Mirror Hongchen assigned tasks to the two teams.
"Su Yu, the four of you can also go watch."
Mirror Hongchen thought for a moment and didn't send Su Yu and the other three back, but let them go watch together.
Who knows, they might get some inspiration.
Although their strength has greatly improved, to be honest, their battle experience is almost zero.
Mirror Hongchen doesn't know the situation of Huo Yuhao and Su Yu, but he is clear about Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen; the siblings haven't made a move since the Soul Fighting Competition, only executing some minor tasks in between, which didn't serve to significantly hone their skills.
In fact, Su Yu and Huo Yuhao's battle experience isn't very rich either.
...
Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy.
The tournament organized by Mirror Hongchen caused quite a stir throughout the academy.
All students in the academy, including those who were delayed in graduation due to age, were allowed to challenge.
And once successful, the academy would reward with one hundred kilograms of rare metals. Of course, the rare metals here are also calculated in standard units of Sinking Silver and exchanged at equivalent value for other rare metals.
This amount can already be considered quite high.
Win a hundred kilograms of rare metals by winning a single match.
Of course, obtaining victory isn't that easy.
However, it didn't stop the strong students in the academy from signing up.
Participants under twenty years old for the Soul Fighting Competition?
Haha, no matter how talented, they're still under twenty!
In the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy, there were even students who almost got selected for the Soul Fighting Competition team years ago, and they stayed in the academy for further study. Now, at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six, achieving Soul Emperor cultivation along with being a Sixth-level Soul Guide is not uncommon.
"I heard this tournament was requested by those few team members who got too arrogant after training."
"Is that true?"
"Hey, a group of guys under twenty, they really think they're invincible."
"I heard among them, seven people have Soul Emperor level, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen should have already broken through to Soul Emperor, right? After all, five years ago they were already Soul Kings, now breaking through to Soul Emperor seems quite reasonable."
"..."
The trial site of the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy is quite large, accommodating all the teachers and students of the academy is not a problem.
This place was originally for the academy to assess the progress of its students. But even with such a specialized place, the actual battle assessments are rare.
This tournament, organized by Mirror Hongchen, almost attracted more than ninety percent of the students at the academy.
Su Yu arrived at the preparation area, able to clearly see everything on the stage.
The trial site was noisy.
"Silence!"
A loud voice spread throughout the trial site via the soul-guiding device, Mirror Hongchen's serious tone, and the soul pressure that spread across the entire venue made everyone quiet down.
"The rules for this tournament have already been explained to the students."
"The team participating in this Soul Fighting Competition has been finalized by the academy, and they have undergone a period of special training. With the stage set, anyone who successfully challenges and wins any of them will be rewarded with one hundred kilograms of rare metals; win two of them, and it's two hundred kilograms, three of them four hundred kilograms, and so on!"
The trial site, which had just quieted down, burst into a noisy discussion again. Many students couldn't imagine how grand this was.
For many students, one hundred kilograms of rare metals was already a substantial amount of resources.
However, now the rewards mentioned by the dean were even more exaggerated than they had heard before!
One hundred kilograms, two hundred kilograms, four hundred kilograms, and adding more would result in eight hundred kilograms or even more. Win three matches, and you would almost not have to worry about rare metals for ten or even twenty years of your Soul Guide career.
Meanwhile, in the preparation area, Shi Xing, Zhou Xinghao, and Xiao Ping all wore heavy expressions.
The pressure for this tournament, compared to what the Hall Master had mentioned back in Mingde Hall, was even greater.
Damn, if we lose, these rare metals are definitely something Mingde Hall can provide, but are they really going to be given away for free?
Surely they would be deducted from their future quotas.
Whoever loses will have their future benefits deducted.
In these three months of intensive training, having completed their own battle armor production, they clearly understood just how powerful battle armor is.
It is a fundamental enhancement from the Martial Soul essence, seemingly providing Soul Masters with motivational power and confidence.
And precisely because they succeeded in making Basic Battle Armor, they understood how resource-intensive the production is.
Having experienced the power of battle armor, it is impossible to give up; the pursuit for more advanced battle armor will only grow stronger, and precisely because of this, the resources for future Intermediate Battle Armor are not spoken of in advance, but definitely must not be consumed prematurely.
If they lose two or three matches this time, it really could delay the creation of their Intermediate Battle Armor by several years, even ten years.
After all, in the academy, there really are plenty of Six-Ring Soul Emperors with Sixth-level Soul Guides.
And some rather unique freaks...
So, they absolutely cannot lose.
Most importantly, they cannot be the third to lose!
Out of the three, whoever loses will have the rewards deducted from their resources. Whoever faces the challenge first has the most to gain.
Thus avoiding the three of them deliberately showing unwillingness to participate to evade punishment.
Impossible.
If they encounter a ruthless opponent, whoever comes out later will be finished.
"Let me go first, then."
"No, let me go first, I'm the youngest, I'll test the strength of the senior students for you."