If the vassal states wanted more territory, better preferential treatment, and higher official ranks,
their only option was to prove their own strength and show that they could bring greater benefits to their suzerain state.
Even academic factions such as Shrek Academy could not remain detached from this.
Even if they truly wished to stay out of worldly conflicts and merely guard their own little patch of land,
as long as they remained on this Douluo Continent and wanted Shrek Academy to endure,
every one of those teachers would be unable to escape this kind of competition.
Or rather, Xiao Tianyang's current arrangement was forcing them to participate.
If they refused, that was fine.
It would not be long before someone else replaced them.
It was cruel, but it was also reality.
What Xiao Tianyang needed was a vassal state capable of fighting for him, not a purely academic institution.
Besides, Xiao Tianyang had given Shrek Academy no small amount of help.
If they chose to throw in the towel at this point, what would have been the point of all his previous investment?
As for the students they had trained... heh, more than half of them held positions at Shrek Academy.
The rest were either lone wanderers or members of Shrek Academy's upper ranks.
If they decided not to participate in this event, then where would Shrek's contribution be?
In any case, Xiao Tianyang had no intention of singling them out.
After all, as one of the six major powers, they ought to have that awareness.
Getting back to the point.
Xiao Tianyang then explained his plan.
It was broadly only a rough framework, with many details still left unfilled.
However, it was not difficult to see from this plan that Xiao Tianyang's actions would definitely not be limited