Happy times were always fleeting. Before long, the last five days had passed, and the Promotion Tournament of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament was finally about to begin.
However, the Promotion Tournament differed from the Preliminary Tournament. The latter had been held in the Soul Fighting Arena, while the former would take place at the Royal Hunting Ground, with no spectators allowed.
As for the reason, that was unclear, because starting this year, people would be allowed to watch the Promotion Tournament through another means.
The Promotion Tournament was still divided between the two great empires. The thirty teams that had passed the Preliminary Tournament would compete within their respective empires, while the three seeded teams did not need to participate.
On the Heaven Dou Empire's side, fifteen teams in total, including the five that had qualified through the Heaven Dou City preliminary division, had completed registration that morning and assembled at the Promotion Tournament venue.
The ten teams that had qualified through the kingdoms and duchies had arrived earlier than the five teams from the Heaven Dou Empire, as they needed to familiarize themselves with the surroundings.
They had also come bearing numerous promises from the kingdoms or duchies they represented.
If they achieved good results, the rewards would be extremely generous-at least considerably better than what the stingy Xue Ye had offered.
After all, both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire knew that Spirit Hall's shadow lurked behind these duchies and kingdoms to varying degrees.
Yet even knowing that these duchies and kingdoms harbored disloyal ambitions, neither the Heaven Dou Empire nor the Star Luo Empire had chosen to move against them.
They had little choice. If war broke out, Spirit Hall would be the ultimate beneficiary. Both empires feared that after