Chapter 355: The Prelude to the Competition!

The Continental Young Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition has begun.

On the morning of the competition's opening, Zhu Ziyang walked out of the bedroom. A few seconds later, Ma Xiaotao also came out. Her complexion was very rosy, obviously she had a good rest last night.

A few minutes later, the members of the Shrek team gathered in the living room. They lined up in two rows, with the regular selection team in front and the pre-selection team behind. , Ning Tian, ​​Chu Hua, Zhou Tianhe, Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao stood in front of them.

Zhu Ziyang tried his best not to look at the faces of Jiang Nannan's three daughters, their faces were full of resentment and anger, because these days, he was dominated by Ma Xiaotao, the three of them had great opinions, Wu Huan'er was fine, after all, he was with Ma Xiaotao loves like a sister, and has a temperament that dares to love and hate. When she is close to Zhu Ziyang, she doesn't care whether Ma Xiaotao is by her side or not.

But Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi are different, their skins are very thin, and they can't do this step, so they can only protest to Zhu Ziyang dissatisfied. dissatisfied.

Fortunately, this situation only lasted for a day or two, because with the start of the competition, the jealous behavior of the three women must be restrained.

"Ahem!" Zhu Ziyang coughed, and everyone focused on him. He said, "The result of yesterday's lottery came out. We had a bye in the first round and directly got 12 points."

"This..." Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Brother, isn't it a good thing to have a bye?" Cao Jinxuan, a member of the preliminary selection team, raised his hand to speak. He was a little puzzled, and didn't understand why the brothers and sisters in the front row had inexplicable expressions.

"It's a good thing and a bad thing." Zhu Ziyang smiled and explained, "The good thing is that we can directly advance to the second round, which saves a lot of effort. The bad thing is that we lose the chance to win the first place. You know, in previous competitions, The opening match is always started by our Shrek Academy, this is an honor."

"In that case, wouldn't we be at a big loss?" Xie Huanyue, a member of the preliminary selection team, shouted.

"Hehe, it doesn't really matter. The purpose of the Sun Moon Empire's move is actually not difficult to guess. Most likely it is to let the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy play the opening game. After all, it is the home court advantage, which is understandable." Zhu Ziyang continued, " This is a kind of provocation, so when you encounter the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy in the next match, don't hold back, if you dare to provoke Shrek Academy, you must be prepared to pay the price! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Everyone shouted in unison.

"Okay, let's go." Ma Xiaotao said with a smile on his face, "Although we have a bye in the first round, we still need to appear in the opening ceremony. By the way, we can also see how strong those sect teams are."

Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao walked side by side, leading the members of the Shrek team out of the hotel, and went directly to the venue where the competition was held.

The Sun Moon Empire placed the competition venue on the outskirts of Mingdu on the great plain with a wide view. This place not only has a wide space and can accommodate more people, but also can build a bigger arena to support more intense battles.

There are 367 participating teams in this competition, and half of them will be directly eliminated in the first round. Excluding Shrek Academy, which has a bye, there can only be 183 teams entering the second round. The Lake team has a total of 184 teams in the second round. Half of the teams are also eliminated. The remaining 92 teams enter the third round. Half of the teams are also eliminated in the third round. The remaining 46 teams continue to compete. Competing for the position of the top 32, when there are only 32 teams left, the preliminaries of the competition will end, and then enter the next stage of the group stage.

The competition system of all stages is an individual knockout match plus a team competition. The theoretical maximum points for the winning side is twelve points. In fact, the final round of the preliminaries is based on the team points as the main judging criterion. The fourteen teams with the least points will be selected. disuse.

Everyone from Shrek Academy came to the competition venue. The competition venue was located in the suburbs on the east side of Mingdu. This suburb, which is sparsely populated in normal seasons, was already crowded with people at this moment. The soldiers of the Sun and Moon Empire to maintain order alone exceeded 30,000. , which shows the large number of people who came to watch the game.

Right now, this area is divided into two areas, one is the viewing area, and the other is the competition area. The viewing area is divided into small areas, each of which can accommodate up to 5,000 people. The competition area is surrounded by the viewing area, and the most conspicuous thing in the competition area is naturally the ring used for the competition.

The arena is ten meters high, with a diameter of about 120 meters. The entire arena exudes a silver-white metallic luster. Obviously, this majestic arena is actually made of metal. It is so huge. The amount of engineering work made many people who came to the Sun Moon Empire for the first time sigh the strength of the Sun Moon Empire.

What is even more interesting is that there is a circle of grooves around the competition arena. In these grooves, there are actually pieces of transparent light curtains with light yellow. The light curtains rise towards the sky, looking up at these The light curtain couldn't see the end, which made Zhu Ziyang even more curious about the development of the soul guidance technology of the Sun Moon Empire. He couldn't even see the end of the light curtain, which meant that the light irradiated at least five kilometers above the sky!

This is supported by a very large soul power. At least, if a soul master wants to send soul power to a height of 5,000 meters, he needs at least the soul saint realm, and this means that each of these grooves can at least Exerting the power of Soul Sage-level soul power, of course, it is also possible that a Soul Sage is outputting soul power under these grooves, but this is also very scary, there are at least three hundred of these grooves, Could it be that the Sun Moon Empire was able to put out three hundred soul sages to act at once in order to pretend to be aggressive?

The ruler of the Sun Moon Empire should not be so brain-dead.

The function of these light curtains is very simple. They serve as the boundary of the ring. Since they are high enough, the possibility of knocking the opponent out of the ring and winning is almost zero. If you want to win, you must rely on your strength to completely defeat the opponent.

Outside the arena, extending out from the center of the arena, every 100 meters, there is a huge soul guide screen supported by tall metal brackets in the air. The size of each screen is more than 20 square meters. These screens can perfectly Present the scene on the ring, so that all the audience can watch the whole process of the game at the first time. There are more than one hundred such soul guide screens, which are evenly distributed in every viewing area.

This kind of soul guide technology is currently only available in the Sun Moon Empire. The other three countries, hehe, they have already attached great importance to soul guide devices if they can produce a hundred soul guide screens.

The player rest area is located on the east side of the ring, which is clearly divided into two areas and three levels. Taking the distance from the competition ring as a reference, the rest area closest to the ring is the best equipped. It not only has a pergola, but also sofas and dedicated waiters. There are only two such rest areas, Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul One for each tutor academy. The rest area after that only has a pergola and ordinary seats, and the rest area does not even have a pergola, just rows of benches.

When Zhu Ziyang and his party arrived, there were already many people in the rest area. These people were either sitting on benches or seats. After seeing the Shrek people, their eyes were full of envy and jealousy. .

Zhu Ziyang turned a blind eye to these eyes, and walked towards the top rest area closest to the competition ring with a calm expression, and then sat on the sofa in the middle without hesitation. Others followed suit and found seats to sit down. Zhu Ziyang Being sandwiched between two girls, Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan, they seem to be hugging left and right, but in fact they are hugging left and right.

Ignoring the envious eyes of the male compatriots in the team, Zhu Ziyang began to look at the teams entering the arena one after another. Naturally, there were many acquaintances in these teams, such as the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy who came behind them, and there was only a gap between them and their rest area. Across the curtain, Meng Hongchen's winking eyes towards him were clearly intercepted by Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan.

Another example is the Xingluo Royal Academy led by Xu Jiujiu, the Snow Demon Sect team led by Wei Na, Tang Ya Huo Yuhao's Tang Sect team, and finally, there is the French Academy team where Yang Zhenzhen is. The night the team arrived, Jiang Nannan was very happy to take her to wander around Mingdu City for a day or two.

Soon, all the teams arrived, at least all the seats in the rest area had owners, which meant that all the teams officially recognized by the competition had arrived.

At this time, a new situation appeared.