Douluo Dalu: Start with a Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgement

Chapter 143 Trump Card
In the rest area of ​​the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, Ma Rulong said with a serious face: "The soul skills of the turtle soul master from Shrek Academy are very threatening. We need to be especially careful when we encounter him!"

Xiao Hongchen said unhappily, "Brother Ma, apart from this turtle spirit master, who else in Shrek Academy does not need our special guard? You are talking as if the others are not a threat."

Ma Rulong was speechless for a moment. Xiao Hongchen was right. As long as they were from Shrek Academy, they had to be guarded against. Thinking of this, he pinched his brows with a headache. He had not forgotten that he had promised the team leader Ma that if he lost the game against Shrek, he would quit Mingde Hall.

Seeing Ma Rulong's headache, Xiao Hongchen's face also turned ugly. Shrek's previous games had hit his self-confidence, and he no longer underestimated Shrek.

Especially when he thought about the fact that he would meet Ji Lin next time when he led his team to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, he felt the pressure increased dramatically.

Looking at the silly sister who was holding her cheeks with her hands and staring at Shrek Academy, he felt even more pressured. He suspected that if he faced Ji Lin on the field, his sister who was obsessed with looks would betray him on the spot.

Backstabbing his brother.

In the arena.

The referee in purple looked at the Shrek Seven strangely, then looked at the captain of Changning Academy who was being dragged away by the teacher, and then announced: "Shrek Academy wins."

Although the match was a bit dramatic, the audience still applauded and cheered.

Xu Sanshi's fourth soul skill, the Xuanming Replacement Technique, shocked everyone and aroused the vigilance of all other academies.

The round-robin tournament has entered the fourth round and has entered the middle stage. Shrek Academy's first group has only eight teams, and each team has to participate in seven games to complete a round.

In the next three games, as Wang Yan said, no strong team appeared. Wang Yan still sent out the lineup to deal with Changning College, which made Xiaoxiao and Wang Donger very satisfied. Ji Lin won four games without any effort.

In the end, Shrek Academy won first place in the group with a record of seven wins.

As expected, the team that also advanced from the first group was Zhengtian Academy led by Ye Wuqing and Yu Mengdi.

It is also the strongest academy in the first group except for Ji Lin and his Shrek.

Since there were nine teams in other groups, they had three days of rest after the Shrek Academy game.

A total of eighteen teams advanced from the round-robin tournament, and what follows is the even more brutal knockout round.

Wang Yan once again called Ji Lin and others to a meeting in the conference room of the Xinghuang Hotel. "The matchup list for the knockout stage has been released." Wang Yan said in a deep voice. He had just returned from the Xingluo Empire Palace after drawing lots, and immediately called everyone to a meeting.

"The academy we are facing in the round of 16 is an old rival. It is the first academy of the Douling Empire, the Douling Royal Academy."

Hearing the words Dou Ling Royal Academy, the expressions of Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yaoheng and Ling Luochen all changed slightly.

Ma Xiaotao frowned and asked, "We ran into them so early?"

Xiaoxiao asked curiously: "Is this Douling Royal Academy very strong?"

Ma Xiaotao said, "Do you think the top four from last year were strong? They were much stronger than the strongest team you met, Zhengtian Academy. Teacher Wang, how strong are the players from Douling this year?"

Wang Yan said: "There are five Soul Kings and two Soul Masters in the Douling Royal Academy this year. They are very strong. Moreover, the Douling Royal Academy is not rigid. Although they are a high-level soul master academy, they are also the best soul guide academy in the Douling Empire. Through my observation of them, I found that almost all of their players have soul guides. And they can use them skillfully in the competition. At least two of them are real soul guides. With the strength of Soul Kings combined with soul guides, this opponent is not easy to deal with.

Judging from the apparent strength, there are five soul kings on the opposite side, but Shrek has two soul emperors and one soul king, as well as Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer, two soul kings who are not soul kings. If Beibei and Xu Sanshi show their trump cards, they can also be considered half soul kings. They are suppressing the Douling Royal Academy in an all-round way, but soul guides are an unknown factor. Wang Yan is also wary of soul guides.

Dai Yuheng asked in confusion: "Teacher Wang, we qualified as the first in the group in the round-robin tournament. Judging from the strength of the Douling Royal Academy, it should also be the first in the group. How come we drew them? Isn't it true that the first in the group will only draw the second in other groups in the round of 16?"

Wang Yan said: "Based on their strength, Douling Royal Academy should be the first in the group. But in fact, it is not the case. There was a dark horse in their group, and they had maintained a perfect record before they met them. And for some reason, Douling Royal Academy gave up the last game against that dark horse academy. So they qualified as the second place. Unexpectedly, they bumped into us."

Ji Lin touched his chin and said, "It seems that Douling Royal Academy is hiding its strength. The reason why it gave up qualifying as the first in the group is to avoid exposing its trump card."

Wang Yan said: "Ji Lin's guess is correct. I have also thought about this problem, so you must be careful of the Douling Royal Academy's trump cards when you are on the field. But we have a lot of trump cards, and with you here, there won't be any big problems. Okay, let me first tell you about the rules of the knockout stage."

"The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition has been developing for tens of thousands of years, and the rules of the competition have been constantly changing. Especially in the final elimination round. In order to make the competition more exciting and to better demonstrate the overall strength of the participating academies, the competition method will be different from the previous ones. The elimination round will no longer be decided by drawing lots like the round-robin competition. Each elimination round will be divided into two days. There will be team battles and individual elimination rounds. Winning the team battle does not mean that you will definitely qualify. In the individual elimination round on the second day, if you can defeat all seven of the opponent's players with less than three players, then you can turn defeat into victory. The team that wins the team battle only needs to rely on the strength of seven people to defeat three of the opponent to ensure qualification."

It's very simple. If you win the team battle, you only need to defeat three opponents to win the individual competition on the second day. Otherwise, you need three people to defeat seven opponents to win.

"The knockout rounds are not only a test for the whole team, but also a great opportunity to demonstrate individual strength. A truly strong academy will focus on training the best students, precisely to turn the tide in the individual competitions in the knockout stage."

The fact that the knockout stage was played in this format was truly an eye-opener for everyone.

(End of this chapter)