On this day, the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament finally opened amid great fanfare.
The Soul Master Tournament was not only a contest between soul master academies, but also a major event for the entire soul master world. From the preliminaries to the advancement rounds and then the finals, it would last a full three months.
In the preliminary rounds, aside from the two empires each having one team directly seeded into the finals, fifteen teams would be selected from each side.
Including Spirit Hall's "Team 1," a total of thirty-three teams would compete in the final tournament.
Speaking of this, Spirit Hall's "Team 2" had to be mentioned.
This was the first time in the tournament's history that Spirit Hall had sent a second team to participate. It was said that Spirit Hall Team 2 would compete in the tournament region of some kingdom under the Star Luo Empire, taking up an ordinary competition slot.
On the Heaven Dou Empire's side, the directly governed region had five qualification slots, while each of the four kingdoms and one duchy beneath it had two.
After the two empires each selected fifteen teams during the preliminaries, those teams would proceed to the second-stage advancement rounds to determine their rankings.
No one would be eliminated in the advancement rounds. The higher a team's ranking, the greater its advantage in the final round of the tournament.
Of course, if the gap in strength between the teams was too great, then this minor advantage would not make much difference anyway...
In short, the most important thing for every advanced soul master academy team was to earn a qualifying slot in the preliminaries. Only teams that qualified could display their abilities in the advancement rounds and on the final stage.
The preliminaries for Heaven Dou