Crouching Dragon Xuan Zi, Fledgling Phoenix Yan Shaozhe, Zhou Yi Stands Shoulder to Shoulder with the God Slayer

(P.S. I realized the pacing feels a little slow, but I can't leave out some of the early conflicts and audience reactions, so I've sped things up a bit too much in this chapter.)

While people across the Douluo Continent were still arguing over Sea God Tang San's despicable true nature, the Heavenly Screen changed again.

With Bei Bei and Tang Ya accompanying him, Huo Yuhao successfully registered. He then happened to run into Qian Duoduo, vice dean of Shrek's Soul Tool Department.

After learning about the effects of Huo Yuhao's Soul Skill during an offhand conversation with Bei Bei, Qian Duoduo asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate it on the spot.

Having experienced it firsthand, he was overjoyed and invited Huo Yuhao to join the Soul Tool Department after the New Student Assessment, promising him a place as a Core Disciple.

When he learned that Huo Yuhao's mother was still waiting for him in the Dou Ling Empire, he even arranged for someone to take Huo Yuhao along in a Flying Soul Tool to bring her back.

But things did not go as planned. When Huo Yun'er learned that her son had joined Shrek Academy, she was thrilled and proud, but still chose to return to the White Tiger Duke Mansion.

On the one hand, she still couldn't let go of her Obsession with Dai Hao. On the other, prices in Shrek City were extremely high, making it an unsuitable place to live for long. She didn't want her son to have to sell Grilled Fish for money while he was supposed to be studying.

The audience across the continent had mixed opinions about this.

Some thought Huo Yun'er was foolish to harbor fantasies about a man she hadn't seen in eleven years. If Sea God Tang San noticed that, he would sooner or later use it to hurt her son.

Others thought that although Huo Yun'er was a little foolish, she was at least considering her son's education by choosing to return and suffer on her own.

Some analyzed the matter more deeply, believing that Huo Yun'er insisted on returning to the Duke Mansion to wait for Dai Hao perhaps because she was also thinking about Huo Yuhao's future.

After all, Huo Yun'er didn't know that her son had a Million-Year Soul Ring and a God King Remnant Soul protecting him, nor did she know Huo Yuhao was the Son of Destiny, destined to Become God.

Under the circumstances, if Dai Hao acknowledged Huo Yuhao as his son, giving him the legitimate status of a White Tiger Duke's son, then in Huo Yun'er's eyes, that would save him decades of struggle!

Before people could reach a conclusion, Zhou Yi—the new student instructor of Shrek Outer Court—astonished the audience with her running-lap expulsions and domineering personality.

Most outrageous of all, Huo Yuhao, the man destined to Become God, couldn't stand Zhou Yi's domineering behavior. He spoke up in defense of several expelled students, and Zhou Yi promptly waved him away and expelled him too.

In the end, it was only after Huo Yuhao brought up Qian Duoduo, the Soul Tool Department vice dean who believed in him, and explained that he was a prospective Core Disciple of the department, that Zhou Yi relented.

Even so, she kicked him straight out of the class. In the end, he transferred to another class with his roommate Wang Dong, who also couldn't stand Zhou Yi's way of doing things.

Countless people across the continent watched this scene and exclaimed that Zhou Yi was incredible, no less outrageous than the Wind Baboon that had nearly slain a god.

But it also made countless people question: Was this really the caliber of a teacher at the continent's number-one academy?

For a time, many teachers at Shrek Academy looked as black as coal.

Fan Yu, Zhou Yi's Husband, went so far as to tell her to submit her resignation and write a thorough self-criticism!

This time, Fan Yu truly couldn't protect her, and didn't want to.

What the hell was the point of wearing an Old Lady Mask to teach new students? Anyone who didn't know better would think I, Fan, was some kind of pervert who liked old ladies!

Zhou Yi, too, had lost her arrogance. No matter how much she valued her "teacher's authority," she knew how precious a future god would be to Shrek.

And she had nearly expelled someone like that!

Even though this was only a "future" that hadn't happened yet, Zhou Yi believed that if the version of her in the Heavenly Screen really expelled Huo Yuhao, then the real her might one day suddenly run into a Titled Douluo-level evil Soul Master who had infiltrated Shrek Academy—and die without knowing how.

After Zhou Yi's bizarre story, the audience thought that was the end of it.

Most people also figured Zhou Yi was just an example of one bad individual; Shrek as a whole was surely good, and the academy's High-level Officials couldn't possibly be as unreasonable and blind as she was.

But the very next scene on the Heavenly Screen proved them wrong.

[The scene shifted to Shrek's New Student Assessment. Several clips showed Huo Yuhao assisting his roommate Wang Dong in defeating their opponents.

In the stands, the unkempt Xuan Zi ate chicken legs and drank wine.

Wang Yan, a young teacher who had noticed the superiority of Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul and Soul Skills, tried to get Xuan Zi to pay more attention to Huo Yuhao.

But when he found out Huo Yuhao hadn't even reached level twenty, Xuan Zi immediately lost interest and casually wiped his greasy hands on Wang Yan.

He said contemptuously, "Someone who's nearly twelve and only in the teens is either born with low Innate Soul Power, doesn't work hard, or has low Innate Soul Power and doesn't work hard. He's not worth cultivating as a priority."

Next, Huo Yuhao and his roommate Wang Dong brought along a useless teammate and fought their way through the competition.

Then, after they used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill in the final and defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, who had also used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Yan Shaozhe, the Martial Soul Department Dean, forcibly renamed Huo Yuhao's team the Wang Dong Team.

Then, when selecting the Outer Court Core Disciple slots, he directly excluded Huo Yuhao, a member of the championship team, clearly believing that Huo Yuhao had little value as a candidate for cultivation.]

The way these two Shrek High-level Officials behaved, right after Zhou Yi, left countless viewers across the continent dumbfounded. It also delighted many academies and factions that aspired to become like Shrek.

"Wonderful, wonderful! If everyone at Shrek is this useless, I can rest easy! Without Xiao Huo, I doubt they'll last much longer."

"The reputation of the continent's number-one academy can be ours instead!"

At the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Jing Hongchen was grinning from ear to ear.

In the Heaven Dou Empire, Du Busi, who was on his way to Shrek City, also gave a cold laugh:

"What blind fools! They regard a genius with a Body Martial Soul as mediocre. Yuhao truly belongs with my Body Sect! Staying at Shrek will only let these incompetent idiots waste his talent!"

"As for Shrek, without Mu En, with this bunch of vermin running the place, it's only a matter of time before they're finished!"

Inside Shrek Academy, by Sea God Lake, a group of Shrek High-level Officials looked as black as coal. Mu En felt utterly helpless.

There was no point even mentioning Zhou Yi, a Soul Emperor. As for the other two High-level Officials, he was already used to Xuan Zi being unreliable.

But you, Yan Shaozhe—you're the Martial Soul Department Dean, for heaven's sake. Even if you didn't know Huo Yuhao had a Million-Year Soul Ring, the child had already shown remarkable potential. He even had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill!

And in that situation, you still insisted on renaming his team and refused to give him a mere Outer Court Core Disciple slot. How on earth does your brain work?

It's just one slot. Would the resources saved by denying him really let you, Yan, raise your Soul Power by a level? Or let your Martial Soul evolve?