Dissolve the academy!
At Flender's words, the way Zhao Wuji and the others looked at him changed.
Shrek Academy had once struggled so badly that it could not even recruit students, but they had never given up. They had persevered all these years, only for Flender to dismiss their years of effort with a single sentence.
"Flender, do you have any decency left?"
"His Eminence only told us to stop swindling and cheating people, and now you want to dissolve the academy? Are you trying to tell His Eminence that Shrek Academy really has spent all these years swindling and cheating?"
Lu Qibin spoke angrily.
Shao Xin likewise glared at Flender.
To keep the academy running, he, a food-type Soul Master, had made plenty of trips to Suotuo City to sell the food he created with his soul power for Gold Soul Coins.
"That's not what I meant!"
Flender hurriedly explained, "I just-sigh. Shrek Academy's mission is to cultivate monsters, but in all these years, we haven't taught a single true monster!"
"Now, we can barely recruit any students!"
"Are we supposed to lower our admission requirements? Wouldn't that smash our own signboard?"
"Now that a Titled Douluo has his eye on Shrek Academy, we have to be cautious with every move we make. It's like being put in shackles. How could we possibly cultivate true monsters like that?"
It had to be said that Flender had a glib tongue.
With just a few words, he had washed his hands of all responsibility.
As though dissolving Shrek Academy really was for the academy's own good.
Unfortunately, Zhao Wuji and the others no longer bought it.
"Dean Flender!"
"Dean Zhao!"
"Someone's here to enroll! He says an old friend of Dean Flender sent him!"
Oscar's voice rang out from outside, breaking the stagnant atmosphere between Flender and the others.
Flender's expression, however, barely improved.
He had been getting ready to run, yet someone had actually come to enroll, sent by an old friend at that. Who could this old friend be?
Flender was the first to leave the room, and then he saw the dark-skinned boy standing beside Oscar!
Tang San!
After parting ways with Yu Xiaogang, he had headed straight for Suotuo City without a moment's delay.
The reason he had rushed over so quickly was his urgent desire to grow stronger.
Flender looked Tang San over, his gaze finally settling on the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges at Tang San's waist.
He instantly knew who had sent Tang San.
His good brother had sent this boy.
His good brother was the Grandmaster, unrivaled in martial soul theory!
"Good boy, what's your martial soul? How old are you, and what's your soul power level?"
"Hello, Teacher. My martial soul is Blue Silver Grass. I'm eleven, and my soul power is rank twenty-eight!"
Tang San answered without servility or arrogance.
Everyone who heard his answer sank into thought.
This did not fit martial soul theory!
Wasn't Blue Silver Grass universally recognized as a trash martial soul?
Yet this dark-skinned boy before them was eleven years old with rank twenty-eight soul power. This did not fit martial soul theory at all!
A monster!
A true monster!
At that moment, everyone looked at Tang San with hope in their eyes.
There was no need for an entrance test!
A child like this was precisely the monster Shrek Academy was looking for.
The higher a martial soul's quality, the stronger the martial soul, and the higher the innate soul power level, the faster one's cultivation progressed.
Yet now, Blue Silver Grass, considered a trash martial soul, had reached rank twenty-eight soul power at this age. This was definitely mutated Blue Silver Grass-a true monster.
"Good! From now on, you're a member of Shrek Academy!"
"Oscar, take... uh, child, what's your name?"
"Tang San!"
Tang San answered politely.
Flender immediately instructed Oscar to take Tang San to the lodgings.
The conditions were even worse than those at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.
"Hello, Tang San. My name's Oscar. I'm a food-type Soul Master!"
"You're really amazing!"
"You can cultivate so quickly even with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Just how do you cultivate?"
"Sorry, sorry. I think I'm talking a little too much!"
Oscar finally realized he had asked a little too much.
Soul Masters generally cultivated using the basic meditation method published by Spirit Hall. Only sects and families with long-standing legacies had their own meditation methods.
And regardless of the meditation method, it was a secret that could not be shared with outsiders.
Tang San's rapid cultivation was naturally thanks to the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
The boost the Mysterious Heaven Skill gave to the speed of soul power cultivation was truly extraordinary.
Otherwise, with all the time Tang San spent smithing every day, how could his soul power cultivation possibly not have fallen behind at all?
Blue Silver Grass lay scattered here and there along the outskirts of the Blue Silver Forest.
Although this Blue Silver Grass was far from the Blue Silver Forest, it could still transmit everything it sensed to the powerful Blue Silver Grass soul beasts within the forest.
"My Emperor, a human Soul Master is coming!"
The Blue Silver King soon received the information and learned that someone was hurrying toward the Blue Silver Forest.
Ah Yin's true body was amid the endless Blue Silver Grass of the Blue Silver Forest, and she was drawing on the forest to recover and improve her strength.
Upon hearing the Blue Silver King's report and receiving the information it transmitted about the approaching person, Ah Yin resumed her human form.
Tang Hao!
She had guessed that Tang Hao would come looking for her, but she had not expected him to arrive so quickly.
Clearly, he had pushed himself to the limit to get here faster.
"Ah Yin...?!"
When Tang Hao arrived at the Blue Silver Forest and saw the figure seated at its heart, he froze on the spot.
At that moment, a hundred conflicting feelings churned within Tang Hao.
Ah Yin had recovered!
How was that possible?
In a place like that, it had been difficult enough for Ah Yin to stay alive. How could she suddenly have recovered?
How exactly had she done it?
Had the time come?
Seeing Tang Hao's stunned reaction, Ah Yin no longer really needed to keep questioning the truth of what had happened back then.
"Leave!"
Ah Yin's voice rang out. "As for the past, I'll just consider myself to have had eyes but been blind!"
She had mistakenly trusted a scumbag, giving away her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. Fortunately, the scumbag already had a complete set of soul bones. Otherwise, her soul bone would have been absorbed by this piece of human trash too.
"Ah Yin, do you blame me?"
"But back then, I truly did everything I could!"
"You have to believe me!"
"Have you forgotten all those years of love between us?"
"You came for my Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, didn't you?"
Ah Yin gave a derisive snort. "If your arm hadn't been severed, you probably wouldn't have thought to check on me after leaving me in that cave, would you?"
"All these years, you kept me trapped in that cave. I should have figured it out!"
"If you had been sincere, you wouldn't have left me in there!"
"Tang Hao, stop pretending to be so devoted!"
"Otherwise, I wouldn't mind crippling one of your legs too!"
Ah Yin's voice grew colder.
Tang Hao stood rooted to the spot, not knowing what to say or what to do.
Without the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, he would be a cripple from now on.
So what if he was a Titled Douluo?
After losing an arm, his soul power level had fallen as well. Although he was still a Titled Douluo, his soul power level had dropped to only a little above level 90!