The Semifinals Begin!

The semifinal arena was spacious. To ensure the contestants' safety, the referee had been replaced by a more experienced teacher.

Both teams knew the procedure by heart. Without waiting for a prompt from the Referee, they introduced themselves.

"Freshman Class Seven, Huang Chutian, Power Attack System Battle Soul Master."

"Lan Luoluo, Control System Battle Soul Master."

"Lan Susu, Control System Battle Soul Master."

"Class Nine, Zhou Sichen, Power Attack System Battle Soul Master."

"Lu Yi, Control System Battle Soul Master."

"Cao Jinxuan, Control System Battle Soul Master."

Both teams fielded one Power Attack System fighter and two Control System fighters, but the similarities ended there.

The six took their positions, facing one another across several dozen meters.

At the Referee's signal, the match began.

Everyone immediately summoned their Martial Souls, Soul Rings rising beneath their feet.

Amid the many yellow Hundred-Year Soul Rings, the Purple Soul Ring circling Lu Yi was impossible to miss. It instantly made him the focus of all three opponents.

By the semifinals, neither team had watched the other compete, but that did not mean they knew nothing about their opponents.

To Huang Chutian's team, Dai Huabin's team had been the strongest of the three opposing teams on paper.

Yet that very team had lost to Zhou Sichen's in the round-robin stage—its only defeat.

Huo Yuhao's team had likewise won all fourteen of its matches and eliminated two teams with Soul Elders.

Because of those two teams' striking records, Huang Chutian and his teammates had asked about their fighting styles well in advance.

They had prepared a strategy for dealing with Lu Yi's and Cao Jinxuan's control abilities.

Huang Chutian and the Lan Sisters kept a moderate distance between themselves as they advanced on Lu Yi's team together.

"Did they learn nothing about us? And they