Shrek School for the Deaf and Mute

Watching the two of them finish the entire run, Zhou Yi nodded in satisfaction.

"You two did very well. You actually finished all one hundred and twenty laps. Old Zhuang, come heal them."

The middle-aged teacher from earlier came up to the two of them again, holding his sapling martial soul.

With a swish, green light flashed once more, and Wang Dong'er felt the discomfort in her body quickly vanish like smoke in the wind.

Huo Yuhao had hardly exerted himself in the first place, so he should have recovered even faster.

Besides, he had a four-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, two spirit bones, and three years of special training from the Snow Empress. These had made his physical constitution absurdly powerful. According to the Snow Empress, his body was now comparable to that of an ordinary defense-type Soul King.

After watching Old Zhuang finish healing the two of them, Zhou Yi nodded.

Then her expression suddenly hardened, and she turned to look at the students outside the field, who had almost fully recovered.

"Those whose names I call next, step forward."

"Tai Long, Yun Xiaopiao, and the rest of the Nine Great Vajras, step forward."

The nine students whose names had been called exchanged glances, then stepped out of the crowd.

Zhou Yi looked at the nine standing before her and said expressionlessly, "All nine of you are expelled."

"What?"

Tai Long, the leader of the Nine-Person Group, was the first to speak. "Teacher, what right do you have to expel us?"

Zhou Yi glanced sideways at Tai Long. "I already told you in the classroom: anyone who failed to finish the run would be expelled on the spot."

At those words, the others in the Nine-Person Group exchanged guilty glances, all except Tai Long.

Tai Long, however, still craned his neck defiantly and shouted, "What makes you say we didn't finish? Besides, what right do you have to expel us just for that?"

Zhou Yi sneered. "You don't really think I'm unaware of what the nine of you did before I arrived at the field, do you?"

Even with doom staring him in the face, Tai Long refused to yield. "You still can't expel us over something like that."

"Shut up!"

Zhou Yi clearly had no intention of wasting any more words on them. Flames soared behind her, and six spirit rings rose from beneath her feet: two yellow, two purple, and two black.

An immense pressure bore down on Tai Long and the other eight, leaving them struggling to breathe.

"I'll say this one more time. At Shrek, my authority as your homeroom teacher is absolute."

Feeling the pressure radiating from Zhou Yi, the Nine Great Vajras turned and fled.

"Run! That old witch has gone mad!"

"Gah! She's a Soul Emperor! Everyone, retreat!"

After expelling the nine, Zhou Yi swept her gaze over the remaining Class One students. In the end, she left them with only one command.

"Back to the classroom!"

Inside Freshman Class One's classroom, the students who had not been expelled sat rigidly in their chairs, silent as cicadas in winter. They were terrified that any action of theirs might become Zhou Yi's next reason to expel someone.

Looking at the quiet students below the podium, Zhou Yi nodded in satisfaction.

"My name is Zhou Yi, as I'm sure you already know. We'll begin this lesson with your self-introductions."

Then Zhou Yi pointed at Xiao Xiao, the little girl sitting toward the back.

"You first!"

"Xiao Xiao. Martial soul: Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. Level twenty-two Soul Master."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi seemed deeply dissatisfied with Xiao Xiao's volume and shouted at the little girl.

"No energy! I can't hear you at all! Again!"

"You want to be a Soul Master with a voice that quiet?"

"At Shrek Academy, when a teacher says she can't hear you, she can't hear you."

Xiao Xiao seemed frightened by Zhou Yi's demeanor. Sitting behind her, Huo Yuhao saw the little girl actually flinch at Zhou Yi's voice.

The corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. Xiao Xiao's voice had not been loud, but it had certainly not been inaudible.

Could this teacher be deaf and mute? So, by her logic, if a teacher says she can't hear you, she can't hear you... doesn't that make Shrek a school for the deaf and mute?

"Xiao Xiao! Martial soul: Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron! Level twenty-two Soul Master!"

This time, the little girl's introduction seemed to satisfy Zhou Yi greatly. She swept her gaze around the classroom and said:

"Good. Plenty of spirit. Next."

Huo Yuhao was sitting right behind Xiao Xiao. He stood up and spoke at an unhurried pace.

"Huo Yuhao. Martial soul: Spirit Eyes. Level thirty-eight Soul Elder."

Huo Yuhao's voice was not loud, but he infused it with a considerable amount of spiritual power.

As a result, when it reached Zhou Yi's ears, it struck with an almost deafening force.

His introduction sent the entire Freshman Class One into an uproar.

"Level thirty-eight? My heavens, did he start cultivating in his mother's womb?"

"Could our class actually have an unprecedented Soul Ancestor in this year's freshman tournament?"

"He said his martial soul was Spirit Eyes, but what's with the horns on his head?"

"Those are twin martial souls!"

Even Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao, sitting in front of Huo Yuhao, turned around to look at him in surprise.

Both girls were startled by how many people with twin martial souls there seemed to be this year. Counting the two of them, Freshman Class One alone had three twin martial soul owners.

Who knew whether the other classes had any more?

Watching the noisy scene below her, Zhou Yi tapped the podium and cleared her throat.

"Ahem! Quiet. Next."

The remaining introductions seemed rather ordinary. Most of the other students were around level eighteen, with very few above level twenty.

Once everyone had finished introducing themselves, Zhou Yi said, "Good. Now I'm appointing Huo Yuhao as the class monitor of Freshman Class One. Does anyone object?"

Everyone below the podium shook their heads. What a joke. A high-level Soul Elder with twin martial souls—what were they supposed to oppose him with, their heads?

The lesson began, and Zhou Yi wrote two large words on the classroom blackboard: attack and defense.

"As everyone knows, Soul Masters are divided into three offensive systems: power attack, agility attack, and control. There are also three defensive systems: support, food, and defense."

"But!" At that point, Zhou Yi abruptly changed tack.

"But those classifications date back four thousand years. Nowadays, the boundary between the two is gradually blurring."

"Huo Yuhao, tell us why."

As a Level 4 Soul Engineer, Huo Yuhao knew the answer to that question like the back of his hand.

"Soul tools!"

"The emergence of soul tools remedied the lack of offensive options faced by Soul Masters from the three defense-oriented systems. They gave ordinary Soul Masters the possibility of going head-to-head with power attack-type Soul Masters and the like."

He had discovered this as early as when he obtained his first soul ring. Back then, he had only been a One-Ring Soul Master lacking offensive abilities.

Yet, thanks to the soul tool crafting methods he had learned from Cheng Shitao, Huo Yuhao could fight ordinary power attack-type Soul Masters without falling behind.

Over the past three years, he had learned how to make many different soul tools from Cheng Shitao.

He carried more than a dozen Level Four Soul Tools, covering both offense and defense. He even had several Milk Bottle soul tools to replenish his reserves and keep him going.

With these soul tools, he could fight power attack-type Soul Masters of the same level using only his Spirit Eyes martial soul, without bringing out his four-not-like martial soul.