In the second year of the Taiping Calendar, on the first day of the first lunar month, during the Empire's anniversary celebration,after a full half year of intense preparation and a fierce three-month competition schedule, the Pan-Douluo Star All-Soul Master Tournament / Heavenly Kingdom's First Martial Examination was set to determine its champion today.
The imperial capital, Chang'an City, was packed shoulder to shoulder, a sea of people as far as the eye could see. The closer one got to the southern district of the city, where the martial examination venue was located, the more impassable the streets became—so crowded that even the rooftops were filled with people.
In order to maintain order, the capital garrison had increased manpower three times. At present, more than two thousand soul masters and an army of ten thousand soldiers were deployed throughout the city on guard duty.
Even so, they were still unable to stop the overwhelming enthusiasm of the masses who wanted to catch a glimpse of their idols' sacred visages.
Ever since giant screens began to be installed successively in all medium and large cities, Nangong Lingyun had launched a series of publicity campaigns.
These were mainly divided into three parts: first, his own deeds, ideals, and achievements; second, the Empire's various policies, laws, and regulations; and third, this soul master tournament.
The results couldn't merely be described as impressive—they were more like a dimensionality-reduction strike: unstoppable, overwhelming, leaving nothing standing.
Entertainment methods in this era of Douluo were simply, absurdly scarce—practically primitive society. Even newspapers had been pioneered by Nangong Lingyun himself, and books and novels were extremely limited, not to mention anything else.
Once these ultra-high-definition giant screens and various exciting videos appeared, they immediately caused an unprecedented sensation. Everyone who saw them was utterly captivated, their souls shaken, hearts instantly conquered.
A massive amount of faith power gathered.Even though the vast majority of it was stored away to condense divine sparks, the remaining small portion still allowed the three major martial souls—especially the Beast-Taming Space—to advance even further.
In less than nine short months, his soul power skyrocketed like a rocket, surging more than twenty levels and now reaching level ninety-eight.
Utterly brutal.
A certain Sea God who did not wish to be named recalled how he had once gone without sleep for a full thousand years, traveling across the entire ocean door to door delivering "warmth" just to break through level one hundred—and suddenly felt like a complete fool, crying fainted in the restroom.
For Nangong Lingyun's eighth Beast-Taming Spirit, he ultimately chose the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.The ninth was a summoned character—from the Dou Po world, the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python, Queen Medusa.
One yin, one yang.
As for the Silver Dragon King's true body, after careful consideration, it was reserved as the tenth soul ring.
The Ancient Desolate Sacred Body's eighth soul skill was Qimen Dunjia (Yang); the ninth soul skill was Manipulating Creation (Yang).The Chaos Sacred Spirit was the same, but yin in nature, with a strength equivalent to three million years.
The other two focuses of publicity:the Empire's policies needed no elaboration, while the soul master tournament was in full swing.
Almost every contestant who made it into the finals gained a massive following, becoming… a popularity idol.
According to Nangong Lingyun's design,the Heavenly Kingdom Soul Master Tournament system was divided into three parts: regional qualification matches, group round-robin point matches, and finally elimination ranking matches.
The competition categories included the Peak Match, with no restrictions whatsoever; the Genius Match, requiring solo participation and an age of twenty-two or below; and the Team Match, with up to seven people and an age limit of twenty-five.
Among them, the Peak Match skipped the first two stages entirely, allowing anyone to directly register for the grand finals.There were currently a total of seven contestants, all Extreme Douluo: Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Angel Yan, Bo Saixi, Tang Chen, the Sun-Moon Empire's Supreme Emperor Xu Tianling, and the Destruction God King's High Priest Long Wuxing.
There were sixteen teams in the elimination team match, and thirty-two individuals in the Genius Match.
Among everyone, Gu Yuena, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and Angel Yan currently enjoyed the highest popularity.
These four were also today's final competitors.
At 9:50 in the morning, as the competition was about to begin,a thunderous cheer suddenly erupted from the massive martial arena in the southern part of the city.
Nangong Lingyun held a purple-gold scepter in his hand, wore a Heaven-Piercing Crown on his head, and was clad in a brilliant silver armor specially designed and crafted to appear both majestic and handsome.On his left and right followed two senior elders—Angel Yan and Yuan Tiangang—as he slowly walked from the entrance onto the center of the stage.
The instant he appeared, the stands below erupted. Countless people stood up and applauded, shouting at the top of their lungs:
"Long live His Majesty!"
"Heavenblade Douluo is invincible!"
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Those able to appear at the finals were either wealthy or noble.
Yet when it came to idol-chasing, their fanaticism was no less—if not more—than that of many inexperienced commoners.
From Nangong Lingyun's opening speech, to the finalists, to all other participants who had entered the third round,the scene became extremely chaotic. Some people were so excited that they fainted and had to be carried away. What should have been a ten-minute opening process ended up taking a full half hour, forcing the schedule to be delayed.
In the end, Nangong Lingyun had to unfold his mental domain and apply a calming effect before the venue finally became completely quiet.
The first match of the finals was the Genius Match.
After the opening procedures ended, Gu Na'er and Qian Renxue each leapt forward, landing on the left and right sides of the arena.
Qian Renxue wore a golden palace-style long dress.
It was entirely woven from an extremely precious type of golden thread. The style was ancient and simple, with minimal decorative patterns, yet it highlighted an aura of supreme nobility and elegance.
Her dazzling golden hair set off her snow-white, tender skin. From facial features to figure, from temperament to posture, she was so perfect as to be almost flawless.
The moment she landed, a streak of brilliant golden light lit up from her forehead and rapidly spread throughout her body,
completely bathing her in golden radiance, making her look incomparably sacred and glorious.
Immediately after, three pairs of angelic wings slowly unfolded, extending toward the skies on both sides.
Fierce golden flames coiled around them. With just a gentle tremor at the tips, they lifted her entire body as if freed from gravity's control,slowly floating upward and hovering about one foot above the ground.
Following her martial soul, six black and two red—eight ultra-limit configured soul rings—appeared around her legs at knee height, slowly rotating and pulsing rhythmically.
Three soul spirits—the Sun Bird, the Sacred Winged Pegasus, and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Light Goddess Butterfly—also appeared one after another, hovering beside her, their eyes filled with excitement and pride.
Well, when the master is a popularity idol, the soul spirits share in the glory.
Gu Yuena, on the other hand, wore a silver robe and a silver crown upon her head.
Her equally silver, silky hair emitted a faint glow, its texture as immaculate as silver crystal.
Her high-brightness, snow-white skin—pure as the finest milk—sparkled under the arena lights, able to stand evenly matched against Qian Renxue's innate golden radiance.
Even in the face of a hundred thousand live spectators, and who knew how many more watching before the giant screens outside,
that stunningly beautiful face remained calm and unruffled, showing not the slightest ripple—only a trace of battle intent flickered within her clear, pure violet eyes.
She lightly raised her hand, and a silver spear entwined with nine-colored light instantly fell into her palm.
Eight crimson soul rings, red as blood, unfolded one by one—yet unlike the others from Kaiyuan Academy, she did not possess even a single soul spirit.
It was no wonder the two were so fervently adored.
With appearance, figure, and temperament all defying the heavens, and strength that was utterly unimaginable, they didn't just leave so-called geniuses behind—even vast numbers of veteran powerhouses had long since been completely surpassed.
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