Stirring the Students' Anger

Huo Yuhao suddenly found it all rather dull.

If he had guessed correctly, then Shrek Academy would never change this teaching method. Even if the Outer Court teachers provoked public outrage among the students, they would only push that teacher out to quell the students' anger. Even the punishment would be the kind where they made a grand show of it but ultimately went easy, just like transferring Zhou Yi from teaching upper-year students to lower-year students.

Having figured this out, Huo Yuhao had no intention of changing anything.

What did Shrek Academy have to do with him? He was going to leave Shrek Academy anyway. As long as he could find a group of people who had not been brainwashed and were willing to follow him when he left, that would be enough. As for whether Shrek prospered or declined, what did it matter to him? Even if Shrek Academy stood in his way, he could destroy Shrek Academy with his own hands.

Though so much had passed through his mind, only a brief moment had gone by outside. Seeing Huo Yuhao suddenly standing there without saying a word, Zhou Yi felt that she had finally rendered him speechless, and she could not help feeling smug.

Huo Yuhao came back to his senses, his expression returning to its usual coldness. Looking at Zhou Yi, he felt that he could not simply do nothing. At the very least, he needed to make Zhou Yi suffer a little, so she would stop disgusting him every day.

If Zhou Yi caused trouble once every few days, Huo Yuhao could still endure it in order to establish a negative example. But Zhou Yi could cause trouble several times in a single day. Huo Yuhao felt that he could not stand it.

Huo Yuhao said calmly to Zhou Yi, "Teacher, you're right. This is authority granted to you by the Academy, so of course you can use it. Teacher, if you have nothing else to do, please stay farther away. As the Class Monitor, I need to mobilize the class to train. The New Student Assessment is in three months. I can't let everyone slack off."

When Zhou Yi heard this, a smug gleam flashed through her eyes. She had finally intimidated the most troublesome student in the class!

Feeling thoroughly pleased with herself, Zhou Yi walked off into the distance and began supervising the students' running.

Huo Yuhao turned to face his classmates and called out, "Can everyone spare me a moment to hear something I have to say?"

After waiting briefly for everyone to quiet down, Huo Yuhao silently activated Soul Interference to guide his classmates' emotions. Then he continued, "I know that all of you are angry and unwilling to accept this right now, because Zhou Yi said she would eliminate one person today—the one who completed the fewest laps. She also said that in this class, she could eliminate us at any time, regardless of the reason."

The resentment in the students' hearts was stirred up once more, and Huo Yuhao continued.

"Regardless of whether your family circumstances are good or bad, whether a City Lord Recommendation Letter places a heavy burden on your family, or whether one hundred Gold Soul Coins in tuition is merely pocket change, I believe none of you are willing to be eliminated on the first day of school. As your classmate and your Class Monitor, I also do not wish to see any one of us eliminated like this."

"All of us traveled thousands of miles to Shrek Academy, the number one academy on the continent, with the hope of studying and making some progress. Yet now, someone wants to expel us on the first day of school. We have not even had the chance to learn anything. We have not even had the chance to take part in the New Student Assessment, and yet we are to be expelled just like that."

Everyone felt the same way. Huo Yuhao's forceful speech, filled with anger, did not pause in the slightest.

"We came from thousands of miles away, exhausted from the journey. We carry the hopes of our parents and families, and willingly pay one hundred Gold Soul Coins in tuition. But was it really so that we could come here, get scolded, and then be expelled in disgrace? Are we supposed to let down our parents and families like this, waste so much time, and have people point at us in the future and say, 'Look, that person is trash who was expelled by Shrek Academy on the first day of school'? Such humiliation could even follow us for the rest of our lives."

"Are you willing to accept that?"

"No!" Everyone's anger was ignited.

"Then everyone in Class One must unite and stand against Zhou Yi to the end! Follow me! We're going to the Dean's Office to see Dean Yan!"

Huo Yuhao took the lead, bringing the students of New Student Class One running toward the Dean's Office building.

Although Huo Yuhao could guess that even if they went to the Dean's Office or sought Yan Shaozhe, they would most likely be unable to do much to Zhou Yi. At most, she would be demoted, and then the major issue would be reduced to a minor one, the minor issue would be brushed aside, and it would all eventually be forgotten.

But that was his purpose today. Huo Yuhao only wanted to give Zhou Yi a lesson—not too severe, but not too light either—and intimidate her so that she could no longer expel students at will.

Secondly, he could use this matter to bind the students of New Student Class One into a united force.

"Huo Yuhao!" When Zhou Yi saw Huo Yuhao leading all the students toward the Dean's Office, she immediately panicked. She shouted, "Are you determined to oppose me to the very end today?"

Zhou Yi was still very afraid of this matter becoming too big. Although suppressing students was an instruction the Academy had given teachers like them, if things truly escalated beyond control, the Academy would absolutely push the teacher out as a scapegoat in order to win back the students' hearts.

Huo Yuhao ignored Zhou Yi's roar and ran straight toward the Dean's Office building.

Unable to endure it any longer, Zhou Yi instantly activated Martial Soul Possession and rushed toward Huo Yuhao. She could not just sit and wait for disaster. Even if she could not do anything to Huo Yuhao, she could still stop him from leading the students to the Dean's Office.

At that moment, a thunderous shout rang out. "All of you, stop!" Along with it came Soul Power pressure that far surpassed Zhou Yi's, rendering every student unable to move.

Following the voice, Huo Yuhao saw eight Soul Rings surrounding the figure. Looking closer, he realized it was Du Weilun.

"What is this mess? Zhou Yi, how are you managing your class? And you students, what is going on?" Du Weilun demanded, taking the initiative from the start.

Zhou Yi hurriedly withdrew her Martial Soul and spoke first. "Director Du, it's nothing. These students are simply being disobedient, so I was teaching them a lesson."

A student immediately could not help retorting, "You're lying! You were clearly expelling us for no reason. We were dissatisfied, so we were going to the Dean's Office to report you."

The others also began talking over one another, recounting Zhou Yi's misdeeds from just this single day.

Huo Yuhao stood nearby, watching all the students of Class One lay out complaint after complaint before Du Weilun. He did not join in. At this point, whether he participated no longer mattered.

It had to be said that being able to provoke the students' anger to such heights in just one day meant Zhou Yi truly had a talent for it.

Zhou Yi's face had completely darkened by then. Although she knew the Academy would not punish her too severely, she felt humiliated!

Especially when some students embellished the story of how she had collapsed after Huo Yuhao merely grabbed her hand and told it to Du Weilun. Facing Du Weilun's strange gaze, Zhou Yi wanted nothing more than to turn around and leave.

Du Weilun knew that Huo Yuhao's First Soul Skill was Mental Detection Sharing, so he found it very strange that Zhou Yi had fallen after being grabbed once.

You were a Soul Emperor, for heaven's sake. Could you stop being so pathetic?

What a disgrace to Shrek!