The next day, the sun rose in the east, its light spilling down and dispelling the darkness. The Angel God Statue standing in Spirit City basked in the sunlight.
At Pope Palace Square, the final match of the Soul Master Tournament began.
The Super Beast Team and the Golden Team stepped onto the field, facing each other with their defenses ready.
The winning team would take first place in the Soul Master Tournament and receive five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
But neither the Super Beast Team nor the Golden Team really cared about the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones offered as prizes. What mattered more to them was defeating their opponents.
That was especially true of the Golden Team.
After all, aside from Gu Ningqiu and Qian Yang, everyone else was a descendant of an elder of the Worship Hall, as well as an older brother or sister of someone on the Super Beast Team. They had never beaten the Super Beast Team even once.
Previously, they could brush it off, since those matches had all been private. But this time, in the Champion Team Battle of the Soul Master Tournament's Grand Finals, with every eye upon them, a crushing defeat would be utterly humiliating.
So the Golden Team was giving this match one hundred and twenty percent of their attention.
Yet the gap in strength between them and the Super Beast Team had not narrowed with time. Instead, it had only grown wider.
After the referee announced the start, Gu Ningqiu erupted with dazzling golden light, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion martial soul roaring behind her. A moment later, an enormous Three-Eyed Golden Lion charged out of the golden light and raced toward the Super Beast Team.
"Super Beast Armed! Phantom Qilin Beast!"
A red, circular magic array appeared,