So that was it. No wonder!
The combination of a Fierce Beast Soul Ring and a teenage Soul Ancestor was very convincing. Xu Sanshi instinctively assumed that Lu Yuan had been singled out for special training and appointed captain because of his monstrous talent—
After all, given Lu Yuan's cultivation, he was certain to be Shrek's trump card in the next Soul Fighting Tournament. It made sense to let him get used to being captain ahead of time.
So Brother Yuan had quietly gone and done something huge again!
While Xu Sanshi and Beibei chatted away, Huo Yuhao listened nearby with envy written across his face.
Back when the core disciples of Class One, Second Year had been summoned to Mu Jin's office and Wang Yan had taken Lu Yuan away separately, everyone had already suspected something. But after the free-for-all selection match, the academy had ordered them to keep the matter secret. Since Lu Yuan still attended class every day as usual and never seemed to miss lessons for special training, Huo Yuhao had felt too awkward to ask him. He had never imagined that Brother Yuan would quietly pull off something this big and become captain of the Inner Court's first team.
But I'm not doing badly myself!
Lowering his head, Huo Yuhao looked at his hands. With his twin martial souls—the body-type Spirit Eyes and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion with her ultimate ice—he was now worlds apart from his former self. And now that he had Brother Yuan as a goal to chase, wasn't that a blessing in its own right?
"All right, all right." After Lu Yuan finished speaking, Xuan Zi raised both hands slightly, signaling everyone to quiet down. "I called you here today so you could get to know one another. After