In Douluo Continent, the Pope used me as a substitute for my first love.

Chapter 466 The Soul Master Competition Begins

On this day, the Continental Elite Tournament of Advanced Soul Master Academies finally kicked off in full swing.

The Soul Master Competition is not only a contest between Soul Master academies, but also a major event for the entire Soul Master world. From the preliminary rounds to the qualifying rounds and then to the finals, it takes up to three months.

In the qualifiers, in addition to the two major empires each having one team guaranteed a spot in the finals, fifteen teams will be selected from each of them.

Including the Spirit Hall's "Team One", the final competition will feature 33 teams.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the Spirit Hall's "Second Team".

This is the first time in the history of the Spirit Hall that it has sent a second team to participate in the Soul Master Competition. It is said that the Spirit Hall's second team will participate in the regional competition of a certain kingdom in the Star Luo Empire, occupying a regular competition spot.

On the Tiandou Empire's side, the directly controlled region has a total of five qualifying teams, while the four major kingdoms and one duchy below each have two.

After the two empires each selected fifteen teams in the qualifiers, they will participate in the second stage of the promotion tournament to rank the teams.

There is no elimination round in the qualifying rounds; the higher the ranking of a team, the greater its advantage will be in the final round of the grand finals.

Of course, if the strength gap between the teams is too large, then gaining this small advantage or not makes little difference...

Ultimately, the most important thing for all advanced Soul Master academy teams is to qualify for the preliminary rounds. Only teams that qualify can showcase their abilities in the knockout stage and even the finals.

The preliminary rounds for the Heaven Dou Empire's directly administered region will be held at the Heaven Dou Grand Soul Arena.

At this moment, the streets within a radius of several hundred meters of the Heaven Dou Grand Arena had been cleared by soldiers. Unlike the desolate atmosphere outside, the Heaven Dou Grand Arena was incredibly lively inside. All the seats in the stands were already filled, and the VIP seats on the north side were also completely booked. Although, at this time, the VIP platform was not yet full.

Before long, the representative teams from various advanced soul master academies entered the arena.

This naturally included the participating teams from Blue Tyrant Academy. Thanks to the fact that Blue Tyrant Academy was not "overthrown" by a certain Shik Lake, Tang San and the other students wore normal school uniforms, and therefore did not attract the various forms of ridicule as in the original work.

Of course, there wasn't much special cheering or encouragement. It's fair to say that the current Blue Tyrant Academy team is just average.

Compared to that, Tianshui Academy, Chihuo Academy, and even the second team of Tiandou Royal Academy are much more dazzling.

However, the most popular team has to be the undisputed champion of this Soul Master Tournament – the Qianlong Academy team!

The reason, besides their strength and talent, is that the seven members of the Qianlong Academy team are truly "handsome"!

Several levels above Tianshui Academy, it's a complete annihilation! Only the Shui sisters from Tianshui Academy can rival the six girls of the Qianlong Academy team... yes, six girls, after all, Na'er's beauty is unparalleled. (For clarity, from now on, "Gu Yue Na" and "Na'er" will refer to the Silver Dragon King's main body and avatar respectively.)

After entering the designated player rest area, the Blue Tyrant Academy team quickly began to rest.

Today, with the help of resources such as the Millennium Snow Lotus provided by Tang Hao, Tang San has broken through level 40 and reached the Soul Master realm of level 41, just like in the original story.

Meanwhile, the other five boys in Shilaike have all seen their levels rise recently due to Tang San secretly giving them blood ginseng. However, apart from Dai Mubai and Xiao Huohuo who are at the Soul Master level, the other three are still hovering around the Soul Venerable level, and even Huo Yuhao is only level 39 at this time.

As for Xiao Wu, she's just a "rookie," so there's no need to say more.

By the way, because teamwork requires at least seven members to be effective, each academy must send at least seven members to participate in each team battle. Therefore, academy teams usually have substitutes.

The Blue Tyrant Academy team is no exception.

However, compared to the substitutes of the Shrek Seven Devils in the original work, there are only two decent substitutes in this life, named "Jing Ling" and "Huang Yuan".

As for Tailong and Jiangzhu?

The former was taken away by the Power Clan a year ago and was supposedly enrolled in the Spirit Academy. However, he'll only be a regular student there; he won't even be a participant in the competitions.

Not long after, Jiangzhu was "accidentally" discovered by an unknown cardinal of the Spirit Hall and recruited to the Spirit Academy.

In this life, without Liu Erlong as the dean to take care of them from time to time, Jiangzhu and other commoner students did not have much of a sense of belonging to Blue Tyrant Academy.

Gee...

It has to be said, Blue Tyrant Academy is truly miserable.

Today is the opening ceremony of the Soul Master Tournament. Apart from the opening ceremony, there is only one other match.

The second team of the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy will draw an opponent to compete in the first round of the round-robin tournament, which can be considered a team battle with a show-like nature.

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang was already rushing off to participate in the "lottery" on behalf of Blue Tyrant Academy. It's unknown whether the Seven Devils of Shilaike will still be able to "win" and get a chance to show off and slap someone in the face...

On the VIP stage.

There are only four seats in the first row.

Three of the seats were already occupied: Xue Ye, Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire; Ning Fengzhi, Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School; and Salas, Platinum Bishop of the Spirit Temple.

Ning Fengzhi sat to the right of Emperor Xueye, while there was an empty seat to his left, and Salas's seat was further away. This made the audience curious about who was so powerful that the emperor and the Platinum Bishop would reserve seats for him.

In fact, many people had already guessed this after just a little thought, and the dragon's roar that soon echoed in the sky confirmed their thoughts.

"Sing!"

Suddenly, upon hearing the sound, countless spectators looked up.

A magnificent, white-gold dragon head descended from the clouds, its body seemingly boundless and distant. It surveyed the entire scene, its mere shadow bringing darkness, its eyes as still and unwavering as ancient wells.

"hiss!!!"

Soon, gasps of astonishment rang out one after another, making a huge contribution to the global warming of Douluo Star.

Holy crap!

"Wow, the Dragon King Palace Master is so cool!"

"..."

Before long, the oppressive white dragon shadow dissipated, and a man jumped onto the VIP platform, then sat down next to Xue Ye without hesitation.

That's exactly Wang Zhao, that show-off.

"Lord of the Palace, it's been a while. Your prestige is as strong as ever."

Xueye greeted him with a smile.

"Hehe, Your Majesty, you flatter me."

Wang Zhao waved his hand and said casually, without any sign of unease on his face.

He no longer needs to be timid and hesitant. While he hasn't become arrogant, he's not as cautious as he used to be either.