Douluo Continent: From Rusty Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 156 Losers' Bracket Final, Tianshui VS Shrek

With the match over, Bibi Dong led Hu Liena and the others back to the Papal Palace.

"Nana, the failure last time was not your fault. In recent years, there have been an unusually large number of genius soul masters emerging on the continent, just like the Phoenix Soul Master from Tianshui Academy that we just saw. Her ice attribute power has reached a deeper level. If we face Tianshui Academy in two days, we must be more careful and not be careless."

At this point, Bibi Dong no longer held much hope that their Spirit Hall Academy could win the championship, but the honor of their Spirit Hall absolutely could not be ruined by this competition.

Otherwise, in a few years, the number of young soul masters joining their Spirit Hall will inevitably decrease significantly, while the number of soul masters joining the Heaven Dou Empire will increase dramatically because of Ji Wuming. At that time, the advantage of their Spirit Hall having a large number of soul masters will completely disappear.

The plan to unify the mainland will become even more difficult.

Bibi Dong looked down at Hu Liena and the other two. Even though they were a little down, she still had to speak.

"You are the golden generation of our Spirit Hall. Even in the loser's bracket, you must secure the only spot to compete for the championship. I do not want the spirit bone reward provided by our Spirit Hall to be obtained by the spirit masters of the two great empires."

"Your Majesty, we will certainly not let you down. The first place in the loser's bracket will ultimately belong to our Spirit Hall Academy."

Although Hu Liena wasn't very confident about the outcome of the competition, she still answered with a determined look in her eyes; she couldn't let her teacher down again.

Moreover, Hu Liena had to personally avenge the humiliation of Ji Wuming of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy defeating their Spirit Hall Academy in less than a minute by breaking through the Demon's Demon technique.

"Nana, there are still two days left. You should go and get some rest and make arrangements for the competition."

"Yes."

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Two days passed in a flash, and soon the loser's bracket matches began, except that not all 12 teams participated in the loser's bracket competition.

Instead, only all the losers from the winners' bracket (six to three) and the strongest team from the round of 12 (the losers' bracket) will participate in this second half of the losers' bracket.

In other words, there are now six teams participating in the loser's bracket. Besides Tianshui, Shrek Academy, Spirit Hall, Huofeng, and Liuxing Academy, only Xingluo Royal Academy remains.

The losers' bracket also has one bye, but this bye in the second round of the losers' bracket is designated.

The second-place team in the winners' bracket, meaning Tianshui Academy, will advance directly to the losers' bracket finals if they win today's matches, competing for the last championship spot.

If a team fails to win, another bye draw will be held before tomorrow's matches begin. Whichever team draws that bye will advance directly to the loser's bracket final.

The loser's bracket matches last for three days, while the final championship match will be held five days later, with the winner of the winner's bracket facing off against the winner of the loser's bracket. The final winner will receive three Soul Bones.

After the draw, the names of the academies facing off were revealed: Star Luo Royal Academy vs. Tianshui Academy, Shrek Academy vs. Liuxing Academy, and Spirit Hall vs. Fire Wind Academy.

Soon, as the sun set, the six-to-three matches came to an end. In the battle between Tianshui Academy and Xingluo Royal Academy, Shui Bing'er easily suppressed Davis and Zhu Zhuyun's Netherworld White Tiger using the ultimate ice properties of her Xuan Shuang Ice Phoenix, ultimately securing victory.

The Shrek Academy team faced the Liuxing team, a second-rate, trashy team from the Star Luo faction. Within five minutes, they were defeated by Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Clear Sky Hammer. Six out of the seven Shrek Academy members were left seriously injured and unconscious.

As for the Firewind Team's match against the Spirit Hall Academy Team, since the Firewind Academy team was temporarily assembled, the members' teamwork was still too poor. Apart from Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and the two fire elemental spirit masters, whose coordination was slightly better, the rest of the team's coordination was quite bad.

Because of this weakness of Firewind Academy, the Spirit Hall Academy team quickly eliminated the students of Firewind Academy and won the final victory in the competition.

However, as the second day arrived,

Aside from the fact that the winning Tianshui Academy doesn't have to participate in the competition, the only other option is for the Shrek Academy team to face the Spirit Hall team. Although the Spirit Hall team considers the Shrek Academy team to be of low cultivation level and an easy target for them to defeat,

However, unfortunately, Tang San, an overpowered character, appeared in the Shrek Academy team. Just like in the original story where Shrek faced the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall Academy, the Shrek team found themselves in a difficult and passive situation.

Using the fragments of his Eight Spider Lances, severed by the Demon's Crescent Moon Blade, as weapons, Tang San employed Tang Sect's hidden weapon techniques to inject the spider venom of the Eight Spider Lances into the bodies of the seven members of the Spirit Hall through his wounds.

As the poison from the Eight Spider Lances entered their bodies, of the seven members of the Spirit Hall, only Yan, who possessed extremely strong defense and fire attributes, was unaffected by the poison. Even so, Yan still refused to admit defeat.

However, he alone could not win the competition; instead, he would cause the others to be completely poisoned to death.

On the papal platform, Bibi Dong witnessed everything that was happening below, feeling extremely indignant, but she could only suppress these emotions within herself.

Bibi Dong glanced at Yan, and Yan immediately understood everything. He said defiantly,

"We concede defeat."

Upon hearing this, the Soul Master teams present were overjoyed with Shrek Academy's victory, but the law enforcement officers stationed throughout the Spirit Hall were greatly surprised.

"Our Spirit Hall Academy team was defeated just like that, and we were even defeated by that weak, second-rate academy that had a Soul Master member."

"Our Spirit Hall's Golden Generation boasts three Level 53 Soul Kings! How could they possibly be defeated by a mere student from a third-rate academy?"

"I was hoping they could make it to the loser's bracket final, but I didn't expect this..."

Even if the Spirit Hall law enforcement officers are not convinced, the fact that the Spirit Hall students have admitted defeat has already occurred. This golden generation cultivated by the Spirit Hall is destined to become clowns and stumbling blocks in the growth process of others.

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A day later, the loser's bracket final finally arrived.

Shrek Academy is determined to secure the last spot in the championship. During this period, they have repeatedly defeated strong opponents, and in the last two days alone, they have achieved a winning streak.

As for Tianshui Academy, they are not worried at all, after all, they still have Xiao San's Eight Spider Lances Poison and a secret weapon that they have not yet used.

(End of this chapter)