Douluo Phoenix

Chapter 115 Bizarre School Rules and the School-wide Competition

The next morning, a relatively small arena was set up near the central square of the academy.

A teacher led the three onto the arena. Next to the arena was a blackboard detailing the conflict and explaining the academy dean Wang Xiaofei's decision: the two boys would compete in the arena, with the girls serving as referees. The competition would last three days, and neither side was allowed to wear masks. During the competition, they could use medicine to restore their soul power and food to restore their stamina. Teachers from all five departments would supervise the event. There were even healing soul masters present to oversee the proceedings.

Since it was the decision of Dean Wang Xiaofei, a titled Douluo, no one in the entire audience dared to object, and neither set of parents dared to utter a single word.

Meanwhile, Xiaofei was still in the dean's office, bitterly reviewing documents and dealing with problems. Each of these problems was quite thorny.

Xiao Fei thought about it carefully and realized this was undoubtedly a huge trap. The deans had left all the difficult and thorny problems they had on hand for Xiao Fei to handle. If Xiao Fei didn't handle them well, he would definitely be ridiculed by the deans. And none of these problems were particularly troublesome.

Xiao Fei thought for a moment: No, these problems are all too troublesome, we need to find someone to help deal with them (and take the blame). Feng Xiaotian seems to have served as the vice-principal of some Divine Wind Academy in the original story, so he's probably experienced in handling these kinds of issues. But after searching the Divine Wind Department for ages, Feng Xiaotian had actually gone to some Hurricane Canyon.

Helpless, Xiao Fei had no choice but to ask Shui Bing'er for help. The two of them worked much faster. Shui Bing'er, in particular, seemed to have become even more beautiful while working, leaving Xiao Fei completely mesmerized.

Three days passed quickly, and the three students stayed on the arena for a full three days and three nights. Whenever they stopped for too long, a teacher would immediately step forward to reiterate the punishment and order the two to continue. If one was seriously injured, a teacher would immediately treat both of them simultaneously.

After three days of this beating, the punishment finally ended. The two boys actually hugged each other and cried, regretting their actions, and even seemed to be becoming close friends. The girl from Tianshui, on the other hand, had empty eyes, as if she had suffered a great shock and injustice.

Several deputy department heads reported the results of the competition to Xiao Fei with admiration in their eyes.

Xiao Fei stroked his chin and muttered, "It seems this plan is pretty good, so it should be promoted throughout the entire academy."

So Xiao Fei wrote down a new set of rules for the college.

From now on, students are prohibited from engaging in spirit battles with each other; all spirit battles must be conducted in the arena.

Student spirit battles are divided into two types: one is punitive, and the other is voluntary, both of which require teacher supervision.

Punishment-type battle spirits all have specific time limits, ranging from three days to one day. Those who haven't reached the time limit are not allowed to leave the arena, and there can be no longer breaks in between.

Furthermore, regardless of the type of fighting spirit, no injury or death is allowed; otherwise, the individual will be expelled.

The deputy department heads exchanged glances: "After all, we are a Soul Master Academy. If we don't allow private Soul Battles and punish students for any such battles or conflicts, isn't that going a bit too far? Besides, students will lack practical experience if they don't participate in Soul Battles at all."

"Don't worry about that, just do it this way. As for the students' practical experience, I plan to organize a school-wide Soul Fighting Competition right away."

Seeing the question marks on their faces, Xiao Fei said impatiently, "Let's first establish this rule for the academy. I'll think about the specific implementation plan for the Soul Fighting Competition."

Thus, this bizarre school rule appeared on the school's bulletin board. Many students, upon seeing the miserable state of the three on the stage that day, trembled in fear and fell silent like quails.

In his past life, there was a line from Shrek Academy that left a deep impression on Xiao Fei: "Those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre."

When Xiao Fei first heard this sentence, he thought it was incredibly domineering and unruly, and that's how a Soul Master should be.

But then it felt different. A group of students causing trouble everywhere—they weren't geniuses or mediocre students at all; they were simply a bunch of idiots. What if they messed with someone they shouldn't have? Wouldn't that bring about their utter destruction? This sounded more like encouraging students to bully the weak.

This is the Elemental Academy, and such bullying of the weak cannot be tolerated within the academy.

Meanwhile, another message appeared on the academy's bulletin board: the academy has decided to hold an all-elemental academy soul battle competition, with the competition divided into Soul Master, Great Soul Master, Soul Venerable, Soul Sect, Soul King, and Soul Emperor levels. Each level is further divided into combat and support system competitions, and all teachers and students within the academy must participate.

All students must report their soul power level information within three days, and a lottery will be held in the academy square three days later. All competitions will be conducted using a single-elimination system, with a new lottery drawn after each round, and the process will continue consecutively.

The top 32 in each level will receive rewards announced by the academy. The better the performance, the more valuable the reward.

The top four students in each level will receive individual instruction and personal guidance from the Dean (Wang Xiaofei).

As for the reward items, since the other deans have all gone off to hunt for souls, Xiao Fei had no choice but to take out some herbs from the Lake of Life.

The teachers and students of the All-Element Academy were thrilled when they saw the rules and rewards for the academy-wide competition. The top 32 would receive herbs worth thousands of gold soul coins, the top four would receive herbs worth over 100,000 gold soul coins, and the first place would receive herbs worth hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins. Not to mention the guidance from the Dean himself.

Xiao Fei immediately arranged for the Xu Earth faction to establish dozens of arenas of varying sizes within the academy.

After the news of the new academy rules and the All-Element Academy Competition spread, the number of pending documents in the dean's office decreased rapidly. At the same time, due to the increased time he spent alone with Shui Bing'er recently, the relationship between the two became much closer.

The two have been cultivating together recently, and it seems their martial souls are drawn to each other. In particular, the divine-level Fire Phoenix martial soul has a fatal attraction to the Ice Phoenix martial soul.

The academy competition was in full swing. Initially, the battles were held simultaneously on dozens of arenas, but after the semi-finals, they were all held on the central arena. Xiao Fei was present to host the entire competition after the semi-finals.

On the day of the finals, Xiao Fei stood alone in the center of the arena and addressed the entire academy: "Students and teachers, today is a day that everyone is watching closely. Today is the final day of the first academy-wide competition of the Element Academy. I hope that all teachers and students of the Element Academy will work hard, cultivate diligently, and strive to become stronger."

"The Elemental Academy will provide fair and excellent cultivation conditions for all teachers and students. I hope that all of you teachers and students can take one step at a time, surpass your own limits, surpass your predecessors, and finally surpass me."

After saying all this, nine spirit rings gradually appeared beneath Xiao Fei's feet, black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red, red. Five black and four red spirit rings appeared before everyone's eyes, and everyone present felt an immense pressure.

Xiao Fei removed his spirit rings and continued, "As long as you are still members of the Elemental Academy, I will do everything in my power to protect you. I'm waiting for you to surpass me."

After he finished speaking, thunderous cheers erupted from below the arena, lasting for a long time.

This was the first time Xiao Fei had shown his spirit rings to the world, demonstrating his own strength and that of the Elemental Academy.

(End of this chapter)