It was just the reserve team for one competition; Mu En didn't care.
The most classic example of personnel changes in the official Shrek Seven Devils team was right before their eyes.
Ever since Ma Xiaotao refined the Blazing Apricot Flood and successfully metamorphosed her Evil Fire Phoenix into a true Fire Phoenix spirit, she had already become the undisputed captain of this generation's Shrek Seven Devils.
Even though Ma Xiaotao's soul power level had significantly decreased due to the compression of ultimate attribute soul power, a Soul Emperor-level ultimate attribute Soul Master, even if she couldn't easily defeat a Soul Douluo, could still wreak havoc among Soul Sages.
Even without Ma Xiaotao's spirit soul avatar.
The same would apply to the next competition.
Reserve team, what was a reserve team?
The reserve team was a backup that could be used for personnel changes at any time, to quickly organize a true team.
In that case, what if these seven went as the reserve team for this generation? At most, they would just miss one opportunity for experience. When the next competition began, the official team would still be composed of the most capable, just like when Ma Xiaotao returned to the official team and directly kicked out that fifth-level Soul Engineer from the Soul Tool Department.
Mu En didn't care and didn't intend to go back on his word.
Seeing that Mu En himself didn't say much, Xuan Zi naturally wouldn't provoke him again.
He didn't want his words to lead to him being thrown into the deepest level of the Golden Tree to rot prematurely.
Thus, the reserve team and the official team for this generation were determined. The official team was still the same as in the original story, led by Ma Xiaotao, with members Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, Ling Luochen, and Xixi.
And the reserve team underwent a significant change.
Although the position of reserve team captain hadn't been determined yet, it would most likely fall to Lin Yun.
Team members: Lin Yun, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, Jiang Nannan.
It was quite abstract.
Except for Jiang Nannan, all were second-year students. Excluding Lin Yun and Xiao Xiao, who were considered minor figures, there was Ning Tian at the Soul Elder level, Wu Feng and Huo Yuhao at the Great Soul Master level, and Wang Dong at the Soul Elder level.
Before Xiao Xiao obtained her fourth soul ring, apart from Lin Yun, only Jiang Nannan was at the Soul Sect level.
This matter was told to Lin Yun and the others privately by Mu Jin, who also instructed them that it must not be revealed, otherwise their qualification as reserve team members would be revoked.
No one knew why they had to keep it a secret, since the competition was held every five years and had been going on for ten thousand years. Anyone who wasn't an idiot basically understood it very well.
Lin Yun was speechless.
However, he didn't particularly try to stir things up. Firstly, this identity wasn't a big deal to him. Secondly, in terms of showing off...
Was it necessary? Xiao Xiao's mindset was similar to Lin Yun's. Although Lin Yun had basically never told her about the power behind him, Xiao Xiao was just lovesick. Her heart was completely set on Lin Yun, and she wasn't truly stupid.
Someone who could casually take out treasures like immortal herbs and hundred-thousand-year soul bones, which made all Soul Masters go crazy, could the power behind Lin Yun really be weak?
Perhaps she would become the sect leader's wife in the future~
In this way, Xiao Xiao felt even less attached to Shrek Academy. Even if Lin Yun said now that he wanted to take her to withdraw from school and return to the sect to cultivate, Xiao Xiao would definitely not hesitate. As for Shrek? They weren't really close, so she shouldn't contact them, in case Lin Yun misunderstood. She didn't owe Shrek much, nor did she use any particularly precious resources from Shrek. In Xiao Xiao's eyes, withdrawing from school wasn't a big deal at all.
Ning Tian and Wu Feng were similar. After all, they had the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School behind them and didn't really care about getting key cultivation from Shrek.
On the other hand, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were a bit excited, seemingly feeling a sense of accomplishment and recognition for being able to represent Shrek in the competition and becoming members of the Shrek Seven Devils reserve team.
Lin Yun glanced sideways at Huo Yuhao, then withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention to him.
Although this kid still respected him due to the previous favor, he no longer liked to come to him for chats whenever he had free time, which saved Lin Yun a bit of trouble.
Moreover, after he stopped interfering too much, Huo Yuhao seemed to have the tendency to become Shrek's dog again.
Twin spirits were still popular, not to mention that Huo Yuhao's other spirit was the famous Titan Snow Demon.
Looking at Wang Dong, Lin Yun didn't know if Tang Buddha had added something to his brain after learning that he had moved out of Huo Yuhao's dormitory, but his relationship with Huo Yuhao wasn't as strained anymore, and they could occasionally exchange a few words.
However, Lin Yun felt that something seemed off with Wang Dong recently, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.
And he had no intention of exploring it.
It was better to keep the dog leash on Huo Yuhao's neck. Lin Yun was used to freedom and couldn't stand having such a thing on his own neck.
It was better for Wang Dong not to notice him. His sympathy wasn't that widespread. Rather than risking being targeted by Tang San to find a glimmer of hope for this pitiful puppet, Lin Yun preferred to sit calmly on the fishing platform, watching the changes in the situation and developing slowly on his own.
No matter how tragic Wang Dong's life was, it had nothing to do with Lin Yun. Who told him to have such a great father? On the second day after the reserve team was determined, Lin Yun and the other seven members of the reserve team once again arrived at the spirit fighting arena where the selection competition had been held.
When they arrived, seven people were already silently waiting in the spirit fighting arena. Four men and three women, all wearing the red school uniforms representing Shrek's inner courtyard, they were the official team members for this competition.
As soon as Lin Yun and the others walked into the spirit fighting arena, the seven members of the official team simultaneously turned their gazes over.
Sensing a hostile and scrutinizing gaze, Lin Yun followed his feeling and looked back, then saw an extremely hot red-haired woman with a face as cold as ice.
Ma Xiaotao.
As someone who also possessed ultimate fire, Lin Yun could easily sense the fiery soul power hidden within Ma Xiaotao like a dormant volcano.
However, because Lin Yun possessed the Fire Dragon King soul bone, Ma Xiaotao couldn't detect the aura of his ultimate fire, only vaguely feeling the extremely strong sense of threat emanating from Lin Yun.
"You are this year's reserve team?" Ma Xiaotao said scornfully, her chin slightly raised, her eyes filled with disdain.
She was a direct beneficiary of the immortal herbs. Ma Xiaotao knew very well about the academy exchanging six hundred-thousand-year soul bones for the immortal herbs. The deeper her gratitude and recognition for Shrek was, the more she hated Lin Yun, the culprit who had 'blackmailed' the academy out of six hundred-thousand-year soul bones.
In Tang San's words...
Ma Xiaotao felt that Lin Yun had already sought his own death!
(End of Chapter)
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