After they returned to the military camp, the three injured Inner Court members were immediately placed in the care of the army's healing-type Soul Masters.
After a day and two nights of treatment and recovery, aided by the Pills Shrek had provided for members of the Inspection Corps, all three were in stable condition.
They did not delay long before setting off for Star Luo City on their Flying Soul Tools to compete.
Unlike when Xuan Zi had carried them through the air, they now had to stop and rest every so often. The Main Team Members were injured, and the Reserve Team members' cultivation levels were generally low.
At times like those, everyone looked at Lu Yi and Ning Tian, whose Soul Power had not diminished at all. Riding broomsticks suddenly did not seem so strange. It even looked rather stylish.
They could not help wanting Flying Broomsticks of their own, but when they remembered the price Ning Tian had quoted—far higher than that of a Flying Soul Tool—they kept their mouths shut.
Under those circumstances, it took them nearly three days to cover the roughly twenty-five hundred li and catch sight of Star Luo City's absurd hundred-meter-high walls.
They landed and entered the city.
Compared with Lu Yi's first visit two months earlier, the city was bustling on an entirely different scale.
Pedestrians in all manner of clothing filled the streets.
Clearly, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, a grand event held every five years, had drawn spectators from every country.
Of course, people from the Star Luo Empire still made up the vast majority.
At the registration site, Wang Yan completed their registration, and the group duly moved into the Star Emperor Hotel's finest suites.
The tournament began the day after next. After a