Confiscating Dai Mubai's Instrument of Crime

When all the dust had settled, the entire venue fell silent, as if someone had pressed pause and plunged everything into endless stillness.

Only the drifting haze of dust and the shattered, collapsing Spirit Fighting Ring showed what had just happened.

The Shrek Seven Devils had been defeated by the Martial Soul Hall Second Team.

In a crushing, almost brutal manner.

Among the more than eighty thousand spectators, every face was filled with shock, horror, and utter disbelief.

For a moment, it seemed difficult to believe that the match had ended in such a terrifying way.

Of course, in many people's eyes, the Shrek Seven Devils' defeat had long been a foregone conclusion, so it was not all that surprising.

Any spectator with a little discernment could tell that there had been no suspense in this battle from the very beginning.

After all, the Martial Soul Hall Second Team's strength was obvious to all. They were the undisputed top force of the Preliminary Tournament. Across twenty-nine rounds, they had never lost a single match they participated in.

Even Blazing Academy and Skywater Academy, both stronger than the Shrek Seven Devils, could only forfeit and admit defeat when facing this team, much less the Shrek Seven Devils Team.

Defeat was inevitable.

The presence of three Advanced Soul Ancestors alone was already enough to give the Shrek Seven Devils Team hell.

Not to mention that the Martial Soul Hall Second Team also had four powerful Soul Kings.

Three Soul Ancestors and four Soul Kings—the overall strength Spirit Hall had revealed in this match was what was truly terrifying, what was genuinely staggering.

The match might have appeared intense, and the Shrek Seven Devils had displayed considerable strength. Everyone, human or ghost, had been showing off.

But...

Anyone with eyes could see that