Xuan Zi's eyes were bloodshot.
He stared fixedly at the fragments of the purple clay teapot in his hand.
A ferocious expression twisted his aged face.
His chest heaved continuously due to his heavy breathing.
After a long time.
He slowly loosened his grip.
Allowing the shards, mixed with wine, to slide to the ground.
Following the violent rage was an icy silence like an abyss.
He slowly sat back in his seat.
He closed his eyes.
The entire room fell back into a suffocating silence.
But this time, it wasn't just anger in the air.
It was more of an oppressive feeling, like the calm before a storm.
He began to think of a way to respond.
Anger couldn't solve any problems.
As one of the helmsmen of Shrek Academy, he had to find a solution to this potential crisis in the shortest time possible.
Xuan Zi's brain was working at high speed.
As for the current plan.
To prevent the worst-case scenario of 'the Shrek Team losing at the Soul Master Tournament' from happening.
A head-on confrontation was the only choice.
Therefore, the only thing Xuan Zi could think of was—
To do everything possible to enhance the strength of the students who were about to represent Shrek Academy in the competition!
A plan quickly formed in his mind.
He decided.
That from this day until the official start of the Soul Master Tournament.
He, along with several other Sea Gods Pavilion Elders who rarely appeared in the world, would personally step in!
They would conduct hellish special training for the official members of the Shrek Team who were about to participate!
Not only that.
The vast resources accumulated by Shrek Academy over ten thousand years would also be tilted toward them without reservation!
The core area of Sea God Lake would be opened to them to refine their spirit power!
The Heaven And Earth Treasures in the warehouse, enough to make even a Titled Douluo envious, would be supplied to them regardless of the cost!
The Soul Tool Department's warehouse would also custom-build the top-tier spirit tools for them!
He didn't believe it.
Under such investment regardless of the cost.
Under the personal guidance of experts like them who stood at the top of the continent.
The children of Shrek would still lose to that ignorant brat who didn't know the heights of the heavens!
Thinking of this, the haze in Xuan Zi's heart was swept away.
The absolute confidence and dominance belonging to a Sea Gods Pavilion Elder returned to him.
His back straightened once again.
In his cloudy old eyes, a brilliant light that looked down upon the world was reignited.
That's right.
A mere youth, no matter how much of a Prodigy he was, so what?
How could the foundation of Shrek Academy be shaken by him alone?
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy wanted to rely on him to challenge Shrek's dominant status?
It was simply a pipe dream!
In this battle, Shrek will surely win!
"Someone, come!"
Xuan Zi shouted in a deep voice.
An Inner Court Disciple responsible for relaying messages immediately pushed the door open and entered, bowing respectfully.
"Elder Xuan, what are your orders?"
"Immediately pass on my command!"
Xuan Zi's voice was loud and powerful, filled with an unquestionable majesty.
"Recall all members of this year's tournament team who are out on missions!"
"Tell them to drop everything they are doing and return to the academy within three days!"
"Assemble in front of the Sea Gods Pavilion, without fail!"
"Now, the most critical moment has arrived!"
The Disciple felt the thunderous force in Elder Xuan's words and did not dare to be negligent.
"Yes!"
After receiving the command, he quickly withdrew.
However, just as the Disciple was about to leave completely, he seemed to remember something and turned back.
He reported again.
"By the way, Elder Xuan, there is one more thing to report to you."
Xuan Zi picked up another teacup, his mood having calmed down a lot.
"Speak."
"It's about a first-year student in the Outer Court named Huo Yuhao."
The Disciple said excitedly.
"Based on the observations of the Outer Court teachers and the results of the upgrade assessment that just ended, it can be 100% confirmed that Huo Yuhao possesses an Ultimate Attribute Spirit—Extreme Ice!"
"Extreme Ice?!"
Xuan Zi's hand holding the teacup suddenly froze.
A look of pleasant surprise instantly flooded his face.
He stood up abruptly and asked further.
"Is this true?!"
"Absolutely true! Dean Yan Shaozhe has personally confirmed it!"
"Good! Good! Excellent!"
Xuan Zi said 'good' three times in a row, the smile on his face no longer suppressible.
He paced back and forth excitedly, as if he had picked up some peerless treasure.
"I knew it! I knew that little fellow wasn't simple!"
"Back during the freshman assessment, I had high hopes for him!"
"I didn't expect him to give me such a huge surprise!"
Xuan Zi's mood suddenly became great.
It was certainly a pity not to have invited that Genius.
But now, in their own Shrek, a peerless Genius with an Ultimate Attribute had also appeared!
And this Genius was a local, true-blue Shrek student!
"Pass on my command!"
Xuan Zi waved his hand and said high-spiritedly.
"Effective immediately, grant Huo Yuhao the status of 'Core Disciple'!"
"His treatment is to be equal to the top-tier students of the Inner Court!"
"Include him in the list for this special training!"
"Later, this old man wants to personally see him and nurture him well!"
"Yes!"
Suddenly, Xuan Zi felt that things didn't seem so bad anymore.
One could even say the crisis had turned into an opportunity.
After all, the potential of Extreme Ice was also unfathomable.
As long as he was nurtured properly, the future Huo Yuhao might not necessarily be unable to stand up to the opponent.
Or even surpass him!
The Goddess of Fortune, in the end, still favored their Shrek.
...
Meanwhile.
In the Capital City thousands of miles away, at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
Regarding everything that happened at Shrek Academy and the massive uproar caused because of him.
Liu Yuan was completely unaware.
Since that day when he bid farewell to Huo Yuhao in the Extreme North Land and returned to the academy.
He had plunged into the exclusive cultivation room with the highest level of authorization prepared for him by Jing Hongchen.
He began a new round of concentrated cultivation.
To him, the previous encounter with Huo Yuhao was just a small interlude on his path of cultivation.
He had only one goal next.
In the upcoming All-Continent High-Rank Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, to defeat the Shrek Team fairly and squarely!
For this goal, he had to improve himself without reservation.
And in this cultivation room, which gathered the top technology of the continent, he wasn't just performing meditation cultivation of spirit power.
The greatest advantage of the Sun Moon Academy lay in spirit tools.
As a spirit tool Genius whom both Jing Hongchen and Mr. Xuan praised endlessly, he naturally had no reason to waste this talent.
In fact, as early as last semester, he had already reached the Realm of a Fourth-Rank Soul Engineer.
What limited his further promotion was never his knowledge of spirit tools.
But his spirit power Rank.
Creating a fifth-Rank spirit tool required the consumption of extremely vast spirit power.
Previously, his total spirit power was not enough to support him in completing a full carving of a fifth-Rank spirit tool's Core Formation.
But now, with the increase in his spirit power Rank.
This greatest shackle had been broken.
During this recent period, he had been trying to break through that threshold.
Launching a challenge toward becoming a true Fifth-rank Soul Engineer.
As long as he succeeded, it meant he could create more powerful and
uniquely functional fifth-Rank spirit tool equipment.
By then, his strength would once again reach a higher level.
And all of this would better increase the possibility of him defeating Shrek Academy in the future Soul Master Tournament...
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