Fan Yu Appeared!

Just as Mu Jin and Zhou Yi were locked in a standoff, a loud voice filled the room. "What are you two doing?"

"Fan Yu!!"

A tall, broad-built middle-aged man strode toward them.

The man was about 1.8 meters tall, with broad shoulders. He wore simple cloth clothes that left his two thick arms bare, their muscles sharply defined like granite.

His facial features were evenly proportioned, and his gaze was deep. Even standing still, he gave people the illusion that they were looking at a mountain.

This man was Zhou Yi's husband and the man Mu Jin had loved during his student days. His name was Fan Yu.

Fan Yu was both a Soul Douluo and a Level 8 Soul Engineer, as well as one of the strongest candidates for the position of vice dean of Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department.

Looking at Zhou Yi and Mu Jin, who were just short of coming to blows, Fan Yu sighed helplessly.

Back then, he had clearly rejected Mu Jin's feelings and chosen Zhou Yi as his partner.

But even after all these years, Fan Yu could tell that Mu Jin had not let go of his feelings for him. To be honest, he rather missed the days when Zhou Yi and Mu Jin had been close as sisters.

Yet their old friendship had long since shattered beyond repair because their beliefs had diverged.

In truth, Fan Yu also felt that his wife had gone a little too far when she expelled Mu Jin's younger brother back then.

But Fan Yu had ultimately been the one to benefit from that incident, so he had no right to rebuke his wife for her decision.

He could only try to persuade her at home to change her overly strict approach to teaching. Unfortunately, no matter how he had tried over the past few years, Zhou Yi had stubbornly refused to change.

She had also said, "We're husband and wife, but that doesn't mean we have to agree on everything. I have my teaching philosophy, and you have yours. Time will tell whose is right."

With his wife having put it that way, what else could Fan Yu do? He could only indulge her and let her have her way, while hoping that a student suited to her educational philosophy would appear.

The reason Zhou Yi dared to expel students so recklessly at Shrek Academy was that she relied on her husband's standing in the Soul Tool Department. Otherwise, the academic affairs office would have dismissed her long ago.

After all, quite a few of the people she had expelled were promising talents. It was heartbreaking to see them leave like that.

Fan Yu looked at the two of them and said in a steady voice, "What are you doing here? If there's nothing you need, don't block the way."

Zhou Yi and Mu Jin both took the hint and stopped looking at each other. They knew perfectly well that this was no place for them to quarrel.

"So what exactly do you need? Is there something special that brought you to the Soul Tool Department with students at this hour?"

In response to Fan Yu's question, Zhou Yi dropped her usual airs and said, "I came because of that matter you mentioned before."

"Which matter? I've mentioned plenty of things. Could you be a little more specific?" Fan Yu replied helplessly.

"The matter you mentioned before, about someone from the mental system using the Soul Tool Department."

"He has the Mental Attribute?" Fan Yu looked at Huo Yuhao beside Zhou Yi. After observing him for a while, he said, "He'll do, I suppose. Level fifteen Soul Power is only just a passing grade. Go wait for me in laboratory two."

Zhou Yi nodded, then took Huo Yuhao deeper into the Soul Tool Department building.

Fan Yu turned to Mu Jin. "What about you?"

Seeing Fan Yu's indifferent gaze, Mu Jin felt a flare of anger, but he ultimately suppressed both his anger and jealousy.

After composing himself, Mu Jin said, "Two of my students want to take courses in your Soul Tool Department as a secondary subject, so I brought them here to have a look."

After listening to Mu Jin, Fan Yu briefly sensed Xu Xingyu and the other student behind him. To his surprise, he found that one was already a high-level Soul Elder, while the other was a Soul Grandmaster.

He looked at Mu Jin with a trace of puzzlement and asked, "Are you sure? Given their cultivation, I think our Soul Tool Department would be very happy to have them, but I don't think the Martial Soul Department will let such outstanding talents go."

Mu Jin replied calmly, "Xu Yanxue is the only one who wants to join your Soul Tool Department. As for Xu Xingyu, he simply wants to take your courses as a secondary subject and has no intention of joining your department."

"I see. Then go up to the second floor and find the teachers there. They'll test their Soul Tool fundamentals. Whether they get what they want will be up to them. I'll return to the laboratory now. Have a pleasant day, Teacher Mu."

With that, Fan Yu left without looking back, heading in the direction Zhou Yi had gone. Mu Jin watched his retreating figure with a complicated look in his eyes.

Just then, Xu Xingyu asked with concern, "Teacher Mu, are you all right?"

Mu Jin realized that he seemed to have gotten a little distracted. He looked at his student with a bitter smile and said, "Sorry you had to see your teacher in such an unseemly state. All right, let's go to the second floor as Teacher Fan Yu said."

Mu Jin led the two of them to the second floor of the Soul Tool Department, where they met the teachers in charge of recruitment. After they had each been assigned an examiner, they were taken to a laboratory to prepare for their Soul Tool Department entrance examinations.

However, something unexpected happened. Just as Xu Xingyu's examination began, a rough, booming voice rang out in the laboratory.

"Leave this child's examination to me!"

A burly man appeared before Xu Xingyu. The examining teacher and Teacher Mu Jin, who were watching nearby, were struck speechless at the sight of him.

The burly man looked to be in his fifties. There were no wrinkles on his face, but his white hair stood like steel needles, and his face was slightly weathered.

He was tall and imposing, standing about two meters high, with bronze skin and strong, powerful muscles.

The elder who had left the examining teacher and Mu Jin speechless was none other than Qian Duoduo, the current vice dean of the Soul Tool Department and one of the Sea God Pavilion's senior elders, whose Martial Soul was the Black Dragon Shield!

The vice dean had come here because, after hearing that two new students wanted to take Soul Tool Department courses as a secondary subject, he had curiously looked over their applications.

And what a discovery he made! Wasn't one of the students Xu Xingyu, the suspected divine examinee Mu En had spoken of when he convened an emergency Sea God Pavilion Meeting yesterday?

Qian Duoduo was astonished. He had never imagined that Xu Xingyu, with his outstanding cultivation talent, would also study Soul Tools!

If the child was as exceptionally gifted with Soul Tools as he was in cultivation, wouldn't he be perfectly suited to their Soul Tool Department's ultimate soldier plan?

A divine examinee as an ultimate soldier?! Qian Duoduo hardly dared imagine it. If it truly came to pass, the Douluo Continent would never again need to fear the Sun Moon Empire's wolfish ambition!

Therefore, if the talent Xu Xingyu displayed was strong enough, he would definitely persuade Mu En to make him a core disciple of their Soul Tool Department!

At that thought, Qian Duoduo checked the time and saw that Xu Xingyu's examination was about to begin. He hurried to the corresponding examination room, eager to see just what kind of person Xu Xingyu was and whether he really was as extraordinary as Mu En had said!

Many years later, Qian Duoduo would be deeply grateful for this decision of his, because at this very moment, he was about to witness the dawn of a new era of Soul Tools!