Douluo Continent: The Peerless Sun and Moon Traverse the Heavens

Jiang Nannan had already stood up and looked at Zhou Yi: "Teacher Zhou Yi, Tang Ya was just concerned about me..."

Zhou Yi hated it when students dared to talk back to her, so she interrupted Jiang Nannan: "What? Sisterly affection? You want to stand outside the classroom with her too?"

She glared at Tang Ya again, then gestured towards the classroom door with her chin: "Didn't you hear what I said? Get out of here!"

Jiang Nannan stepped out of the corridor, her tone calm:

"Teacher Zhou, this is my fault. I will take the punishment in Xiaoya's place. Please don't make things difficult for Tang Ya anymore."

Zhou Yi remained unmoved, her eyes fixed on Tang Ya.

Jiang Nannan took a deep breath and turned to look at Tang Ya.

Tang Ya's eyes were filled with tears, and she hesitated to speak:

"Nannan..."

Jiang Nannan withdrew her gaze and bowed respectfully to Zhou Yi:

"Teacher, thank you for your guidance over the past three years. This was my fault, and I am applying to withdraw from school."

The classroom suddenly fell silent, followed by a chorus of gasps as the students began to whisper among themselves.

Zhou Yi's wrinkled face revealed no emotion. Sensing the classroom growing increasingly noisy, she slammed her hand heavily on the podium, making a "bang" sound.

The pressure of a Soul Emperor level was released, enveloping Jiang Nannan.

Jiang Nannan's face turned pale instantly. She swayed for a moment, then straightened up and stubbornly met Zhou Yi's gaze.

Zhou Yi looked directly at the girl she had the highest hopes for, the class monitor, who, despite her cool appearance, had always been very obedient.

Ha, is this someone trying to blackmail me?

Disdainful in her heart, she uttered two words indifferently:

"what ever."

Tears blurred Tang Ya's vision as she watched Jiang Nannan walk straight to the classroom door and open it.

The moment the door opened, sunlight streamed in, but Jiang Nannan's figure remained resolute, like a traveler about to embark on a journey to a world of light.

The figure turned and disappeared, and Zhou Yi's sharp voice came from behind:

"Jiang Nannan! Come back here right now!"

The sun is high in the sky, in Shrek City.

"Haa~" Xu Cheng stretched and heard a crisp "crack" sound, followed by a tingling and numb feeling in his lower back.

Opening the door, Xu Cheng rubbed his lower back and walked slowly down the stairs, leaning against the wall for support.

A call request came through the soul-guided communicator. Xu Cheng answered it casually and heard Jiang Nannan's anxious voice:

"Brother Cheng, could you please come to the Martial Soul Department's instruction office?"

"Oh, Nan Nan, okay, I'll be right there."

When Xu Cheng arrived at the Martial Soul Department's teaching office, the first thing he saw was Jiang Nannan comforting Tang Ya beside her, wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

On a sofa next to the two, Han Ruoruo was trying to communicate with Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi had her legs crossed and her head turned to the side, showing no intention of talking. Du Weilun, the head of the teaching department, sat on the sofa between the two, fiddling with the teacup in front of him.

Xu Cheng knocked on the door, patted Jiang Nannan on the shoulder to indicate that nothing was wrong, then sat down next to Han Ruoruo and asked Du Weilun with a smile:

"Director Du, what's going on? Why such a big fuss?"

Du Weilun recounted the whole story. It turned out that after Jiang Nannan left, Zhou Yi threatened to expel Tang Ya, forcing Jiang Nannan to either stay at Shrek Academy or drop out of school together.

Xu Cheng was also taken aback after hearing this:

Teachers actually do this?

Glancing at Zhou Yi, who was fiddling with her nails, he turned to Du Weilun and said:

"Director Du, if a student is whispering in class, then punish them according to school rules. If Jiang Nannan wants to withdraw from school, then let's go through the withdrawal process. What's there to say? The school rules aren't just for show."

"What do you know?"

Zhou Yi slapped the armrest of the sofa next to her and glared at Xu Cheng: "I'm going to teach monsters, so naturally I won't use the academy's rules."

Xu Cheng glanced at Han Ruoruo beside him, exchanging glances:

Is this woman always like this?

Han Ruoruo spread her hands, looking just like LeBron James.

Xu Cheng rubbed his palm against his thigh a few times before turning his gaze back to Du Weiren:

"Director Du, if I remember correctly, Shrek Academy's outer academy was established at the request of the three great empires, right? The three great empires allocate a certain amount of funds every year to cover the expenses of training disciples in the outer academy, and the students in the outer academy mainly come from the recommendations of the city lords."

If the purpose of teaching is merely uniform training, then where does this notion of training monsters come from? Isn't that what the inner court does?

Before Du Weilen could speak, Zhou Yi interrupted him again:

"My teaching is none of your business. What do you know, coming from the Sun Moon Empire? In every class I've taught, the percentage of students advancing to the Inner Academy is the highest."

Seeing that this old woman seemed determined to keep going, Xu Cheng sneered:

"Heh, Teacher Zhou, please don't play this kind of pointless numbers game with a Soul Master. Expel students who don't have the talent to increase the college entrance rate, right?"

"Why don't we have the academy create a class entirely composed of core disciples from the outer academies, and hire a ten-year-old Wind Baboon as the teacher? That would definitely break the college entrance examination pass rate record you mentioned."

"You! You're ridiculous!"

Zhou Yi shouted angrily, her whole body heaving violently with her breathing.

Xu Cheng said that even a ten-year-old wind baboon could break records when it came to teach, which means that she is not even as good as a ten-year-old soul beast.

After calming down a bit, she pointed at Jiang Nannan again:

"Jiang Nannan is someone I've personally trained over the past three years. Without me, she would never have reached the Soul Sect level. She wants to drop out, but I disagree. She and Tang Ya either stay together or leave together."

Xu Cheng looked at Jiang Nannan in the direction Zhou Yi was pointing. In the original story, Jiang Nannan should only have the cultivation level of Soul Venerable at this time. Zhou Yi really knows how to flatter herself.

He turned his gaze back to Zhou Yi, but his eyes had turned colder:

"Teacher Zhou, if I may be frank, your level is not yet sufficient to teach monsters."

Xu Cheng reached out to stop Zhou Yi, who was about to retort, and continued:

"I understand your teaching method. By strengthening the body and accelerating the consumption of soul power, and then using martial soul cultivation to nourish the body, this method is indeed the fastest way to realize the students' cultivation potential, and the survival of the fittest."

However, the saying goes, "the poor study literature, the rich study martial arts." In addition to the consumption of soul power, the improvement of students' qualities also requires external supplementation, and the treatment of core disciples of the outer academy can indeed meet this need.

But what about the other students?

Aside from those with family support, aren't you harming students from ordinary families?

So, is your teaching method cultivating students or selecting them?

"You're saying Jiang Nannan's arrival at the Soul Sect is all thanks to you?"

Xu Cheng scoffed dismissively, his words firm:

"I can tell you with certainty that she is not only a core disciple of the outer academy, but also my and Ruoruo's younger sister. Her daily nutritional supplements and medicinal aids far exceed three times the treatment of a core disciple."

You can't even see this, yet you dare to say you're teaching monsters?

Your teaching level... tsk tsk tsk, never mind, let's not talk about it.

Xu Cheng kept shaking his head, his expression full of sighs, his eyes looking at a clown.

"You...you, you!"

Zhou Yi was so angry with Xu Cheng that she couldn't utter a complete sentence, and her whole body was trembling, while Xu Cheng's words didn't stop:

"And don't think I don't know that the skin on your face is just a mask. Let me guess why you deliberately try to portray yourself as old and stern?"

Xu Cheng extended three fingers, leaning forward slightly, exuding a sense of oppression, while a wicked smile played at the corners of his eyes, a smile that sent chills down Zhou Yi's spine.