After Tang Xuan took everyone to the Cityheart Hotel to gorge themselves that day, he lay in bed that night and suddenly realized that he had not rested normally in a very long time. Ever since he had embarked on the path of cultivation, he had replaced sleep with meditation at night and spent his days busy with all sorts of affairs, never stopping for a moment. Tang Xuan felt that he ought to give himself a proper rest. As he thought about it, he drifted off to sleep. But that sleep lasted three whole days!
When no one saw Tang Xuan during the first two days, everyone at Shrek assumed that he had gone out and was not at the academy. It was not until the third day, when Flender dragged him out of his room, that they discovered he had been sleeping all along.
Flender dragged Tang Xuan to the Seven Monsters' training ground and told him, under a fine-sounding pretext, "You're their captain. The Soul Master Tournament will begin before long. At this critical juncture, you need to be on duty at all times, so I'm leaving them to you!"
Still bleary-eyed, Tang Xuan agreed.
The Seven Monsters' training ground was on the mountain behind the academy, while the ordinary students trained inside the academy itself.
Tang Xuan set up a reclining chair on the grass several dozen meters from where the Seven Monsters trained, with tea on a small round table beside it. Every day, he lay in the chair and watched them train in the distance. He assigned them no particular tasks, simply letting them cultivate on their own, identify their shortcomings, and make up for them.
Each day at the training ground, Tang Xuan drank tea, basked in the sun, watched them train, and