Ning Fengzhi's eyes widened slightly, his face filled with surprise and disbelief.
He had considered the possibility that Spirit Hall would use this Public Trial Assembly as a pretext to seize the Spirit Bone Shi Nian had left behind.
But he had never imagined they would offer it as a prize for the ultimate champions of this continent-wide Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament.
This left Ning Fengzhi feeling rather windswept and bewildered, his mind full of questions.
The Spirit Hall he remembered was hardly such a generous organization of Spirit Masters. Arrogant, overbearing, tyrannical, doing whatever they pleased and demanding everything for themselves-that was how they ought to behave.
Why were things different now?
Ning Fengzhi could no longer make sense of it.
It was not just the spectators in the stands or Ning Fengzhi who were surprised. The elite Spirit Master students watching the Public Trial Assembly from the participating academies' exclusive viewing area were even more astonished.
In particular, the students of the Four Elemental Academies, who could contend for the top five in the Preliminary Tournament and had a sliver of hope of claiming the championship in the Grand Finals, instantly lit up.
Those were four whole Spirit Bones. Not a soul in the entire Soul Master World of the Douluo Continent could remain unmoved.
Had this Elite Spirit Master Tournament not restricted participation to young Spirit Masters under twenty-five belonging to Advanced Spirit Master Academies, even old fossils like Titled Douluo might have been unable to resist entering.
According to information the organizers of the Elite Spirit Master Tournament had released before the competition, the other three Spirit Bones offered as championship prizes were no worse in quality or age than this Ten Thousand Year Illusion Wisdom Skull, and in fact far surpassed it.
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