After leaving the dean's office, Xiao Xiao, Lian Yue, and Yuwen Tuo met up with Cao Jinxuan, who had been waiting outside, and headed together to Yuwen Tuo's dormitory.
His dormitory was a rather special single room, making it perfect as the group's secret base.
Cao Jinxuan had practically betrayed Zhou Sichen's team completely. Whenever he had free time, he ran straight to Yuwen Tuo's side.
It seemed that learning to cultivate the laws of time was indeed more enticing than friendship.
Once they entered the room, Xiao Xiao impatiently opened the package to take a look. Unlike Yuwen Tuo, who already knew, the other three had no idea what the champion's prize was.
When she untied the cord sealing it, a ball of yellow light shot out of the leather pouch without warning. Then, a glittering golden object rose up and slowly hovered in midair.
It was a small piece of bone, only about the length of a palm, radiating yellow light.
"Th-this is a Soul Bone?" Xiao Xiao said, her face full of shock. Although they had expected this year's champion prize to be extremely valuable, they had never imagined it would be a Soul Bone. To soul masters, that was a treasure a hundred times more precious than a soul ring!
Soul rings were something that inevitably appeared after every soul beast died, but the chance of a Soul Bone appearing was less than one in ten thousand. The higher a soul beast's rank, the more likely it was to produce a Soul Bone, but only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were guaranteed to leave one behind.
Any soul master who possessed a Soul Bone would see their strength rise considerably at once, gaining a massive advantage over soul masters of the same rank. Aside from External Soul Bones,