Xuan Zi! Are You Really a Title Douluo?!

"Shrek, you must give us a satisfactory explanation today! A level ninety-eight Title Douluo couldn't even protect a few students! This Sea God Pavilion member called Xuan Zi, the one meant to succeed Mu En, couldn't even protect a handful of students! On the road against Evil Soul Masters, he was actually worse than some Soul Emperor and Soul Saint Evil Soul Masters, letting those Evil Soul Masters kill the students!"

"That's right! No matter what, you must give us an explanation today! Hand Xuan Zi over! We'll kill him with our own hands and avenge our children! He was the one who got our children killed!"

"How exactly did you protect the students?!"

"We entrusted our children to you, hoping you would educate them into capable people. Yet for the sake of Shrek's glory, you didn't even realize an Evil Soul Master had infiltrated your upper ranks! You got our children killed!"

"A level ninety-eight Super Douluo is only one step away from becoming an Ultimate Douluo, yet he still couldn't protect a few children! Their opponents were either Soul Emperors, Soul Saints, or Soul Beasts that were only tens of thousands of years old. And yet so many students still died! Xuan Zi must be an undercover agent planted in Shrek by the Evil Soul Masters!"

"That's right!"

"And Shrek still allowed a teacher like that to continue leading teams? Could Shrek itself be the largest Evil Soul Master organization?!"

So many Soul Master families had launched a protest against Shrek at this moment. If this had been the era of Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago, Shrek would likely have been wanted across the entire continent long ago for getting so many students killed.

The academy would probably have been shut down already.

But the times were different now. After Tang San, the leader of the Evil Soul Masters, had destroyed Spirit Hall, which symbolized justice, how could a fraudulent academy with nothing to its name possibly serve as the Soul Master Holy Land and produce good students?

Tang San had probably realized long ago that Shrek was a fraudulent academy. But no one could be allowed to know that. The reason was simple: if everyone learned that Tang San came from a fraudulent academy, would he still have any reputation or faith left?

Would his aid to the two great empires in their battle against Spirit Hall still be considered righteous? That was crucial to his faith. The Sea God relied on faith, and over the years, Tang San had grown stronger through the Sea God's Godhood, the faith of the lower realm, and the Divine Realm Core, gradually reaching the level of the first-generation God Kings.

Therefore, Tang San could not allow the world to discover that Shrek was a fraudulent academy. He even had to beautify Shrek Academy. Otherwise, if the people of the world learned that he came from a fraudulent academy, they would cast serious doubts on his faith.

At the same time, they would question his defeat of the Spirit Hall Empire back then.

Although the three great empires had mostly opposed Spirit Hall and were all parasites sucking the blood of the people.

The problem was that if the people awakened and became enlightened, the consequences would be severe.

Sea God Pavilion.

"Xuan Zi, tell us honestly right here and now. Are you an undercover agent planted here by the Evil Soul Masters? A level ninety-eight Super Douluo couldn't protect students against Soul Emperor and Soul Saint Evil Soul Masters, and several students even died while hunting Soul Beasts."

"Are you really a Super Douluo?"

"Are you really a level ninety-eight Title Douluo?!"

"Could you be a fake Title Douluo? Or are you an Evil Soul Master? Have you cultivated for all these years like an Evil Soul Master, absorbing other people's flesh and blood to raise your cultivation? Did you forcibly elevate your rank through sheer quantity?"

The one who said this was Old Zhuang.

As a lone wolf of Shrek and a healing-type Title Douluo, he had only wished for Shrek to properly function as an academy, teaching all kinds of talented people and allowing Shrek to maintain its standing as the continent's foremost holy land.

But how had so many outstanding talents ultimately died? They had all been harmed by Xuan Zi. Old Zhuang, a staunch Shrek loyalist through and through, naturally had no kind expression to spare for Xuan Zi.

"I..." Xuan Zi did not know what to say at that moment. This matter truly was too absurd. In the past, Mu En and the others had always cleaned up his messes.

But things were different now. The students' families had already caused an uproar at Shrek's gates. Although the strongest members among these powerful Soul Master families had not even reached Soul Saint rank and were all from minor families.

The problem was that there were simply too many of them. Their numbers had already reached Shrek itself. If those people self-destructed, they would be enough to blow Shrek apart.

Moreover, those who had come to Shrek back then had been either the sole heirs of their families or gifted talents. Anyone would go mad if they died like this!

For the first time, Xuan Zi felt the terror of these minor families. In the past, the students who died had all come from minor families, and he simply did not care. He believed that death was death, and a little compensation in Soul Bones or Gold Soul Coins would settle everything.

After all, Sea God Pavilion would clean up his mess.

But this time, someone had exposed all those problems. Once they were revealed all at once, every Soul Master family—or rather, every Soul Master family he had angered—had come to this capital together to demand Xuan Zi's life.

"Xuan Zi, honestly, I am deeply disappointed in you this time. Even now, you only know how to run away from responsibility. You must take responsibility this time, because you got so many students killed. And if I did not know that you had grown up in Shrek since childhood, I would even suspect that you were an undercover agent planted here by the Evil Soul Masters."

The one who said this was Old Song.

The people of Sea God Pavilion naturally trusted Xuan Zi. After all, he was an old member of Shrek. They knew his background well and trusted Mu En as well.

But this matter was far too serious. If they could not handle it properly, Shrek would no longer be able to bear the title of the continent's number one holy land.

Furthermore, the Sun Moon Empire was eyeing them like a tiger watching its prey, always hoping to launch another attack on the Three Douluo Kingdoms. If Shrek fell into chaos at this time, the consequences would be dire.

"Old Xuan, tell us honestly. Did you deliberately want these students dead? Or did these students have some grudge against you? You are a level ninety-eight Title Douluo. Could you not handle Evil Soul Masters who were merely Soul Saints and Soul Emperors, or Soul Beasts with only tens of thousands of years of cultivation?"

The one who said this was Qian Duoduo.

As someone from the Soul Guidance Department, he had no reason to show Xuan Zi any courtesy after all the suppression he had suffered. Naturally, he also hoped that Xuan Zi would leave Shrek's decision-making ranks.