A feeling rose in countless hearts. If they were in his shoes, after being treated like this, would they still be willing to stay at this godforsaken Shrek Academy?
So this was the Holy Land of Soul Masters on the continent? The number one academy on the continent, the Holy Land of Soul Masters—so this was how it really treated its outer court students? So this was how it treated ordinary students with no one to rely on?
At this very moment, the Shrek sentiment in the hearts of who knew how many young people and children let out a "crack"!
And at this very moment, the people from countless great sects and powerful forces could barely hold back their laughter, gloating without restraint. The faces of the Shrek elders, meanwhile, had all turned black as charcoal.
After all, they had just seen it with their own eyes. Huo Yuhao's First Soul Ring wasn't truly white at all; it had been disguised by an existence at least a Hundred Thousand years old!
Shrek Academy had shown such blatant favoritism. This time, they were probably in for a major fall!
At this moment, even Huo Yuhao, who knew the original story, found it hard to stomach seeing this unfold before his eyes. Tang Ya and Bei Bei looked at each other, their eyes filled with endless awkwardness.
They really had intended to invite Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect and take him to Shrek Academy.
But the scene shown on the Sky Screen was like this! They had a feeling that this was probably what was about to happen in the future!
Putting himself in Huo Yuhao's shoes, after witnessing all this with his own eyes, would he still accept their invitation? Would he still want to go to Shrek Academy?
At this moment, it wasn't just Huo Yuhao. Even Tang Ya and Bei Bei, as Shrek students, felt deeply uncomfortable!
It wasn't as if they knew nothing about these things. Bei Bei and Tang Ya felt entirely differently about it. Bei Bei felt mostly awkward; he could never have experienced these things himself, and had only heard about them now and then. Even so, he felt the academy deserved understanding.
Tang Ya's feelings, however, were far more complicated. Had she received any fewer disdainful looks at the academy? At most, people showed her a little courtesy to her face because she was Bei Bei's girlfriend.
But behind her back, who knew how many people looked down on her, the "Tang Sect Master," treated her like an idiot and a joke—like some "princess of a former dynasty" clamoring to restore an ancient kingdom!
The scene continued. When the first term ended and the academy went on break, that strange Soul Beast took the boy to the Far North;
Then, after a series of perilous trials, the boy successfully fused with one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts of the age: the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, Ice Empress. He awakened his Second Martial Soul and gained a 400,000-year Soul Ring bearing four golden rings!
Seeing this scene, countless people drew in a sharp breath.
That giant bug clearly had no real combat ability, but its cultivation age was probably unfathomable. It was likely at least 800,000 or 900,000 years old, and might even be the legendary Million-Year Soul Beast!
Add to that the Ice Empress's 400,000-year Soul Ring. Aside from the Million-Year Soul Ring from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that their ancestor Tang San was said to have obtained in the legends of history, no one had ever possessed such a terrifying Soul Ring!
Twin Martial Souls, Ultimate Ice, and a Million-Year Soul Ring!
But no one could have guessed that the best was yet to come!
After acquiring his Second Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao returned, and his powerful talent became impossible to conceal.
After a competition, Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei, who had brought him to Shrek Academy, were both made reserve inner court students. They were also chosen as reserve team members to compete in the Soul Master Tournament alongside the Shrek Team.
The onlookers watched coldly. After Huo Yuhao revealed his talent for Ultimate Ice, the dean of Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe, personally showed up to win him over, promising him the moon.
"...As someone who possesses an Ultimate Martial Soul, if you focus on cultivating Soul Tools in the future, then I can only regretfully say that you'd be throwing away a treasure."
"I dare say that here on the Douluo Continent, the only place capable of teaching Soul Masters with Ultimate Martial Souls is the Martial Soul Department of Shrek Academy. If you're willing, then from this moment on, you'll be an inner court student of the Martial Soul Department."
"I'll personally teach you how to cultivate and serve as your mentor. With your talent, even if cultivating an Ultimate Martial Soul is relatively slow, I'm confident I can help you become a Titled Douluo before you turn forty. Do you know what it means to be a Titled Douluo with an Ultimate Martial Soul?"
At this point, the people from Mingde Hall in the Sun Moon Empire could no longer sit still.
"Bah! Bah! What a load of dog shit. What do you mean, focusing on cultivating Soul Tools in the future would be throwing away a treasure?"
Jing Hongchen's eyes were bloodshot as he rebuked him.
"If that child were in our Sun Moon Empire, I'd train him to become a Level 10 Soul Engineer!"
Kong Deming shook his head and said calmly. Watching Yan Shaozhe on the Sky Screen, his old eyes held a hint of disdain and contempt.
Throwing away a treasure? Heh. It was Shrek Academy that was throwing away a treasure!
If our Sun Moon Continent had as many powerful Martial Souls and such high cultivation talent as the original Douluo Continent, there would probably be several times more Level 9 Soul Engineers today.
One had to understand that at the same Soul Power Level, a Level 9 Soul Engineer could crush a traditional Titled Douluo in combat! No one could deny that crushing advantage!
Take Jing Hongchen, for example. His Soul Power Level was a mere 92, yet he could hold his own against Xuan Zi, the Level 98 deputy head of the Sea God Pavilion! An ordinary Level 92 would be nothing more than a target for a single focused volley from Jing Hongchen!
As for Kong Deming himself, his Soul Power was only Level 94. But even if he encountered a Limit Douluo, he was confident he could fight them. Even Death Douluo Ye Xishui was deeply wary of him.
It was laughable that Shrek Academy's arrogant fools dared to bark that having a super-genius like Huo Yuhao cultivate Soul Tools would be throwing away a treasure! So who, exactly, was throwing away a treasure?
In Kong Deming's vision, a Level 10 Soul Tool would be a Life-Bound Soul Tool, deeply integrated with its user's Martial Soul to "magnify" it. If he were the one training Huo Yuhao, he was confident he could make him the first "composite Level 10 Soul Engineer" in history!
With power like that, what would a Limit Douluo amount to? Kong Deming even imagined that upon becoming a Level 10 Soul Engineer, a Soul Tool could feed back into Martial Soul cultivation, allowing one to prove the Dao through one's tool and break through to another level!
At this moment, it wasn't just the Sun Moon Empire and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy mocking them. The entire Douluo Continent was full of jeers!