What Do You Mean a Shrek Academy Teacher Attacked Her Own Students?

"What do you mean, 'above the law'? This is outrageous!"

The once-quiet alley had drawn a crowd of shopkeepers and passersby.

But the inspectors of Shrek Academy's Inspection Corps kept them all behind the cordon.

Only the lingering smell of blood and the ruined walls faintly visible inside the alley hinted that people had been killed there.

In the middle of the alley stood a scruffy old man with a vermilion wine gourd at his waist and a chicken leg in his hand. He was cursing at the top of his lungs.

Between curses, he took the occasional bite of chicken.

His hearty eating made for a bizarre sight beside the headless corpse in a Shrek Academy uniform.

A female Inner Academy student beside him fought back a wave of nausea and spoke.

"Xuan Zi, we've identified both victims."

"One was Tang Ya. You should know her—the last remaining sect master of the Tang Sect."

"The other, the one missing a head, was her younger brother, Tang Chuan. He enrolled at Shrek just a few days ago."

At the words "Tang Sect," Xuan Zi's brows drew together. His expression darkened further.

The Tang Sect had been the greatest sect on the continent ten thousand years ago.

Worse, its ties to Shrek Academy ran deep.

The Tang Sect's founder was the very Sea God for whom Sea God's Pavilion, Shrek Academy's highest governing body, was named.

Sea God Tang San!

Shrek Academy had always called him Ancestor Tang San.

And now the last heir to the ancestor's legacy was dead!

Dead in Shrek City, of all places!

They might as well have spat in their ancestors' faces!

If word got out that Shrek Academy had failed to protect the Tang Sect's descendants, it would never shake the charge of disloyalty and ingratitude.

Its ten thousand years of glory would be stained black.

At the thought, Xuan Zi snorted in fury. Soul Power surged around him like a raging sea.

"To kill so brazenly in Shrek City! If I find out who did this, I'll—"

But before he could finish, a male Inner Academy student hurried over, carrying a round metal object in his arms.

"Xuan Zi, we found it!"

"There was a Soul Tool on the roof beside the alley. It blocks Soul Power fluctuations and sound!"

"But it doesn't seem to be from the Sun Moon Empire. There's no Illustrious Virtue Hall insignia on it."

Xuan Zi froze.

A Soul Tool that blocked Soul Power fluctuations, yet hadn't come from the Sun Moon Empire?

"Has Zhou Yi woken up?"

The student hurriedly shook his head.

"Not yet. Zhou Yi seems to have taken a tremendous blow, along with severe burns from extreme heat."

"But some outside force shielded her from part of the damage. We haven't found its source, but with treatment from our healing Soul Masters, she should be out of danger soon."

Xuan Zi's face remained grim, though he nodded.

There was no shortage of Soul Tools in Shrek City that hadn't come from the Sun Moon Empire. But Zhou Yi's presence at the scene made this particular one intriguing.

Everyone at Shrek Academy knew that Fan Yu's own disciple had cuckolded him.

Could this Soul Tool have come from He Caitou?

If it had, Zhou Yi must have been involved in the deaths of Tang Ya and Tang Chuan.

But Zhou Yi absolutely could not be involved!

If word got out that a Shrek Academy teacher had attacked and killed students in broad daylight, the news would be enormous.

What Soul Master sect or family would dare send their children to Shrek Academy after that?

Shrek Academy's reputation as the sacred ground of Soul Masters would become a joke.

"Where's that kid Huo Yuhao? Bring him here!"

"And fetch Ling Yuan too!"

A short while later, several Inner Academy students brought Huo Yuhao over. He was sobbing as he wiped his tears with a charred hand.

A young man in a white robe arrived before Xuan Zi at the same time.

He held up a golden staff topped with a white crystal that radiated powerful mental fluctuations.

Xuan Zi glanced at the tears in Huo Yuhao's eyes. He looked impatient, but asked anyway.

"You're Huo Yuhao?"

"Tell me what happened."

Beside him, the white crystal atop the young man's staff flared brightly.

Powerful mental fluctuations locked onto Huo Yuhao, seeking to enter his Sea of Consciousness and pry into every thought.

But as they tried to enter his Sea of Consciousness,

the gray orb of light Electrolux had become flickered and swallowed them all.

Huo Yuhao smiled inwardly. He told Xuan Zi how he had "happened" upon a Treasure Pavilion flyer in Shrek City,

then shown it to his friend Tang Chuan before the two of them came to the alley.

He went on until the moment a fireball dropped from the sky and knocked him unconscious.

His account mixed truth with lies, and his expression looked utterly sincere.

Xuan Zi frowned and turned to the young man beside him.

"Ling Yuan, is the kid telling the truth?"

Ling Yuan nodded.

"Xuan Zi, I sensed no disturbance in his mental power while he spoke. It was all true."

Xuan Zi nodded helplessly.

To be honest, he had never considered Huo Yuhao a suspect.

Both Tang Ya and Tang Chuan were Soul Elders.

Zhou Yi was an even stronger Soul Emperor.

Huo Yuhao's enrollment record clearly listed his cultivation as rank fifteen.

A rank-fifteen Soul Master had killed two Soul Elder classmates and knocked out a Soul Emperor teacher?

What a load of crap.

That left just one suspect in the killings: Zhou Yi.

Xuan Zi's brows knotted.

"Ling Yuan, can you erase the kid's memories of this?"

Ling Yuan paused, then shook his head with a rueful smile.

"Sorry, Xuan Zi."

"If he were an ordinary new student, I could."

"But Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul has the Mental Attribute, and his mental power seems quite strong too."

"Forcing the memories out would leave him a vegetable."

Xuan Zi's mouth twisted.

A vegetable?

If no one would find out, he really would have done it.

After all, if this affair became public, Shrek Academy's ten-thousand-year reputation would be ruined.

The problem was that Shrek Academy wasn't the only party that knew something had happened.

The shopkeepers and passersby nearby had come running when the kid cried out.

If Huo Yuhao suddenly became a vegetable...

Shrek Academy would take the blame for something even worse!

"Forget it. Take him away!"

Xuan Zi waved a hand and turned to leave.

But then, to his surprise, Huo Yuhao's mouth trembled and he burst into tears again.

"Sister Tang Ya, Brother Tang Chuan, you died so horribly!"

"Now that you're gone, what am I doing at Shrek Academy? I'm withdrawing!"

"Whoever killed you, I'll search all of Douluo Continent to avenge you!"