Douluo Dalu The Strongest God - 66 Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Grand Spirit Fighting Competition

“Teacher, who are you?” Dai Weisi asked him.

“You would know in the future, but I know Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing and teach them too. When both of your sides meet each other in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Grand Spirit Fighting Competition, you would know about me. Your first task is to make both of you stronger than now”

“We understand” Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun said. In their eyes, there was no worry. They were happy now because they didn’t need to kill their siblings, and they wanted to get stronger as soon as possible to protect their family, their clan and their empire.

For Ryu, Making the Star Luo Empire Stronger and controlling it was a great choice.

“Take this paper and infuse your energy with it”

After a one-half year, both of Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun reached rank 56 and 55.

“Now it’s time forContinental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Grand Spirit Fighting Competition”

Ryu released his clones in the academy. This clones transformed to Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun and himself meanwhile he taught the couple in secret.

He walked up and said to everyone there

“In another day the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Grand Competition will begin, this isn’t only a stage to reveal you, it’s also the ideal opportunity to gain experience. At this Continental Grand Competition, you will meet all the Spirit Master powers of your generation. Fighting them, vanquishing them, will not only promote your battle experience but at the same time, it’s also an opportunity to establish confidence. I’ve already talked it over with Principal. Once this time’s Spirit Master Grand Competition is over, you, children will graduate from the Academy.”

“Graduate? Teacher, isn’t it too early for this?”

All of them were shocked, except Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun.

Ryu shook his head with a smile,

“No, it’s not early. At ordinary advanced Spirit Master academies you can already graduate when your strength reaches thirty ranks, moreover, be considered a first-rate student. But right now you’re not just at the fortieth rank, Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun reached rank fiftieth, even from the point of view of the Star Luo Imperial Academy, I think that after you’ve participated in this Grand Competition, you should get the booster for your cultivation rank or so. Students, the Academy isn’t everything. To your lives, cultivating at the Academy is only one stage, even more, important is to temper yourselves in the outside world, that is the battlefield of your true test.”

“Yes, we understand”

“In a few more days, The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament will commence. I will tell you the rules today.”

“Don’t object, rules are rules, and they might be exploited for advantage. Strength is important in the competition, but you must also clearly understand the rules. Otherwise, it’s very possible that others might use them against you.”

“The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament is hosted by Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires’ royal families, assisted by Spirit Hall. It is the greatest Spirit Fight and the participants are only weaker than the Spirit Hall elite selection. In the rules, there are a few that still need obeying. First of all, all participants must be under twenty-five and every team must ensure there are seven every match.

Second, the matches are only friendly interactions, so try to refrain from hurting or crippling your opponents. Deaths are definitely not allowed, and once it happens, not only does the school have to pay for the losses, but they will also be disqualified.”

“Teacher, this one might not be appropriate.”

Dai Weisi rose his hand to interrupt Grandmaster.

“Spirit abilities have no eyes, what if we accidentally kill people?

If the two sides are of similar strength, fighting all out will inevitably cause incidents.”

Ryu looked towards Dai Weisi and said solemnly:

“What you say is correct. But, you need to know that the reason the two empires are hosting this tournament is not to let all the schools fight for a victory, but to find the best-talented people to recruit. Including Spirit Hall and the kingdoms within the two empires, they all have similar thoughts. Those that can represent Advanced Spirit Master Academies are all people of outstanding talent as well as the future of the Spirit Master World. Nurturing a spirit master is very difficult, and the number of spirit masters in the entire continent was never more than a million. Prohibiting killing might be a restriction, but it is also protection for you, kids. From my perspective, this rule is very correct.”

Dai Weisi still disapproved of the rule. Though he didn’t like killing, he hated a sense of restriction when fighting even more.

Ryu continued:

“Other than these two strict rules, the others are standard. Everything is based on fairness. For example: During the match, no using food or medicine created by nonparticipating spirit masters. Only Food or Healing System Spirit Masters on the stage can replenish their teammates. In other words, if you want to obtain supplements on the stage, then a Support Type Spirit Master must take up one stop. This is to prevent teams with Food System Spirit Masters from cheating. Also, you can’t use weapons other than your own spirit.

Getting to there, Ryu paused.

“The main rules are these. If anything else needs to be mentioned, I will tell you during the tournament. Now, let’s talk about the system of this tournament.”

The Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament wasn’t only a fight between Spirit Master Academies. It is a major event in the entire Spirit Master world. From the preliminaries to the promotion stage, and to the Final Stage, it would be three months in total.

While he was talking, Ryu took a wooden stick he prepared and drew two connecting circles in the ground.

“These two circles represent the two empires.” He then drew a small circle that touched both large circles. “This one represents the Spirit Hall.”

“Within the two empires, there are almost a hundred Advanced Spirit Master Academies. Every academy has a chance to participate, and the two empires’ official Advanced Spirit Master Academies will have two slots. For example,Star Luo Empire has Star Luo Imperial Academy. These two official teams will be split into the main team and a secondary team. The main team will be advanced to the finals phase instantly, which is a guarantee for the two royal families.

The secondary team will be with everyone else, participating in the preliminaries.”

Ryu then drew a few circles inside the two large circles.

“The preliminaries are split into areas. Within, with Star Luo City as the center, within Star Luo’s bounds, all that does not belong to a kingdom or dukedom will come to this area for the preliminaries. All the academies of the kingdoms and dukedoms will be matched based on their areas. Star Luo has four kingdoms and one dukedom. In other words, counting the Star Luo Area, there will be six preliminary areas. Other than the one team that is in the finals already, these six areas will be fighting over fifteen spots.

Because our area has a lot of academics and is also directly subordinate to the empire, there will be five spots to fight over. Every other area has two spots. Heaven Dou Empire is almost identical to Star Luo Empire.”

“Which means, through the preliminaries, the number of teams that go to the next stage will be thirty. These thirty teams will all participate in the finals. But before participating, there will be a promotion stage. This promotion stage is a ranking of the thirty teams to decide the order of matches in the finals.”

“The finals phase has thirty-three teams competing, and the format is random draw bracket single-round elimination.”

“Teacher, please wait a moment”

Zhu Zhuyun interrupted, as she asked with some confusion,

“Teacher, did you not just say that the two empires both have one seeded team and fifteen normal teams that advance through the qualifying and promotional phases? If so, that adds up to thirty-two teams competing in the finals, where does the 33rd comes from?”

Ryu smiled slightly, “I had forgotten to mention it; the finals doesn’t have two seeded teams but three. The third seed comes from the Spirit Hall’s own personal team, and this team can be said to have the highest potential for victory.

Although the Spirit Hall isn’t an advanced Spirit Master academy, it most definitely has its own organization that trains their younger spirit masters. In the previous three advanced spirit master championships, other than Star Luo Empire winning once, the other two victories were all taken by the Spirit Hall teams. They will also be your most powerful competitors in this tournament. From my experiences, the team Spirit Hall is sending out this time will definitely be stronger than the Team you met before.”

The Promotional Phase will decide the ranking of each empire’s teams separately, from rank one to fifteen. The benefits of this ranking will become apparent in the finals phase. The finals phase’s format is single-round elimination. Each round, there will be a few teams that draw empty brackets. The first round, the teams with empty brackets will be the three seeds; the other thirty teams will face off against one another with the fifteen winning teams attending the next round of battles. In the second round, including the three seed teams, there will be eighteen teams left. This time, from the remaining teams, the two teams that ranked first in the promotional phase will face an empty bracket. The other sixteen teams will face off with the eight winning ones progressing to the third round. The third round will have ten teams in total with again, the two highest ranking ones drawing blank brackets. Those that have already drawn blank brackets will not get another chance. After the third round, the remaining teams should be the six strongest teams of the championship. This time, there will be no empty brackets. The fourth round will still rely on the blind ballot to decide the opposing teams with the winning ones being the final three teams. In order to ensure fairness in the placement of the last three teams, the teams must undergo both group and individual elimination battles.”

“First of all is the individual elimination contest, similar to the format of the promotional phase. The three teams will proceed in alternating order. Each team will send out one member, the first two will face off against each other with the winner facing the member from the third team until the two of the teams run out of members. The team of the winner will direct head to the finals. The two losing teams will then face off in group combat to compete for the chance at the finals. The last two teams at the finals will then compete for the champion title in the final fight of the championship.”

Dai Weisi said,

“It doesn’t matter what kind of rules there are, as long as we win every single battle, at the end won’t we be the champions?”

Ryu slighted nodded,

“Weisi’s right. You should become familiar with the different phases of the championship, but in the face of absolute strength, it’s not the most important. During the tournament, I will remind you of the specific rules and help you analyze your opponents. Now everyone stands up.”

For these two months, what you need to do is to observe your opponents battle. Oh, right. There’s something I must remind you, We are the main team of Star Luo Empire, so we would pass from Star Luo division qualifying phase to final phase. I will have a special training regimen for both of Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi during this time. Meanwhile, 5 of you must observe other battles”

Ryu walked and then Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun followed him. After that, they transported.

“So cold,” the couple said.

“Now it’s the final phase of your training”

“What should we do here, teacher?”

“Now strip naked”

“WHAAAAT?”