"Emperor Father! Fortunately, the guards were vigilant and discovered these villains plotting treachery!" Xue Qinghe said.
Prince Xue Xing hastily protested, "Brother! I've been wronged..."
Xue Qinghe cut him off sharply. "Wronged? If you weren't here to assassinate him, why were you dressed in stealth clothes? And why did you break into his bedchamber at night with these skulking men?"
As he spoke, he pointed at Flender and his two companions, who were also dressed in stealth clothes.
Xue Ye slammed his hand against the bed. "Traitors! How dare you? Cough, cough..."
After coughing twice, he pointed at Flender and his companions. "Guards! Drag these three assassins out! Behead them immediately!"
The guards obeyed, brutally dragging the three away like dead dogs.
Flender was instantly frightened out of his wits. "Your Majesty! We've been wronged! We came to treat..."
Xue Qinghe immediately said, "Silence! If you aren't assassins, why were you skulking about, afraid to show yourselves?"
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something. "Oh! Now I remember. You're from that infamous Shrek Academy that harbored a hundred-thousand-year soul beast."
"Shrek?" Xue Ye asked breathlessly. "Qinghe, explain."
Xue Qinghe bowed. "Emperor Father, Shrek was originally a third-rate, fly-by-night academy in Suotuo City that cheated and swindled people! Later, like a cuckoo stealing a magpie's nest, it seized Blue Tyrant Academy! Its philosophy is absurd: 'A Soul Master who doesn't dare stir up trouble is no good.' It encourages its students to provoke fights!"
"Their dean, Flender, is greedy and lecherous. He even took his student Ma Hongjun to brothels!"
"This Yu Xiaogang is a rank-twenty-nine piece of trash! Yet he goes around swindling people with hollow theories riddled with flaws that lead students astray!"
"His disciple, Tang San, violated the tournament rules and attempted to kill Lin Ye, our empire's greatest