An hour passed in the blink of an eye. Xu Tianchen, Xu Jiawei, Xu Tianzhen, Xu Jiujiu, and Dai Hao, along with the civil and military officials behind them, had all taken their places atop the city wall, watching the fourteen members of the two academies step onto the arena.
The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy had made a slight change to its lineup, replacing Mi Jia with Ye Guyi. Everyone else remained the same.
But since He Caitou had already been taken away, Jiang Nannan replaced him on Shrek Academy's team and walked onto the arena alongside Ma Xiaotao and the others.
As Ma Xiaotao walked toward the arena, she looked up at Xu Tianchen and Xu Jiawei, who stood atop the city wall looking down at them. Open resentment filled her eyes.
She resented Xu Tianchen for publicly exposing Huo Yuhao's sharing of Spiritual Detection with them. In her eyes, Xu Tianchen had not done it for the sake of fairness at all. He had resorted to underhanded tricks simply because Shrek Academy was about to win. As the future emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, he lacked even a shred of imperial magnanimity and showed no reverence whatsoever for Shrek.
She resented Xu Jiawei for not daring to side with Shrek Academy. Punishing their people was clearly his way of currying favor with Xu Tianchen. Ma Xiaotao decided that once the match was over and she returned to Shrek Academy, she would complain to her teacher.
"Both sides, take your positions. Let the match-begin!"
At Huang Jinxu's command, he flashed up to the barrier above the arena. Xu Jiawei had thickened and reinforced it once again for this match.
This time, Xu Sanshi did not immediately use Black Tortoise Substitution on Ma Rulong as soon as