Xuan Zi nodded slightly. "All right, you've all briefly gotten to know each other. To deepen that impression, your training assignment today will be a friendly match."
"Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, you'll each lead a team. Ma Xiaotao, your cultivation is higher, so you can only have two other regular team members on your side. But you'll get first pick of both a regular and a reserve member."
None of the Inner Court students found this strange. Clearly, they were already used to Xuan Zi's way of doing things.
"For my first regular, I want Gongyang Mo."
Without another word, Ma Xiaotao pulled Gongyang Mo, that top-tier support, over to her side first.
"As for the reserve..." Ma Xiaotao wrestled with the choice for a while before picking Xu Sanshi.
It was a choice that couldn't go too badly wrong: a sufficiently high Soul Power Level and someone she knew well enough, making him quite the all-purpose pick.
Xu Sanshi hesitated, clearly a little afraid of Ma Xiaotao.
"Get over here already."
Ma Xiaotao raised her elegantly arched brows, immediately making Xu Sanshi shudder in fright.
"Enough. Stop trembling like a quail."
"I'm drinking the heat-clearing, fire-purging tea Chen Ping prescribed now, and that second-year Yuhao with the Ultimate Ice attribute is helping cool me down. My Evil Fire is pretty much under control. I don't need you anymore."
Ma Xiaotao rolled her eyes and impatiently waved Xu Sanshi into her team.
Hearing that Ma Xiaotao actually no longer needed him to help suppress her Evil Fire, Xu Sanshi was overjoyed. Only then did he happily join her team.
Oh! So that kid who grilled such good fish had shouldered everything.
Ah, if I'd known, I'd have told Chen Ping to go easier on him in the battle royale. Hehe.