In Douluo Continent, I am the mastermind behind the scenes.

Gu Yuena scoffed, "I'm being presumptuous? What am I being presumptuous about? Shouldn't I be speaking the truth in front of you, Silver Moon Douluo? If we need to grovel before Shrek Academy to get in, then this academy... we might as well not go!"

No one questioned Gu Yuena's words. In the Douluo world, strength is paramount. Genius Soul Masters like them should be the ones selecting the factions, not the other way around.

They have to fawn over Shrek Academy just to get in, so what's the point of getting in? What's the purpose? Is it just for the title of the number one academy on the continent?

Who decided that only genius soul masters can join Shrek Academy?

Their ages... well... they're not young anymore. Huo Yuhao is tens of thousands of years old, and Gu Yuena is even hundreds of thousands of years old. Do you really think they can't see through your intentions, Cai Yue'er?

All I want is to hear a few flattering words, praising Shrek Academy while also praising you, Cai Yue'er?

Normally, they wouldn't mind offering a simple evaluation of Shrek Academy from an outsider's perspective, but to ask them to praise Cai Yue'er? Heh, with their pride, they couldn't bring themselves to do something so self-destructive.

She's so old, yet she acts like a spoiled and willful little girl. Ugh! It's disgusting!

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

Huo Yuhao and his group remained silent, only staring at Cai Yue'er with extremely strange looks.

This put Cai Yue'er in a difficult position!

On the one hand, she was reluctant to send away these seven talented students, but on the other hand... she could not tolerate the provocations of these seven young soul masters.

When she was young... she was bullied a lot by Ya Li, Leng Yaozhu and her gang of bitches (in her own opinion). Now that she's the dean, if she still has to be bullied by the students, then what's the point of being the dean?

No! Absolutely not! She has to get her revenge!

"I didn't forbid you from telling the truth!" Cai Yue'er said solemnly, "The cheating allegations against Shrek Academy are just rumors spread by the Spirit Pagoda. It's clearly unverified. You're using rumors to judge Shrek Academy, and you're blaming me for getting angry with you?"

"Let's just say the cheating allegations against Shrek Academy are just rumors spread by the Spirit Pagoda."

Gu Yuena chuckled, "So you're referring to something everyone knows, right? I've heard... all the evil spirit masters who join your Shrek Academy are normal spirit masters, while those who don't are evil spirit masters. This... isn't just a rumor spread by the Spirit Pagoda, is it?"

Upon hearing this, Cai Yue'er's face flushed red instantly. She slammed her hand on the table and hissed through gritted teeth, "You're just being argumentative!"

"I'm being argumentative, and you're saying I'm being argumentative?"

Gu Yuena said sarcastically, "You say Shrek Academy has freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we can't speak the truth. What, I told you the truth, so why are you still unhappy?"

Upon hearing this, Cai Yue'er could no longer control her emotions. Her eyes instantly turned red, she was panting heavily, and she stared at Gu Yuena with a look that seemed to want to devour her.

"That's enough!"

Just then, a clear, cold female voice suddenly rang out. Everyone subconsciously looked in the direction from which the voice came and saw... a beautiful green-haired woman wearing a bright green long dress walk in from outside the door.

The moment Huo Yuhao saw the green-haired beauty's face, he froze on the spot. This face... he felt like he had seen it somewhere before.

In his mind, there seemed to be only one powerful woman with green hair, and... that person was also Tang Wulin's godmother, though not officially recognized!

Two completely different couples, for their own reasons, neither of them have children of their own, yet they both treat Tang Wulin as their own son.

Is this really just a simple coincidence?

Huo Yuhao shook his head. He would never forget that the world he lived in was just a fictional world. Since it was a fictional world, could the characters who appeared in "The Legend of the God of Destruction" have hidden identities that had not been revealed?

Yun Ming broke through to the Title Douluo level at the age of twenty-three and reached the peak of mortals at the age of thirty-five. Without the seven great soul spirits and any divine trials, could an ordinary mortal soul master really achieve such a level?

And then there's Ya Li. She's the third Soul Master, after the first Sea God Poseidon and the first Angel God Qian Lingxi, to absorb the power of faith without a divine position. If the Sea God Pavilion hadn't suffered the same calamity as in the original timeline, Yun Ming and Ya Li should have been able to become gods together, right?

Huo Yuhao felt his head was spinning. The more he thought about it, the more something seemed wrong. No matter how he looked at it, Yun Ming and Ya Li were just a replica of that couple, as if they were... their reincarnations.

Following this line of thought, the fact that Tang Hao resurrected many people in the original story, but not Yun Ming, the meritorious master of the Sea God Pavilion, already speaks volumes.

Tang Hao was afraid; he was afraid that Yun Ming's achievements would reach a level that even he and A Yin, working together, would have to look up to.

Going back to reality.

Ya Li crossed her arms, her gaze sweeping over Old Lady Cai in front of her, and said in an icy tone, "Cai Yue'er, are you at it again? Can you even be a dean? If you can't, get out of that position right now. How many times has this happened during your tenure, getting into a fight with a bunch of kids?"

"Vice, Vice Pavilion Master, this has nothing to do with me! They insulted Shrek Academy first; I was just retaliating!"

At this moment, Cai Yue'er was no longer the arrogant girl she had been just moments before. No matter how unhappy she was inside, she could only pretend to be a good girl in front of Ya Li.

"What do you mean by passive retaliation? It's clearly you, Cai Yue'er, abusing your power for personal gain..."

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

Without the slightest hesitation, Ya Li directly reprimanded Cai Yue'er in front of Huo Yuhao and his group.

At this moment, she finally understood why her sister Yue had defied public opinion and placed someone like Cai Yue'er in the position of dean of the outer academy.

It's simply a matter of one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.

Cai Yue'er has one good point: once she gets angry, she doesn't care about the students' backgrounds and will treat them all the same, throwing tantrums and doing things that are not appropriate for her level of cultivation and status.

In this situation, if a genius Soul Master were to be encountered, Ya Li would step in to rebuke Cai Yue'er, thus creating a righteous image for the world.

The title of the so-called most beautiful woman in mainland China is half highlighted by Cai Yue'er, this willful and capricious old woman!

Watching Ya Li reprimand Cai Yue'er, Huo Yuhao almost burst out laughing. If it were in the past, he might have been truly grateful to Ya Li. Shrek Academy wasn't as corrupt as he had imagined; it was just that petty people were in power, and the higher-ups were still able to make impartial decisions.

Huo Yuhao simply didn't care. His goal was to steal the resources of the Sea God Pavilion. With the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm by his side, he was absolutely confident that he could protect himself and his companions from the explosion of the Twelfth-Order God-Slaying Soul-Guided Missile Eternal Heaven.

Other matters were no longer within the scope of Huo Dashenwang's consideration. (End of this chapter)