Shrek's Shamelessness? A Bunch of Trash-Zhao Wuji, Come Out and Fight Me One-on-One!

Tang San stood in the center of the arena, her eyes gleaming.

A majestic aura spread freely from her body. The crushing battle she had just fought to her heart's content had fully unleashed the fighting spirit coursing through her.

After the deathly silence, only an oppressive hush remained across the grounds.

All the watching examinees stared wide-eyed at the high-spirited girl in the arena, unable to recover for a long while.

The faces of everyone on Shrek's side grew uglier by the moment.

The first to completely lose control was Yu Xiaogang.

He had long since recovered from the daze of having his theories shattered. His pale face was filled with gloom, stubbornness, and utter unwillingness.

Yu Xiaogang had devoted his life to researching martial soul theory. The Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, his greatest pride, were the foundation upon which he had established himself on the continent and earned the respect of others.

Yet today, the universally acknowledged useless martial soul, Blue Silver Grass, had overwhelmingly defeated the top-tier beast martial soul, Evil Eye White Tiger, utterly crushing the ironclad principles Yu Xiaogang had upheld for half his life.

If he calmly accepted the outcome, it would mean admitting that everything he had studied for half his life was wrong and completely overturning his reputation as the "Continent's Number One Theoretical Master."

That was something the excessively vain, stubborn, and arrogant Yu Xiaogang could never accept!

Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists tightly, his whole body trembling slightly. Unable to maintain his usual refined and composed scholar's demeanor any longer, he stepped forward and barked sharply.

"This battle was unfair! It doesn't count at all!"

Yu Xiaogang's voice was hoarse and stiff, carrying the stubbornness of forced justification. He fixed his gaze on Tang San in the arena and spoke each word forcefully:

"Dai Mubai possesses the top-tier Evil Eye White Tiger martial soul. His innate talent and foundation far surpass yours! His defeat today was purely because of his youthful impatience, his underestimation of you, and his carelessness. You merely exploited your absurdly powerful soul ring ages and those bizarre vine techniques to catch him off guard!"

"If the two of you fought fairly in a direct battle, the difference between victory and defeat would be obvious at a glance!"

Yu Xiaogang's black-is-white excuse was solely to preserve the dignity of his theories. He completely ignored the overwhelming, head-on victory that everyone present had witnessed.

With Yu Xiaogang, one of their core instructors, taking the lead in shamelessly denying the result, his useless teammate Ma Hongjun immediately found his courage and quickly chimed in.

"That's right! The Master is right!"

Ma Hongjun panted heavily and roared at the top of his lungs, "You only won by exploiting those ridiculous soul ring ages! This battle doesn't count at all. It was nothing but cheap trickery!"

Oscar hurriedly echoed him as well, a lewd smile on his face as he tried to smooth things over with shameless excuses. "Right, right, right. Little sister, your victory really wasn't very honorable!"

The three spoke one after another, singing the same tune and completely tearing apart the supposed dignity of Shrek, the "Monster Academy." Their inability to accept defeat was displayed in full.

What had originally been a fairly serious entrance examination instantly turned into a farcical display of clumsy excuses, making the examinees all around frown repeatedly.

At the back of the crowd, the two academic instructors, Li Yusong and Lu Qibin, also looked embarrassed. They exchanged glances, then both looked away, tacitly accepting the others' words.

They knew their side had lost, yet they were unwilling to tarnish Shrek's century-old name. They could only silently permit the shamelessness and preserve the academy's face.

Flender, the most calculating and thick-skinned of them all, had his sharp owl-like eyes flickering constantly as he rapidly weighed the pros and cons.

Dai Mubai was Shrek's strongest student, yet even he had been overwhelmingly crushed. Oscar was merely a support-type soul master, while Ma Hongjun had yet to fully mature. Neither could possibly be a match for Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Once the wager took effect, Shrek would be handed over to others, and his life's work would be utterly destroyed!

A little face meant nothing compared to a century-old foundation!

With that thought, Flender's expression darkened. He stepped forward and directly went back on his word in front of everyone.

Flender's tone was firm as he completely tore away his previous disguise. "We agreed to the wager because we believed you were ordinary soul masters of the same age!"

"But the ages of your soul rings and your combat systems completely violate the common sense of soul masters. This is not within the scope of a normal sparring match at all!"

"This match was extremely unfair. It was a fraudulent match. Shrek will not acknowledge this wager!"

The moment those words fell, the entire venue erupted!

The examinees from all over immediately exploded into uproar, their faces filled with contempt and disappointment.

They had come here because of Shrek's reputation, having heard that Shrek only accepted monsters. Yet what they saw today was a group that could not accept defeat, who resorted to shameless excuses and broke their word when they could not win, without even the most basic integrity!

At the edge of the crowd, Zhu Zhuqing's cool brows furrowed slightly. The last trace of expectation she had held for Shrek was completely extinguished.

Ning Rongrong's small mouth hung slightly open, her face filled with disdain and disappointment. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect valued trust and righteousness above all else. The actions of these Shrek teachers and students were simply laughable.

Xiao Wu could no longer listen to this.

Third Sister had clearly crushed them head-on in an open and honorable fight from start to finish, without the slightest ambush or cheap trick.

Yet these people had suffered such an embarrassing defeat, only to turn around and collectively make excuses and go back on their word. Their sheer shamelessness completely reshaped Xiao Wu's understanding.

Xiao Wu immediately raised her willow brows, clenched her pink fists, and angrily stepped forward. Her chest heaved without pause, her eyes blazing with fury as she was about to berate these shameless people.

"You've gone too far! You clearly just can't win, so you're acting shamelessly...!"

Just as Xiao Wu began speaking and was about to publicly unleash a furious tirade, a long, clean hand gently rose and firmly pressed down on her shoulder.

The gentle yet powerful touch instantly stopped both Xiao Wu's movement and her anger.

"Xiao Wu, let me handle this."

Gu Qing slowly stepped forward and gently shielded Xiao Wu behind him.

The boy stood tall at the very front of the arena. Though he was only twelve years old, his presence overshadowed every Shrek teacher and student present.

Gu Qing calmly looked at the Shrek crowd before him, their faces pale and green as they forced their absurd arguments. His clear voice rang throughout the entire Shrek Academy.

"A loss is a loss. A win is a win."

"Everyone here saw it clearly. My sister faced him head-on, crushed him from beginning to end, and honorably defeated Shrek's strongest student."

Gu Qing's gaze swept across Yu Xiaogang's stiff face, Ma Hongjun and Oscar's guilty expressions, before finally landing on Flender, whose face was full of calculation as he shamelessly broke his word. Every word struck at their hearts.

"When your student is inferior, you make excuses, claiming it was an ambush and calling it trickery."

"When the wager is written in black and white, you cannot bear to lose, so you declare it unfair and forcibly go back on your word."

"When your theories are shattered, you refuse to admit your mistake. All you can do is stubbornly argue and deceive yourselves."

A cold curve rose at the corner of Gu Qing's lips, his mockery unmistakable.

"So this is Shrek Academy, which boasts of accepting only monsters and looking down on all its peers?"

"From what I see, you do not accept monsters. You gather a bunch of cowards who cannot accept defeat, spout crooked logic, and have neither trust nor righteousness."

That single sentence landed like a vicious slap across the faces of every person from Shrek!

Yu Xiaogang's face instantly turned an extreme shade of iron blue. A mere boy had publicly exposed every shameful part of him, leaving him utterly humiliated. His whole body trembled in fury, yet he had no way to refute it.

Flender's face twitched violently, his expression incomparably gloomy. With his calculations and shamelessness exposed to his face, raging anger burned within him.

Zhao Wuji's eyes widened furiously, his rage soaring to the heavens. The Soul Power of his seventy-sixth-ranked Soul Sage erupted into violent agitation, making the ground tremble slightly as an overwhelming pressure instantly blanketed the entire venue!

Gu Qing was utterly unafraid of the Soul Sage's pressure. He raised his eyes to meet the enraged Zhao Wuji's gaze, his tone calm and indifferent, yet filled with blatant provocation.

"Your students are inadequate, your instructor's theories are empty nonsense, and your dean has no integrity."

"Since none of Shrek's juniors can fight, and all they can do is act shamelessly."

"Then... why don't you teachers step into the arena yourselves?"

"Zhao Wuji, I have long heard that your body is tough and your strength formidable. Would you like to come up and try?"

"I wonder—do you dare?"