Gu Yuena: What the Hell Is This?

The elimination rounds of the Spirit Pagoda's Silver Dragon Princess Martial Arts Marriage Tournament finally began amid great anticipation.

After several grueling rounds of assessment, half the contestants had already been ruthlessly eliminated.

Yet every contestant who had undergone the Ten Thousand Beast Platform trial, whether they ultimately advanced or not, remembered that unique experience vividly.

Within the Ten Thousand Beast Platform, they had all gained opportunities and growth of their own to varying degrees—improvements in Soul Power, evolution of their Soul Spirits, or deeper insights into combat.

Thus, even those Soul Masters who had been brutally eliminated harbored no resentment toward the Spirit Pagoda. On the contrary, that precious experience in the Ten Thousand Beast Platform had greatly changed their impression of the Spirit Pagoda, even leaving them with a faint sense of gratitude.

In most Soul Masters' minds, aside from its lofty status, the Spirit Pagoda was more like a "vampire"—Soul Spirits were outrageously expensive, and the cost of entering the Spirit Ascension Platform was astronomical.

This was especially difficult for low- and mid-level Soul Masters to afford. Yet this Martial Arts Marriage Tournament had shown them a different side of the Spirit Pagoda.

All participants in this tournament were mid- to high-level Soul Masters with at least six rings. At their level, few found themselves short of money anymore. What concerned them more was how to break through bottlenecks, raise their cultivation, and travel farther down the path of the strong.

The realities and stability of Federation society had long since formed an ironclad rule: a Soul Master's cultivation level directly determined the status, identity, and income they could possess within the Federation.

The stronger one's cultivation, the higher one could stand atop the pyramid, becoming someone looked up to by others.

And in this Martial Arts