In the Inner Court of Shrek Academy, more than a dozen teams of students who had participated in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament stood in solemn expectation before the Golden Ancient Tree.
Word had spread from Shrek that the top three teams would be granted entry into the Golden Ancient Tree to receive direct instruction, while other competing teams could listen from the outside. With the exception of the Holy Ghost Cult—an exposed faction that dared not show its face without courting certain death—virtually every force across the continent went all out, rushing to Shrek within a mere few days.
Naturally, there were still teams that failed to make it in time, and they in fact formed the vast majority. Yet anyone who cared to look would notice that these laggards were generally teams that had failed to achieve prominent rankings.
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