At the same time, while Ning Fengzhi, Xue Ye, and Salas were each harboring different thoughts, on the arena below:
"Are you alright?"
Shen Fan asked, concerned, as he held Dou Dou, who had fallen from the air into his arms.
"Ah, no... I'm fine."
Dou Dou shook her head awkwardly.
"Really fine?"
"Then why did you fall like that when you were flying so well?"
Shen Fan looked suspicious.
"Uh."
"Really fine."
"I was just too shocked by your hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and momentarily forgot to flap my wings."
Dou Dou became even more embarrassed.
"So that's it."
"Then it was my fault for startling the beautiful elder sister."
Shen Fan flirted for a moment, then remembered that the Dou Dou in his arms was the Dou Dou from the World, so he didn't pursue it further but instead let her go.
With her feet on the ground, Dou Dou glanced again at the crimson spirit ring circling Shen Fan, composed herself, and smiled, "Student Shen Fan, you're joking."
"Compared to a few members of your team, I can hardly be called beautiful."
She wasn't flattering him; although people like Dugu Yan from Douluo 1 World wore veils, one could tell from their exposed eyes and brows that they were all beauties in the making.
"What are you saying, sister? Don't belittle yourself."
"Besides, everyone has their own preferences."
"Maybe you, beautiful sister, will meet a dashing young man who only has eyes for you and thinks you are the most beautiful in the World."
Shen Fan's words immediately drew a round of eye-rolls from all the other girls on both teams in the arena, except for Shui Yueer, and also made Dou Dou burst into laughter, but considering this was during the Elite Competition, she didn't continue saying anything.
Instead, like Dugu Yan and the others on the arena, she gave Shen Fan a big eye-roll, then flew back into the air, picked up the spirit-guided microphone, and announced, "Now, please, members of both teams prepare; the competition officially begins."
As her words fell, the cheers from the audience below grew even louder, all of them eagerly anticipating the splendor of a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ability.
"This match of ours seems to be meaningless."
At this moment, Shui Binger of Tianshui Academy said.
"Then, beautiful one, what do you mean?"
If Tianshui Academy forfeited, it would be fine; the reward was almost the same as winning. This was called subduing the enemy without fighting, so Shen Fan naturally left the decision entirely up to Shui Binger.
"Do you like to call everyone 'beautiful one'?"
Shui Binger was a bit speechless.
"Of course not."
"I'm an honest boy; I only call someone 'beautiful one' when I see a truly beautiful woman."
Seeing the sincere expression on Shen Fan's face as he spoke, Shui Binger gave him another annoyed eye-roll before saying, "Our Tianshui Battle Team forfeits this match."
"However... I am also very curious about the splendor of a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, and it seems most of the audience is also very curious and expectant."
"How about we have a friendly match, just touching upon it?"
"How about it?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Fan smiled and said, "You call the shots."
"Then let's begin."
Shui Binger led the Tianshui Battle Team to their half of the arena and swiftly arranged their formation.
Seeing this, Shen Fan also became serious, quickly discussed a few words with the girls behind him, then went to the very back of his team with Ye Lingling.
Afterwards, he gently plucked the strings of the Mystic Moon Zither, controlling the disguised hundred-thousand-year spirit ring to light up, and mimicking how Douluo Continent Spirit Masters liked to announce their Spirit Ability names when using them, he pretentiously said, "Fourth Spirit Ability, Six-Character True Word."
This was a skill Shen Fan had modified and disguised, inspired by the Nine Colored Goddess Ning Rongrong from a certain game.
Its true purpose was to primarily use Shen Fan's own power, utilizing the records within the Unnamed Medical Canon, to borrow the invisible waves emitted by the zither music to open the recipient's inner potential, allowing them to achieve significant, harmless, short-term increases in all aspects.
As for its disguised effect, it was to display six large characters of different colors—"Strength," "Defense," "Speed," "Essence," "Spirit," and "Body"—brightly above the recipient's head.
"Wait a moment."
"Match suspended."
At this moment, Dou Dou received an order from the VIP section, descended beside Shen Fan, and holding the spirit-guided microphone, asked, "Student Shen Fan, can you introduce the effects of your hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ability to everyone?"
"Yes."
Shen Fan naturally heard the order from the VIP section, but he didn't care about these things at all, casually agreeing without thinking, and immediately began to make things up.
"Strength, Defense, Speed, Essence—these four words are simple; they just increase strength, defense, speed, and mental force."
"Spirit: increases the body's speed of recovering spirit power."
"Body: enhances all-around physical attributes."
"Among them, the initial amplification of the Spirit Ability is a twenty percent increase for each character, and for every level the spirit power increases, the effect of each character additionally increases by two percent."
After this explanation, ordinary people were fine, only feeling that it was grand, but to the ears of those in the VIP section who understood the true value of this Spirit Ability, it made them stand up in shock, especially Ning Fengzhi, whose face was completely filled with an expression of doubting life.
Dou Dou saw all of this, but it was none of her business; she had already completed the task assigned to her, so she no longer interfered with Shen Fan and their match, announcing the start of the match once again.
And this time, without the various questions from the VIP section, Dugu Yan's six members and the girls of the Tianshui Battle Team also engaged in battle very smoothly.
Of course, because this was only a friendly match, the intensity of the fight between the two sides was not particularly fierce, but because the combatants were thirteen beautiful girls, a match lasting over ten minutes was no less exciting than the previous eye-stinging match between Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou Second Team.
"With the strength of your team, defeating the Spirit Hall team shouldn't be difficult."
A moment later, as they walked off the arena with Shen Fan and the others, Shui Binger whispered.
"Then I'll take your auspicious words, beautiful one."
Shen Fan cupped his hands.
"You keep calling everyone 'beautiful one'."
"Forget it, you'd better be careful."
"It's best to stay by your academy's Titled Douluo-level principal at all times, except during matches, otherwise, I'm afraid many people will want to harm you."
Shui Yueer took over Shui Binger's words, saying, "My sister is right. I originally wanted to ask you out to stroll around, but now I'll forget it."
Faced with the straightforward Shui Yueer, Shen Fan fell silent, not knowing how to respond, when a gentle voice that sounded very comfortable suddenly came from behind him, helping him resolve the immediate predicament.
"Young friend Shen Fan, I wonder if you are free? Can we have a chat?"
Everyone turned to look, and the person who had arrived was none other than Ning Fengzhi from the World.
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