Chapter 95: A Show of Authority, Words with Hidden Meaning
At the same time, the chat group was in an uproar.
The girls' instinct to complain had fully awakened.
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Lady: This Tang San… he's really something. @Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns, Xiao Wu, I used to think Tang San was the deeply devoted male lead type.]
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Lady: But now it looks like this so-called "love" is heavily watered down! When you're in danger, he powers up. That's fine. But once you're safe, he doesn't come to check on you immediately? He keeps absorbing that spider instead?]
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Lady: Are you saying evolving an external soul bone is more important than your safety? He could confirm you're okay first, then devour it—there's still time!]
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Lady: That's textbook selfishness!]
[Queen of the Night: It really is chilling. From a rational perspective, improving strength after confirming safety isn't wrong.]
[Queen of the Night: But emotionally speaking, between two people who care about each other, that reaction is too cold-blooded.]
At this moment, Liu Erlong, one of the responsible parties in this "failure of supervision," became the target of criticism as well.
[Supreme Pope: Heh. Liu Erlong, you're not impressive either.]
[Supreme Pope: You call yourself the "Killing Horn," yet you couldn't even protect the students under your care?]
[Supreme Pope: In a place like Sunset Forest, aside from the few ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the core region, everything else should be like chopping vegetables for Soul Saints like you.]
[Supreme Pope: And yet a Soul Elder was stabbed through the chest right under your nose?]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: Honestly, I also think that's ridiculous. Now I understand why Lin Yuan complained that Shrek Academy is a "third-rate academy."]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: Lin Yuan once said he never saw any senior students at Shrek Academy who failed to meet graduation requirements and stayed behind.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: He said that might be because they died in soul battles or while hunting soul beasts. Very few could actually graduate so far; only Qin Ming is known.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: I didn't really believe it before. As a teacher, you should at least have professional ethics and protect your students, right? How could it be as bad as Lin Yuan described?]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: But now I believe it. With that kind of mortality rate, who would dare attend Shrek Academy? One mistake and you might die in an accident.]
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Inside the dean's office of Blue Tyrant Academy.
Liu Erlong looked at the messages in the group, her face alternating between red and pale.
She opened her mouth, wanting to write something to refute them.
Something like "That might have been an accident" or "It was for training the students."
But she never actually responded in the chat group.
Because she knew in her heart that if events truly happened as Lin Yuan described, then she could not escape responsibility.
As the team leader and a Soul Saint, protecting students should have been the first priority.
Allowing a student to be gravely injured and on the brink of death right before her eyes was a serious dereliction of duty, no matter how one looked at it.
"Would my future self really make such a low-level mistake?"
Liu Erlong began to question her life.
She had always believed that although her temper was explosive, she was a responsible teacher.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have founded Blue Tyrant Academy in a noble-dominated Heaven Dou City specifically for commoner soul masters.
"No!"
"I absolutely can't let something like that happen!"
"That Tang San and Shrek, I'd better keep my distance from them in the future. I don't want my reputation dragged down."
Liu Erlong had already decided not to get too close to Shrek's people.
Still, she felt conflicted. Shrek Academy was founded by Flender. He might be stingy, but he shouldn't be this irresponsible, right?
Just then, as Lin Yuan was about to write about when Tang San's third power-up happened, he was suddenly called out.
By Qin Ming.
"The student in black clothes in the third row."
Qin Ming's voice suddenly rose, his sharp gaze locking onto Lin Yuan.
"You should be the new student, Lin Yuan, right? I see you've been looking down the entire time, as if you weren't listening to my lecture. Could it be that you already understand everything I'm saying?"
"Why don't you stand up and share your thoughts on the 'theory of martial soul attribute amplification through the Mimicry Training Ground'?"
Although Qin Ming's tone was gentle, there was a hint of sternness in his eyes.
He had already heard about Lin Yuan's talent, but seeing him not paying attention in class, he intended to give him a small show of authority.
In his view, Lin Yuan was only an eight-year-old child who had never been exposed to mimicry cultivation before. The material he was teaching should have been exactly what Lin Yuan needed to learn, yet he wasn't listening.
That made Qin Ming slightly displeased.
The entire class immediately focused on Lin Yuan.
This was Heaven Dou Class One, the best class in Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The students here were all relatively talented.
Unlike those idle aristocratic playboys, they studied seriously.
Some looked at Lin Yuan with schadenfreude, others with curiosity. None believed a new student could produce any profound theory.
Lin Yuan calmly stood up.
"Teacher Qin, since you've asked, I'll say a few words."
"Regarding the Mimicry Training Ground theory you proposed, I think it makes a lot of sense."
"But—"
Lin Yuan suddenly changed tone, his eyes sharpening.
"I believe that a Mimicry Training Ground can only increase cultivation speed. It cannot improve a soul master's ability to survive in extreme environments."
"A true, strong person should be forged through life-and-death combat, not raised inside a greenhouse. However, real combat training still requires a good teacher guarding from the side."
"After all, this is training students' real combat ability in life-and-death situations, not actually sending them to die."
Lin Yuan gave Qin Ming a meaningful glance.
"I believe our academy can do this very well. But some academies, I've heard, claim to accept only monsters and advocate real combat."
"Yet they can't even guarantee the most basic cultivation resources and life safety for their students. An academy like that should shut down sooner rather than later."
Qin Ming's pupils suddenly shrank.
He felt there was something implied in Lin Yuan's words.
But he couldn't understand how this newly enrolled boy knew his alma mater's teaching philosophy so… well. Even with a hint of mockery.
"Interesting."
Qin Ming looked deeply at Lin Yuan, suppressing his doubts, and nodded.
"Lin Yuan's perspective is very novel."
"Indeed, survival comes first."
"Please sit down."
Lin Yuan sat back down.
Beside him, Xiao Wu secretly gave him a thumbs-up.
"Brother, what you said just now was so cool!"
Meanwhile, Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong quietly laughed.
They naturally knew which academy Lin Yuan was talking about.
Wasn't it Shrek?
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