After several days of elimination matches, the strongest teams and the veteran academy teams had all shown their brilliance and delivered results, achieving their aims of making a name for themselves and displaying their academies' ability to nurture talent.
This stage of the competition had now come to a complete end. Of the original hundred and thirty teams, only half remained, and they would next enter the round-robin stage.
Only now had the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament truly entered its main stage. From this point on, most teams would stop holding back, revealing their hidden trump cards one after another.
Under the eyes of countless spectators in Star Luo Plaza, the Sun Moon Empire's second-ranked academy-the Mingdu Advanced Soul Engineer Academy-officially began its first match of the round-robin stage.
Their opponent was the Heaven Dou Empire's premier academy, Diao Academy, one of only three academies in this tournament with a Soul Emperor.
The draw to determine the match format was soon concluded, and the final result was an individual match.
Since this battle involved Xu Tianzhen, the Sun Moon Empire's eldest princess, the Star Luo Empire sent out its chief referee, Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu, whose cultivation had reached the Titled Douluo level, to ensure that nothing happened to her.
In truth, they had little choice. If this battle had taken place in another empire rather than Star Luo City, Xu Jiawei would have been only too happy for Xu Tianzhen to suffer some mishap on the battlefield.
But the tournament was being held in Star Luo City, and the Star Luo Empire was the host. If anything happened to Xu Tianzhen, it would no longer be merely an accident during a match; it would also become a diplomatic issue between the two nations.
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