"I will leave my clone here, I need to go to Heaven Duo Empire. Work Hard for this technique" Ryu said
"Yes, Master," the couple said. Then Ryu teleported.
Ryu was in the Heaven Dou Grand Spirit Arena.
As the main fighting arena of the Heaven Dou Division, the Heaven Dou Grand Spirit Arena had already stopped all arena battles a month beforehand to undergo interior remodeling. All sub-arenas within the Spirit Arena had been merged with the central arena ring to form a massive stadium for the competition.
Excluding the VIP section which remained in the entire north side of the area, the remodeled Spirit Area could now hold eighty thousand spectators at the same time. The revenue from the ticket sales was large, but so was the amount the Spirit Arena had spent.
For the next period of time, all matches of the qualifying phase in the Heaven Dou Division would take place here.
In the early twilight before the sun had yet to rise from the east, the newly remodeled Heaven Dou Spirit Arena had already attracted an enormous crowd of spectators. Having arrived so early, these audience members would obviously not be given early access to the arena, because each ticket had its own designated seating. What these people were here for on the first day of the opening ceremony, was to have a closer look at the young spirit masters attending this competition.
Among the crowd, there were numerous young maidens with hopeful gazes. The number of Spirit Masters on the entire continent added together was less than six figures. The students that could represent their advanced academies and attend this important competition were, even more, the cream of the crop.
Furthermore, with the age restriction of twenty-five, they were without a doubt the best targets for these girls with romance in their hearts. If they were able to marry a powerful spirit master, fame and fortune would doubtlessly follow.
Even some of the nobles who had bought tickets for the VIP area were also gathered outside. For the nobility, scouting spirit masters was always exciting, never boring.
The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was by its nature a cradle for talented people. Let alone those that achieved favorable results in this competition, even the students that were just participating would become objects of desire for nobles and powerful clans.
Right now, with Heaven Dou Great Arena as its heart, practically a third of Heaven Dou City was a scene of an unbroken sea of people. Starting from several days ago, every level inn at Heaven Dou City was filled. The population of the city had gone up by practically fifty percent. This showed the attraction the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament had on people.
For the sake of this tournament, Heaven Dou City had been transferred a whole five thousand city guardsmen to keep order, to as far as possible prevent disturbances.
"Wah, so much people!" Ryu said.
Finally, all the teams had entered the arena, the Shrek Academy group stood the furthest back.
The official Shrek Academy uniform wasn't any common green, but rather a color somewhere between yellow and green.
For the sake of this Academy tournament, dean Flender had these uniforms specially made according to his strange sense of aesthetics. The fabric was actually pretty good, and it was also comfortable. But besides the snot green, each person's chest was also practically covered by a large Shrek monster design, and the color of this design was a bright emerald green.
This still wasn't much; most out of the ordinary was on each person's back, several big words embroidered in red silk:
Looking for advertisers.
Below these big words was still a row of smaller ones: For advertising fees please call on Shrek Academy's dean, mister Flender, for a personal meeting.
"What academy is that? Heavens, did they just crawl out from a latrine?"
"I'm dying from laughing, that green monster design on their chests is really too adorable. Why do the ears look like trumpets."
"Look, look, on their backs they're still recruiting some advertising? Is an advanced Spirit Master academy like this real? Can they still participate in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament? It's too funny. The really are all kinds of birds in the woods."
"Be quiet, they're still Spirit Masters. Only, I expect they're only going through the motions, look at that fatty, it's like he's growing into a ball."
Ryu said "Flender, you make all of them "'wanting to cry but lacking tears". Too damaging to academy heroic image."
Not long after, Ryu didn't pay any attention to the jeers and constantly observed their surroundings. As his gaze fell on the VIP platform, he unexpectedly saw a few familiar faces. One of them was the good looking with a straight nose and square mouth, prince Xue Xinghe.
"Qian Renxue"
Qian Renxue is the daughter of the previous Supreme Pontiff Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong. She masqueraded as Xue Qinghe; the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.
He saw Heaven Dou Empire's emperor, sitting to his left was an old man even older than him.Dressed entirely in red robes, wearing a pentagonal platinum hat, both eyes small as if he was asleep, with slim shoulders and a slender build like a javelin.
"Spirit Hall Platinum Bishop Salas"
The person on the emperor's right, Ryu wasn't just familiar with, but moreover knew well. Ning Rongrong's father, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's master, Ning Fengzhi.
"Father in law"