People were the best form of publicity.
What happened inside the Mingdu Great Soul Arena quickly spread. Aside from being astonished by how swiftly the Royal Family investigated the incident, people lavishly praised the apology and compensation Xu Tianran had offered.
Many competing teams that had worried another accident might occur also breathed a sigh of relief. The matter thus came to an end.
The vast majority of the competing teams never imagined that, without realizing it, Shrek Academy had saved them. If they had absorbed the Burning Potion and been eliminated to return home, the price awaiting them half a year later would have been agonizing.
Their golden period of cultivation, lasting half a year or even several years, would have been cut short. Unless they had heavenly treasures to replenish themselves, no one could have borne such a loss.
Several days passed quietly. After the first round of matches, a total of 224 teams successfully advanced to the second round of the Preliminary Round.
Basically, every team Shrek Academy had deemed difficult to face had entered the second round.
Whether it was good luck or someone deliberately arranging things, no one knew.
None of the top-tier powerhouse teams encountered one another in the second-round draw. It was just that convenient.
And today, the second round officially began.
The only difference was that Shrek Academy had not been assigned to the Center Competition Stage, but to the Second Competition Stage.
This was, after all, the Sun Moon Empire—Mingdu. As the local competitors, Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy was naturally the team most welcomed by the audience.
They could hardly let an outsider compete on the Center Competition Stage match after match, could they?
When they entered the resting area again, they found themselves in a different venue. There