Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 270 Competition Quota
There is still more than a month left until the start of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition after a major reform of the competition system.

Of the 36 places in the knockout round of this tournament, eight are occupied by the eight top seeded teams, leaving 28 places.

Among these 28 places, if there is at least one Soul King-level player in the participating college team, they can skip the preliminaries and go directly to the knockout stage.

The age limit for participating in the competition is twenty-five years old and below, and the Soul King can only be a Soul King who is twenty-five years old.

In this era where a Soul Master at the age of twenty or forty is considered a rare genius, Soul Kings under the age of twenty-five are extremely rare. It’s not that there are none, but they are pitifully few.

People originally thought that there were only a few teams that were qualified to enter the knockout stage directly, but they never expected that the number of participating teams with Soul Kings seemed to be far more than they imagined.

Since the announcement of the competition two years ago, teams have successively passed the verification of the competition committee and obtained the qualification to skip the preliminaries and enter the knockout stage directly.

Up to now.

Of the remaining 28 knockout places, 18 teams have qualified for the knockout rounds, leaving only 10 places for teams to take.

There is still more than a month left until the start of the preliminaries of the competition. Perhaps some teammates of the participating teams will break through to the Soul King level before the start of the competition and get a place in the knockout rounds.

After the preliminaries begin, even if one has achieved the Soul King breakthrough, his team can only participate in the preliminaries process and compete with other teams for the remaining places.

Therefore, those teams that had the hope of breaking through to the Soul King level before the start of the competition never slacked off in their training on the way to Wuhun City, just to strive for the qualification to enter the knockout stage directly.

This news was told to Lin Rong by Xu Pan.

In a tent in the center of the military camp.

Lin Rong sat on the blanket, digesting this information.

"There are actually 18 teams that made it directly to the knockout stage. This is more than I expected."

"It seems that the soul bones that came out from the battle of Poseidon City helped those teams a lot!"

In the battle of Poseidon City, the major forces on the continent obtained tens of thousands of soul bones, most of which were thousand-year-old soul bones.

Although each major force has enough manpower to digest so many thousand-year soul bones, the problem is that although there are enough manpower, there are not many people who are qualified to obtain the soul bones.

You can't just give soul bones to ordinary or lower-level members of a force for free just because there are enough of them.

Therefore, instead of piling up those extra thousand-year soul bones in the sect’s warehouse to rot, it would be better to sell them to small and medium-sized forces at high prices in exchange for real profits.

"Your Excellency the Duke, the rewards for the top three in this competition are so generous, not to mention them, even my subordinates are a little jealous."

"So in their opinion, in order to win the top three places in the competition, it is worthwhile to consume some thousand-year soul bones."

On the side, Xu Pan was quite emotional.

He has a 60,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger trunk soul bone, and is about to obtain a 100,000-year-old Thousand-Year Ant King soul bone. He is jealous of the rewards for the top three in the competition, let alone others.

"This competition was originally held to lure out the inheritors of the gods hiding in the dark. It's normal for you to be jealous."

Lin Rong stood up and walked to the tent window.

At this time, outside, the army was training, and bursts of deafening shouts could be heard from time to time.

"Hongjun is a very ambitious boy. He has climbed to the position of general in just a few years."

"I heard that he is a Soul Emperor?"

He turned around and looked at Xu Pan, and asked. "Yes, I made a breakthrough two months ago." Xu Pan answered, with a little pride in his expression:

"I obtained the sixth soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest a month ago. After absorbing it, my soul power increased to the peak of level 62."

"Last night, Hongjun broke through the bottleneck and reached level 63."

After that, he asked curiously:
"My Lord, do you want Hongjun to participate in this competition as well?"

"Of course not." Lin Rong denied it directly and said:
"If you are too popular, you will become the target of public criticism. The fate of the Sea God Empire is a lesson for us."

"It's not worth exposing Hong Jun's trump card just for the three hundred thousand year soul bones of the tournament champion."

"Besides, someone will complete the task of winning the championship. Hong Jun is at a disadvantage in terms of age after all. A level 63 Soul Emperor cannot be considered the top in this competition."

Xu Pan was stunned at first, then nodded in agreement and said:
"Yes, the age limit for participating in the competition is 25 years old or below. Hongjun is only 14 years old this year. I'm afraid he is the youngest among all the inheritors of the gods."

"The inheritor of the Wind God, Feng Xiaotian, is already 24 years old. I'm afraid he has already reached the level of a Soul Sage. If the inheritors of other gods are also around 20 years old, they will at least have the level of a Soul Emperor."

"With more than ten inheritors of the gods, there must be at least ten Soul Emperors. Hong Jun's soul power level of level 63 is really nothing."

Speaking of this, Xu Pan remembered something.

A few days ago.

The second team of Tiandou Royal Academy went to Wuhun Palace City to participate in the preliminaries of the All-Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition, and passed through Jialing Pass on the way.

Tiandou Team One is a seeded team and will go straight into the knockout round. Although Team Two is not a seeded team, it is also a team from the Tiandou Royal Academy and represents the face of the Tiandou Empire.

Therefore, Marshal Ge Long led a group of people to escort the second team all the way to Wuhun City.

Among the members of Team Two, there is a very famous person, that is Tang San, the son of Haotian Douluo and also the leader of the Tang Sect.

The need to participate in the preliminaries means that there is no Soul King-level soul master in the team.

But what puzzled Xu Pan was that the soul power fluctuations he clearly sensed from Tang San were at least at the level of a high-level soul king.

Because Tang San was hiding his own aura, Xu Pan was unable to tell what Tang San's specific soul power level was.

But even with his aura hidden, he can still see the soul power fluctuations of a high-level Soul King. Tang San's real cultivation level is definitely above level 60, making him a Soul Emperor.

As for the Soul Saint, Xu Pan didn't dare to think so.

In terms of age, Tang San is only two months older than Ma Hongjun.

Ma Hongjun has the immortal herb Phoenix Celosia and the Fire God inheritance, but he is only level 63; Tang San can reach the limit of Soul Emperor, and Soul Sage is almost impossible.

Unless Tang San practiced the second martial spirit Clear Sky Hammer in advance and used additional spirit rings to quickly increase his spirit power level, it would be possible for him to break through to the Soul Saint realm at the age of fourteen.

But since Tang San has already inherited the divine heritage, he should not do something that would destroy his future.

"..., sir, this is what happened."

Xu Pan told Lin Rong the truth about Tang San and asked in confusion:
"Tang San has the cultivation of a Soul Emperor, so why does he want to participate in the preliminaries? Wouldn't it be better to go straight to the knockout rounds? He can still have a month left for training."

(End of this chapter)