How the Peerless Tang Sect Earned Its "Peerless"

The final of the freshman assessment concluded without a ripple.

After exchanging a few moves with the Crimson Ascending Dragon, Wu Feng decisively chose to concede, opting not to continue the fight.

Even with Ning Tian's amplification, Wu Feng was firmly convinced that if You Jie so desired, the Crimson Ascending Dragon could send her flying like a shooting star with a single slap.

As for the awards ceremony and class assignments following the assessment, You Jie did not pay them much mind. The resources he already enjoyed at Shrek Academy were more than sufficient; he truly did not care about the perks afforded to core disciples of the Martial Soul Department.

The only thing he cared about was the class distribution. Although Zhang Lexuan had told him she would push for measures to increase the total number of classes starting with this year's freshmen, You Jie still had to see the final results with his own eyes to be certain.

The final class assignments were, for You Jie, a mix of joy and concern.

The concern was that the perverted old hag remained active as a homeroom teacher for the first years.

The joy was that she had been assigned to teach the class for auxiliary system soul masters, meaning she could no longer propagate her brand of education that pushed involution to the extreme.

There was one other comforting matter: Wang Dong had not been assigned to the same class as him. This meant that unless there were direct confrontations between classes, You Jie would not need to be prepared to activate Solemn Judgment at any moment.

However, You Jie had forgotten one thing: beyond her inexplicable desire to find someone to cling to, Wang Dong also held very strong feelings for a certain sect.

For instance, the Tang Sect, which currently consisted of only a lone sect master, Tang Ya, and a senior disciple, Bei Bei.

"What? Brother Bei Bei, are you saying that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao actually took the initiative to join the Tang Sect?!"

When You Jie learned of this from Bei Bei, he immediately realized something he had been overlooking.

However, because You Jie had already explicitly refused to join the Tang Sect, he hadn't paid much attention to its affairs, and thus hadn't recalled Wang Dong's obsession with it.

Yet, for You Jie, Wang Dong joining the Tang Sect might actually be a good thing. One only had to look at how exhausted Prisoner Huo became on the road to reviving the Tang Sect in the original story—even Xuan Ziwen, a workaholic who pushed himself to the point of madness, had been worried about Huo Yuhao's state.

Now that the Tang Sect lacked a top-tier beast of burden like Huo Yuhao, once Wang Dong joined, even if she still wanted to act like a little princess and avoid doing any work, she would be forced into the bottomless pit known as the revival of the Tang Sect. That way, she wouldn't have so much energy left to wreak havoc on others.

As for the "Way of Seeking Death" warning one would receive after joining the Tang Sect... what a joke. As the daughter of a God King, she possessed that ability by birth, even if her personality was currently in a fragmented state.

"Yes, although Xiao Ya said she still needs to consider it, claiming that while the Tang Sect has declined, it isn't something just anyone can join easily, and she even listed several assessment criteria."

"But Xiao Ya is very happy about it; she has even become more diligent in her cultivation..."

"Brother Bei Bei, are you saying that even though Sister Lexuan and I personally helped her obtain her third soul ring, and she is enjoying the cultivation resources that should have belonged to you, she still has no motivation to cultivate, instead pouring more energy into these meaningless matters?"

"I don't think she wants to revive the Tang Sect at all. She just wants to indulge in the thrill of being the sect master of the world's number one sect, watching her disciples act as beasts of burden to build a new Tang Sect for her so she can sit back and reap the rewards!"

Hearing Bei Bei's response, You Jie immediately recalled the abstract things Tang Ya had done in the original story, which had long been sealed away in his memory.

Admittedly, as a sect, not just anyone could become a disciple.

But the Tang Sect had withered to the point of being a mere shell; hardly anyone even looked their way anymore.

Students capable of attending Shrek Academy had their character and strength screened by the academy at the very least, and You Jie had no idea what Tang Ya was being so picky about.

In all these years, aside from Bei Bei who joined at his own expense, not a single disciple had joined the Tang Sect. Why didn't Tang Ya reflect on whether the problem was her own?

Had she ever worked hard to cultivate and improve herself, or strived to reach the inner court of Shrek Academy to gain a higher-level social platform?

Had she ever worked hard to promote the Tang Sect and recruit disciples to restore its scale?

Even now, faced with two talented students offering to join, Tang Ya was still intentionally putting on airs to whet their appetites, using such high-sounding excuses.

You Jie could only say: regarding how this "Peerless Tang Sect" became peerless, did you, Tang Ya, truly have no idea?

"You Jie, you're going too far. Xiao Ya is really not that kind of person!"

"The revival of the Tang Sect is a major undertaking; naturally, one must be selective rather than settling for less. Besides, Xiao Ya has already worked quite hard for the revival of the sect!"

The moment Bei Bei heard someone speak ill of Tang Ya, he immediately triggered his "lovestruck" mechanism and began to bristle. Even if he couldn't think of exactly how much effort Tang Ya had put in at that moment, he had to speak up to save face.

However, You Jie didn't buy it. He had intended to continue listing the "efforts" Tang Ya had made as sect master for the great revival of the Tang Sect, but upon seeing the look in Bei Bei's eyes, he abandoned the thought.

Because Bei Bei actually knew everything, but due to his lovestruck nature, he had completely drowned in it.

For a person like this, unless one used methods similar to the Valley of Universe Inquiry to make Bei Bei completely forget Tang Ya, no amount of preaching or experience would change his mind.

Since that was the case, You Jie had nothing more to say.

After leaving behind a somewhat sarcastic blessing, You Jie turned and left, heading straight to the inner court to find Mu En and relay everything he had just discussed with Bei Bei.

Mu En had initially thought this was just a squabble between children, but after listening, the gentle smile on his face faded significantly.

Regarding Bei Bei giving the majority of his own cultivation resources to Tang Ya, Mu En had actually tacitly approved of it; after all, Shrek Academy hadn't truly helped when the Tang Sect was destroyed, and Mu En felt some guilt in his heart.

But if Mu En had known earlier that Tang Ya was such a piece of mud that couldn't be plastered onto a wall, and that she was still putting on such airs, his approach might not have been so gentle.

In any case, the Tang Sect didn't place much importance on bloodline inheritance. As long as they found a Blue Silver Grass soul master and had them change their surname to Tang, they could become the sect master. At that point, Shrek Academy could simply take over all the Tang Sect's heritage and find another Blue Silver Grass soul master to act as the sect master—wouldn't that be much more convenient?

But now, Mu En had already invested a great-great-grandson into it, and this great-great-grandson happened to be a "pure love warrior" with a lovestruck brain. The sunk cost was simply too high.

"Sigh, if only your martial soul were the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, You Jie." Mu En sighed, appearing quite helpless.