Conversation with Mu En!

"Since my disciple was willing to remain at your academy to study Soul Tools, I will not settle accounts with you any further. However, if you try that so-called Shrek teaching method on him again..."

As he spoke, Elex erupted with an intense aura of death. Before good people, he was the holy Calamity Necromancer; before evil people, he was the Grim Reaper!

"Of course." Mu En nodded, gently stroking his beard as he calmly agreed. Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, who had wanted to say something, were silenced by a single glare from him!

"Hmph! I hope your Shrek honors the agreement. Otherwise, this old man's undead army will raze Shrek to the ground!"

Elex's figure slowly faded away, as though he had never been there at all. Yet the deathly aura lingering in the air proved that everything just now had been real!

The moment Elex left, Xuan Zi intended to step forward. The next second, Mu En slapped him straight into the ground. Yan Shaozhe beside him did not escape either.

"This old man truly never expected you to act in such a way. You hold yourselves so high, look down on ordinary students, and think raising monsters is something impressive? Turning ordinary people into monsters—that is what truly counts as skill!"

Mu En glared furiously at the two men lying on the ground. If Shrek had not been suffering from a shortage of capable successors, he would have crippled the two of them long ago. They suppressed the Soul Guidance Department and looked down upon Soul Masters with weak Martial Souls.

Now, Mu En had only one hope: that the younger generation would grow up as quickly as possible. Otherwise, these two would anger him to death sooner or later!

"Little fellow, your name is Huo Yuhao, correct?" After teaching the two men a lesson, Mu En wheeled himself over to Huo Yuhao and looked at him kindly.

Huo Yuhao nodded and slightly cupped his hands in respect, showing his regard for the powerful man before him. Though he harbored resentment toward Shrek, he would not blindly take it out on everyone.

"You truly are an extraordinary little fellow. You resisted a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with your own strength. With only one ring, you already possess power capable of contending against a Soul Elder. Remarkable. At the peak of the future, there will surely be a place for you!"

Mu En looked at the calm and composed youth before him with affection and approval. When he turned back to look at Shrek Academy's current representatives, his face filled with disdain.

"Little fellow, would you be willing to help this old man up and take a walk?" Mu En chuckled. Huo Yuhao nodded as well, walked over to his side, and gently helped him up.

"Yuhao!"

The five girls were somewhat worried, but Huo Yuhao signaled with his gaze that everything was fine. Seeing the five of them worrying over him, Mu En smiled. Young people these days!

As the seven figures gradually left the scene, the freshmen present finally recovered from their shock and began whispering among themselves beneath the stage. Dai Huabin's face had already darkened. Huo Yuhao's words had brutally pierced his heart!

"All right! Everyone, disperse!" Yan Shaozhe slowly rose to his feet, rubbing his aching chest where he had been struck. Xuan Zi also stood up while clutching his head.

Looking at the crowd whispering below, Xuan Zi waved his hand angrily, signaling for everyone to return home.

The crowd immediately scattered in all directions. After all, they did not have an Ultimate Douluo backing them. At most, they had a Super Douluo.

At this moment, by Sea God Lake.

"Yuhao, what do you think of our Shrek Academy?" Mu En looked at the calm youth beside him and asked the question in his heart. It was also a question about Shrek's future prospects.

"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Huo Yuhao spoke softly. Mu En was questioning Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao was also questioning Mu En.

The girls behind them barely dared to breathe. This was an Ultimate Douluo—an existence invincible in the world, save for gods!

"Haha! Of course I want the truth. Honest words may be unpleasant to hear, but they are beneficial!" Mu En laughed heartily. He was a stubborn yet courageous youth. If Yan Shaozhe and the others had not caused all this trouble, he might have become the next successor!

"Shrek Academy is less an academy than a faction. It calls itself a holy land for Soul Masters, yet it divides people into ranks. Does a place like that deserve to be called a holy land?"

Huo Yuhao's sharp tone mercilessly tore away Shrek Academy's veil of hypocrisy.

Mu En nodded. This was also what he had always wanted to change. But now, not only the students, even the academy's teachers and elders had been blinded by that reputation.

"It could even be said that the Outer Court exists solely to select talented people for Shrek's Inner Court, serving as a testing ground for choosing sect disciples. It does not matter if Outer Court disciples die, so long as nothing happens to Inner Court disciples!"

Huo Yuhao spoke bluntly, directly recounting how they had encountered an Inner Court senior's berserk attack on Sea God Lake, only to be forced into silence with a mere Life-Soul Pill.

Mu En frowned deeply upon hearing this. When he had spoken with Yan Shaozhe back then, Yan Shaozhe had said the matter would be handled properly. He had not expected that boy to begin deceiving those above him while hiding things from those below him as well.

"So, Shrek Academy is a faction—a faction just like Martial Soul Hall was ten thousand years ago!" Huo Yuhao said softly. As the final word fell, the surroundings became deathly silent.

The five girls did not dare breathe. He was practically slapping Shrek across the face in front of the master of Sea God Pavilion!

Martial Soul Hall? What was that? It had been the greatest faction on the original Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago, and also Shrek Academy's enemy. He had compared Shrek to its enemy!

"That is a fitting comparison, the same as what this old man has thought. But today's Shrek has been blinded by ten thousand years of glory. There are now only two paths left for Shrek."

Mu En spoke softly, fully affirming Huo Yuhao's words. This was also what had troubled him all along.

"One path is to become an existence like Martial Soul Hall, balancing the world. The other is to abandon everything completely and become an ordinary academy!"

Huo Yuhao spoke the words Mu En had left unfinished. Outsiders could see things more clearly than those within Shrek. If Shrek did not possess ten thousand years of foundations, sect disciples and royal descendants might not even be willing to send their people to Shrek Academy.

Moreover, the immensely powerful Sun Moon Empire was watching greedily from outside.

"Yes. I wonder, Yuhao, what kind of path will you leave for our Shrek?" Huo Yuhao's strength had greatly shocked Mu En, so he hoped Huo Yuhao would leave Shrek a chance at survival!

"Me? It can only become an ordinary academy, bound by the law!" Huo Yuhao spoke softly, stating the path he would leave for Shrek.

Seeing the simplicity in Huo Yuhao's eyes, Mu En nodded and did not continue the subject. So long as Shrek could continue to exist, he would have repaid his teacher's kindness in educating him.

"Since that is the case, this old man will ask once more. Are you willing to become my student? I am willing to exchange all that I have learned in my life for this slim chance of survival!" Mu En spoke softly, his aged eyes filled with earnestness.

"This... I'm sorry, Elder Mu, but I already have a teacher, so I..."

"Become his student, Yuhao. This is an opportunity that belongs to you; do not lose it because of me. Besides, this will pave the way for your future growth!" Elex's voice rang out, advising Huo Yuhao.