Whether it was the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress who shook the Extreme North, or Zi Ji, they were all genuine supreme existences in the Spirit Beast World!
Vicious Beasts (Divine Beasts) of this level would actually lower their status so decisively, transforming into human girls to participate in such a child's play academy exchange competition?
After the brief shock, Lin Yuan's brain began to work rapidly, analyzing the rationality behind it.
He wasn't surprised that Gu Yuena could freely transform into a human and change the cultivation level she displayed at will.
After all, she was the Dragon God's Clone and possessed extremely high Law power; hiding her cultivation was as simple as eating or drinking for her.
However, the fact that the Ice Empress and Snow Empress could also integrate so perfectly into human society meant the amount of hidden information was too vast.
This fully demonstrated that they must have obtained some special reward from the System.
It was this System reward that allowed them to perfectly complete their transformation and retain their current Spirit Emperor cultivation without any side effects—or perhaps even directly retaining their original strength, while the current Spirit Emperor cultivation was merely a disguise!
Lin Yuan pondered that it was very likely a Shapeshifting Pill from another Xuanhuan World, allowing them to completely avoid the huge risk of having to Cultivate from a fragile infancy when a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast undergoes re-cultivation, while also retaining their strength.
Lin Yuan knew that according to the common knowledge of Spirit Beasts, terrifying existences that reached the Vicious Beast level possessed special means of personification.
However, the Ice Empress's true form was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion; even if she personified, she couldn't be exactly like a real human, and would more or less retain some obvious Spirit Beast characteristics.
Such characteristics would easily expose her identity under the inspection of human powerhouses; her ability to appear now without any flaws was definitely thanks to the System.
As for the Snow Empress, her situation was different; she was originally an Ice Sky Snow Lady born and nurtured by the Extreme North itself.
Not only was she an ice and snow spirit of heaven and earth, but her original form was already a flawless human shape. As long as she suppressed that ultimate ice and snow aura, unless someone's strength was comparable to hers, they wouldn't be able to see any clues at all.
...
At this moment, the inner and outer venues of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, which were the focus of everyone's attention, were already bustling with noise and packed to capacity.
In a relatively inconspicuous spot among the dense seats of the outer venue...
Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and several students from Shrek Academy were also there.
The reason they had traveled thousands of miles to appear in Heaven Dou City and this grand Great Spirit Arena was actually very clear.
Not long ago, Qin Ming, a teacher at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, had proactively proposed a training suggestion to the academy's upper management.
He wanted to take the elite members of the Heaven Dou Royal Team's first team to various famous Great Spirit Arenas across the continent to temper their actual combat abilities.
It just so happened that in Suotuo City, some familiar wealthy nobles had offered a large sum of money to invite them.
As long as the Royal Team could help those nobles win a few key Great Spirit Arena matches, they would not only gain experience but also receive a generous appearance fee.
However, Qin Ming's originally perfect request to lead the team was flatly rejected by Lin Yuan.
At that time, Lin Yuan very much did not give any Face and expressed that he could agree to let Qin Ming take the substitute members who needed tempering.
But for Spirit Masters like Lin Yuan who were at least Spirit Kings, training in such a place was completely meaningless.
Team battles were determined by the strongest Spirit Master in the team, and since Lin Yuan was now a Spirit Emperor, would the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena even have a Spirit Emperor-level team?
Not only was Lin Yuan uninterested, but Dugu Yan and the others weren't either. If they wanted actual combat, they could just fight Lin Yuan; if not, they could fight the academy's teachers or go to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.
Why bother traveling all the way to Suotuo City!
Facing Lin Yuan's decision, although Qin Ming felt a bit embarrassed, he didn't mind.
Because Qin Ming's elaborate plan to take the team to Suotuo City this time wasn't entirely for the sake of fighting for money.
His true purpose was actually to take the opportunity of the business trip to stop by Shrek Academy and have a good look.
To see his former mentors, Flender and Zhao Wuji, who had taught him back then.
And the reason Qin Ming could still legitimately be associated with favored children of heaven like Lin Yuan...
Was entirely because Lin Yuan had once casually mentioned something to the Three Great Committee Members like Meng Shenji.
Lin Yuan stated that he didn't care at all about Qin Ming's ridiculous targeting of him during the previous combat classes; in his eyes, it was just a trivial matter.
Lin Yuan did this intentionally; on the surface, he seemed to be giving Qin Ming a chance, but he knew that without any surprises, Qin Ming would definitely go to Suotuo City according to the plot of the original work.
When that time came, there would be a perfect reason to kick Qin Ming out of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
After all, he had been given another chance but didn't cherish it, so who could he blame?
And the Committee Members like Meng Shenji, seeing that a grand figure like Lin Yuan had spoken so magnanimously...
Although Qin Ming's fifth spirit ring was only at the thousand-year level and his configuration was a bit poor...
To be fair, Qin Ming's teaching talent and experience in leading teams were indeed quite good.
Therefore, the academy's upper management planned to officially appoint him as the lead teacher for the Heaven Dou Royal Team's second team once his personal strength improved a bit more.
For now, the candidates for the second team to represent the academy in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Competition had not been fully finalized.
When the time came, the roster for the second team would certainly include some of the weaker substitute members currently in the first team.
This meant that among those highly competitive candidates, a large portion would inevitably be ruthlessly kicked out of the first team's roster in the future.
So, although this time there were some discrepancies with the plot in the original work where the Shrek Seven Devils became famous at the Great Spirit Arena...
Qin Ming ultimately still took Yu Feng, Oscar, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and the former Genius Yu Tianheng.
Along with two other marginal members who originally belonged to the second team in the original work, they formed a team and headed vigorously to the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena.
Then, when they completed their training mission in Suotuo City and were preparing to set off back...
The nostalgic Qin Ming simply went with the flow and brought the struggling Flender and Yu Xiaogang from Suotuo City along to Heaven Dou City.