Douluo Continent: Steadily Growing Stronger in Shrek Academy

Chapter 168 Advancement Round Robin

With that, the competition ended, the Iron Sword Sect was eliminated, and the Tang Sect advanced to the third round.

In the last two rounds, Tang Sect did not encounter any particularly strong opponents. Once they get through the next round, they will enter the round-robin stage.

After the match, everyone returned to their hotel to rest.

"How are you feeling?" Lin Chen asked Wang Qiu'er.

"Very strong."

"If you were to play, how many games would you be confident of winning?"

"It's hard to say, I'm not sure about the strength of some of them."

"If you were to encounter Huo Yuhao, could you win?"

Wang Qiu'er fell silent. She wasn't sure if she could win, or rather...

The game is still in full swing...

A few days later, the second round of the All-Continent Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament concluded. As expected, like Shrek Academy, Tang Sect also successfully defeated their opponents and advanced to the third round of elimination matches. Forty-two teams entered the third round. Of these, thirty-two teams would advance to the round-robin tournament. Their performance in the third round would then be crucial.

Winning guarantees a place in the round-robin stage, while losing still offers a chance to win based on tiebreakers. After the first two rounds, some of the weaker teams, even those that made it to the next round, are already showing signs of fatigue. Player injuries and attrition are major challenges for them.

For the Tang Clan, these problems did not exist in the first place.

One of the basic requirements for entering this Soul Master Competition is that participating teams must have at least five Soul Masters.

After the draw for the third round of the competition, the atmosphere in the Tang Clan became heavy.

Xu Sanshi kept his head down, looking at his right hand, with strange expressions appearing on his face from time to time.

Huo Yuhao patted his shoulder and said, "Third Senior Brother, it's alright, you can't be blamed for this."

Jiang Nannan said with a dark face, "Knowing your hands are awful, you still insisted on going on stage. Humph!"

It was obvious that Xu Sanshi drew the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the third group.

The group then began to discuss how to deal with the situation.

It is exactly the same as the original work, except that it abandons the confrontation with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in order to preserve its fighting force.

……

"What? The Tang Clan has given up on the match against us?" Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were utterly shocked upon hearing this news; their expressions were practically written all over their faces.

Xiao Hongchen murmured, "Does this mean we beat Shrek Academy? They are the strongest team at Shrek Academy! This time, apart from Lin Chen and the captain being very strong, the rest of the Shrek team were just average."

Despite not seeing each other for several years, Xiao Hongchen did not consider Lin Chen a weakling at all; he still vividly remembered the trauma of being electrocuted years ago.

Meng Hongchen pouted and said, "Brother, stop fooling yourself, okay? You haven't even really fought, how can you say we won? Aren't you ashamed? But, isn't their withdrawal this time a good thing for us? If we had really fought the Tang Clan head-on, we wouldn't have fared well either. The knockout rounds are very close together, which will have a big impact on our final championship."

Xiao Hongchen said with a wry smile, "Can't you let me feel good in my heart first? Win the championship? You're still thinking about winning the championship now? You know that this time..." He paused here, his eyes full of resentment.

Clearly, he also disliked the Holy Spirit Church.

Meng Hongchen sneered, "Why not? Are they guaranteed to win? I refuse to believe that we can't beat them if we go all out. Brother, you don't even have this much confidence? You've already..."

Xiao Hongchen quickly covered his sister's mouth, stopping her from saying the rest of her sentence.

Meng Hongchen snorted and said, "Alright, alright, I won't say anything then. The Tang Clan's forfeit of the competition this time isn't just because they're afraid of us. Didn't you notice that they don't have any substitutes? We're afraid of losing strength, but they're actually more afraid, which is why they forfeited the competition. If we really meet them this time, we'll definitely win. Once they admit defeat, they'll never be able to beat us again."

Xiao Hongchen patted his younger sister's head and said, "I'm just praying that you don't run into Wang Dong during the competition. Do you dare say you won't hold back when you do?"

Meng Hongchen blushed, and said angrily, "So what? One match doesn't prove anything. I just like him, so what? Compared to him, all other men are trash."

"Sigh, how did I end up with such a lovesick sister?" Xiao Hongchen sighed and rubbed her forehead.

Meng Hongchen snorted and said, "At most, I'll add the words 'peer' to it. Anyway, in my eyes, you're far inferior to him."

Xiao Hongchen said bitterly, "It's true what they say, daughters grow up and leave home! I'm still your own brother, how can you say such things about me!"

……

On the seventh day of the Soul Master Competition, all twenty-one matches of the third round of elimination were completed within that day.

The 21 winning teams will advance to the next round of the group stage, while the remaining 11 teams will be selected from the 21 teams that failed in the third round of the knockout stage, based on their match points.

Shrek Academy seems to have drawn something like the Water Luo Sect, but Lin Chen can't quite remember. It doesn't really matter to him, because in the third round of elimination matches, Lin Chen didn't even need to lift a finger; Wang Qiu'er and her team easily won the game.

This time, their opponents were only four Soul Kings and three Soul Masters. Therefore, even Ning Tian, ​​Wu Feng, Cao Jinxuan, and Zhou Sichen got to go on stage and have some fun in this competition, while Lin Chen just watched the show from the sidelines.

The brutality of the third round of the All-Continent Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament's elimination rounds exceeded many people's expectations. To secure a place in the round-robin stage, many matches were fought with ferocious intensity. After just one round, five players were killed and over twenty were seriously injured, averaging casualties in every match. As a result, many teams raised objections with the tournament organizing committee, strongly questioning the referees' ability to control the matches.

The most enthusiastic group was undoubtedly the Holy Spirit Cult, because another member of theirs had improved their strength through the Devouring Technique.

The Sun Moon Empire's official stance on this matter was also somewhat perplexing, and they had no choice but to issue a statement promising that in the upcoming matches, referees would be allowed to control the pace of the game as much as possible to reduce casualties.

As for Shrek, they naturally advanced to the round-robin stage without any surprises.

Although Tang Sect conceded defeat in this round, they still managed to advance thanks to Huo Yuhao's feat of scoring a perfect score against seven opponents in the first round, and the foundation laid in the second round. However, their ranking was relatively low.

After the third round of matches, a day of rest is required before the draw ceremony for the round-robin tournament.

(End of this chapter)