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Chapter 46 Bibi Dong: Shrek Academy is a menace! (Second Update)

Even if she was dissatisfied, she had already come all this way, so she had no choice but to enroll with Tang San. She didn't actually have high demands for the academy's resources; as a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form, her cultivation speed was already extremely fast. Besides, she found Shrek Academy's admission slogan quite interesting—they only admitted genius soul masters as students, making them the only academy on the entire continent with more teachers than students.

What Xiao Wu didn't know was that Shrek Academy's existence wasn't officially recognized; it didn't have a so-called academy license. Its most powerful dean, Flander, was only a high-level Soul Saint in his seventies. If Shrek Academy were to be ranked, it could be considered a high-level Soul Master academy.

However, this is just a smokescreen for the people near Soto City. Even if Shrek Academy gains the recognition of the Barak Kingdom, as a high-level Soul Master academy, it's not among the top in the entire continent. Within the Heaven Dou Empire, which academy's highest combat power isn't at the Soul Douluo level? Even if not, they are extremely close to or possess Soul Douluo-level combat power.

[From this perspective, Shrek Academy's faculty isn't top-notch, and its teaching resources are practically nonexistent. Most absurdly, the academy's meals consist of nothing more than steamed buns and pickled vegetables. It was only later, when Yu Xiaogang arrived at Shrek Academy, that he managed to extract a considerable amount of gold soul coins from the miserly Flander to supplement Tang San's food and even provide him with medicinal baths, all so that Tang San could eat better.]

Even so, the gap between their academy and the top-tier advanced soul master academies is still enormous. Without a simulated training environment and unable to participate in the Soul Master Competition, what right does Shrek Academy have to claim that it only recruits genius young soul masters?

[The admission standards are: a twelve-year-old with a soul power level of twenty and possessing soul rings of the hundred-year standard configuration. Even then, one still needs to pass four entrance examinations. But that's not enough for them. The hard requirement is a soul power level of twenty-five or higher. Those who pass the second and third examinations are exempt, and regardless of whether they pass the fourth examination, they are considered admitted.]

[In other words, Soul Masters below level 25 and under the age of twelve are nothing more than tools for them to make money. Registration requires a payment of ten gold soul coins, and there are no refunds for failed entrance exams—it's utterly ridiculous!]

[A twelve-year-old Soul Master at level twenty, and since they chose to come to a run-down academy like Shrek, it means they weren't nobles to begin with. Otherwise, how would they have gotten into Shrek? Since they're not nobles, it means their Soul Power improvement mostly relies on their own cultivation. Yet, at the age of twelve, they've cultivated to level twenty Soul Power, meaning their innate Soul Power is at least level five or six, or even higher. In the eyes of others, this is already considered child prodigy, but Shrek isn't satisfied yet!]

The most ridiculous thing is Yu Xiaogang's theory: there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters. But doesn't he know that he himself is that useless one? With only half a level of innate soul power, if it weren't for the support of his family's various resources, he would never have reached level twenty-nine soul power before he died.

[And in the end, he even had the audacity to say, "I have cultivated a disciple of a god." Keep in mind that Tang San, in the eyes of outsiders, possessed innate full soul power and twin martial souls. Even without Yu Xiaogang's theoretical input, Tang San could still achieve such a feat on his own!]

[That's what I find most contemptible. Shrek Academy recruits geniuses, and the academy doesn't offer much help to its students. How dare you say that you've nurtured all these geniuses?]

[Furthermore, Shrek Academy has been established for about twenty years, enrolling more than forty students, but only a dozen or so actually graduated. Where did the rest go? Most likely, they died while hunting spirit beasts; Shrek's teachers simply couldn't protect them!]

The graduation requirements for Shrek Academy are clear: one must reach level 40 in spirit power before the age of twenty and obtain a silver spirit badge at the Soto City Grand Arena to graduate. However, in the original story, when Tang San and Xiao Wu enrolled, besides a few teachers, the only other senior students were Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, who were of the same generation as Tang San and his friends. So where did all the other senior students who hadn't graduated go?

Since none of them have graduated, they should at least be staying near the college, right? But I haven't seen a single person. That's really interesting!

[Flander is a bit of a hypocrite. Shrek Academy could have been recognized by the Kingdom of Barak, but the Kingdom of Barak required graduates to serve them, which Flander refused. There's nothing wrong with that in itself. But he's a Soul Saint, after all. Can't he really get even a single license? If he can't get recognition from the duchy, he can get recognition from a sect!]

[Academies aren't only for states; sects can run them too. Liu Erlong's Blue Tyrant Academy, a commoner's academy, is openly located in Tiandou City without being bothered by nobles. If it weren't for the support of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family, those spoiled nobles might very well cause trouble.]

[Flander and Liu Erlong are so close, why didn't he ask her for help? With Liu Erlong's help, would the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan refuse? It's just an academy, not a huge request.]

[So I really find it hard to understand, is Flander's attitude truly that of someone who wants to properly run an academy?]

After seeing the above, apart from some female onlookers, most people who were more or less connected to Shrek Academy fell silent.

Most of the female protagonists did not expect that the admission standards of a small Shrek Academy would be so strict, and the graduation requirements would be just as strict.

You're an academy with nothing, and instead of properly nurturing talented students who join you, you set such a graduation requirement.

Furthermore, based on Dai Yichen's words, it can be inferred that, not all of those students who did not graduate, there must have been quite a few who died because the academy teachers failed to protect them in time while they were hunting soul beasts. After all, those who participate in the Soul Fighting Competition usually choose the game of strategy, which is unlikely to result in death.

Putting everything else aside, Bibi Dong, as the actual person in charge of the Spirit Hall Academy, was heartbroken. Although Shrek Academy had not recruited many students in more than 20 years, they were all genius young spirit masters, and most likely commoners, yet they were all ruined like this!

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If they were to be trained by the Spirit Hall, in the next twenty years, the Spirit Hall would have at least ten more experts at the Soul Master level or above!

(End of this chapter)