"But we all discovered this together. We really ought to observe it together, and we can all work on this research together too. Honestly, the competition rules those damned three underground powers drew up are utter dogshit."
"What do we Soul Engineers rely on to determine who's better? Aside from making Soul Tools themselves, it's design and creativity. How many of today's Soul Tools came from creative ideas!"
"As I see it, Cai Xukun deserves the championship for daring to pioneer an approach to New-Style Soul Tools that no one has ever explored before."
"Anyway, I've already decided to give this kid a helping hand. If anyone dares try to kill him in the upcoming fight, hmph!"
Ye Yulin glanced at him and said, "Would I need you for that? Look up at the sky. What's that? Do you think I'm some harmless vegetarian?"
Another referee could not help saying, "That doesn't seem quite right. Those three underground powers have given us plenty of tributes. If we disrupt the competition..."
Ye Yulin glared at him, looking ready to erupt at any moment, and growled, "Bullshit. Tell me, Old Zhang, compared to an entirely new branch of Soul Tool development, does this damned competition matter? Does it?"
"According to top-secret intelligence from the Imperial Palace, Shrek Academy merely mastered a New-Style Forging Method that improves the various properties of rare metals, and that alone gave rise to multiple new technologies whose performance leaves even our Sun Moon Empire trailing too far behind to glimpse their backs."
"Think about the new technologies Shrek has shown at this tournament-the Sky Fortress, the Soul Guidance Battle Armor. The emergence of these technologies is enough to prove that Shrek has already begun trying to overtake us on the bend."
Elder Zhang clearly could not win