After meeting the Northern Azure Dean, Liu Bai learned from him why he had been summoned.
It was more or less as Ding Qian had guessed—this was indeed about the Spirit Road. Moreover, he was not being sent there merely as a figurehead. He would be the Northern Azure Spirit Academy's host for the final King Battle Arena.
"Me? Hosting the final King Battle Arena battle?" Liu Bai asked, his face full of surprise.
This sort of matter did not require the dean to personally step forward, but wasn't Elder Zhu Tian usually responsible for it? Why had they suddenly come looking for him?
The Northern Azure Dean wore a faint smile, as though Liu Bai's surprise had been entirely expected.
At that moment, Elder Zhu Tian, standing beside him, spoke. "Hehe, the final King Battle Arena battle is hosted by the Five Great Academies, with each academy presiding over one arena. Once the participants are selected, each arena will have a hundred people engage in a massive free-for-all. In the end, only the final ten standing in each arena will qualify for the King Title Qualification."
"This time, you'll be in charge of the arena belonging to our Northern Azure Spirit Academy."
Liu Bai nodded. So every Spirit Road produced fifty King Title Holders... exactly ten spots for each academy.
Of course, the final results would certainly not be so evenly distributed. In the original story, it seemed that only eight King Title students from Mu Chen's generation had joined the Northern Azure Spirit Academy.
And considering that the Northern Azure Spirit Academy had been at the bottom among the Five Great Academies at the time, such a result was hardly surprising.
After the King Title Battle came the Challenge Tournament. The fifty King Title Holders could choose whom