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Heaven Dou City, the capital of Tianhun Empire, Heaven Dou Plaza.
Today was the final of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament. Shrek Academy vs. Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
The vast Heaven Dou Plaza was packed with people, not a single seat empty, as hundreds of thousands of spectators eagerly awaited the final.
Above the imperial city, the Emperor of the Tianhun Empire and the Empire's high-ranking officials also intended to use this quinquennial Soul Fighting Tournament to assess the strength of Shrek Academy and the younger generation of the Sun Moon Empire.
They would then judge whether Shrek Academy was experiencing a talent shortage and if the Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance technology had become even more formidable, based on the performance of these young juniors.
Just as everyone was anticipating the upcoming final, in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's resting area, a heavy atmosphere enveloped everyone.
Every participating member hung their heads in solemn contemplation, pondering how they could defeat Shrek Academy in the final.
The team leaders, Elder Zhang and Elder Ma, both Nine-level Soul Guidance, looked at this scene with throbbing headaches.
The reason was simple: among Shrek Academy's participants this time, there was a girl named Zhang Lexuan, who was terrifyingly strong, completely on a different level from her peers.
Her cultivation was so high that she was only half a step away from becoming a Spirit Saint, and she had mastered extremely profound combat techniques, performing a one-against-seven feat more than once in previous matches.
Facing such a powerful opponent, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's participants naturally felt immense pressure.
Elder Zhang and Elder Ma exchanged glances, nodded, and decided to alleviate the pressure on their participants.
After all, pressure was a good thing, but too much pressure would instead affect their performance.
And even if they lost, it didn't matter. After all, for thousands of years, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had always come in second in every tournament.
Since that was the case, what harm was there in being second one more time? As long as they could secure the runner-up position, no one would criticize them.
Elder Ma cleared his throat twice, his tone becoming serious, and he looked at the young participants, who were under immense pressure, saying, "Alright, the final is about to begin. Everyone, cheer up! What's with the long faces?"
"Yes, Elder Ma." The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's participants immediately straightened their backs and sat upright upon hearing Elder Ma's stern words.
Elder Zhang, watching the now energized members from the side, encouraged them, "You are all excellent talents of our Sun Moon Empire. For today's final against Shrek Academy, just do your best.
Carefully experience and absorb the lessons from the tournament, so you can go further on the path of a Soul Mentor in the future. I believe our Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy will defeat Shrek Academy!"
Just as the Sun Moon Empire's team leaders were giving pre-match encouragement to their participants, in the luxury section of the front row of the audience stands, a young man, protected by guards and dressed in a black Xuan robe, sat in his seat.
His hands were clasped, his thumbs rubbing the sapphire spirit tool ring on his index finger, as he quietly awaited the arrival of the final.
The young man appeared to be less than twelve years old, standing at 1.68 meters tall, with short black hair, sword-like eyebrows, and large, bright, dark eyes.
Although his face was still a bit childish, his forehead was full, his brow bones and cheekbones were just right, his nose bridge was high and straight, and his jawline was clearly defined.
The proportions of his facial features were almost perfect, and his skin was fair and radiant. Such an excellent appearance drew frequent admiring glances from many noble young ladies in the luxury section.
Some noble young ladies from the Sun Moon Empire recognized the young man's identity and immediately gathered to gossip in low voices.
"I once saw him from afar at a banquet. He is Wang Chen of the Lord Ying Manor Wang Family.
It's rumored that Miss Meng Hongchen of the Hongchen Family is very close to him. His nose bridge is so high, and his skin is so good, slurp, slurp."
"Strange, the Wang Family is about to hold a clan competition to select the most outstanding young disciples for vigorous cultivation. I didn't expect him to have time to come to the Tianhun Empire to watch the Soul Fighting Tournament instead of preparing properly at this time?"
"Maybe he's already given up. There are many members in the Wang Family, and there are three older than him, among whom the strongest, Wang Teng, has already reached the Three-ring Spirit Elder and is also a Third-level Soul Mentor.
Wang Chen is young and seems to still be only a Spirit Grandmaster, unable to break through to Spirit Elder. How can he be a match for that Wang Teng?"
"Wow, this is really unfair, Wang Chen is so pitiful, boo hoo hoo, I really want to hold him in my arms and cuddle him."
"Save it. No matter what, he's still a Marquis's great-grandson. Does he need your pity... And cuddle him? You wouldn't even get a chance to throw yourself at him.
Miss Meng Hongchen is much better than you; not only is she beautiful and highly talented, but her grandfather is also a Nine-level Soul Mentor, the dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, the head of Mingde Hall, and a Grand Duke."
"Ah ah ah ah, you're so mean, always putting me down! I'm breaking up with you!!"
"... ... ... ..."
Wang Chen sat in his seat, his expression as usual, as if he wasn't the one being watched and discussed by so many women.
In his previous life, Wang Chen was a university student on Blue Star. After transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, he was born into the Lord Ying Manor Wang Family in the Sun Moon Empire.
The Lord Ying Manor Wang Family was a large and well-known family in Bright Capital.
The head of the Wang Family, Wang Chen's great-grandfather (his grandfather's father), the current Lord Ying, Wang Yan, was a powerful Spirit Master with a spirit power cultivation of eighty-nine levels.
His status in the Sun Moon Empire was second only to the extremely rare Nine-level Soul Guidance.
However, Wang Yan was quite a philanderer in his youth. Not to mention having many wives and concubines, he was certainly embracing women left and right, and he had a full seven sons.
Then, the seven sons branched out, and combined with Wang Yan's several cousins, generation after generation, by Wang Chen's generation, the number had reached an astonishing three digits.
With so many descendants, even if the Yinghou Mansion was a large and prosperous family, it was impossible to cultivate every single person.
They could only select talented clan members for focused cultivation, while other family disciples with ordinary talent could only receive mass cultivation.
This was unavoidable, after all, good resources were limited, and they couldn't possibly give good resources to mediocre people, could they? How else would the family develop and grow stronger?
Therefore, this also made the competition among the younger generation of the Yinghou Mansion quite fierce.
Born into the Yinghou Mansion, Wang Chen naturally could not avoid the competition, but fortunately, Wang Chen's talent was very good.
At the age of six, his Spirit awakened, and he awakened the Weapon Spirit Martial Soul. Moreover, Wang Chen's innate spirit power reached nine levels.
The Weapon Spirit Martial Soul was quite miraculous because it could amplify spirit tool, making spirit tool even more powerful.
One must know that the power of spirit tool was already extremely astonishing, and after being amplified by the Weapon Spirit Martial Soul, its power became even more terrifying, simply adding wings to a tiger.
Furthermore, this Spirit could not only amplify his own spirit tool but also amplify other people's spirit tool!
It could even amplify ordinary items like stones and iron knives. However, these things were too weak in power, and even if amplified, they were of no use.
Therefore, no Spirit Master with a Weapon Spirit Martial Soul would use their spirit power to amplify these useless trinkets.
It could be said that the Weapon Spirit Martial Soul was one of the most suitable Spirit for Soul Mentor, in no way inferior to a Spirit with a spiritual attribute.
Wang Chen, possessing the Weapon Spirit Martial Soul and an innate spirit power of level nine, had talent that was among the absolute top of the entire Yinghou Mansion's younger generation, with only a select few being able to match him.
Wang Chen was currently only eleven years old, yet his spirit power had already reached twenty-eight levels. He would definitely be able to break through to thirty levels and become a Spirit Elder before he turned twelve.
As for geniuses with innate full spirit power? No one in the entire Yinghou Mansion had ever awakened innate full spirit power throughout all these years.
Innate full spirit power requires very high demands on Spirit quality. Although the inherited Spirit of the Yinghou Mansion was good, there was still a gap compared to top-tier Spirit.
If a family disciple with innate full spirit power were to appear...
Then either their Spirit mutated, or their Spirit turned green.
Other than that, there was no third possibility.
Wang Chen's journey from the capital of the Sun Moon Empire to Heaven Dou City to watch the Soul Fighting Tournament, despite the long distance, naturally had his own purpose.
Wang Chen caressed the sapphire spirit tool ring given to him by the wealthy young lady, Meng Hongchen.
He thought to himself, "According to the original novel, in this Soul Fighting Tournament, Zhang Lexuan will sweep aside her opponents like autumn leaves.
However, I hope the members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy can put in some effort and force Zhang Lexuan to use her combat techniques and secret arts.
Otherwise, if Zhang Lexuan doesn't use her combat techniques and secret arts, I won't be able to record the unseen skills in the Black Book for learning."
As Wang Chen's thoughts flickered, deep within his soul, a tattered Black Book slowly opened...
This Black Book was the golden finger that brought Wang Chen to the Douluo Continent, but during the transmigration process, it was severely damaged, becoming tattered and many of its functions unusable.
Only the most basic ability, recording, remained. Any skill Wang Chen saw would be recorded.
As long as any skill was recorded by the Black Book, Wang Chen could quickly learn it.
Of course, after learning it, whether he could use it depended on whether the skill release conditions were met.
For example, if Wang Chen saw a Spirit Master use a Spirit Bone skill and recorded it with the Black Book.
But if Wang Chen himself did not possess that Spirit Bone, then no matter how much Wang Chen studied, he would not be able to use the Spirit Bone skill.
After all, without the basic hardware, no matter how well the code was memorized, it was like a clever woman unable to cook without rice.
At least the damaged Black Book couldn't create something out of nothing, making the impossible possible...
It was precisely because of the Black Book, this golden finger that could record others' skills, that Wang Chen traveled thousands of miles from the Sun Moon Empire to watch the Soul Fighting Tournament.
Time flew by amidst the girls' discussions, and the final of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament began!
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On the competition stage, Zhang Lexuan, dressed in Shrek Academy's dark green combat uniform, with exquisite beauty and a graceful figure, stood proudly.
Opposite Zhang Lexuan was a man named Li Li, who had an ordinary appearance but an exceptionally tall build, wearing spirit tool armor.
The spirit tool armor on Li Li was extremely powerful, capable of consuming spirit power to amplify the user's offensive and defensive capabilities.
With this spirit tool armor, Li Li's combat power increased by at least fifty percent. For a Soul Mentor, spirit power was ammunition, and spirit tool was equipment. The quality of the equipment greatly affected one's strength.
At this moment, in the audience stands of Heaven Dou Plaza, the spectators belonging to the three nations of the Douluo Continent looked at Zhang Lexuan and shouted hysterically in unison: "Zhang Lexuan! Zhang Lexuan!"
"Victory is certain!!"
"Shrek is invincible!!"
"Defeat the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy!"
The shouts and cheers of hundreds of thousands of spectators formed layers of sound waves, which then converged into a surging tsunami of sound.