But she did not ask further. Having worked at the Great Soul Arena for so many years, she had seen all kinds of strange people.
She handed them two iron plaques. "Thunder Tiger, Ice Dragon, two-on-two, Bronze Group. Your first match is scheduled for the afternoon. You'll be notified then."
Gu Ci accepted the plaques and took Dugu Yan around the venue.
The Great Soul Arena was larger than they had imagined. There were more than a dozen Soul Fighting Platforms alone, divided into several ranks from bronze to gold.
Quite a few people were already seated in the stands. Most were commoners there for the spectacle, though some were dressed like nobles, likely there to gamble.
"Nervous?" Gu Ci asked.
Dugu Yan shook her head, then nodded. "A little."
Gu Ci smiled but said nothing.
He was a little nervous too, though not out of fear, but excitement.
At the Great Soul Arena, he did not have to hide himself as he did at the academy. He could truly fight without holding back.
Of course, he still had to conceal what needed concealing. He could not use the Heavenly Eye or the Thunder Prison Heaven-Slaying Tiger, and Thunder Emperor's thirty-five-thousand-year Spirit Ring had to be disguised as a Century Spirit Ring.
Yes, a Soul Elder with three Century Spirit Rings.
Even so, he still had more than enough methods at his disposal.
That afternoon, the notice arrived.
Gu Ci and Dugu Yan were led to No. 7 Soul Arena Platform.
The platform was not large, with only a few hundred scattered spectators around it.
Not many people watched Bronze Group matches to begin with.
Two people stood across from them.
One was a middle-aged man in his forties, bare-chested, with a thick patch of black hair across his chest