Once the opponents for the second round of the semifinals were decided, the battles officially began.
Shrek Academy's match was scheduled for the next day.
However, Xiao Tianyang did not miss the first day's matches.
The matches between the two brackets had not been arranged in any particular order. Instead, they had been shuffled and reordered.
Therefore, Xiao Tianyang did not see any situation where the losers' bracket went first and the winners' bracket followed.
Among today's matches, there were two that he was particularly interested in.
The first was Dragon Protagonist of the True Body Sect.
The second was Hu Sanniang of Xuan Tie Men.
Both were members of the winners' bracket, though they had not clashed with formidable opponents in the second divisional matches.
Of course, the opponents they were about to face were no pushovers either.
The True Body Sect's opponent was another renowned body-refining sect, White Bone Forest.
If the True Body Sect pursued the ultimate physique, while Xuan Tie Men forged bodies of steel and iron bones,
then White Bone Forest itself was an anomaly among body-refining schools.
Its sect-defining martial art was the 'Bone Dissolving Technique.'
It was said that those who mastered the divine art could freely split, shift, and reconstruct the bones within their bodies.
Moreover, an 'Immortal Bone' would be born within them, rendering them completely immune to all blunt-force attacks.
Simply put, if someone was struck in the chest with a mace, their ribs might shatter on the spot or pierce their internal organs.
Yet the existence of the 'Immortal Bone' allowed the bones to continually reconstruct and shift amid their destruction.
Rumor had it that the current master of White Bone Forest could even use his own bones to protect his internal organs and form bone armor outside his