As Huo Yuhao approached, he noticed quite a few people gathered at the village entrance.
Most of them were youths around their age, accompanied by their parents. They appeared to be here to enroll.
A table had been set up at the village entrance, behind which sat an old man in his sixties. Hanging from a wooden archway at the entrance was a somewhat battered plaque, engraved with five simple characters: Shrek Academy.
Xiao Wu and Tang San said in astonishment, "No way, Shrek Academy is this rundown?"
It was not even a third the size of Nuoding Academy, and it was incredibly crude. There was not even a teaching building—just a row of single-story houses.
Huo Yuhao had expected this. Shrek Academy had no money or resources in its early days, so such dilapidation was only natural.
Huo Yuhao said calmly, "Let's take a look first."
At this point, more than a hundred applicants stood in line ahead of them. Seeing how shabby the academy was, many wore disappointed expressions. Perhaps they thought this was a test by the academy, and that the real academy was elsewhere.
But in truth, this was the real Shrek Academy. Shrek Academy was just this shabby.
Huo Yuhao carefully observed the hundred-odd applicants ahead of him, comparing them with his memories of the first-generation Shrek Seven Devils. He did spot someone he could match.
It was a girl who looked slightly younger than both him and Xiao Wu. Her long black hair fell loosely over her shoulders, and she stood half a head shorter than Xiao Wu. Her skin was exceptionally fair, her limbs slender and well-proportioned, and her hands hung naturally at her sides. An icy aura that kept strangers at bay radiated from her.
In his previous life, the statues of