Meanwhile, at the referee's announcement, the match began.
"Brothers, release your martial souls!"
When both sides released their martial souls at the same time and all their soul rings appeared before the spectators, cries of astonishment immediately spread through the stands.
Yellow, purple, purple, black-four soul rings flashed brilliantly around Niu Hao. Beside him, the same four rings-yellow, purple, purple, black-appeared around the Soul Breaking Spear in Yang Yi's hand.
What astonished the spectators most, even horrified them, was the sight of Xie Yue and his two companions at the very front. Five black soul rings appeared around each of them at once.
Black had originally been the least conspicuous color.
Yet anyone who knew even a little about soul masters understood what it meant.
Cries of shock rang out not only from the spectator stands, but from the VIP seats as well.
Xue Qinghe even lost control of his emotions and shouted, "No, how is this possible? How could their first soul rings already be ten-thousand-year rings?"
Tang San and Yu Dashi both sucked in a breath of cold air.
Unlike the others, master and disciple had clearly recognized that the soul rings on Xie Yue and his two companions were all extremely old.
Even their first soul rings were over thirty thousand years old!
"The method of increasing a soul ring's age should be the shared wealth of the entire soul master world! Damn you, Bibi Dong! How could you hoard it for your own selfish gain and destroy the blessings owed to every soul master under heaven?"
Yu Dashi trembled with anger, his face livid as he growled.
"Hmph, Spirit Hall has the ambitions of wolves. With a secret technique like this, they would certainly practice it in secret. Why would they ever reveal it to the