Great Soul Arena, Snow Emperor Team

"That's right!" Xia Yuan nodded.

"Lingling, your codename is Snow Mastiff Hero."

Ye Lingling nodded repeatedly. "Mhm, I've got it!"

"Yanyan, you are Flame Dragon Hero."

Dugu Yan looked at the red mask in her hand, her mood somewhat complicated.

Next, Xia Yuan looked at Yu Feng and Shi Mo. "You two are Wind Eagle Hero and Black Rhino Hero."

"Wind Eagle Hero? Hey! I like it." Yu Feng couldn't hide his joy as he put on the Wind Eagle Hero mask.

"It's actually quite handsome!" He preened happily, checking his reflection in a small mirror.

Shi Mo didn't offer any opinion, merely putting his mask away in silence.

"What about me? What about me?" Ning Rongrong wore an expectant, playful expression.

"You? You're the Earth Tiger Hero, the freebie you get for topping up your phone credit."

Ning Rongrong froze. "What does that mean, topping up phone credit?"

"It means yours is the best one," Xia Yuan said dismissively with a wave of his hand.

"Hmph! You just said it was a freebie, you're lying to me!" Ning Rongrong huffed, though she still clutched the Earth Tiger Hero mask to her chest.

"Then what about you? What are you?"

"Me? I'm Emperor Hero."

"Huh?"

"Damn, Brother Yuan, you're a legend!" Yu Feng gave a thumbs-up.

"Are you all ready?" At this moment, Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin walked over.

The three committee members couldn't leave the academy at the same time, so Bai Baoshan had been left behind.

"If you're ready, let's go. Teacher Qin and the others are already waiting outside the academy."

Exiting the academy gates, they saw Qin Ming along with Yu Tianheng, Osler, and Shi Mo.

Seeing Xia Yuan leading his team out, Yu Tianheng let out a scornful snort.

After a year of training under Qin Ming, he felt that he had become terrifyingly strong!

The group had no carriages for transport, so they relied on their own strength to walk all the way to Heaven Dou City.

Heaven Dou City, Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.

Even within the sprawling Heaven Dou City, this structure appeared incredibly imposing.

Great Soul Arenas were only built in main cities, and they were named after the city in which they were located.

The Great Soul Arena was jointly founded by the seven great soul master families; even the two great empires or Spirit Hall would not easily provoke the forces behind it.

Soul masters who registered at the Great Soul Arena would receive a badge. By continuously winning battles, they could accumulate points, raise their badge rank, and obtain rewards.

Furthermore, these badges were valid at every Great Soul Arena across the entire continent.

As for the badge ranks, they started from the lowest, Iron Soul, followed by Copper, Silver, Gold, Purple-Gold, Sapphire, Ruby, and Diamond—a total of eight levels.

The grouping for battles in the Great Soul Arena was based solely on soul rings. Whether one was level thirty-one or thirty-nine, as long as they had not obtained their fourth soul ring, they could be placed in the same group.

Therefore, battles here were often a matter of luck.

There were only three formats for battles in the Great Soul Arena: one-on-one, two-on-two, and team battles.

The rules for team battles required a squad of seven to ten people, no more and no less.

Qin Ming was clearly very familiar with the Great Soul Arena, taking the lead to bring Yu Tianheng and the others to register for soul fighting.

Xia Yuan and his group also registered as Iron Soul masters.

At the same time, in order for Ye Lingling to participate, she needed to form a two-on-two pair with Xia Yuan.

To make observation easier, their matches would not take place simultaneously but in succession.

Yu Tianheng and the others donned the garish green masks Qin Ming had made, signing up for one-on-one matches under the codenames "Shrek Dragon," "Shrek Leopard," and "Shrek Turtle."

Hearing their codenames and seeing them take the stage in those bright green masks, even the taciturn Shi Mo couldn't help but crack a smile.

Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin were more composed and managed to keep a straight face, taking the opportunity to see how the trio's combat abilities actually measured up.

The results were decent; at least on the surface, all three fought quite well.

Once the trio returned, Xia Yuan and Ye Lingling walked out to register for the two-on-two soul fighting zone.

"Please name your team," the staff member said.

Ye Lingling looked at Xia Yuan, who thought for a moment and said, "Let's call it the Snow Emperor Team."

"Snow Emperor Team?" The staff member engraved the team name onto their two Iron Soul badges.

Two-on-two matches took longer than one-on-one ones. While they waited for their turn, Xia Yuan's one-on-one match was about to begin.

This was something Xia Yuan had arranged on purpose.

His one-on-one Soul Fighting match would not take much time; he could easily finish it in the interval while waiting for the two-on-two match.

Xia Yuan walked onto the sub-arena alone. The commentator took a glance at the registration information and announced loudly:

"Of the two contestants appearing next, one has already achieved a brilliant nine-game winning streak!"

"He is the Battle Soul Elder who possesses the Mars Ape martial soul—Peng Yue!"

A wave of cheers erupted from the spectator stands.

The commentator did not pause, immediately introducing Xia Yuan:

"And the opponent of Soul Elder Peng Yue is a newly registered Battle Soul Elder, whose martial soul is—"

He glanced at Xia Yuan's registered pseudonym and martial soul, his expression turning somewhat strange.

"Blue Silver Grass! His pseudonym is—Emperor Hero!"

Upon hearing that Xia Yuan's martial soul was actually Blue Silver Grass, the audience broke into an uproar.

Since when could Blue Silver Grass be cultivated to the level of a Soul Elder?

"What the f*ck!" someone in the stands who had been drinking water spat it out upon hearing the introduction, drenching the spectators in the row ahead.

Xia Yuan walked onto the stage wearing the Emperor Hero mask, while his opponent, Peng Yue, looked like a tall and burly man.

He stood a full two meters tall, with dark skin and bulging muscles.

After stepping onto the stage, he immediately hammered his chest with both hands and let out a roar.

Following his roar, the cheers from the audience rose noticeably.

Without any nonsense, he released his martial soul immediately and lit up his third soul ring.

The reason he could achieve nine consecutive victories at the Soul Elder level, besides his high Soul Power, was due to his fighting style.

After Peng Yue's third soul ring lit up, a layer of flame-like patterns clearly appeared on his body, and his physique became even more imposing.

Clearly, this third soul skill of his was a buffing skill.

Next, Peng Yue hammered his chest again, and his second soul ring lit up; his two fists immediately ignited with raging flames.

He let out a loud shout, took long strides toward Xia Yuan, and threw a punch!

Yet, faced with this series of actions from Peng Yue, Xia Yuan did not move at all.

Yu Tianheng, who was watching from the sidelines, burst into laughter: "Hahaha!"

"I thought he had made some progress, but he turns out to be a paper tiger!"

"Is he so scared that he can't even move?"

"Yu Tianheng, who told you to bark?" Dugu Yan immediately retorted.

"Have you forgotten how you were beaten into a sorry state back then?"

"Aren't you afraid that Xia Yuan will slap your face until it hurts?"