radicalducati Chapter 713 9 Beauties Traveling Together
Chapter 713 9 Beauties Traveling Together
Chapter 713 Nine Beauties Together
The qualifying rounds of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament will still be held in two major regions: the Heaven Dou Empire Region and the Star Luo Empire Region.
The two major empire regions will each select fifteen teams from the qualifiers to participate in the qualifying rounds and the finals.
The thirty teams that qualified through the qualifiers will compete in their respective empires, while the three seeded teams that have already secured their spots in the finals will not participate in the qualifying rounds.
It is worth mentioning that.
There are no elimination spots in the qualifying rounds, meaning that the qualifying rounds are not as brutal as the preliminary rounds. Even if you lose a match, there is no risk of being eliminated.
After all, that's the purpose of setting up qualifying rounds.
It's simply a way to give the participants who advance from the preliminaries a chance to showcase their individual skills and style, while also holding a ranking competition for the teams that have already entered the finals, determining their order of appearance in the finals based on their ranking.
Of course, putting aside showcasing individual skills and style, the ranking order in the qualifying rounds is still very important, especially for the teams that rank higher in the qualifying rounds.
Although the finals, like the qualifiers and qualifying rounds, use a draw to determine the opponents, the teams ranked higher in the qualifying rounds, such as the top five, have the right to draw their opponents from among the weaker teams.
In other words, the top five teams in the qualifying rounds will face weaker teams in the first round of the finals.
This also means that the higher a team ranks in the qualifying rounds, the greater their chance of making it to the finals.
Besides.
The finals of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament included 33 teams, including the three seeded teams that had already secured their places in the competition.
This leads to an uneven distribution of matches, inevitably resulting in one team being left out without any opponents.
In response to this situation, the event organizers proposed a bye system as a solution.
The two teams that rank higher in the qualifying rounds will receive a bye.
In other words, in the three rounds of the finals, the top-ranked teams from the Heavenly Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire regions, respectively, will have a bye, just like the three seeded teams that have already secured their spots in the finals.
Even if the two top-ranked teams are eliminated in the competition, their bye spots will not be canceled, but will be passed on to the second-ranked team.
And so on.
If the second-place finisher in the qualifying round is unfortunately eliminated like the first-place finisher, the bye will be passed on to the third-place finisher.
Following that are fourth, fifth, and sixth place.
And so on, in sequence.
Therefore, the ranking order in the qualifying rounds is still very important.
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Regarding the qualifying rounds.
To protect the privacy of individual Soul Masters and for security reasons, the organizing committee of the Heaven Dou Empire competition zone set the competition venue at the Heaven Dou Royal Hunting Ground, fifty kilometers southwest of Heaven Dou City.
Meanwhile, the Star Luo Empire was even more ferocious.
They chose the Star Dou Great Forest, not far from the Star Luo Imperial City, as the venue for the competition, and their qualifying tournament format was also different.
In addition to the individual racing rounds for each team, a very special wilderness survival competition format has also been arranged.
Within a specified time, each team of seven members will venture into the outer area of the Star Dou Great Forest on the side of the Star Luo Empire to survive in the wild and hunt soul beasts.
Finally, a comprehensive score is given based on the length of time each team survives in the wild and the level of the soul beasts they hunt.
In other words, the longer a team survives in the wild and the higher the level of the spirit beasts they hunt, the higher their ranking in the promotion tournament will be.
To be fair, the Star Luo Empire truly lives up to its reputation as a fiercely competitive nation, with almost every Soul Master possessing bloodthirsty and warlike traits.
They not only chose the Star Dou Great Forest, known as a forbidden zone for humans, as the venue for the qualifying rounds, but also required all participating teams to venture deep into the forest to engage in wilderness survival and hunt soul beasts.
As everyone knows, danger lurks everywhere in the Star Dou Great Forest, and one careless move can easily cost you your life.
Even in the outer areas of the forest, it is not a place that ordinary soul masters can roam freely.
After all, those thousands upon thousands, even countless, of soul beasts were not some pushovers like Hakimi.
Although most of them are less than a thousand years old, and at most no more than ten thousand years old, they pose a deadly threat to Soul Masters below the Soul Emperor level.
Even Soul Saints must proceed with extreme caution when entering, daring not to cause too much disturbance. Otherwise, if they provoke a riot among the soul beasts and are surrounded and attacked, they will only face certain death.
The dangers of the Starry Sky Forest are self-evident.
The teams that participate in the qualifying rounds have to struggle to survive in this dangerous wilderness forest, constantly facing attacks and threats from spirit beasts, and even engaging in fierce competition between each team.
It was undeniably cruel.
Of course, all of this is to improve the strength and practical experience of each team as much as possible, while providing them with the most convenient promotion path.
After all, many people in these teams are stuck in the bottleneck period of breaking through levels 39 to 40.
If they can break through the immense pressure brought by the harsh environment, they can then obtain the spirit rings they need during the competition, thereby enhancing their own and their team's strength.
Under such a brutal competitive environment and training mechanism, the young soul masters trained by the Star Luo Empire are often much stronger than those of the Heaven Dou Empire.
This is one of the reasons why the Star Luo Empire has consistently achieved better results than the Heaven Dou Empire in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, and even occasionally, with a bit of luck, has slightly outperformed the Spirit Hall.
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Closer to home.
With the arrival of ten teams from the five kingdoms and duchies who qualified through the preliminary rounds, the qualifying rounds for the Heaven Dou Empire region of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament have begun.
Including the five teams that qualified from the Tiandou City preliminary rounds, a total of fifteen teams have gathered at the venue selected for the qualifying rounds and completed their registration in accordance with the tournament rules.
Although there are fewer participating teams, those who can pass the qualifiers are undoubtedly the best of the best in their respective qualifier regions, the elite of the elite.
The ten teams from the five kingdoms and duchies who qualified through the preliminary rounds arrived earlier and need to familiarize themselves with the environment.
At the same time, they all came with numerous promises from the kingdoms or royal families they represented.
If they achieve good results, the rewards they can receive will be even greater than what the Heavenly Dou Royal Family promised.
Compared to the Star Luo Empire, which had a strong ruling power, the situation of the Heaven Dou Empire was more complicated.
The Heavenly Dou Empire originally had ten provinces, but due to the weakness and declining power of the Heavenly Dou royal family, five provinces were divided up and formed four kingdoms and one duchy.
Ultimately, together with the Heavenly Dou Royal Family, they formed six factions.
The Heavenly Dou Royal Family, representing the legitimate imperial lineage, directly controls five provinces, while the four major kingdoms each control one, and there is also a duchy, second only to the kingdoms, which occupies the smallest province in the eastern part of the empire.
Although the five kingdoms and duchies maintain a respectable subordinate relationship with the Heavenly Dou royal family on the surface, they are actually states within states, obeying only orders and not commands. Apart from paying tribute once a year, they are completely autonomous in everything else.
At the same time, these five kingdoms and duchies were also secretly developing their own power and acquiring strong military forces in order to counter the Heavenly Dou Royal Family.
In the Elite Soul Master Competition, these young and exceptionally talented Soul Masters are undoubtedly the most sought-after talents by various kingdoms and royal families. After all, who wouldn't want to have more powerful Soul Masters under their command?
In the wars of Douluo Continent, Soul Masters have long been a decisive factor on the battlefield.
The number of high-level Soul Masters is also a fundamental measure of a power.
It is precisely because of this that the status of Soul Masters is so transcendent, that even the royal families of the two great empires have to shamelessly offer them great benefits to curry favor and win them over.
As the teams from various advanced Soul Master academies who passed the preliminary rounds moved in one after another, the once empty and desolate Heaven Dou Royal Hunting Ground suddenly became more lively.
The Royal Knights, who were originally stationed here to patrol and guard, also stopped training and instead prepared for the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament qualifying rounds, welcoming the participating teams and VIPs, and maintaining order at the competition venue.
The Tian Dou Royal Hunting Grounds are located 50 kilometers southwest of Tian Dou City. It takes at most half a day to reach them by carriage from Tian Dou City.
When Ye Qifeng and his team from the Spirit Hall's Second Team arrived at the Heaven Dou Royal Hunting Grounds, the other fourteen teams that had qualified through the preliminary rounds had already moved in.
Following the official road, Ye Qifeng's carriage took the lead, followed by the two hundred Holy Emperor Warriors he had brought from Wuhun City, riding tall horses on both sides, advancing side by side.
Behind them were the vehicles of Salas, the Platinum Bishop of the Heavenly Soul Temple, and a group of cardinals, as well as the Templar Knights responsible for protecting their safety.
On the carriage, Ju Douluo Yueguan sat casually in the driver's seat with one leg bent.
Without him making any apparent control, the horses with the bloodline of spirit beasts ahead ran very obediently and in a very regular manner, propelling the carriage forward at a steady pace.
Ye Qifeng and the seven girls from the Spirit Hall's second team sat in the back of the carriage, a group of beautiful girls gathered at the windows on both sides, looking out curiously.
Not only them, but two more graceful figures appeared in the carriage.
These two graceful figures were neither Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er, nor Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who had been sticking to Ye Qifeng's side every day during the preliminaries.
Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er have already arrived at the Tian Dou Royal Hunting Grounds with their respective teams.
The reason why Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling did not come with Ye Qifeng was that it was not appropriate for them to be by Ye Qifeng's side in this situation, so as not to expose the fact that they and their family forces had sided with the Spirit Hall.
Of course, if Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling want to watch the qualifying matches live, they can. All teams that qualify for the finals are welcome to attend.
As the captain and vice-captain of the seeded team that had already secured a spot in the finals, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling naturally had the right to do so.
At this moment, two graceful figures appeared in the carriage. One of them had long, straight black hair like a waterfall, exquisite and charming features, and a beautiful face.
She wore a black leather Soul Master robe, and beneath the robe was a voluptuous and perfect figure that no ordinary girl could achieve. She looked like a beautiful woman in her twenties, exuding a mature charm.
The other person was a beautiful young girl who looked very young, only about eighteen years old.
She had beautiful, smooth, chestnut-brown shoulder-length hair, a pretty face, fair skin, and a touch of youthful innocence.
These two women are none other than Ye Qifeng's acknowledgment of his elder sister, Liu Erlong, the dean of Lanba Academy, and her disciple, Jiangzhu.
They were here at the invitation of Ye Qifeng.
Blue Tyrant Academy only achieved eighth place in the preliminary rounds, which was a very good result for them, but they failed to qualify for the next round.
This also marks the end of their journey in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
With the conclusion of the qualifiers, the Blue Tyrant Academy team had completed its mission and subsequently disbanded.
And the team members are also reaching graduation time.
At the strong urging of his grandfather Titan and father Tyno, Talon chose to return to the Force Clan, follow in his father's footsteps, and take up the forging hammer.
Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and several others chose to join the Spirit Hall, becoming one of the countless loyal Spirit Masters of the Spirit Hall, sacrificing their lives for the Spirit Hall's cause.
Jiangzhu was the only one who chose to stay at Lanba Academy to help Liu Erlong manage the academy's affairs.
For a month after the preliminary rounds ended, except for the first ten days when Qian Renxue forced him to stay in her secret room, Ye Qifeng spent the next twenty days at Liu Erlong's place until the start of the qualifying rounds.
During those twenty days, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Jiangzhu, this little lamb, would always run to Liu Erlong's secluded wooden house whenever she had a chance, and her excited figure could be seen almost every day.
The day before setting off for the Tian Dou Royal Hunting Grounds, Ye Qifeng invited Liu Erlong, who was living in seclusion in a forest cabin and had nothing to do, to come along. Jiangzhu happened to overhear this and decided to bring her along as well.
That's why we have nine beauties together today.
As the carriage slowly came to a stop, Ye Qifeng and his group had arrived at the Heavenly Dou Royal Hunting Grounds.
The first thing that catches the eye is the massive Royal Knights.
Uniform bright silver armor, thick plate armor, sharp weapons, and Heavenly Soul Horse mounts with certain soul beast bloodlines; the neat formation, strict discipline, and imposing presence all exude the word "elite".
The Royal Knights are another elite force controlled by the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family, besides the Royal Guard. They number around 50,000, and all of their captains, who are over 100 in rank, are Soul Masters.
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