Soto Grand Spirit Fighting Arena

The Soto Grand Spirit Fighting Arena is oval-shaped and stands one hundred and twenty meters tall, housing one main arena and twenty-four sub-arenas inside.

The spectator stands can accommodate sixty thousand people simultaneously, and there are also one hundred VIP boxes.

This place is not only a venue for Spirit Masters to spar and exchange pointers, but also a place for various factions to showcase their strength.

Here, in addition to the previously mentioned sparring-style spirit fights, there are also life-and-death fights and wager-based fights.

Occasionally, when they were short on money and struggling to make ends meet, Ma Hongjun and Oscar would participate in wager-based fights, though this happened very rarely.

It wasn't that they were worried about losing and being unable to pay, but rather that they knew deep down that human desire is endless, constantly chasing money, power, and love.

Yet, once one thing is satisfied, a person will immediately pursue the next; there are simply too many things to chase, which causes people to forget what they truly want most, locking themselves into a prison called desire.

Walking into the Grand Spirit Fighting Arena, Oscar paused slightly in front of a massive stone tablet, a trace of pity appearing in his eyes.

The densely packed names carved upon it were Spirit Masters who had died in spirit fights; these people might have had parents, children, or wives, but they had all fallen on the path of chasing their desires.

"Let's go, I'll take you to register."

Oscar pulled Zhu Zhuqing toward the front desk. Registering for spirit fights here is very simple; one only needs to fill out a form including their name, age, birthplace, and Spirit to receive the entry-level Iron Spirit Fighting Badge. Of course, registration also requires each person to pay ten Soul Coins as a registration fee.

At the same time, a spirit power test similar to those at the Spirit Hall was conducted to determine their respective ranks.

For Oscar and Ma Hongjun, aside from their spirit power rank and age, the information regarding their Spirits, age, and birthplace was all fabricated.

According to Oscar, their Spirits were not from any major clans. In this world, Spirits are strange and varied; without revealing the specific effects of a Spirit, no one could be certain what that Spirit actually was.

Therefore, the Spirit name Ma Hongjun registered at the fighting arena was Flamingo... and the Spirit name Oscar registered was Chicken Sausage...

As for their age... although they looked ridiculously young at the time of registration, they insisted on registering as twenty years old, yet the Soto Grand Spirit Fighting Arena did not give them a hard time.

After all, they had seen too many strange and eccentric Spirit Masters; as long as one did not fake the bottom line of their spirit power, there was no problem at all.

Afterward, Oscar had repeatedly told Ma Hongjun that as a Spirit Master, one should try to be low-key and hide one's true strength.

But Ma Hongjun vaguely felt that Oscar seemed to harbor a sense of vigilance toward the Grand Spirit Fighting Arena. Therefore, every time he entered the arena, he maintained a high level of alertness.

After updating their spirit power ranks, Oscar and Ma Hongjun also confirmed their opponents for the day.

Although they had never fought those two before, they were familiar faces, and could even be considered old acquaintances.

As for Zhu Zhuqing's opponent, Oscar recognized them as well; they had even been defeated by him and Ma Hongjun in turns. They were neither strong nor weak—just an ordinary opponent, suitable as a whetstone for Zhu Zhuqing to sharpen her claws.

After helping Zhu Zhuqing register, it was time for the spirit fight scheduling, and the three of them arrived at the sparring-style spirit fighting zone.

"Senior Brother, should we use the Soul Coins won this time to purchase those items again?"

Ma Hongjun calculated the Soul Coins he had saved up in the sparring zone recently and found he had quite a few, so he asked.

"Yes, buy some fishing gear, and have the blacksmith shop forge some more farm tools. We don't need anything else for now."

With their development, Oscar was no longer just helping the villagers near Soto City; he had begun to radiate outward to the surrounding areas.

Of course, this had also brought him significant benefits; most importantly, he had now found quite a few Spirit Masters with good talent but insufficient innate spirit power, attracting them into the Sky Net.

"Farm tools? Why are you buying those?"

Zhu Zhuqing turned her head to look at Oscar.

"Senior Brother has a kind heart. Haven't you noticed there are many merchants in Soto City? These people were originally villagers. Senior Brother taught them many skills and even provided them with initial equipment and startup capital."

Ma Hongjun explained. He had long since grown accustomed to all of this, and he truly felt the happiness his Senior Brother spoke of.

Whenever he saw the happiness overflowing on those people's faces, he always felt a sense of sublimation, as if he had received some unknown satisfaction from the void, and even his cultivation speed had increased.

But he also knew that this was likely an illusion, merely the happiness and satisfaction gained from helping others.

"It's a pity that there are still too few Spirit Masters as kind as Senior Brother. Otherwise, with the current number of Spirit Masters, how could there be so many suffering refugees?"

Although Ma Hongjun said this, he understood in his heart that the core of most Spirit Masters was egoism; there were even many who looked down on commoners, believing they and the commoners were two different species.

Is it ridiculous? Perhaps...

The look in Zhu Zhuqing's eyes as she watched Oscar also changed. From the moment she was saved by him, she knew this person was kind, but she hadn't expected him to be silently helping so many people.

"I'm just doing some trivial things. I only hope the world can have a little less suffering in the future."

Oscar sighed and didn't continue. He had never spoken to anyone outside of the Sky Net about his parents. Unlike those who huddled together for warmth to comfort themselves and others, he did not want to be pitied; it had no meaning.

Soon, the three of them finished their scheduling and were all assigned to the thirteenth sub-arena in the sparring zone to fight, though Oscar and Ma Hongjun's opponents were Spirit Elders, while Zhu Zhuqing's opponent was only a Spirit Grandmaster.

Here, the various distributions were extremely detailed. While it was said there were twenty-four sub-arenas, each sub-arena was divided into two major areas: the sparring zone and the life-and-death zone, and each category was further divided into one-on-one, two-on-two, and team battles.

Therefore, a single sub-arena had six isolated fighting rings.

The business model of the Grand Spirit Fighting Arena had long since reached a very coordinated level, with ticket prices varying by zone and category.

The most expensive was naturally the main zone, the main fighting arena, where the most anticipated matches were concentrated. As the most profitable and highly discussed wager-based matches were also arranged there, they were not split into sub-arenas.

Among these, team battles were the most expensive, followed by two-on-two, with one-on-one being the cheapest.

The one-on-one spirit fight in the sub-arena where Oscar and the others were assigned was the cheapest match in the entire Soto Grand Spirit Fighting Arena, and naturally, it had the fewest viewers.

The Spirit Masters participating in the fights were uniformly arranged to rest in a spacious room while waiting for their turn.

In the waiting area, the arrival of Oscar and his group immediately attracted the attention of other Spirit Masters.

After all, many people here were old hands who had seen Oscar and Ma Hongjun fight many times, and some had even competed on the same ring.

Although these two looked very young, their bizarre self-created spirit skills had made life miserable for them, and even now, they still didn't know what kind of Spirit that older youth actually had...

Although he claimed to have a Food System Spirit... a sausage, nobody believed that!

But wasn't this guy already a Gold Spirit Fighter? Why was he still fighting in the sub-arena? Was the schedule wrong?