Shrek Academy's Crushing Defeat! Tang San Gets Slapped

"Xue Beng, though I don't want to say this."

Prince Xue Xing patted his shoulder and sighed. "But if you don't want Xue Qinghe's scheme to succeed, Bing Jiu is your only choice."

The lengthy opening ceremony ended amid a dazzling wave of blessings.

Soon, the Pan-continental Advanced Soul Master Competition welcomed its first opening match.

Xue Qinghe personally took the stage to preside over the event. "Thank you all very much for your trust and blessings. I am deeply honored. Next, the first match of this competition will begin."

"Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two versus Blazing Academy, team battle!"

"Hehe, who would've thought we'd be up first!"

Tang San rubbed his hands together and gave Bing Jiu a thumbs-up. "Saintess, rest assured. We will definitely win this battle!"

All the strongest members of both academies took the stage.

Facing Blazing Academy, one of the Four Element Academies, Flender looked exceptionally grave before the match. Yet Tang San and the others appeared completely unconcerned, treating Blazing Academy like easy prey.

Flender was so furious smoke practically came out of his ears, but there was nothing he could do but send all seven of Tang San's group onto the stage.

Seeing Tang San and the others strutting about like monkeys, Master quickly covered his face and turned toward Flender.

"Flender, what kind of arrangement is this? If all the children go up, how are they supposed to conserve their strength?"

"Oh, Xiaogang, don't even mention it. These little bastards..."

Flender wiped his eyes, so worried he was nearly crying. "Even if they all go up, they might not be able to beat Blazing Academy. You deal with it. I can't control them anymore anyway."

Seeing Flender like this, Master was deeply puzzled. These past few days, he had been focused on developing his theories and had neglected these kids.

Still... they shouldn't lose to Blazing Academy, should they?

Flender's concerns soon proved true.

"Tang San, accept your fate! You're no match for us, Blazing Academy!"

On the arena, facing the surging flames of the Soul Ancestor-level Huo Wu, Tang San unleashed his first three soul skills at once. Even giving it everything he had, he could not break through Huo Wu's blockade and could only take the beating passively.

His Blue Silver Grass was even burned to ashes by Huo Wu's flames the moment it emerged.

They could not fight back at all.

"Damn it!"

Tang San hurriedly turned to his teammates. "Are you just standing there watching me make a fool of myself? Come help me already!"

"We can't handle things over here either!"

Ma Hongjun's face had turned bright red.

Although his Phoenix flames were incredibly powerful, his increasingly rampant evil fire and uncontrollable desire meant he needed ice cubes to cool himself down every half minute.

Their opponents were no fools and naturally seized on that weakness to counterattack.

Oscar used a Flying Mushroom Sausage and immediately became a living target. He hurriedly looked toward Dai Mubai in the distance. "Boss Dai, what are you doing? Why haven't you used Martial Soul Fusion yet? We're about to lose!"

"I want to!"

Dai Mubai desperately defended against Huo Wushuang's attacks, and Zhu Zhuqing was in the same situation.

It was as if their opponents already knew the two of them could use Martial Soul Fusion and simply refused to give them even the slightest chance.

Their defeat came like an avalanche.

Tang San gritted his teeth so hard they nearly shattered. "Damn it! You people, did a dog eat everything I told you before? Rongrong, buff me!"

"I can't, Third Brother! Xiao Wu and I—ah!"

Before she could finish, the opposing team condensed a massive fireball. Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, positioned at the rear of the team, had no time to react and were blasted straight off the stage, hitting the ground with a heavy thud.

Xiao Wu looked like she was about to cry. "Third Brother, it hurts so much. Come help me."

"You..."

Tang San's face turned green. In the end, just as expected, in less than five minutes, they had barely been given any chance to resist before surrendering.

Huo Wu looked at Tang San and the others' bedraggled appearance and shrugged disdainfully.

"Hmph! Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two? You're just a bunch of trash!"

"You!" Tang San turned around and glared furiously.

Huo Wushuang glared right back at him. "What? Not convinced? I'll tell you this: you are indeed strong, but judging from your godawful teamwork, you definitely didn't do any training before the competition."

"Hmph! No wonder everyone says that aside from Yu Tianheng and his group, Heaven Dou Royal Academy is full of trash. Now it seems they were right!"

Tang San's eyes were bloodshot, and his lips trembled with rage. "You bastards!"

"Enough! Haven't you embarrassed yourselves enough?"

Yu Xiaogang yanked him back. After walking to an empty corner, he could no longer suppress the fury in his heart. He turned around and slapped Tang San hard across the face.

Tang San had just been about to explain when the slap left him utterly dazed. He stared at him in shock.

"Teacher, what are you doing?!"

"What else would I be doing? Tang San, you made the team's plan this time. Why did such a huge mistake happen? This is only the first match of the tournament, yet you lost so thoroughly!"

Yu Xiaogang sighed helplessly. "Do you know? The Saintess has placed great hopes on us. Losing this match does not only harm us—we will also have a hard time answering to the Saintess."

"What?!"

Hearing that, Tang San and the others were stunned. Only then did they understand how serious the situation was.

They seemed to have really caused a huge disaster...

Meanwhile, on the high platform, Xue Ye was also filled with anger as he turned toward Xue Qinghe.

"Qinghe, these are the team members you wanted to support? Aren't they just a bunch of trash? They couldn't even last half an hour against Blazing Academy's assault. Why should the empire spend so much money raising them?"

"Your Majesty need not worry too much."

Xue Qinghe turned and whispered a few words into Xue Ye's ear.

After hearing them, Xue Ye's expression gradually eased. "Oh, so that's how it is. This team may be trash, but these people have powerful backgrounds. Let them serve as the face of Heaven Dou."

"Even if they cannot take first place, they must still give those Star Luo fools a good scare! Let them know just how many great powers support Heaven Dou!"

As he spoke, Xue Ye smiled and cupped his hands toward Bing Jiu.

"The students are lacking in talent. I hope the Saintess will be forgiving."

Bing Jiu lowered her gaze slightly, looking at the scene below the stage as an undisguisable smile curled across her lips.

"What are you saying, Your Majesty? Bing Jiu will be your daughter-in-law in the future, so naturally I must do my part for Heaven Dou. Besides, whether these people can enter Spirit City is only a matter of a word from Bing Jiu."

"Good. Then I will have to trouble the Saintess."

Bing Jiu gave a mocking smile and drank a cup with Xue Ye.

Xue Qinghe coughed lightly and whispered into Bing Jiu's ear, "Next, isn't it time for the handsome, dashing, and graceful me to make my appearance?"

"Look at you, showing off."

Bing Jiu tugged his ear, looking mildly annoyed.

But it lasted only an instant before her expression turned icy.

"Remember not to mess it up. I still have plenty of games to play with them one by one. If they die too early, it won't be any fun."