Chapter 1: Shrek's Yu Xiaogang? Just a Bunch of Hypocrites!

As the half-suspended red sun rose to its zenith, the entire Douluo Continent grew increasingly hot.

Today started out as an ordinary day, but for the children in the Spirit Village, it was an important day for their martial spirit awakening.

However, unlike most villages, those responsible for their martial spirit awakening were not from the Spirit Hall but rather from Shrek Academy.

This is mainly because their village is located in a remote area, and most people are unaware of its existence. Moreover, the village is small, and the number of villagers is limited. Therefore, the Spirit Hall is not aware of the existence of this small village and has not established a branch nearby.

As a result, many years ago, the children in this village didn't have the opportunity to awaken their martial spirits initially. After all, for the villagers in this backward village, if they wanted to awaken their martial spirits, they had to travel to a big city. However, the distance between them and the big city was too far, and with a significant number of children in the village and plenty of agricultural work, they couldn't leave. As a result, by the time they had the time to awaken their martial spirits, it was already a long time later.

However, awakening their martial spirits after such a long time meant that they missed the best training period. Moreover, most children couldn't awaken any soul power, so they had to return to the village and continue their work and daily lives, stuck in an endless cycle.

Fortunately, several years ago, the principal of Shrek Academy, Flender, passed by this place and learned about their situation. He made an agreement with them, and from then on, every year on a specific date, representatives from Shrek Academy would visit and help the children in the village awaken their martial spirits.

The villagers and children were naturally grateful to Shrek Academy.

Although they later found out that it was during Shrek Academy's vacation time and that they were not the only village being helped, it didn't matter to them at all. As long as they could awaken their martial spirits, everything else was irrelevant to them.

Early in the morning, the villagers and their children gathered at the village gate, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Shrek Academy team. They were filled with anticipation and immense gratitude toward everyone from Shrek Academy.

Liu Yuan, as a transmigrator, was also among this group. It was his sixth year in the Douluo Continent, and today happened to be the day when he could awaken his martial spirit.

However...

For Liu Yuan, as a transmigrator, he had a complete understanding of all the stories and history of the Douluo Continent. Therefore, he was well aware of what kind of people these members of Shrek Academy were, and naturally, he had no favorable impression of them.

In his eyes, the higher-ups of Shrek Academy were mostly opportunistic individuals.

Their discrimination against talent had reached a whole new level.

They claimed that Shrek Academy's rules were designed to cultivate monsters...

Liu Yuan couldn't help but ask them: If they were all monsters, why did they need Shrek Academy to cultivate them?

If they were given a group of students with innate full soul power or students at the eighth or ninth level, any teacher could teach them, and they would still excel, right?

Moreover, the academy itself was nothing special.

If Shrek Academy had experienced teachers, a good school environment, and excellent teaching conditions, then it would be understandable.

But the problem was that they didn't have any of these.

The two strongest figures in Shrek Academy were Zhao Wujin and Flender, both of whom were only Soul Saints at the seventh rank at this stage. Compared to the teachers in the first-class academies like the Spirit Hall Academy or the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, they were nothing.

Not to mention the school environment and teaching conditions.

The school was just borrowed!

They made the students practice by sending them to the Great Spirit Arena for self-study. Then what was the use of this school? Why not join the Great Spirit Arena directly?

Therefore, Liu Yuan had a truly negative impression of this group of people.

And what bothered him even more didn't stop there.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, these two despicable individuals, let's not even talk about them. Liu Yuan felt the urge to skin them alive and pull out their tendons.

And then there's that famous quote from Flender: "Those who don't cause trouble are mediocre!"

Liu Yuan almost coughed up blood when he heard that.

It was the first time he felt that someone could so shamelessly endorse the act of bullying the weak and dominating the strong.

Wasn't it the case with the incident at Canghui Academy?

They didn't provoke them, but they couldn't control their mouths and ended up viciously beating them.

Is this what they called "mediocre" for not causing trouble?

Liu Yuan wasn't a saintly person, but he strongly disapproved of such behavior.

Therefore, he absolutely wouldn't have even a shred of goodwill toward anyone from Shrek Academy. As for joining Shrek Academy, that was out of the question. If Shrek Academy's rule was "those who don't cause trouble are mediocre," then Liu Yuan considered being a genius elsewhere.

Besides, they weren't genuinely interested in helping the village.

The reason they helped so many villages was simply to try their luck and see if there were any naturally talented geniuses they could reserve in advance.

After all, there weren't many fools on the Douluo Continent, and true geniuses wouldn't bother with the training environment provided by Shrek Academy. If they could find some geniuses through this method, it would be an opportunity for the academy.

Thinking of this, dissatisfaction appeared on his face.

He was initially unwilling to come and help the people from Shrek awaken their martial spirits today.

But he couldn't resist the village chief's persistent requests. Since Liu Yuan had been orphaned since childhood and had received the village chief's kindness ever since he came here, he felt he had to give face to the village chief after he had already spoken up like that.

"Master Flender, you've arrived!"

At that moment, Flender from Shrek Academy had already arrived.

Seeing Flender's arrival, the village chief and several villagers respectfully greeted him. Then they looked at another man and a group of young people behind him, all unfamiliar faces.

"Who are these?"

Flender smiled and introduced them.

"This is my good friend, Yu Xiaogang."

"You may not know his name, but he's the number one theoretical expert on the Douluo Continent."

"There's nothing he doesn't know in terms of theoretical knowledge. In this field, even the Three Supremes, the Spirit Hall, and the two empires can't compare to him. You're fortunate to have him here today!"

"As for these people, they are our students. Anyone who can join our academy and receive guidance will achieve success. Look at them, they're only teenagers, but under our guidance, those with weaker soul power have already reached over twenty ranks, and those with stronger soul power are already at the thirty-rank level. It's the result of the teaching ability of our Shrek Academy's teachers. Where else can you find such skill?"