Hello, I'm Huo Hang

At the request of the major empires across the continent, Shrek Academy's Outer Court enrolled two to three hundred students every year, divided into eight or nine classes. Of course, these few hundred recruits could only be considered Outer Court students. They had to pass countless assessments before entering the true Shrek Inner Court. There was a saying that the Inner Court was the real Shrek Academy, a gathering place for monsters.

After all, every student who graduated from the Shrek Inner Court effectively received proof that they would become one of the continent's peak powerhouses.

On the surface, Shrek Academy did not interfere in the internal affairs of the three great empires and claimed to be nothing more than an ordinary Soul Master Academy. Yet it acted as the world police, even daring to bypass the officials of the three empires and punish their personnel directly.

However, Shrek Academy's ways had been passed down for a long time. It was not only like this now—future Shrek Academy would become even worse.

On the future Douluo Continent, some insightful people tacitly gave Shrek Academy a highly fitting title: the Douluo Tumor!

How had Shrek supposedly become so powerful? It did nothing more than cherry-pick the finest talents from across the entire Soul Land Federation every year. When times were bad, it even considered luring students away from other schools, gathering them under its banner, brainwashing them, and indoctrinating them with "the glory of Shrek."

These so-called favored sons of heaven cultivated by swallowing heavenly treasures and greedily drawing from the planet's Life Core. Yet once they gained ability, strength, and success, they did not think of how to build the Soul Land Federation or develop Douluo Star. Instead, the first thing they thought of was how to build Shrek Academy. Some even subconsciously regarded the Federation as an enemy.

What a shameless, greedy, utterly outrageous form of education! What a disgraceful, ungrateful mindset! The number-one academy of Douluo had raised a pack of white-eyed wolves, thankless beasts. What an absolute joke!

How many people were there in Shrek Academy? Its heavenly treasures were so abundant they could rot away, while ordinary students casually squandered sums equivalent to what common people outside could earn in an entire lifetime!

Some might say that on Douluo Continent, the strong were respected, or even claim to uphold the doctrine that the strong came first. But Shrek had one enormous taboo: it constantly flaunted its own fairness and neutrality!

It claimed to be an ordinary academy that only educated students and never participated in politics, yet it ordered the major empires around at every turn, treating several nations like servants in its own household.

Then again, Shrek Academy participating in politics would have been fine. It could have worked with the Federation to solve people's livelihood issues, properly develop the Federation's industry, agriculture, service sector, compulsory education, and healthcare. If it could do that, Shrek would not merely be Douluo's great benefactor. Even if it learned to walk like Ming-ge, there would have been nothing wrong with that.

It flaunted its neutrality and fairness all day long, yet never dealt with "trivial matters." Whenever it was time to fight, it relied on its own secret intelligence network, using information and perspectives beyond those of ordinary people to command the major empires of Douluo.

Douluo Star originally had its own Life Core, which humans, soul beasts, and even insects and lice could all share. But under the joint plans of Shrek Academy and Great God-King Tang, it was seized by Tang San's parents through Body Seizure, and they still acted as though, "This is the tree I planted. What right do you outsiders have to use it?"

The upper echelons of Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect drank their fill, while ordinary academy students had to trade their families' hard-earned money for the chance to draw from it. Anyone who was not from the Shrek Inner Court or the Tang Sect could forget about it. The Ancient Golden Tree had indeed been planted by Shrek, but its roots were embedded in all of Douluo Star, and its nourishment was supplied by the entire planet. Yet ninety percent of its Life Energy could only be enjoyed by the lofty elites of the Shrek Inner Court.

Even the great powers that came later, such as the Spirit Pagoda and War God Hall, had few people capable of drawing in Douluo Star's Life Aura. No wonder the Spirit Pagoda plotted with the Holy Spirit Cult and sent two God-Slaying Fixed Soul Guidance Shells straight at Shrek Academy. Wasn't Shrek simply asking for it?

And the soul beast race? In the future, the powerful Shrek Academy would blast the soul beasts off to another planet! Even when Beast God Ditian had a chance of successfully enduring his divine tribulation on Douluo Star, he was still forbidden from returning home to undergo it.

After sucking the blood of several great empires and successfully developing itself, the Tang Sect later recruited the Federation's top scientific and technical talents in great numbers, burying itself in the development of powerful weapons far beyond anything outside.

Yet these weapons were neither distributed for the people's use nor contributed to the nation. Instead, they were locked in armories, waiting for a chance to fire a damn shot when the Tang Sect fought an internal war against the Federation.

One had to know that all those resources had been siphoned from Douluo Star by the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, those two great vampires. If the Federation had allocated those resources across society as a whole, how many talents could it have cultivated?

Shrek's top graduates all stayed at the academy, while the mediocre and lower-ranking ones entered the future Soul Land Federation to work. Besides, even Sea God Pavilion itself said that Outer Court students did not truly count as Shrek students—only those of the Inner Court did.

If nurturing a few talents who would follow Shrek the moment it crooked a finger during a critical moment counted as "great merit" and "kindness," then everything Shrek ate, wore, and used was produced by the Federation. Did that not mean the Federation had shown Shrek an immense kindness?!

Yet even with such monopolistic giants poaching talent, the Federation in Douluo IV could still stand alone against the Dragon Horse Twin Stars and even seize the initiative for a time.

All those honors went to Shrek. No one cared about the sacrifices of the Federation's millions of soldiers, while Shrek relied on stacked cheats and piled-up resources to show off until the end, and the glory it gained became deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Shrek Academy treated favoritism as a virtue, double standards as tradition, and monopoly as neutrality. It was not merely one generation—it was every generation.

On the tournament stage, it openly and deliberately killed people from Sun Moon Royal Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult. But if anyone on its own side was injured, the vice master of Sea God Pavilion would personally step forward to demand compensation.

The Sun Moon Empire had so many Rank 9 Soul Engineers behind it, and the Holy Spirit Cult had two Limit Douluo behind it, yet neither ever went to Shrek to demand an explanation.

How ironic. The villains lost only because they still had some shame, while Shrek won everything because it was utterly shameless and brazen to the extreme!

This was the shared realization of all young readers who had read the original work, grown in their values, and then looked back at the plot! In this life, Huo Yuhao likewise felt contempt for Shrek's conduct.

So much so that after the Rakshasa God Bibi Dong watched the later Douluo storyline through shared memories, Shrek Academy disgusted her so badly that she vomited an entire sea in the Sea of Spirit.

Naturally, one could not judge everything by a single example. Though Shrek Academy was guilty of countless evils, it did not rule out the possibility that a very small number of people could retain their sense of self even after being brainwashed. What Huo Yuhao needed to do in the future was bring all of them under his command. For example, the female teacher before him, Mujin, had not been given much importance, yet still possessed an excellent teaching method of her own.

Of course, no matter how disgusted Huo Yuhao currently was by Shrek and the Tang Buddha behind it, he had to act within his means if he wanted to bring them down. If he could not beat them, he would join them first. Most of the cheats Huo Yuhao had obtained in his previous life had only been possible because Shrek stood behind him.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao's prejudice against the scheming woman Mujin before him lessened considerably. If she were properly guided, she could become a star professor at some academy in the future.

"Entrance assessments are divided into two parts. The first is a comprehensive test of your physical abilities, while the second is a practical combat test. Teacher believes you'll definitely pass them smoothly." Mujin glanced at Huo Yuhao beside her as she explained.

"Alright, Teacher Mujin. I believe in myself." Huo Yuhao put on an obedient expression and smiled.

Mujin nodded and led Huo Yuhao to the assessment passage. Quite a few people were already lined up there waiting for their tests. Clearly, they all had a certain background and had reached the required age and Soul Power level for admission.

He could not enter without taking the test like those in the original story. What a waste of time. Huo Yuhao sighed and took his place at the end of the line.

Ahead of him stood a girl with fiery red short hair tied into a playful ponytail. Her eyes were an unusually rare red as well. At first glance, she carried a somewhat frightening air, but a closer look revealed that her features were exceptionally exquisite and her skin as fair as jade. Only her gaze was cold.

The girl turned back to look at Huo Yuhao. Unlike in the original story, having come from the Holy Spirit Cult, his clothes and appearance were quite eye-catching, and he carried an air of melancholy. After being improved by all sorts of cheats, his looks had changed from merely delicate to considerably more handsome.

One had to know that the person who usually styled him was Zhongli Yu, the greatest beauty among the younger generation of the Holy Spirit Cult. That made the red-haired girl unable to stop herself from taking a few extra looks at him.

Seeing her appraise him, Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. "Hello, my name is Huo Yuhao. You can call me Huo Hang."

It was almost time to get off work, so here was another chapter for my dear readers, as a token of my sincerity!