Capital of the Heaven Dou Empire — Heaven Dou City.
The opening ceremony of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Heaven Dou Empire Division, was held with grand ceremony in Heaven Dou City.
As the grandest soul master competition on the entire Douluo Continent, it attracted not only the attention of soul masters. From royalty and nobles to commoners, every resident of the Douluo Continent regarded this tournament as the most magnificent festival.
The Soul Fighting Arena of Heaven Dou City was requisitioned as the competition venue for the academy tournament. More than a month ago, the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena had already suspended all soul fighting matches and began internal renovations.
Now, all the sub-arenas and the main arena had been merged into one enormous competition venue.
The Heaven Dou Empire used such a vast arena to welcome the grandest event.
Early in the morning, before the sun had risen, many spectators were already lining up outside the Great Soul Arena, waiting to enter. As the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, even commoners lived relatively well-off lives. The preliminary round did not restrict attendance to soul masters only, so the number of people heading to the Great Soul Arena to watch was extremely large.
Qian Renyue and Ning Rongrong followed Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin through a special passage and entered the venue without waiting long.
Na'er disliked that there were too many humans here and felt uncomfortable staying, so Di Tian took her away to play.
Dugu Yan was brought by Poison Douluo Dugu Bo and entered the venue by relying on Prince Xue He's influence. She found an empty seat and quietly watched the competition.
"So many people," Qian Renyue couldn't help but sigh.
"Yeah, yeah. I knew the tournament would be grand, but I didn't expect there to be so many people," Ning Rongrong also sighed.
"The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament itself is a cradle of talent. Not to mention those who achieve certain results—even students who merely participate in the tournament become targets of competition among nobles and clans. Let alone those who stand out in this tournament," Ning Fengzhi said with a smile as he explained to the two girls.
"That's true. Talent is really important. Although this is only the preliminary round, the Spirit Hall has still sent a Platinum Bishop from Spirit City to watch the competition, precisely to search for talent," Qian Renyue said.
"Oh? The Spirit Hall actually sent a Platinum Bishop?" Ning Fengzhi asked with interest.
"Yes, it's Bishop Salas," Qian Renyue explained.
"His status in the Spirit Hall should be quite high, right? They actually sent him here?" Ning Fengzhi said.
"Mm. Anyway, he has nothing better to do, so he was drafted to come and observe whether there are any noteworthy talents," Qian Renyue shrugged and said indifferently.
Salas was extremely loyal to the Spirit Hall and very capable. His only flaw was that he was lustful and had somewhat of a scumbag nature. Pope Bibi Dong had warned him several times. Otherwise, he wouldn't have remained in Heaven Dou City without being promoted to Spirit City. Now, Qian Renyue didn't know how to use him either, so she could only keep him nearby and personally keep an eye on him.
"What academy is that? My god, did they just crawl out of a latrine?"
"This is hilarious. That green monster emblem on their chests is really cute. Why do their ears look like loudspeakers?"
"Look, look, they even have advertisements on their backs? Is there really such an advanced soul master academy? And they can participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament? This is too funny. The world is full of strange things."
Suddenly, bursts of intense laughter erupted from the crowd. Qian Renyue and the others also looked over curiously, wanting to see what kind of academy was being mocked like this.
"So it's Shrek Academy," Qian Renyue said mockingly as she looked at Shrek's team uniforms.
"Didn't Shrek join Lanba Academy? How did they end up so miserable?" Ning Rongrong frowned in confusion.
"Heh, Flander is a profiteer. For advertising fees, he really stops at nothing. He neither respects the tournament nor the students," Qian Renyue said sarcastically.
"For the hidden weapons in Tang San's hands, I cooperated with the Crown Prince and purchased them from Tang San in the name of the royal family. Although it was successful, he really wasn't polite—the price was truly…" Ning Fengzhi shook his head helplessly as he spoke,
"Most infuriating of all, we provide all the weapon metals and forging ourselves, and he only handles the final assembly. If anything breaks, he bears no responsibility and can only blame us for using poor metals. If his weapons weren't indeed good, I really wouldn't want to cooperate with such a greedy, bottomless person." Even with his good temper, Ning Fengzhi felt somewhat irritated when talking about cooperating with Tang San.
"Teacher, don't worry. What he swallows today, he will spit out someday," Qian Renyue said coldly, her eyes full of disdain for Tang San's behavior.
"By the way, the condition Tang San proposed for cooperating with the Heaven Dou Empire was to rename Lanba Academy to Shrek Academy. Emperor Xue Ye agreed, and since the Crown Prince didn't object, I didn't stop it either, in order not to arouse suspicion from Emperor Xue Ye," Ning Fengzhi said.
"I heard about that. It's not a big problem—just a name," Qian Renyue didn't care much about it. After seeing Tang San's team's ugly uniforms, she had already guessed it.
Looking at the teams coming to participate in the competition, everyone was dressed brightly. The colors varied, but the decorations, patterns, and academy emblems were all carefully designed. The young students walked into the Great Soul Arena with heads held high, each one confident and imposing, heroic and spirited.
Seeing the young and confident soul masters, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin couldn't help but sigh, "Youth is truly wonderful."
Qian Renyue and Ning Rongrong also watched the students entering the arena with great interest, listening as Ning Fengzhi introduced the participating students to them.
Inside the Great Soul Arena, everything was decorated in silver tones. The original golden tone was no longer visible, perhaps due to changes in aesthetic preferences of the management.
Although the sun was already high in the sky and the arena was not dark, lighting soul tools still hung on the surrounding walls, fully displaying luxury and grandeur.
On the VIP platform, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin led Qian Renyue and Ning Rongrong to their seats. Some people were already seated in the VIP area.
In the center of the first row sat the Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, Emperor Xue Ye. Behind him were Prince Xue He and the three Education Committee members they had seen at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Beside Emperor Xue Ye sat a man in a red robe—Bishop Salas. At this moment, he wore a five-pointed platinum crown on his head, his eyes half-closed as if he were asleep. His shoulders were narrow, and his slender body was like a spear.
As if sensing someone's arrival, Salas reluctantly opened his eyes. The first person he saw was the obedient Qian Renyue standing behind Ning Fengzhi, who was being introduced and politely greeting Emperor Xue Ye.
"Bishop Salas," Qian Renyue greeted him politely under Ning Fengzhi's introduction. Salas's expression turned ugly, looking like someone who wanted to run away but had to keep up appearances, not knowing what to do, which made Ning Fengzhi secretly laugh.
Emperor Xue Ye, however, thought that Salas, as a bishop of the Spirit Hall, looked down on the disciple of Sect Master Ning, and thus coldly snorted. But he was quite happy to see the sect and the Spirit Hall in conflict, so he just watched the show silently.
The supreme ruler of the Spirit Hall was undoubtedly the Pope. Below the Pope were the four great bishops, whose status was symbolized by the five-pointed platinum crown. The person before them was clearly one of the Platinum Bishops. To be able to serve as a Platinum Bishop, he should be the master of the Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City, with an extremely noble status.
But no matter how noble his status was, it could not compare to that of the Holy Maiden. Facing Holy Maiden Qian Renyue, even Salas could only restrain his thoughts, obediently watch the competition, and strive to complete the tasks assigned from above.
After Ning Fengzhi led Qian Renyue and Ning Rongrong in greeting everyone, the preliminary round officially began.
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