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Chapter 145: I Won't Keep This Glory to Myself
To everyone else, Shrek Academy's absence was simply a display of pride befitting the defending champions and the continent's foremost academy. Only they themselves knew the truth.
Zhang Lexuan sat at the head of the table. To her right were the six members of the main team: Ma Xiaotao, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochеn, Xixi, and Yao Haoxuan. To her left were the four reserves: Ye Xixuan, Tang Wutong, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi.
Aside from Ye Xixuan and Tang Wutong, everyone looked somewhat pale.
Over the past three days, Ye Xixuan had absorbed most of the evil energy the Demon Empress had left inside them, but completely eliminating this hidden danger would take longer.
For now, they could use their own soul power cultivation to suppress the remaining evil energy that had seeped into the meridians throughout their bodies, keeping their injuries from worsening.
Ma Xiaotao's condition was especially troublesome. The origin of her evil fire phoenix martial soul had possessed a trace of impure darkness attribute from birth. Under the influence of the Demon Empress's ability, it had now reverted to the unstable state of years past.
Fortunately, her soul power cultivation had already reached the Seven-Ring Soul Sage level, so she would no longer lose control so easily-provided Ye Xixuan helped her dispel the evil qi in time, of course.
Seeing everyone sitting in silence, Bei Bei could not help asking Zhang Lexuan worriedly, "Eldest Senior Sister, with Xuan Zi's cultivation, he should have returned to the academy long ago, shouldn't he? Today's already the last day of registration. Has there still been no word from the academy?"
"No." Zhang Lexuan shook her head gently. Unlike Wang Yan's deliberate concealment in the original storyline, her composed,