"Holy crap, they secretly used Fixed Soul Guidance Shells to kill people? Are they even still contestants? They're nothing but murderers!"
"Damn it, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection never stopped from beginning to end!"
What raised everyone's blood pressure the most was that after Xu Sanshi collapsed on the competition stage from overtaxing his Martial Soul, Xuan Zi actually jumped straight onto the stage!
"The competition has to continue, unless you want to become a laughingstock in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Oh, right, there's one thing I have to say."
"I don't care if anyone else dies. But if any of my precious children die, I can't guarantee I won't go berserk. It seems there's no power here that can stop me from going berserk..."
Seeing this, many people gritted their teeth until they creaked! Shameless! This was simply too shameless!
You were a Level 98 Super Douluo, yet you were using "going berserk" to threaten the judges?
At that moment, even Xu Jiawei of the Star Luo Empire had a face as black as charcoal! This was the capital of the Star Luo Empire. What did you mean by threatening to go berserk here?
So if one of your Shrek people died, the million subjects of the Star Luo Empire had to be buried with them?
Then you got so many young geniuses from your own academy killed. Shouldn't you, you old beast, be buried a hundred times over?
But even more shameless things were still to come!
On the Sky Screen, after this absurd cheating competition had "ended successfully," Shrek Academy actually had Xuan Zi personally snatch a precious Level 8 close-combat Soul Tool from the Sun Moon Team!
Everyone knew that close-combat Soul Tools were worth far more than ordinary Soul Tools of the same rank.
This top-tier Level 8 close-combat Soul Tool was worth as much as an ordinary Level 9 Soul Tool, yet Xuan Zi had seized it while the Sun Moon Empire's experts were away. He'd simply taken the Soul Tool by force!
Seeing this, countless people in the Sun Moon Empire were so furious their eyes nearly split, and even Kong Deming couldn't help but give a cold snort.
"Looks like I still overestimated the limits of this bunch from Shrek! Next time there's a Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, I'll go myself if I have to. I'd like to see if this Xuan Zi still dares to 'go berserk' in front of me!"
Generally speaking, every Level 9 Soul Engineer had their own work to do. Some trained the military, while others worked on research and development. When a young Soul Master team needed an escort, an Level 8 Soul Engineer was more than enough.
After all, unless you were an absurd monster like Xuan Zi, who escorted the team all the way to the competition venue? An Level 8 Soul Engineer would have been more than sufficient.
But who could have imagined that someone could be so shameless? Throwing his weight around against the young, brazenly interfering on the competition stage, bullying the judges, and openly stealing a Soul Tool from a Sun Moon Empire contestant?
Holy crap, was this how they treated the Sun Moon Empire, as if it had no one to stand up for it? The Level 9 Soul Engineers from Mingde Hall, the Enshrinement Hall, and the military were so furious their noses twisted!
And yet, the most infuriating things were always still to come.
After the tournament ended, the master of Mingde Hall personally went to see Xuan Zi and politely asked him to return the Level 8 close-combat Soul Tool.
"...This Sword of Judgment is my proudest work, and it means a great deal to me. I hope you'll return it."
"Fine. As long as you can restore our academy's Ma Xiaotao to normal, I'll return the Sword of Judgment to you."
"Elder Xuan, you can't put it that way. Several of our academy's elite students died at the hands of your students, too. We haven't even asked you for compensation."
On the screen, Jing Hongchen was clearly getting a little angry by then, but he still suppressed his temper and calmly stated the facts.
Everyone couldn't help thinking back to the earlier scenes on the Sky Screen. The Shrek Team had shamelessly cheated and ruthlessly killed several members of the Sun Moon Team.
Ma Xiaotao, on the other hand, had merely been injured normally in a match.
And then Xuan Zi's next sentence made everyone's eyeballs practically hit the floor.
"Can your academy's students compare to Xiaotao?"
Seeing those words, even the forces allied with Shrek Academy, like the Star Luo Empire, could barely stomach it!
What the hell kind of thing was that to say?
Across the entire Sun Moon Empire, not only Soul Engineers but even ordinary civilians were thoroughly enraged by Xuan Zi's attitude!
Yet on the Sky Screen, Xuan Zi kept right on talking:
"Ma Xiaotao is the successor to the position of the next dean of our academy's Martial Soul Department. She's not yet twenty, already close to the cultivation of a Seven-Ring Soul Sage, and possesses a top-tier Beast Martial Soul. In a one-on-one fight, she's invincible among her peers across the entire continent..."
"Pah! Pah! What nonsense. Invincible among her peers across the entire continent?"
Countless people across the Sun Moon Continent began cursing.
"So your people's lives matter, but ours don't?"
"If they were the same age, wouldn't our Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen beat that Ma Xiaotao—or Ma Big Peach or whatever—until she was dangling upside down?"
"If they were the same age, our Dean Jing Hongchen could slaughter you, you old beast Xuan!"
Even Shrek's own people thought Xuan Zi's words were so outrageous that they couldn't be defended!
"Ahem... Elder Xuan was simply anxious to protect our own students!"
In Sea God Pavilion, Yan Shaozhe awkwardly tried to smooth things over.
"Hmph, I don't think Elder Xuan said anything wrong. Those useless people from the Sun Moon Continent could have a thousand lives, ten thousand lives, and they'd still never compare to the little monsters our Shrek raised!"
Xian Lin'er snorted coldly and said indignantly.
Next, people saw that after the tournament ended, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy stopped mentioning what had happened during the competition and held a student exchange program.
Then, under the "guidance" of Shrek's accompanying teacher, Huo Yuhao took advantage of his status as an exchange student and secretly started acting as a spy!
"%&*#~"
The people of the Sun Moon Empire could hardly put their feelings into words anymore! Was this still a Soul Master Academy?
This was nothing but a nest of thieves!
Since ancient times, people hadn't feared thieves stealing from them as much as they feared thieves setting their sights on them!
Watching the Sky Screen as Shrek stole the Sun Moon Empire's precious research成果 on humanoid Soul Tools—and even snatched the Snow Empress Embryo they'd bought for a fortune—the master of Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen, turned green with rage!
"Humiliation! A disgrace beyond all humiliation!"
At that moment, it wasn't just the Sun Moon Empire that could barely bear to watch. Across the entire Douluo Continent, even the forces of the Original Three Empires felt a chill run down their spines at such behavior!
If Shrek Academy would worm its way through every crack in the Sun Moon Empire just to stick a needle in, then how thoroughly had it infiltrated the forces of the original Douluo Continent? Who knew how many people were Shrek Academy spies now?