Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 55 Distorted Teaching

Huo Yuhao took out a cake and handed it to the other person. He had originally bought the cake on a whim when he saw it at a pastry shop after get off work, intending to bring it to his mother, but now he had to reluctantly give it up.

Seeing Huo Yuhao magically produce an exquisite cake from his storage soul tool, the girl chuckled, and the sadness in her eyes faded considerably.

"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't expect our teacher this year to be that old witch Zhou Yi again. In the past two years, almost twenty of our classmates have been kicked out by that old witch for various reasons. There are only fifty-odd people in our class."

As the girl spoke, her face grew increasingly irritated, and she scratched her head vigorously: "My grades were only average in my class to begin with, and this old woman is still teaching us this year. Who knows when I might get kicked out? If that happens, how am I supposed to tell my parents when I get home?!"

The girl became increasingly agitated as she spoke, her once cute face scrunched up in a frown, and she rubbed her face with both hands, completely disregarding her image.

"Physical training? All they know is that piece of crap, sprinting and weighted running all day long. What the hell are they running?"

After chatting with the girl for a while, Huo Yuhao finally understood why she was under so much pressure, to the point that she was forced to sob quietly in a corner of the library while still reading diligently.

According to the girl, during the two years that Zhou Yi was in charge of the class, the only physical training she conducted for all of them was running, either sprinting, or weighted running, or at the very least, sprinting with weights.

During this period, those who cheated and shirked their duties were expelled, those who couldn't persevere were expelled, and even a student who got her period halfway through was forcibly cured by a therapy teacher invited by Zhou Yi, and then made to continue running.

The girl who was menstruating couldn't stand Zhou Yi's brutal teaching methods and started sobbing. She was seen as a rebel against her teaching principles. Although she wasn't expelled on the spot, Zhou Yi kept finding fault with her for a while and eventually drove her away completely in just two weeks.

After completing their daily grueling physical training, the only rest time the group had was for treatment; the rest of the time was spent attending theoretical classes.

According to Zhou Yi, only by pushing a person's potential to the limit can a Soul Master's body become stronger. If that's the case, by pushing one's potential to the limit every day, one can become stronger than yesterday. The students she expelled who couldn't persevere weren't lacking in physical strength, but rather in mental weakness.

Huo Yuhao initially thought that Zhou Yi's words weren't entirely without merit, since pushing people to their limits was the only way to become stronger, and Huo Yuhao didn't think there was anything wrong with that.

When Huo Yuhao faced a peerless expert he could not defeat, he once entered a state of "flow" even when he was in extremely poor condition. He became engrossed in every slash of his sword and blade, and finally launched a counterattack to kill the peerless expert who was originally insurmountable.

However, after hearing the second half of Zhou Yi's sentence, Huo Yuhao silently withdrew his agreement with Zhou Yi.

Because "pushing one's potential to the limit can make one stronger," therefore "pushing one's potential to the limit every day will make one stronger than yesterday"—what kind of utter nonsense is this?

There is a finite limit to what the human body can bear, and this limit includes not only physical limits but also mental limits.

Not to mention whether the healing teacher can restore the damaged body to its original state after squeezing the body to the extreme every day, the tormented spirit will not only not become more resilient without long-term recuperation, but will be completely crushed!

The girl in front of me, who couldn't help but sob quietly while studying in the library, is the best example.

Even though there were no course requirements or physical training during the first period of the new semester, the girl still felt an overwhelming sense of fear because Zhou Yi was still her homeroom teacher after arriving at Shrek Academy. Even so, she was still making the most of her time to study theoretical knowledge. What kind of distorted teaching pressure is this?

Huo Yuhao lowered his head slightly and looked at the girl's legs. Her once straight and smooth legs now showed slight deformities at the joints.

If Zhou Yi continues to subject the students in Class One to this level of physical training this semester, perhaps the other students with stronger physical qualities and soul power levels can barely withstand the torment, but the girl in front of her will inevitably be expelled.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao felt even more disdainful of Zhou Yi's statement that "the students who couldn't persevere and were expelled by her were not lacking in physical strength, but simply weak-willed."

A person may be able to ignore their injuries once or twice, but the essence of this behavior is actually to move the life behind them to the front and overdraw it. Huo Yuhao never denied that strong willpower can make a person unleash power far beyond what is normal, but he also knew very well that this extraordinary burst of power would ultimately cost his own body.

The library was not a suitable place for conversation. After leaving the library, Huo Yuhao walked around the Sea God Lake with the girl for a while before he roughly understood the students' process of resistance.

Those students who were expelled by Zhou Yi for various reasons did resist; many even went directly to the college leadership to complain. However, the final result was always the same: "College teachers have authorized independent teaching methods, and being expelled for failing to meet the school's teaching requirements is normal."

"After those students were sent home, did they try to pressure the school again through their family connections?"

Huo Yuhao frowned and asked the girl a question, but he quickly figured out why.

Being expelled from Shrek Academy is a very disgraceful thing for students, let alone being expelled by a teacher.

Most students who are expelled would rather tell their families that they did not meet Shrek Academy's selection criteria, that their fighting spirit and theoretical scores were not good enough, and that they were eliminated because they could not compete with more outstanding students, than tell their families that they were expelled by the school teachers for some inexplicable reason.

After all, most students don't have just one peer in their family, and they often compete with their siblings.

Shrek Academy eliminates a number of students every year. Being eliminated might be barely acceptable, but being expelled by name by a teacher would greatly affect a student's standing within their family once it becomes known.

(End of this chapter)