Thus, led by Xiao Zhuang, the group of new students began to thrive in the new semester.
What surprised me most, of course, was Xiao Zhuang's cultivation speed. Despite having an ultimate attribute, his cultivation speed showed no sign of slowing after he entered the Soul Elder stage. Instead, it continued to soar, and in just one year, his Soul Power Level rose to forty.
Although my guidance, the resources provided by the academy, the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone suited to his attribute, and the Golden Tree's mimicry cultivation environment on Sea God Island, which was exceptionally compatible with Shao Zhuang, all undoubtedly played a part, what truly determined everything was ultimately Xiao Zhuang's diligence and the unique nature of the Bi An Martial Soul.
The immense power bestowed by a supreme divine beast like Bi'an after becoming a Martial Soul made up for every shortcoming, including the slow cultivation speed of ultimate-attribute Martial Souls in their middle stages. Combined with Xiao Zhuang's unwavering diligence and earnest cultivation, it brought about such terrifying growth in his Soul Power Level.
Later, through their own excellence, they became members of the Preliminary Team for the new Soul Fighting Tournament. Xiao Zhuang served as the Preliminary Team's captain.
However, before the new Soul Fighting Tournament began, Xuan Zi encountered an accident while carrying out a Supervisory Group mission with Shrek Academy's Main Team and Preliminary Team. Every Main Team member suffered severe injuries, and one had even fallen.
This failure in leading the team made Xuan Zi reach a decision: he would resign from all his positions and become an idle man within the academy from then on. But I talked him through it. Self-reproach could not change anything. If he truly wanted to atone, he should learn from this lesson, become more responsible, and cultivate more and better inspectors.
As for this Soul Fighting Tournament, I had no intention of urgently dispatching other students from the academy to save the situation. I wanted to see just how far these youngsters led by Xiao Zhuang could go on their own.
"How could I make such a mistake?! I am a sinner of Shrek Academy!!"
As he watched the content displayed on the Heavenly Curtain, Xuan Zi's eyes filled with disbelief. The chicken leg in his hand unknowingly slipped free and fell away.
It reminded him of the mistake he had made when he led a group of students to hunt soul beasts.
In the middle of the mission, his gluttony had made him neglect his duties, causing him to become separated from the students.
He had thought that with Zhang Lexuan, whose Soul Power Level had reached eighty, leading the group, his brief absence would not be a major problem.
Yet during that time, Zhang Lexuan and the others encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Of the twelve Inner Court Disciples, eight died in battle.
After such a serious teaching accident, he should have resigned to take responsibility.
But Zhang Lexuan had knelt for a long time, desperately urging him to remain in his position, and so he received no punishment.
He had thought something like this would never happen again in his life, but he had never expected...
Whoosh~
Xuan Zi vanished from where he stood. He was heading to Sea God Pavilion to plead guilty while carrying thorn branches on his back.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Curtain had revealed it in advance. That major future accident could now be strangled in the cradle before it happened.
As expected of the Holy Spirit Cult's true Supreme Leader. Shao Zhuang could not help but sigh as he watched what the Heavenly Curtain had revealed.
Every one of Xuan Zi's mistakes had caused Shrek Academy devastating losses, yet he himself had always emerged completely unscathed, without suffering even the slightest consequence.
After tidying up his dormitory and failing to find his supposed roommate, Shao Zhuang left the dorm building and found a spot where he would not attract attention to watch the Heavenly Curtain.
After all, these were all his own handiwork. Since he had the time, he naturally had to enjoy the show properly.
What could one even say about Xuan Zi? The only reason he had been tolerated was because Mu En knew his end was near and understood that after he departed, Shrek Academy would need a powerful figure to hold the fort.
Furthermore, his eldest disciple, Yan Shaozhe, had too many distracting thoughts and was obsessed with trivial matters like those of the Martial Soul Department. He had remained stuck at level ninety-five and was unable to take charge of the overall situation.
Otherwise, with Xuan Zi repeatedly making mistakes and undermining Shrek Academy's foundations, the Mu En of the past would definitely have punished him severely to serve as a warning to others!
The future revealed through Mu En's narration, where Xuan Zi's negligence caused students to die and suffer grave injuries, stirred up an enormous uproar within Shrek Academy.
This was especially true for those directly involved who had been exposed by the Heavenly Curtain.
In the Inner Court, Yao Haoxuan stood motionless, muttering blankly, "I died! I actually died!"
Though it happened in the future, it was still difficult for the current him to accept. The blow it dealt him was immense.
Who among those able to enter Shrek Academy's Inner Court was not exceptionally talented, with a bright future ahead of them?
Yet because of the negligence of a student teacher, he lost his life, while that teacher received no punishment whatsoever.
Such a contrast was simply too painful to bear.
Seeing Yao Haoxuan's reaction, the companions around him did not know what to say.
Putting themselves in his shoes, if anyone saw their own future ending like that, they would feel unwilling to accept it and suffer a severe blow.
"Haoxuan, where are you going?"
Seeing Yao Haoxuan suddenly break into a run, one of his companions hurriedly called after him.
But Yao Haoxuan gave no response and simply kept running.
Just as the companion was about to chase after him, another person traveling with them grabbed his arm.
Under his puzzled gaze, the other person slowly explained, "For something like this, we should let Haoxuan have some time alone."
They thought Yao Haoxuan merely wanted to find somewhere quiet by himself. In reality, the direction he was running in was the Inner Court's administrative office.
What Yao Haoxuan had in mind was withdrawing from the academy, thereby completely avoiding that unbearable future.
Even if the academy took measures in response to the Heavenly Curtain's revelation, he no longer wished to keep trusting it. After all, he only had one life.
Besides, with his talent, every Soul Master faction would compete to recruit him. He had no need to worry about having nowhere to go.
Gongyang Mo and Chen Zifeng's reactions were not much better, either.
Although they had not suffered as horribly as Yao Haoxuan and died outright, the Heavenly Curtain showed that 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 how miserable their futures were, that would have been truly absurd.
However, they did not react as intensely as Yao Haoxuan. After all, misery was relative.
The academy had seen it and would certainly take corresponding measures to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.
For students like them, remaining in the Inner Court offered a higher ceiling.
Of course, the most crucial point was that after they suffered severe injuries, the academy would also provide appropriate compensation to make up for everything.
If they were gravely injured and the academy still showed no response, that would be truly disheartening.
Xixi, who was quick-witted, was even thinking that her desperate act of protecting Gongyang Mo had been plainly displayed on the Heavenly Curtain.
Then surely the academy would give her vigorous support as well!!
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