Douluo Continent: A Man of Unparalleled Talent and Heaven-Defying Comprehension

Chapter 57: Is Shrek Academy going to withdraw from the competition?

"What?"

Inside the Star Luo Empire's royal chamber, Xu Jiawei's exclamation rang out.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Shrek is withdrawing from the competition?

Are you withdrawing from this Soul Fighting Tournament?

Do I have to approve his application?

impossible!

At this moment, Xu Jiawei was also filled with anger.

Shrek has the right to withdraw from the competition and enjoys many privileges, but where do these privileges come from?

Don't you know your own limitations?

The Soul Fighting Tournament is about to begin, and you're telling me you want to withdraw?

How can my Star Luo Empire recoup the huge amount of manpower and resources it invested in the early stages?

What are all those spectators watching at every Soul Fighting Tournament? Don't you Shrek Academy students have any self-awareness?

To support Shrek Academy, the Empire has invested a tremendous amount in promoting the Academy every year, not to mention the preparations for the Soul Fighting Tournament.

Now you're telling me you want to withdraw from the competition?

It's been ten thousand years!

You have always had this right.

Why did they have to withdraw from the competition when I was in charge?

Do you look down on me, Xu Jiawei?

Xu Jiawei felt a surge of anger rising within him.

A flood of thoughts rushed through my mind in an instant.

He rejected Shrek's request to withdraw from the competition without even thinking.

"Your Majesty, you mustn't."

Shrek Academy has many powerful members; if they are offended, the Star Luo Empire will suffer greatly in the future.

Otherwise, why would they promote Shrek every year?

Because they need to rely on Shrek's power.

Xu Jiawei harbored resentment in his heart.

That damned Taotie Douluo.

This isn't the first or second time; it always ends up causing trouble!

Last time, when an accident occurred in the Star Dou Great Forest, we even asked the Star Luo Empire to use its army to help us search for them.

Although Shrek Academy made amends afterward, the mistake Xuanzi made could not be covered up.

Now something else has happened.

It's one thing if you're unreliable, but why take such a risk at such a crucial moment?

A few lowly evil spirit masters, without any danger at all?

Was the crisis not detected beforehand?

Fuck you!

This makes me even angrier.

Every year, we hunt down some low-level evil spirit masters, supposedly to train students' abilities. Doesn't our empire cultivate its own descendants?

You've killed all the weak evil spirit masters, what are we supposed to train then?

The key issue is that so many geniuses still die every year.

Sending these geniuses to Shrek Academy is a terrible mistake!

Xu Jiawei cursed inwardly, but had to maintain a composed expression on the surface.

Even in front of these important officials, he still had to maintain his dignity.

"Your Majesty, why don't we have Shrek Academy send over the new contestants as an urgent request? We can then revise the contestant list for them."

Simply changing the contestants is one of Shrek's privileges.

As for Shrek Academy's inner circle students, most of them are out on missions?

Hmph, tell them all to come back.

At least, Xu Jiawei could guarantee that the Star Luo Empire's military would carry out the missions of the Shrek Academy students who were on missions within the Star Luo Empire.

"What 'Shrek Seven Devils' name? They're treating it like it's something precious."

Xu Jiawei had no idea what Shrek Academy was considering.

New trainees were sent over, namely the Shrek Seven Devils and their reserves.

However, only the most outstanding students in the academy could be qualified to take on the role of Shrek Seven Devils.

It's simply that they don't want the Shrek Seven Devils of the last two generations to be neither high-achieving nor low-achieving, thus affecting the honor of this name.

"Brother, what your sister-in-law said is a good idea. Shrek Academy has other students."

Leaving aside the inner academy, even just in the outer academy, there might not be many Soul Kings under the age of twenty, but Soul Masters are plentiful, and there's no shortage of those with top-tier Martial Souls.

There's still hope that letting them get through the first few rounds as a reserve team isn't entirely hopeless.

Xu Jiujiu offered this advice to Xu Jiawei.

Suddenly, a murderous aura appeared in everyone's senses.

A middle-aged man dressed in full armor strode in.

"His Majesty."

"Dai Hao, you're back. No need for formalities; today isn't a formal occasion."

Duke White Tiger also learned of the incident and rushed back from the front lines.

"Your Majesty, Shrek Academy cannot withdraw from the competition."

It's not just a blow to the Star Luo Empire's economy.

We also need to consider the military implications.

Dai Hao was the marshal of the entire Star Luo Empire, and he was the one who felt the conflict between the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire most clearly.

Even though the Star Luo Empire managed to withstand the Sun Moon Empire's offensive through his efforts, he knew that the Sun Moon Empire was only wary of the intervention of other forces and was not launching a full-scale attack.

If Shrek withdraws from the competition, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This will cause our morale to plummet.

The enemy, namely the Sun Moon Empire, will definitely seize this opportunity to spread inappropriate remarks about Shrek Academy.

Over time, Shrek's position will inevitably be shaken.

This is not what worries Dai Hao the most.

What worries him most is the Sun Moon Empire's strategy.

He could sense that the Sun Moon Empire had been waiting for an opportunity, a chance to unify the entire continent in one fell swoop.

If the Sun Moon Empire wins this year's Soul Battle Tournament, what kind of atmosphere will it create within the Sun Moon Empire?

Instead of immediately launching a war while morale was high, they took advantage of the situation.

However, taking advantage of this atmosphere, the Sun and Moon Empire vigorously developed its military for several years.

If we win the next Soul Fighting Tournament again...

The Star Luo Empire is in grave danger!

Unfortunately, the next Soul Battle Tournament was hosted by the Sun Moon Empire.

Unfortunately for Shrek Academy, this time the heavy casualties also included outstanding students from the next cohort.

Therefore, Shrek Academy absolutely cannot lose the championship in this Soul Fighting Tournament!

We absolutely cannot withdraw from the competition just because we're about to lose the championship!

Other senior officials also expressed their opinions.

The final conclusions were all consistent.

Shrek cannot withdraw from the competition.

They are primarily focused on the economic aspect.

After all, everyone standing here has their own background, and everyone is thinking of making a quick buck from this opportunity.

If Shrek were to withdraw from the competition, wouldn't everything fall apart?

Su Yu was unaware of the discussions taking place inside the Star Luo Empire's palace.

All he knew was that Shrek had still had an accident.

During the journey of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy delegation, Kong Deming captured an evil soul master.

The other party was also holding a boy who was about fourteen or fifteen years old.

"This man, who called himself the Messenger of Death, tried to contact the Holy Spirit Cult, seemingly wanting to join. I discovered him and killed him."

Su Yu's lips twitched.

This was purely coincidental.

It was just bad luck.

Su Yu turned his gaze to Xu Sanshi.

"These should be Shrek Academy students."

Kong Deming kicked Xu Sanshi, who was lying down, so that he flipped over and lay face down on the ground, revealing the Shrek pattern on the back of his tattered school uniform.

"Speaking of which, could these be participants in Shrek Academy's upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament?"

"Teacher, why don't we just ask him?" Su Yu said, pointing at Xu Sanshi.

"He has severe corpse poison in his body and his injuries are also very serious, but with your ultimate life force, you should be able to save him."

Su Yu summoned his martial spirit.

"First Soul Skill, Celestial Spirit Power!"

"Second Soul Skill, Purple Moon Purification!"

After the Heavenly Dou Empire split, there was the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Douling Empire. I misremembered, let me correct it.

The place where Master Kong encountered Xuanzi was the Heavenly Soul Empire, where the Tang Sect was also located.

The Douluo Continent map is roughly divided into two halves: the left half is the Sun Moon Empire, the right half is the original Douluo Continent, below the original Douluo Continent is Star Luo, and above it, on the left is Heavenly Soul and on the right is Dou Ling. I'll stop here and look at the map. I've attached a map, supposedly drawn by TJSS himself.

(End of this chapter)