Because it was the first time I completed Thousand Refinement, and I had to sacrifice this piece of Thousand Refinement heavy silver as a blood sacrifice, even Tang Wulin, which had already broken through to the Soul Elder level, was a little overwhelmed physically and mentally.
"Linyuan, tomorrow is the core disciple selection competition. You are one of the seven candidates designated by the two deans to be selected for the mission. How are you preparing?" Tang Wulin asked while recovering his strength.
Xia Linyuan said calmly, "It's just a small trial, and it's not worthy of my attention to the extent that I need to prepare in advance."
"Linyuan, first the core disciples from the third, fourth and fifth grades of Outer Court were selected and expanded to include the core disciples of the second grade. Then the two deans decided that you and Huo Yuhao must be selected. What exactly is the content of this task? It's mysterious."
When Tang Wulin asked this question, and when Dai Huabin and others were curious about what the core disciple selection competition was about a few days ago, Xia Linyuan once thought that these indigenous people in the Douluo Continent world had no common sense.
Forget about Huo Yuhao. After all, he has lived in an environment like White Tiger Duke Mansion with no information and no contact with the outside world since he was a child. But it is outrageous that the children of the family with long eyes and ears like Dai Huabin don't know.
As long as one of them has paid attention to the previous high-level Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament across the continent, why would they not be aware of the composition of the participating members and the members of the reserve team in the Shrek Academy.
Why worry about not passing through this core disciple selection competition to associate with this generation of high-ranking Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament from all over the continent.
There is also the Mainland Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament as the most advanced event of the Douluo Continent.
"Do you know the top Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament in the whole continent?" Xia Linyuan asked in return.
Tang Wulin was stunned and immediately reacted, "Linyuan, do you mean that the reason why the college holds this core disciple selection competition is to select the team members who will participate in this continent-wide senior Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament?"
"Absolutely." Xia Linyuan said casually.
"What do you mean by almost the same thing? Please explain it clearly." There was a hint of coquettishness in her tone unconsciously.
Xia Linyuan hit her mercilessly and said, "Do you think that with the strength of the core disciples of Outer Court, who are only fourteen or fifteen years old, they can win the championship among contestants who are as young as twenty and as young as seventeen or eighty-years-old who have gone through layers of selection in so many well-established academies?"
"How many people do you think Shrek Academy, who has enjoyed the title of the first college in mainland China for so many years, can accept with an open-minded attitude that the so-called first college in mainland China loses to other colleges? And how many people can withstand the consequences of being the first college in mainland China after missing out on the championship?..."
Xia Linyuan was like a barrage of questions, throwing out question after question, bombarding Tang Wulin into confusion.
He smiled slightly and said, "Shrek Academy went from an unknown college to the number one college in mainland China. How did it get its name? Do you know? Is it because of its teachers? Or is it because of its cultivation resources? Or is it because of the large number of talents it produces?"
"I'm telling you, it's nothing."
"Ten thousand years ago, Shrek Academy was just an unknown pheasant college that was not recognized by the empire. The college's address was still in a small village in a certain kingdom of the Heaven Dou Empire. Even the later college's address was transferred to the Shrek Academy by the dean of a certain college at that time."
"At that time, Shrek Academy was the only college in the entire Douluo Continent that had more teachers than students. Before it became famous, it had only enrolled forty-two students in its twenty years of operation."
"With an average of only two students admitted a year, where does Shrek Academy get its income? Shrek Academy's first dean, Flender, likes to withhold and delay teachers' wages."
"How did Shrek Academy persist for twenty years when he was unable to make ends meet? He relied on the help from the Star Luo Empire prince Dai Mubai at the time, and extorted registration fees from ordinary people under the pretense that he could become an imperial baron after graduation."
"At that time, Shrek Academy recruited students under the pretext that they would only accept Little Monster, and upon graduation they would become imperial barons. Ordinary families who hoped that their sons and daughters would be successful were like moths to a flame. They spent most of their life savings and came to the Shrek Academy to register. The registration fee alone was ten Gold Soul Coin."
"But what they don't know is that the requirement for the Shrek Academy to recruit students is to reach level 20 before the age of thirteen, and once registered, the registration fee will not be refunded regardless of whether the requirements are met or not."
"Maybe in your opinion, ten Gold Soul Coins are not even worth your meal, but in that era when one Gold Soul Coin was enough for a family of three to live for several months, the registration fee of ten Gold Soul Coins was a huge sum of money for a family."
"Why do you think they didn't resist and get their money back? Then do you know why they are just ordinary people? Why would they spend most of their life savings to send their children to the Shrek Academy, who can become a baron after graduation?"
"Also, what's funny is that at that time, the graduation standard for the Shrek Academy was to break through to the Soul Ancestor level, but a Spirit Master at the Soul Ancestor level could obtain the title of baron as long as he was willing to attach himself to any kingdom.
"You can become a baron after graduation. Haha, listen, how ridiculous it is."
"In this case, where do you think it will get its teachers? How will it get its training resources? How will it get its talents?"
"You said it didn't have teachers, but it also had a strong man of Soul Douluo level as the dean. The teachers with the lowest cultivation level all had the cultivation level of Soul King. You said it did. What's funny is that at that time, Shrek Academy actually had a teacher who was a desperado."
"You said it has cultivation resources? Even its daily life relies on students' donations and blackmails ordinary people to make a living. Where does it get the spare money to purchase the cultivation resources students need?"
"As for talents, they brazenly say that they don't care about the students' origins, but which of the students he recruits can be considered to be from an 'ordinary family'? Ordinary families will be the princes of the empire? Will there be Soul Douluo level experts as teachers? Will they be the daughters of the imperial prime minister? Will they have Titled Douluo fathers? Will they be little princesses from top sects in extremely wealthy countries?"
"How did Shrek Academy go from a poor Pheasant College to become the number one college in the mainland? It was due to the outstanding performance of those geniuses in the advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament across the continent. And for what reason did these geniuses come to the Shrek Academy?"
"If it weren't for Tang San and the others who got together by chance in the unknown Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago, and obtained the treasures of heaven and earth, and then made Shrek Academy famous in the continent's advanced Soul Master Academy elite competition, otherwise, who would rather enter a pheasant academy without any reputation?"
"It is because of their reputation that Tang San has attracted countless excellent teachers and talented students to the Shrek Academy. It is because of these teachers and students that Shrek Academy has achieved its current reputation."
"Without these teachers and those students, Shrek Academy is nothing, whether it was in the past or now, it is nothing."
Xia Linyuan sneered, "The Zhou Yi incident has been making a lot of noise these days, and you have seen it, but what you don't know is that she is just one of the epitome of the entire Shrek Academy."
"Shrek Academy, from beginning to end, the roots are rotten."
"Impossible!" As soon as Xia Linyuan finished speaking, Tang Wulin impatiently denied him, "It's only Zhou Yi that is wrong, not Shrek Academy!"
Xia Linyuan looked at her coldly, "If you are willing to open your eyes and see the world, instead of living in the world described by others, then this will be the real world."
"Just like when you hated Soul Tool." He suddenly said this nonsense.
Tang Wulin was stunned for a moment, and then his whole body seemed to be emptied out, and he slowly collapsed to the ground.
From talking about a small high-level Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament team member from all over the continent, to criticizing Shrek Academy, such a huge span was something Xia Linyuan never expected.
But it didn't matter to him, anyway, what he said was the truth, and whether Tang Wulin believed it or not had nothing to do with him.
"Dingling bells..."
The bell rang, and the day's classes were over.
Just when the students in Class 1 of the second grade were also relaxing, for the core disciples, the next core disciple selection competition was the real test for them.
No one knows how the core disciple selection competition is conducted, but for every core disciple, this is a hurdle that cannot be escaped.
Fortunately, there is no punishment in this assessment.
"What's wrong with her?" Looking at Tang Wulin who hadn't spoken much all day today, Gu Yuena couldn't help but touch Xia Linyuan's arm and asked, "Did you say anything good or bad to her?"
She knows that Xia Linyuan likes to suddenly inflict "real harm" on you from time to time. To her, it is nothing, but to the indigenous people on the Douluo Continent, it is reversing the perception they have spent so many years establishing.
The reversal is more pleasant to say.
It should be said that it is to smash their cognition into pieces. It is not enough to smash their cognition into pieces, but also to crush their broken cognition over and over again, and then just sweep it into the trash can without even looking at it.
This is really insulting.
"People often don't like to hear the truth." Xia Linyuan said dully.
Gu Yuena shrugged helplessly and said, "I just said you should stop talking."
"I still know what words should be accepted and what words should not be accepted. As for whether to accept it or not, it depends on the value of this person to me."
"I can't argue with you, so I don't want to reason with you."
"Hehehe..."
Wang Yan on the podium said, "All the core disciples will stay here and come with me later Soul Fighting Zone."
Coming!
Except for Xia Linyuan, Gu Yuena, and an absent-minded Tang Wulin, the other core disciples were all refreshed.
They expressed sadness that the Core Disciple Selection Competition was not held during class time, but they were more looking forward to the upcoming Core Disciple Selection Competition.
You can imagine it with your buttocks. It is only for core disciples, and it is a trial mission that was originally only for core disciples in the third, fourth, and fifth years. It is definitely extraordinary. At least the reward value is much higher than the reward value for the freshman assessment.
Even the rewards for the freshmen assessment are so generous, not to mention the tasks that are only for core disciples.
The number of their core disciples this year is extremely large, more than in previous generations.
There are fifteen people in Class One alone, including Xia Linyuan. Add in Xie Huanyue from Class Two and Ning Tian from Class Three, and there are seventeen people in total.
There are as many as seventeen core disciples, which is extremely rare in the Shrek Academy Outer Court. Even the third, fourth, and fifth grades of this year combined do not have as many as seventeen.
Among the thirty core disciples, except for Xia Linyuan, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou who are Soul Ancestor, there is no one at the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level.
Just when everyone was getting excited for the upcoming core disciple selection competition, a shaky figure slowly walked over from a distance.
Looking at the way he was swaying every step of the way, it seemed like he might fall down at any time.
This person is none other than Xuan Zi, who has a cultivation level as high as Level 98. As one of the top experts of the Douluo Continent, he can make students up to Soul Saint level disappear before his eyes. When he encounters Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he almost annihilates the whole army except himself.
I don't have a good impression of Xuan Zi and Xia Linyuan.
Because after leading the team and almost wiping out the entire army, Xuan Zi not only failed to reflect on himself, but also why the students with the highest level of Soul Saint got separated from him under his nose, why did he just come and forget about it when more than a dozen students were almost dead, and still drink and eat meat every day, euphemistically called self-destruction.
There is no point in being willing to fall! Can you resurrect those students who died tragically under the hands of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?
Can you be revived for free while playing a game and watching ads?
As for the bad impression, Xia Linyuan's bad impression of him only stayed at the human emotions he had before falling into Abyss.
If you really want to say it, 99% of the things he did were much worse than this Xuan Zi.
Xuan Zi swayed in front of the students, raised his head with drunken eyes and said, "Xiao Wang..."
"Xuan Zi." Wang Yan hurried forward and saluted respectfully.
Hearing Wang Yan call Xuan Zi, the core disciples couldn't help but think of the recent rumors about Shrek City.
This rumor says that there is a Xuan Zi in the Shrek Academy, with a cultivation level as high as Level 98. He is already one of the top experts in the Douluo Continent, but he can also make students up to the Soul Saint level get separated under his nose, and when he encounters Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the whole army is almost wiped out except for him.
Originally they thought this was nonsense, but seeing Xuan Zi's current appearance, they couldn't help but believe this rumor.