After exchanging greetings, everyone on both teams deployed their Flying Soul Tools and took straight to the sky.
Even the Outer Court's reserve team students had learned the benefits of Flying Soul Tools through these years of training, so there was no repeat of the previous tournament, when some people had needed to be carried to fly.
Their destination: Mingdu!
The latest All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament flew the banner of a return to its roots.
Long ago, this tournament, with its ten-thousand-year history, had originally allowed sects to participate. Only in the past thousand years had its scope been reduced to allow only academies.
This time, following a proposal from the host, the Sun Moon Empire, and the agreement of the other nations, the final decision was to restore the former eligibility rules, adding sects to the participants.
The competition format had also changed. This greatly increased the scale of the entire tournament.
After all, there were more sects than academies on the continent.
For academies, achieving good results in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament was an excellent opportunity to make a name for themselves, bringing enormous benefits to recruitment and their development.
And was the same not true for sects?
No sect could develop without talented people. The more elite and specialized those talents were, the more likely they were to join powerful sects.
After the changes to the latest tournament's format were confirmed, over sixty percent of the continent's sects chose to register.
Had the tournament organizing committee not ultimately decided that, besides the age limit of twenty, each sect's registered competitors had to include at least five people whose cultivation exceeded four rings, this tournament might have had over ten times as many participating teams as the previous one.
Even with