All continental youth senior Soul Master Elite Tournament has begun.
On the morning of the opening day of the competition, Zhu Ziyang walked out of the bedroom, and a few seconds later, Ma Xiaotao also walked out. Her face was very rosy, and she obviously had a good rest last night.
A few minutes later, members of Shrek Team gathered in the living room. They were arranged in two rows, with member Main Team in the front and member Preliminary Team in the back. In the front row from left to right were Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi, Fifth Huan'er, Ning Tian, Chu Hua and Zhou Tianhe, Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao stood in front of them.
Zhu Ziyang Try not to look at the faces of the three Jiang Nannan girls. Their faces are full of resentment and anger, because these days, he has been occupied by Ma Xiaotao. The opinions of the three people are very big, Fifth Huan'er is okay, after all, he and Ma Xiaotao are like sisters, and they are both brave enough to love and hate. When they are close to Zhu Ziyang, they don't care whether Ma Xiaotao is around or not.
But Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi are different. The two of them are very thin-skinned and cannot do this step, so they can only complain to Zhu Ziyang with dissatisfaction. However, Ma Xiaotao uses official duties as an excuse and does not care about their dissatisfaction at all.
Fortunately, this situation only lasted for a day or two, because with the start of the competition, the three women's jealous behavior must be restrained.
"Ahem!" Zhu Ziyang coughed, and everyone looked at him with concentration. He said, "The results of yesterday's draw came out. We got a bye in the first round and directly received twelve points."
"This..." Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not knowing whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Brother, isn't it a good thing to have a bye?" Preliminary Team member Cao Jinxuan raised his hand to speak. He was a little confused and didn't understand why the senior brothers and sisters in the front row had incomprehensible expressions.
"It's a good thing and a bad thing." Zhu Ziyang smiled and explained, "The good thing is that we can directly advance to the second round, which saves a lot of effort. The bad thing is that we lose the opportunity to take the lead. You know, in the past competitions, the opening game was always started by us Shrek Academy. This is an honor."
"So, wouldn't we have suffered a big loss?" Preliminary Team member Xie Huanyue shouted.
"Haha, it doesn't matter actually. The purpose of the Sun Moon Empire's move is actually not difficult to guess. Most likely it is to let Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy play the opening game. After all, it is the home field advantage. It is understandable." Zhu Ziyang continued, "This is a provocation. Therefore, when you encounter Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy in the next game, don't hold back. If you dare to provoke Shrek Academy, you must be prepared to pay the price! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" everyone shouted in unison.
"Okay, let's go." Ma Xiaotao said with a smile, "Although we have a bye in the first round, we still need to attend the opening ceremony. By the way, we can also see how strong those sect teams are."
Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao walked side by side, leading Shrek Team and everyone else out of the hotel and directly to the venue where the competition was held.
Sun Moon Empire placed Competition Venue on a large plain with a wide view on the outskirts of Mingdu. Not only is this place spacious, it can accommodate more people, but it can also build a larger arena to support more intense battles.
There are a total of 367 participating teams in this competition, half of which will be eliminated directly in the first round. Except for the Shrek Academy, which has a bye, only 183 teams can enter the second round. Then adding Shrek Team, a total of 184 teams will proceed to the second round. Half of the teams were also eliminated, and the remaining ninety-two teams entered the third round. Half of the teams were also eliminated in the third round. The remaining forty-six teams continued to compete for the top thirty-two positions. When only thirty-two teams were left, the preliminaries of the competition ended, thus entering the next stage of Group Stage.
The competition format of all stages is Individual Elimination Match plus Team Battle. The theoretical maximum points for the winner is twelve points. The final round of the preliminaries is actually based on team points as the main judging criterion. The fourteen teams with the least points will be eliminated.
Shrek Academy everyone came to Competition Venue. Competition Venue is located in the suburbs on the east side of Mingdu. This suburb that is usually sparsely populated at this moment is already crowded with people. The number of the Sun Moon Empire soldiers alone to maintain order exceeds 30,000 people. This shows the large number of people coming to watch the game.
At present, this area is divided into two major areas, one is the viewing area, and the other is the competition area. The viewing area is divided into small areas, each of which can accommodate up to 5,000 people. The viewing area surrounds the competition area, and the most conspicuous thing in the competition area is naturally the ring used for the competition.
The arena is ten meters high and about 120 meters in diameter. The entire arena exudes a silver-white metallic luster. It is obvious that this competition arena, which can be called a majestic building, is actually made of metal. Such a huge amount of work has made many people who came to the Sun Moon Empire for the first time marvel at the strength of the Sun Moon Empire's national power.
What is even more concerning is that there is a circle of grooves around the competition arena. In these grooves, there are actually pieces of transparent light curtains with light yellow. The light curtains rise towards the sky. Looking up at these light curtains, there is no end in sight. This makes Zhu Ziyang even more curious about the development of the soul guidance technology of the Sun and Moon Empire. He cannot see the light curtain at the end, which means that these lights are at least shining at an altitude of five thousand meters!
This requires the support of a very large Soul Power. At least, if the Soul Master wants to send the Soul Power to an altitude of five thousand meters, it needs at least the Soul Saint level, and this means that each of these grooves can at least display the Soul Saint level Soul Power. Power, of course, it is also possible that under these grooves there are Soul Saint outputting Soul Power. However, this is also very scary. There are at least three hundred of these grooves. Is it possible that Sun Moon Empire can actually use three hundred Soul Saint to act at once just to show off?
The ruler of the Sun Moon Empire should not be so stupid.
The function of these light curtains is very simple. They serve as the boundaries of the ring. Since they are high enough, the possibility of knocking the opponent out of the ring and winning is almost zero. If you want to win, I am afraid you can only rely on your strength to completely defeat the opponent.
Outside the arena, extending outward from the center of the arena, every hundred meters, there is a huge soul guidance screen supported in the air by tall metal brackets. Each screen is more than twenty square meters in size. These screens can perfectly present the scene on the arena, allowing all spectators to watch the entire game process at the first time. There are more than a hundred such soul guidance screens, evenly distributed in every viewing area.
This kind of Soul Tool technology can currently only be achieved by the Sun Moon Empire. The other three countries, haha, they already attach great importance to Soul Tool if they can produce a hundred soul guide screens.
The player rest area is located on the east side of the ring, and is very clearly divided into two areas and three levels. Taking the distance from the competition ring as a reference, the rest area closest to the ring is the best equipped. It not only has a pergola, but also a sofa and a dedicated waiter. There are only two such rest areas, one each for the Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. The rest area after that only has a pergola and ordinary seats, and the one further back doesn't even have a pergola, just rows of benches.
When Zhu Ziyang arrived, there were already many people in the rest area. These people were either sitting on the bench or sitting on the seats. After seeing Shrek, their eyes were full of envy, jealousy and various complex emotions.
Zhu Ziyang turned a blind eye to these looks, and walked to the top seating area closest to the competition ring with a calm expression, and then sat on the sofa in the middle without hesitation. Others followed suit and found a seat to sit down. Zhu Ziyang was sandwiched between Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan. It looked like they were hugging each other, but in fact they were hugging each other.
Ignoring the envious looks of the male compatriots in the team, Zhu Ziyang began to look at the teams that were entering one after another. Naturally, there were many acquaintances in these teams, such as Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy who came behind them. was only separated from their rest area by a curtain. Meng Hongchen's flirtatious glances flying towards him were clearly intercepted by Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan.
Another example is Star Luo Royal Academy led by Xu Jiujiu, Snow Demon Sect Team led by Vina, and Tang Sect Team led by Tang Ya Huo Yuhao. Finally,, and Falan Academy Team where Yang Zhenzhen is. This little girl came to Shrek Team's door the same night she arrived. Jiang Nannan was very happy to take her around Mingdu for a day or two.
Soon, all the teams were here, at least all the seats in the rest area were occupied, which meant that all the teams officially recognized by the competition were here.
At this time, a new situation emerged.