Zhou Yi Admits Her Mistake

Zhou Yi Admits Her Mistake

He said... he loved only himself.

That was a lie.

What did he truly think? Even Huo Yuhao did not know. He had always convinced himself to let go of such laughable, useless feelings.

He had to learn to love only himself. He had to learn to use others.

He had only learned half of it.

First-Year Class One.

Zhou Yi stood behind the podium and said calmly, "After three days, the New Student Assessment has basically come to an end."

"The final assessment results were also fully compiled last night."

"Of the thirty-three teams that took part in the assessment, thirty ultimately passed the New Student Assessment."

At this point, Zhou Yi could not help feeling somewhat discouraged.

Before she had even had the chance to teach her true skills, Class One's prestige had already been stolen by Huo Yuhao.

She had originally wanted to watch coldly as the students of Class One failed, but in the end, she herself had become the clown.

Of these hundred students, aside from Song Qinghan, who had directly transferred to the Soul Tool Department, if she alone had been responsible for expelling no one among the other ninety-nine students, she absolutely could not have achieved such a high retention rate.

Not even with her "true skills."

What was going on? Her theory could not possibly be wrong.

The truth was simple. What Zhou Yi did was push people to their limits, making everyone unleash whatever potential they could and break through a limit.

With such a method, naturally some people would be unable to endure it. After all, everyone had different constitutions, and the same method was not suitable for everyone.

Furthermore, not everyone could emerge unharmed after breaking through their limits.

At most, Zhou Yi could hire a healing-type Soul Master to treat external exhaustion and injuries, but she could not treat mental and spiritual fatigue and wounds, much less restore lost potential.

And as an intermediate teacher at Shrek Academy, it was even more impossible for her to have the resources to apply for all kinds of precious medicines to nourish the students' bodies.

Not to mention that even if she could obtain them, it was not as though their bodies could simply be nourished at will.

Those students unsuited to her extreme methods were filtered out, while those who remained were the ones able to adapt.

Huo Yuhao had never heard of these people's futures in his previous life.

After all, aside from him and Wang Dong, who had encountered all sorts of fortuitous opportunities, Xiao Xiao had also unleashed her potential early.

Zhou Yi had never once considered the consequences. She only cared whether her teaching could achieve "good results."

She did not understand what it meant to do well, nor how to do well.

Every student was merely a toy in one experiment after another.

This was also a flaw of Shrek Academy as a whole. At its core, it was a machine for screening people out, keeping people, and brainwashing people—not an academy.

What Sea God Pavilion had always protected was not Shrek's students, but Shrek Academy itself.

As long as the people remained, the land remained. Once the people were gone, the land was lost.

By constantly influencing students with "Shrek Glory," Shrek Academy could only create a group of puppets who shouted "Shrek Glory" without the slightest understanding of what glory truly was.

Huo Yuhao had not explained any of this to Zhou Yi. If Zhou Yi still had even a shred of dignity and a little desire to improve, she would naturally come looking for him.

"Of the thirty-three teams, thirty ultimately passed. Among all the first-year classes, our Class One can be considered among the best."

Though it was an honor, Zhou Yi did not feel the slightest excitement at this moment.

These honors had not been earned through her training, so what was there to be excited about?

The students, meanwhile, erupted in cheers. Even Zhou Yi's old face seemed much more pleasing to the eye.

After the Round Robin, Class One now had the largest number of students among all ten first-year classes.

As for those students who had failed the assessment, they had already packed up and left yesterday.

However, no one noticed that among those students leaving in twos and threes, there was always a Class One student mixed in with them. A small portion of these students were common-born Soul Masters who had come here through various circumstances.

The emptiness of so-called "Shrek Glory" lay in the fact that it had only form, but no meaning.

Though Huo Yuhao would no longer be influenced by "Shrek Glory," he had to admit that this method was indeed very effective at influencing people.

Therefore, he would destroy it, then forge it anew.

"Shrek Glory" would not disappear. It would only transform into the "Glory" of the Ming Sect.

However, compared to the incomparably hollow "Shrek Glory," "Radiant Sect Glory" would no longer be empty. It would have substance, true power to move people, and faith.

A faith that truly arose from the heart.

That was the foundation of spreading the faith.

"Passing the assessment only means that you may remain at Shrek Academy and continue studying. The New Student Assessment has not yet completely ended. Next, the top sixty-four teams will participate in the elimination rounds."

"The elimination rounds are when you prove that you are truly outstanding."

As she said this, Zhou Yi glanced at Huo Yuhao, took a deep breath, and stepped out from behind the podium.

"Student Huo Yuhao."

"I apologize to you for my previous remarks. There was a flaw in my teaching methods."

The moment Zhou Yi said this, the entire classroom erupted in an uproar.

Zhou Yi's reputation was well known—proud, domineering, arrogant. No student had ever escaped her clutches.

Yet Huo Yuhao had not only refuted Zhou Yi's teaching methods with words, but had also led them to achieve better results than the other classes.

And now, even the ever-proud Zhou Yi, that infamous old crone, was admitting her mistake before all the students of Class One.

"Teacher Zhou, what mistake could you possibly have made? You are a teacher; I am merely a young student."

Zhou Yi did not grow angry. Instead, she said sincerely, "Student Huo Yuhao, I want to ask you: how should I alter my teaching methods to achieve results like yours?"

Zhou Yi's admission of fault did not exceed Huo Yuhao's expectations. Whether she admitted her mistake or not, that was still Zhou Yi.

But for her to admit it so early truly surprised him.

It seemed that what he had done that day had ultimately been effective.

"Teacher Zhou, if you are willing, why not try your own teaching methods on yourself? If you still cannot understand afterward, then come find me again."

"Also, authority is not created through a mask, nor can it only be created by making people afraid. Once a mask has been worn for too long, it can never be removed again."

Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Zhou Yi was startled.

Very few people had ever known that she wore a mask. How did Huo Yuhao know?

The lesson continued. This matter seemed to pass like a minor interlude, but no one would forget the sight of Zhou Yi admitting her mistake.

"Hah... In the New Student Assessment, a total of six teams achieved undefeated records. One of them is the team of Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao."

"However, among the other five undefeated teams in the Round Robin, three teams had Soul Elders with three soul rings..."

Reaching three soul rings before the age of twelve was undoubtedly a tremendous blow to the confidence of these new students, most of whom were only one-ring Soul Masters.