Lin Hao said with a smile:
"Spirit Hall's youngest elder?"
"Isn't that perfectly normal? Because Flender probably made that up too."
"That was what he used to hoodwink elite students and noble students."
"With someone from an illustrious family like Dai Mubai, ordinary sales pitches wouldn't fool him at all."
"So someone like Flender could only bring out Spirit Hall's endorsement once again, and Spirit Hall's youngest elder was undoubtedly the best signboard."
"Look, didn't Dai Mubai foolishly believe it too? Look at that proud expression on his face when he talked about Spirit Hall's young elder!"
"Whenever he sponsored Shrek Academy each year, he probably thought he was making a huge contribution."
"He was just as eager when they had him go settle things with those commoner students who'd been cheated out of their money!"
"He'd been sold off and was still helping count the money."
Lin Hao couldn't help looking at Qian Renxue:
"That's the allure of Spirit Hall's endorsement."
Qian Renxue's face couldn't help darkening too.
She felt that Shrek had ruined both Spirit Hall's reputation and its name.
Getting smeared with that pile of shit called Shrek.
It truly was the greatest humiliation.
Douluo Continent.
Watching this scene, in Spirit Hall's Worship Hall.
Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu's face couldn't help darkening too.
"A young elder with the greatest authority beneath the Pope."
"Xue'er doesn't know him, and neither do I."
"Golden Crocodile, I think our Spirit Hall needs a thorough investigation."
Golden Crocodile Douluo couldn't help saying:
"You should have stepped in long ago during these years Bibi Dong has been in charge of Spirit Hall."
Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu couldn't help feeling a headache coming on too.
If Qian Renxue hadn't existed, he could have killed Bibi Dong at any time.
But if he killed Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue would no longer even have a mother. What would they do then?
So he had let Bibi Dong have her way all these years. Now it seemed it was time to intervene.
Shrek Academy.
Dai Mubai's lips couldn't help twitching at Lin Hao's words.
He had firmly believed the stories Flender had told him about those elite students of the past too.
He hadn't expected them to actually be fake!
He felt like something of a clown for having so confidently recounted the academy's glorious history to Tang San and the others.
And most importantly, he even paid out of his own pocket to sponsor the academy every year.
Just as that Lin Hao had said, he'd been sold off and was still helping count the money.
He couldn't help looking at Flender too.
"Dean, could all of this be fake?"
Flender's gaze couldn't help darting away too.
How would he dare admit that?
If he admitted it, wouldn't everyone lose faith?
Seeing this, the Shrek Seven Devils, Dai Mubai included, couldn't help realizing that those supposedly outstanding graduates were all made up.
Their hearts couldn't help turning cold too.
Had they really been deceived?
At this point, Flender had no choice but to bite the bullet and try to salvage his dignity:
"If we really just wanted to cheat people out of money, why wouldn't we expand and recruit students on a massive scale?"
"I admit that, as dean, there are some things I haven't done well enough."
"But that still doesn't give this Lin Hao grounds to slander our Shrek Academy."
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help coming back to their senses.
Indeed, cheating only a few students each year really did seem unnecessary.
Could they really have been hoodwinked again?
They couldn't help looking at the Sky Screen too, wanting to hear Lin Hao's further views.
The modern world.
Gu Yuena was also deeply puzzled by Shrek Academy's structure.
"It already has more teachers than students. That isn't a reasonable academy."
As the common sovereign of Soul Beasts, Gu Yuena occupied a position comparable to Flender's at Shrek Academy.
In her view, there was something wrong with Shrek Academy's setup itself.
Using Star Dou Great Forest as an analogy, it would mean the number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and Ferocious Beasts actually exceeded the exceptionally gifted young Soul Beasts below them.
How was that possible!
Gu Yuena also wanted to know how Lin Hao would explain it.
Lin Hao couldn't help nodding in agreement too.
"Why are there so few people? Because Shrek is screening for geniuses who don't need resources invested in them. As long as they get a stroke of dumb luck and draw a genius, they win."
"Because Shrek Academy's approach is simple: ordinary commoners are just there for them to harvest registration fees from."
"Commoners with decent talent get blocked cold at the second or third stage, to avoid wasting resources."
"And their targets are geniuses like Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar. They hardly need teaching to begin with; they'll become accomplished on their own."
"But the problem is, if you put these students into other academies, such as Heaven Dou Imperial Academy or the Four Elements Academy, they'd stand out just the same."
"And the evidence came straight from Dai Mubai's own mouth."
"Didn't some of Shrek's students fail to graduate?"
"The reasons were: they couldn't break through level 40, or they died while hunting Soul Beasts."
"You have to understand, anyone who could pass Shrek Academy's assessment was at least a young genius who'd reached level 21 Soul Power before turning thirteen."
"Yet young geniuses like that actually couldn't break through level 40 in eight years."
"Not to mention those students who died while hunting Soul Beasts."
"Dai Mubai said himself that Shrek has more teachers than students. For something as important as hunting Soul Beasts, couldn't several teachers accompany them?"
"Even if only one teacher went, a Soul Emperor would be more than enough to protect a student."
"Then why did students still die?"
"The simplest guess is that the teacher wasn't putting any effort into protecting them, or didn't care about their lives."
"They only want money, have no resources or environment, can't even protect your life, and might even ruin your talent through training."
"Isn't that a textbook scam?"
After hearing this round of analysis, Tang Wutong couldn't help opening her little mouth wide.
"Why does everything you're saying sound so reasonable?"
When she had heard Dai Mubai's speech earlier, she hadn't sensed anything wrong with it at all.
But after hearing Lin Hao's analysis, everything became crystal clear!
Even though she really wanted to take Shrek's side and argue back, she couldn't seem to find any grounds for a rebuttal.
At that moment, Gu Yuena also couldn't help seeing the light.
"Could Lin Hao really be a genius?"
She had known something was wrong earlier, but she couldn't analyze it as clearly and logically as Lin Hao.
In her view, even with the wisdom of worldly affairs inherited from the Dragon God, she still seemed slightly inferior to Lin Hao at this moment.
Lin Hao, I, Gu Yuena, acknowledge you.
The Douluo I world.
The teachers of numerous advanced Soul Master Academies couldn't help exploding in outrage.
"A twelve-year-old genius above level 21 could actually die during Soul Hunting?"
"Geniuses like that couldn't even break through level 40 by graduation? That's outright ruining people through training!"
This Shrek Academy was simply enough to infuriate someone to death.
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Sword Douluo cursed at Ning Fengzhi:
"This is the so-called Shrek Academy Rongrong went to? It's an outright scam! You still dare let her stay there?"
Ning Fengzhi couldn't help having a terrible headache too.
He had also wanted to bring Ning Rongrong back as soon as possible.
But then he thought of how Ning Rongrong might become a god in the future, which meant she would break through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's Soul Saint realm limit.
With that future temptation before him, he also found it hard to reach a firm conclusion.
So he said:
"Uncle Jian, how about we send someone to protect her in secret?"
Sword Douluo was furious, but he knew Ning Fengzhi was the sect master.
Ning Fengzhi's decisions were undoubtedly made from the sect's perspective.
He said angrily, "Then I'll go myself."
Hearing this, Ning Fengzhi couldn't help smiling bitterly too.
Once Uncle Jian went, Shrek Academy would probably erupt too.
Shrek Academy.
Hearing Lin Hao's analysis, the Shrek Seven Devils' morale couldn't help sinking very low.
Flender felt even more as though he was about to be stripped of his very underwear.