Reward: A Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast
A month passed quickly. During this month of hard training, coupled with the nearly one-month competition of the Heaven Dou Second Team in the preliminary rounds of the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition, only Tang San in the team broke through one level in cultivation. He absorbed a 7,000-year-old Earth Cave Demon Spider and broke through to the forty-first level of Soul Ancestor.
As for the other six members of the Heaven Dou Second Team, since they did not possess the Mysterious Heaven Skill, an extremely superior cultivation technique in the Douluo World like Tang San, nor did they consume Immortal Grade Herb, their cultivation levels did not break through, but were very close to doing so.
With Xiao Wu's talent, if she worked hard to cultivate, she would definitely be able to break through to the next level with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Core in her body. However, Yu Tianheng's cultivation level has not broken through, so she is also suppressing it and waiting for Yu Tianheng to break through.
The Promotion Tournament were held as scheduled at the Royal Hunting Ground Grand Drill Ground.
The Grand Drill Ground has been renovated, with a 50-meter radius area marked out in the center as the competition venue. Compared to the preliminary round arena, the space is much larger, giving the contestants more room to perform.
On the north side, a VIP section was temporarily set up. There weren't many VIPs who came to watch the match this time. The first row still only had Xue Ye, Salas, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo, while some high-ranking officials from the Spirit Temple and the Heaven Dou Empire sat behind them.
A total of sixteen teams will compete in sixteen rounds of Promotion Tournament. There should have been seventeen teams, but the missing one, the Martial Soul Hall Second Team, went to Spirit City early.
Xue Ye was extremely dissatisfied that the Martial Soul Hall Second Team went to Spirit City without participating in the Promotion Tournament. The Promotion Tournament only had one reward: the team that came in first place would receive a bye in the second round of the Spirit City finals of the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition Tournament, which was equivalent to directly securing a top-ten finish.
This kind of result is really nothing for a college that can get first place in the Promotion Tournament. Unless they had extremely bad luck in the draw, how could a college that can get first place in the Promotion Tournament not be in the top ten in terms of strength?
Xue Ye is demanding a stance from the Spirit Hall. The Martial Soul Hall Second Team's withdrawal from the Promotion Tournament signifies that they don't take the Heaven Dou Empire's outstanding young Soul Master seriously. If they can disregard the Heaven Dou Empire's young and talented Soul Master today, will they, like Salas, disregard him, the Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, in the future?
Before the start of the competition, there were sixteen teams. After Xue Ye gave a speech, Salas drew lots.
Salas began, "To convey His Holiness the Pope's words."
Upon hearing this, the entire audience immediately noticed Salas. His Holiness the Pope a position in the Douluo Continent that was no less than that of the emperors of the two great empires. In the Spirit Master World, he was a figure above the sect leaders of the Seven Great Sects on the continent, and could be considered a representative of the Spirit Master World.
The current Pope of the Spirit Hall is Qian Xunji. Although Qian Xunji was knocked down by Tang Hao, the Heavenly Douluo, fourteen years ago, this was only a loss of face for Qian Xunji, and did not mean that the title of Pope had lost its authority.
"His Holiness the Pope very pleased that so many talented young geniuses have stood out in this Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition, including the future pillars of the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Therefore, His Holiness the Pope has decided that the reward for this Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition is—one Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast!"
These words caused an uproar throughout the hall, including the VIPs, Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, Xue Ye, and Tang Xiao, who had been secretly protecting Tang San. They all gasped in shock at the sheer scale of the Spirit Hall's move.
What is Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast? It is a Soul Beast with a cultivation level of 100,000 years that chooses to shed its beast form and transform into a human form, becoming a small baby. Its 100,000-year-old cultivation level, comparable to that of Titled Douluo, becomes as weak as a baby's body. It has to start cultivating from scratch again.
If Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast were to transform from a beast into a human, there would be no need to make a fuss. What truly shocked and even drove people crazy was that after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast Soul Beast was killed, it would drop the number one treasure in the Spirit Master World, the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the second treasure, the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, which could only be dropped when it was killed in its 100,000-year beast form.
To acquire the number one and number two treasures of the Soul Spirit Master World only minor injuries—how could this not drive Soul Master crazy? Titled Douluo are already extremely rare in the Spirit Master World, and a Titled Douluo Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring is one in ten among them.
Knowing that the reward was Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, even the Shrek Four Monsters, who had already become gods and returned from rebirth, could not remain calm and were filled with excitement. Especially Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, even though they had become gods in their previous lives, none of their Soul Bone were 100,000-year-old; they only had Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring bestowed by the Sea God.
Compared to the passionate Soul Master in the audience, only one person's heart was somewhat different—that person was Xiao Wu. At this moment, Xiao Wu's body trembled slightly, and her eyes flashed with intense resentment. She was wondering if that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was her mother Ah Rou.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Beast Kings at the 100,000-year level are basically known to each other. If a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast wants to transform, the power it unleashes cannot escape the perception of other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the only Soul Beast that Xiao Wu knows that can transform are herself and her mother.
Therefore, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast that the Spirit Hall offered was most likely her mother. Her mother was actually given away as a reward by the Spirit Hall!
Tang San keenly sensed Xiao Wu's emotional change and a thought flashed through his mind. He guessed that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast might be Xiao Wu's mother, or his mother-in-law. If that were the case, even if the Heaven Dou Second Team won the competition, he wouldn't be able to kill the 100,000-year-old transformed Soul Beast and obtain the 100,000-year Soul Ring and 100,000-year Soul Bone.
No! Regardless of whether it's his mother-in-law or not, he cannot kill any 100,000-year-old transformed Soul Beast. Since Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast have chosen to become human, then they are human. As the Asura God who governs the laws of the Divine Realm, Tang San must not mistakenly kill a good Soul Beast.
There can only be one winner, and the reward always belongs to the champion.
These words immediately dampened the fervor in the hearts of the young Soul Master from various academies present, as if doused with cold water. The flames either died out or were reduced to a tiny ember. After all, they didn't believe they had the ability to compete with the Spirit Hall Academy; they were content with just achieving a good ranking.
Salas then began the draw, and the Promotion Tournament of the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition in the Heaven Dou Division commenced.