Chapter 82: The Great Ups and Downs
...... to be fixed
In the second round of the competition, there will be two direct byes, and the two teams with the highest rankings in the Tiandou and Star Luo Empire promotion tournaments will be selected respectively.
Why is this statement, and not directly finalized the champions of the two empire qualifiers?
The reason is that if the champion teams of the two empires meet in the first round, they will inevitably eliminate one of the teams.
Only if they survive the first round will they have a bye in the second round.
Sixteen, into eighth.
After removing these two byes, the remaining 13 teams will play this round with the three seeded teams.
Teams that have had a bye will not have a bye again.
The teams that received byes in the third round were the two teams that were pushed back in turn in the two Imperial Qualifiers.
The same reasoning is the same as in the second round.
Eighth, into the fourth.
The two teams with byes in the second round will compete in the semi-finals with the remaining six teams.
Sixth, into the third.
The teams that had a bye in the third round will participate in the fourth round to compete with the top four teams, and what remains in this round is the top three in the elite competition of the continent's advanced soul master academy this time.
In the first four rounds, it was a team competition.
In the final fifth round, it is a more comprehensive competition.
Teamwork is important.
Personal strength is equally important.
Actual combat is very important for soul masters, and after the baptism of qualifiers and promotions, the strength of Shrek's eight monsters has improved to a certain extent.
Among them, Dai Mubai, as the oldest of the eight monsters, has stabilized his soul power level at level forty-five after this period of precipitation, and there are vague signs of breaking through level forty-six.
Oscar, the second oldest of the Eight Monsters, although he didn't participate in many competitions, he single-handedly took on the physical recovery work of everyone in the Shrek team, and his soul power level also reached forty-three levels.
As a weapon martial spirit, and a very ordinary blue silver grass in the plant system, the cultivation speed it gave Tang San was not fast.
Even if he was cultivating very hard, the results didn't seem to be particularly obvious.
Tang San had taken three immortal herbs, but none of them had accelerated his soul power cultivation speed.
The Octagonal Xuan Ice Grass and the Flame Apricot were delicate, giving Tang San the ability to be ice immunity and fire immunity respectively, in addition to this, these two immortal grasses also greatly improved his physical fitness.
This was also the most crucial reason why Tang San was able to possess a 10,000-year soul ring when he was only cultivating his soul power.
Not to mention the autumn dew, as an immortal flower with auxiliary functions, it only has one effect, that is, to improve the mental power of the user.
After obtaining the fourth soul ring, Tang San's cultivation directly reached the forty-second level, and after two and a half months of training, he only reached the forty-third level, unlike Dai Mubai, he didn't have the feeling that he was about to break through to the forty-fourth level at all.
Before taking the Mixed Yuan Immortal Grass, Ma Hongjun had never dared to indulge himself in cultivation.
Even if he has a way to eliminate the evil fire, he still can't let go of his hands and feet.
After taking the "Mixed Yuan Immortal Grass" given by Tang San, Ma Hongjun worked hard to cultivate, and he was only one level higher than Tang San and Xiao Wu in terms of soul power, but at this time, he already had a forty-third level of cultivation, and vaguely looked like he was about to break through to the forty-fourth level.
Xiao Wu's cultivation talent has always been much higher than Tang San's, at the beginning, Tang San was indeed the only one who thought so, and until now, everyone agreed with this.
Even if she takes the fairy snow silkworm, it only improves her mental power like looking through the autumn dew.
Even if she doesn't usually cultivate very seriously.
At this moment, Xiao Wu's soul power cultivation had also reached the forty-third level.
"Immortal Qiluo Tulip" made up for the "martial soul defects" of the Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda, allowing Ning Rongrong to increase his soul power by level six all at once, but after all, because he was only an auxiliary soul master, it was still level forty-two.
Before taking the immortal product Cinnabar Youlian, Ning Xinli's soul power cultivation was already about to catch up with Dai Mubai, who was more than three years older than her.
After the first two rounds of training in the competition, and Ning Xinli has always been very strict with herself, although she was not about to break through to level forty-six like Dai Mubai at this time, she also stabilized herself at level forty-five.
The one who took the immortal grass and the soul power level that had increased the most was Zhu Zhuqing, the youngest among them.
She doesn't have the drawbacks of a martial soul like Ma Hongjun, but she doesn't have the top-level beast martial soul bloodline like others.
She doesn't have the lazy cultivation of Xiao Wu, but she doesn't have the same excellent cultivation speed as others, and when everyone just met, Zhu Zhuqing was at the same level as Ning Rongrong.
Taking the immortal daffodils jade muscles and bones did make Zhu Zhuqing improve her seventh-level cultivation all of a sudden, but she didn't transform her martial soul too much, but like Dai Mubai, she focused more on improving the physical fitness of the soul master.
Fortunately, Zhu Zhuqing is not an auxiliary soul master, as a member of the battle stream, although she is only a very crisp sensitive attack system, she has also reached forty-two soul power cultivation at this time.
More than twenty days, it passed quickly.
In this way, full of expectations for the finals, this team of more than 1,000 people finally arrived safely at the destination this time - Wuhun City.
In addition to the five hundred Heaven Dou Royal Elite Knights on the surface, in fact, secretly, there was also Ning Fengzhi, the father of the two sisters Ning Rongrong and Ning Xinli, accompanying him.
Not only to protect his two daughters, Ning Fengzhi also had another purpose for this trip, that is, to protect his apprentice, Xue Qinghe, the crown prince of the contemporary Heaven Dou Empire.
As the sect master of the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Sect, Ning Fengzhi was indeed just an auxiliary soul master.
But this doesn't really matter, this is because no matter when and where, there will always be a Titled Douluo guarding him.
At this time, the person who followed Ning Fengzhi was Sword Douluo Chenxin, a ninety-sixth-level Super Douluo.
With Ning Fengzhi's Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul cultivated at the peak of the Seven Rings, unless it was a ninety-ninth level peerless Douluo who came here in person, otherwise there was no need to worry too much about the safety of Prince Xue Qinghe.
That's not all, Dugu Bo, who is worried about the safety of his granddaughter Dugu Yan, is also hidden in this team.
The Emperor Dou Clan, that is, the first team of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, did not need to participate in the qualifiers and promotion rounds like other teams.
However, their starting point and destination are the same as everyone's.
The Heaven Dou Royal Academy they studied was established on the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Even if Yu Tianheng and the others started directly from the second round of the finals, they still had to arrive at Wuhun City on the same day as everyone.
Seeing the prosperity of Wuhun City, everyone was still unsatisfied, and after hearing the news of the lottery brought back by Dean Flender, they were stunned to experience another big ups and downs.
One good news, one bad news.
The big rise is because of that bad news.
As the Heaven Dou Empire's qualifier champions, they will be byed in the second round.
Then the opponent in the first round is crucial, and the weaker the opponent, the better it is for them, so that they can better retain their strength.
Half of the thirty-three teams in the finals were from the Star Luo Empire.
In this case, Shrek Academy of course continues to hide some strength as much as possible.
Blazing Academy is not a weak team, the other party has indeed lost to Shrek Academy one after another, but their strength has also been recognized by the Eight Monsters.
They were faced in the first round, which greatly affected Shrek Academy's plan to continue to preserve its strength.
The big drop is because of the good news.
Blazing Academy, the first round of the finals was directly abstained.
The heart that was originally lifted up by everyone settled down all of a sudden after hearing the news.
The opponent's abstention is indeed very suspicious, and no one can figure out why the opponent directly gave up the qualification for the finals that he had won so hard.
But in any case, this move of Blazing Academy is currently very beneficial to Shrek Academy.
In this way, they can just use two rounds of time to take a good look at the opponents who have successfully advanced on the Star Luo Empire's side.
Judging from the rules of the competition that everyone has known before, it seems that only the last round is special.
Ning Xinli once guessed whether the first four rounds would share a competition venue, and then choose another competition venue in the last round.
But that's not the case.
In fact, only the two rounds that Shrek Academy does not participate in will share the first competition venue, and from the third round of the finals, it will actually be different.
The difference is that they need to move to the square in front of the Papal Palace.
When the time comes, Ning Xinli will face the Pope who made her father very jealous.
What kind of ambition the Wuhun Hall has now is actually known to everyone, but everyone is still panting there and pretending to be confused.
The confrontation between the two empires on the continent is actually a last resort.
Who wouldn't want to have the strength of great unification?
Also, why not stop the Martial Spirit Palace?
Tiandou, Xingluo?
Which force does not want the reunification of the mainland and does not want to dominate the world.
The Martial Spirit Hall has accumulated over the years, and it just happens to have this strength, and they are dissatisfied with the status quo of subservience to the two empires, and they are dissatisfied with continuing to bow to the weak.
Yes, bow down.
There are only two major empires on the continent, Star Luo and Heaven Dou.
No matter how strong the strength of the Wuhun Hall is, it is still nominally under the control of the two empires.
All the cities on the continent are controlled by the two empires.
Wuhun City is a two-way street, but nominally, the two empires are each in charge of half.
The reason why it is actually not under the control of the two empires is also because there are the Pope's Hall and the Elder's Hall here.
This, how can the Martial Spirit Hall be satisfied.
On the mainland, the strong are respected.
Twenty-seven qualifiers, fourteen qualifiers, and five finals.
It sounds like it's a long time coming.
However, if Shrek Academy wants to win the championship, there is only one real opponent, and that is the Wuhun Hall team, which is regarded by everyone as a great enemy.
The rules of the contest are that participants must not be more than 25 years old.
The captain of the Divine Wind Academy is a forty-fourth-level Battle Spirit Sect.
The captain of the Thunder Academy is a forty-third level Battle Spirit Sect.
The captain of Tianshui Academy is a forty-third level Battle Spirit Sect.
What is the strength of the Martial Spirit Palace?
Three Soul Kings, Four Soul Sects!
This is just from a small aspect, if from a large aspect, there are only these people with strong talents on this Douluo Continent.
The martial soul awakening ceremony spread throughout the entire Douluo Continent.
Those who are gifted and powerful will all belong to the Martial Spirit Palace, this statement is no exaggeration.
Tang San had said that his martial soul awakening was carried out with the help of the deacon of the Martial Spirit Palace.
The deacon said he traveled dozens of villages a day.
An ordinary deacon in Notting City needs to awaken the martial soul to dozens of villages every day, how many villages in the whole continent have received the blessing of the martial soul hall.
But as long as they have soul power, those people will throw their olive branches to them.
If the soul master wants to continue cultivating, he needs to consume a lot of resources along the way.
In the face of the temptation given by the Martial Spirit Hall in terms of resources, how many people like Tang San who did not add people to the Martial Spirit Hall could have on this continent?
In each city, there is a station for the Martial Spirit Palace.
In villages far away from the city, the Wuhun Hall will deliberately send people there; Most of the families in the city go directly to the local Wuhun Hall to awaken the martial soul.
After the martial soul awakens, the soul master needs a soul ring after satisfying the soul power.
So, what's the first thing to come into contact with?
It is guarded by the Wuhun Palace, a hunting forest built by two empires.
How ridiculous, it was funded and built by the empire, and the person who guarded it turned out to be the Wuhun Palace, and the soul master wanted to enter there with the token of the Wuhun Palace.
After the soul master advances, where does he go to receive the subsidy?
It's still the Wuhun Palace.
Ning Xinli knows the inside story.
The three levels of soul master subsidies for soul masters, great soul masters, and soul masters are predicted by the two empires on a regular basis to the Soul Palace, and then the personnel of each station of the Soul Hall are distributed to the soul masters.
However, how many of the Soul Masters knew this?
Not much.
Under such circumstances, how high is the prestige of the Wuhun Hall in the hearts of civilians?
With such a high prestige, it is enough for anyone to listen to them.
With so many talented people listening to the Martial Spirit Palace, how could they be satisfied with bowing down to the two empires and willingly continue to bow to the two empires.
This is all analyzed from the perspective of a bystander.
The Star Luo Empire has a centralized monarchy, and they who practice such a system have a strong wrist like iron and blood, and a well-disciplined and well-equipped army.
The Heaven Dou Empire relied on soul masters.
That's right, the Heaven Dou Empire and the Wuhun Hall also rely on soul masters.
The Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus Rex Sect is neutral on the surface, but in fact it has a close connection with the Heaven Dou Empire.
Their Seven Treasure Glazed Glass Sect was tied to the Heaven Dou Empire even earlier.