Beast Taming: Bloodline Golden Hand

On the tenth day of the Beast Fighting Conference, the results of the loser's bracket were announced.

The Ancient Kingdom of Xijun did not overturn, and with a crushing advantage, defeated two countries, securing the final spot in the knockouts.

Thus, the list of the top four was revealed.

On the day of the draw, just as Tyler said, under Gu An's deliberate manipulation, the Ancient Kingdom of Xijun drew the Cangling Ancient Country.

No one doubted that there was manipulation involved.

Some even thought it was a good draw.

But actually, according to the rules, whether there was a draw or not made little difference.

The knockout format of the Beast Fighting Conference is different from the ordinary format, as the Youlan Empire has been consecutive champions for many years, they have immunity rights.

The rules state: last year's champion will receive a unique competition privilege, including a second revival right, finals right, the right to designate an opponent, and so on.

The Youlan Empire most frequently uses the finals right in past years.

The rule for using the finals right is:

Upon entering the knockouts and winning one round, the user can directly enter the finals, without entering the round-robin, and can directly apply to enter the finals.

This is equivalent to skipping one round of the winner's bracket semifinals.

And the winner from the other group is considered the loser, waiting for the winner from the loser's bracket round-robin to come up again.

Only the final victor can enter the finals.

This privilege has existed since the founding of the Beast Fighting Conference.

Back then, the Cangling Ancient Country also enjoyed this privilege.

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After learning the draw results, all parties began studying and analyzing their opponents, with the busiest being the gambling houses.

Zhao Shi relied on Zheng Cai's analysis; each odd set by the gambling house was very reasonable.

Thus, Zhao Shi, relying on the gambling house, won a substantial profit.

However, Zhao Shi dared not be careless, although gambling is a guaranteed profit business, this time is of great importance.

Zhao Shi's gambling house hosted all the official betting, but he did not solely enjoy this portion of the profit; he needed to divide it into three parts.

The first part was his own, the second part went to the Dubhe Pavilion, and the third was White Emperor City's tax.

So Zhao Shi was under considerable pressure as well.

If the profits he distributed were too small, it would be equivalent to offending all these forces in the Celestial Capital.

The first knockout match was Cangling Ancient Country versus Ancient Kingdom of Xijun.

"What do you think?"

Zhao Shi, while speaking, couldn't wait to see Zheng Cai's analysis data table.

However, this time Zheng Cai hadn't completed it yet, but he still said to Zhao Shi, "This time the performance of the Ancient Kingdom of Xijun in the loser's bracket was not bad."

"They didn't really show much, right?" Zhao Shi said in surprise.

The Ancient Kingdom of Xijun indeed won two consecutive victories easily without much effort, as the Nanfen Ancient Country was hopelessly inadequate, and the East Sakura Country lost a member, so the Ancient Kingdom of Xijun achieved an almost crushing victory against them.

"Precisely because they didn't show much, I am more inclined to believe they are hiding a trump card." Zheng Cai said very seriously:

"In terms of individual strength, I think the Spirit Academy has more of an advantage, but the Spirit Academy's trump cards have been exposed too much, so in this aspect, points must be deducted."

"The odds I'm giving are: sixty-four."

"We six, they four."

Zhao Shi also felt this odd reasonable and had someone write it down.

"By the way, boss." After finishing the work, Zheng Cai suddenly asked, "I heard you assisted in the investigation of the information leak case, what were the results?"

Zhao Shi pondered for a moment and said, "Some matters you shouldn't ask, don't ask."

Zheng Cai nodded, understanding a bit.

Zhao Shi's monopoly over the gambling house here naturally meant a strong power.

If anything could make Zhao Shi cautious, it was none other than the Celestial Capital.

Is the internal strife about to start again?

....

"Free-for-all?"

When Daoist Zhang informed Lin Chen of the news, the latter was slightly taken aback.

From an analyst's point of view, Lin Chen preferred a beast versus beast duel.

Currently, both Xiaobai and Xiao Hong could stand on their own.

It wasn't that Lin Chen thought their free-for-all abilities were lacking, but that free-for-all was 2V2 with many variables during actual combat.

An analyst's most desired thing is to have as few variables as possible.

"No problem, right?" Daoist Zhang asked.

The team competition of the Beast Fighting Conference adopted the king vs. king, soldier vs. soldier rule, meaning Lin Chen, designated as the Spirit Academy's number one seed, must face the opponent's number one seed.

The Ancient Kingdom of Xijun's number one seed was a person named Bruce.

This Bruce had an extraordinary background, rumored to be born in the Divine Hall royal family, one of the candidates nurtured for the future Hall Master of the Divine Hall.

Although the Divine Hall nominates several candidates each term, obtaining this qualification meant one thing:

He would receive a continuous influx of resources.

Lin Chen looked at the information on Bruce in his hand, frowning.

Bruce's Spirit Beasts were one for spiritual power and one for close combat.

This battle was much tougher than Lin Chen had imagined.

"Do your best." Lin Chen said.

Daoist Zhang was indifferent to Lin Chen's statement of doing his best; among the nine students sent out this time, Wu Chen and Lin Chen were the ones he found reliable.

He chuckled and said, "I heard from the Celestial Shadow Guard that you caused quite a stir here a few days ago."

Lin Chen was stunned, frowning, and Daoist Zhang smiled and said, "Don't worry, these Celestial Shadow Guards are reliable; they used to be our Spirit Academy students."

"And if they dare to act again, it will also be a breakthrough point for us."