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"We've lost two matches!"

In the lounge behind Shrek Academy's stands, the members of the Shrek Team stood or sat around, all wearing gloomy expressions.

Their goal was to win this Soul Master Competition, but the first step toward the championship was making it through the Preliminary Tournament. Otherwise, they would not even qualify for the Promotion Tournament or the Finals, much less contend for the title.

They had fought three actual matches since the competition began. Aside from defeating Royal Fight Team Two in the first match, they had lost the other two—first to Blue Tyrant Academy, and now to Plant Academy.

Moreover, neither of those two academies had been particularly dominant among the many advanced academies in the past. If even those two were this strong, the strength of the truly powerful academies was easy to imagine.

Could they really make it through the Preliminary Tournament?

Yu Xiaogang and Flender, who had remained in the stands, were equally gloomy, yet neither could think of a good solution.

Even Yu Xiaogang, who had read extensively and was hailed as invincible in theory, could not come up with an answer to this situation.

His theoretical research had indeed reached an extremely high level, but it had been built upon the accumulated knowledge of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall. The problem was that in this new era, many things had changed, and those old foundations were no longer applicable.

They could handle ordinary teams, but against Heaven's Chosen or true group Martial Soul Fusion Skills, their methods simply could not adapt.

After all, Heaven's Chosen like these had never appeared before. Even Martial Soul Fusion Skills had mostly been limited to two-person combinations. The Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill he had devised back then had already been