That night, Huo Yuhao once again used Simulation to slip into the Zhu Family estate and Imprinted the Netherworld Ghost Claw soul skill.
By the time he returned to the Star Emperor Hotel, the first faint light of dawn had appeared, and the sky outside the window had turned the pale white of a fish's belly.
Today was the first day of the Round-Robin Tournament, and Group Three, which included the Di'ao Second Team, would also be competing.
The Round-Robin Tournament had eight groups in total. Three groups had nine teams, while the remaining five had eight. Four groups would compete each day, completing one round every two days. Including the extra matches for the nine-team groups, the Round-Robin Tournament would last fifteen to sixteen days.
Unlike previous tournaments, every team this year had learned its group assignment the night before the Round-Robin Tournament began.
Teams with good sources of information could generally identify all the opponents in their group over the course of a single night.
This was naturally an arrangement Xu Jiawei had deliberately made, intended to give the academies more time to prepare their tactics.
It would also build excitement for the matches in advance and encourage betting, allowing the Star Luo Empire to seize the opportunity to earn more.
More importantly, however, it would allow the teams in Group Three to prepare tactics targeting the Di'ao Second Team's members ahead of time.
The strength of the Di'ao Second Team's members remained a mystery. Outsiders knew very little about them, with only scattered words having emerged from the Evil Soul Master Extermination War.
After fleeing back in disgrace, Mu En had released information that let the entire continent learn of the cultivation restrictions on ultimate martial souls.
Thus, in everyone's minds, however powerful Huo Yuhao's, Su Tong's,