Heaven Dou City.
Shrek Academy.
With the Soul Master Tournament drawing near, a lively atmosphere swept through the Soul Master world across the continent.
Countless people could hardly wait to feast their eyes on this spectacle featuring the younger generation of Soul Masters.
The teams of the various academies were also conducting intensive training, the drums beating and gongs sounding in a flurry of preparation.
Shrek Academy, however, lay beneath a cloud of gloom.
A year and a half earlier, Shrek Academy had moved from Suotuo City to Heaven Dou City and merged with Blue Tyrant Academy to form a new Shrek Academy.
But compared with the original seven members of Shrek...
The current Shrek Academy could barely scrape together enough members to field an official tournament team.
So far, they had only assembled eight people: Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Tai Long, Jiang Zhu, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling.
Of those eight, only Dai Mubai and Tai Long had a chance of advancing to Soul Ancestor before the tournament began.
The others were all merely Soul Elders.
With strength like that, they were destined not to get far in the Soul Master Tournament. They might not even make it out of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Worse still, not one of the eight was a control-type Soul Master, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and the others worried sick.
There was some good news, of course. Since Skywater Academy lay within the Sea God Empire, it would not compete in the Heaven Dou Empire's division this year, easing the pressure on many academies trying to qualify.
"Ah! If only little San were here. With his talent, he might well be able to push for the Soul Ancestor rank by now. Then we'd have three Soul Ancestors, and our lack of