"Ah?"
Du Busi froze in the main seat, his usually stern and imposing face filled with such blankness that it seemed unreal.
"That happened too?"
Vina, Long Aotian, Chen Lü, Gu Tong, Wang Yanfeng—these Body Sect elites who usually prided themselves on being gifted and unflappable—all stood with their mouths agape. The hall fell into dead silence.
They even rubbed their ears instinctively, deeply suspecting they had misheard.
If Liu Yuan had been a discarded disciple expelled by Shrek Academy, then Shrek's current attempt to recruit him was utterly absurd.
More importantly, in the eyes of everyone in the Body Sect, a monster like Liu Yuan—who could fight five-ring opponents with three-ring cultivation at twelve or thirteen, and possessed the Double Pupil and Undying Body—was a treasure bestowed upon the sect by heaven.
Someone with such talent and strength had actually been expelled?
"That can only mean everyone at Shrek is blind," Chen Lü muttered, unable to help himself, before frowning again.
"But Shrek is still the number one academy of the past ten thousand years. Surely their higher-ups and teachers couldn't all be that absurd?"
"Liu Yuan, what exactly happened?" Du Busi recovered himself and pressed in a grave tone.
"Explain it clearly. Why did those old fools at Shrek drive you out?"
Standing in the center of the hall, Liu Yuan looked unusually calm.
What others might have considered the darkest period of his life sounded almost entirely unremarkable in his telling.
"Master, the matter is actually quite simple."
Liu Yuan looked at the others and slowly explained, "My parents were both Inner Court students of Shrek Academy. But during an academy mission when I was young, they encountered powerful enemies and both perished."
"At the time, I had just awakened my Martial Soul, and my Innate Soul