The teachers and students of Shrek Academy didn't care much about the academy's difficulties.
At worst, they could simply withdraw from the academy or resign from their positions. After all, Shrek Academy had already become incredibly weak.
Many of the teachers and students who had transferred to Seven Treasure Academy had friends and relatives among those who remained. Watching Seven Treasure Academy grow stronger by the day, it was only natural that the remaining staff and students would begin thinking about transferring as well.
Both teachers and students wanted to leave while Shrek Academy still retained some influence, hoping to gain better cultivation resources or higher positions at other academies.
If they really did as Ma Hongjun suggested, it would only accelerate Shrek Academy's decline.
Flender lightly tapped the corner of his desk, putting on the dignity of a dean.
"Enough. Stop complaining in front of me."
"Grandmaster may be resting, but your cultivation can't fall behind. Tianheng, you're the captain, so organize everyone and continue training."
The Shrek Seven Devils didn't leave immediately.
The real reason they had come here was to carry out Tang San's suggestion from the previous night and ask Flender to take them to the Star Dou Forest to hunt a Spirit Beast.
After hearing Tang San's reasoning, Flender agreed.
"If we're going to take revenge on Dugu Bo, then leaving to hunt Spirit Beasts is indeed our chance to remove ourselves from the situation. As long as we have a reasonable alibi, we can stay out of it and avoid retaliation."
"So, make good use of your time."
Even now, Flender's starting point was still the academy's interests.
Since most people supported taking revenge on Dugu Bo, the only thing he could do was protect the academy as much as possible within those circumstances.
His words immediately enlightened the Shrek Seven Devils, and they all smiled in delight.
Although Seven Treasure Academy had only recently been established, Feng Xiaotian and the Huo siblings had joined it, and the Feng, Shui, and Huo families had also begun moving closer to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan. As a result, the alliance of academies formed under the leadership of those three families accepted Seven Treasure Academy as one of its members.
This alliance originally consisted of the Four Element Academies and the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy.
Because the management of Heavenly Dou Royal Academy had undergone a major reshuffle, its ties with the Four Element Academies had gradually weakened over the past six months, and it had missed many joint activities.
Now that Seven Treasure Academy had joined, the Five Academy Alliance officially became the Six Academy Alliance.
At Feng Changlin's suggestion, they decided to hold an exchange event using Seven Treasure Academy's facilities.
Since Spirit Masters valued martial strength above all else, exchanges between Spirit Master academies naturally centered on sparring and competition.
This time, Heavenly Dou Royal Academy still did not participate. Furthermore, since the leading competitors of Blazing Academy and Godwind Academy had joined the Seven Treasure Team, the usual pre-tournament exchanges and sparring sessions between academy teams were not held.
Instead, the exchange event focused on competitions among ordinary students from the various academies.
Since there would be no team exchanges or sparring sessions, and to avoid occupying the academy grounds for too long and disrupting classes, Seven Treasure Academy decided to hold the team selection tournament and the academy exchange event simultaneously.
In theory, a student from Seven Treasure Academy could finish participating in the team selection tournament and immediately join the academy exchange event afterward.
After the main team member challenge matches ended, Wu Qi and the others were finally free.
The team lineup remained unchanged, and no one had been eliminated, which was entirely expected.
Since most of the academy grounds were occupied, and everyone had been exhausted lately, Wu Qi only arranged for the nightly team spirit battles and allowed everyone to rest during the rest of the day.
However, with the Spirit Master Tournament drawing ever closer, everyone had already adjusted their mindset and entered a state of preparation.
During this break, almost everyone spent their time cultivating in their dormitories. Even when they went out to relax, they never stayed out for more than an hour.
Half a month later, late at night, a secret letter from the Spirit Hall of Heavenly Dou City was delivered to Wu Qi.
Xue Qinghe had already read the letter beforehand and, finding it amusing, had sent it to him.
"What's inside this?" Wu Qi asked in confusion.
Spirit Hall's secret letters were divided into ranks. From lowest to highest, they were: white, yellow, purple, black, and red. Different levels of letters corresponded to the status of those qualified to read them.
Red-level letters could only be viewed by the Pope and the Elders, while black-level letters could only be accessed by Platinum Bishops and above.
The letter in Wu Qi's hands was a black-level letter.
Ordinarily, he had no authority to read it, but there were exceptions.
After Salas had read it, he deemed the information to be of little value and allowed it to be shown to others, which was essentially a small loophole in the rules.
Filled with curiosity, Wu Qi opened the letter.
With his spiritual power, he finished reading its contents almost at a glance.
A strange expression immediately appeared on his face, somewhere between laughter and disbelief.
He casually tossed the letter aside, and his expression suddenly turned cold.
"Utterly foolish Who came up with this?"
The contents of the letter were simple. It claimed that Dugu Bo had slaughtered a Spirit Hall squad in the Sunset Forest. The writer claimed to be an eyewitness and, fearing that their identity would be exposed and bring down the wrath of a Titled Douluo, had chosen to report the incident to Spirit Hall anonymously.
Leaving aside whether Dugu Bo would really leave such obvious evidence behind, the claim of personally witnessing him kill someone was already unrealistic.
A Titled Douluo's sensory range far exceeded the limits of an ordinary Spirit Master's vision.
For an anonymous witness to watch the entire incident and then leave safely was, in itself, a massive flaw in the story.
Wu Qi could say with certainty that Dugu Bo had not done this, nor was it some trick to provoke a duel with Chrysanthemum Douluo.
If Dugu Bo truly wanted to fight Chrysanthemum Douluo, he could simply send a letter directly to him. There was no need to go through such a roundabout method.
Such a crude and childish scheme left Wu Qi with only one suspect, the Shrek Seven Devils.
After all, among the people Dugu Bo had offended recently, they were the only ones likely to resort to something so immature.
Wu Qi had to admit that framing someone was an effective way to cause trouble, but it depended entirely on how it was done.
The report created by the Shrek Seven Devils was no different from children playing make-believe. It was no wonder Xue Qinghe had found it amusing.
This was probably the first time in all his years in the Heaven Dou Empire that he had seen such a ridiculous letter.
Of course, Wu Qi could only narrow it down to the Shrek Seven Devils; he couldn't determine who exactly had come up with it.
Other than Tang San, any of them might have done something so childish. As for Tang San agreeing to such a terrible idea, he had probably been blinded by his desire for revenge.
Still, everyone's ideals deserved a measure of respect.
The Seven Treasure Team had no plans to leave the city anytime soon and therefore did not require Dugu Bo's constant protection. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo was already planning his duel with Chrysanthemum Douluo.
In that case, they might as well send the letter to him and let things proceed as they wished.
After thinking it over, Wu Qi put the letter back into its envelope and had Golden Eagle Spirit Douluo deliver it.
Originally, he had intended to inform Dugu Bo about the matter, but after some thought, he decided against it.
Bibi Dong would most likely pay no attention to this letter, but Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo certainly wouldn't pass up the opportunity to mock Dugu Bo.
Wu Qi could tell that the two of them were not truly enemies of Dugu Bo. They had only acted against him because they were following orders.
Otherwise, with the strength of two Super Douluos, how could they have failed to capture Dugu Bo when he had only just become a Titled Douluo?
One had to remember that Dugu Bo had managed to flee all the way to the vicinity of Heaven Dou City before being rescued by Xue Xing's guards.
Even for Super Douluos traveling at full speed, the journey from Spirit City to this place would take two full days.
The fact that Dugu Bo had managed to escape that far might very well have been because Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had deliberately driven him in that direction.
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