Bibi Dong: Shrek Academy is a Scourge! (Second update)

No matter how dissatisfied she felt, since she was already here, she could only enroll alongside Tang San. In any case, she did not have particularly high demands for the academy's resources. As a 100,000 Year Soul Beast Transformation, her cultivation speed was already extremely fast. Besides, she found Shrek Academy's recruitment slogan rather interesting: they accepted only genius soul masters as students and were the only academy on the continent with more teachers than students.

What Xiao Wu did not know was that Shrek Academy had never actually received official recognition. In other words, it had no academy license. Its strongest member, the headmaster Flender, was merely a high-level Soul Sage in his seventies. If Shrek Academy were truly classified by rank, it could barely be considered an Advanced Soul Master Academy.

Still, that was only enough to fool people around Soto City. Even if Shrek Academy had received the Balak Kingdom's recognition, it was far from top-tier among Advanced Soul Master Academies across the continent. Within the Heaven Dou Empire alone, which of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Five Elements Academy, or even Blue Sunshine Academy did not have a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse as its highest combat force? Even if they did not, they were either extremely close to that level or possessed combat strength comparable to a Soul Douluo.

By comparison, Shrek Academy's faculty could not be called top-tier, and its teaching resources were practically nonexistent. Most absurdly, the academy meals consisted of steamed buns and pickled vegetables. Only after Yu Xiaogang later arrived at Shrek Academy, wanting Tang San to eat better, did he pry quite a few Gold Soul Coins from Flender, that iron rooster, to subsidize better food and even medicinal baths.

Yet even so, the gap between their academy and top Advanced Soul Master Academies remained enormous. They had no Simulated Cultivation Environment and could not participate in the Soul Master Competition. Based on those two points alone, what right did Shrek Academy have to claim that it accepted only genius young soul masters?

Their enrollment standard was for twelve-year-olds to reach Soul Power Level twenty, with all their soul rings being the standard hundred-year configuration. Even then, they had to pass four entrance examinations. Yet they still were not satisfied. Their hard requirement was that applicants needed a Soul Power Level above twenty-five to be exempted from the second and third tests. Whether they passed the fourth test or not, they could essentially be considered enrolled.

In other words, soul masters below Soul Power Level twenty-five at the age of twelve were nothing more than tools for them to make money. Registration required ten Gold Soul Coins upfront, and if one failed the entrance test, there were no refunds. It was simply ridiculous!

A twelve-year-old soul master at Soul Power Level twenty—and if they chose to come to a shabby academy like Shrek, that meant they were not nobles. Otherwise, why would they ever end up at Shrek? Since they were not nobles, most of their soul power growth would have depended on their own cultivation. Yet being able to cultivate to Soul Power Level twenty by the age of twelve meant their Innate Soul Power had to be at least level five or six, perhaps even higher. In the eyes of others, they were already little geniuses, yet Shrek was still not satisfied!

Most laughable of all was one of Yu Xiaogang's theories: there were no worthless martial souls, only worthless soul masters. But did he not know that he himself was the worthless one? With Innate Soul Power of only half a level, if not for the support of all sorts of family resources, he would never have reached Soul Power Level twenty-nine even by the time he died.

And in the end, he even had the nerve to say, "I trained a disciple of a God." Tang San, in the eyes of outsiders, had Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls. Even without Yu Xiaogang's theoretical guidance, Tang San could still have achieved such accomplishments through his own abilities!

That was what I found most contemptible. Shrek Academy recruited geniuses to begin with, and the academy itself provided its students with barely any help. How did they have the nerve to claim that these geniuses had all been trained by them?

Moreover, Shrek Academy had existed for around twenty years and recruited over forty students, yet only a little over a dozen had ultimately graduated. Where did the rest go? Most likely, they died while hunting soul beasts. Shrek's teachers simply could not protect them!

Shrek Academy's graduation requirements were very clear: before turning twenty, one had to reach Soul Power Level forty and obtain a Silver Douluo Badge at Soto City Great Spirit Arena in order to graduate. When Tang San and Xiao Wu enrolled in the original story, aside from several teachers, the only older students in the academy were Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun—and they were all from the same generation as Tang San and the others. So where had all those older students who had not graduated gone?

Since they had not graduated, they should at least have remained near the academy, right? Yet not a single one could be seen. That was quite interesting!

Flender also had a streak of hypocritical pride. Shrek Academy could originally have received recognition from the Balak Kingdom, but the Balak Kingdom required graduating students to serve them, and Flender refused. There was nothing wrong with that. But he was still a Soul Sage—could he really not obtain even a single license? If he could not gain recognition from a duchy, then he could seek recognition from a sect!

It was not as though only nations could establish academies; sects could do the same. Blue Tyrant Academy, founded by Liu Erlong, was a commoner academy that operated openly within Heaven Dou City without suffering harassment from nobles. If it did not have the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's backing, those spoiled noble brats would surely have caused trouble.

Flender was so close to Liu Erlong, so why did he not ask her for help? If Liu Erlong stepped forward, would the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan really refuse? It was only an academy, not some excessive demand.

So I truly found it difficult to understand—did Flender really have the attitude necessary to properly run an academy?

After seeing the above content, aside from some female leads merely watching the drama unfold, everyone who had some connection to Shrek fell somewhat silent.

Most of the female leads had not expected the recruitment standards of a small academy like Shrek to be so strict, nor its graduation requirements to be the same.

An academy with nothing to offer—and when genius students joined, not only did it fail to properly nurture them, it even set such graduation requirements.

Furthermore, Dai Yichen's account suggested that, while perhaps not all of the students who failed to graduate, quite a few had surely died at the fangs of soul beasts because the academy's teachers failed to protect them in time during soul beast hunts. After all, for spirit fighting matches, people generally chose wagering matches, where fatalities did not occur.

Leaving aside everything else, even Bibi Dong, as the true authority of Martial Soul Hall Academy, felt some heartache. Shrek had not recruited many students in over twenty years, but they were all genius young soul masters—and most likely commoners at that. Yet they had simply been ruined and lost like that!

If they had been trained by Martial Soul Hall, then after twenty years, setting aside anything more, Martial Soul Hall would have gained at least ten additional experts at the Soul Ancestor level or above!