Heaven Dou Empire, Balak Kingdom, Suotuo City.
"No, seriously, bro? What the hell kind of system is a narration-editing system?"
A handsome young man in black martial attire gazed gloomily at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and sighed softly.
A sizable crowd had gathered around him. Most of them were boys around twelve or thirteen, roughly his age, accompanied by their parents.
Not far away stood an archway built of wood. A somewhat battered plaque hung above it, bearing five simple words: Shrek Academy.
Before those five words was a carved green head that looked like the head of some humanoid monster. It was kind of disgusting.
"Here I am, Shen He, proficient in singing, dancing, rap, basketball, and all four academic subjects. I was even a true man with two and a half years of practice, so how did I end up transmigrating to this lousy place?"
Shen He had only been here for two and a half minutes when the system came online.
And it had even given him the classic opening where his parents were sacrificed to heaven, granting him boundless power.
Even Emperor Zhu had started with a bowl. Shen He didn't even have a bowl now. At best, he could pick up a stick by the roadside.
But the system he had awakened wasn't something like a sign-in system. Instead, it was the so-called "Narration-Editing" system, leaving him utterly speechless.
It hurt. It hurt so much!
[Host, you really are a country bumpkin. This system possesses the abilities of the Rule System. Isn't it more than eighteen thousand times stronger than those brainless sign-in systems?!]
[What a terrible host. You really are terrible.]
Shen He froze for a moment. Damn, he had actually been looked down on by his own system?
However, the "rule-based" aspect mentioned by the system instantly piqued his interest.
"System bro, do you mean you can freely modify anything in this world?"
"For example, if I changed 'Shen He is a person' to 'Shen He is a god,' could you do that too?"
[The system is currently Level 1. The host can only modify five words of the narration each day. Furthermore, there are limitations on the effects it can have on reality, so that is impossible.]
[However, as this system's level increases, its abilities will improve. For example, it will be able to modify multiple words of the narration at once, and its influence on reality will also increase.]
"So if I level you up, I can summon eighty or a hundred teachers from Sakura Country to play games with me?" Shen He asked without hesitation.
System: ???
Was there something wrong with this guy's brain? Could I still change hosts now?
After holding back for a long while, the system finally responded to Shen He.
[That is correct.]
"Then how do I level you up?" Shen He's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked impatiently.
[The greater the change the host creates to the original storyline after modifying the narration, the more experience the system will gain for leveling up.]
[Once the system's experience bar is full, it will level up automatically and unlock more powerful functions.]
Hearing this, Shen He nodded lightly and fell into thought.
"Third Brother, this can be called an academy? It's way too shabby."
"I wonder what the Grandmaster was thinking. Several intermediate Soul Master Academies had clearly agreed to accept us unconditionally, yet he insisted on having you take the entrance test for this shabby academy that doesn't even have grades."
"He's so mean. Unlike me, all I know how to do is feel sorry for my gege."
That affectedly coquettish remark immediately attracted Shen He's attention.
He turned his head and saw a young man and a young woman walking toward the entrance of Shrek Academy not far away.
The boy stood around a meter seventy tall and wore pale-blue martial attire. A belt set with twenty-four pieces of jade was wrapped around his waist.
His appearance was unremarkable, but he gave off the air of a gloomy schemer. Purple light flickered in his eyes.
Beside him, the girl's black hair was neatly arranged into a scorpion braid that hung past her calves.
Her curved eyebrows had formed naturally, and her large, watery eyes complemented her slightly round, delicate face. Her slender waist, so fine it could barely be grasped, was truly exquisite.
"Tang San and Xiao Wu?" Shen He stroked his chin. "Right. They seem to have come to Shrek Academy to register at around this time too."
"Xiao Wu, don't speak about the teacher like that. If you do it again, I'll get angry."
As he spoke, Tang San lightly patted Xiao Wu's raised buttocks.
Blushing shyly, Xiao Wu leaned against Tang San's ear and said, "The other side too."
Shen He: ???
Was there any justice? Any law?
This was happening right in the middle of the street! What you two were doing was absolutely indecent!
Oh, right. One of them was a soul beast, and the other was a hybrid. Human morality didn't apply to them in the first place.
In that case, never mind.
"The system bro just said that the greater the change to the original storyline, the more experience it gets." Shen He stroked his chin thoughtfully.
"So if I keep sabotaging the protagonist Tang San, I can continuously gain huge amounts of experience?"
"Perfect! I'm a freaking genius!"
A dilapidated table stood at the entrance of Shrek Academy, with a weathered old man sitting behind it.
The old man also wore a badge bearing the Shrek emblem on his chest. This was Shrek Academy's insignia.
Shen He hadn't arrived particularly early. Before him and Tang San's group, several dozen people had already come to register.
The old man tested the applicants one by one, only to find that none of them met the requirements. His face immediately filled with impatience.
"If you're registering for Shrek Academy, you'd better understand the admission standards first. Otherwise, you're just here to give away the registration fee."
"As everyone knows, Shrek is the name of a monster, and it's also an extremely strange existence among soul beasts. The name Shrek Academy means an academy that accepts only monsters."
"Our admission requirements are that you must be no older than thirteen and possess Soul Power of at least Rank 21. If you don't meet these standards, there's no need to waste your time here."
"The registration fee is ten Gold Soul Coins, nonrefundable. Anyone who still wants to register, come over."
When his words fell, a powerful surge of Soul Power suddenly burst from the old man, who looked no different from an ordinary peasant.
A long staff covered in countless fine patterns appeared in his right hand. One white, one yellow, three purple, and one black soul ring spiraled upward, pulsing faintly.
"He's a Soul Emperor! This teacher is actually a Soul Emperor-level powerhouse!"
"I heard there are only a few Soul Emperor-level powerhouses in the entire Balak Kingdom!"
"I heard that if a Soul Emperor powerhouse is willing to pledge allegiance to either of the two great empires, they can receive at least the title of Earl."
At the sight of this, everyone began discussing it animatedly. Tang San and Xiao Wu also put away their dismissive attitudes, admiration and respect appearing on their faces.
Shen He searched through every pocket he had and found two Silver Soul Coins and five Copper Soul Coins in total.
"System bro, I want to register, but I don't have any money. How about lending me some first?"
The system said nothing. It seemed too lazy to bother with him.
But within Shen He's field of vision, a passage of golden text suddenly appeared as narration.
[Li Yusong explained Shrek Academy's admission requirements. Every student who wished to take the entrance test had to pay a registration fee of ten Gold Soul Coins, which would never be refunded.]
Staring at the line of narration, Shen He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and changed "pay" to "receive."
Li Yusong withdrew his dragon-patterned staff, and the surging Soul Power around him also vanished.
"Students and parents, come over here to register."
"Every student who registers can receive ten Gold Soul Coins from me."
Tang San and Xiao Wu: ???
Dai Mubai, standing beside Li Yusong: !!!
The registering students and their parents: ???!!!
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