"The gap. That's the gap..." After the match, Xuan Zi took a drunken sip of fine wine from his gourd and said this with a shake of his head.
After all these days of special training under him, basking in the honor of becoming the reserve Shrek Seven Monsters, these youngsters had inevitably begun to get a little full of themselves. That was why he had brought in the main team members from the Inner Court, hoping to show them the gap between themselves and true monsters.
Originally, he had intended to mix the two sides into teams for practice matches. He had never expected Lu Yuan to volunteer, much less deliver such a crushing performance, defeating all eight opponents single-handedly and putting them firmly in their place.
"Elder Xuan, I don't accept this!" Wang Dong was the first to jump up at Xuan Zi's post-match review. In this match, she had been the most useless person of all, without exception.
After all, even Xiao Xiao had gotten in a few hits with her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. Wang Dong alone had still been holding hands with Huo Yuhao, enjoying their sweet little moment with Haodong Power, when Lu Yuan had snuck up behind her and taken her out in one move.
"If we fought again, I..." Wang Dong paused, recalling the Light Wheel that had hovered beside her neck and sent chills down her spine, then rephrased her words. "We'd definitely win. Yuhao and I, our Martial Soul Fusion Skill..."
"Wang Dong." Before Xuan Zi could retort, Huo Yuhao spoke up. He put an arm around Wang Dong's slender shoulders, his voice carrying a distinctly soothing note. "We already lost. A loss is a loss. In a tournament, the referee won't give you another chance just because you didn't perform