The tournament's first knockout round ended two days later. Half of the 167 participating teams were eliminated outright, and the Mingyue Hotel immediately felt much emptier.
All the teams that passed the first round also had their accommodations adjusted. The Body Sect was moved to rooms on the third floor, which were much more spacious than those on the second.
Moreover, since they had passed the first knockout round, the organizing committee approved their request for an extra room, giving the young lady Nan Qiuqiu a room of her own.
After all, this was Mingdu. The Body Sect's members had previously enjoyed excellent relations with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and even the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, and the organizing committee knew that.
Of the 167 participating teams, only eighty-four remained. Shrek Academy had not appeared in the first round. Over the past few days, neither Huo Yuhao nor the Body Sect had seen anyone from the Shrek Academy Team. Zhou Sichen, Xie Huanyue, and the others seemed to have vanished.
"Shrek Academy will be fighting in today's first match of the second round, right?" Ning Tian asked Huo Yuhao.
"Yes." Huo Yuhao nodded. "I visited Elder Kong earlier. Someone injured Ji Juechen. Even his Heavenly Meteoric Iron Sword was destroyed."
"What?!" Ning Tian exclaimed in surprise. "I heard Ji Juechen had already reached the Soul Douluo level. With his swordsmanship on top of that, who could destroy his sword?"
Ji Juechen loved his sword as dearly as his own life. Destroying it was, in truth, no different from killing him.
"I sensed some strange traces on him. There was an energy constantly devouring the soul power inside him, along with an abyssal aura corrupting his flesh," Huo Yuhao said softly. "If he hadn't already reached the