When Yu Xiaogang sat down again, his eyes fell upon a token marked with six patterns that had somehow appeared on his desk.
Holding the cold token, long dormant, Yu Xiaogang sat where he was and remained silent for a long time.
While Su Yun and Xiao Wu were spending their vacation back in Holy Soul Village, he had no idea that news of his life-or-death duel with Tang San had already spread throughout the continent as a hot topic within Spirit Hall.
There were two reasons the news had spread so quickly.
First, a long time had passed since the previous life-or-death duel. Many people within Spirit Hall had even forgotten which era the participants in the last duel had lived in. Second, Su Yun and Tang San had rather special identities—or, more accurately, rather special Martial Souls.
They came from the same village and both possessed Blue Silver Grass, a Martial Soul universally recognized as the most useless in the world. Yet both were "geniuses" who had awakened Innate Full Soul Power.
The news had sparked plenty of discussion among Spirit Hall's staff.
Spirit Hall.
The guards at the gates of Spirit City were due for a shift change. As they gathered their belongings and lined up, many took the opportunity to discuss the latest news circulating through the hall.
"Hey, have you heard? Two little kids from the Heaven Dou Empire say they're going to have a life-or-death duel in Heaven Dou Imperial City ten years from now."
"You heard about it too? I thought I was the only one who knew. Apparently, those two boys are competing because a kid named Su Yun embarrassed the teacher of a child called Tang San. So Tang San stood up and challenged him to a life-or-death duel—and the craziest