Early the next morning.
At the main gates of Shrek Academy, the fourteen members of the main team and Reserve Team, together with Dai Yunze, who had inexplicably become an extra member, and their two accompanying teachers, Xuan Zi and Wang Yan, assembled early before strolling leisurely along the main road through Shrek City.
Although their destination was the Star Luo Empire, where they would take part in the latest Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, they first had to head to the Ming Dou Mountains for a supervisory mission—in other words, to wipe out Evil Soul Masters. They had not yet fully left Shrek City when Xuan Zi began explaining the Shrek Supervisory Corps to everyone. Naturally, his main audience was the seven Reserve Team members and "newbies" like Dai Yunze.
The existence of the Shrek Supervisory Corps was a weighty subject, steeped in far too much sacrifice and bloodshed. But Dai Yunze was himself an Evil Soul Master, and precisely the sort they described as becoming more terrifying the greater their talent. Listening to their discussion, to the pride that seeped into their words and seeing the occasional flash of fear in their eyes when they spoke of Evil Soul Masters, left him with a feeling he could hardly put into words.
Still, when Xuan Zi asked whether they wanted to join the Shrek Supervisory Corps, Dai Yunze gave the same affirmative answer as the seven Reserve Team members.
It was not as though circumstances had forced his hand. Dai Yunze did not side with the Evil Soul Masters, so this was hardly a case of being unwilling yet forced to join the Shrek Supervisory Corps. But he was an Evil Soul Master all the same, and a day would eventually come when he used his