Chapter 197: The Second Round Begins
In the next seven days, Ye Fan only had three things a day, eating, cultivating, and competing, and his daily itinerary was also in the restaurant, martial arts training ground, and square.
After these seven days of competition, the first round of the round-robin has ended, and the three qualifying students in the first group have also appeared, and there are not many strong players in the first group, and the final qualifiers are Ye Fan, Luo Ming, and Qiao Kaishan.
Among them, Ye Fan qualified with a complete victory, Luo Ming only lost once, and it was in Ye Fan's hands that he was defeated, and Qiao Kaishan lost twice, namely Ye Fan and Luo Ming, the first round of the entire middle grade qualifying battle was also completely over, a total of one hundred and fifty qualifying students, and the second round of battle will be launched tomorrow.
The lowest of the members of the lower grades is also the cultivation of the high-level intermediate level, most of them are the pinnacle of the high level, and there are even a few generals, and the members of the middle grade are all general cultivators, and even several king ranks have appeared, among which there are a few Ye Fan who also know, namely Dugu Zhan, Xue Qing, and Lei Ling'er, in addition to the three of them, there are also two middle-grade veteran powerhouses, the top ten of the middle grade last year.
This made Ye Fan sigh, it is worthy of being Zifeng Academy, one of the three super colleges in the mainland, it is definitely worthy of its reputation, there are many young and strong people among them, there are five king ranks in the middle grade, and there are probably more in the upper grades, not to mention Zifeng Hall, I am afraid that all of them are cultivators above the king rank.
There are no masters in the group of students, the strongest Ye Fan is only at the middle level of the general rank on the surface, and he has just been promoted in the last two days, and Luo Ming, who ranks second, is only a senior general rank, although his combat power has surpassed the peak of most of the general ranks, but these outsiders don't know.
Among the other groups, some are luckier than the first group, and some are called the death group, and among the strongest group, there are two king-level juniors, and one general-level peak and one general-level senior.
Originally, according to the normal situation, the general level can appear almost 100%, but because he was in this death group, he could only be eliminated regrettably in the end, which also made many people understand that luck also accounted for part of the things mentioned at the beginning.
Generally speaking, the level of the first group is in the middle of the stream, but Ye Fan believes that in terms of real strength, the first group is definitely not bad, Ye Fan's strength is naturally needless to say, except for those few king-level students, almost no one can pose a threat to him.
Luo Ming's strength is also extremely strong, according to Ye Fan's estimate, among the students at the peak of the general rank, there are very few people who are his opponents, and it is almost a sure thing to enter the top twenty-five, and Qiao Kaishan, his strength will never be weaker than the average general-level level, if he is lucky, he will also have a chance to enter the top twenty-five.
After the completion of the afternoon game, the first round of the game is completely over, and then the second round of tomorrow's competition, this round is divided into a group, each ring is a group, if the speed is fast, the second round can be ended tomorrow in one day, but because everyone has to go through nine games, if it is the same day, it is difficult to persevere, so the academy divided the second round of the game into two days.
Therefore, the lower and middle grades are all scheduled in the morning, and the afternoon is the first round of the upper grades, so that the time of the competition can be staggered and some time can be saved.
Ye Fan has already understood a little about the procedures of the game, and the next thing is to wait for the second round of the round-robin tomorrow, this time although the admission of defeat in each group is less, the average strength has been greatly improved, and the battle will become more and more difficult.
But Ye Fan was fearless, one was because his strength had been raised to the middle level of the general rank during this period of time, and this second ascension, due to his own high realm, coupled with some pills on his body that increased his cultivation speed, Ye Fan's cultivation speed was very fast.
In addition, Ye Fan had thoroughly practiced the first seven forms of the Astonishing Cloud Sword Technique, and the eighth form had also been small, and his sword intent had also been successfully improved to the second form of sword intent, which was not far from Xiao Cheng.
Sword intent is the realm that all sword cultivators dream of, and every trace of sword intent will also bring a huge boost to strength, for example, if Ye Fan does not have sword intent, the power of using the Hokage Sword Lotus is ten, then the power caused by just touching the sword intent is fifteen, and the power caused by the peak of one is twenty, and at this time, after just stepping into the twenty sword intent, the power exerted is twenty-five.
Ercheng sword intent increased Ye Fan's strength by at least two times, which shows the strength of sword intent, and the later it is, the greater the power of sword intent enhancement, when it reaches ninety, it is Dacheng, and then it is perfect, and the consummation of sword intent is three or four times stronger than Dacheng's sword intent.
According to Huo Lao's statement, thirty percent of the sword intent is a small one, so two to three percent is a huge hurdle, once it reaches three percent of the sword intent, it will be twice as strong as the two percent of the sword intent, and when the time comes, the use of the Hokage Sword Lotus can exert fifty power, which is five times that of no sword intent.
The slightest bit of a battle between cultivators can make people feel desperate, not to mention a five-fold gap, so after realizing the strength of the sword intent, Ye Fan attached more and more importance to the comprehension of the sword intent, but he also had no shortcuts until the sword intent was improved, and he couldn't force it.
Now Ye Fan's fighting spirit is much purer than before the seal, but the total amount of fighting energy is a little lacking, but in terms of overall strength, it is not weaker than before the seal, Ye Fan believes that after a while, if he can be promoted to the king rank or make the sword intent smaller, his strength will have a huge leap.
Ye Fan didn't practice anymore that night, but went out with Ye Tong and them for a casual walk, he also knew that cultivation should be relaxed and moderate, if he was in a tense cultivation state for a long time, it would not be beneficial to him, and there would even be disadvantages.
By the time he returned to the dormitory, it was almost midnight, Ye Fan was not ready to cultivate, and went to bed directly, there were at least two battles every day in the past few days, which not only made Ye Fan addicted to fighting, but also made great progress in his Shocking Cloud Sword Technique, and also saw a lot of different swordsmanship, Ye Fan believed that now it only takes a small opportunity to successfully create the third form of the Huoyuan Sword Technique.
Now Ye Fan already has the prototype of the third type in his mind, but there is still an introduction left, as long as he has this introduction, he can successfully create the third style, but Ye Fan is not in a hurry, because the more deliberately he pursues this kind of thing, he may not succeed.
When it was dawn the next day, Ye Fan came to his senses and stretched his waist comfortably, Ye Fan felt that his whole body was comfortable at this time, and his fighting spirit and soul power were all at his peak, and after washing up, Ye Fan went to the training ground to practice swordsmanship at will, then went to the restaurant to eat, and then came to the square.
Today, because the second round of round-robin matches begins, all qualifiers must arrive early, and then draw lots to group them.
Just like on the first day, the chief referee of this qualifying battle, a vice president of the academy, who was in charge of the draw, had a big box on a table in front of the rostrum, which was made of special materials that could block the detection of soul power, so it was impossible to cheat, and he could only rely on his own luck.
Ye Fan drew the third group this time, a total of ten groups, corresponding to the ring from No. 1 to No. 10, which means that Ye Fan competed in the No. 3 ring.
After the draw ended, no one left the students present, but came to the front of their respective rings according to their respective groups, Ye Fan also came to the No. 3 ring, with fifteen people in each group, almost all of them were present.
Ye Fan looked at the other students and found that there were still people he knew, one of them was in the entrance examination, the second place after him, Xue Qing, this woman not only has a mysterious background, but also has a very strong strength, during this time, she has been promoted to the primary level of the king rank, and her strength is much stronger than at the beginning.
In addition to Xue Qing, Ye Fan also found a person he knew, it was Qiao Kaishan, after seeing Ye Fan, Qiao Kaishan couldn't help but smile, the two are indeed very fateful, in the first round, it was the same group, this time they were divided into the same group, and the two also had some good feelings for each other.
After seeing Ye Fan, Qiao Kaishan walked over, arched his hand towards Ye Fan, and said with a smile:
"Brother Ye, I didn't expect us to be in the same group, it's really fateful. ”
"Yes, it seems that we are indeed very fateful, and this group seems to have a lot of masters, does Brother Qiao have confidence?" Ye Fan nodded and said.
"Hehe, except for Brother Ye and that Xueqing girl, the rest of the people believe that they are still somewhat sure. Qiao Kaishan said confidently.
"Oh?" Ye Fan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard Qiao Kaishan's confident words, Qiao Kaishan was only at the intermediate level before, and in their group, in addition to Ye Fan and Xue Qing, Ye Fan also saw a student at the peak of the general rank, and he didn't know why Qiao Kaishan was so confident.
After thinking of this, Ye Fan couldn't help but take a closer look at Qiao Kaishan, and suddenly understood, it turned out that Qiao Kaishan had actually been promoted to a level and reached the advanced level of the general rank, plus his Kaiyuan swordsmanship, his strength might not be worse than Luo Ming, no wonder he was so confident.
"Hehe, I was discovered by Brother Ye, the battle is indeed deliberately designed to make people improve faster, after a few days of continuous fighting, I finally succeeded in advancing last night, but compared with Brother Ye, I'm afraid there is still a big gap. Qiao Kaishan smiled and said.