Nine Beauties Travel Together

The Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament's Qualifying Tournament was still divided into the two major divisions: the Heaven Dou Empire Division and the Star Luo Empire Division.

During the Preliminary Tournament, each of the two empire divisions selected fifteen teams to participate in the Qualifying Tournament and Grand Finals.

These thirty teams that advanced through the Preliminary Tournament then competed within their respective empires, while the three seeded teams that had already been guaranteed entry into the Grand Finals did not participate in the Qualifying Tournament.

It was worth mentioning that—

The Qualifying Tournament had no elimination quota. In other words, unlike the Preliminary Tournament, the Qualifying Tournament was not so brutal. Even if a team lost in battle, there was no risk of being eliminated.

After all, the purpose of the Qualifying Tournament—

Was merely to give the participating students who advanced from the Preliminary Tournament an opportunity to showcase their individual strength and style, while also serving as a ranking competition for the teams that had entered the finals, determining their order of appearance in the Grand Finals based on their rankings.

Of course, setting aside the matter of displaying individual strength and style, the Qualifying Tournament rankings were still very important, especially for the higher-ranked teams.

Although the Grand Finals, like the Preliminary Tournament and Qualifying Tournament, used a draw to determine matchups, the higher-ranked teams in the Qualifying Tournament, such as the top five, had the right to select opponents from among the weaker teams.

In other words, the top five teams in the Qualifying Tournament would all face teams weaker than themselves in the first round of the Grand Finals.

This also meant that the higher a team ranked in the Qualifying Tournament, the greater its chances of making it to the end in