Time passed, and before long, Shrek's team appeared in the competitors' tunnel.
The square immediately erupted with thunderous cheers.
One leading teacher and seven team members slowly entered Shrek's designated resting area amid countless gazes and cheers.
Then they all sat down and closed their eyes to rest.
As though they did not care about anything around them.
At the sight of this, the cheers in the arena grew even louder.
This was Shrek. This was the bearing of the strong—lofty and above all, looking down upon the masses!
However, the faces of everyone from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy—or, more precisely, Ye Luochen and the other three—instantly turned grim.
Although Shrek's people wore oversized hooded robes and stood quite far away from them,
they immediately noticed something unusual.
The oversized robes could conceal their appearances, but not their builds. Among the seven team members, three were clearly smaller in stature.
And they remembered perfectly well that among Shrek's original seven reserve members, only Xiaoxiao and Jiang Nannan, the two girls, had relatively petite builds.
The other five, even Wang Dong, who was somewhat slight, was noticeably much taller than those two girls.
But now, with the total number unchanged, there was one more petite figure.
So who was the one missing?
They had been watching to see whether Huo Yuhao would show any abnormalities, only for a personnel change to immediately appear on Shrek's side.
Could that be a coincidence?
Smack!
Elder Ma slammed his palm heavily onto the table.
Although Ye Luochen and the other two had previously insisted that Shrek was responsible for attacking them, they had no solid evidence.
After he reported it to the academy, the academy held the same view.
Under such circumstances, it was difficult for them to make an issue