Gui Mei, the Ghost Douluo standing behind Bibi Dong, introduced the attributes and ages of the three soul bones in a low, ethereal voice.
At this moment, all twenty-one young soul masters in the arena erupted with intense fighting spirit.
Bibi Dong continued, "This morning will be the individual elimination round. The team that lasts until the end will advance directly to tomorrow's championship match, while the two eliminated teams will compete this afternoon for the other finals spot."
Each team in the individual elimination round was limited to seven participants. If all seven lost, they could only fight for that one finals spot in the afternoon.
Jiang Chen watched calmly. He was already confident that, barring any surprises, he would not need to make a move today.
Sure enough, Grandmaster directly announced that Shrek Academy would forfeit the morning's individual elimination round and automatically enter the afternoon's fight for the remaining spot.
Grandmaster's reasoning was simple, yet farsighted.
Other than Tang San and Dai Mubai, the rest of Shrek Academy were still Soul Elders. The individual elimination round was extremely unfavorable for them.
No matter how brilliantly they had won their previous matches, once they entered the individual elimination round, how could Soul Elders like Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing, who were only in their thirties, possibly defeat the members of Martial Soul Hall Academy and Godwind Academy?
Even the somewhat weaker Godwind Academy now had an entire lineup of Soul Ancestors.
They would certainly lose if they participated in the individual elimination round, and they would also expend a great deal of energy or even suffer injuries. It was better to forfeit and head straight into the afternoon's battle for the remaining spot.
Thus, knowing full well that they would lose, Grandmaster directly chose to withdraw, preserving their