Douluo, my martial soul is a mushroom

Chapter 49 Preliminary Round, Shrek Academy Shocks Everyone
The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition (Elite Competition for short) is hosted by the royal families of the two empires, Tiandou and Xingluo, and co-organized by the Soul Hall. It is the largest soul competition in the soul master world.

Anyone who can enter the competition venue is already one of the most outstanding young soul masters. If they can win a place in the competition, it will be a huge honor for the individual players and the academy afterwards!
Shrek Academy attaches great importance to the elite competition, which will be the first step for the academy to enter the world's vision!
To prevent any accidents, Flanders, Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang and Chi Ping and eight others set off for Tiandou City two months in advance.

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The elite competition is divided into three rounds: preliminaries, qualifying rounds and finals.

The preliminaries of the two empires were held separately. The preliminaries of the Tiandou Empire were divided into 6 divisions based on the empire, four kingdoms, and a large duchy. Shrek Academy participated in the Tiandou division, which had the most intense competition and was the easiest to become famous.

The main arena of the Tiandou Division is the Tiandou Grand Arena. In order to improve the viewing effect, the Grand Arena merged all the sub-arenas with the main arena as the center to form an extremely huge competition venue.

The sun hadn't risen yet, and the competition hadn't begun, but the outside of the Tiandou Grand Fighting Arena was already packed with spectators.

Each ticket has a specific seat number, so there is no scramble for seats. The audience wants to see the participating young soul masters up close on the first day of the opening ceremony.

After the competition officially started, the participating teams had a special channel, and at that time they could only watch from a distance in the audience seats.

Some of them came out of their desire for power and honor, some came to make themselves known to the public to facilitate current investment or subsequent recruitment, and some were young girls who fantasized about marrying those geniuses.

The participating teams are all wearing school uniforms, so they are easy to distinguish.

The uniform style of Shrek Academy was modified from the martial arts training uniform that Chi Ping had been wearing. It was white as the base color, decorated with flowing cloud patterns, and had two badges on the right chest. One was the school badge of Shrek Academy, with the ugly monster Shrek pattern, and the other was a badge representing the individual characteristics of the students, based on their respective martial arts spirits, with decorative patterns of personal style. Originally, Flanders wanted to get involved in the design of the school uniform, but after he chose shit green as the base color of the school uniform, Chi Ping vetoed his right to discuss it.

The school uniforms are simple and neat, but they highlight the students' temperament!

Among the eight students of Shrek, three girls are considered to be beauties, Dai Mubai and Oscar are recognized to be charming and handsome, and Tang San, Chi Ping and Ma Hongjun cover up their shortcomings in appearance with their cold, gentle and domineering temperaments respectively.

The four words "golden boy and jade girl" are appropriate to describe them.

Flanders was in the front, and the eight people were behind. Everyone held their heads high, as if the championship was within their grasp.

"Brother Ping, those girls are looking at us! Oh my god, that girl is so pretty! That girl has such big breasts!"

Ma Hongjun held his head high, looking like a serious person, but he kept bombarding Chi Ping beside him with a very small voice. Two months ago, Ma Hongjun obtained the fourth soul ring and advanced to the soul sect. His martial soul completed its evolution, and the evil fire could no longer arouse desire.

So Flanders lifted the ban on Ma Hongjun, and he could find a girlfriend like Dai Mubai and the others!
You know, in the past two years, he has been fed dog food by two official couples and one prospective couple in the team!

Dai Mubai said viciously, "Fatty, restrain yourself! If you affect our image, I will ask the dean to postpone the age at which you can lose your virginity to after 18! I have asked Pingzi before, and it is good for both men and women to think about those things after the age of 18! The dean will not let you do whatever you want just because of your own evil desires!"

"Boss Dai, you are too cruel!" Ma Hongjun said viciously, but his eyes no longer glanced around.

Surrounded by the crowd, the Shrek Academy entered the Great Fighting Spirit Arena and came to the rest area in the main arena that was specially provided for participating academies. They were not the first to enter, but they were not the last to arrive either. Some students were already sitting in the rest area. Everyone looked around and didn't know anyone.

Flanders said, "Sit down here first, the host will take us to the main arena later."

So everyone sat down.

No one came to cause trouble, after all, no one knew about Shrek Academy.

After that, everything developed normally. They entered the main arena normally, listened to the speeches of Emperor Tiandou Xueye, Sect Master Ning Fengzhi, and Platinum Bishop Salas of the Spirit Temple normally, and discussed the Sword Douluo beside Ning Fengzhi normally.

"Rongrong, has Senior Jian Douluo advanced?" Chi Ping suddenly asked.

Everyone looked at her sideways, and Ning Rongrong opened her mouth slightly, "Brother Ping, how did you know?"

Chi Ping looked at Jian Douluo and said, "Senior Jian Douluo gives me a stronger feeling than he did a year ago. He looks more like a sword."

"Really advanced?" Dai Mubai couldn't believe it.

Ning Rongrong nodded, "That time when Grandpa Jian led a team to visit the academy, he seemed to have realized something after returning, and now he has reached level 97 in soul power."

"Is it related to the college?" Dai Mubai wondered.

Ning Rongrong: "Not sure."

Tang San, "His Majesty Sword Douluo seems to be looking at us."

Xiao Wu, "It's an illusion. What is he looking at us for?"

"He's really looking towards us!" Oscar's face was serious and his eyes were firm.

Zhu Zhuqing also nodded, "Oscar is right. My intuition is warning me."

The eight people stopped whispering.

Chi Ping's heart moved, and he looked up. Chen Xin, who was supposed to be as cold and sharp as a sword, smiled at him. Chi Ping nodded subconsciously, and Chen Xin nodded slightly.

——What’s going on? Jian Douluo is paying attention to me?
Ikehira complained in his mind.

The draw is over and the emcee announces the opening match teams based on the results.

"The first match of the first round of the preliminaries will be between Tiandou Royal Academy and Shrek Academy. All participating academies will leave the field. The competition will officially begin in half an hour."

Since other colleges did not have any games today, they left the rest area directly after leaving the field and went to the stands specially prepared for the players to watch the game under the guidance of the staff. Since Tiandou Royal College was the symbol of the royal family of Tiandou Empire, it was treated differently from ordinary colleges and did not rest here. Soon, only the Shrek College group was left in the huge rest area.

"Who stays?" Chi Ping asked.

Everyone looked at each other, and no one wanted to stay in the rest area.

We are all young people and full of passion.

Opening match!
It will be very glorious after winning!
"It seems that no one wants to stay." Chi Ping seemed to have expected this and took out a stack of cards that he had prepared long ago from his school uniform pocket. "Eight cards, one suit, seven blanks. Those who draw the suit stay. Those who have mastered the intuition will draw later. Any questions?"

"no problem."

Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu drew cards in turn.

"I stay?" Xiao Wu showed the card with a bitter face.

"This is luck!" Ma Hongjun was proud.

Tang San comforted Xiao Wu, "You can play in the next game."

"Players from both teams come on stage!"

The emcee's voice was transmitted throughout the venue through the loudspeaker soul guide.

The lights on the field came on, and the participating students from the two colleges slowly came on stage.

The Shrek team chose a 2-3-2 formation, and the Tiandou Royal Academy team chose a 5-2 formation.

"The first game of the first round of the qualifiers has officially begun."

At the referee's signal, this announced the official start of the first qualifying match for this year's All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition.

Dai Mubai raised his hands in front of his chest and shouted, "Brothers, activate your martial spirits!"

When both parties released their martial spirits at the same time and all the spirit rings appeared before the audience, sounds of surprise spread among the audience.

"One, two, three, four, five. Five Soul Masters. How is this possible?"

In the VIP seat, Emperor Xue Ye was stunned.

"Master Ning, this is the high-level soul master academy you recommended for the examination last year. Is that Seven Treasure Glazed Tower Soul Master your daughter?"

Ning Fengzhi nodded, "Not bad."

“Is this Shrek Academy cultivated by your clan?” Emperor Xue Ye asked with a smile.

Sarath glanced sideways.

Ning Fengzhi shook his head. "The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect cannot train such outstanding young people. However, our Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect does have some cooperation with Shrek Academy."

“Is that so…” Emperor Xue Ye’s expression remained unchanged, his tone drawn out.

Sarath frowned, wondering if there was any hidden message in Ning Fengzhi's words.

On the stage, the Tiandou Royal Academy team was a little dumbfounded.

Both sides have the best soul ring combinations, seven soul masters against five soul masters and two soul masters, they can't think of any possibility of winning.

"on!"

The captain of the Tiandou Royal Academy team gritted his teeth and gave the order.

The two soul masters at the back of the formation added status to their assistant soul masters, while the five beast soul masters at the front charged towards Shrek's side.

Ning Rongrong provided amplification to everyone. Chi Ping and Dai Mubai stepped forward. Without using any spirit skills, they intercepted two people each with their physical fitness, leaving one for Zhu Zhuqing to deal with.

Ma Hongjun spread his phoenix wings and flew into the air, using his first soul skill, Phoenix Fire Line, to burn the remaining two members of the Tiandou Royal Academy team, causing them to run all over the ground.

The gap between the two sides was too big. The resistance of the Tiandou Royal Academy team was as harmless as a kitten in front of the Shrek team.

Two minutes later, Chi Ping knocked down the last member of the opposing team with one punch.

"The first match of the first round of the preliminaries, Shrek Academy wins!"

There was thunderous applause from the audience.

Although this game is not exciting, it is very satisfying to watch the bullying!
Elite Competition System:
Qualifying round:

The two empires competed separately, and except for the Royal Academy which reserved one final spot for itself, each had 15 qualifying spots.

Take the Tiandou Empire as an example. It is divided into 6 competition zones. The Tiandou competition zone has 5 qualifying places, and the principality and the four kingdoms each have 2 places.

The final result is determined by a team round-robin points competition

Qualifying round:
The qualified teams from the four kingdoms and principalities gathered in the Tiandou competition area. The 15 teams used individual competitions to determine the ranking order.
Finals:
The finals will be held in a knockout system.

In the first round, three seeded teams will have byes. The other 3 teams will compete against each other. The 30 winning teams will participate in the next round.

In the second round, there will be 3 participating teams, including the three seeded teams. Among the remaining teams, the two teams with the highest ranking in the qualifying round will have a bye. The remaining 18 teams will be selected to select 16 teams to enter the third round.

In the third round, there are 10 participating teams. The top two teams in the ranking competition will have byes. Teams that have already had byes will not have a second bye.

In the fourth round, there will be 6 teams left, which are the final six teams of the competition. There will be no more byes at this time. The sixth team will draw lots and compete to determine the final top three teams.

The final ranking of the top three is determined by two methods: team battle and individual elimination battle. The first is the individual elimination match, which sets up a one-on-one arena. Three teams of 7 people each compete in a defensive manner until all members of two teams are eliminated. The two losing teams of the individual elimination match will fight in a team battle, and the winner will compete with the winner of the individual elimination match for the championship in a team battle.

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