Several more months passed in the blink of an eye.
As the Shrek Seven Monsters successively broke through level 30, only the comparatively useless fifth member, Ma Hongjun, the Brothel Phoenix, was still circling around the Soul Grandmaster realm. During this time, Shrek Academy welcomed a new instructor—Great Master Yu Xiaogang.
With Xiao Huohuo and Tang San as his disciples at the academy, and with the academy's dean, Flender, being Yu Xiaogang's close friend, Yu Xiaogang's influence within Shrek was undeniably immense. Faintly, there was even a tendency for him to overshadow the host.
Only someone as strange as Flender could have such a good relationship with Yu Xiaogang. Despite being a Soul Saint, he would even occasionally feel admiration for Yu Xiaogang, a useless Soul Grandmaster stuck at level 29. Otherwise, with Yu Xiaogang's extremely insecure yet perversely arrogant temperament, any other dean would likely have kicked him out long ago.
After Yu Xiaogang came to Shrek Academy as an instructor, his training methods for the Shrek Seven Monsters were no different from those in the original story: running, plus training at the Great Spirit Arena. The one praiseworthy thing was that Yu Xiaogang was willing to spend money on formulas for the Shrek Seven Monsters' Herbal Baths.
Now, as for the Shrek Seven Monsters' results at the Soto Great Spirit Arena.
First was Tang San. Yu Xiaogang restricted his use of hidden weapons on the Soul Fight stage under the excuse that "the focus is on tempering oneself." Without the added lethality of hidden weapons, and unable to casually reveal his Second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang San naturally could not achieve the flawless victories in every one-on-one Soul Fight that he had in the original story.
In this life, even with the benefit of combat