Emperor Xue Ye rose from the VIP seats and declared loudly through a soul tool: "The advancement tournament officially begins today, over the next fourteen days, I hope every academy team will fully display their strength, and demonstrate the bearing that soul masters should possess. Begin."
As soon as he finished speaking, orderly shouts like a landslide and tsunami rang out.
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"
The Imperial Knights raised the lances in their hands high, the clang of armor and their resounding shouts immediately startling the participating soul masters. The grandeur of a great nation was on full display!
The first match had already begun, and the first to take the field was none other than Blazing Academy, their opponent was a team called Fabia Academy. The first to represent Blazing Academy was their official captain Huo Wushuang, clearly, Blazing Academy not only intended to win this first match, but also wanted to run up as large a score as possible.
In the final rankings of the advancement tournament, besides the overall score, the points from individual wins were also extremely important. If there was a tie in the overall matches, rankings would be determined according to the individual points.
Yun Chuan stood holding his sword, quietly watching the match on the field.
Time slowly passed...
The matches proceeded very quickly, between soul masters, once there was a gap in strength, victory and defeat were often decided in an instant, whoever had stronger soul skills and a higher soul power level could very easily defeat their opponent. Special circumstances like possessing soul bones were, after all, extremely rare.
As for those various unscientific hidden weapons of Tang San's, they were even products of another world.
Common sense could not be applied.
In one-on-one matches, there were no martial soul fusion skills. So the soul masters who took the field all had to rely on their own strength to win, without the slightest room for cheating.
In the first overall match, Huo Wushuang defeated three opponents in succession, and only after his soul power had been greatly depleted was he finally defeated. There was no rest time allowed between consecutive battles. This was also what made the advancement tournament more interesting than the qualifiers, it tested not only the strength of every individual on the team, but personnel deployment and tactical arrangements were also extremely important. No matter how powerful a soul master was, it was difficult to defeat opponent after opponent single-handedly. After all, no matter how strong soul skills were, soul power was still limited.
The second to represent Blazing Academy was none other than Huo Wu, she looked somewhat steadier than she had during the qualifiers, and when she attacked there was even more of an overwhelming thunderous momentum, although she was a girl, she brought tremendous pressure to her opponents in every battle, judging by her appearance, it did not look like a competition at all, but rather as if she were fighting for her life.
Relying on the advantage of being a control-type soul master, Huo Wu actually defeated four people in succession, and together, the siblings Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang directly crushed the Fabia team.
When Huo Wu walked back from the competition field, due to the massive consumption of soul power, her physical strength was already somewhat overdrawn, but her pale and pretty face was still filled with pride, her gaze openly fixed on Yun Chuan, and she even extended her index finger, pointing at him.
As for Huo Wu's provocation, Yun Chuan continued maintaining his aloof swordsman persona, without even furrowing his brow. This left Huo Wu somewhat disappointed inside. Right now she was like a brat who played pranks, longing to attract someone else's attention. Yun Chuan's dismissive attitude immediately made even victory feel somewhat dull to her.
At this moment quite a few soul masters from other kingdoms and duchies noticed Yun Chuan's existence because of Huo Wu's pointing finger.
Huo Wu had indeed grown stronger, although only a month had passed, the oppressive force around her had clearly become much stronger, and her explosive power was even more astonishing. It seemed that during the previous month, she had indeed trained extremely hard.
Among all fifteen participating teams, the Fabia Academy team was already one of the weakest, but Blazing Academy had easily crushed them with only two people, still making quite a splash among the many participating academies.
The second match began.
Among the two academies taking the field this time, one was among the three teams Dean Brand had previously warned Yun Chuan to pay attention to.
Exotic Beast Academy!
In this Exotic Beast Academy, however, he saw a familiar face. A simple school uniform outlined a perfect figure, and a sturdy,slender snake staff rested horizontally in her hand. It was none other than the granddaughter of the Unrivaled Dragon Serpent, Meng Yiran, whose third soul ring had once been snatched by Oscar in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Meng Yiran appeared on the competition field as vice-captain of the Exotic Beast Academy team, full of vigor and confidence. As the first tool soul master to take the field, she fully displayed the advantages of a tool soul master. Although tool soul masters did not have explosive power as strong as beast soul masters, tool soul masters excelled in sustained combat ability, relying on the deadly poison on her snake staff and her varied yet fierce attack methods, she also managed to defeat three people in succession.
But very soon some changes appeared in the match on the field, although Exotic Beast Academy had Meng Yiran defeat three opponents, the other students from their academy were clearly not as formidable as Meng Yiran, and four of them were defeated in succession by the opponent, in the end the match went all the way to the tenth bout before victory was decided, Exotic Beast Academy narrowly defeated their opponent!
From the previous two matches, Yun Chuan had already seen that the academies from the kingdoms and duchies still had a certain gap in overall strength compared with the Five Element Academies. Among the three academies that had already appeared, at most they only had one soul master above rank forty, while most were merely in their thirties.
Judging from this, the final ranking battle in the advancement tournament should still be decided among the five teams that had qualified from Heaven Dou City.
Finally it was Cupid Academy's turn to take the field.
The great name of Cupid Academy's Dugu Qiubai, aside from the four teams from Heaven Dou City, could also be said to be very well known among the other ten teams, because his reputation was simply too great.
One person sweeping through the competition would attract attention even if it were just a gimmick, let alone when it was actually true.
So, when Yun Chuan dressed in green walked onto the field, all the teams that had finished their matches naturally watched the competition with incomparable seriousness. Afraid of missing any exciting moment.
With a treasured sword hanging at his waist, Yun Chuan walked onto the competition field neither hurriedly nor slowly. Behind him, were the confident gazes of everyone from Cupid Academy!
Cupid Academy's opponent in the first round came from the Balak Kingdom, and was the royal academy. Just like the status of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in the Heaven Dou Empire. Its name was also the same as their kingdom, called Balak Academy.
The first to take the field for Balak Academy was a tall young man, looking to be in his twenties, wearing a black school uniform trimmed with gold.
When he saw Yun Chuan, whose entire body was filled with an aloof aura that made anyone know at a glance that he was definitely an expert among experts, he could not help sighing inwardly: As expected of a powerhouse capable of clearing the qualifiers alone, just from his appearance. You can sense an unfathomable aura!
"However, if you want to casually defeat me, it won't be that easy!" The tall young man had never actually seen Yun Chuan make a move, and had only formed a vague impression of this person from the information collected and what others had said.
Simply put, he was inexplicably confident. He believed that even if he lost the match, he could at least exchange dozens of moves with this person. Perhaps he might even be able to inflict a little damage on him.
But very soon.
Accompanied by a "clang".
He only felt as though thunder and lightning had exploded across the sky, flashing past in an instant!
Looking again at the person before him, he was slowly sheathing his sword.
"He drew his sword? Could it be that I..." He recalled what others had said, and subconsciously lowered his head to look at his chest. Everything was normal. He had just breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly he heard only a pfft. A great spray of fresh blood burst out!
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