Douluo: The Rebirth of the Supreme King Dong'er

The key was that Mu Jin had not made baseless accusations. Of the three major crimes she listed, while the first was somewhat "far-fetched" and the last rather abstract, the second did fit the facts.

Not only did Du Weilun find this troublesome to handle, even Yan Shaozhe found it immensely troublesome.

Zhou Yi herself was nothing much, but behind her stood Fan Yu—a Rank Eight Soul Engineer, a specially appointed teacher most likely to become Shrek Academy's future Rank Nine Soul Engineer, and someone who held the Soul Tool Department's most crucial technology.

Shrek Academy's Secret Research

It could be said that Fan Yu had long been the designated future dean of the Soul Tool Department.

And although Zhou Yi's teaching methods were bizarre, she truly did cultivate "obedient good students" for Shrek Academy!

In the end, with Yan Shaozhe making the final decision, Mu Jin and Zhou Yi were both punished equally. Mu Jin was stripped of her senior teacher title for deliberately escalating the matter, but Class One's teaching authority was handed over to her. Zhou Yi, meanwhile, was ordered to stop teaching and confined for reflection.

Wang Dong'er laughed after hearing that.

They claimed both sides had been punished equally, but Zhou Yi had actually gotten off scot-free.

Had she received any real, substantial punishment? Not at all.

Mu Jin's accusation that Zhou Yi was disloyal to Shrek Academy had actually been built upon the second crime she listed: "being unkind to students."

After Wang Dong'er caused a scene in Class One, Mu Jin remembered her younger brother, whom Zhou Yi had expelled. She then began investigating Zhou Yi's past teaching record and eventually carefully settled on this charge. Using Zhou Yi's arbitrary expulsions of students as a basis, she extended it into the claim that Zhou Yi had deliberately acted this way out of disloyalty to Shrek Academy.

Yet neither Du Weilun nor Yan Shaozhe took that point seriously at all.

With obedient good students around, so what if the other students were expelled? There were as many replacements as they wanted.

Put bluntly, they saw this as Mu Jin using public matters for personal revenge, trying to drive Zhou Yi out of Shrek Academy over a trivial matter.

Could they do that? Of course not.

Wang Dong'er could understand Yan Shaozhe's line of thinking, but the fact that he could not even be bothered to put on an act genuinely amused her.

She did not know whether it was just her imagination, but she always felt Zhou Yi would make another huge mess someday.

"By the way, Dong'er. Dean Yan came looking for me earlier and asked me to take you to the dean of students once you returned."

"To Du Weilun?" Wang Dong'er asked doubtfully. "What do they want?"

"Something about that crazy woman, I think? I'm not too sure either."

Although she already knew Ma Xiaotao's name, Xiao Xiao still called her that crazy woman.

Ma Xiaotao had truly left too deep a shadow on Xiao Xiao.

Even if Ma Xiaotao looked a little more normal now, who knew when she might go crazy again?

"Let's go. Let's see what that old man Yan Shaozhe is plotting this time."

After giving it some thought, Wang Dong'er turned and headed straight for Du Weilun's office.

Could that Secret Method Soul Soul Bone Du Weilun had given her, supposedly as compensation from Yan Shaozhe, have been given because Yan Shaozhe wanted to take back his promise?

Wang Dong'er had not used that soul bone when she fused with the Ice Empress Soul Spirit. It was still safely stored in her Storage Soul Tool.

Compared to the ten-square-meter double rooms in the dormitory building, the teachers' working environment was much better. Nearly every one of them had a large office. Since school had just ended, many office doors stood open, and each held only a single teacher at work.

Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao made their way to the top floor, to the place Du Weilun had brought them before, and raised a hand to knock on the door.

"Come in." Du Weilun's voice came from inside. When Wang Dong'er pushed the door open, the hand holding his teacup nearly trembled, almost dropping it onto the desk.

He had been leisurely drinking tea, but the moment he saw Wang Dong'er, that little demon, his first instinct was to recall whether he had had any dealings with her recently.

"Director Du, I heard Dean Yan was looking for me?" Wang Dong'er had no interest in Du Weilun's inner thoughts and went straight to the point.

Hearing that Wang Dong'er was here to see Yan Shaozhe, Du Weilun quietly breathed a sigh of relief. He also recalled what Yan Shaozhe had instructed him to do, so he set down his teacup and said, "Wait here for now. I'll go invite Dean Yan over."

With that, Du Weilun quickly left the office.

Xiao Xiao curiously examined the office's layout.

There had not been time to look around last time, but now that she was here again, she realized Du Weilun's office was unbelievably huge.

"They could have divided this space up for the dormitory building," Xiao Xiao said with a curl of her lips. "They only know how to make the student dorms so awful."

"Students are the easiest ones to exploit," Wang Dong'er said casually. "Without Shrek Academy's name, would you be willing to stay here?"

"That's true." Xiao Xiao nodded. "I did come here at first because of Shrek Academy's reputation as the continent's number one academy."

"Disappointed now?"

"I was disappointed a long time ago." Xiao Xiao lowered her head. "Dong'er, to tell you the truth, when I first arrived, I even considered adding a soul ring to my second martial soul early to make sure I could pass the freshmen assessment."

"Looking back, I really was stupid back then."

"It's fine. Being a little silly is cute too," Wang Dong'er teased.

"Ah, Dong'er, you actually called me stupid!"

"Didn't you just call yourself stupid?"

After fooling around for a while, Xiao Xiao suddenly pointed somewhere in surprise. "What's that?"

Wang Dong'er looked in the direction Xiao Xiao was pointing.

On Du Weilun's desk sat a square box that glimmered with a faint white light.

Wang Dong'er spread out her Spiritual Power.

Since fusing with the Ice Empress Soul Spirit, her Spiritual Power had grown as well.

Though she could not yet detect things with the accuracy and range of Huo Yuhao's Mental Detection, it could still serve some scouting purpose.

There was only Du Weilun's office on the top floor. With only Xiao Xiao and herself here, Wang Dong'er got up and walked toward Du Weilun's desk, only stopping when she was still some distance away.

That distance was enough for her to see the object clearly.

She could not see what was inside the faintly glowing square box at all, but beside it was a stack of document-like papers.

The title on the top sheet was quite interesting.

"Research Report on Increasing the Age of Secret Method Soul Soul Bones"

The birth of a Secret Method Soul Soul Bone was exceptionally strange—and exceptionally cruel.

Within half an hour, one had to slaughter a hundred soul beasts of the same species, then use a secret method to activate the soul rings of those hundred soul beasts. Only then was there an extremely small chance of obtaining a Secret Method Soul Soul Bone.

Not only did this method have an extremely low success rate, but the process was also far too cruel. Some soul masters even specifically sought out young soul beasts to fulfill the requirements more quickly.

No one knew who had spread this so-called secret method, nor did anyone know who knew how to use it.

Now, it seemed Shrek Academy definitely possessed this secret method and was conducting research on it.

They did indeed have the conditions for such research. After all, the wealthy Shrek Academy had directly enclosed a Beast Fighting Zone within the academy, containing soul beasts of various types.

Wang Dong'er casually flipped through the research report, memorizing its contents. She then restored it to its original state, even arranging the gaps between every sheet exactly as they had been before.

Xiaotao, You Wouldn't Want Dean Yan to Be Disappointed, Would You?

Not long after Wang Dong'er returned to her seat, Du Weilun came back to the office with Yan Shaozhe. Ma Xiaotao had come with them as well.

The moment the door opened, a breeze blew in through the corridor window outside and scattered the items on Du Weilun's desk.

"Dean Yan, I'll be leaving first," Du Weilun said.

"Mhm." Yan Shaozhe nodded. Du Weilun closed the door behind him once more and left his own office, leaving the space to Wang Dong'er and the others.

"You've improved again?" Yan Shaozhe asked in surprise as he looked at Wang Dong'er.

Given Yan Shaozhe's strength as a Super Douluo, it was only natural that he could sense Wang Dong'er's increase in Soul Power.

However, Yan Shaozhe was only surprised for a moment before recalling Wang Dong'er's background.

"Xiaotao, do you remember everything I told you before?" Yan Shaozhe turned to ask Ma Xiaotao.

"I know." Ma Xiaotao kept her head lowered and gave no further answer.

Yan Shaozhe nodded in satisfaction before saying to Wang Dong'er, "As promised, Xiaotao will serve as your maid and guard for a period of time. At the same time, I will forbid Xiaotao from continuing her cultivation."

During this period, Yan Shaozhe had searched the entire academy, but he had not found a single ice-attribute soul master who met the requirements.

It was not that there were none at all. There was a student in the inner court whose martial soul was reasonably suitable, but the effect of that student's martial soul was not particularly noticeable for Ma Xiaotao.

The ice-attribute power that had suppressed Ma Xiaotao's flames was fundamentally stronger than that student's ice power.

If it was not ice power of that level, it would be better to simply have Xu Shishi use his extremely gentle water to suppress Ma Xiaotao's evil fire.

However, according to Ma Xiaotao, Xu Shishi's suppressive effect had also been growing weaker and weaker.

Unless Xu Shishi's martial soul underwent a deeper evolution one day, his suppression would eventually weaken under the current circumstances, until it became completely useless.

After working so hard for so long, she still had to stop cultivating in the end. No wonder Ma Xiaotao was so dispirited.

To Ma Xiaotao, this was almost no different from killing her.

"What about sleeping at night?" Wang Dong'er asked. "You gave us such a stingy ten-square-meter space. Are three people supposed to live there?"

"Well..." Yan Shaozhe looked somewhat embarrassed.

On this point, Shrek Academy truly treated all Outer Court Students equally. Every Outer Court Student lived in the same ten-square-meter room.

Only those students who entered the inner court could receive their own separate rooms.

"The Outer Court dormitory building probably isn't completely full. Xiaotao can just find an empty dormitory to sleep in."

"So whenever I need something, I have to go to her dormitory to find her? If she's going to be a maid, she should act like one, shouldn't she?"

Though Wang Dong'er appeared to be pressing aggressively, Yan Shaozhe instead felt that this was just right.

This level of treatment could temper Ma Xiaotao's character.

Ma Xiaotao was good in every respect, but the side effects of her evil fire were troublesome. Beyond that, her own unruly personality was troublesome as well.

If she had not grown up in Shrek Academy from childhood, she would probably have been even more disobedient.

At that moment, Yan Shaozhe thought of Zhou Yi again. Although he had no choice but to confine Zhou Yi and forbid her from teaching, the students Zhou Yi taught were truly obedient.

Unfortunately, he should have handed Ma Xiaotao over to Zhou Yi much earlier instead of teaching her himself.

In the end, Yan Shaozhe still shoved Ma Xiaotao over to them.

Xiao Xiao said she could give her bed to Ma Xiaotao and squeeze in beside Wang Dong'er's bed with bedding laid on the floor.

Wang Dong'er rejected the suggestion and instead told Ma Xiaotao to sleep on the floor herself.

Ma Xiaotao had been brought into Shrek Academy as a child. She might not have been pampered, but she had certainly been raised in comfort. Missions were one thing, but when had she ever suffered such indignity within the academy?

Yet Ma Xiaotao's protest was ultimately ignored by Yan Shaozhe.

Once the agreement had been reached, Yan Shaozhe left immediately, not giving Ma Xiaotao any room to maneuver.

He was already imagining how obedient Ma Xiaotao would become after her character had been tempered, and how powerful she would grow in the future as she took up Shrek Academy's mantle.

Thus, Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao had arrived with only two people, but left with Ma Xiaotao in tow as they headed back to the dormitory.

The moment they entered the dormitory, Xiao Xiao immediately pushed her bed together with Wang Dong'er's, leaving Ma Xiaotao a space to sleep on the floor.

Watching Xiao Xiao move so incredibly fast, Wang Dong'er could not help feeling that Xiao Xiao had deliberately proposed that earlier arrangement just to prepare for this moment.

Still, she did not care about that.

As for Ma Xiaotao, now that she truly had become her maid, Wang Dong'er ought to collect some interest.

"Senior Xiaotao, it's time for you to wash my feet." Wang Dong'er sat at the end of the bed. Her address was respectful, but her words made the veins on Ma Xiaotao's forehead throb.

"Me, wash your feet? Even if I hurt you before, aren't you fine now? The academy compensated you too. Isn't that enough?"

"So Senior Xiaotao means that even if you kill someone, as long as you sincerely apologize and compensate them, what you did can be treated as though it never happened?" Wang Dong'er asked with a "sincere" expression.

Besides, Ma Xiaotao's apology had not been all that sincere in the first place.

"Don't forget, Dean Yan sent you here to serve as a maid and temper your character, not to be an emperor. Senior Xiaotao, you wouldn't want Dean Yan to be disappointed, would you?"

The strange phrasing made both Ma Xiaotao and Xiao Xiao feel that something was odd, yet neither could say what exactly was odd about it.

After biting her lip and struggling for a while, Ma Xiaotao ultimately chose to obey for reasons unknown even to herself.

Even Wang Dong'er was surprised that Ma Xiaotao had made her decision so quickly.

Wasn't she supposed to have a fiery temper?

Before long, Ma Xiaotao returned to the dormitory carrying a basin of water. "You... turn around."

She was speaking to Xiao Xiao.