Di Tian in Peerless Tang Sect was puzzled.
"Soul beasts went extinct ten thousand years later? How could that be?"
He had long since noticed Gu Yue beside Luo Chen.
"Since my lord had already awakened ten thousand years later, how could soul beasts possibly go extinct?"
The Silver Dragon King was equally puzzled, though her confusion lay in a different direction from Di Tian's.
"Why was my power split into two portions? One is here, but where is the other?"
Speaking of Huo Yuhao, Luo Chen remembered Wang Dong'er, who had disguised herself as a boy. He had exposed her on the first day of school, and the two had even fought over it.
Speaking of which, I wonder how Dong'er is doing.
I wonder if she misses me.
At those words, all the female leads watching the sky screen erupted.
Wang Dong'er: I do miss you! (///▽///)(#^.^#)
Wang Qiu'er: Does Luo Chen really still like her more?
Qian Renxue: Who is this Dong'er? (?_?)(○o○)~!
Hu Liena: Luo Chen, how could you have a change of heart? o(╯□╰)o
Ning Rongrong: *Hmph! Luo Chen, you womanizing radish! (￣ε(#￣)*
[Wang Dong'er's affection +1] [Wang Qiu'er's affection -1]
Luo Chen: *?*
What was going on?
Why was there a minus one?
On the sky screen, Cai Yue'er's speech was drawing to a close.
"Remember Shrek's motto: we accept only monsters, not ordinary people!"
"I will reiterate the iron rules of the Shrek Outer Court. The academy does not force anyone to cultivate diligently, but this is by no means a haven of comfort."
"There is a minor examination at the end of every year and a major examination every three years. Fail two minor examinations, and you are expelled. Fail one major examination, and you are likewise expelled."
"After each year's final assessment, the bottom five students in each grade must leave Shrek immediately. There are no retakes."
"Thirty-five is the final cutoff for all of you. If you cannot forge One-Word Battle Armor before turning thirty-five, there is no need to wait for an assessment to eliminate you. The academy will not grant you the right to graduate."
"Today, you entered Shrek full of dreams, yearning for a legend like Tang San's ascension to godhood twenty thousand years ago. But legends never belong to those who slack off."
"Assessments are the yardstick by which we select monsters. The weak will be eliminated from Shrek completely."
Every word Cai Yue'er spoke drove like a nail into the heart of every Shrek student.
"That same spiel again."
Luo Chen had heard those words not merely a few years ago.
He had heard them countless times during the Spirit Hall era and the Peerless Tang Sect era alike.
Did Shrek Academy truly deserve to be called an academy?
When students lacked talent or had poor grades, Shrek did not help them escape their difficulties. Instead, it expelled them like throwing out trash!
It brought Jing Liu's words ringing back in Luo Chen's ears.
"Must you judge talent when choosing disciples? That's just a master being lazy! Wanting twice the result for half the effort, or hoping to leave a name through their disciples."
"Reputation, legacy-I care about none of it. Whoever wishes to learn my sword, I will teach."
At that thought, Luo Chen stepped forward and spoke.
"Cai Yue'er, I don't know whether legends belong to those who slack off, but I do know they certainly don't belong to Shrek!"
"Shrek doesn't deserve the title of the continent's number one academy, either!"
"I came here today to make that title change hands!"
At those words, every student in Shrek Square fell silent.
Many television reporters had come for the start of the new students' term at Shrek.
Once their shock passed, those reporters immediately realized this was an excellent news story.
"Quick, get the camera on the student who just spoke!"
Who? Who was this fearless?
Which academy was this student from?
Cai Yue'er immediately pinpointed Luo Chen and Gu Yue's location.
When she saw who they were, she froze for a moment.
Weren't these the two students I wanted to take as disciples several years ago?
Of course, to Luo Chen, that meant something entirely different.
Several years earlier, he and Gu Yue had come to Shrek Academy.
Cai Yue'er had maliciously made things difficult for them, dressing it up as wanting to take them as disciples.
Luo Chen had exploded on the spot.
In terms of seniority, I joined Shrek ten thousand years ago, and you, Cai Yue'er, want to take me as your disciple?
Isn't that turning heaven and earth upside down? By seniority, even calling me your ancestor wouldn't be going too far.
In terms of talent, Cai Yue'er was merely a Super Douluo, while a whole crowd of Limit Douluos in Mingdu had fought over Luo Chen.
You, Cai Yue'er, think you're worthy? Sending Yun Ming would be more like it!
Thus, he and Gu Yue had both withdrawn from Shrek and joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
"Luo Chen, you insult Shrek! Have you considered whether you'll be able to walk out of here?" Cai Yue'er raged.
"Cai Yue'er, the way you spoke just now was exactly like that woman named Zhou Yi. You make expelling students sound perfectly justified, yet you dare call yourself a teacher?"
Cai Yue'er: Who is Zhou Yi?
Zhou Yi: "What's wrong with me? Students with poor talent should be expelled!"
"Those are Shrek's rules," Cai Yue'er said coldly.
"Shrek's rules? Then I'll teach you at Shrek what rules really are!"
Through the reporters' coverage and the broadcasts from the various television stations,
the scene had already rocketed onto the trending lists.
At that moment, televisions were surrounded by students who had once been turned away by Shrek or expelled from it.
They all had anger bottled up inside. It was not that they were less talented than others.
Far more often, it was Shrek's unfairness. They had neither resources nor connections, and Shrek did nothing about it.
They had to fight for resources themselves, piling frost onto the snow for students who already had none.
Yet Shrek turned a blind eye!
Luo Chen slowly took a soul amplification megaphone out of his storage soul tool.
Watching from nearby, Tang Wulin felt a faint sense of déjà vu.
Luo Chen switched on the soul amplification megaphone, and a familiar voice reached the ears of the many Shrek students.
"Students of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, listen up! The five of us come from Shrek Academy, and our average age is fourteen. We have come expressly to challenge the strongest among your academy's students under twenty! We came today to show you the gap between you and the continent's number one academy!"
Tang Wulin froze for a moment, then suddenly realized.
"Aren't those my lines?"
"Your Shrek Academy only beat my Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy through luck last time, because I wasn't competing. Today, I'll show you who the continent's number one academy really is!"
Then Luo Chen switched off the original soul amplification megaphone and took out a new one.
"Students of Shrek Academy, listen up! The two of us come from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and our average age is fifteen. We have come expressly to challenge the strongest among your academy's students under forty! We came today to show you that you still don't deserve to call yourselves the continent's number one academy!"
Outside the sky screen, Yu Xiaogang slammed the table and sprang to his feet upon hearing that.
"Provocation! This is blatant provocation! Who does he think he is? Challenging the strongest in Shrek under forty? Our Shrek Academy must have several hundred Titled Douluos under forty!"
Yan Shaozhe, however, had witnessed Luo Chen's strength and was somewhat worried.
"If this Luo Chen on the sky screen is the same person as the Luo Chen who was once at our Shrek Academy..."
"Zhang Lexuan broke through to Soul Douluo in her twenties. The Shrek Inner Court ten thousand years later should have quite a few Titled Douluos."
Jing Hongchen also slammed the table and sprang to his feet.
Jing Hongchen was not angry, but excited.
"Exactly! That's the spirit! Our Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is the continent's true number one academy!"
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