“Leon!”

Hearing this voice, Leon’s face lit up with joy. He looked up to see a young sea race girl running towards him, a happy smile on her face.

“Qingqing, how come you’re here?”

“Humph! Are you saying I can’t come? Think about it yourself. Ever since you became Mister Ning’s disciple, how many times have you met up with me? Fine, if you don’t want to see me then I’ll just leave and consider it over with!”

Leon quickly reached out to hold her back. He sputtered out many words of praise and only then was Miss Qingqing ‘barely willing’ to stay behind. Still, she couldn’t help but smile a little.

The two of them were together, quietly chatting in whispers. At this time, a loud bell rang throughout Prosperity Square. Following the source of the sound, one could see that it had been caused by a dark mottled bell hanging at the entrance to the royal palace.

No one knew what sort of treasure the bell was or when it had been hung there. It seemed as if it had always been there for as long as the capital city had existed.

The sounds of the bell flooded out, deep and resonant. The entire capital city could clearly hear this; it represented that the finals were about to begin and the sea spirit teacher contestants were about to appear.

The doors of carriages opened up. Chief Manager Wu stepped out first, followed by Qin Yu. Then, a number of sea spirit teachers of other branch divisions came out from...