The instant he saw those nine soul rings, Xuan Zi's mind went completely blank.
He could still just barely make sense of Zhang Lexuan's seven soul rings. After all, over the Soul Master Tournament's long history, Shrek Academy had fielded Soul Saints before. And Du Busi himself had a full three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, so getting two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings for his disciple... was still just about plausible.
But what the hell were those nine soul rings supposed to be?
The Soul Master Tournament had completely changed its rules over a thousand years ago, lowering the age limit from twenty-five to its current twenty. In other words... this boy named Ye An standing before him had become a Titled Douluo before he was even twenty?
What kind of joke was this?!
Even if he had started cultivating in his mother's womb, he couldn't possibly have become a Titled Douluo by twenty!
By now, Xuan Zi had completely lost his composure, failing to notice that Ye An's nine soul rings did not all come from the same martial soul. Meanwhile, waves of sharp, shocked gasps swept through the sea of people filling the venue.
With his brain reduced to mush, Xuan Zi had failed to see that Ye An's nine soul rings belonged to different martial souls, and the spectators were even less capable of noticing.
All they knew was that nine genuine soul rings had risen beneath Ye An's feet! And among them were a full five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings!
Even an ordinary Titled Douluo only had five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. Yet Ye An's first five soul rings were already Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings!
Even the members of Shrek Academy looked utterly bewildered.
Maple Leaf Advanced Soul Master Academy did