Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 262: One stone stirs up a thousand waves
A few months later.

The announcement of a piece of news caused a sensation on the mainland.

The next Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition will undergo major reforms.

The reform of the competition system is secondary; the real attraction is the rewards of the competition.

In the past, in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition, only the champion team could receive the rewards provided in turn by the three major organizers of the competition.

In the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition, anyone who makes it into the top three will receive a reward, and the reward for the top three is the most coveted treasure for soul masters - soul bones.

After the battle of Poseidon City, a large number of soul bones flowed into the soul master world, making them no longer seem as rare and out of reach as before.

However, most of the soul bones circulating on the market are thousand-year soul bones. Ten-thousand-year soul bones are still rare treasures. Only in black market auctions can auction items of this level as ten-thousand-year soul bones appear.

Therefore, the reason why the news of the competition reform caused a sensation throughout the continent is because the soul bones rewarded to the top three teams after the reform are all ten thousand year soul bones, and they are top-grade ten thousand year soul bones with a age of more than fifty thousand years.

The third place team in the competition will be rewarded with seven ten thousand year soul bones, and one of the seven soul bones must be a precious head soul bone.

The second runner-up team of the competition will be rewarded with seven ten-thousand-year soul bones, and the seven soul bones must include a precious head soul bone and the most precious torso soul bone.

The champion team of the competition will be rewarded with seven ten-thousand-year soul bones, including three one-hundred-thousand-year soul bones, and the remaining four soul bones are all over seventy thousand years old.

This news was jointly released by many top forces on the continent, led by the Spirit Hall.

Therefore, even if the rewards for the next Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Competition are so generous that they are unreal, few people will question the authenticity of the competition rewards.

The temptation of ten thousand year soul bones has inspired an unprecedented craze of cultivation among countless young soul masters across the continent, and the same scene has been played out in all the major advanced soul master academies on the continent.

However, the generous rewards of the competition also raised the entry threshold for the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition.

This involves the reform of the competition system.

There were three major organizers of previous competitions: Spirit Hall, Tiandou Empire, and Xingluo Empire.

After the reform, the organizer of the competition added the Poseidon Empire to the previous three major organizers.

In addition to the four major organizers, Wuhun Hall, Tiandou Empire, Xingluo Empire, and Poseidon Empire, the competition also added four major sponsors:

The Body Sect, the Star Crown Sect, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Sect.

The four major organizers and four major sponsors of the competition make up a total of eight forces, and each has one seed spot.

Different from the previous competition system, the seeded teams have been changed from three to eight, and the systems of the qualifiers, promotions and knockout rounds have also been greatly changed.

The knockout stage has increased from 33 teams to 36 teams.

Excluding the eight seeded teams, there are still twenty-eight spots.

These 28 places are no longer restricted by competition area, and priority will be given to strong college teams. That is, college teams with at least one Soul King-level soul master can skip the preliminaries and promotion rounds and directly obtain a place in the competition.

If the number of teams with Soul King-level soul masters exceeds twenty-eight, the extra college teams will decide on a winning team, and then compete with the last college team that has obtained a place in the competition. The winner will be qualified to participate, and the loser will be eliminated.

If there are less than 28 teams with Soul King-level soul masters, the remaining places can be obtained by participating in the preliminaries.

The preliminaries were held in Wuhun City and the divisions were no longer divided. The rest of the process was the same as the preliminaries. The top few teams in the preliminaries would get the vacancies.

For example, if there are five vacancies, they will be obtained by the top five teams in the qualifiers.

The promotion round, one of the three major events, has been cancelled, and there will be no more promotion rounds for the future All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition.

After gathering thirty-six teams, they arrived at the knockout round of the finals.

The knockout rounds consist of six rounds.

Round 1: The eight seeded teams have a bye, and the remaining 28 teams compete for 14 qualifying spots.

Second round: Twenty-two teams compete for eleven qualifying places.

Round 3: Eleven teams draw lots, one of which is given a bye, and the remaining ten teams compete for five qualifying spots.

Round 4: Six teams compete for the top three spots in the tournament.

Round 5: The top three teams will advance to the finals through individual competition, and the remaining two teams will be determined in team competition. The winner will advance to the finals and the loser will be the third-place team.

Round 6: The two teams that advance to the finals will compete in a team match. The winner will be the champion team of the tournament, and the loser will be the runner-up team of the tournament.

Due to major changes in the competition system, there have been slight adjustments to the time of the competition.

In the past, the competitions lasted about half a year, from the preliminaries to the promotions and then to the knockout rounds.

After the reform of the competition system, the time of the knockout rounds will remain unchanged. If there are not enough academy teams with Soul King-level soul masters and it is necessary to hold preliminaries, the start time of the preliminaries will be postponed by three months compared to before.

After the one-month qualifying round, there is also two months of preparation time before the knockout round begins.

Key points: Teams outside of the advanced soul master academies recognized by the empire can also enter the knockout rounds or participate in the preliminaries as long as they meet the competition standards.

Most people are confused after learning the rules of the competition.

The age limit for participating in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition is under twenty-five years old.

Therefore, if you want to advance directly to the knockout stage without participating in the preliminaries, you need to have a Soul King under the age of 25 in the team.

There are probably not many geniuses of this level in the entire continent, and they are basically concentrated in the eight seeded teams. Is it really necessary to create a competition system where a team of Soul Kings and Soul Masters can directly enter the knockout stage?
The world does not understand why there is such a competition system, but those inheritors of the gods hiding in the dark, after learning about the reformed competition system, they realized that this was a competition specially held for them.

The purpose is to draw them out from the darkness.

However, although they understood the purpose behind the reform of the competition, the real power of this move lies in the fact that it was an open conspiracy.

As long as you can get into the top three of the competition, you will be able to get seven top-grade soul bones that are at least 50,000 years old.

Faced with such a generous reward, how many soul masters can resist the temptation?

Especially for the young and energetic inheritors of the gods, for them, the competition not only has the temptation of ten thousand year old soul bones, but also the desire to become famous all over the world.

They have to enter this game even if they don’t want to!

(End of this chapter)