After the battle royale ended, exactly seven people remained.
Two on Su Yuan and Xiao Xiao's side.
Five on Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan's side.
Together, that made exactly seven.
Su Yuan had kicked out the original team's sole black bastard who failed to recognize heaven's will. The team had welcomed its faithful leader and finally looked properly human.
Otherwise, a perfectly good seven-person team would have had a Chimpanzee mixed into it-a fur-clad, horn-bearing creature born of dampness and hatched from an egg-disgracing the dignity of virtuous Soul Masters like us.
After the battle royale, Xuan Zi explained the purpose of this selection to the seven of them. But aside from Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, the other five already knew perfectly well why this core disciple selection had been held.
Bei Bei and the other two were upper-year students, so they must have known long ago.
Only those two greenhorns, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, had blundered their way through the selection without a clue.
Even Ning Tian had cast Su Yuan a resentful look when she left after being eliminated.
It was probably because Su Yuan had not given her a helping hand during the selection match. She had wanted to join Shrek's reserve team, too. It would have boosted her prestige considerably and made it easier to lure talented people away.
But again, he was under no obligation to help.
Once everything had been explained, Xuan Zi told Su Yuan and the others to return at the same time tomorrow to meet the main team from the Inner Academy, the Shrek Seven Devils, so they could get acquainted and form an impression of one another.
"That's all. You can leave." Xuan Zi waved a hand, then produced a chicken drumstick