As for whether this would be difficult or meet with resistance in practice, Ye Luochen was not worried.
Back at the academy, he had always stayed cooped up in Mingde Hall and rarely interacted with the outside world, so he had not felt it all that strongly.
It was only on this trip with the team that he clearly and directly realized just how unusual his current status was.
A newly risen Soul Tool genius whom Jing Hongchen had openly declared he would nurture with all his strength, the only peer that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen could get along with, Xuan Ziwen's prized disciple...
Each and every one of those titles could cause a stir if thrown into the academy.
Everyone, even the Hongchen siblings, had to obey the team's arrangements, while he, Ye Luochen, could decide for himself whether to take the field. That alone spoke volumes.
Of course, a considerable part of that was because he came from Shrek. The academy probably intended to make use of that identity.
But regardless, he now had privileges!
Ye Luochen was not some rigid fool. He would not pull something like, "I have privileges but won't use them. I must insist on standing at the same starting line as everyone else to prove myself."
If you had privileges and did not use them, wouldn't that make you an idiot?
Not only would he use them, he would make full use of them and fully enjoy every convenience they brought.
Because this had been an investment from the start.
Mingde Hall had bet on him. As long as he demonstrated enough value, that was enough. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Under the influence of his ideas, Xuan Ziwen had already come a considerable way down the path of assembly-line production.