Yan Shaozhe: This boy is arrogant and unruly. He needs proper discipline

The vast classroom was littered with broken desks, chairs, and benches. The pristine white walls looked as though they had been plowed, riddled with cracks and holes.

Students lay all over the white jade floor, some unconscious, others groaning in pain.

Only Chen An remained standing, proud and unbowed!

His silver hair was disheveled, and wounds covered his body. His chest heaved as he panted heavily, sweat and blood soaking and staining his tattered white shirt.

Chen An closed his eyes and tipped his head back in the open classroom, quietly savoring the joy of victory.

The feeling of using his fists and brute force to crush everyone who had looked coldly upon him left Chen An exhilarated from head to toe.

Even his soul power showed faint signs of breaking through to rank sixteen.

For soul masters, the pressure and danger of combat stimulated their soul power and Spiritual Power, making both more active.

That was why combat soul masters cultivated far faster than Support System soul masters.

Chen An savored the battle he had just fought. After charging into the students' formation, he had used his overwhelming advantages in strength and speed to tear through them like a tiger among sheep.

After taking out the Support System and control system soul masters, he fought the combat soul masters, whose fighting strength had been greatly diminished.

Taking on forty One-Ring Soul Masters and Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters alone had not been easy, even for Chen An.

By the end of the battle, Chen An had exhausted his soul power. His Dark Gold Transformation had been forcibly dispelled, leaving him to fight with his body alone.

Fortunately, Chen An's body was powerful enough. Techniques that boosted his fighting strength, such as removing his brain's restrictions on his muscles, did not consume soul power.

He only needed Spiritual Power to control them. Otherwise, Chen An might not have been able to defeat these Youth Class students with their formidable martial souls.

Just as Chen An was resting with his eyes closed and savoring the fight, a warning came.

Within Chen An's Sea of Consciousness, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cautioned him, "Little Chen An, be careful. A top-tier expert with the cultivation of a Super Douluo is coming."

After delivering his warning, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately fell silent and completely concealed his spiritual fluctuations to avoid discovery.

"What happened here?!"

A resonant, authoritative voice came from the classroom doorway.

Chen An opened his eyes and looked toward the voice. A handsome old man in white robes, bearing an extraordinary air, came into view.

Having spent several days at Shrek Academy, Chen An naturally recognized the man before him: Yan Shaozhe, the Bright Phoenix Douluo and dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department.

Yan Shaozhe's expression turned livid as he surveyed the wreckage and chaos inside the classroom.

He had been so busy his feet barely touched the ground. After finally finding a little time, he had come to take a look at Shrek Academy's future.

He had also intended to say a few words on the Youth Class's inaugural day, helping the students understand Shrek Academy's splendor and glory.

Who could have imagined that the moment he entered, he would find the academy's future hopes and pillars beaten like dead dogs, sprawled on the floor? Even Bei Bei, his teacher's great-great-grandson, had been knocked unconscious.

What an outrageous farce! If outsiders learned that the great-great-grandson of the esteemed Sea God Pavilion Master had been bullied inside Shrek Academy, they would laugh themselves to death.

Looking at Chen An, the only person still standing in the classroom, and the wounds and blood on his body, Yan Shaozhe immediately knew that he must have been involved.

The aura faintly emanating from Chen An, in particular, made his brows knit tightly.

He could not help recalling how he had been utterly crushed yesterday by that Super Douluo from the Body Sect whose martial soul was a heart.

Even now, the memory of that absolute power left Yan Shaozhe shaken. Had he not possessed his Nirvana soul skill, he might truly have been done for.

And at this moment, Chen An's bearing was remarkably similar to that Body Sect Super Douluo's.

He had the same pride, and even a trace of the Body Sect's willful, utterly unrestrained manner.

Alarm bells immediately rang in Yan Shaozhe's mind.

Yan Shaozhe shook his head and took a deep breath, suppressing his unease and anger.

As a Super Douluo who had cultivated for so many years, he naturally possessed considerable composure.

Looking at Chen An and the many injured, unconscious students, Yan Shaozhe knew that the most urgent task was to treat them first, then find out exactly what had happened.

Yan Shaozhe slid his hand toward the Storage Soul Tool at his waist, took out a Soul Tool communication device, and placed a call.

Such communication devices were extremely precious and could be used throughout Shrek Academy. Unfortunately, their range was insufficient and their manufacturing costs far too high. Otherwise, they could have completely transformed the nature of future warfare.

In less than a minute, Shrek Academy's medical soul masters and the elder with Titled Douluo cultivation who was responsible for teaching the Youth Class arrived in the classroom.

Soon, Chen An and the injured students had recovered, and everyone who had been unconscious woke up.

The entire class stood neatly in eight rows. Facing Yan Shaozhe, they all bowed. "Dean."

Yan Shaozhe stood on the teaching platform and asked, "What happened? Why did you start fighting?"

Bei Bei and the other students Chen An had beaten exchanged glances, then lowered their heads, shame creeping across their faces.

More than forty soul masters and Soul Grandmasters had failed to defeat a single soul master. How could they, who had always been hailed as geniuses, possibly say that aloud? It was simply too humiliating.

Yet alongside their humiliation, they could not help feeling a trace of awe toward Chen An.

Although they still believed Chen An was the person who had caused Shrek Academy grievous losses, his strength and talent compelled their admiration and acknowledgment.

In short, he had beaten them into submission.

Seeing how Bei Bei and the others were too ashamed to raise their heads, Yan Shaozhe immediately pieced together most of what had happened.

Yan Shaozhe called on him by name. "Chen An, everyone else has their head down and refuses to speak, while you're holding yours high. Then you can tell me exactly what happened."

Chen An remained calm, without the slightest panic. He was only at Shrek Academy to get through his weaker years and use its resources to grow stronger as quickly as possible. He had not come here to grovel.

If he did not even dare fight back when someone bullied him, wouldn't all his cultivation and the awakening of his martial soul have been for nothing?

His purpose in growing stronger, climbing to the peak, and pursuing eternal life was to live better—not to cultivate himself into a coward who only knew how to bow his head and cling to survival.

Besides, he still had the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as his trump card. What the hell did he have to fear?

Chen An said, "Dean, this is what happened. The moment I entered the classroom, every student in the class treated me coldly, looking as though they couldn't stand the sight of me.

"Bei Bei and a few others even surrounded me and attacked first. I was too angry to let that slide, so I fought back.

"After I knocked Bei Bei and the others down, the rest of the students accused me. Then I knocked the whole class down."

After saying his piece, Chen An spread his hands.

The sight left the students gritting their teeth, their resolve shattered. They wanted nothing more than to plant two solid punches right in Chen An's face. He was so fucking arrogant.

After listening, Yan Shaozhe gazed deeply at Chen An, his expression turning grave.

This boy, Chen An, was truly arrogant beyond belief. He had to be disciplined promptly, while he was still young.

Otherwise, once he grew powerful, there might be no one left who could rein him in.