Chapter 550: Top 16 (2/2)

Krune's Fire Domain and attacks all dispersed when he heard that. As one can imagine, he was still far from being exhausted. First of all, his Universe Foundation is incomparable in size to anyone else, so his pool of energy is indeed much bigger than Vasto's. After all, Krune began its expansion when he was still in the Soul Forging Realm. The second part is that his Elemental and Chaos Meridians are both at their max capability of conversion, so Krune can get more energy than anyone else.

If fact, thanks to the Tribulation Meridians, Krune went a step further, which increased the amount of Spiritual Energy that it could absorb for conversion at once. In a certain way, one could say that Krune's absorption speed is basically on par with Cinty. As everyone knows, Cinty has a Blackhole Major Divine Soul, Krune doesn't. For him to be on par with Cinty in absorption, he can only thank the extra Tribulation Lightning Meridians.

With that, Krune's first battle was over with his victory.

In the Fifteenth group, Hanan also passed through his opponent without many problems, mostly since his first battle was against someone with lower cultivation. Sure enough, Krune and Laka weren't the only ones under the 9th Stage of the Divine Path Realm.

In the end, Fabio Koltem was the only one that defeated a seeded participant in the first round. Of course, the winners from battles without seeded fighters might have someone hiding their strength. So the spectators couldn't throw away the idea of other seeded participants losing in the next few rounds.

On the second round, Iem Turo was once again the first on the stage. His opponent was a demon beast this time. However, everyone could see that the demon beast didn't seem that confident. The news about Iem Turo being a Heavenly Race member quickly spread between the competitors, so many thought that the first group's winner has already been decided.

In fact, even the seeded participant of the second group, Tirande, was feeling gloomy. After all, there are 16 seeded participants in 16 groups, but only the top 8 would advance into the next phase. That means Tirande will have to defeat Iem Turo as his last obstacle. Difficult, too difficult! That's what Tirande felt.

Most of the demon beasts are close-quarter fighters. Iem's opponent this time was no different, so he pounced at Iem just like Horune did. He used all his laws and Domain from the very start. Iem, of course, took this head-on! The result was not surprising to anyone. Iem won once more.

But the thing that people didn't like was the fact that he only showed his physical prowess so far. As a Heavenly Race member, he definitely was much more than a melee fighter. Unfortunately for the others, no one was able to force him into doing something different.

The rounds continued. Iem, Laka, Hanan, Krune, Fabio, and the others kept winning their battles one after another. In one Iem's matches, he fought against a long-ranged cultivator. Thanks to that, others could finally see Iem's skills.

Well, the result was the same, nonetheless. It's just that the battle persisted for a few minutes since Iem's opponent was adept at running. But there was one thing that no one has seen yet, Iem's Domain! He was basically the only participant that hasn't used a Domain Yet. All the participants, especially Tirande, which that they could have seen it beforehand. As the winner of the Second Group, Tirande is the guy who will fight Iem Turo to see which one of them would enter the top 8.

Well, in a certain way, Krune hasn't shown his real Domain either. For each of the five battles, Krune used one of his Elemental Domains. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and Lightning. He didn't use a Space, Time, Dark, or Light Domains, though. Between those four, the only one that Krune could possibly create a Domain was Space, but he wasn't used to it. He hasn't even tried before either.

The spectators outside were still amazed, though. After all, Krune had five different types of Domain. Others could also create other Domains if they wanted, but they wouldn't use the extra ones as proficient as Krune. But the majority already knew about the Myriad Wisps Technique. Not to mention that Krune is an Elemental Major Divine Soul Owner. His Major Divine Soul is perfect to get used to all the Elements, so they could at least accept his proficiency somehow.

Each group had 32 participants. That being said, the winners of the 16 groups had been decided. The next battles would be between the strongest 16 to determine the top 8.

Iem Turo vs. Tirande;

Waka Ulin vs. Tiango;

Sara Qanze vs. Karen Zetial;

Romerio Botfue vs. Sule;

Jovlare vs. Vork Hergando;

Laka vs. Fabio Koltem;

Krune vs. Unan Cesenlal;

Hanan Frunkan vs. Mala.