Tianhai Team Captain Long Xin stared at Ye Xinglan and repeated his words.
They were already in the preparation area.
A chubby kid running around here begging for food was annoying to begin with. Ignoring him and pretending not to see anything was a normal reaction.
Someone nearby handing the kid some food wasn't a big deal either.
But when the kid's guardian showed up and immediately started blaming the Tianhai Team, it was unbearable.
Ye Xinglan glared furiously at Long Xin.
Xu Lizhi tugged at Ye Xinglan's sleeve.
"Sister Xinglan, let's talk this out properly."
"You've got some nerve." Ye Xinglan shook off Xu Lizhi's pull and said to Long Xin, "I'll make you pay for what you said."
Long Xin frowned, looking at this icy girl.
How absurd.
"The honor of Shrek is not something you can trample on at will!"
Ye Xinglan's words made Long Xin's pupils contract.
The members of the Tianhai junior team and the Zero Squad members nearby revealed shocked expressions.
They were from Shrek Academy?
"You're the ones who lost face, yet you pin it on the academy. Shrek really will take any kind of shit, huh," Su Ming spoke up.
Because of Ye Xinglan's statement, the surroundings had fallen into silence, creating a vacuum.
Su Ming's words, though soft, echoed like thunder in everyone's ears.
Long Xin looked at Su Ming and gently pulled his sleeve.
Hey, you really dare to talk back? This is Shrek Academy we're talking about.
Ye Xinglan now fixed her gaze on Su Ming.
"What? Is there a problem?" Su Ming raised an eyebrow.
Getting shot at for no reason, and we're not allowed to retort?
Besides, you're the one who, for some inexplicable reason, had to drag Shrek Academy into this.
"Um, the dried fish just now was from me. You misunderstood them," Tang Wulin said weakly.
Ye Xinglan glanced at Tang Wulin but ignored him, instead issuing a threat to Su Ming.
"Hmph, see you in the exhibition match."
She pulled Xu Lizhi and turned to leave.
Long Xin sighed.
"How did we get caught up in this for no reason?"
"Stepping in shit is indeed unpleasant," Su Ming said.
"Junior, say less. The seniors might have to shed a layer of skin in the upcoming match," Long Xin said with a bitter face.
Of course, it was him who looked bitter; he was only the junior team captain. This exhibition match was between Shrek Academy and the Tianhai Academy senior team.
"Why can't I say it?" Su Ming said. "They take the most talented Spirit Masters from the continent, then turn around and bully local academy teams wherever they go?"
He curled his lip and added another sentence.
No one around him echoed his sentiment.
It was just that this kind of thing was hard to rally behind.
Shrek Academy's status on the continent was too transcendent; ordinary people really didn't dare to face such a behemoth.
Su Ming had the Spirit Transmission Pagoda behind him. They had nothing behind them.
After the minor incident, the exhibition match soon began.
To increase the challenge of this exhibition match, the Shrek representative team applied to the organizers to have their junior team challenge the senior team across age groups.
Su Ming looked at the two teams on the arena and couldn't help but shake his head.
The age limit for the junior team was ten to fifteen years old, while the senior team was sixteen to twenty.
This didn't necessarily mean a five-year gap.
For example, the ace of the Tianhai senior team this year was only eighteen, while the ace on Shrek's side was fifteen.
The age difference was three years, and their Spirit Power cultivation was both at the Spirit Ancestor level.
Such a battle was indeed more interesting, but Shrek's strategy wasn't to have an evenly matched fight; they aimed to win with a crushing posture in a cross-age battle!
Stealing the host's thunder.
This was Shrek, not caring about the host's face.
The purpose was to promote Shrek, deeply ingrain its strength into people's hearts, and make all the geniuses of the Tianhai Alliance want to join Shrek, all while slapping the Tianhai Alliance in the face hard.
Yet, the distorted situation built up over ten thousand years made people think this was normal. Even the fact that the Shrek representative team could come to the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition was already seen as giving the Tianhai Alliance immense face.
"Those two are actually part of the representative team?" Long Xin said.
He looked at Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi in the arena, showing surprise.
He had thought Ye Xinglan was just complaining, telling her seniors to teach the Tianhai Team a lesson. He didn't expect her to take action herself.
She looked only about ten years old, right?
What strength could she possibly have?
Long Xin stared at Ye Xinglan on the arena, sneering inwardly.
Two yellow Spirit Rings.
Grand Spirit Master!
Indeed, stronger than him, Long Xin, but far weaker than Su Ming.
Su Ming was also ten but already had three rings!
Three purple Spirit Rings!
Besides Ye Xinglan, the chubby Xu Lizhi also had two Spirit Rings. He was the first to use his Spirit Skill, throwing out several steamed buns to the seniors in front of him.
Then, a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Master appeared, their two yellow, one purple Spirit Rings materializing and instantly shining brightly. Three beams of light fell upon the boy at the front, who had a heavy, oppressive aura.
The boy's appearance wasn't outstanding, but he exuded heavy pressure. Combined with his exceeding standard Spirit Ring configuration of two yellow, one purple, one black, he seemed like a terrifying giant beast.
His black Spirit Ring seemed to devour the light in the arena.
Then, the arena was enveloped by lightning power.
Endless lightning surged up from the arena; the audience couldn't even see what was happening inside.
After two and a half minutes, the lightning subsided. The boy returned to his original spot, his Martial Soul and Spirit Rings already retracted.
Opposite him, the members of the Tianhai Team were scattered in disarray.
"Are these Shrek students so petty?" Long Xin thought it was because he had verbally offended Ye Xinglan, making them refuse to give the Tianhai senior team any face, crushing them so ruthlessly.
"Don't burden yourself; maybe they never intended to leave us any face to begin with," Su Ming said.
Zero Squad.
Tang Wulin looked dazed, staring at the seven people still standing on the arena.
"So strong."
Wu Zhangkong appeared beside him at this moment.
"This is Shrek Academy. It is also your future goal and... competitor."
"Competitor?"
"Correct. Given your talent and the goal of my training, you are all aimed at entering Shrek Academy. But unlike what you might think, the target I set for you isn't to enter Shrek's Outer Court, but the Inner Court. That is the true Shrek."
Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan fell silent.
The guy on the stage wasn't even an Inner Court student?
"No wonder they're so arrogant and ignorant; they're just holed up here watching the matches."
As they left the arena and passed by the Tianhai Team preparation area, Ye Xinglan sneered.
She was aiming this at Su Ming.
As she spoke, the seniors beside her also looked over.
"So you're the one who was disrespectful?"
The leading boy didn't speak; instead, a boy next to him did.
He had revealed his Spirit Rings on stage: two yellow, two purple, a genuine Spirit Ancestor.
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