Dual Soul Sages! Seven in One Second!

The moment the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone championship reward was announced, every competitor in the arena boiled over.

Though many of them knew they had no chance, that did nothing to stop their blood from surging. They could hardly wait to join the contest, wishing they could charge up and fight a match right now.

Unfortunately, the first battle belonged to the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy Battle Team.

Jing Hongchen was in charge of hosting the competition, while Ink Shadow Douluo and Celadon Douluo served as referees. It could be said that the scale was exceptionally high.

Yet they had not taken on this work because of the competitors or the audience, but because the Third Prince was watching the competition. Only for that reason did they personally take part, striving to ensure that no problems occurred.

"This old man declares the tournament begun!"

"The first match of the preliminary Elimination Tournament—Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy versus Dragon Slaying Sect. Both sides, select seven members and enter the waiting area!"

As Jing Hongchen's voice fell,

the other academy teams all returned in full to their own academy rest areas. Only the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy Battle Team and the Dragon Slaying Sect Battle Team each had seven members step out from their ranks and arrive at the waiting area, ready to take the stage and fight.

Although the Elimination Tournament was said to be conducted by drawing lots, in reality, none of the Seed Teams would face each other. And because there were even more teams participating, there were no byes in the Elimination Tournament either. Every single team would go onstage and take part in the competition!

However, even with the Elimination Tournament's fifty-percent elimination rate, the number of teams remaining in the end would still