I Will Destroy Spirit Hall at Any Cost

In the semifinals, Shrek Academy faced Spirit Hall.

The two teams stepped onto the stage, and the gulf between them was plain to see. Of Spirit Hall's seven fighters, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan were Soul Kings. The other four were Soul Ancestors, and even the weakest was level forty-five. Shrek's strongest fighters were only Soul Ancestors. They could not field a single Soul King.

On Spirit Hall's side, Yan folded his arms and strolled to the front of the stage. His voice carried across the arena.

"Do we even need to fight?" He turned and shouted to his teammates. "A team without a single Soul King thinks it can take the championship from us?"

The referee raised the signal flag. The match began.

The instant the flag came down, Tang San shouted.

"Oscar, sausage!"

Oscar chanted, "I've got a Mushroom Sausage!" He rubbed his palms together, and several glossy red sausages flew from his hands, each topped with a tiny mushroom cap.

"Catch!"

Tang San caught one in his mouth and swallowed it in a few bites. His body grew light, and he lifted off the ground. The remaining sausages flew to his teammates. Each of the other six took one, swallowed it, and rose into the air.

The spectators burst out laughing.

"Eat a sausage and you can fly? What kind of sausage is that?"

"That chant of his! I'm dying!"

"Tsk, tsk. They can actually eat sausages that look like that?"

"This is insane, people. You know what I mean?"

Tang San turned his right hand, and a jade-green bamboo stalk sprang from his palm. It was Lone Bamboo, his thousand-year External Soul Bone. Suspended in midair, he tapped its end against the air and shot several feet higher. Another tap, another leap. There was clearly