Elsewhere, Flender, the Four-Eyed Cat Owl and dean of Shrek Academy, stood on the main training field, looking at all seven students before him.
Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing, who looked cold but neat and composed.
However, Flender's attention was not on them, but on the last student, Ning Rongrong.
At that moment.
Loneliness, helplessness, disappointment, pain-all these emotions battered Ning Rongrong's twelve-year-old heart, and tears slid silently down her cheeks.
In all her life, she had never been treated this way.
"You, Ning Rongrong, are indeed a genius, but which of my Shrek Academy students isn't stronger than you?"
Flender spoke coldly.
Everyone around them watched with indifference.
"Impossible. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul is known as the world's greatest support martial soul. How could that reputation be empty? How could I be worse than them among my peers?"
Ning Rongrong refused to believe him.
"You don't believe me?"
As he spoke, Flender pointed at Dai Mubai. "He's fifteen this year, at rank thirty-seven. He became a Soul Elder when he was thirteen."
As those words fell, Dai Mubai felt everyone's gazes settle on him and puffed out his chest with immense pride.
"Tang San and Xiao Wu are only twelve, yet they've already reached the level of rank twenty-nine Soul Grandmasters. They may surpass the record Mubai set and become Shrek's youngest Soul Elders..."
"Ning Rongrong, let me ask you: do you honestly think you can break through the rank thirty bottleneck at thirteen?"
After speaking, Flender fixed his gaze firmly on Ning Rongrong.
The girl's face immediately grew even paler.
Becoming a Soul Elder before thirteen... was very difficult.
"Ma Hongjun, despite the flaw in his martial soul, still possesses martial soul attack power that can be