rank and twenty seventh rank respectively, rushing towards the thirtieth rank.

  As night fell, in the heart of Suotuo City’s downtown area, Suotuo Great Spirit Battle arena was brightly lit.

  The spectators came streaming in from all four corners of the city, from time to time one could even see luxurious carriages under the protection of retinues enter the Great Spirit Arena via VIP passages.

  These were either from great clans or aristocrats. Naturally, the battles in the heart of Suotuo Great Spirit Battle Arena, caught their eyes.

  Today was the last day of the month and also a weekend, Suotuo Great Spirit Arena would obviously become one of the greatest source of Suotuo city people’s entertainment. Here, not only would one be able to see spectacular spirit battles, one could also try their luck and place small bets, supporting their spirit master fighter.

  Including grandmaster, Flender and Zhao Wuji, Shrek Academy’s party all dispersed into the Suotuo Great Spirit Battle Arena.

  This is not because they had to be careful to hide their identity but because it was necessary.

  After this month of battling, the Shrek Seven Devils had made remarkable achievements, thus naturally becoming the focus of attention of the audience. Although they have not yet been to the center of the main Spirit Fighting Arena, but the audience in their surroundings were already very familiar to them. Shrek Seven Devils’ title has already become familiar with crowds, making them excited.

  In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and struggle. From ten days ago, the people of Shrek Academy started walking in as they were normally and completely change clothes once inside, then move to the designated place to sign up for a battle.

  Thus trying to guess where the Shrek Seven Devils were going to compete had also become one of the crowds in the surrounding sections’ enjoyable customs.

  Today, like the last few times, they specially wore a plain outfit into the Great Spirit Battle Arena, no one would notice a few teenage children. After these few months, Tang San and Ma Hongjun were already thirteen years old, in another few months, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing would also all be thirteen years old.

  With age being their best disguise. the foresight of Grandmaster’s decision to let them wear masks was really praiseworthy.

  Even though Group battles were the last to start, it would be the first to be registered, this was to ensure that it didn’t coincide with the individual and pair battles. Grandmaster instructed and dispersed all of them to fight in different districts, so as not to meet each other and avoid affecting their winning streak. Following which, Grandmaster handled the group battle registration as their broker.

  Today, Grandmaster chose the eighth district and helped his disciples register. After a month of battles, the originally incredibly hard to attain silver rank, in everyone’s effort of consecutive victories have just about been confirmed. Now, they only need to wait for today’s spirit battle to be over and collate the extra points was all.

  Grandmaster didn’t want to bring his disciples too much attention, once someone dug out the information about their age, then the attention from around the world would bring them a lot of trouble.

  Thus he decided, after today, he would bring Shrek 7 monsters into his specially prepared 3rd stage of training.

  Chapter 048: Emperor Team

  Part 1 (TL by Jax)

  Coming to the registration point as usual, Grandmaster took out the Shrek Seven Devils’ battle badge and presented it battle group staff,

  "Excuse me, I’m signing up for team battles.”

  The staff took the badge like always, but when he saw the words engraved on the badge, his face paled and he gasped softly,

  "Shrek Seven Devils?"

  Grandmaster wri
nkled his brow. The quality of staff of the Great spirit Battle arena was good, where their expression would not change much even if they met a high ranked Spirit Master. However, at this moment, the performance of the staff was clearly not satisfactory .

  “I’m sorry, Sir. If I may ask, are you the Shrek Seven Devils’ team leader?”

  Grandmaster slowly nodded his head. “ I can be counted as one. Would you please hurry it up a bit.”

  “Sir, please wait a moment.” The Staff, under Grandmaster’s surprised gaze, quickly left his post and ran toward the back, hands tightly clasping Shrek Seven Devils’ team battle badge.

  Although Grandmaster was extremely dissatisfied. The staff had already taken the group’s battle badge used to register, and without it, he could not do anything even if he wanted to change districts and could only patiently wait there.

  But what Grandmaster did not know was that as long as he appeared showing this badge in Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, in no matter what district, he would have experience the exact same thing.

  Without having to wait too long, the staff member brought back another person to the registration point.

  “Sorry for having you wait so long.”

  The staff member politely commented and presented the badge back to Grandmaster.

  Grandmaster had an impression of the man that the staff brought along. At that point in time when Shrek’s Seven Devils participated in their first group battle in the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, he was their host and announcer. Tang San said before the fight, that he had, out of kindness, tipped Tang San off about the Mad team’s impressiveness, thus giving Grandmaster a relatively deeper impression.

  Manager Ao smiled,

  “ Hello respected team leader sir, may I have a conversation with you. It will not take up too much of your time.”

  Grandmaster cooly replied,

  “Are you representing yourself or representing the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena?”

  Manager Ao quickly replied,

  “Of course, I’m representing the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena.”