After two days, the second round of the knockout stage of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Soul Fighting Tournament came to an end. Forty-two teams advanced to the next round.
The forty-two teams would face off in pairs. The winners would advance directly to the group round-robin stage, while eleven of the losing teams would be selected based on their match points to complete the top thirty-two and be assigned to groups.
For the Holy Spirit Sect, which Jiang Hai belonged to, Jiang Hai and Tang Ya had each swept through seven opponents single-handedly, taking on an entire sect alone. The Holy Spirit Sect Team's match points were already enough to place them in the top three. Even if they lost in the third round of the knockout stage, they were guaranteed a place in the group stage.
Once the third-round draw was over, the Holy Spirit Sect's luck was naturally far from bad. They had not drawn a single strong team-or rather, those strong teams were lucky enough not to draw the Holy Spirit Sect Team.
The appearance of an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo had catapulted the Holy Spirit Sect Team above the Shrek Academy Team and the defending champions, the East Cang Academy Team, making them the favorites to win this tournament.
For East Cang Academy, the defending champions of this tournament, however, their luck could hardly be called good. They had drawn the Tang Sect Team.
Anyone familiar with them knew that the Tang Sect Team was plainly just the previous Shrek Academy Team. Five years had passed, and of the seven members of the previous East Cang Academy Team, some had left and some had graduated. Only Sun Yunhai remained, struggling to hold the team together. Meanwhile, all seven members of the Tang Sect had grown