Shrek, you have occupied the throne of the continent's number-one academy for far too long. It is time you got lost.
When the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy declared that it would become the continent's number-one academy, Shrek-that rabid dog so easily provoked-predictably exploded.
Shrek and its dogs immediately started making a racket online. Yet what followed was even more skepticism. After someone had risen to prominence by trampling Shrek's glory a few years earlier, Shrek Academy had made no attempt to settle the score. Instead, it acted as though it had forgotten the incident entirely, completely at odds with its old reputation as a rabid dog that bit everyone it saw. Shrek's official response sounded lofty and righteous: to preserve peace on the continent, they were cracking down hard on Evil Soul Masters.
So where were the results of that crackdown?
Shrek talked about classified information, about taking things slowly and planning for the long term, and about how outsiders could possibly understand Shrek's grand designs.
"Bullshit. Where is Shrek supposed to find a Soul Elder with three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings?"
For some inexplicable reason, that single remark shot onto the trending list and ripped away Shrek's last fig leaf.
A Soul Elder with three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings was not actually that difficult to cultivate. After all, unlike absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Ring, using a Soul Spirit did not involve facing the beast's lingering resentment. One only needed enough Spiritual Power and physical strength to withstand the Soul Spirit's energy: a high-quality hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, a hundred-thousand-year Torso Bone, a few good Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and spiritual treasures comparable to the Mermaid's Tears.
As long as one was willing to pay to win, it could certainly be done.
Shrek