"We can discuss alchemy later. Just show me when the time comes. This is the academy. First, I'll help you get everything sorted out, and then you can display your talent.
"This is the academy rulebook. Even if you're a genius, you can't break the rules whenever you please.
"The academy is a place for teaching and nurturing people, where learning makes people stronger, better, and teaches them how to become outstanding individuals.
"It isn't a place for delinquent youths to fight and vent their anger. For example, if classmates have a dispute, they can argue, but they can't fight. Even if they do fight, they can't be ruthless.
"You can report anything to the teachers and have them help resolve it.
"If there's a problem with a teacher, you can also report it to our Academic Affairs Office. We'll resolve it."
After hearing this, Zhong Kui could only sigh that the Sun Moon Empire's academies had far better teaching standards and rules than Shrek Academy. After all, at Shrek Academy, Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao—later Tang Wutong and Dai Yuhao—had fought on the very first day of school while they were still merely Soul Masters.
(Note: I only watched the manhua version. I didn't watch the anime, mainly because I really can't stand 3D animation, so this is primarily based on the manhua version.)
Back then, Wang Dong really had been the one to start it. He saw himself as some little tyrant and looked down on Huo Yuhao, who then fought him.
At that time, Huo Yuhao had merely wanted to stand up for himself. There was nothing much to say about that.
But the problem came when the two of them later attended class. That old witch of a teacher, Zhou Yi, who had deliberately made herself look ancient, actually made the young people who had not fought run, while those who had fought did not have to. Wasn't that ridiculous?
As someone who had lived under the red flag, Zhong Kui understood that the proper approach should have been to punish the bad students, the ones who had made mistakes, by making them run. But making the students who had done nothing wrong run instead—wasn't that absurd?
And she even said she only taught monsters, not trash. If those people were already monsters, did they still need her teaching? Even without her guidance, they would still be monsters.
A truly capable teacher turned trash into monsters.
But Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong actually thought that made sense and believed themselves to be monsters.
That was truly outrageous.
"This is much better than Shrek Academy. I heard that there was once someone who studied at Shrek Academy and was later expelled because he refused to listen to an old witch."
"? What kind of interesting story is that? Can you tell me?"
Jing Hongchen was in full gossip mode at this point. He was curious whether Zhong Kui knew some scandal about Shrek. Besides, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy had never had a good relationship with Shrek. As participants in the Soul Master Tournament—or rather, whenever they participated in it—they had basically always lost to Shrek Academy. Over thousands of years, they had lost to Shrek Academy every time and had never won the championship, almost always finishing as runners-up.
This had led the people of the Sun Moon Academy to constantly hope they could defeat Shrek Academy, and they did not have much goodwill toward Shrek either.
Now that he had heard some gossip about Shrek Academy, he naturally wanted to see what abilities this number-one academy in the world possessed and what absurdities it had. It could even be used to mock them later.
It could also be used as political propaganda to undermine Shrek.
"It went like this. When he was studying at Shrek Academy, he was assigned to a class whose teacher was named Zhou Yi.
"Apparently, this teacher's methods were strange. For example, on the first day of school, anyone who had fought was told to stand up. He thought those who stood up would be punished, but unexpectedly, the people who hadn't fought were punished instead, while those who had fought were made to run laps.
"He found it outrageous. He hadn't done anything wrong, yet he had to accept punishment. Wasn't that ridiculous? And she said she only taught monsters, not trash. But apparently, that old witch was only a Soul Emperor.
"Later, he could no longer tolerate that teacher and wanted to transfer classes. During the process, he argued with that old witch, and in the end, she used her connections to drive him out of Shrek Academy. After that, he never wanted anything to do with Shrek again."
"Wait, isn't what you're saying a little too outrageous? People who fought on the first day of school didn't need to be punished... while people who hadn't fought had to be punished? Why? They hadn't done anything wrong, so why should they be punished?
"And she said she only taught monsters, not trash. But the teacher needed to have the qualifications to teach monsters, didn't she? What was so impressive about a six-ring Soul Emperor? If she were a Title Douluo-level Soul Master, I'd have nothing to say.
"But she was only a six-ring Soul Emperor. Was she qualified to teach monsters? To teach geniuses?
"And truly capable teachers should make their students more outstanding. Even if they couldn't turn them into monsters, they should at least cultivate them into talents useful to the nation, right?
"What difference was there in teaching monsters to remain monsters? Wasn't that just standing still?"
Jing Hongchen was speechless as well. He had originally thought Shrek Academy must possess some impressive educational strengths, but after seeing someone like that serving as a homeroom teacher, he could not help wondering whether Shrek was really not as formidable as he had imagined.
"This was also something I heard from someone who had once studied at Shrek. Maybe not all the students there are like that. Maybe Shrek's students are all like that—I'm not really sure. Anyway, he doesn't want any further contact with anything related to Shrek.
"And I'm also starting to doubt Shrek Academy's sense of responsibility. If this is true, then the people at Shrek are far too irresponsible."
"If that's the case, how exactly did Shrek Academy become the number-one academy in the world and a holy land for Soul Masters?
"How did they manage to gather nearly sixty Title Douluo in one go to fight the Sun Moon Empire back then?"
Jing Hongchen was genuinely baffled. If Shrek Academy truly had such disgraceful behavior within it, how could it possess such influence?
"How would I know? Anyway, I don't want to go to Shrek Academy. I'm somewhat familiar with that person and know his character and conduct. He probably wouldn't lie."
"In any case, if Shrek Academy has parasites within it, that is good news for us. Right now, the priority is to train you properly. This Soul Master Tournament will depend on you."
Jing Hongchen had effectively placed their hopes of winning the Soul Fighting Tournament this time on Zhong Kui.
Zhong Kui did not care about Shrek's so-called glory. What the hell was Shrek's glory? Wasn't it just the glory of parasites?
Down with Shrek!
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