But the members of the Imperial Fighting Team, including Yu Tianheng, largely refused to listen to Qin Ming.
Instead, they chose to follow the orders of a vice-captain named Ye Feng.
He was a direct descendant of the Nine Heart Begonia Family, and his older sister, Ye Lingling, was the current bearer of the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.
Both of them had thousand-year second soul rings.
Ye Lingling was fifteen, with the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul, and a rank-thirty-nine support-type Tool Soul Elder. There was little more to say about her. Tang Weiwei had already told Yu Xiaogang about her, and he had recorded her case in his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
The real problem was this Ye Feng: twelve years old, with the Azure Lotus Sword martial soul, and a rank-thirty-five Assault Battle Soul Elder.
His martial soul did not seem particularly high-quality, yet his swordsmanship was superb.
Whenever he struck, sword energy swept across the battlefield.
Without using a single soul ring skill, even after his captain, Yu Tianheng, had fallen into the Shrek Team's ambush—
He had single-handedly thrashed all seven members of the Shrek Team.
In the end, even Tang San's hidden weapons had been no match for him.
The confidence the Shrek Five Monsters had painstakingly built up had crumbled in an instant, leaving them all but unable to recover.
Tang San had even considered switching to cultivating his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, again.
Yu Xiaogang had managed to talk him out of it by explaining the advantages of twin martial souls.
But the shadow of defeat still hung over Tang San and the others from Shrek.
After all, they had not lost to the entire Imperial Fighting Team, but to Ye Feng alone.
Now, at the invitation