At the beginning of the first round of the finals, the weakest—Heaven Dou Empire—attracted everyone's attention with two unusual academies.
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and Lanba Academy.
Both originated from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
In particular, Feng Xiaotian, leader of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, drew the most attention.
Over the past year, not only had he defeated Huo Wu, but he also knew that Huo Wu wanted her husband to become stronger.
So, for the first time in his life, he dedicated himself to cultivation without relying on his father's urging.
Naturally, the results were outstanding.
According to Yu Xiaowei's memory, he should currently be at level 44, but Flender brought back news that Feng Xiaotian had reached level 51.
In less than two years, his soul power had increased by 10 levels.
That truly defined what a top genius is!
And the other students of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy also shocked everyone.
Yu Tianxin, a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, was known as the slowest cultivator.
Yet now, he was already at level 47.
Combined with his mysterious dragon transformation, his performance on the field was even more terrifying than Feng Xiaotian, who had already become a Soul King.
As for the Blue Tyrant Academy, although they had no Soul Kings, their leader Yu Tianheng—also from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan—had a soul power of 48, one level higher than Yu Tianxin.
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Spirit Hall Academy. Yue Guan, acting as a member of the education committee, could not comprehend this at all. He personally visited Blue Tyrant Academy.
In his evaluation, except for Yu Xiaowei, they were all just trash.
How long had it been?
Less than two years! And all of them had become soul masters?
The furious Yue Guan slammed the chair's armrest and shouted at Yu Xiaogang, who stood before him.
"Are those two really descendants of your Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
"Truly pure-blooded," Yu Xiaogang replied with his head lowered.
To be honest, he had also been confused when he first saw it.
He had studied the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial spirit for over 30 years, so he naturally knew its strengths and weaknesses very well.
Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin were undoubtedly pure-blooded descendants. Their early cultivation speed also matched the known limitations of this martial spirit.
But now their speed was astonishing, and with both of them showing full-body dragon transformations, he immediately suspected they must have consumed a magical herb recorded in the Yu family—
The Dragon Blood Fruit.
"What?" Yue Guan frowned.
Yu Xiaogang sighed lightly and said firmly,
"They must have eaten the Dragon Blood Fruit. It's a spirit herb recorded in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After consuming it, there are no more cultivation bottlenecks."
It was also the solution Yu Xiaogang once thought of for his martial spirit problem.
But true dragons were extinct, and the Dragon Blood Fruit was incredibly rare.
At that time, he had wandered with people from Spirit Hall and secretly used Bibi Dong's power to search for it, but he found no clues.
Now that his two nephews had such heaven-defying luck, he felt jealous and envious.
After hearing this, Yue Guan snorted coldly and said nothing more.
He was deeply troubled by one issue.
Originally, he thought that the three Soul Kings of Spirit Hall's golden generation were enough to win the Soul Master Competition.
He never expected that Heaven Dou Empire would provide so many surprises.
Especially with Yu Xiaowei yet to appear, both the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and Blue Tyrant Academy would pose major problems for them.
Losing would be a major embarrassment.
Yue Guan banged his head in frustration.
Due to earlier false reports, Yan had been tortured by him for several months, resulting in no progress in soul power.
Although it was later revealed to be a false accusation, all kinds of rare medicines were used to make amends.
But when the Soul Master Competition arrived, Yan seemed to have a heart condition—his soul power remained at level 51, with no improvement.
Yu Xiaogang was also concerned. Initially, Bibi Dong accepted him and allowed him to take over Spirit Hall Academy.
At that time, the three members of the golden generation had broken through to Soul King level, reaching level 51.
Believing that he had stabilized Yu Xiaogang's position, she then focused on their physical training.
So their daily special training involved all kinds of extreme endurance challenges and battles with soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
After this intense regimen,
In a few months, while their physical strength increased significantly, their soul power did not.
Just as Yu Xiaogang was about to begin the second phase of special training, Yan was taken by Yue Guan.
Xie Yue and Hu Liena, who had trained with him for years, were shaken by Yan's miserable condition and lost their will to train.
No matter how Yu Xiaogang tried, both remained disoriented.
You know, normally, after reaching the Soul King level, cultivation speed drops drastically. Even for top geniuses, gaining two or three levels a year is considered good.
However, due to all these delays, the trio's soul power hadn't increased at all, remaining stuck at level 51.
Because of this, Yue Guan was furious and complained to Bibi Dong.
Unfortunately, Bibi Dong ignored him. Two rounds of the competition passed quickly, and the top ten finalists were announced.
Among them, the most outstanding performances were undoubtedly from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and Lanba Academy.
Especially Heaven Dou Imperial Academy—it was the only one besides Spirit Hall Academy to have Soul Kings.
Both of their matches ended like withered trees.
After the third round draw,
An unexpected match-up appeared—
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy vs. Lanba Academy.
Two of the tournament's top three teams actually met in the top ten.
What was even more absurd was that Spirit Hall Academy once again got a bye.
This biased result clearly favored Spirit Hall Academy, drawing dissatisfaction from other academies.
Cries of "shady dealings" spread.
But since Spirit Hall was the organizer, no matter how much others protested, they only got one answer:
"If you don't want to participate, you can withdraw. The organizing committee is fair and just—there is no shady manipulation."
Soon, the third round of the competition began.
After the students from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and Lanba Academy stepped onto the stage, the audience was stunned to discover that Lanba Academy had once again changed.
In the past few competition days, people had already become numb to Lanba Academy's reserve of soul masters.
With the addition of this new black-haired youth, Lanba Academy now had nine soul masters.
The students from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy on the opposite side swallowed nervously upon seeing Yu Xiaowei step on stage.
Especially Feng Xiaotian and Yu Tianxin, who had previously been beaten by him.
The moment they saw him, their entire bodies ached reflexively.
Seeing this, Huo Wu—standing behind—shouted,
"Why are you all so afraid? He's just one man, and we have seven! Are we still afraid of him?"
Her words instantly reignited Feng Xiaotian's motivation.
Now that he was a Soul King, it was time to redeem himself from the humiliation of being beaten in front of Huo Wu and reverse that bad impression.
With that in mind, Feng Xiaotian summoned his Gale Two-Headed Demon Wolf, pointed at Yu Xiaowei, and shouted:
"Yu Xiaowei! Come, one-on-one!"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaowei tilted his neck curiously and casually cleaned his ears.
Feng Xiaotian sure had guts!
It had been a long time since anyone had dared to challenge him like that.
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