Royal Hunting Grounds
The fifteen teams had arrived early.
"Salute!"
The moment Lin Ya and his group entered, the Royal Knights soldiers who had been waiting there saluted them one after another.
The other competing teams were puzzled by this scene.
"Grandpa, why are those soldiers so respectful toward that team?"
Among Beast Academy's group, a short-haired girl curiously asked her grandfather.
Watching the scene, the old man holding a dragon-headed cane lovingly rubbed his granddaughter's hair and said:
"Perhaps because they represent Heaven Dou Academy."
But that was not the case. These Royal Knights had saluted Lin Ya entirely because they were all soul masters who had emerged from the Self-Cultivation Furnace.
To put it bluntly, if Lin Ya gave the order, eight thousand of these ten thousand Royal Knights would immediately stand behind him.
Emperor Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing naturally knew about this, yet neither of them did anything about it.
Hearing her grandfather's words, the girl obediently nodded. "Mm-hm, got it!"
Seeing how obedient and sensible his granddaughter was, Meng Shu smiled as well. "Yiran, you should listen and observe more. I brought you here this time so you could broaden your horizons and understand just how many astonishing geniuses there are on the Douluo Continent."
"Mm-hm, I understand, Grandpa." Meng Yiran obediently agreed, though she did not take Meng Shu's words to heart.
Meng Yiran was twelve years old this year and already possessed twenty-second-level Soul Power. Having just entered Beast Academy this year, she had become the academy's beloved prodigy.
Everyone told her that she had the potential to become a Titled Douluo.
And that was indeed true.
In the original timeline, Meng Yiran became a Soul Elder at sixteen. With such talent, becoming a Soul Ancestor at twenty-one would not have been