"Is this the answer your Spirit Mind Academy has submitted this year?"
"Very impressive."
"Well?"
Watching the scenes before him, Yuan Qingshan laughed in fury. "Among this year's freshmen, excluding Ink Academy, your Spirit Mind Academy snapped up the most geniuses, didn't it?"
"Look at Spirit Martial Academy, then look at the Military Academy."
"Even Jiangbei Academy and Jiangnan Academy."
"Heh..."
He sneered, breathing heavily, his hands trembling with anger. "A disgrace. This is the greatest disgrace in Spirit Mind Academy's hundred-plus years of history!"
"Back when the Human Race lacked resources and faced such immense external pressure, which of the students who came out of Spirit Mind Academy couldn't be called a hero?"
"You're just getting worse with age!"
"Can you face Spirit Mind's pioneers, the countless Heroic Spirits at Demon-Suppressing Pass, or Those Who Went to Their Deaths alone in the Demon Domain?"
He slammed the table and drew a deep breath. "Handle this yourselves. Fix it!"
"In two days, at the next round of the Arena Tournament, if your Spirit Mind students are still behaving like this, I'll apply to the higher-ups to have Spirit Mind Academy's weighting reduced."
"Whatever way you lost your former glory, that's how you'll win it back!"
With that, Yuan Qingshan fell silent, his face livid.
Qian Shu's forehead was covered in sweat.
He stood and bowed deeply to Yuan Qingshan, then hurried backstage, speaking incessantly to the students.
"Spirit Mind's current class does have quite a few problems, but surely it doesn't warrant this."
"After all, they took in so many freshmen at once. Just assigning teachers, organizing student records, and determining their development paths would take an enormous amount of time."
"The teachers have a lot of students, too. It's only been a little over a month. Getting this far