However, the second method was very difficult, because obtaining someone else's Soul Tool items meant defeating them first.
And if you wanted to defeat an opponent, they would certainly use their Soul Tools.
If their Soul Tools were too high-level, defeating them would be extremely difficult, and there was a very good chance things would go disastrously wrong.
So early on, many weaker contestants focused on avoiding combat. Only after collecting more Soul Tool items could they improve their chances of winning.
As Su Chen picked up the little umbrella, a light screen appeared before him:
[Item: Primordial Umbrella] [Level: 4] [Effect: Can block any single Soul Ancestor-level attack. Cooldown: 1 hour.]
"A level-four Soul Tool. This team of Soul Masters had pretty good luck. Too bad they ran into me..."
Su Chen shook his head and sighed, then put away the Primordial Umbrella.
Su Chen glanced at the sky, where a translucent number floated: 899.
Clearly, this was the current number of survivors.
Each battlefield had 1,000 participants. The match had only just begun, yet over a hundred people had already forfeited or been killed, landing straight in their coffins.
Clearly, the fighting was extremely intense.
But it was precisely this intense combat format that drew so many Soul Engineers into it.
The Spirit Pagoda had now realized how wildly popular the Star Dou Battle Network was, and had poured over sixty percent of its funding into developing it.
The Star Dou Battle Network kept breaking through technological barriers, while production of Star Dou Cabins was also rapidly increasing.
Most conventional competitions in the outside world had now been suspended and moved into the Star Dou Battle Network instead.
That was because holding competitions in the Star Dou Battle Network offered the best value for money.