Inside the team barracks.
"Are you really not going to reconsider my suggestion?"
Dean Brand looked at the green-robed swordsman who was holding a piece of white cloth, quietly wiping his treasured sword, and reminded him:"Some teams have definitely studied you, if they go on the field just to stall for time, draining your soul power, using a gauntlet format, fighting seven matches in a row, you won't be able to take it. But the advancement tournament only determines the ranking for the finals, if you can concede that's fine too, preserve your strength."
Even if they lost in the advancement tournament, it would really just make the finals harder. A gauntlet battle was more troublesome than a team battle. In a team battle seven people took the field together, and could deal with things together.
But a gauntlet battle was one at a time, and there were substitute members too, so it really was exhausting.
"..."
Yunchuan said nothing, still quietly wiping the treasured sword. Using silence to express his attitude.
Seeing this Dean Brand sighed inwardly, and shook his head. Finally giving up on continuing to persuade him. Instead he said:"I've investigated it clearly for you, among the fifteen teams of the Heaven Dou Empire this year, aside from the four from the Heaven Dou City division. There are only about three other powerful academy teams in total."
"Botanical Academy, Beast Academy, Exotic Beast Academy. Among them, the most troublesome are the people from Botanical Academy…this academy's members are generally all at the Soul Ancestor rank, and can be considered the strongest overall among the many teams in the advancement tournament. If it weren't because plants are mostly afraid of frost and flame attributes, then this time even the Five Element Academies might not necessarily have gotten the better of them."
"Second is Beast Academy, the students this academy mainly recruits all have beast martial souls, and it specifically requires ferocious beast types. Precisely because of this, their martial souls are also mainly violent and powerful beast martial souls, such as tigers lions crocodiles...these kinds of ferocious beast martial souls. Their combat is extremely astonishing, possessing super strong explosive power!"
"Lastly is Exotic Beast Academy, exotic refers to all sorts of strange beast martial souls, such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, their attacks often contain all kinds of toxins, fire poison, cold poison, and there is even extremely bizarre cough cough…aphrodisiac poison. Anyway they're also very troublesome." Dean Brand could also be considered to have done his utmost, having gathered so much information.
Unfortunately, Yunchuan wasn't interested in any of this. He still went on wiping his own treasured sword, this treasured sword that he used to disguise as his martial soul. It wasn't an ordinary sword, but a pseudo·magic treasure he had created using a special method!
Not only could it be controlled with thought, turning into a flying sword, killing people from afar!It could even be taken into his body, very much like the magic treasures in cultivation novels. But in fact there were still many differences, it could only be called an imitation soul tool. It was very different from a magic treasure in the true sense.
After Dean Brand finished telling him the information he had collected, seeing that he was still so unconcerned, he shook his head, and left this place. As the dean, he still had other things to do.
Not long after he left.
Yunchuan finally stopped wiping the treasured sword, slowly sheathed the sword, and thought about it, it was still early now, and always staying cooped up here was pretty boring too. Why not go out for a walk?Observe the other teams.
Once he thought of it he did it.
He picked up the treasured sword, and slowly walked out of the barracks.
Then he began wandering around the military camp, looking here, looking there.
Who knew that as he walked, he would actually run into acquaintances.
"Dugu Qiubai, are you really still all by yourself?"
A group of fiery red figures, appeared before his eyes, the one speaking was Huo Wushuang. The six team members behind him, were all looking at Yunchuan at this moment.
"I didn't expect you really would be alone in the advancement tournament too…then you'd better be careful." Huo Wushuang looked calmly at Yunchuan, and said:"In the advancement tournament what you'll have to fight, isn't just seven people."
Huo Wu behind him also had raging flames burning in both eyes,"We will definitely defeat you!"
"Heh…"
A soft chuckle came from the aloof swordsman's lips, as if he were laughing?But he remained expressionless, neither cold nor warm as he said:"Then I, will wait and see."
After saying that, without waiting for the hot-tempered Huo Wu to get angry. He directly went around the group, and walked off in another direction.
"This guy…is way too arrogant!"One team member couldn't help saying.
"Exactly, acting all cocky, I really want to beat him up!"Another team member said.
"If you had the strength, you could act like that too!"Huo Wu suddenly turned her head and glanced at them, unexpectedly, she wasn't angry.
This left the several team members who had originally said those things just to help her vent her anger, all somewhat baffled. What was going on?Why did it feel like Huo Wu's temper had become unusually strange lately. Hot one moment and cold the next?
A woman's thoughts...really are impossible to understand.
"Hmph!Dugu Qiubai!Sooner or later I'll make you taste defeat!"Huo Wu looked at that aloof retreating figure, and fiercely said in her heart.
...
The next day.
Unlike the preliminaries the advancement tournament didn't have multiple arenas running simultaneously, but only had one competition venue, which was the Royal Knights' grand drill ground.
A total of fifteen teams participating in the advancement tournament, would undergo fourteen rounds of round-robin matches, one round each day, with one team receiving a bye each day, and seven matches being held. All of them were held on this same field.
The grand drill ground had been remodeled, with an area one hundred meters in diameter marked out in the center as the competition field, compared to the arenas in the preliminaries, the space here was broader, and naturally made it easier to display one's strength.
On the north side of the grand drill ground, a VIP stand had been temporarily built facing south, which was also the judges' stand. There weren't as many VIPs coming to watch this time as last time. There were far fewer nobles.
Looking over, aside from Emperor Xue Ye,Ning Fengzhi,Platinum Bishop Salas and a few others in the first row of the VIP stand, Yunchuan's true body didn't come this time. And the seats behind them, were all occupied by people dressed as military officers and some high-ranking members of the Spirit Hall's Spirit Temple in Heaven Dou City.
Team battles were after all relatively chaotic, and many things weren't easy to see clearly, but the advancement tournament was different. Every student would display their individual strength under everyone's watchful eyes. This was also the best opportunity to assess the strength of a soul master.
Outside the grand drill ground, a full ten thousand Royal Knights surrounded the entire grand drill ground so tightly that not even water could get through, their helmets gleaming and armor shining. The Royal Knights in the front row stood on the ground, while those in the back row sat upright on the backs of their mounts. Forming a huge circle!
Such tight defenses, could be said to leave no gaps whatsoever. Of course, just as Yunchuan had judged before, Emperor Xue Ye's purpose, was to let the most elite soldiers under his command, see the strength of the new generation of young soul masters, in order to inspire their fighting spirit.
Between the large circle formed by the knights and the competition field, all fifteen participating teams had already arrived at the scene, even the team with a bye today was no exception. Even if they didn't need to compete, they still had to clearly see the strength of their opponents.
The competition rules were very simple.
Both sides each sent seven members to participate, every member who took the field had to fight until they were defeated, if they won then they faced the next opponent, until all seven people on one side had been defeated.
The drawing of lots had already been completed last night, Cupid Academy hadn't drawn a bye in the first round. Their opponent, was an advanced soul master academy from the Balak Kingdom. They were scheduled to compete in the third of today's seven matches.
The teams that had passed the preliminaries from the various different divisions were all gathered together, Yunchuan naturally saw the Five Element Academies as well as familiar opponents like Tang San and the others.
And when they looked toward Cupid Academy, almost most people's gazes were focused on that green-robed figure. Among them were Feng Xiaotian, captain of the Godwind Academy team, the siblings Huo Wushuang,Huo Wu from the Blazing Academy team. Shui Bing'er, captain of the Skywater Academy team, as well as Tang San and the others.
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