The referee's raised arm paused in mid-air for several seconds.
The entire room fell silent.
"My God! Shrek Academy! They..."
The narrator Chenchen's voice became shrill due to excessive excitement, and the information cards in her hands had already scattered all over the floor.
"An unknown team, a group of 'problem students' abandoned by their original academy, led by their captain, a Soul Master with a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, defeated the Burning Sun Team, one of the favorites to advance from Zone C, with overwhelming force!"
"This is absolutely the biggest upset since the start of this competition!"
"Shrek Academy! Remember this name! They will be the biggest dark horse of this competition!"
Then, a deafening roar of cheers instantly ignited the entire Soul Arena.
Tang San ignored the commotion and calmly withdrew his martial soul.
The blood-black soul power light disappeared into his body as if it had never existed.
"They're gone."
He only said two words before turning and walking towards the team members' passage.
There was no celebration, no announcement, not even a second glance at the unconscious Burning Sun team on the ground.
The rest of the Shrek team followed behind him, taking the same steps, like a precisely operating killing machine, quietly leaving the scene after completing their mission.
They were equally eerily calm, a stark contrast to the frenzied atmosphere around them.
Countless newspapers and chambers of commerce rushed towards the team members' passage like madmen, trying to block this mysterious team, only to find an empty corridor.
Shrek Academy, famous overnight.
...
Inside the private lounge of Burning Sun Academy.
"Bang!"
A teacup decorated with a picture of a fierce bird was smashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Useless! A bunch of useless trash!"
The instructor leading the team from Fenyang Academy, a burly middle-aged man, was trembling with rage, the veins on his neck bulging.
"Seven against one, and they were stopped right at the start by a defensive-type Soul Master! They've completely disgraced our Burning Sun Academy!"
Another teacher, who appeared calmer, pushed up his glasses and frowned.
"Old Li, what's the point of getting angry now? Have you even watched the entire match in detail?"
"What are you looking at? So what if we lost!"
The teacher, known as Old Li, roared.
No, you don't understand.
The bespectacled teacher paused for a moment, then said.
"The problem isn't with Burning Souls, but with that Shrek team."
"That guy named Mo Chen, his martial soul is the White Bone Shield. The previous information said he was a eliminated student from Blue Cat Academy. His martial soul has a flaw, its growth is extremely slow, and his soul power is stuck at level 31. But on the stage, he withstood the combined fire of seven students!"
"Even with Wei Jin's instant boost, judging from his soul power aura, he is at least a high-level Soul Venerable!"
"And then there's Wei Jin with the Thunder Insect Martial Soul, a laughingstock known to everyone at Thunder Academy. Aside from one amplification soul skill, his other soul skills have almost no practical value in combat. But his Thunder Paralysis perfectly complements his control abilities!"
"The most bizarre thing is the crimson energy in their soul power... What exactly is that?"
"It actually allows Blue Silver Grass to ignore the restraint of fire?!"
The more the bespectacled teacher spoke, the more serious his expression became.
"Why would a group of students deemed 'worthless' by their respective academies unleash such terrifying power when they come together?"
"What kind of evil method did Shrek Academy use?"
...
Meanwhile, in the rest room of the second team of the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy.
One of the team members was idly clipping his nails, looking at the battle report in his hand, and chuckled.
"Those idiots from Fenyang actually lost to a bunch of rabble. It's a disgrace."
"That guy named Tang San, with his fourth ring for ten thousand years, is indeed extraordinary, but that's about it. How far can he go on his own?"
Their captain, however, put down the documents in his hand.
"No, you shouldn't think that way."
"That Shrek team has a lot of problems."
"Their tactical execution is frighteningly high. Those so-called 'problem students' are like completely different people under Tang San's command."
"After Yan Yan left the team, the replacement players we brought in weren't very coordinated yet. If we run into them in the qualifying rounds, we'd better be careful!"
"Captain, what's going on between you and Yan Yan?"
"Why bring up something you shouldn't talk about? Get lost!"
...
Meanwhile, in the lounge of Blazing Academy.
A woman with long, fiery red hair and a voluptuous figure was watching the replay of the match with great interest.
"Interesting, very interesting."
She licked her lips as she watched the blue silver cage completely engulf the flames of Fen Zhongli.
"To be able to completely suppress Fen Zhongli's Flaming Bird Martial Soul, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass has mutated quite thoroughly."
A teammate next to him said dismissively.
"It was just a fluke."
"They were able to defeat Fenyang because Fenyang's fire wasn't pure enough. When they encounter our Blazing Fire Academy, their little tricks are no match at all."
"Our fire is far superior to the mixed fire of Fenyang."
The woman smiled and turned off the recording.
"That's right."
"Let them be smug for a few more rounds."
"After the qualifying rounds, this dark horse will be the most magnificent stepping stone on our road to the finals!"
...
Inside a run-down hotel.
"Hahahaha! We've struck it rich! We've really struck it rich this time!"
Flander dumped a large bag of gold soul coins onto the bed, pounced on it, and happily rolled around in the pile of coins.
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