Were They Raising Bullies or Strong Fighters?

After entering the classroom, Zhou Yi swept her gaze over everyone present and said, "My name is Zhou Yi, and I'm your homeroom teacher. I don't know how many of you will make it through the coming year with me, but let me tell you this: no trash will pass the assessments in my class. I'm here to raise monsters, not idiots."

As soon as she finished speaking, the students below the podium began to protest. Back in their hometowns, they had all been called geniuses, yet according to this teacher, they were nothing but worthless trash!

What normal person could tolerate such mockery? Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao were the only two unaffected by Zhou Yi's words.

The former, Wang Dong'er, had been mentally prepared thanks to the information Xu Xingyu had given her; the latter had grown used to such things because of his past experiences and understood that anyone who failed to work hard would inevitably be cast aside.

"Quiet!"

At Zhou Yi's command, every student present felt a powerful pressure. They could only shut their mouths and curse the teacher inwardly for not playing by the rules.

What they didn't know was that their nightmare had only just begun.

"Anyone who's been in a fight since registration began, stand up."

The students were baffled. Classes had only started a few days ago; who would be idle enough to go looking for a fight?

Yet two people really did stand up: Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er.

Just as in the original story, Zhou Yi berated the other students for not having fought, saying they had no fighting spirit.

As punishment, Zhou Yi ordered the entire class to run a hundred laps around the field downstairs before the end of class.

Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao, meanwhile, were kept behind to be questioned about why they had fought.

Huo Yuhao explained that he had fought with his roommate, Yuanen Tiandong, because of a conflict between them.

Yuanen Tiandong was also a student in Class One, but he hadn't stood up when Zhou Yi asked earlier!

At that thought, Zhou Yi began looking for a reason to expel Yuanen Tiandong. Someone who dared to do something but not own up to it had no right to stay at Shrek Academy!

Afterward, Zhou Yi praised Huo Yuhao for having fighting spirit.

When it was Wang Dong'er's turn, he explained that he and his roommate were already friends, so they had wanted to spar and see how much the other had grown.

Zhou Yi had originally wanted to praise Wang Dong'er's desire to improve as well, but then she learned that Wang Dong'er had lost the spar and that the roommate was a student of her archrival, Mu Jin!

Furious, Zhou Yi scolded Wang Dong'er as an arrogant piece of trash. Sparring was fine, but she had to win!

She especially had to go all out when fighting someone from another class, because everyone from the other classes at this academy was an enemy and a rival!

Wang Dong'er retorted, "It was just a friendly spar, and we both held back during the fight, but overall, we still used the means available to us as much as we could."

Zhou Yi bluntly said that she had probably been toyed with from start to finish, because Wang Dong'er was so clean that she didn't have even a single wound.

After that, Zhou Yi subjected Wang Dong'er to another round of cold mockery, saying he was merely a fool who couldn't see the gap in strength.

Before Wang Dong'er could argue further, she sent the two of them downstairs and specifically told Wang Dong'er that, because of this defeat, she had to run twenty extra laps, for a total of a hundred and twenty.

Wang Dong'er had wanted to argue with Zhou Yi, but after recalling Xu Xingyu's instructions, she forcibly suppressed her dissatisfaction with Zhou Yi and went downstairs to run.

Through this incident, Wang Dong'er truly saw just how unreasonable this rumored devil of a teacher was.

She could clearly sense that the teacher had made her run extra laps not because she had fought, but because she had lost to someone from another class.

Was she raising strong fighters or bullies? This person really wasn't fit to be a teacher!

Wang Dong'er also sensed that Zhou Yi and Mu Jin, the homeroom teacher of Class Nine, were archrivals. Much of the punishment she was now receiving was therefore for the absurd reason that old hag Zhou couldn't stand her archrival's student being stronger than her own.

But Wang Dong'er was no match for her homeroom teacher at present, so she could only obediently accept this so-called punishment.

She would remember this grudge! Thirty years the river flows east, thirty years it flows west; don't look down on a poor young man... bah! A poor young woman!

At that moment, Wang Dong'er suddenly thought of Xu Xingyu and silently hoped he wasn't having as miserable a time as she was. If all the teachers at Shrek Academy were like this, Wang Dong'er really had to question the academy's character.

Before long, Wang Dong'er finished all hundred and twenty laps thanks to her formidable physique. Huo Yuhao, who had arrived late with her, finished his hundred laps just in time.

Wang Dong'er was somewhat surprised. As far as she could sense, Huo Yuhao's Soul Power Level was only fifteen, so it was no easy feat for him to finish all hundred laps on his own within the time limit after losing some of that time.

What Wang Dong'er didn't know was that, although Huo Yuhao's Soul Power might only be at level fifteen, the black bead in his body gave him a physique comparable to that of a Soul Grandmaster above level twenty-five.

Thus, running a hundred laps wasn't much of a problem for him. At most, the time he had lost with Zhou Yi was why he had only just scraped through.

After everyone had finished running, Zhou Yi came to the field, called out ten names, and told those students they could pack up and go home. The ten students were furious and demanded to know why.

Zhou Yi's reason was that they had secretly slacked off during the run, and her class had no need for people who tried to cut corners. She then unleashed the pressure of a Soul Emperor, leaving them no choice but to take the matter up with the director of studies.

But among the ten, one person did not leave with the other nine. That person was Yuanen Tiandong.

Yuanen Tiandong declared that he could swear on his Martial Soul that he hadn't slacked off during the hundred laps, and questioned why Zhou Yi was expelling him.

Zhou Yi gave him no face. She bluntly pointed out that when she had told everyone who had fought to stand up in class earlier, he alone had failed to do so, and that was why he was being expelled.

Even after hearing the reason, Yuanen Tiandong refused to accept it. Instead, he became even more defiant, declaring that he would stay right there in the class and see what Zhou Yi could do to him.

Zhou Yi once again released her Soul Emperor pressure, trying to force Yuanen Tiandong into submission. But for some reason, Yuanen Tiandong endured her pressure without budging an inch.

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised, and because of the perseverance Yuanen Tiandong had shown, she gave him a chance to stay in Class One: he had to defeat Wang Dong'er. If he defeated Wang Dong'er, who had the highest Soul Power cultivation in the class, he could also become class monitor.

Yuanen Tiandong agreed to Zhou Yi's terms because he had a goal he wanted to achieve: defeat Xu Xingyu, marry Wang Dong'er, and become her husband.

Yes, even though Xu Xingyu had broken both his hands several years ago, he still hadn't given up pursuing Wang Dong'er, especially since he had gained Er Ming's approval after that incident.

Wang Dong'er had previously asked Er Ming to teach the Yuanen Family a lesson because she hated them. But when Er Ming arrived at the Yuanen Family's ancestral grounds, he discovered that they were actually his descendants. His hatred vanished in an instant, and he took Yuanen Tiandong as his disciple.

Perhaps because he saw in Yuanen Tiandong the person he had once been when pursuing Xiao Wu, he did not stop Yuanen Tiandong from pursuing Wang Dong'er. Instead, he even said he supported his feelings.

This was mainly because Er Ming had never been very happy about Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er's engagement. Not only had the engagement been agreed to under duress, but Xu Xingyu was also a man with affections for many and would not love Wang Dong'er alone.

Thus, in his heart, Yuanen Tiandong was a better match for Wang Dong'er, whom he had regarded as a daughter since she was little, than Xu Xingyu.

What he didn't know, however, was that Wang Dong'er's heart belonged entirely to Xu Xingyu, and she regarded their engagement as a blessing rather than an agreement made under duress.

As for Yuanen Tiandong, Wang Dong'er felt disgust toward him, because in her eyes, he was a bully who did whatever he pleased. And in fact, that was true.

Yuanen Tiandong had once tried to use his family's power to force Wang Dong'er to submit to him. On the first day of school, he had also beaten Huo Yuhao viciously because Huo Yuhao refused to become his underling.

From this, it was clear that Yuanen Tiandong was a bully. No wonder Zhou Yi had given someone like him a chance. After all, she was someone who raised bullies, so how could she see such a bully and not nurture him?

Thus, Wang Dong'er held nothing back in this fight. Instead, she attacked Yuanen Tiandong with all her strength, giving him no chance to counterattack. Yuanen Tiandong had originally intended to hold back against this male who looked so much like the Wang Dong'er he admired. After all, this person might be his future brother-in-law.

But who would have thought that the boy before him, as pretty as a girl, would act as though he bore a grudge against him, giving him no chance to respond? Yuanen Tiandong was soon defeated, and after his defeat, Zhou Yi told him he could leave.

With a desolate expression, Yuanen Tiandong could only leave Freshman Class One and head to the academic affairs office to see whether he could still remain at Shrek Academy.