Star Luo Plaza was packed once again that day, a sea of people with not a single empty seat. Cheers and shouts echoed across the sky, as though the entire Star Luo City could hear those feverish cries.
The fourteen members of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy entered the waiting area. They had been riding high lately, sweeping away their opponents like rotten wood before a crushing storm ever since the round-robin stage began.
Their opponent in this round-robin match was the Dou Ling Royal Academy. All anyone could say was that the Dou Ling Royal Academy had been rather unlucky to run into the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy so early.
The draw was conducted fairly and impartially, and the announced format was two-two-three.
In plain terms, that meant two rounds of two-on-two and one round of three-on-three, for three rounds in total.
This format put a team's pairings to the test. It was neither as straightforward and brutal as individual one-on-one combat nor as thorough a test of a team's overall strength as a team battle. It was also the format most prone to upsets, since no one knew whether the other side would use Tian Ji's horse-racing strategy, sacrificing a weaker pairing against a stronger one to secure victories elsewhere.
However, Xu Tianchen did not care about the result of the draw at all. Ji Juechen and Ma Rulong could each guarantee a victory on their own, so there was no need to worry.
The Dou Ling Royal Academy's situation was not nearly as favorable. Their lineup consisted of only five Soul Kings and two high-level Soul Ancestors, nowhere near as formidable as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's.
The strongest member of their team was their main team's captain, Gu Zhujian, whose