News of the Tang Sect's revival spread across the continent like wildfire. The "Dao Guide Technique," which fused Soul Tools with the Dao Heart, sparked a cultivation craze among commoners. People once dismissed as having "ordinary souls" or "lowly martial souls" could now use the "Dao Heart Art" to condense Soul Rings and master soul skills. Many remote villages spontaneously established "Dao Altars," using Hammer and Sickle Dao Talismans as tokens as they spread the teachings and imparted knowledge. At this very moment, the bells of Shrek Academy rang out once more along the eastern coast. That ancient institution, hailed as the "cradle of Soul Masters," finally announced the reopening of its outer academy admissions after a century of silence. It also established the Dao Soul System for the first time, inviting Yang Jun to lecture there and open a new chapter for Soul Masters.
Shrek Academy stood along the border of the Heaven Dou Empire, backed by mountains and facing the sea. Soul Power gathered there as thickly as mist, while the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged upon it, creating a natural holy ground for cultivation. In the past, ravaged by war and the impact of Soul Tool Technology, the academy had once closed its doors, leaving only a few elderly professors to guard its ancestral grounds and maintain the faint ember of its legacy. Now, with the full support of the Soul Supervision Department, the academy had been completely rebuilt. Sea God Pavilion had reopened, the Seven Sacred Pillars had returned to their places, and the Dao Guide Workshop and Soul Dao Lecture Hall had been introduced, making it the continent's first institution to combine traditional Soul Master cultivation with Dao Guide Techniques.
Headmaster Xuan Zi personally welcomed Yang Jun at the mountain gate and cupped