Huo Yuhao from The Peerless Tang Sect is incredibly talented.

Huo Yuhao watched the people on stage engaging in a battle of wits and courage, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

The reason Huo Yuhao made the Body Sect lose was simply because he was afraid the public wouldn't accept it, since the idea of ​​Shrek Academy losing completely would be viewed negatively by the general public in Douluo Continent.

It's like saying in the 10s that the US high-ranking officials were cannibalistic and abusive; nobody believed it.

It looks so real it's almost unbelievable, just like Xu Weili's documents.

This is why Huo Yuhao insisted that everyone from the Body Sect lose three matches, so that people wouldn't doubt him. I want the Body Sect to gain fame, not to be seen as fraudsters and madmen by the public.

Two losses, two wins, and one draw.

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes, as if he was considering whether he should win the next match.

Should Shrek win by a narrow margin, or should they draw?

Huo Yuhao was weighing the pros and cons of these two options to see which would allow the Body Sect's reputation to expand rapidly without any negative impact.

The last match ended in a draw?

This is equivalent to breaking the monopoly of Shrek Academy, causing a short-term explosion in fame, spreading throughout the entire Douluo Continent in an instant, and achieving the highest efficiency in gaining fame.

And both sides saved face, although in Huo Yuhao's opinion, apart from Mu En, most of the elders of the Sea God Pavilion in Shrek Academy did not think so.

They're being ungrateful, but the sect leader's suppression just now should make their elders more restrained.

However, Shrek Academy's reputation is too great, and it has dominated the continent for too long, creating a strong public perception. If a reclusive sect were to go toe-to-toe with Shrek Academy, many people and Soul Masters would likely question whether it was deliberately going easy on them or if there was some behind-the-scenes manipulation.

Therefore, it's best to lose in the end, since all the major powers and ordinary soul masters can accept this result calmly and won't find it absurd or outrageous.

In any case, the Body Sect is the first sect in tens of thousands of years to dare to directly challenge Shrek Academy at its gates.

Furthermore, while watching Mu Yun fight, Huo Yuhao accidentally read minds and discovered something.

Mu En actually decided to use the outcome of this duel to determine the resource allocation between the Soul Guidance Department and the Martial Soul Department for the next semester! If they lost a match, they would directly cut 10% of the Martial Soul Department's resources to the Soul Guidance Department for the next semester.

This is a good thing!

After all, Huo Yuhao planned to sneak into Shrek Academy's next recruitment drive, make friends with the students, and use the resources of Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department to figure out some things.

The students of Shrek Academy all come from well-off families, making them the easiest to be drawn into a fold and become one of your comrades.

Let's build a paradise for humanity by leveraging the influence of these young people. These young people all come from excellent families and are exceptionally talented.

If Huo Yuhao were to search for and assimilate them one by one, it would be far too time-consuming. It's much more convenient to find them from places that others have already found for him.

As for why Huo Yuhao still needed to borrow resources from Shrek Academy to grow, although Huo Yuhao had Void Realm cultivators and Replenishing Yuan Pills on hand.

However, Huo Yuhao still lacks resources.

All the profits from the Replenishing Essence Pill business were used for the construction of Tiandou City, leaving Huo Yuhao with no money to buy rare metals.

The rare metals they bought were all low-end products, yet Huo Yuhao still treated them as rare earth elements, and didn't want them to be used for anything else.

The Wonderful House was sponsored by the Sun and Moon Empire.

Just as Huo Yuhao decided to concede defeat in the next match, a sudden inspiration struck him, and he remembered something.

We still have one more seven-on-seven team battle!

Seven one-on-one matches and one seven-on-seven match.

Huo Yuhao thought for a moment. Now it's two wins, two losses, and one draw. There are two games left. If we have to decide a winner without the possibility of a draw, it seems like the only outcome will be a draw.

Huo Yuhao couldn't help but facepalm. He had only focused on the one-on-one match and hadn't expected there to be a seven-on-seven game as well.

Fine, a draw is fine too. Let's stir up some trouble. I remember Shrek Academy has had its share of narrow victories against other academies in the past.

On the stage, Yan Shaozhe looked at the two who had fallen simultaneously, both severely injured, and hesitated. After all, if the match was declared a draw, wouldn't Elder Mu deduct five percent of his martial spirit's power next year?

We don't want that kind of thing! Our Martial Soul Department has already had 20% deducted.

The thought of this made Yan Shaozhe feel as if a heavy stone was pressing on his chest, causing him heartache and panic.

My resources!

Just as Yan Shaozhe was deciding to find a pretext to judge Mu Yun as the winner, he suddenly felt a gaze scrutinizing him; it was Mu En.

The words were on the tip of his tongue: "I declare it a draw."

Phoenix of Light: I have been trying very hard to suppress this inherently evil evil spirit master.

In the seventh match, Chen Lu faced off against Yao Haoxuan.

After the two introduced themselves and their backgrounds,

Referee Yan Shaozhe raised his hand and then lowered it.

"start."

Yao Haoxuan is the strongest of the Shrek Seven Devils, with the Martial Soul of the Heaven-Shaking Ape and the title of Five-Ring Soul King.

The Shrek students from the foreign academy below the stage were greatly encouraged. Apart from the last game, their performance in the previous games, regardless of whether they won or lost, had been terrible.

When Yao Haoxuan, a pure power-type offensive Soul Master, stood on the stage, his visual presence alone was far more imposing than that of the previous senior students.

In the last match, the Body Sect was clearly in a slump; this time, the advantage is on our side. This was the thought shared by all the outer court students of Shrek Academy in the audience.

However, reality slapped them hard in the face.

As the match began, Chen Lu initiated with his Instant Step, a faint dark red ripple spreading between the sole of his shoe and the stone slab of the arena. In less than half a breath, he was accelerated to the point where only his afterimage could be detected.

There was no detour, no blind spots; he simply lowered his body to its lowest point, left shoulder in front, right leg behind, his whole body like an iron ball thrown by a catapult, hurtling towards Yao Haoxuan along the straightest and shortest line.

Before Yao Haoxuan could react, he could only cross his arms in front of his chest, and then he was knocked away by Chen Lu's charge.

With both feet off the ground and back facing down, he flew horizontally from the center of the ring, crashing out of the ring and landing sprawled on his back.

Yan Shaozhe raised his hand, his voice exceptionally clear amidst the deathly silence: "Yao Haoxuan fell off the stage, Chen Lusheng!"

In reality, Yan Shaozhe is already practically dead, and the Martial Soul System has already lost 35% of its resources for next year.

With the upcoming seven-on-seven match, Yan Shaozhe was absolutely convinced that his own people were no match for their Body Sect.

Forty-five percent, forty-five percent—Yan Shaozhe's mind was filled with these numbers.

The number rolled through his mind, over and over again, each roll crushing a bit of his reason.

He recalled Moon's words at the Sea God Pavilion meeting: "For every loss, the penalty will be reduced by 10%, with no upper limit."

Yan Shaozhe naively thought that the worst outcome would be losing one or two games, but now, Shrek Academy has already lost three and a half games. Add to that the remaining seven-on-seven game that they are bound to lose.

He no longer wanted to calculate, but the consequences of that number had already jumped into his mind.

The resources for the Martial Soul Department will be cut by nearly half. The expansion of the Soul Guidance Laboratory, the pill quotas for Martial Soul Department teachers, and some resources for Martial Soul Department disciples will all be cut.

This thought suddenly surfaced from some extremely deep and dark corner.

How about we seriously injure them tonight?

The thought flashed through his mind, but he quickly cut it off.

He was the head of the Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department, not an evil soul master. Yan Shaozhe took a deep breath, suppressing the killing intent back to the deepest part of his dantian, but the fingers pressing on the armrest still trembled uncontrollably.

Oh my resources!

Yan Shaozhe couldn't think of anything right now; only one number kept stabbing at his temples in his mind.

Forty-five percent.