Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 285 Record Refresh and Background Board
The central arena of the fighting spirit arena.

When the clock struck the hour, the last qualifying match also began.

"The last match of the preliminaries will be between Team Spirit Hall Three and Team Shrek. This is a match without any suspense, but I still hope that Team Shrek can perform well so that the match doesn't end too quickly..."

"Okay, dear audience, the one-minute preparation time is over, and the game officially begins. We see..."

Ten seconds later...

"Uh, uh, okay, the game is over. Let us congratulate Team Spirit Hall's third team for their victory. They set a new record for the shortest single-game duration in this tournament. The team's ranking also improved from ninth to eighth, and they qualified for the play-offs."

"They will play in a play-off with five other teams. There can only be one winner among the six teams because there is only one spot for the knockout stage."

Amid the noise, all the audience were excited about the upcoming exciting play-offs, and no one paid attention to the Shrek team members who were carried away on seven white stretchers.

The MC explained the rules of the play-offs to the audience through the loudspeaker soul guide:
In the preliminaries of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, since six teams were ranked the same, a play-off was required to determine a winner.

The winner will be ranked eighth in the tournament qualifying team standings, with the other five teams tied for ninth.

There are two play-off rounds:
Round 1: Six teams will compete against each other in pairs through drawing lots, and three winning teams will enter the next round, and the losers will be eliminated.

Second round: The three teams will draw lots to decide the matches and take turns to play each other. A win will count as three points, a draw will count as no points, and a loss will deduct one point. The team with the highest points will get a place in the knockout round.

Two play-off rounds, three games each, for a total of six games.

The six teams participating in this qualifying play-off are:

Spirit Hall Team 3, Botanical Academy Team, Exotic Beast Academy Team, Poseidon Academy Team 2, Four Elements Academy Comprehensive Team (Team 4), Canghui Academy Team

First play-off round.

The six teams finished the draw, and the results are:

Spirit Hall Team 3 VS Botanical Academy Team
Four Elements Academy Comprehensive Team VS Exotic Beast Academy Team
Poseidon Academy Team 2 VS Canghui Academy Team
After seeing the results, the emcee also explained to the audience:
"We've seen the draw results come out..."

"Among the three matches, I personally think the least controversial one should be the third one, the match between the second team of Poseidon Academy and Canghui Academy."

"The members of the second team of Poseidon Academy are all sea soul masters, and their strength on land is somewhat weakened. Although the Canghui Academy team is not as strong as the Poseidon Academy team in terms of hard power, they have a super trump card that amazed this competition - the seven-in-one soul skill fusion skill 'Shura Illusion'!"

"Although the Sea God Academy Team 2 tied with the Canghui Academy Team in the main competition, the Shura Illusion is a spiritual realm soul skill. Unless the soul power is absolutely strong enough to break the illusion realm, the soul master can only rely on his own willpower to force it through."

"Just because you can get through it once doesn't mean you can get through it every time."

"And the most important point is that among the seven main players of Canghui Academy, there is a level 39 Soul Master who broke through to Soul Sect in the competition a few days ago. This is undoubtedly a great enhancement for the Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Skill Shura Illusion."

"As for the remaining two games, the outcome is hard to predict."

"The Spirit Hall's three teams have strong soul power and high strength, but they were restrained by the seven full-control soul masters of the Botanical Academy. If it weren't for the hard gap in soul power between the two teams, the outcome would not be as 50-50 as it is now."

"But there are variables in this match. If the captain of Team 3 of Spirit Hall successfully breaks through to the Soul King level, the balance of victory between the two teams will completely tip in favor of Team 3 of Spirit Hall."

"In the three games of the first round of the play-offs, there were differences in hard power between the four teams in the other two games, but they were offset in various ways."

"As for the Four Elements Academy Comprehensive Team and the Exotic Beast Academy Team, the two teams are equally matched in terms of hard power, and are at the same level as the Spirit Hall Team 3 and the Sea God Academy Team 2."

"The Four Elements Academy has compound soul skills of the four elements of wind, fire, ice, and thunder. The Exotic Beast Academy also has a difficult martial soul that combines beasts and weapons. One is difficult to deal with when multiple team members work together, and the other is very difficult to deal with when a single team member is involved. It can be said that each has its own characteristics." "..."

The host's enthusiastic and passionate commentary successfully aroused the audience's expectations for the three play-off matches.

The entire fighting arena was in an uproar.

Soon, the first game begins.

The Spirit Hall's third team versus the Botanical Academy team.

With one minute of preparation time, the seven members of the Botanical College team released their martial spirits and spirit rings.

The three Soul Masters of the Four Soul Sect are far inferior to the all-Soul Sect lineup of the three teams of the Spirit Hall.

Fortunately, the soul power levels of the three Soul Masters are all at level thirty-eight or thirty-nine, and the soul power levels of the four Soul Sect members are all above level forty-three. This way, they can use the power of the control-type plant martial spirits to narrow the gap in hard power with the three teams of the Spirit Hall.

However, when the seven members of the Botanical College team released their spirits and looked towards the Spirit Hall's third team opposite them, they were all stunned and their hearts sank.

This was because the captain of the third team of the Spirit Hall, who was standing in the center of the seven people, revealed a pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring after revealing four soul rings, two yellow and two purple.

"Ten Thousand Years Soul Ring, Soul King!"

"He finally broke through. If he was just one day later, no, just half a day later, we would still have a chance to defeat Team 3 of Spirit Hall!"

"Why? Why didn't luck favor us at the most critical moment?"

After more than twenty minutes, the game was over.

The captain of the Spirit Hall's third team broke through the Soul King and disrupted the delicate balance between them and the Botanical Academy team. Even though the Botanical Academy team fought hard, they only managed to hold on for more than twenty minutes before being defeated unwillingly in the end.

A quarter of an hour later, the second game began.

The Four Elements Academy Comprehensive Team versus the Exotic Beast Academy Team.

Lin Rong’s shadow is behind both teams.

The dean of the Kamikaze Academy and the peerless dragon and snake couple are both Lin Rong's subordinates. The Kamikaze Academy is a part of the Four Elements Academy, and the peerless dragon and snake couple are also honorary deans of the Exotic Beast Academy.

Therefore, in the past two years, a lot of resources have been secretly allocated to them, but the Four Elements Academy has received more resources than the Exotic Beast Academy, because the former has far more talented soul masters than the latter.

Therefore, the Four Elements Academy gathered four teams to participate in this competition. The top three teams all had at least one Soul King and Soul Master, and were qualified to enter the knockout round directly.

Although the two teams are one family, they don't know it, so in order to compete for the qualification to enter the next round of competition, the two sides fought extremely fiercely.

The strength of the Exotic Beast Academy team comes from the combination of beast weapons and martial spirits.

But this difficulty can be resolved by becoming familiar with soul skills and moves. On the contrary, the coordination of the multi-element soul skills of the Four Elements Academy cannot be resolved after becoming familiar with them.

So, after more than ten minutes of fierce competition, the Four Elements Academy Comprehensive Team, relying on their familiarity with the soul skills and moves of the Exotic Beast Academy Team, completely suppressed the opponent and won the game.

After this game ended, the only game left was the one between the Poseidon Academy team and the Canghui Academy team.

(End of this chapter)