Level Nine Fixed-Installed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells: The Cicada, the Mantis, and the Oriole (Continued)

From Dai Mubai, the group also learned that Shrek Academy's graduation requirement was to surpass level forty before the age of twenty and reach the cultivation of a Soul Ancestor.

Shrek Academy had admitted dozens of students in total, but only fourteen had truly graduated from the academy.

According to Dai Mubai, all fourteen were figures renowned throughout the world. The most outstanding among them had even become Spirit Hall's youngest elder.

As for the students who had failed to graduate, they either had not reached level forty before turning twenty or had died while hunting soul beasts.

Their great Headmaster Flender had also said that anyone who failed to reach level forty-one should not go out and disgrace Shrek Academy.

When Dai Mubai spoke of this, he was clearly filled with immense reverence for Flender.

As for why Shrek Academy had become what it was now, Dai Mubai also had an explanation.

The Balak Kingdom's royal family had demanded that Shrek Academy graduates pledge loyalty to the Balak royal family, and Flender had refused.

Moreover, Shrek Academy did not fit in with the other academies, so it had suffered heavy exclusion and become what it was today.

All in all, Shrek Academy, which produced outstanding talents in abundance, was simply the very model of pure, aloof, and elegant virtue.

As for how much of what Dai Mubai said was true and how much was false, no one cared at the moment.

Nor did anyone wonder why an academy where even the old man guarding the gate was a Soul Emperor could let students die during soul hunts where the highest possible opponent was only a Soul Ancestor.

Why would an academy that had produced several "powerhouses," including even "Spirit Hall's youngest elder," allow itself to be "excluded" by the