On a new day, the contestants from Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy stood below the arena, facing one another.
Their gazes met, seeming ready to spark like lightning against flint, brimming with hostility.
After the referee finished routinely announcing the rules for this team battle, both teams were given one minute to prepare.
The accompanying teachers from Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy both seized this final minute to rally and encourage their students.
The minute quickly passed. The chief referee, Heavenly Fiend Douluo, immediately announced, "Team battle contestants, take the field."
The Sun Moon Empire sent out Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and four other fifth-rank soul engineers.
Taken individually, the martial souls and personal strength of those fifth-rank soul engineers were not particularly outstanding.
After all, martial souls and cultivation talent were the weak points of Sun Moon Empire soul engineers. However, with the enhancement provided by Soul Tools, they were entirely capable of surpassing ordinary Soul Masters of the same rank.
Shrek Academy naturally sent the seven members Wang Yan had designated at yesterday's meeting—the original team that had competed in the sixteen-to-eight round.
The entire audience had fallen utterly silent, as if afraid to disturb the battle about to unfold.
Once both teams had taken their positions, Heavenly Fiend Douluo said, "The rules have already been announced, so I will not repeat them. Both sides, fall back and prepare to begin!"
Ma Rulong, the captain of Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, watched the Shrek Academy team in the distance with a grave expression.
Although Gongyang Mo had been appointed Shrek Academy's captain in this crisis,
Ma Xiaotao, standing behind Gongyang Mo with dark-red eyes and an expressionless face, put him under even greater pressure.
As captain of