After an exhilarating fight with Huo Yuhao while he was possessed by a ghost, You Jie stayed in Sea God Pavilion for several days.
According to Mu En's public explanation, You Jie needed to stabilize his cultivation after attempting to challenge Qian Duoduo.
That was right. Mu En had concealed what the fight had really been about, letting Qian Duoduo "take the place" of Huo Yuhao as You Jie's opponent.
After all, Qian Duoduo's defensive power was truly outstanding. No one among the Sea God Pavilion Elders would find it strange if he could withstand You Jie's Meteor Dragon attack.
As for why You Jie stayed in Sea God Pavilion, aside from genuinely needing to stabilize his Clear Mind, he also wanted to avoid the troublesome advancement assessment in the outer court for the time being, and check on Huo Yuhao's condition. Huo Yuhao had also entered Sea God Pavilion, though he was there to undergo Deep Meditation in one of the 108 simulated cultivation rooms.
The outer court advancement assessment at Shrek Academy clearly couldn't avoid the Beast Arena. But with You Jie's current fighting style, he started by having the Scrap Iron Warrior do the splits in midair while releasing Three-Ton Conqueror's Haki. Any Soul Beasts in the arena that could keep their legs from going weak for a whole minute would qualify to taste his Scrap Iron Fist.
As for the thousand-year and hundred-year Soul Beasts, facing the Split Warrior's imposing aura wouldn't make them piss and shit themselves like they had when Prisoner Huo released the Ice Empress's aura in the original story, but they wouldn't be in good shape either. At the very least, they wouldn't be able to cooperate with Shrek Academy's training exercises.
Last year, after You Jie tried throwing a Scrap Iron