"Oi! Isn't this Xiao Hongchen? I didn't expect you to come to this Imperial Banquet too. What a coincidence!"
Squeezing into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's seating area as though he knew everyone there, Huo Yuhao waved casually, plopped down beside Xiao Hongchen, and patted his shoulder with a grin.
"..."
The members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy exchanged bewildered looks, unable to make heads or tails of Huo Yuhao's intentions.
Xiao Hongchen looked at Huo Yuhao beside him and curled his lip. "Huo Yuhao, what are you doing here? At the end of the day, we and your Shrek Academy Team are opponents, aren't we?"
"Opponents? Haha, it's only a competition. We're all around the same age. Even if we're opponents in the arena, we can still make friends outside it." Huo Yuhao poured himself a cup of wine and first raised it to Elder Ma, who sat at the head of the table.
Elder Ma chuckled and shared a drink with Huo Yuhao, a gleam flashing through his eyes.
"You must be Ma Rulong. I'd already heard that your academy's team actually had a Soul Emperor among its ranks," Huo Yuhao said, raising his cup again. "The teachers at Shrek always say that soul engineers cultivate more slowly than soul masters, but after seeing you, I've realized that theory must be wrong."
"Even in Shrek Academy's Inner Academy, only two or three people have become Soul Emperors before turning twenty. If you were a student at Shrek, you would absolutely qualify to stand among the current Shrek Seven Devils!"
Despite Ma Rulong's firm disposition, Huo Yuhao's words still brought an involuntary smile to his face.
Although he was a student of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and had even entered the