"There are only seven Shrek Seven Devils, but there are nine of you, so some of you are bound not to make it to the end. If any of you slack off, you'll certainly be among the two who fall short. Your selection for the reserve team is an academy secret. No one may reveal it. Anyone who does will be disqualified immediately."
Xuan Zi delivered that stern warning, then said, "From now on, you'll train with me one day every week. There's one month left until this year's Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament. I'll have you train alongside the Seven Devils competing this year. I hope you seize this opportunity and improve yourselves as much as possible. All right, dismissed. Jiang Hai, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, you three stay behind!"
"Yes!" Excitement shone in Huo Yuhao's and Wang Dong's eyes. If anyone among them failed to meet the reserve team's selection criteria, it was the second-year students. Even five years later, they would still be under eighteen and would only just have entered the Inner Court. For those under twenty, a gap of two or three years of cultivation made an enormous difference. Yet they had already earned recognition and officially become reserve team members, which meant they could train with Xuan Zi. Both his imposing aura and his nine soul rings were more than enough to prove his strength.
Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and the others left first. Of the nine who had made the cut, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were undoubtedly the most embarrassed. As two Soul Ancestors and the Outer Court Twin Stars, they had nearly failed to make the reserve team. Worse, they had lost a head-on, four-against-one fight to a second-year student. How could they hold their heads up after