The battles continued, but the teams that stepped forward grew increasingly cautious. Unfortunately, without exception, they all lost.
"Are there still no teams from Advanced Soul Master Academies?"
After waiting for an hour and seeing no more teams enter the arena, Tian Hao sighed.
In truth, he wanted more to fight the teams from those Advanced Soul Master Academies. Unfortunately, those people likely had plans of their own and had not taken the field.
Although teams had stepped forward earlier, none of them came from Advanced Soul Master Academies. They were independent teams.
Such teams could also participate in the All-Continent Soul Master Competition, but they could only enter the first round of preliminaries.
After all, there were fewer than a hundred Advanced Soul Master Academies across Douluo Continent. Split between the two great empires, there were fewer than fifty in each.
Not to mention the kingdoms and duchies. Once divided among them, there were even fewer.
Yet there were quite a few preliminary regions. The Heaven Dou Empire alone had six: the empire itself, four kingdoms, and that duchy.
That duchy had only three Advanced Soul Master Academies. Three academy teams clearly could not support an entire preliminary tournament, so teams from the civilian sector and the many Intermediate Soul Master Academies had to participate as well. At the very least, they could fill out the event and keep it from becoming too awkward.
Whether in the grade of their martial souls, their Soul Power Levels, or even their soul ring configurations, these civilian and Intermediate Soul Master Academy teams were generally inferior to those from Advanced Soul Master Academies. They usually served only as foils and had almost no chance of passing the preliminaries to enter the second-round Promotion Match.
Even so, it was still an opportunity to