"The dean, Shrek Academy has been shut down."
That was the first thing Shao Xin said upon seeing Flender.
Flender's heart skipped a beat, and his face went deathly pale. "You're joking with me, right?"
"It's true, Dean. This morning, the Barrak Royal Family sent troops to seal off Shrek Academy. Twenty years of Shrek... gone." Li Yusong dropped to his knees before Flender, tears streaming down his aged face as he wailed.
They said men did not cry easily, only when grief had not yet struck deep enough. Shrek had been founded jointly by them and Flender; it embodied half a lifetime of their efforts, now all reduced to nothing. Though those efforts had been little more than wishful thinking and overreaching ambition.
Perhaps Yu Xiaogang was the only one whose heart remained utterly unmoved. He was even somewhat delighted.
Because Yu Xiaogang had originally intended to take the Shrek Team to the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Yet Shrek was an unregistered Pheasant Academy with no qualifications to compete.
Now that Shrek Academy was gone, it was a tremendous boon to him.
That way, he could take Shrek's six "monster students" to find a proper academy to settle into and lead them into the tournament.
Tears could no longer be held back as they slid from the corners of Flender's eyes. Overwhelmed with emotion, he vehemently denied it. "Impossible! My Shrek Academy has never provoked the Barrak Royal Family. What right do they have to shut down Shrek Academy? Are they not afraid of bearing the wrath of a Soul Saint? And what the hell were all of you doing?"
"Dean, you truly can't blame us. They say the current Pope personally gave the order. They accused us of harboring fugitives wanted by Spirit Hall and harming