The happy, carefree days always passed in the blink of an eye. The first thing that happened when Ye Qing returned to Shrek Academy was that Yan Shaozhe caught him and tossed him onto the main team.
"I let you relax for an entire vacation. It's time to get serious! You have to participate in this Soul Fighting Tournament. Don't think you can keep slacking off." Yan Shaozhe raised a finger as he admonished him.
Yan Shaozhe's intention was simple-or rather, it was the shared intention of that bunch of old geezers in the Sea God Pavilion. Even Mu En had not objected.
The reason? That was simple too.
Perhaps some people would think that a genius like Ye Qing, who had yet to mature, should not appear in public, but should quietly develop instead, lest other factions snuff him out.
But in reality, Shrek Academy had dominated the Douluo Continent for ten thousand years. It had always been Shrek Academy throwing its weight around on the Douluo Continent. What faction would dare snuff out a Shrek genius?
Snuffing out geniuses was something factions of roughly equal strength did to prevent the other faction from surpassing them and putting their own faction in danger, or causing it to decline under the other side's suppression.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect back then had been exactly like that. They were a support-type sect, with only Sword and Bone Douluo holding up the upper ranks and no prospective Titled Douluo yet appearing in the next generation. Their own legacy was also a Martial Soul like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
To prevent other factions from growing stronger and threatening the future legacy of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, what that bastard Ning Fengzhi liked best was recruiting geniuses or snuffing