Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, the Shocking Tang Ya!

"Such a handsome junior!"

The senior student overseeing the Soul Power test brightened the moment she saw Qiangu Qitian confidently approaching. She then glanced at the gentle and refined Beibei waiting with a smile off to the side and immediately felt that coming today had been worth it.

Both junior students were exceptionally handsome. One was the gentle, refined type, while the other was unruly and wild-looking.

"Senior, shall we begin?"

Qiangu Qitian extended his hand, waved it in front of the senior student who seemed lost in some wild thoughts, and spoke with a smile.

"Ah... yes, yes, yes!"

"Junior, please place your hand on the crystal ball!"

Having her thoughts interrupted by Qiangu Qitian, the pretty senior student immediately flushed.

She hurriedly took out a crystal ball and held it before Qiangu Qitian.

This was a crystal ball capable of withstanding level 40 Soul Power.

Shrek Academy had stood for ten thousand years. Although there were not many students who reached Soul Elder before the age of twelve, there were certainly not few either. To avoid unnecessary waste, the crystal balls used to test Soul Power were generally only capable of withstanding the Soul Power of those below Soul Ancestor.

"Senior, this crystal ball might explode."

"But this should be enough to prove my Soul Power, right?"

As Qiangu Qitian's words fell, a powerful surge of Soul Power rose from his body.

The next instant, everyone present felt their vision blur, and then they witnessed a scene they could scarcely believe.

Four Soul Rings rose beneath Qiangu Qitian's feet!

Purple, purple, black, black!

Terrifying Soul Power fluctuations swept across the entire plaza in an instant. Waves of pressure rolled out one after another, turning the faces of some whose Soul Power was below Level 20 pale the moment they were struck by it.

A four-ring Soul Ancestor!?

The senior student conducting the test was instantly stunned speechless, her face filled with disbelief. She could no longer care about maintaining her image and nearly popped her eyes out of their sockets.

A monster! This was a monster in every sense of the word!

As the continent's foremost academy, Shrek Academy had spent ten thousand years building itself upon the cultivation of monsters.

There were indeed quite a few monsters among the Outer Academy students, but someone like Qiangu Qitian, who had reached Soul Ancestor at the age of twelve—

And whose Soul Rings did not include a single yellow one, but were instead two purple and two black—had never appeared since Shrek Academy's founding!

Such talent was not merely unique within Shrek Academy. Even across the entire Douluo Continent, or even all of Douluo Planet, it was likely one of a kind!

Those two purple and two black Soul Rings, far exceeding the limit, were impossible to ignore. Everyone's breathing grew hurried.

Monster—this was a true monster!

The path Qiangu Qitian intended to take was one of overwhelming dominance, crushing everything head-on. Hiding and concealing himself simply did not suit him.

Besides, constantly concealing himself and allowing others to look down on him might instead damage his state of mind and even greatly diminish his combat strength!

Attached to his Coiling Dragon Staff was a Break Evil Dragon condensed from the righteous energy of heaven and earth. Its path was one of openness and uprightness, of revealing oneself without concealment and suppressing all things with power. False concealment, cunning schemes, and wicked treachery would only make him betray the Break Evil Dragon's righteous spirit, greatly reducing his combat strength and perhaps even leaving him stuck at a certain realm, unable to advance another inch.

It was like his senior brother. Senior Brother Yan's Martial Soul was the Bright Phoenix, and his potential was at least Level 98. Yet he was now stuck at the rank ninety-five Super Douluo level, unable to break through to rank ninety-six for so long, entirely because something had gone wrong with his state of mind, drastically lowering his compatibility with his Martial Soul!

If one day his senior brother could rediscover the will of the Bright Phoenix, he would definitely advance by leaps and bounds. It might not even be impossible for him to catch up to Xuan Zi within just a few years.

"Is this what a true genius looks like?"

Watching the dazzling Qiangu Qitian among the crowd, Tang Ya, who had just completed her test and earned her admission qualification, bit her lip unwillingly.

If she had possessed such talent too, would the Tang Sect's fate have changed?

For a moment, envy rose within Tang Ya's heart.

Alongside that envy came unwillingness and inferiority. After looking at Qiangu Qitian, she hurriedly left and entered Shrek Academy.

Beibei, who had kept his gaze on Tang Ya all along, shifted his feet as if wanting to follow her.

But with Qiangu Qitian, his brother, still here, he hesitated.

"Go on. You finally met someone you like, so seize the chance and don't let it slip away."

Just as Beibei hesitated, Qiangu Qitian had already come to his side. He patted Beibei's shoulder and spoke with a smile.

In the original story, Tang Ya and Beibei had paid a great deal to be together, and their feelings for each other were undoubtedly sincere. As a brother, Qiangu Qitian could only offer them his smiling blessings.

"Thanks. Then I'll head over first."

Upon hearing Qiangu Qitian's words, Beibei could not help shaking his head. He then quickly followed Tang Ya's retreating figure.

Seeing this, Qiangu Qitian felt helpless. Though he wanted to follow and take a look, he had not seen his uncle in a long time and still needed to check the class assignment information, so he reluctantly abandoned the idea.

Qiangu Qitian was exceedingly familiar with the Outer Academy. After all, he had grown up there beside Wang Yan. Although he had trained on Sea God Island since the age of six, returning here now did not feel unfamiliar in the slightest.

Shrek Academy was, after all, the continent's foremost academy. Though many things about it had problems, its environment was truly beautiful. All kinds of plants covered both sides of the roads, and as one walked along the broad paths, lush, fresh vegetation could be seen in every direction.

After entering the academy and walking less than five hundred meters ahead, one could see several enormous statues.

There were ten statues in total: the Original Shrek Seven Devils and the Golden Iron Triangle from ten thousand years ago!

Well, Zhao Wuji was not among them.

After Qiangu Qitian paid the tuition, he was assigned directly to Class One. His homeroom teacher was Zhou Yi!

That was right, Zhou Yi—the one from the original story who disguised herself as an old woman.

Heh... Who would have thought his homeroom teacher would be this woman?

Qiangu Qitian did not have the slightest favorable impression of this homeroom teacher. He even felt a degree of disgust toward her.

According to the original story, Zhou Yi expelled quite a few students in order to establish her authority as a homeroom teacher.

Furthermore, her training methods were practically copied wholesale from Yu Xiaogang of ten thousand years ago. Ten thousand years had passed, yet she was still using the same old routine of making people run!

Those who failed to complete it were expelled outright. She claimed that she taught only monsters, not trash, but with her training methods, Qiangu Qitian was certain that some support-type Soul Masters would definitely suffer hidden injuries. Those injuries might even affect their future cultivation.

Would those whose bodies were left with hidden injuries because of her training, and who were then expelled outright, come to hate Shrek Academy?

Qiangu Qitian could say with absolute certainty that they would definitely grow dissatisfied with Shrek.

Shrek Academy might be the continent's number one academy, but which of those who came to Shrek was not a genius? How could they possibly not feel aggrieved after being treated like that?

For allowing her future students to harbor such hostility, Zhou Yi truly had brought herself to the path of death!