The voice of Emperor Xue Ye spread throughout the entire training ground.
"Long live! Long live! Long live!" As soon as
he finished speaking,
a roar like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami erupted in unison!
The Royal Knights, forming a circle
, raised their lances high, the clanging of their armor resounding perfectly.
Their loud, earth-shattering shouts
immediately startled many of the participating Soul Masters.
The grandeur of a great nation was undeniable.
"It's so noisy!"
Ning Rongrong covered her ears, and the other girls followed suit.
Xiao Lan had already thrown herself into Ye Qiu's arms.
The wave of sound, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami, slowly dissipated.
The first match had officially begun!
The first to appear was none other than Ye Qiu and his friends' old acquaintance, Blazing Fire Academy.
Their opponent
was a team called Fabia Academy.
The first Soul Master that Blazing Fire Academy arranged to appear was their captain, Huo Wushuang.
This strategy
was clearly aimed at achieving a large score in the first match.
The final rankings of the qualifying rounds.
Besides the overall score, the individual scores of each win are also extremely important.
If a team is tied, the rankings will be determined by the individual scores.
Ye Qiu wasn't particularly interested in the match. Instead, he put his arm around Xiao Wu's shoulder, gently leaned close to her flushed ear, and whispered,
"Don't be careless when you go on stage later. Don't go too hard, and make sure you don't get hurt, okay?"
"Mmm! I know,"
Xiao Wu blushed and gently kissed Ye Qiu.
Ning Rongrong stood beside them, playfully poking Ye Qiu's waist.
"Hey! You rascal, watch your manners~"
"Rongrong, can't Xiao Qiu care about me too? Humph."
"..."
The match progressed quickly. The competition
between Soul Masters
wasn't necessarily based on a single level.
Whoever had stronger Soul Skills or higher Soul Power levels could win or lose in an instant when there was a gap, making it easy to defeat an opponent.
Having Soul Bones was extremely rare.
In a one-on-one match, there was no possibility of a Martial Soul Fusion Technique.
Everything depends on one's own strength
and a targeted strategy to deal with the enemy.
In the first match,
Huo Wushuang achieved three consecutive victories before finally being defeated after a significant depletion of his soul power.
Stepping onto the arena means no rest; one must fight continuously until defeated or forced to admit defeat.
This is the interesting aspect of the qualifying rounds.
While showcasing individual strength,
it doesn't simply test the strength of a single individual within the team.
Rather, it tests the overall teamwork
, and the arrangement of personnel is also crucial.
After all,
when the skill gap is small, even the strongest soul skills have limited soul power. Soon
,
the Blazing Fire Academy team sent out their second member to the arena:
their vice-captain, Huo Wu. She appeared more composed than in the preliminaries. Her attacks were steady yet powerful. Although a girl, she exerted immense pressure on her opponents in every battle. It didn't seem like a competition at all; it was more like a desperate fight . She leveraged the advantages of a control-type soul master in one-on-one combat. Huo Wu defeated four opponents in a row! The brother and sister duo directly crushed the Fabia team. When Huo Wu left the arena, her stamina was exhausted due to the massive consumption of soul power. Her pale face, however, still held an air of arrogance. Looking around , her arrogance crumbled slightly when she saw Ye Qiu, but she still stared directly at him without hesitation. Then, knowing full well the danger , she pointed her index finger at Ye Qiu, overestimating her own strength. Faced with Huo Wu's provocation, Ye Qiu didn't even glance at her. Several resentful gazes from the side made him dare not look any further. Seeing that Ye Qiu wouldn't even look at her, Huo Wu gritted her teeth in hatred.
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What was wrong with her that made him look down on her so much?!
"Hmph!"
Huo Wu snorted coldly and stormed back to her team.
After her outburst,
many other soul master teams from other kingdoms and duchies had already taken notice of Ye Qiu's team.
The handsome men and beautiful women were quite eye-catching.
Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief. Compared to the gazes of the others, the girls around him put more pressure on him.
He glanced at Huo Wu out of the corner of his eye.
She had indeed become stronger.
Although only a month had passed,
the oppressive aura emanating from her was noticeably stronger,
and her explosive power was extremely astonishing.
It seemed that she had indeed worked hard during that month.
Unfortunately, it was still far from enough.
Among all the fifteen participating teams, the Fabia Academy team
was already relatively weak .
The Blazing Fire Academy easily defeated them with only two people.
This was quite a feat.
The second match
was between two academies that Ye Qiu was not familiar with.
However, among these unfamiliar academies, there was a familiar face:
the vice-captain of the Beast Academy. When
Meng Yiran
appeared on the competition field, her simple attire accentuated her perfect figure.
A sturdy, long snake staff held horizontally in her hand.
Her large, bright eyes stared intently at Ye Qiu.
She waved
again, drawing a large crowd of attention. Ye
Qiu didn't ignore Meng Yiran, raising his hand in response.
Shui Yue'er and Huo Wu's gazes were immediately drawn to her.
Seeing Ye Qiu's response, Meng Yiran was naturally delighted.
However, there wasn't much time for catching up.
The competition was about to begin.
As the first Weapon Soul Master to appear in the qualifying rounds,
Meng Yiran fully showcased the advantages of a Weapon Soul Master.
Although a Weapon Soul Master's explosive power wasn't as great as a Beast Soul Master's,
their strength lay in their endurance.
Using the potent poison on her snake staff and her varied and fierce attack methods, she
actually defeated three opponents in a row!
However, the later matches took an unexpected turn.
Although Meng Yiran had defeated three opponents for the Beast Academy,
the other students on their team were clearly not as formidable as her.
Four of their players were defeated by their opponents.
The final match went to ten games before a winner was decided.
Meng Yiran's Beast Academy narrowly defeated their opponents.
From the previous two matches,
Ye Qiu had already seen that the Soul Master teams from the Kingdom and Duchy were still somewhat weaker
than the Five Elements Academy from the Heaven Dou Region in terms of overall strength. Among the three academies that had already played , the teams from the Kingdom and Duchy had at most one Soul Master above level 40. The vast majority were only around level 30. Even Meng Yiran, despite her impressive record, was only at level 38. Judging from this, the teams from the Kingdom and Duchy were just there for show. The final rankings in the qualifying rounds would be decided among the five—no, four—teams that qualified from Heaven Dou City. Because the first place was a foregone conclusion!