The Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament had progressed even more smoothly than everyone had imagined.
For Shrek Academy's reserve team, their daily routine over the past few days had been utterly dull. Every day, they only needed to change into those green uniforms that represented glory and show their faces in the viewing stands at the competition venue on time.
As for whether they won or lost, that was not something reserve members like them needed to worry about.
Shrek Academy's official team had bulldozed their way through the matches, crushing every opponent they drew with the force of an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
Especially their captain, Ma Xiaotao.
Her title as one of the Inner Court's two living volcanoes was not an empty one.
With her cultivation at Level 72, the moment the phantom of the Fire Phoenix emerged from her Extreme Fire Martial Soul, the opposing Soul Ancestors and Soul Kings were already drenched in sweat and devoid of fighting spirit.
It could be said that, up to this point, Shrek's reserve team had enjoyed their roles as lucky mascot accessories immensely.
Without encountering any real obstacles, Shrek's team had relied on sheer strength to crush its way into the semifinals.
As the quarterfinal matches came to an end, the list of the four semifinalist teams was finally announced.
Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Star Luo Imperial Academy, and Minghuang Advanced Academy.
The moment the audience saw that list, the stands erupted into deafening discussion. Many longtime viewers even thought the organizers had made a typo.
According to the usual script of previous tournaments, the four semifinal spots had almost always been monopolized by those four giants.
Aside from the top academies of the original three great empires, there should definitely have been