The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament brought together young soul masters from across the continent, with academies serving as the competing teams. It included the two great empires, Spirit Hall, and other factions.
Participants had to be enrolled academy students, and every match had to have seven competitors on each side. Killing was forbidden!
Intentional killing would result in immediate disqualification.
The powers used had to be abilities of one's martial soul, so Hidden Weapons like Tang San's would basically count as a foul the moment they were used.
The two great empires also encompassed various duchies, and each duchy had its own competition region.
Hearing this, Little Jiu understood why such a trash team from the Balak Kingdom had appeared in the second round in the original story. They had not been in the same region as the Heaven Dou Empire.
Shui Xinrou continued, "Each academy has one entry slot. The official academies of the two great empires have two slots. One team receives direct entry into the finals. That represents imperial privilege. The other team must fight its way in through strength..."
After hearing that, Little Jiu summed it up. The tournament was divided into preliminaries, the Promotion Tournament, and the finals.
The preliminaries were Team Matches, using a single round-robin format. A win earned one point, and teams advanced according to their total points.
The Promotion Tournament, meanwhile, consisted of one-on-one individual matches. Defeating seven opponents counted as victory. It was also a single round-robin format, with advancement based on points.
Little Jiu was quite frustrated. That meant there was no chance of being eliminated after a single loss. He felt that he had no way to stop Shrek Academy before the finals.
Then he would beat Tang San up one last time!
Little Jiu raised