Sunlight happened to fall over the waiting area.
The audience shouted two different names, and the atmosphere was as boiling and intense as hot oil being splashed with water.
"Silence."
A deep, powerful voice rang out and spread through the entire venue via a soul-guide loudspeaker, actually suppressing the voices of all one hundred thousand spectators.
"Next, His Majesty will speak."
Dai Tianling stood up, and a soul-guide amplifier naturally rose before him.
"Every time I watch the All-Continent Advanced Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament, I feel as if I've returned to my youth. I once took part in this competition as well, and even achieved decent results. Young people should be full of vitality and drive; you should go all out and fight with everything you have, because this is your era of passion and blood. Youth allows mistakes. Youth is not afraid of failure. As long as you find your goal and charge forward bravely, that is enough."
"I am honored that this year's tournament has invited a representative team from the distant Douluo Continent — which was once our homeland — Shrek Academy. Shrek Academy is known on Douluo Continent as the number one academy. Over more than twenty thousand years of heritage, they have nurtured countless outstanding talents. I am very happy to witness today the decisive battle between Monster Academy's contestant Long Yue and Shrek Academy's contestant Gu You.
Regardless of victory or defeat, this will surely strengthen the friendship between us and the Douluo Federation. Today's winner will not only receive a soul bone as a reward, but will also be granted an additional imperial prize. If Long Yue wins, he will directly receive the title of Viscount.
If Gu You wins, he will receive a certain amount of resource rewards — and if he is willing to register as a citizen of our Star Luo Empire, he will likewise be granted the title of Viscount."
As he finished speaking, a smile appeared on Dai Tianling's face.
"We welcome all outstanding talents. Very well — I now declare that the individual finals of the All-Continent Advanced Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament… begin!"
Thunderous applause and cheers erupted like rolling thunder. This was the charisma of an emperor.
"Boss, Viscount, huh? Tempted?" Xie Xie nudged Gu You and whispered.
"It's only a title. If I want it, I can take it at any time; if I don't want it, I can brush it aside with a wave of my hand."
Gu You curled his fingers slightly and stood up.
On the other side, Long Yue also stood. He glanced at Gu You, smiled faintly, and strode toward the competition stage.
Once they stepped onto the stage, the soul-guide barrier closed. The darkness overhead vanished and sunlight once again shone onto the arena — illuminating both Long Yue and Gu You.
The referee was an elderly man whose aura was completely restrained. Yet for him to serve as referee of this match, he was clearly a very famous and powerful soul master on Star Luo Continent.
"The rules are the same as in previous matches. Ten-second countdown!"
For the final, even the countdown was longer than usual.
"Ten, nine, eight… three, two, one — begin!"
As the match began, neither of them concealed their strength. They released their martial souls and spirit rings at once.
When everyone saw the seven brilliantly shining spirit rings on Gu You's body, all doubt was shattered. Who said a fifteen-year-old could not become a Spirit Sage? Someone had just done it before their eyes!
And what kind of terrifying spirit-ring configuration was this? Those purplish-gold spirit rings from before, and that strange blue-violet heterochromatic spirit ring — what were they?
Gu You clearly had many secrets, and the audience's thoughts ran wild.
Gu You attacked first, without the slightest hesitation. His body shot toward Long Yue like a cannonball. Five purplish-gold spirit rings rose again from beneath his feet, and he became like an arrow released from the bow. More than a dozen spirit rings hovered around him.
Gu You's eyes completely turned purplish-gold, blazing with light. His aura skyrocketed, fierce air currents bursting around him. Scales flipped outward and covered his entire body — the Purplish-Gold Dragon Armor.
Long Yue stood where he was, not moving to meet the attack, only staring intently at Gu You.
His aura was extremely powerful, especially his seventh spirit ring — by aura alone, it was even stronger than that of a seven-hundred-thousand-year spirit beast.
A vast aura burst forth from Long Yue. The enormous dragon phantom that had appeared when he fought Le Zhengyu once again materialized behind him — the massive dragon carrying a city on its back, stretching its body and releasing a deep roar.
Hearing the roar of the Mountain Dragon King, Gu You was not affected at all. He threw his head back and let out a dragon's roar.
Compared to the Mountain Dragon King's deep roar, Gu You's roar was high and resonant. The bloodline aura within his body was released completely, without restraint.
Long Yue's expression changed slightly. Under Gu You's dragon roar, the dragon phantom behind him flickered, and its aura clearly weakened by a few degrees.
On the VIP platform, Headmaster En Ci, whose expression had been calm, suddenly sat upright, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He knew the legends of the Mountain Dragon King very well. In his view, Long Yue's pure Mountain Dragon King martial soul should be the strongest of all dragon-type martial souls in the world. Even other true dragon martial souls should not be able to compare to the aura of the Dragon God's offspring!
Yet in that clash of auras just now, Long Yue's Mountain Dragon King martial soul was clearly at a disadvantage. Not only did it fail to affect Gu You's martial soul, it was instead counter-suppressed by Gu You's bloodline aura.
How could this be? What exactly was Gu You's martial soul? Why was it so powerful?
No one knew the answer — because no one could even imagine what it was.
How could this happen? Could his bloodline aura come from the Light Dragon King inherited from the Dragon God?
But the light aura on him was not especially dense! And even if it were the Light Dragon King, it should not be able to suppress him in terms of aura. The Mountain Dragon is king — as the Ninth Great Dragon King, the Mountain Dragon King was created last after many sacrifices, but he was by no means inferior to any of the other Dragon Kings. At least in terms of bloodline aura, he should not be weaker.
Thus, Long Yue had never imagined that anyone could suppress him in bloodline aura — let alone suppress him so clearly.
Although he did not feel fear or trembling like Sima Xian had, he nevertheless felt an urge to submit. This was the pressure of a superior upon an inferior.
How could this be? How could this be?! The only dragon bloodline that could absolutely suppress him would have to come from the Dragon God himself.
But how could the Dragon God's bloodline appear in a human? That was absolutely impossible. And the aura on Gu You was definitely not that of the Dragon God.
Just as Long Yue was in shock—
Gu You leapt into the air…
(End of chapter)