For the past few days, he had been holding on to the hope that "Nyarlathotep" had a way to put an end to the Phoenix Evil Fire once and for all. Now that he'd heard there was no solution, how could he not feel disappointed?
Still, so be it. Even the Phoenix Evil Fire of Ma Hongjun's ancestor had required an Immortal Herb gifted by Tang San's ancestor to be purged. How could something like that be easily resolved through human effort?
Thinking of it that way, Yan Shaozhe felt a little better.
Even if they couldn't eliminate Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Evil Fire once and for all, at least they could suppress it and allow her to cultivate normally. That was still a good outcome.
"Then... Teacher Naiya, I was wondering if you might consider moving to the Inner Court to teach. Your dark Martial Soul attribute..."
"I won't." Xia Linyuan refused without hesitation, before Yan Shaozhe could finish.
He had created a clone to apply for a teaching position at Shrek Academy so Zhou Yi wouldn't pull any tricks on his true self. What would be the point of all this if he went to the Inner Court?
It wasn't that he couldn't go. But as he'd said before, Outer Court students who hadn't yet developed much of a sense of belonging to Shrek Academy were far more valuable than Inner Court disciples who'd already been brainwashed by Shrek's glory.
He'd rather invest in someone like Dai Huabin, a Power Attack System student in the Outer Court who was all brawn and no brains, than in Inner Court disciples whose heads were already filled with Shrek's glory. There were far too few Inner Court disciples like Dai Yueheng, who hadn't been brainwashed too deeply by Shrek's glory.
"Huh?" Yan