[Su Yan: Well, tell everyone this: if they can't win the championship, there's still runner-up. Taking second place in this year's Soul Master Competition would definitely go down in history.]
[Xu Jiujiu: Exactly. With someone as powerful as Ma Xiaotao in this year's competition, even finishing runner-up would make a team's name live through the ages. The achievement would carry even more weight.]
[Innocent and Cute: Right! Taking second this time would carry more weight than winning the championship.]
[Innocent and Cute: Heh heh heh. I'm part of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy this time, and we were already seeded to win it all. We've got this in the bag!]
[Group Member Number Nine: Lied to you. You won't even get runner-up.]
[Dugu Yan: Tianzhen, don't be so innocent. Have you forgotten about Spirit Hall Team 1?]
[Ning Rongrong: Heh. Ma Xiaotao and the others might not even win the championship. And you think you can, Xu Tianzhen?]
Xu Tianzhen went numb.
She really had forgotten.
Ma Xiaotao might have put on one hell of a show, but whether she could beat Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, and the others was still anyone's guess.
[Innocent and Cute: Then we'll take runner-up. Runner-up—or even third place—would still be an incredible achievement.]
[Vina: Heh.]
[Xu Jiujiu: Heh.]
Vina and Xu Jiujiu smiled without a word.
Your name is Innocent, and your ideas really are innocent!
Just then, Xu Jiujiu called out, "Everyone, please quiet down."
"None of you need to feel discouraged by the appearance of the Spirit Hall team. Quite the opposite—you should count yourselves lucky that a group of geniuses like this has appeared in our era."
"Even taking runner-up this year would make your names echo through the ages more than winning the championship in previous years."
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