"You're talking nonsense!"
Zhang Ping, a One-Word Battle Armor Master from Shrek Academy who had arrived in Mingdu ahead of the others for special training, flew into a defensive rage when he heard Li Zha claim that Shrek harbored evil soul masters.
"Xu Yucheng is a prodigy of the Shrek Outer Court! How could he possibly be an evil soul master?!"
"Shrek has twenty thousand years of glory! How could we possibly have anything to do with evil soul masters?!"
Zhang Ping gritted his teeth.
Had Heavenly Phoenix not been present, he would have attacked Li Zha outright.
"Kid! Even with Heavenly Phoenix here today, you'd better explain yourself!"
"Our people losing to you means we weren't as skilled, but you're slandering Shrek with baseless accusations of ties to evil soul masters! If you can't explain yourself, you owe us an apology!"
Behind Zhang Ping,
more than a dozen Shrek students were equally incensed.
Who on the entire continent didn't know that Shrek and evil soul masters were irreconcilable enemies?
Slander! This was blatant slander!
The people from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy were bewildered too.
Xu Yucheng's martial soul might have been a little sinister, but he wasn't an evil soul master.
Off to the side,
Wu Siduo, who had been locked in a bitter struggle, grew furious at those words. Na'er also stopped attacking and stood looking toward her senior brother, Li Zha.
Li Zha chuckled. "Slander? No, everything I've said has evidence behind it."
"What evidence?!"
Li Zha looked around. "Everyone, Shrek and evil soul masters may seem like sworn enemies, but their ties go back a long way."
"Twenty thousand years ago, before Thousand-Hand Asura Tang San became a god, he destroyed Slaughter City, where evil soul masters were imprisoned at the time. With