Douluo's Demonic Sword Thousand Blades and the Original Martial Spirit

Chapter 166 The promotion competition begins

PS: Chapter 157 has been slightly changed. After the preliminaries, there will be the promotion rounds. It is not the case that you will go to Wuhun City to participate in the finals after the preliminaries. This has now been corrected.

Lin Yizhang took out the 5-year-old Qianjun Ant King's left arm soul bone from his soul guide and handed it to Ye Lingling, saying, "Lingling, you can absorb this soul bone. You don't have to refuse. We are all family. There's no need to be so formal.

My soul skill inherited the power attribute of the Thousand-Tier Ant King, so this soul bone is likely to have a defensive soul skill attached to it. Grandpa and Yanyan both have defensive soul skills, so it is most appropriate for you to absorb it."

"I have already absorbed a 6-year-old falcon's right leg soul bone, and I already have the power to protect myself. Let Yanyan absorb this soul bone. Although the soul skills may be repeated, soul bones can greatly improve the physique and talent of soul masters. It is not a waste to let Yanyan absorb it." Ye Lingling waved her hand and said.

Duguyan smiled and advised: "Lingling, you should absorb it. Defensive spirit skills will be more helpful to you. We are sisters. How could I be jealous of you?"

"As long as we can win the first place in this competition, the soul bone reward will be left to Yanyan, so Lingling, you should absorb it now." Lin Yizhang naturally could not ignore Dugu Yan's feelings.

Soul bones are extremely tempting to any soul master, and only Lin Yizhang has a broad vision and set his goal at more than 100,000 years. For countless soul masters on the mainland, soul bones over 50,000 years old are the best of the best.

Ye Lingling had previously absorbed a 6-year-old right leg soul bone, while Dugu Yan only had an external soul bone. Now Lin Yizhang's move of giving this 5-year-old left arm soul bone to Ye Lingling to absorb clearly seemed to outsiders to be somewhat partial to Ye Lingling.

But Lin Yizhang didn't mean to be partial. In Lin Yizhang's eyes, there would be no shortage of soul bones in the future. The dumbest way was to spend money to go to a big auction house to collect some.

After hearing that the soul bone reward of the competition would be left to Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling agreed to absorb this soul bone.

"Girl Lingling, absorb it after dinner. Two days should be just enough for you to absorb it." Dugu Bo nodded.

Two days passed quickly, and Ye Lingling successfully absorbed the soul bone, increasing her soul power by more than two levels. She had already cultivated to level 52 before the start of the competition. The improvement brought by absorbing the soul bone plus the accumulation of cultivation during this period allowed Ye Lingling to break through to level 55.

Team 56 now has four Soul Kings, including Lin Yizhang, a level 52 Soul King, Dugu Yan, a level 57 Soul King, Zhang Fan, a level 55 Soul King, and Ye Lingling, a level Soul King.

In addition, Lin Yan, Xiao Dong and Lu Wen are all level 43 Soul Masters. The current official members of Team are four Soul Kings and three Soul Masters, which is much stronger than the Spirit Hall team.

Today, the strength of the second team is extremely strong, and the team's soul power level generally exceeds that of the Spirit Hall team.

"The promotion match is about to begin today, and we should go to the academy to join the main force." Dugu Yan said excitedly. She also wanted to show her skills in the promotion match and make a name for herself.

Lin Yi Zhang, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling came to Tiandou Royal Academy and found the other members of Team 2.

These days, Zhang Fan has been living in Tiandou Royal Academy with Lin Yan, Xiao Dong and others. Only Lin Yizhang, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling will return to Dugu Bo's mansion after their daily competitions, because the mansion of a Titled Douluo is undoubtedly safer.

After everyone took their turn, they walked towards the competition area together.

On the way, the team leader explained the rules of the qualifying round and various precautions to everyone.

"The upcoming qualifying round is actually a stage for you to show your personal strength, but it is also related to the honor of the team. The rankings will be determined in the form of points in the competition, and the order of appearance in the finals will be determined based on the ranking order."

The team leader continued, “Let me explain the format of the promotion match: each team will still send out seven students, but they will compete one by one.

The winner continues to stay on the field, and the loser continues to send out students until all the students on one side fail.

Therefore, I just said that the preliminaries are a competition to show the strength of the team, while the promotions are a stage for individual strength. "Wait a minute, team leader, I have a question." Zhang Fan said at this time, "Didn't the preliminaries we participated in before also count as a competition for rankings? The purpose of holding this promotion is to let individuals show their strength. Isn't this equivalent to exposing everyone's trump cards when participating in the finals? There is no benefit in doing this, why hold this promotion?"

The team leader smiled and said, "Although the purpose of the promotion competition is to allow individuals to demonstrate their strength, this is only a direct effect. The fundamental significance of holding the promotion competition is actually to help the two empires and the high-level officials of the Spirit Hall to better find some particularly outstanding young spirit masters from these participating students."

After explaining Zhang Fan's doubts, the team leader continued, "The promotion match will eventually rank the fifteen participating teams selected through the preliminaries. The benefits of this ranking will be apparent in the finals, because the finals adopt an elimination system.

I have already explained the format of the promotion matches, and now I will also explain the format of the finals to you.

There were a total of thirty-three teams participating in the finals. Among them, the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire each selected fifteen teams in the qualifying rounds. Together with the seed teams of the two empires and the Spirit Hall, there were a total of thirty-three teams.

In each round, several teams will have byes.

In the first round, three seeded teams will have byes, and the remaining thirty teams will compete against each other, with the fifteen winning teams participating in the next round.

In the second round, including the three seeded teams, there are a total of 18 teams. At this time, among the remaining teams, the two teams with the highest ranking in the promotion round will have a bye, and the remaining 16 teams will be selected to enter the third round.

There are only ten teams left in the third round, and the top two teams in the rankings will still have byes. Teams that have already had byes will not have a second bye.

After the third round, there will be six teams remaining, which will be the final six teams of the tournament. There will be no more byes at this time.

In the fourth round, the six teams will draw lots and compete to determine the top three.

In order to ensure fairness, the final ranking of the top three players will be determined through two competition methods: team battles and individual elimination battles.

That’s all for the competition system. I will explain the specific details to you later.”

Everyone arrived at the competition area and found that there were no spectators at this time.

The team leader saw the confusion in everyone's eyes and explained: "In order to protect the privacy and safety of the soul masters, no spectators are allowed to watch the promotion match."

Everyone nodded in understanding after hearing this.

As the participating teams arrived one after another, including the five teams that qualified from the Tiandou City qualifying division, a total of fifteen teams have now gathered here after completing their registration.

There are fewer teams, but those who can pass the qualifiers are undoubtedly the best of the best.

The ten teams from the five kingdoms and principalities that passed the preliminaries arrived earlier than the five teams that qualified from the Tiandou City preliminaries, and they need to familiarize themselves with the environment.

At the same time, the ten teams from the five kingdoms and principalities that passed the preliminaries also came with many promises from the kingdoms or principalities they represented. If they achieved good results, the rewards they could get would be even greater than the promises made by Emperor Xue Ye.

After all, those kingdoms and principalities have a greater thirst for talents. Who doesn’t want to have more powerful soul masters in their hands?

(End of this chapter)