Finally, the Continental Elite Tournament of Advanced Soul Master Academy officially began.
The entire second team also gathered together, mainly consisting of eight team members and two deputy team leaders, Teacher Li Xiang and Teacher An Ya.
Yang Podi looked at everyone and said, " The Soul Master Tournament is about to begin. According to my plan, I will not participate in either the preliminary rounds or the qualifying rounds. Therefore, in the coming days, each of you will have a lot of battles to fight."
"As for why I didn't participate, one reason was to conserve my strength, and another was to create a sense of tension and pressure for all of you."
" The Soul Master Tournament is one of the grandest events on the entire Douluo Continent. I hope that through battles against various teams and different types of Soul Master, you can become stronger and even break through your own limits."
"With Lingling and Teacher An Ya by your side during the Soul Fighting Competition, don't be afraid of getting hurt. Just give it your all in the Soul Fighting, and I'll handle everything else."
" Teacher Li Xiang, could you please explain the rules of the Soul Master Tournament to everyone?"
After Yang Podi finished speaking, he glanced at Teacher Li Xiang beside him. Professor Teacher Li Xiang had been a faculty member at the academy for many years and had a very thorough understanding of the competition rules.
Teacher Li Xiang glanced at it as well, and then everyone spoke.
"Dear students, the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament is about to begin. Today, I'll explain the rules to you."
The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament is the largest Martial Soul competition in the Soul Master World, initiated and hosted by the royal families of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire Empires, along with the Spirit Hall.
"There are several rules that must be followed. First, participating academies must send students under the age of 25, and each academy must maintain a minimum of seven participants in each match. Second, the purpose of the competition is friendly sparring, and injuries to opponents should be avoided as much as possible. Deaths are strictly prohibited. If an opponent is killed, the academy will not only bear the corresponding losses but will also be expelled from the Soul Master Tournament."
After saying this, Teacher Li Xiang couldn't help but glance at Dugu Yan. Dugu Yan's Martial Soul is the Jade Phosphorous Serpent. If she uses her innate poison, it is very easy to cause injury or even death to the enemy.
Dugu Yan immediately retorted, "Teacher, why does this rule exist? After all, in Soul Master Soul Fighting, Soul Skill are unpredictable, and besides, battles between Soul Master are extremely brutal."
Teacher Li Xiang nodded. "I understand what you're saying, but that's how the rules are. The two great empires and the Spirit Hall hold the Soul Master Tournament, which involves countless personnel and efforts. Their purpose is to select talent. Basically, all participants in the Soul Master Tournament are elite students from various academies. If any of them die, it will be a significant loss to any of the factions."
Yang Podi chimed in, "For all of us, we can treat the Soul Master Tournament as a small test. Not killing is just one of the goals. Remember my words: your goal is the stars and the sea. If you can't even pass a small test, how can you become stronger?"
Dugu Yan immediately shut her mouth, and no one else said anything. Just as Yang Podi said, everyone had gone through countless training sessions that pushed them to their limits and experienced the dangers of battles in Sunset Forest. This mere Soul Master Tournament was just for training.
Teacher Li Xiang continued, "Besides these two hard rules, there are some more standardized rules, all based on fairness. For example, during the competition, no medicine or food made by non- Food System or Healing System Soul Master may be used. Only Food System or Healing System Soul Master on the field have the right to replenish their teammates. Lingling is already level 48, which is almost one of the highest Soul Power participants in the Soul Master Tournament, giving us a significant advantage in this regard."
"Regarding the competition format, both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire are divided into multiple regions. We belong to the Heaven Dou City region. A total of twenty-nine teams from Heaven Dou City are participating this time, and the top six will qualify for the next round."
"The qualifying rounds are relatively simple. They are all one-on-one matches. There are a total of sixteen teams in the Heaven Dou region. All sixteen teams will compete in one-on-one matches to determine the specific rankings. In each match, each team will send seven players to the field, one player at a time, and the battle will continue. The loser will be eliminated, and the team will lose when all seven players are eliminated."
"Finally, there's the grand final, featuring 16 teams from the Heaven Dou region, 15 teams from the Star Luo Empire region, plus the directly qualified Star Luo Empire seeded team and the Spirit Hall seeded team, totaling 33 teams. They will be drawn into a one-on-one matchup. The top three teams in the qualifying rounds will receive a bye, with the specific number of byes determined by their rankings."
"These are all the rules for the entire Soul Fighting Competition. I hope everyone remembers each one; they will play a crucial role in key moments."
Yang Podi glanced at everyone again. "This Soul Master Tournament is crucial. I have only one goal: the championship. My grandfather and maternal grandfather will be going to Spirit City Spirit City to receive their titles. I hope to win the championship to celebrate with them."
Upon hearing these words, everyone present wore a determined expression, seemingly certain of winning the championship. After all, these were their grandfathers who had received the honor, and who wouldn't want their grandfather to hold his head high in pride?
"As for tactics, I'll just say one thing: coordinated attacks. With the teamwork between our members, the Soul Master Tournament is nothing to worry about."
Just as Yang Podi said, apart from Ye Lingling, everyone else in the team has extremely strong physical abilities and their Martial Soul are also biased towards attack power. Yang Ping'an, Yang Tianyue, and Yang Yuxuan all have the Martial Soul -Soul Breaking Spear martial soul, which has extremely strong attack power.
Although Dugu Yan is Control System, her Martial Soul, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent, can also be considered Power Attack System, and once she unleashes her full power, her attacks will be terrifying.
Although Niu Meng and Niu Kui's Martial Soul are Plate-Armored Giant Rhinoceros that emphasize defense, after years of training, both of them are extremely powerful. Niu Meng, in particular, although he is only level 45, is already stronger than an ordinary Soul King. According to Yang Podi's estimate, in terms of defense and strength alone, he is probably even stronger than Yan from the Spirit Hall.
Ye Lingling, the only Support System, has developed extremely strong physical abilities after years of training. She has also undergone extensive training, making her incredibly fast, probably second only to a very few Agility Attack System Soul Ancestor.
On this day, the entire Soul Fighting Arena in Heaven Dou City was packed with people. The original Soul Fighting Arena had been renovated and was no longer the single-player Soul Fighting Arena of the past. All recent private Soul Fighting competitions had been canceled, and even the venues of each Soul Fighting Arena had been greatly enlarged to accommodate seven-person team Soul Fighting.
Amidst the watchful eyes of countless people and the host's impassioned words, the twenty-nine teams entered the main Soul Fighting Arena in an orderly fashion.
Leading the way was Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team. Unlike the Shrek team in the original story, who wore drab green clothes, Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team wore gold clothes, as if representing the nobility of the royal family.
Normally, a team would have eleven members who have the opportunity to go on stage, including seven main players and four substitutes. Unexpectedly, all seven members of the Shrek Academy from the original work went on stage, while the rest were Yu Tianheng, Ning Heng, Tai Long, and Bai Xiaofei.
No matter which team took to the field, the entire stadium erupted in cheers and whistles.
The most exciting moment came when Skywater Academy took the stage. Skywater Academy is a long-established powerhouse team, dressed in uniform sky blue. All the team members were beauties, with long legs in every way. The cheers from the crowd seemed to reach their peak when so many beauties came on stage.
Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team walked at the very back of the entire group, at the head and tail of the Heaven Dou Team One, which can be considered as a pair of head and tail.
The entire Heaven Dou Second Team wore silver-white uniforms, which looked relatively simple but also very stylish.
Only when all the teams arrived at the Soul Fighting Arena did Yang Podi begin to pay close attention to the situation on the entire Soul Fighting Arena.
In the Soul Fighting Arena, there were several large seats for the guests. In the very center sat a very thin old man wearing a crown and holding a scepter. This must be Xue Ye.
There were several seats around, occupied by Ning Fengzhi, the sect leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sword Douluo the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Salas, the Platinum Bishop of the Spirit Hall.
The organizers originally wanted to invite his grandfather and maternal grandfather to participate in the Soul Master Tournament as guests, but both of them declined. At present, the two are keeping a very low profile, and the outside world can hardly see them.
As for Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, he originally had a seat up there, but he found it too troublesome and instead stayed with the teachers of the Heaven Dou Second Team. He even said that it was a bit unreasonable for a team leader not to be with his teammates. This left the tournament organizing committee speechless. You, Dugu Bo, a titled Douluo, have really gotten addicted to this? Are you really going to become the vice-leader of the Heaven Dou Second Team?
Next, Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Salas took the stage to give speeches, all of which were encouraging the teams to fight hard and strive for good results.
Of course, in addition to praising all the team members present, the three also subtly tried to win them over. However, the competition had not yet started, and no one knew exactly who to win over; they were simply describing a bright future for all the team members.
After the three finished speaking, the Platinum Bishop Salas drew lots.
Surprisingly, the draw resulted in Heaven Dou Team One facing off against the Blue Tyrant Academy, Heaven Dou Second Team drew a relatively ordinary academy.
Whether it was fate or not, it seemed that neither Blue Tyrant Academy nor Tang San's group could escape the opportunity to demonstrate their strength in front of Xue Ye. Perhaps this was also what Yu Xiaogang was most looking forward to, to let his disciples make a good impression on Xue Ye.
There are only two Soul Fighting matches today, and both will take place in the Central Great Soul Arena. The match between Heaven Dou Team One and Blue Tyrant Academy will be held today, while the match between Heaven Dou Second Team will be held tomorrow.
Soon, all the teams returned to their spectator areas, leaving only the two participating teams on site.
The lineup of Heaven Dou Team One includes Tang San, Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing.
The Heaven Dou Team One has seven Soul Ancestor, with three of Soul Ancestor playing. It's estimated that at most four Soul Ancestor will play in the preliminaries, which is supposedly to hide their strength for a crucial moment against the Spirit Hall Team.
When Yang Podi saw the lineup of the Heaven Dou Team One, he couldn't help but smile. This lineup was quite interesting, as if they were afraid that others wouldn't know that the Heaven Dou Team One was formed by the Upper Three Sects.
Given Yu Xiaogang's track record, Tang San will probably be the one to arrange the team. Ning Heng of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect probably won't even get to play in the preliminaries. Dai Mubai is a prince of the Star Luo Empire, and it's not suitable for him to play in this kind of situation. As for Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei, they probably won't get many opportunities to play before the finals.
Yang Podi even saw Tai Tan in the team. During the preparation period before the competition, Tai Tan was almost always by Tang San's side, perhaps to protect Tang San.
However, Tai Tan himself is probably not in good condition. Although he is still quite energetic and his Soul Power is quite full, his right hand has disappeared. It is likely that this right hand was lost during the battle between Tang Hao and Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.
As a master craftsman, now that he has lost his right hand, I wonder if he feels even a little regret?
However, Yang Podi didn't care too much about all that. It was all his own path, and no matter what, it had nothing to do with him anymore. He was already being very kind by not kicking him when he was down.