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Even after Xu Sheng announced the results, everyone was still immersed in the peak duel between Xu Tianyang and Qian Renxue.
As a result, the subsequent team battles between the Sun Moon Team and the Spirit Hall Team seemed bland and uninteresting to the crowd.
"This old man announces that the overall champion of this Soul Master Competition is the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy Team." With Xu Sheng's announcement, the entire venue was once again filled with enthusiastic cheers, as if they would pierce through the clouds in the sky.
After Qian Renxue and Xu Tianyang both withdrew from participating, the Spirit Hall Team's remaining three Spirit Kings were naturally no match for the Sun Moon Team's seven Spirit Kings.
Even if Hu Liena and Xie Yue had the Martial Soul Fusion Technique, Demonic Charm, they were still entangled by Yang Yiyi alone.
After Zui Hongchen and their soul spirits eliminated Yan and the others, the six great soul spirits then began to collectively perform a righteous ganging up on Demonic Charm, which greatly opened the eyes of the audience and gave them a clearer understanding of soul spirits.
Ultimately, the rankings for this Soul Master Competition were settled.
Champion: Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy.
Runner-up: Spirit Hall Team.
Third Place: Tianshui Academy.
"This was truly a magnificent competition. Seeing all of you, I feel as if I am looking at the future of the Spirit Master's world." With everything settled, Xu Yunxiao began to summarize the results of this Soul Master Competition.
Waving his hand, Feng Tianxiang walked forward with a brocade tray. At this moment, everyone's gaze fell upon the brocade tray.
Everyone knew what was inside: one spirit tool each of rank seven, eight, and nine, plus three ten-thousand-year Spirit Bones, and the most 'insignificant' gold soul coins. The value of these items could even buy some small countries.
Among them, the people of the Shrek Team looked the most unwilling. If their trump cards hadn't been exposed too early, they would have had a chance to defeat Tianshui Academy. Now, it was too late.
Things worth millions had slipped through their fingers. Flender felt such heartache that he could barely breathe.
"Please, the top three, come forward to receive your rewards!" Xu Yunxiao took in everyone's gazes, smiling as he looked at the members of the three great teams, primarily the three women: Yang Yiyi, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er.
The three women were a bit shy at first, but after glancing at each other, they all walked onto the high platform with calm gazes.
As they passed Xu Tianyang, they tacitly glared at him. Under the kind gazes of Xu Yunxiao and Mu Mengyu, they received their respective rewards.
After the three women retreated, and everyone thought this Soul Master Competition was about to end, Xu Tianyang stepped forward, attracting everyone's attention.
"Everyone, I'm sure you are all very curious about the Spirit Beasts summoned by my Sun Moon Team, aren't you?" Indeed, Xu Tianyang's opening words immediately piqued everyone's interest.
"Those are soul spirits, the latest research from my Sun Moon Empire. The purpose of a soul spirit is that it can provide a Spirit Master with multiple spirit rings. Furthermore, a soul spirit possesses the soul of the Spirit Beast from its lifetime and can assist a Spirit Master in combat, which I believe you all just witnessed."
Xu Tianyang's words immediately caused a huge uproar.
"How is this possible?"
"What is a soul spirit? I've never heard of it before!"
"Idiot, didn't His Highness just say that what the Sun Moon Team members just summoned were soul spirits?"
"The performance of those soul spirits indeed matches what His Highness said; they possess souls and the combat abilities from their lifetime. As for producing multiple spirit rings, this… this is simply too fantastical."
Xu Tianyang's words still left these people present somewhat bewildered. They had never understood anything about soul spirits before, so naturally, they were not very clear.
"This is impossible! How can one Spirit Beast provide multiple spirit rings?" A voice of doubt cried out from Yu Xiaogang's mouth. At this moment, his eyes were bloodshot. Xu Tianyang's words seemed to have directly overturned his many years of understanding.
He realized that a new era was about to arrive, and this era would have no place for him.
He knew his own capabilities best. If soul spirits were real, then his life's 'research' achievements would become worthless.
"How dare you!" Shouts of rebuke erupted from countless Sun Moon Empire officials, and terrifying pressures surged towards Yu Xiaogang.
Countless gazes, as if looking at an idiot, fell upon Yu Xiaogang, causing his fragile inner world to shatter once more.
Yu Xiaogang's face turned pale, and he began to back down in his heart again.
"Is the Sun Moon Empire so tyrannical that it doesn't even allow questions?" At this moment, Liu Erlong gritted her teeth and stood in front of Yu Xiaogang, blocking the spirit power pressure coming from all directions.
"Yes, I am an elder of Spirit Hall. Do I not even have the right to question?" Yu Xiaogang, his face pale, walked out from beside Liu Erlong, took out a token engraved with six Spirit patterns, and said loudly.
Yu Xiaogang producing this token somewhat surprised the people from the original Douluo Continent. This 'Master' actually had an elder token from Spirit Hall?
Was he qualified?
Looking at the token in Yu Xiaogang's hand, Xu Tianyang couldn't help but show a strange expression, turning to Qian Renxue and her group and asking, "Is Yu Xiaogang an elder of Spirit Hall?"
Qian Renxue frowned upon hearing this, looked at the other party with disgust, and said coldly, "Among the elders of my Spirit Hall, there is no good-for-nothing whose spirit power is only twenty-nine ranks."
The only lost elder token was Qian Xunji's. Where Yu Xiaogang's token came from was self-evident.
"Bang!" Qingluan Douluo was even more direct. A gentle breeze swept past, and Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were sent flying, spitting blood. She reached out and took the token.
"Impersonating an elder of Spirit Hall is a capital offense. This venerable one will report to the Pope upon returning to Spirit Hall and have the Pope personally handle it." Qingluan Douluo was one of the insiders who knew the full story of what happened back then, and the malice in her eyes as she looked at Yu Xiaogang was undisguised.
"Xiaogang…" Liu Erlong looked at the injured Yu Xiaogang, her expression sorrowful and indignant, wanting to make a move. Fortunately, Flender stopped her in time.
"Erlong, quickly treat Xiaogang."
That one sentence brought Liu Erlong back to her senses. No matter how unwilling she was, she could only give up and take Yu Xiaogang for treatment.
From beginning to end, not a single person among the Shrek group spoke out.
"Please forgive the display, Your Highness. Please continue to explain the situation of soul spirits. This is the utmost priority, a grand plan concerning the future of the Spirit Master's world." Qian Renxue gave Xu Tianyang a meaningful look.
Xu Tianyang understood, nodded, and continued, "Precisely because soul spirits are of such great importance and represent a subversion of traditional Spirit Master cultivation, we established the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy as a pilot site to experiment with the feasibility of soul spirits.
We also took advantage of the Soul Master Competition to allow everyone to understand the situation of soul spirits more intuitively.
The facts, as everyone has seen, show no issues."
"Including myself, I also possess a soul spirit." While everyone was pondering, Xu Tianyang dropped another bombshell.
"Hahahaha, with a loud bang in the sky, Brother Tian Meng makes a brilliant entrance…"