"No... No way? Yuhao, you must be joking."
Wang Dong could not believe it.
"How could the academy just have us Reserve Team members participate in the match? Didn't Teacher Wang say the academy was dispatching reinforcements over?"
Two white Soul Rings manifested around Huo Yuhao. "I just overheard it, why would I lie to you?"
Wang Dong asked in confusion, "But relying on us alone, how are we supposed to guard Shrek's glory? Shrek Academy has always taken first place in the Whole Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, year after year!"
"So what?" Huo Yuhao said disdainfully. "Are only people from Shrek allowed to take first place, and nobody else?"
"But... But..." Wang Dong stammered for a long time. "In that case, wouldn't Shrek's glory..."
"To hell with glory, what does it have to do with me?" Huo Yuhao impatiently waved a hand at Wang Dong. "If you don't have anything to do, go back to your room and sleep."
"How does it not have to do with you? You're also a part of Shrek," Wang Dong urged anxiously.
"I don't have any sense of belonging to Shrek," Huo Yuhao said indifferently. "Though I'll still do my best in this match."
"As long as we all do our best, we can accept whatever the final result turns out to be."
"Go back to sleep."
Wang Dong blankly left Huo Yuhao's room.
The next day, the eagerly anticipated Whole Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament finally grandly opened in Star Luo City.
A giant competition stage five meters tall and a hundred meters in length and width was built right in front of the Imperial City, enveloped by a Defensive Soul Tool.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators sat in the surrounding spectator stands in