The Holy Spirit Cult's Supreme Leader - Xuan Zi

Thus, a group of new students led by Xiao Zhuang began to thrive robustly in the new semester.

What surprised me most, of course, was Xiao Zhuang's cultivation speed. Despite having an extreme attribute, after stepping into the Soul Elder stage, his cultivation speed showed no sign of slowing down. On the contrary, it continued to surge forward, elevating his Soul Power Level to the fortieth rank within just one year.

I believe that while this undoubtedly involved my own guidance, the resources provided by the academy, the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone matching his attribute, and the mimicry cultivation environment of the Golden Tree on Sea God Island—which was perfectly suited to Shao Zhuang—all played a part, what truly determined everything was ultimately Xiao Zhuang's diligence and the uniqueness of the Bi An Martial Soul. The power brought by a top-tier divine beast like Bi An, once it became a martial soul, compensated for all shortcomings, including the drawback of slow mid-stage cultivation for extreme attribute martial souls. Coupled with Xiao Zhuang's never-slacking, earnest cultivation, this yielded such terrifying Soul Power Level advancement.

Later, relying on their respective excellence, they became members of the Preliminary Team for the new Soul Fighting Tournament. Xiao Zhuang served as the Preliminary Team captain.

However, before the new Soul Fighting Tournament began, Xuan Zi and the Shrek Main Team and Preliminary Team encountered an accident while carrying out a Supervisory Group mission. All members of the Main Team were severely injured, and one even fell.

This failure in leading the team led Xuan Zi to make a decision: to resign from all his positions and henceforth only be a idle person within the academy. But I counseled him, saying that self-blame could not change anything. If he truly wanted to atone for this, he should learn from this lesson, take on more responsibility, and cultivate more and better inspectors.

As for this Soul Fighting Tournament, I did not plan to dispatch other students from the academy for an emergency rescue, because I wanted to see how far these little ones led by Xiao Zhuang from the Preliminary Team could go on their own.

"How could I have made such a mistake! I am a sinner of Shrek Academy!!"

Looking at the content on the Heavenly Curtain, Xuan Zi's eyes were filled with disbelief. The chicken leg he had been holding in his hand slipped away without him noticing.

This reminded him of the mistake he had made back when he led a team to hunt souls for a group of students.

During that time, due to his gluttony, he neglected his duty and got separated from the students.

He had thought that with Zhang Lexuan, whose Soul Power Level was as high as the eightieth rank, leading the team, it wouldn't be a big deal if he left briefly.

But unexpectedly, during that time, Zhang Lexuan and the others encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and eight of the twelve Inner Court Disciples died in battle.

After this major teaching accident, he should have resigned to take responsibility.

However, because Zhang Lexuan knelt for a long time and strongly urged him to stay, he ended up not being punished.

He had thought such an incident would never happen again in his life, but he never expected...

'Whoosh~'

Xuan Zi vanished from his spot. He was heading to the Sea God Pavilion to offer a humble apology and seek punishment.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Curtain had exposed this in advance, so that future major accident could be nipped in the bud.

'As expected of the true Supreme Leader of the Holy Spirit Cult.' Watching what the Heavenly Curtain had just revealed, Shao Zhuang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Every time Xuan Zi made a mistake, Shao Zhuang suffered heavy losses for Shrek Academy, yet he himself always came out unscathed, without any consequences.

Just now, after tidying up his dormitory and not waiting for his so-called roommate to arrive, Shao Zhuang left the dormitory building and found a place where he could watch the Heavenly Curtain without drawing attention.

After all, these were all his own handiwork; when he had time, he naturally wanted to enjoy them properly.

As for Xuan Zi, how should he put it? It was only because Mu En knew his own end was near and understood that after he left, Shrek Academy would need a strong person to take charge. Plus, his senior disciple Yan Shaozhe was too preoccupied with worldly affairs like the Martial Soul Department, stuck at the ninety-fifth rank and unable to take the reins.

Otherwise, with Xuan Zi's repeated mistakes that undermined the foundation of Shrek Academy, if it were the old Mu En, he would certainly have been severely punished to serve as a warning to others!

The future revealed through Mu En's monologue—where Xuan Zi's negligence led to student deaths and severe injuries—caused an uproar within Shrek Academy.

Especially among those parties directly exposed by the Heavenly Curtain.

In the Inner Court, Yao Haoxuan stood frozen in place, muttering dazedly to himself: "I actually died! I actually died!"

Although this matter was set in the future, it was still hard for him to accept now and dealt him a heavy blow.

Who among those who could join the Shrek Inner Court wasn't a dragon among men, with a bright future ahead?

Yet because of a teacher's negligence, he lost his life, and that teacher received no punishment at all.

Such a disparity was simply too painful to bear.

The companions around him, seeing Yao Haoxuan's reaction, didn't know what to say.

Putting themselves in his shoes, anyone whose future ended like that would feel unwilling and be crushed by the blow.

"Haoxuan, where are you going?"

Seeing Yao Haoxuan suddenly start running, a companion quickly called out.

But Yao Haoxuan gave no response and just kept running.

Seeing this, he was about to chase after him, but another person walking with him grabbed his arm.

Under his puzzled gaze, the companion slowly explained: "Let Haoxuan have some quiet time."

They thought Yao Haoxuan just wanted to find a place alone to calm down. In reality, the direction Yao Haoxuan was running was straight to the Inner Court's academic affairs office.

What Yao Haoxuan had in mind was to withdraw from the academy, thereby completely avoiding that unbearable outcome in his life.

Even if the academy would take countermeasures because of the Heavenly Curtain, he no longer wanted to trust them. After all, he only had one life.

Anyway, with his talent, any Soul Master faction would be eager to recruit him; he had no worries about where to go.

Additionally, the reactions of Gongyang Mo and Chen Zifeng were not good either.

Although they weren't as unlucky as Yao Haoxuan, who died outright;

From what was shown on the Heavenly Curtain, their injuries were the most severe, greatly affecting their careers as Soul Masters.

So if they could still be in a good mood after seeing their future was that miserable, that would be truly absurd.

However, they didn't have as intense a reaction as Yao Haoxuan, after all, misery is relative.

The academy would certainly take corresponding measures upon seeing this, in order to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

For trainees like them, staying in the Inner Court offered a higher ceiling for growth.

Of course, the most crucial point was that after they suffered severe injuries, the academy also provided appropriate compensation to make up for everything.

If the academy still showed nothing after they were gravely wounded, that would truly be disheartening.

The quick-witted Xixi was even thinking that her act of protecting Gongyang Mo without regard for her own safety in the Heavenly Curtain had been clearly demonstrated.

So the academy would surely give her strong support as well, right?!!