Thanks to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen's timely intervention, the opening match had caused no deaths.
Injuries, however, had been unavoidable.
Six Six-Barrel Small Soul Cannons firing together could temporarily suppress even an army of two thousand, let alone a team of just seven.
Although Ma Xiaotao had immediately manifested her Phoenix True Body and unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower regardless of the cost to intercept the bombardment, some members had still been caught in the cannon fire.
When the Mingdu team realized that the Shrek Team had come intent on killing, they opened fire at full power, preferring to shatter as jade rather than survive as broken tile.
The one most seriously injured by the cannon fire's aftereffects was Yao Haoxuan, the auxiliary-type Soul King.
As cannons roared and meteors filled the sky, Jing Hongchen's defensive barrier had descended around him amid the chaos, blocking most of the bombardment for him.
Even so, he had suffered significant internal injuries.
Even with treatment from the healing-type Soul Saint accompanying the Shrek Team, he could forget about taking the stage with ease anytime soon.
In the stands, Huo Yuhao's expression gradually grew grave.
Not just his-the expressions of every member of the Di'ao Second Team were equally grave.
Even with a Soul Saint, the Shrek Team would have found it difficult to run rampant against Huo Yuhao and his small martial soul avatar.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao's and Su Tong's attributes countered Ma Xiaotao extremely well.
Even without using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, they could defeat Ma Xiaotao easily.
But the Sun Moon Empire's tactic of carpeting the ground with cannon fire posed far too great a threat.
And this was only the Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy Team.
Would the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team have an even more terrifying