Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 314 The Thirty-Two Great God Positions
If there is one, then there are two.

No team had conceded defeat before because no one wanted to be the first to do so.

People only remember those who are number one, and being number one doesn't necessarily mean something good.

It could be the champion team of this competition, or it could be the first team to concede defeat.

No one wants to be the first team that comes to mind when people think of a team that has conceded defeat, so no team has ever been willing to be the first to admit defeat.

But now, the Dilongmen team has become the first team in this tournament to voluntarily concede defeat.

With this precedent set, if any team concedes defeat later, people will only remember the moment and forget about it after a while, unlike the first team which will be remembered and cherished by the world.

Therefore, when a team faces a situation where the gap in strength is too large, they will choose to concede defeat without hesitation, so as not to suffer the consequences.

This resulted in two out of the remaining six matches today having teams choose to concede defeat.

The two teams that conceded defeat had no prior connection, but the opponents they faced had a very deep connection.

The Wind and Fire Team of the Four Elements Academy, and the Wind and Thunder Team of the Four Elements Academy.

Both teams came from the Four Elements Academy. The Wind and Fire team was a combination of Divine Wind and Blazing Fire, while the Wind and Thunder team was a combination of Divine Wind and Thunder. Together with the Wind and Snow team, which was a combination of Divine Wind and Heavenly Water, all three teams from the Four Elements Academy successfully advanced to the second round of the knockout stage.

The Wind and Fire team's draw number is nine, which is the ninth match in the first round, and also the second match today.

As a combination of divine wind and blazing fire, the students of Blazing Fire Academy will inevitably include Fire Dance, and therefore the students of Divine Wind Academy will inevitably include Feng Xiaotian.

Feng Xiaotian is 24 years old this year, which is younger than those contestants who are 25 years old.

Given his age, the widespread rumors that Feng Xiaotian possessed innate full soul power, and the overall strength of the young soul masters in this competition, the audience assumed that Feng Xiaotian should be a six-ring Soul Emperor.

As for Soul Saints, only a few powerful forces who doubted Feng Xiaotian's talent and thought he could obtain divine inheritance had made such speculations.

As expected, Feng Xiaotian did not disappoint the various forces' predictions. He demonstrated his Soul Saint cultivation on the arena and was successfully included in the list.

The Wind and Fire Team has Feng Xiaotian, a Soul Saint, and the other six teammates are all five-ring Soul Kings.

Their team had a lineup of one Soul Saint and six Soul Kings, while their opponents had a lineup of only two Soul Kings and five Soul Masters. With such a huge difference in strength, admitting defeat was not a shameful thing, so they conceded defeat quite decisively.

The Wind and Thunder team is somewhat inferior.

The Four Elements Academy has two inheritors of divine powers: Feng Xiaotian, the inheritor of the Wind God, and Tianshui, the inheritor of the Water God.

Two inheritors of divine power, three teams—one team is destined to have no inheritor of divine power.

The Wind and Snow team has Tianshui, and the Wind and Fire team has Chihuo bound to Feng Xiaotian. Therefore, among the three teams, the Wind and Thunder team is the only one without a divine inheritor.

The absence of a divine inheritor means that there will be no Soul King or higher level beings in the team.

As compensation, the basic configuration of the Wind and Thunder team is much better than that of the Wind and Fire and Wind and Snow teams.

Even though the Wind and Thunder Team doesn't have any Soul Emperors or Soul Saints, it's still an all-Soul King lineup, and three of the seven Soul Kings have Soul Power levels exceeding 55.

Therefore, even though the Wind and Thunder team didn't have a Soul Emperor, their lineup of all Soul Kings was enough to make an opposing team with only one Soul King in their lineup admit defeat.

The Wind and Thunder team's draw number is twelve, which is the twelfth match of the first round, and also the fifth match of the day and the first match of the night.

Lin Rong patiently watched the next two matches, and found that none of the four teams in those matches had a soul power level higher than that of a Soul King.

This indicates that none of the four teams have a divine inheritor.

"Not a single one. The same goes for the teams before us. So, the Eating and Drinking Team really does have four divine inheritors." There were a total of twenty-six meteors descending from the God Realm. Adding the six divine inheritances that Douluo Continent already had, there were a total of thirty-two divine positions.

Lin Rong alone possesses the divine inheritances of three major deities: Life, Destruction, and Thunder. He also has ten divine inheritances under his command: Light, Might, Kindness, Evil, Fire God, Wind God, Water God, Love God, Nine-Colored God, and Food God.

A total of thirteen divine positions have been inherited.

The remaining nineteen divine positions are inherited.

On the Spirit Hall's side, there are six divine inheritances: Angel, Rakshasa, the three divine inheritances of the Golden Generation, and the War God inheritance of Golden Crocodile Douluo.

On the side of the Void Battle Team, there are two divine inheritances: Space and Darkness.

On the Holy Light team's side, there are two god-level inheritances: the Butterfly God and the Phoenix God.

On the eating and drinking team side, there are four divine inheritances: emotions, speed, and laziness and gluttony, which are determined by elimination.

Finally, adding Tang San's greed, Dai Mubai's jealousy, Chen Haitian's sea god, Tuoba Sheng's earth, and the Asura whose whereabouts in the City of Slaughter are unknown, there are a total of five godhood inheritances.

All of them together make up exactly thirty-two divine positions.

Unlike the qualifiers, the knockout stage has ample time, and the schedule is not as tight as the qualifiers. The matches are played back-to-back.

The knockout stage consists of six rounds, with a one-day rest period after each round.

On the day of rest, the advancing teams need to send team representatives to the Arena for a draw to determine the team assignments for the next round of the competition.

In the first round of the knockout stage, the eight seeded teams received a bye, so it was a round of 28 to 14.

In the second round of the knockout stage, the eight seeded teams and the fourteen teams that advanced competed against each other, making it eleven out of twenty-two.

Of these twenty-two teams, the following teams are definitively known to have inheritors of divine power:
Spirit Hall Team One

Tian Dou Royal Team 1 & 2

Star Luo Royal Team 1

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Team 1

Poseidon Team
The Four Elements Academy: Snow and Fire

Eat and Drink Team
Sky Team
Holy Light Team
Holy Dragon Sect Team

Of the twenty-two teams, twelve possessed inheritors of divine power.

Therefore, in the second round of the knockout stage, where 22 contestants are narrowed down to 11, there will inevitably be clashes between the inheritors of the divine power.

Similarly, among the twenty-two teams, there are six teams under Lin Rong's command: Tian Dou Royal Team 1, Qi Bao Liu Li Sect Team 1, Cang Hui Academy Team, and the Four Elements Academy Team 3.

In the round of 22 to 11, assuming cheating is not allowed, the probability of his six teams being drawn together is quite high.

Therefore, the order of the draw becomes extremely important.

The earlier you draw lots, the more lots are left in the box, and the lower the probability of drawing the same lot together.

The later you draw lots, the fewer lots are left in the lottery box, and the greater the probability of drawing the same lot together.

(End of this chapter)