An hour quickly passed. Jiang Hai opened his eyes and let out a long breath. The energy within him had more or less stabilized, but the weakness in his body still lingered.
However, the award ceremony had already begun. The entire arena had been transformed, with a vast red carpet covering the platform.
Xu Jiawei emerged surrounded by an entourage and stood on the arena platform. Beside him, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao suddenly proclaimed in a ringing voice, "The award ceremony for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament officially begins! We will now present the third-place award to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy: five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. Please welcome the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team to the stage!"
Before the grand final, there had also been a losers' bracket final to decide third place. Unsurprisingly, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had won.
Five hundred thousand gold coins set most of the ordinary spectators' blood racing. To them, it might be more money than they would ever see in their entire lives. But to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, five hundred thousand gold coins did not even count as a consolation prize. The disposable soul tools they had used alone were worth more than that paltry sum. Moreover, they had lost team members in their fierce battle against Shrek Academy. Every competitor from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was a Level 5 Soul Engineer. Even with outside assistance, anyone who became a Level 5 Soul Engineer at twenty was an exceptional talent. Any one of them was worth far more than a mere five hundred thousand gold coins.
The members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy stepped onto the platform one after another.