Twenty-seven seconds.
That number sprouted wings. With Heaven Dou City at its center, it began to spread, sweeping across the entire Douluo Continent.
Barely an hour had passed since the opening match at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena. On the first day of the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, news that the Imperial Dou Second Team had crushed Shrek Academy in twenty-seven seconds had already spread to every major city in the Heaven Dou Empire.
Taverns, teahouses, Spirit Hall Branches, sect residences—anywhere Spirit Masters gathered, people were passionately debating this crushing victory, which had rewritten the tournament's record books.
"Have you heard? At the tournament's opening match over in Heaven Dou City, the Imperial Dou Second Team took only twenty-seven seconds to wipe out the Shrek Academy that's been riding high!"
"Twenty-seven seconds? What kind of joke is that? Even a Soul King fighting a Soul Ancestor wouldn't win that fast, would they? Wasn't Shrek Academy funded by Sect Master Ning? And isn't the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on the team? How did they lose so badly?"
"What do you know? The Imperial Dou Second Team sent out two Soul Kings! They went straight for Shrek's command core at the start and knocked them out as soon as they met. The rest didn't even get a chance to fight back!"
"My heavens, two Soul Kings? Doesn't the advanced academy tournament have an age limit of twenty-five? They've already become Soul Kings at that age? The Heaven Dou Royal Academy's foundations are terrifying!"
"And the craziest part is that guy named Du Sifang. A Body Martial Soul! He took the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Yu Tianheng's fourth Soul Skill head-on, and it didn't even break his skin! I heard he has a