Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 327 Promotion
The other match was one that Lin Rong hadn't anticipated: the Body Sect seed team versus the Holy Dragon Sect team.

That was the last of the eleven matches in the second round of the knockout stage.

That night, the audience from the Star Luo Empire in the Soul Arena were in high spirits, cheering and encouraging the Holy Dragon Sect team with all their might.

The Holy Dragon Sect is based in the Star Luo Empire and is affiliated with the Star Luo Empire, while the Body Sect is based in the Heaven Dou Empire and is nominally a sect affiliated with the Heaven Dou Empire.

Therefore, this match, just like the one between the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Seed Team and the Star Crown Seed Team, is a battle for face between the two great empires.

This match was unfavorable to the Heavenly Dou Empire in terms of public opinion.

Because if the Body Sect wins against the Holy Dragon Sect, it will be a victory for a hidden sect against a secular sect. Both the Body Sect and the Star Crown Sect are hidden sects and both won the competition, so it is only natural.

However, if the Body Sect loses to the Holy Dragon Sect team, then the situation will be that the Heavenly Dou Sect loses to the Star Luo Sect. Moreover, since both are reclusive sects, the impression left on the audience is that the Body Sect is inferior to the Star Crown Sect.

Before the match began, most spectators predicted a 50/50 outcome.

Of the two teams, the Holy Dragon Sect team has already demonstrated its strength in the first round of the knockout stage, boasting one Soul Emperor, two Soul Kings, and four Soul Sect members.

As one of the eight seeded teams, Team Body Sect received a bye in the first round of the knockout stage and advanced directly to the second round. Therefore, this match was their first appearance, and they had not previously shown their team strength to the audience.

Viewers can only compare the teams based on the composition of the Body Sect's second team and the Star Crown Sect's seed team, which is also a hidden sect.

The Body Sect's second team consists of seven Soul Kings, while the Body Sect's seed team, as the first team, will only have a stronger team configuration than the first team.

All seven main team members are at least Soul Kings. Compared to the Star Crown Sect's seed team, the Body Sect's seed team may not have Soul Emperors, but they will definitely have high-level Soul Kings.

However, once the match began, the strength displayed by the Body Sect seed team far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The Body Sect's seed team not only has Soul Emperors, but not just one, but a total of three Soul Emperors. The remaining four members are all Soul Kings, and all of them are high-level Soul Kings with Soul Power above level 55.

With three Soul Emperors and four Soul Kings, such a luxurious team lineup is comparable to that of all the teams participating in this competition, except for the four teams with Soul Saints. Only the Spirit Hall seed team has shown strength that can match it.

The three members of the Spirit Hall's seed team, all of whom are six-ring Soul Emperors, and the remaining four members are all high-level Soul Kings, are roughly equal in strength based on their team stats alone.

However, the three Soul Emperors of the Spirit Hall are all inheritors of divine power, and they also possess the Spirit Hall's fusion skill, Enchantress, as a trump card.

Of the three Soul Emperors of the Body Sect, apart from the team captain Xue Shi, the other two Soul Emperors are both twenty-four and twenty-five years old, making them nearing the end of their lifespan.

In the match between the Body Sect and the Holy Dragon Sect, Xue Shi appeared not to make a move, but secretly manipulated the entire match's direction using his Blood Martial Soul.

Xue Shi's use of blood martial soul was extremely subtle, and even ordinary titled Douluo could not see through it.

Lin Rong also sensed a faint aura of divine power with killing attributes within Xue Shi's body when Xue Shi made his move.

In the divine inheritance of Douluo Continent, there are only two divine inheritances related to killing: one is the Rakshasa God inheritance on Bibi Dong, and the other is the Asura God inheritance of the City of Slaughter.

With the two great divine inheritances in Bibi Dong's hands, the answer is obvious: the divine inheritance that Xue Shi obtained could only be the inheritance of the Asura God.

The Asura God inheritance on Xue Shi's body instantly reminded Lin Rong of a forgotten figure in the City of Slaughter, Tang Chen, the King of Slaughter.

Lin Rong had been so busy these past few years that she had almost forgotten about this person. However, now that she had remembered, it was time to put dealing with Tang Chen's matter on the agenda.

The Body Sect's seed team has three Soul Emperors, while the Holy Dragon Sect team only has one Soul Emperor, Tuoba Sheng, and the remaining six members are only two Soul Kings and four Soul Sects.

Therefore, in this match, the Holy Dragon Sect team lost to the Body Sect seed team without any suspense.

This also means that in this competition, Tian Dou has once again defeated Xing Luo.

The eleven teams that advanced to the third round of the knockout stage after the second round are:

Tian Dou Royal Team 1 & 2

Spirit Hall Seed Team
The Body Sect Seed Team
Star Crown Seed Team
The Four Elements Academy: Wind and Fire
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Seed Team
Holy Light Team
Eat and Drink Team
Sky Team
Poseidon Team
Lin Rong's teams were divided. The Feng Shui team surrendered directly when they encountered the Feng Huo team, while Cang Hui Academy encountered the Sheng Guang team. Their Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique, Shura Illusion, was no match for the Martial Soul Fusion Technique of Yan Mo and Wang Shiyu, and they were defeated, failing to advance to the third round of the elimination tournament.

But Canghui Academy has already reached its limit in getting to this point.

In the round of 22 to 11, there are 13 teams with divine inheritances. Even if they don't encounter the Holy Light Team, they will most likely encounter other teams, such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School seed team, which is one of their own, or the Sea God Team, which wants to avenge the elimination of the second team.

Even with such good luck, Lin Rong had enough teams to advance to the third round of the knockout stage, with three teams in total:
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Seed Team, Four Elements Academy Wind and Fire Team, Heaven Dou Royal Seed Team.

Yes, the Heaven Dou Royal Seed Team is Lin Rong's team, not the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team.

All these years of planning have not been in vain. Of the ten hereditary noble families in Tiandou, seven have already secretly submitted to him. The remaining three families are not without the desire to submit, but Lin Rong has simply not sent anyone to discuss this matter.

Because the current heads of those three families are old-fashioned and stubborn, it would be easier to teach them a lesson with facts than to spend time trying to persuade them.

The third round of the elimination tournament for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.

According to the rules, based on the draw results, the teams that draw no teams will receive a bye and directly advance to the next round. The remaining ten teams will compete in pairs, and the five winning teams will advance to the next round.

The draw ceremony was held the day after the second round of the knockout stage.

early morning.

The arena was deserted.

Representatives from eleven teams gathered on the arena, awaiting the draw.

Due to some special reasons, the representative for the draw for Team Tiandou 2 was still Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, not Team 2 Captain Tang San.

Xue Qinghe stood on the arena and looked at the angel statue in the Soul Arena again, a strange feeling spreading deep in his heart.

The angel statue remains as holy and beautiful as ever, its expressionless face revealing the divinity befitting an angel god. Yet, beneath that holy countenance, another face seems to be hidden.

"I think I'm overthinking it. I've been under a lot of pressure lately and I keep having hallucinations, which is affecting my meditation practice. It seems I should relax a bit."

(End of this chapter)