In many cases, the actual truth was not important. What mattered most was what the people involved thought.
For example, right now, Shrek had actually sent no new team members to support them. What purpose Shrek had in mind was no longer the main issue.
Its team members were bound to feel disappointed. That was what mattered most.
Because that disappointment would inevitably give Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy an opening, a chance to make an issue of it.
As long as they played it properly, driving a wedge between those team members and the academy, or even pulling a few people over to defect, was entirely possible.
Though Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy as a whole regarded Shrek as a great enemy, as if they wished they could grind its bones to dust and scatter its ashes, that was only directed at "Shrek," not at its students.
As for Shrek's extraordinarily talented students, they coveted them deeply!
Hearing Elder Ma's words, Ye Luochen naturally understood.
Their thoughts were actually in perfect tacit agreement.
Thinking of this, Ye Luochen nodded.
The auction was an extremely simple matter for him. Just as Elder Ma had said, as long as he gave the word, then with his financial strength and the academy's degree of regard for him, it was basically a sure thing. There was no need to spend effort keeping an eye on it or thinking of methods.
In that case, he might as well think about how to make use of the psychological gap in Shrek's team members.
First, Ma Xiaotao. There did not seem to be anything about her that he could make an issue of.
Her Soul Emperor-level cultivation, her position as the head of the Shrek Seven Devils, and her identity as Yan Shaozhe's disciple