To put it plainly, their overwhelming confidence had instead left everyone else feeling less confident. Perhaps this team was not actually that strong, but the confidence it took to go all in on Soul Engineers for every team member was impossible to dismiss.
"Interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing whether they can come up with something different." Leng Xiyue nodded. She really did hope a strong team could challenge her Nine Provinces First Team. Otherwise, wouldn't slaughtering their way through the entire tournament be too boring?
Speaking of slaughtering the competition, that brought to mind Spirit Hall Representative Team, which was weaker than the First Team across the board. Leng Xiyue suddenly remembered something and asked Flender, "By the way, Dean, what prizes is Spirit Hall offering for this tournament?"
In the original story, Spirit Hall had offered three Soul Bones. On the surface, it was bleeding its coffers to support the tournament, but in reality, the Elder Hall had refused to distribute them directly. Offering them as prizes intended for the three members of the Golden Generation had been a compromise, only for the Shrek Seven Monsters to snatch them away.
But now, this tournament clearly harbored crouching tigers and hidden dragons. Even setting everyone else aside, the presence of the Jiuzhou Empire's First Team alone would surely make Spirit Hall think twice about offering those three Soul Bones as prizes.
"It's an External Soul Bone from an eighty-thousand-year Sky Cloud Fox, of extremely high quality. As an External Soul Bone, its value probably rivals that of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. For Spirit Hall to offer a Soul Bone of this quality, they must be determined to claim the championship," Flender remarked.
"An eighty-thousand-year External Soul Bone?" Leng Xiyue was startled. It might only be one Soul