Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

'How could this possibly happen? His spiritual soul is still improving even until now! I'm sure last time his spiritual soul was only at the first grade.' Saul widened his eyes in disbelief.

At that instant, the improvement of Zachary's spiritual soul almost reached the third grade and finally stopped. While he was cultivating in seclusion in the Windstorm Valley, he merged with the strength of the heterodox spiritual soul at the Sage Level in the Soul-gathering Bell. However, due to the overbearing force of this particular spiritual soul, he did not dare to overdo the merging process. Otherwise, his spiritual soul might have broken through the third grade already. Of course, he had as little as one step left from reaching this grade, which could be considered a good result.

At this moment, everyone in attendance was shocked when they saw that Zachary's spiritual soul was inching closer to the third grade. Even if they had seen it for themselves, they still couldn't believe it. Breaking through the second grade was thus far fantastic. Still, it was practically unimaginable for someone to get near the third grade, especially Zachary, who was barely a warrior at the middle stage of Imperial Level. There were many warriors at the same cultivation level whose spiritual soul might not have reached such extent. Consequently, their shock couldn't be more justified.

When Zachary's spiritual soul was close to the third grade, the tense atmosphere seemed to break right away. Gisele's power began to suppress that of Saul's spiritual soul.

However, Saul wouldn't just quickly settle down and anticipate his downfall. Even though Zachary's spiritual soul was more remarkable than his, as long as it didn't reach the third grade, he didn't have to worry about being defeated. He was confident that his strength could make up for it.

With this line of thinking, Saul promptly gathered his strongest strength and brought into play the famous Imperial Level skill, the Destructive Spear Skill. He swung the Holy Golden Spear like a sweeping army, and in an instant, his spiritual soul was divided into beams of soul light and flew to the ground. In the ensuing second, it turned into millions of human-shaped soul phantoms, surging into Zachary like a high tide.

Saul's fierce assaults dumbfounded all the people present.

At the sight of this, Zachary narrowed his eyes. Even in the face of such a great force, his expression did not change in the slightest. He held onto the Illusory Dragon Spine and flew up straight towards Saul fearlessly.

Simultaneously, Saul seemed to be preserving all of his power and was getting ready to launch another strike. The Holy Golden Spear in his hand had already begun to be covered by a golden flame. When Zachary was about to

opportunity to win Anne's love, he would not only get her but also activate the contractual mode of the beauty collection mode. If this happened, he would be capable of dating a lot of beauties. In this way, he could live a charmed life in the Supernal Continent.

Therefore, he would have to exert his maximum efforts to win the upcoming free battle.

Just as Zachary had a fantasy like that, the other eight groups also finished their matches, and the first four winners of each of the nine groups also came out. There were three Imperial Level warriors at the premium stage from the Xuanyuan Clan, three from the Xiao Clan, and two from the Phoenix Pavilion. They were all qualified to join the next free battle. Since almost all three forces had sent Imperial Level warriors at the premium stage, they had won most of the matches among the premium stage groups. Besides, two warriors from Shura College could join the next competition, and one of them was whom Zachary was very familiar with. It was Tracy who cared a lot about Zachary and his fellow disciples when they came to the Shura College.

After the top four of each of the nine groups were determined, the next step was to divide them into the four teams randomly. Each team would be composed of nine Imperial Level warriors with different grades of strength. These four teams would fight against each other in the free battle, and the two teams who won would enter the final battle.

Aside from overall strength, the free battle would also test the cooperation among Imperial Level warriors and their ability to adapt to the situation. If a team lost, all of the warriors in this team would be eliminated. Besides, if one lost his combat power and could not continue participating in the battle, he would be automatically out. Therefore, the competition could become fierce and ruthless.