Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 411 Zhu Ziyang: Ah Guang needs to be upgraded!

Three days after Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy from the Sun Moon Empire, he was invited by Cai Meier to attend the opening ceremony for the new students of the Foreign Languages ​​Department.

This opening ceremony was proposed by Cai Meier three years ago and approved by the Tianyuan Pavilion meeting. This year is the first one. The reason for this is that this year has special significance for Shrek Academy.

Six years ago, Shrek Academy established its first Tianyuan Academy. Now, six years later, the first batch of students from Tianyuan Academy have graduated. Many of the outstanding graduates have successfully entered Shrek Academy, becoming the new students of Shrek Academy's outer academy this year.

Because Shrek Academy has publicly declared its neutrality, and given that the mainland is currently in a state of war, the number of new students this year is only around four hundred, reaching the lowest level in a century.

However, Cai Meier and the other members of the outer academy's leadership were not flustered at all; on the contrary, they were very happy and excited. This was because of these four hundred-plus new students, less than fifty had entered the academy through the recommendation system, while the remaining three hundred-plus were graduates of Tianyuan Academy. This meant that the Tianyuan Project had already begun to show results.

Of the more than 300 new students from different Tianyuan Academy, half of them awakened their martial souls at Tianyuan Academy. They basically awakened their martial souls on the spot and could enroll as soon as they had soul power. This greatly prevented geniuses from being buried. This is also the reason why Shrek Academy dared to clearly state its position and cut ties with the nobles of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms.

They already have a stable student body, what Shrek Academy once lost is returning, the aristocratic background of Shrek Academy is dissolving, and Shrek Academy will eventually become an ivory tower that all soul masters yearn for, rather than a playground for aristocratic children.

As the dean of the two outer academies, Cai Meier, representing the will of Shrek Academy and Tianyuan Pavilion, delivered a far-reaching speech to these extraordinary freshmen. This speech was regarded as the guiding ideology for the reform of Shrek Academy's outer academy.

The content of the speech is roughly as follows:

First, from now on, Shrek Academy will provide an academic subsidy to each student every year. Students with different titles will receive different amounts of subsidies each year, roughly divided into four levels: Soul Master students will receive 1,000 gold soul coins per year, Great Soul Masters will receive 100 gold soul coins per year, Soul Venerables will receive 10 gold soul coins per year, and Soul Masters will only receive a symbolic 1 gold soul coin per year.

Second, an outstanding student list will be established, and each student who achieves a different ranking will be rewarded with rewards including but not limited to gold soul coins, soul rings (spirits), soul bones, or rare and precious materials. The list will be determined through the annual student competition, the specific rules of which will be omitted.

Third, abolish the bottom-ranking elimination system, cancel the right of teachers to expel students, and establish a new elimination mechanism, namely, that when students are promoted from second grade to third grade, their soul power must exceed level 20, and when they are promoted from fourth grade to fifth grade, their soul power must exceed level 30. If they still do not meet the requirements after three months of school, they will be advised to withdraw. It is a very simple, clear and cruel rule.

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In short, the new outer academy is more friendly to ordinary students, more beneficial to gifted students, and has a stronger motivating effect on all students.

The freshmen were still confused by Cai Meier's speech. All they knew was that Shrek Academy was indeed the number one academy on the continent, giving out money as soon as the semester started. This was too generous.

On the podium, Cai Meier was still giving a passionate speech, while Zhu Ziyang sat in his seat, flipping through the information of this year's freshmen. There were 425 freshmen, ranging in age from twelve to thirteen. Because of the existence of Tianyuan Academy, there were no students under the age of twelve. After all, completing six years of education was the basic condition and prerequisite for graduating from Tianyuan Academy.

As with previous years, the strength of this year's students varied widely, ranging from Soul Masters to Soul Venerables. Specifically, in terms of Soul Power levels, the highest was level 33 and the lowest was level 15. Overall, this year's students were relatively weak, with only three reaching the Soul Venerable level and just over a hundred reaching the Great Soul Master level. The remaining three hundred-plus students were all Soul Masters.

This is understandable, since most of these students are from commoner families. How can they be compared to the aristocratic students of previous years? Even though Tianyuan Academy is trying its best to ensure the resources for these commoner students, there is still a certain gap between them and the aristocratic students. This is an objective fact that is inevitable and there is nothing to delve into.

Zhu Ziyang focused on reviewing the information of the three new Soul Masters. The one with the highest Soul Power was named Zhu Ziguang, from Tianyuan Academy in Anyang City. Well, okay, there's no need to look at this kid too much. Although Zhu Ziguang's innate Soul Power is only level seven, he's still a genius. With the resources Zhu Ziyang provided for him, reaching level 33 at twelve years old is quite normal. In fact, Zhu Ziyang had expected that his Soul Power should be at least level 35 at this point. This kid must have been slacking off. Good, very good. He'll have something to do at the academy from now on.

Setting Zhu Ziguang's file aside, Zhu Ziyang picked up the file of the second Soul Master freshman. Lei Ting, twelve years old, level 33, a powerful attack-type Soul Master, with innate full soul power, his martial soul being the Cleansing Blade, the eldest son of Marquis Bai Ye of the Star Luo Empire. This was the strongest noble scion among this year's freshmen. The Lei family, Marquis Bai Ye of the Star Luo Empire, had an extremely good relationship with Shrek Academy; almost every generation's eldest son was an inner court disciple of Shrek Academy, belonging to the Ironclad Shrek faction.

This child named Leiting possesses innate full soul power and is even more talented than Zhu Ziguang. He is a promising talent worth nurturing.

The third Soul Master freshman moved Zhu Ziyang even more: Yi Yi, thirteen years old, a level 31 support-type Soul Master, with innate full soul power, her martial soul being the Silver Scale White Whale, from Tianyuan Academy in Bibo Town, Hanhai City, Douling Empire. Clearly, this Yi Yi was a commoner genius discovered by Tianyuan Academy; her file contained very detailed information.

Yi Yi was born in a small fishing village in Bibo Town, Hanhai City, Douling Empire. Her parents were ordinary fishermen who had not awakened their martial souls. On the day of the Tianyuan Academy's enrollment, she went to awaken her martial soul along with the other children in the village. The Tianyuan Academy teacher in charge of awakening her martial soul speculated that her martial soul was a mutated martial soul, because although the other children in the village had also awakened their martial souls, they were all common sea martial souls.

Based on the characteristics and abilities of her martial soul, the teachers at Tianyuan Academy in Bibo Town selected a 300-year-old sea spirit beast as her spirit ring, and she then obtained a support-type spirit skill. Therefore, this commoner girl chose to become a support-type spirit master.

Zhu Ziyang couldn't help but think of Oscar, the God of Food Douluo, from the original Shrek Seven Devils, as a support-type Soul Master with innate full Soul Power. If Yi Yi were properly nurtured, she would definitely become a top-tier support-type Title Douluo in the future, and might even have the opportunity to become the second support-type Limit Douluo.

Zhu Ziyang became interested in this girl from a small fishing village. He would ask Tianyuan Pavilion to pay more attention to her. If she was worth nurturing, it wouldn't be impossible for her to become a core disciple of Shrek Academy.

"Tsk tsk!" He suddenly clicked his tongue and muttered, "Looking at it this way, Ah Guang is actually the worst one. No, as my brother, Zhu Ziyang's brother, he can't be the best among his peers, but he should at least be at the bottom. It seems I really need to increase his strength."

He paid special attention to the number of students admitted to Tianyuan Academy in Anyang City. As the first Tianyuan Academy, it deserved Zhu Ziyang's attention. Anyang City Tianyuan Academy had eleven graduates who were admitted to Shrek Academy, the largest number among the more than forty Tianyuan Academies in the same batch. Not bad. Among the eleven graduates, excluding Zhu Ziguang who had connections, the one with the highest soul power was a boy named Xiang Li, level 24. The other nine were three-star soul masters and six-star soul masters.

Soon, Zhu Ziyang finished reviewing all the new students' information, and Cai Meier's speech ended, thus concluding the opening ceremony.

The freshmen left Shrek Square in an orderly manner, organized by class and led by their respective class teachers. Zhu Ziguang was in Freshman Class 3. Whether it was a coincidence or a deliberate arrangement, the class teacher of Freshman Class 3 was named Xia Yu. That's right, she was Zhu Ziyang's class teacher when he was in the Foreign Languages ​​Department. Now she has become Zhu Ziguang's class teacher. Is this a kind of reincarnation?

The other two Soul Master freshmen were in Class One and Class Two, respectively. Lei Ting was an ordinary-looking but masculine young man. Although a nobleman, he lacked the arrogance typical of most nobles; instead, he was very outgoing. Zhu Ziyang could clearly see that his palms were covered in calluses—the kind that only come from years of training, just like his own hands used to be. Yi Yi was a somewhat thin girl with a delicate face and two large, bright eyes. She looked pitiful and endearing, but her skin was dark and rough, fitting the image of a fisherwoman.

Zhu Ziyang had a faint sense of anticipation, wondering how far these individuals would grow. He thought that reaching the level of a Title Douluo was probably the worst-case scenario.

Perhaps it was because his strength had reached the pinnacle of human ability that Zhu Ziyang was filled with the mindset and thoughts of an elder mentoring a junior. Perhaps this is a common human failing; people like to teach others, and even gods are no exception.

(End of this chapter)