Douluo: Yu Hao Pan Tang San

Chapter 150, Section 167: Honor belongs to Shrek Academy, fault to the students.
For example, apart from a few strong Soul Masters, Shrek Academy couldn't even provide the basic training needs of its students, such as the Mimicry Cultivation method. The makeshift team had only just started teaching students and lacked experience. This resulted in some of the originally gifted students falling behind in their cultivation and failing to reach the Soul Master level by graduation, thus causing them to drop out of Shrek Academy.

These dropouts weren't necessarily lacking in effort; the real problem lies in the inadequacy of Shrek Academy.

When students are unable to graduate due to Shrek Academy's responsibility rather than their own fault, Flander devised a set of excuses: "Our Shrek Academy trains monsters, not trash. If you're not level 41, don't call yourself a member of Shrek Academy. We at Shrek Academy can't afford to lose face like that."

Thus, those who successfully graduated and those who did not were further divided. The graduates, carrying the glory of monsters and the sense of superiority of monsters carefully cultivated by Dean Flander, walked out with their heads held high, proudly declaring wherever they went, "I am a member of Shrek Academy," completely unconcerned about the way people looked at them as if they were idiots.

Those who didn't graduate could only swallow their resentment. Why? Didn't they see the student who protested to the college being whipped by Zhao Wuji and howling in pain?

And so, spring came and autumn went, year after year, until finally, in the third year, a crisis struck.

Before we begin to discuss this crisis, let's first look at how Lake Academy trains its students without adequate infrastructure.

Flanders' training method involves high-intensity drills and real-world combat.

Therefore, Shrek students were often taken to the Soto City Soul Arena to fight directly. Flander even invented a little line for his monster theory: "Those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre" (the original should be: "Those who are not envied are mediocre"). Shrek Academy took this as its guideline and deliberately provoked other Soul Masters for no reason, taking the bullying of the weak and fear of the strong to the extreme. However, not every provocation went smoothly, and sometimes they encountered tough opponents.

Of course, the most dangerous time is when hunting souls. Shrek Academy will have teachers supervise the students during soul hunting, allowing them to engage in direct hand-to-hand combat with the soul beasts.

However, not every student is as overpowered as Tang San, so in such a life-or-death battle, a little accident is bound to happen.

It was a sunny summer day when Zhao Wuji led three students to hunt souls in the Star Dou Great Forest. They went there as three students, but they returned with a crippled student and the corpses of several other students covered with white sheets.

Looking at the dead student, Flander pointed angrily at Zhao Wuji and said, "How exactly do you teach students?"

Zhao Wuji said with a pained expression, "I'm sorry, Dean, I had a little to drink before entering the forest, so I was a bit tipsy."

"What am I supposed to say to you?"

“Now that things have come to this, it is all my responsibility. I request to relinquish my position as a Shrek Academy combat instructor to make amends for the students who died or were maimed due to my negligence,” Zhao Wuji said.

Flander said angrily, "Do you think you can solve this problem by dismissing your teacher position? The real headache is the students' parents."

This was the first crisis that Lake Academy had ever faced that threatened to close down. After receiving news of their child's death, the students' parents immediately came to the academy to protest.

It should be noted that these students who were taken in by Shilek were all 12 years old and had cultivation talents of level 20 or above. Even in the Brahmin families, these students would be outstanding offspring who would be given special attention, let alone in the Vaishya families.

They were practically the hope of the family; their deaths effectively ended the Vaishya family's future rise to power. The hatred was immense. An agitated parent angrily held a funeral at the gates of Lake Academy, demanding an explanation from the academy.

Directly opposite the Shrek Academy gate were white ribbons, white papers fluttering in the air, students' posthumous drawings, and his coffin—it was incredibly eerie.

Flander, Zhao Wuji, and the others were completely bewildered.

"Damn it, if we let these people keep causing trouble, will Shrek Academy still be able to operate? I may have had a little to drink and didn't pay attention, but is your child completely without any problems? We are raising monsters, not trash. If your son were such a waste, would he have been killed by a soul beast?" Zhao Wuji was filled with anger and frustration at this moment, and his guilt had long since disappeared.

“Yes, that’s right.” Zhao Wuji’s complaint made Flander’s eyes light up.

He immediately contacted the Kingdom of Barak. As a Soul Emperor, he still had some influence in front of the King of Barak, and he asked the King to help him suppress the impact of this matter.

Then, Shrek Academy upheld its long-standing tradition of giving credit to Shrek and taking the blame upon the students.

It's not that the academy is bad, it's that your students are too weak. Our academy trains monsters, not trash. The fact that your son died in battle against a soul beast only proves that your son is trash.

The students' parents could not accept this response, and they made an even bigger fuss.

However, with the support of the Kingdom of Barak behind them, Lake Academy directly cracked down on these troublesome parents.

Zhao Wuji stormed into the funeral outside Shrek Academy, kicked over a coffin, grabbed a large leather whip, and started whipping people without asking whether they were men, women, or children, making the troublemakers howl in pain.

“Your son was killed by a soul beast, you shouldn’t be asking the school, but reflecting on your own actions. You should look for problems within yourself. If he weren’t so weak, would this accident have happened?” Zhao Wuji said to the student’s parents with a righteous tone, “This is Shrek Academy, a gathering place for monsters, not a place for you to cause trouble. Don’t blame Shrek Academy for everything.”

"But, if you had..."

"You dare talk back?" Before the child's mother could finish speaking, Zhao Wuji lashed out with his whip, making her scream in pain.

Under the military pressure from Shrek Academy and the strong backing from the Barak Empire, Shrek Academy narrowly escaped this crisis.

This incident became a guiding principle for Shrek Academy. Among the 42 students who would later graduate, some had died in accidents.

Given Shrek Academy's overbearing approach and the oppressive class system in this society, the parents of these students, who had just climbed to the Vaishya class, could only swallow this bitter pill. (Why did Shrek Academy later treat Tang San and his group so preciously? Consider this: Ma Hongjun was Flander's disciple, Oscar possessed innate full soul power of the food type, Dai Mubai was a prince, Zhu Zhuqing was a duke's daughter, Tang San was the eldest son of the Haotian Douluo, and Ning Rongrong belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Which of them wasn't a Brahmin, which of them wasn't a Kshatriya? Even setting aside whether they could afford to offend them, Shrek Academy had successfully forged an alliance with the Brahmins and Kshatriyas. Their chance to leap over the dragon gate was right before their eyes. Would they really want to die if they didn't cherish them?)
(End of this chapter)