In this lively atmosphere, the opening ceremony of this year's Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament arrived.
Arriving at the opening ceremony venue, the members of the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team witnessed what a sea of people truly looked like.
Countless young Spirit Masters, dressed in their respective academy uniforms, gathered in groups, excitedly discussing the upcoming competition.
From time to time, everyone would point and comment on some of the Geniuses who were very famous in various academies.
However, the discussions about these people were far less significant than the buzz surrounding the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team, where Yu Xiaogang and his group were located.
"Have you heard? There are actually big shots participating in our tournament this year."
"Who?"
"I know this, it must be the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team."
"Spirit Hall Academy Second Team? When did the Spirit Hall Academy have a Second Team? Why have I never heard of it?"
"You don't even know this? Have you been in secluded Cultivate recently?"
"Pretty much, I was almost at the Spirit Ancestor level, so I was making a final push."
"Then that makes sense. The biggest thing that happened on the continent recently, the change in the head of the Upper Three Sects, was because of this Spirit Hall Academy Second Team."
"Hehe, as far as I know, this Spirit Hall Academy Second Team is very extraordinary. The accompanying teachers are at least two Spirit Douluos."
"Hiss—Spirit Douluos?! And two of them?!"
"Of course. Otherwise, why would the Strength Clan's Spirit Douluo lead a group of Spirit Emperors out? How could that group from the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team have survived?"
"That makes sense. But then again, those people from the Strength Clan really have no brains. For the sake of a vague title, they went to provoke the son of a Titled Douluo directly. Isn't that just slapping someone in the face in public?"
"Who's to say it isn't? Tsk tsk tsk, when I first heard about this, I thought that idiot's father was also a Titled Douluo."
"I can only say that it's not unjust for such people to be crippled. It's just that he kicked an iron plate this time. If it were people like us from small Families, even if we were provoked by the other party, we would have to swallow our anger."
"Exactly. Didn't you see their Spirit Emperor father and Spirit Douluo grandfather throw away their dignity to repeatedly attack a Spirit Ancestor? If it were us, who knows how arrogant we would have become."
"Alright, alright, let's not talk about that stupid Family. We won't see those people in the future anyway. Let's continue talking about the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team."
"Oh, right. As for this Spirit Hall Academy Second Team, you can tell just by looking at the accompanying teachers how important the people on the team are. Those two Spirit Douluos, while called teachers, are actually bodyguards for the Geniuses on the team."
"For example, the vice-captain, Bibi Dong, is the Disciple of His Holiness the Pope of the Spirit Hall."
"A Titled Douluo's Disciple, that's truly enviable."
"There's someone even more enviable: the captain, Yu Xiaogang, the youngest son of the Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, His Excellency Thunder. Now that is a real young master!"
"...The son of a Titled Douluo? That does seem better than a Titled Douluo's Disciple."
"Who says it isn't? A Disciple is not a blood relative after all; it's nowhere near as secure as a blood relationship."
"Wait, that's not right. The youngest son of His Excellency Thunder? Isn't he from the Upper Three Sects? How did he end up at the Spirit Hall Academy, and in the Second Team at that?"
"Who knows? Maybe the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and the Spirit Hall have some kind of deal."
"Hehe, that's simple. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect has become the new worlds number one sect, and the Sect Master's youngest son runs off to the Spirit Hall Academy to team up and fight alongside the Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiff's Disciple. You guys think about it, think carefully."
"...Hiss—you mean to say they are going to have a political marriage?"
"It's not impossible. Such things are too common among large factions. For example, a prince of the Heaven Dou Empire married the daughter of an Elder from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to be his princess."
"And a princess of the Star Luo Empire married the son of an Elder from the Clear Sky Sect."
"But aren't the Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects..."
"What of it? Didn't the Upper Three Sects just have a fight recently? Since when has there ever been an absolute ally in this world?"
"That's true. In that case, what should we do if we face the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team?"
"What do you mean?"
"I... I mean, when we are fighting, should we go all out or should we throw the match?"
"...Brother, let's keep some distance from each other in the future. I'm afraid that if I hang out with you for too long, I'll become as stupid as you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, how should I put this? Is there a possibility that one of them is a Titled Douluo's Disciple, and the other is a Titled Douluo's son, and their strength is far above ours?"
"..."
"You're actually thinking about throwing the match? Good grief, you really dare to think. With our level, it'll be good if we can last a few moves under their hands. You actually think your strength could be higher than theirs?"
"If you really had that kind of strength, you would have long been a hot commodity that major factions would be fighting to recruit."
"..."
Various discussions arose everywhere.
And the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team, with Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, and the others, was undoubtedly the focus of everyone's discussion.
In the usual Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, those true super Geniuses generally would not come to participate.
Because participating in this kind of competition is completely meaningless. The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament is, after all, a stage left for those civilian Spirit Masters.
Even these civilian Spirit Masters have already been screened several times.
Truly talented civilian Spirit Masters, like Bibi Dong, were already snapped up by the major factions the moment their Martial Soul Awakening happened.
At the very least, during the few years of studying in an Elementary Spirit Master Academy, there is plenty of time to demonstrate one's talent.
Those who follow the ordinary path, graduating from an Elementary Spirit Master Academy, entering an Intermediate Spirit Master Academy, graduating again, and then reaching a high-level Spirit Master Academy—those who walk this path basically will only ever be ordinary Spirit Masters.
But even so, the Douluo Continent still has the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament as the biggest stage for these people to showcase everything they have.
After the whole process, no matter how much of a late bloomer a Spirit Master might be, it's time to cash in on their talent.
Why is the maximum age for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament twenty-five?
Because if you are still mediocre after twenty-five, the probability is that your life will be like that from now on.
At this age, even the golden age for a Spirit Master to Cultivate has passed. Even if you rise up later, that is only a situation where the probability is so small it can be ignored.
For example, having extremely good luck and obtaining a Spirit Bone with a high age limit, or obtaining a Heaven-Defying treasure.
But the probability of that, even in ten or twenty years, or even several decades, might not produce a single case. It can be completely ignored.
It can only be said that the upward mobility of the Douluo Continent is still very friendly to civilian Spirit Masters. At the very least, if they have talent, they really do have a chance to rise.
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