Zhou Yi and Mu Jin

At Shrek Plaza, an entire class of students was running laps around the square.

Although the plaza was not particularly large, with each lap only a little over three hundred meters, one hundred laps within two hours would not be easy even for a Soul Grandmaster.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan stopped to watch. It seemed Wang Dong'er's Big White Goose had not yet clashed with Zhou Yi.

The bullet still needed to fly a little longer.

Wang Dong'er had already changed back into women's clothing. Even her previously short hair had abruptly become long, and she was currently at the very front of the group.

No matter how lazy Wang Dong'er was, her physical fitness had reached the level of an ordinary Soul Elder. Combined with the enhancement from her Millennium Soul Ring, she had no trouble taking the lead among these freshmen, none of whom had even reached Soul Elder rank.

Zhou Yi appeared, still wearing that ugly human-skin mask as she stood somewhere beside the plaza and watched the freshmen.

Suddenly, Soul Power surged around her, and the freshmen collectively sped up. Wang Dong'er was the first to complete the target of one hundred laps.

Right afterward, the freshmen completed the quota Zhou Yi had set, one after another.

Honestly, Chen Yuan felt there was nothing inherently wrong with running. It could indeed improve one's physical fitness.

But for an idiot like Zhou Yi to make everyone run one hundred laps, whether male or female, Battle Soul Master or Support Soul Master, there had to be something seriously wrong with her.

It would leave lasting injuries. Even a Healing Soul Master intervening would not change that.

Healing Soul Masters could treat injuries, but the wear and tear caused by intense physical exertion was not an injury.

Chen Yuan did not bother hiding himself. He simply stood there, and before long, Wang Dong'er, who had just stopped to rest after running an extra lap around the plaza, noticed him.

Thinking about what had happened at the registration office yesterday made Wang Dong'er's teeth itch with anger, especially after she had inexplicably been forced to run one hundred laps today just because there had been no fighting before school started.

Chen Yuan smiled and waved at Wang Dong'er, treating it as a greeting.

That only made Wang Dong'er angrier. How could this guy act as though nothing had happened? He was even greeting her as if they were close.

Noticing the change in Wang Dong'er's mood, Zhou Yi curiously turned around, only to see someone she did not want to see.

One of the two bastard students who had pinned her to the ground and beaten her!

Back then, she had only wanted to suppress their arrogance a little and temper their dispositions. Yet Chen Yuan and another brat named Bei Bei had taken the lead in resisting her.

Unable to swallow her anger, she released her martial soul, intending to use her Soul Emperor cultivation to forcibly make those students submit.

But the moment she released her Red Dragon martial soul, she sensed martial soul pressure from those two brats!

It prevented her from using even half of her strength.

Then, those two beat her up in front of an entire class for a full lesson.

It was not until class ended, when students from other classes passing by saw her miserable state, that they called over the dean of discipline, Du Weilun.

Remembering that scene, Chen Yuan flexed his wrist. If possible, he still wanted to beat Zhou Yi up again.

Who told her to call them trash with every other word and useless garbage with the rest?

And she had even released her martial soul?

What was it if a teacher releasing her martial soul against students, if not a declaration of war?

After getting thoroughly beaten by him and Bei Bei, she still had the nerve to ask Du Weilun to stand up for her?

Did she not know that Chen Yuan had the biggest connection in all of Shrek standing behind him?

Besides, Chen Yuan's talent meant he could not possibly receive a severe punishment. A Soul Emperor-level teacher had lost to two students; even Fan Yu had been too embarrassed to come looking for trouble.

In the end, the academy ruled that Zhou Yi bore full responsibility for the incident and suspended her from teaching for a year.

Chen Yuan and Bei Bei each wrote a four-thousand-word self-criticism.

Yes, that was how it ended.

"Chen Yuan!"

"I didn't expect you to still remembered me, Zhou Yi. I'm truly honored."

"What are you doing here?!"

"Just here to see this year's junior students. Is that not allowed? Did your family open Shrek? By the way, Zhou Yi, are you physically punishing freshmen?"

"How I teach is none of your business! You're a fourth-year student. Why aren't you properly taking your advancement assessment? What exactly are you doing here?"

Zhou Yi gritted her teeth. Her expression was probably not much better, but unfortunately, with that human-skin mask on, no one could even see it.

"Nothing. I was just watching how a certain useless trash teacher with no ability was stirring up trouble again."

"Don't tell me you're using something like 'there was no fighting' as an excuse again? Same old trick?"

Last year, Zhou Yi had made trouble for their class because they had not fought before the start of the new term.

Seriously, who went around picking fights for no reason?

Zhou Yi was simply creating trouble out of nothing.

The freshmen all looked at Zhou Yi. They had already thought that she was making trouble for no reason, and Chen Yuan's words confirmed their view.

"Chen Yuan! What exactly do you want?! You are seriously disrupting my class!"

"Class? So this wasn't physical punishment?"

Chen Yuan looked utterly innocent, as if he truly did not know Zhou Yi was teaching class and giving these freshmen a show of force.

"Zhou Yi, please stop wearing that human-skin mask in the future. A teacher who likes to hide her face is no good person."

"Chen Yuan! Do you understand respect for teachers and proper conduct?! I don't need a student like you teaching me how to conduct class!"

"Heh. Beat me, or give me some useful advice about cultivation, and then I'll respect you as a teacher."

Under Zhou Yi's murderous glare, Chen Yuan slowly walked away.

Those who had not wanted to run in the first place, but had been forced to do so because of Zhou Yi's status as their homeroom teacher and her strength as a Soul Emperor, felt after hearing the exchange between Chen Yuan and Zhou Yi that she was someone who bullied the weak and feared the strong.

And not even a particularly strong one at that. Had they not seen that senior wearing a second- or third-year uniform practically get in her face, while Zhou Yi could only stand there and watch?

If Zhou Yi really had ability, why did she not try fighting that senior just now?

At that moment, Zhou Yi was so furious that she was nearly losing her mind. Beneath the human-skin mask, her face had already flushed red with rage.

But no matter how angry she was, she could do nothing to Chen Yuan.

Even Fan Yu would not be able to do anything.

It was only a verbal dispute. If Fan Yu went after Chen Yuan over that, he would have to be brain-dead.

The relationship between the Soul Tool Department and the Martial Soul Department was already extremely tense, and Zhou Yi herself often caused trouble for Fan Yu.

The Martial Soul Department had already given Fan Yu plenty of face. If Fan Yu inexplicably targeted the current number one student of the Martial Soul Department's Outer Court, a student very likely to enter the Inner Court—

Yan Shaozhe would never agree to it, and neither would Du Weilun.

There were already few geniuses who could enter the Inner Court every year—few consumables, that was. If one fewer was admitted because of Zhou Yi, the Martial Soul Department really would skin her alive.

Her life would not be in danger, but she definitely would not be able to remain in the Martial Soul Department.

Wang Dong'er was slightly dazed. What had she just seen?

That person who had appeared at the New Student Registration Office, who looked at most two or three years older than her, had openly provoked a Soul Emperor like that.

And judging from the situation, Zhou Yi, a Soul Emperor, truly could not defeat a student. Otherwise, she would not have endured such humiliation.

One had to know that the highest rank in Shrek's Outer Court was only Soul Ancestor.

Were all Shrek upperclassmen such monsters? Could a Soul Ancestor defeat a Soul Emperor?

Wang Dong'er felt her already insufficient brain capacity beginning to overload.

Her homeroom teacher could not even beat a student and did not seem particularly capable. Should she switch classes?

There was still some time before class ended, and the original work had provided far too little description of Mu Jin, the teacher of Freshman Class Nine.

Chen Yuan only remembered that she seemed to like Fan Yu as well.

Another melodramatic love triangle. How many love triangles did Soul Land 2 even have?

Not only in the original work, but even in Shrek's Outer Court, Mu Jin was not particularly well-known.

Unlike Zhou Yi, who was already regarded as the worst teacher in the Outer Court.

Of course, Chen Yuan did know a little about Mu Jin, not through the novels and comics from his previous life, but through one of his classmates.

Mu Jin had a younger brother currently studying at Shrek, and he was even in the same class as Chen Yuan. His strength was just a little low, roughly around rank thirty-three.

It seemed Mu Jin's younger brother had been among the people Zhou Yi wanted to expel back then?

Chen Yuan could not remember clearly.