Transmigrating into Huo Yuhao, my abilities are refreshed every month.

The classroom gradually returned to calm.

"Everyone stand up and assemble in the square." Zhou Yi said this and left.

Under Huo Yuhao's organization, the students in the class lined up and followed behind Zhou Yi.

Although the class was in good order, Zhou Yi, who was walking at the front, was not satisfied.

She always believed that this performance was only due to Huo Yuhao's leadership. Without Huo Yuhao, her class, which had not been able to establish its authority, would have been chaotic and lax. Only fear was the only way to motivate the students.

Upon arriving at Shrek Square, Huo Yuhao saw a pile of iron armor. Sure enough, was running with weights the only inherited skill of Shrek Academy?

At Zhou Yi's command, the trainees stood at attention.

"Huo Yuhao," Zhou Yi called out.

"Yes." Huo Yuhao stepped forward.

Zhou Yi addressed all the students: "After this morning's test, I found that you all have the highest level of recognition for Huo Yuhao. I also acknowledge Huo Yuhao's strength. Therefore, I hereby announce that from this moment on, he will be the class monitor of Class 1 of the freshmen. This position is variable; whoever defeats him will take his place. Do you understand?"

"Understood." Not a single student was dissatisfied. Ever since Huo Yuhao stood up for his classmate that morning and proved his strength by using Zhou Yi and Tai Long, they were completely convinced of his abilities. Some even cheered quietly and excitedly when they heard that Huo Yuhao was the class monitor.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 44 Shrek Academy is actually a pyramid scheme

Zhou Yi pointed to the iron suits on the ground, "The next lesson is to wear these iron suits and run laps around the square until the end of get out of class. You can use your soul power, but you can't use soul skills. I will rank you according to the number of laps you run, and the last person will be expelled from my class."

"There's one thing I want to emphasize: in my class, people aren't eliminated only during assessments; they can be eliminated at any time. Today, we're eliminating another person."

As she spoke, Zhou Yi flicked her toe and placed a piece of iron armor in front of Huo Yuhao.

When Zhou Yi mentioned expelling students again, the students were not afraid. Instead, they were filled with indignation. They stared at Zhou Yi, and no one put on their iron armor. They confronted Zhou Yi.

This time, Huo Yuhao didn't take the lead, but everyone in Class 1 of the freshmen spontaneously united to confront Zhou Yi. Huo Yuhao wasn't surprised.

This is how it is when fear dominates people's hearts. When someone leads a rebellion and succeeds, everyone will rebel in a rebound. Unless you can instill fear in them again, this rebellion will continue until the tyranny is overthrown.

Seeing the students standing motionless, Zhou Yi raised her eyebrows slightly. Although this was unexpected, the situation suited her perfectly!

She was already dissatisfied with not being able to establish her authority in the morning, and now this situation was perfect for her to reassert herself and make up for what she hadn't accomplished that morning.

Zhou Yi believed that as long as she demonstrated her strength and the power that Shrek Academy granted to its teachers once again, she could subdue these students.

Zhou Yi snorted coldly, six spirit rings rising from her feet, and said sharply, "Why are you all looking at me? What, are you all going to rebel against my teaching as your homeroom teacher?"

After forcing almost all the students to lower their heads, Zhou Yi turned her gaze to Huo Yuhao and said coldly, "Huo Yuhao, didn't you say you would fulfill your responsibilities as a student? As the class monitor, why don't you hurry up and lead everyone in the run? You don't want to be last, do you?"

This statement is both a warning and a reminder. Since those with good physical constitutions can't possibly be last and won't be eliminated, why should Huo Yuhao stand up for those with weaker constitutions? And why should those with strong constitutions stand up for those with weaker constitutions?

Upon hearing this, some of the students who had already been suppressed by Zhou Yi began to waver, but they didn't move, wanting to see what Huo Yuhao would do first. After all, Huo Yuhao had already successfully resisted this Abbess Miejue once, hadn't he?

Huo Yuhao wasn't unaware of the meaning behind Zhou Yi's words, but his original goal wasn't to stay at Shrek Academy. Instead, he wanted to gain a group of people willing to follow him. Therefore, standing up for the weak and speaking out for justice was the best way to win people's hearts.

Huo Yuhao stared fearlessly at Zhou Yi, who exuded a sharp aura, and said in a deep voice, "Teacher Zhou Yi, I have said that the premise for me to fulfill my duty as a student is that you fulfill your duty as a teacher. May I ask, teacher, have you fulfilled your duty as a teacher?"

"Am I not just fulfilling my duty as a teacher?" Zhou Yi retorted coldly.

Zhou Yi looked at Huo Yuhao, who showed no fear of her whatsoever, and felt a headache coming on.

She was completely powerless against Huo Yuhao. She couldn't fire him, and she couldn't suppress him. As for making Huo Yuhao fear her? Zhou Yi recalled the feeling she had that morning, a feeling of both love and fear, and felt a slight fear of Huo Yuhao in her heart.

Huo Yuhao scoffed, "So, teacher, what are you teaching your students now? How do you expel others?"

"Isn't it only natural that a loser who always comes in last place in a race should be eliminated?"

Huo Yuhao chuckled: "So, Ms. Zhou Yi, your profession isn't actually a teacher but an examiner? Eliminating students without even teaching them, is there such a thing as a teacher?"

If Zhou Yi had properly taught the students in the class, and someone had been eliminated in the freshman assessment, Huo Yuhao would certainly not have had any objections to Zhou Yi. However, what did she do? She expelled students on the first day of school, and the subsequent teaching consisted of nothing but running. What use is a teacher like her? Even a dog could do a better job by leashing a student to run. She's more troublesome than anyone else.

Zhou Yi sneered, "Expelling students is a power given to every teacher by the academy. Every teacher can expel students. I'm doing this to urge the remaining students to work harder."

"I know everyone is unhappy about me expelling students, but that's how Shrek Academy is. Survival of the fittest, only geniuses can study here! Although I am indeed the teacher who has expelled the most students, other teachers have also expelled quite a few."

Huo Yuhao suddenly understood something.

Yes, expelling students is a power granted by Shrek Academy. Rather than saying Zhou Yi is like this, it's more accurate to say that the entire Shrek Academy is like this.

Why would Shrek Academy delegate such power to homeroom teachers? Perhaps Shrek Academy can gain something else from it.

Shrek Academy is notorious for its high dropout rate. It admits over a thousand students through a three-month entrance exam, then eliminates more than half after that. Further elimination processes, including performance reviews and promotion exams, further refine the selection. It's considered good if even a quarter of the students graduate. Rather than training students, Shrek Academy is more like raising a breeding ground for monsters.

How similar is this model to Zhou Yi's teaching method? It's just that Zhou Yi intensified this elimination process. As can be seen from the original work, Shrek Academy completely condoned Zhou Yi's teaching method. Judging from the high praise Zhou Yi received from students like Bei Bei and Tang Ya, whose identities are unknown, Shrek Academy even actively promoted Zhou Yi, making her a representative figure among the teachers of the outer academy.

As for Zhou Yi's claim of having the highest college entrance rate in the inner academy, that's just something used for publicity to fool outsiders who don't know the specific data. Everyone inside who knows the real data knows who they are. Even elementary school students wouldn't be fooled by such data unless they're stupid. Are all the higher-ups at Shrek Academy stupid?

Huo Yuhao thought about his experience at Shrek Academy in the original novel more carefully, and he was shocked. His experience at Shrek Academy in the original novel was so similar to his experience in a pyramid scheme.

Upon enrollment, students are immediately brainwashed with a fervent worship of the founder and a strong emphasis on the Shrek Academy. Then, the teachers use suppression tactics to incite internal competition, comparisons, and elimination among students—methods commonly used in pyramid schemes to brainwash them.

Then they use rewards such as those for core students to attract students.

Afterwards, Huo Yuhao was suppressed and treated unfairly by the academy. During this time, some people played the good cop and others the bad cop, using psychological manipulation. Later, Huo Yuhao gained the academy's recognition through his own efforts. In this process, Huo Yuhao also invested energy, emotions, time and other resources into the academy. When he gained the academy's recognition, he also recognized the academy and was further brainwashed.

Finally, there was the Continental Academy Tournament. Externally, there was pressure from other academies and forces. Internally, everyone was united in their efforts to fight for Shrek's glory and could also receive thoughtful rewards from the academy. Thus, at the moment when Shrek Academy won the tournament and Huo Yuhao became one of the Shrek Seven Devils for life, the Huo Yuhao in the original story had been completely brainwashed!

So, Shrek Academy is actually a pyramid scheme? And the teachers in the foreign language department are essentially the same as the leaders of those pyramid schemes?

Huo Yuhao finally understood Shrek Academy's tactics!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 45 Inciting the Students' Anger

Huo Yuhao suddenly felt bored.

If he's right, Shrek Academy will absolutely not change this teaching method. Even if a teacher from another department incites the students' anger, they'll just push that teacher out to quell the students' fury, and the way they deal with that teacher is a lenient punishment, like demoting Zhou Yi from a senior teacher to a junior teacher.

Having figured all this out, Huo Yuhao had no intention of changing anything.

What does Shrek Academy's fate have to do with him? He's going to leave Shrek Academy anyway. All he needs to do is find a group of people who haven't been brainwashed and are willing to follow him when he leaves. As for Shrek, its rise or fall is none of his business. If Shrek Academy even gets in his way, he can destroy it with his own hands.

With so much on her mind, only a short while had passed outside. Zhou Yi saw Huo Yuhao suddenly standing there, silent, and felt a sense of pride, thinking she had finally silenced him.

Huo Yuhao snapped out of his daze, his expression returning to its cold indifference. Seeing Zhou Yi, he felt he couldn't do nothing; at the very least, he had to make Zhou Yi suffer a bit, so she wouldn't disgust him like this all the time.

If Zhou Yi caused trouble every now and then, Huo Yuhao could tolerate it to set up a negative example. But Zhou Yi could cause trouble several times a day, and Huo Yuhao felt that he couldn't stand it.

Huo Yuhao calmly said to Zhou Yi, "Teacher, you're right. This is a power granted to you by the academy, so of course you can use it. Teacher, please stay away from me if you don't have anything else to do. As the class monitor, I need to motivate the students to train. The freshman assessment is in three months, and I can't let everyone slack off."

Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Zhou Yi's eyes flashed with smugness. She had finally intimidated the most troublesome student in the class!

Zhou Yi walked to a distance with a smug look on her face and began to supervise the students' running.

Huo Yuhao turned to face his classmates and said loudly, "Can you all give me a moment to say something?"

After waiting a moment until everyone quieted down, Huo Yuhao quietly activated his soul interference to guide his classmates' emotions, and then continued, "I know that everyone is very angry and resentful right now because Zhou Yi said that she would eliminate someone today, the one who finished last in the rounds. She also said that in this class, she can eliminate us at any time, no matter what the reason."

The students' resentment was reignited, and Huo Yuhao continued:

"Regardless of your family's financial situation, whether a city lord's recommendation letter is a heavy burden on your family, or whether a tuition fee of one hundred gold soul coins is a small amount, I believe that none of you are willing to be eliminated on the first day of school. As a classmate and as the class monitor, I also do not want any of us to be eliminated like this."

"Everyone has come all the way to Shrek Academy, the number one academy on the continent, with the hope of learning and making progress. However, now someone wants to expel us on the very first day of school. We haven't even had a chance to learn anything, and we haven't even had a chance to participate in the freshman assessment. We're being expelled just like that."

Everyone felt the same way, and Huo Yuhao's powerful and furious speech continued without any pause:

"We've traveled thousands of miles, weary from our journey, carrying the hopes of our parents and families. We willingly paid 100 gold soul coins for tuition, only to be scolded and expelled in disgrace? Have we let our parents and families down, wasted so much time? In the future, when people mention us, they'll point at us and say, 'Look, that's the good-for-nothing who got expelled from Shrek Academy on the first day of school.' Such shame will stay with us for the rest of our lives."

Are you willing to accept this?

"We are not reconciled!" Everyone's anger was ignited.

"Therefore, all of us in Class One must unite and fight against Zhou Yi to the end! Come with me, we're going to the Academic Affairs Office to find Dean Yan!"

Huo Yuhao took the lead, guiding the class of students toward the Academic Affairs Office building.

Although Huo Yuhao could guess that even if he went to the academic affairs office or Yan Shaozhe, this matter would most likely not do anything to Zhou Yi. At most, she would be demoted, and then the matter would be minimized and eventually be forgotten.

But that was his purpose today. Huo Yuhao wanted to teach Zhou Yi a lesson, to intimidate her and prevent her from arbitrarily expelling students.

Secondly, Huo Yuhao could use this incident to unite the freshmen in Class 1 as one.

"Huo Yuhao!" Zhou Yi panicked when she saw Huo Yuhao leading all the students toward the administration office. She shouted, "Are you determined to oppose me to the very end today?"

Zhou Yi was still very afraid that this matter would escalate. Although suppressing students was an instruction given to them, the teachers, by the academy, if things really got out of hand, the academy would definitely push the teachers out as scapegoats to win back the students' hearts.

Huo Yuhao ignored Zhou Yi's roar and ran straight towards the Academic Affairs Office building.

Unable to contain herself any longer, Zhou Yi instantly activated her martial spirit and rushed towards Huo Yuhao. She couldn't just sit and wait to die. Even if she couldn't do anything to Huo Yuhao, she could still stop him from taking students to the academic affairs office.

Just then, a loud shout rang out: "Stop it, all of you!" At the same time, a soul force pressure far exceeding Zhou Yi's arrived, rendering all the students unable to move.

Huo Yuhao looked in the direction of the sound and saw eight spirit rings surrounding the figure. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Du Weiren.

"What a mess this is! Zhou Yi, how did you manage this class? And what's wrong with you students?" Du Weilun demanded immediately.

Zhou Yi quickly withdrew her martial spirit and said first, "Director Du, it's nothing. It's just that these students are disobedient, so I'm disciplining them."

Immediately, a student couldn't help but retort: ​​"You're talking nonsense. It's clearly you who expelled us arbitrarily. We're not satisfied, which is why we're going to complain to the academic affairs office."

Others also chimed in, recounting Zhou Yi's misdeeds within a single day.

Huo Yuhao watched as all the students from Class One complained to Du Weilun one by one, without participating. At this point, whether he participated or not was irrelevant.

It has to be said that Zhou Yi is quite a talent to be able to provoke such a high level of anger among the students in just one day.