Since sects had not been allowed to compete in the previous tournament, and each tournament was held five years apart, very few competitors could participate twice in a row.
Thus, the Dragon Slaying Sect had done virtually no research on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team and knew little about them. Drawing the previous tournament's runner-up in the first round felt like terrible luck, but they did not think defeat was inevitable.
Yet when Meng Hongchen released her soul rings, everyone from the Dragon Slaying Sect finally felt an extraordinary pressure. A Seven-Ring Soul Sage! And with the optimal soul ring configuration, too. Was this something a soul engineer could possess?
After all, this tournament had an age limit of twenty!
Soul Sage cultivation was the watershed for soul masters. Only upon reaching that level could one count as a powerhouse in their own right, qualified to establish a sect. Against lower-level soul masters, the existence of the Martial Soul Avatar made a Soul Sage's attacks a dimensionality-reduction strike.
Jing Hongchen had helped Huo Yuhao considerably during the battle in the Mingdou Mountain Range and had also looked after him after he arrived in the Sun Moon Empire. Naturally, Huo Yuhao would not let the grandfather and his two grandchildren go unrewarded.
When he had returned last time, he had already refined some pills from immortal herbs. Besides giving Du Busi and Kong Deming one each, he had also refined some simplified versions for people he knew well, including Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
Precisely because of this, neither of them had burned through their potential as they had in the original story. Instead, they had used the medicinal power to cleanse their bodies, eliminating the hidden dangers of taking too many drugs in the past. Their cultivation