Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 288 Mu Enzhen was so angry he died 3

After the appearance of "The Secret Biography of the Supreme Elder", the turmoil had not even been suppressed by Shrek Academy when "The Phoenix Plays with Two Dragons" and "Like-minded People" followed closely behind, stirring up an even bigger storm.

Shrek Academy finally suffered a backlash, a backlash that nearly killed them.

Why is it that Shrek Academy, despite requiring a recommendation letter from a major city for admission, having an absurdly high dropout rate, and having only one in a hundred or even a thousand graduates, still enjoys a very good reputation among ordinary people?

Because of the Shrek Academy's Surveillance Team! Because they will send inner court disciples and academy powerhouses to hunt down evil soul masters!

This is where Tang San's intelligence lies.

While the Spirit Hall's approach could solve the problem once and for all, ensuring that there were no evil spirit masters on the continent and that people could not directly face the life-threatening danger posed by them, the people of ten thousand years ago would naturally not know how much effort the Spirit Hall had put in to protect them.

On the contrary, because the Spirit Hall was such a large organization, many of its branches were corrupted by parasites, which made the Spirit Hall the villain. Even the great benefit of helping all eligible children on the continent awaken their spirits for free was forgotten.

Tang San was much smarter. He first destroyed the City of Slaughter, releasing the evil soul masters, and then let them wreak havoc all over the continent. Finally, he had Shrek Academy send a mere fifty or sixty inner court disciples to hunt down the evil soul masters in a grand and ostentatious manner.

What can fifty or sixty people accomplish in this vast Douluo Continent?

To put it bluntly, if an evil spirit master hides well, even if these fifty or sixty people are all in the same city, it would take a lot of time to find him and it would be impossible to eradicate him completely.

This is what it means to accomplish the greatest things with the least amount of effort.

It can neither eradicate evil spirit masters, nor prevent them from gaining prestige for the school, thus reaping the faith of the Douluo Continent and ensuring Shrek Academy's bright and glorious reputation and status.

Do ordinary people care about Shrek Academy's strength, its endless stream of powerful Soul Masters, and its inexhaustible cultivation resources?

of course not.

The percentage of Soul Masters among all the people in Douluo Continent is estimated to be less than five percent, and the percentage of those who can truly reach the level of Soul Venerable or even Soul King is less than 0.1 percent.

They can't access Shrek Academy's resources anyway. So what does it matter to them if Shrek Academy has a lot of resources and a lot of strong people?

They revere Shrek Academy because Shrek Academy has "done its best" for ten thousand years to eliminate evil spirit masters and protect their "life safety".

Look, there are evil spirit masters threatening us all the time, and then there's this force that openly opposes them, fighting to the death. The prestige Shrek Academy gained in this regard is far greater than when they led the three great empires of Douluo Continent to repel the invasion of the Sun Moon Empire.

That's how the backlash comes about.

Shrek Academy openly fights evil spirit masters to the death, but behind the scenes, its high-ranking members are 'all' evil spirit masters. In other words, they are essentially raising bandits to enhance their own prestige. While maintaining a righteous and noble image, they are doing all sorts of dirty things behind the scenes. This is the reason why so many people are leaving Shrek Academy and Shrek City.

They felt deceived! They also felt that the fear and comfort they had experienced for thousands of years were imposed on them by Shrek Academy, and that they could have lived peacefully without any danger!

At this moment, even if Lin Yun didn't cause any more trouble, Shrek Academy was placed in the same position by the people as when Tang San fought against the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago.

The enemy of the entire continent!

Compared to the Holy Spirit Cult, which hides in the shadows, Shrek Academy, with its double standards and disgusting nature, is a powerful force that does whatever it wants without any restrictions, and is the object of their greater fear and apprehension!

Shrek City was almost deserted; it wasn't a hard-to-understand outcome, it was the most normal situation. Now, Old Song had presented this problem to Moon, asking him how to solve this huge trouble, which was essentially pointing a finger at Moon's forehead and asking him:

How can you prove that you are not an evil spirit master?

How can you prove that you have no connection with evil spirit masters?

How can you prove that you, Mu En, Yan Shaozhe, and Xuanzi are all innocent and the purest Shrek people?

Ok?

Moon started sweating profusely.

Faced with Old Song's sharp gaze, Mu En even felt a chill run down his spine.

If he had a way to prove his innocence, he wouldn't have rushed out to try to erase his dark history after the Xuanzi Special Issue "The Secret Biography of the Supreme Elder" was published. It's because Mu En knows he's not clean that he's so eager!

Once a person has a stain on their record, it is absolutely impossible for them to escape unscathed from such a storm of public opinion!

Even if Mu En is a level 99 Limit Douluo and the Sea God Pavilion Master who has protected Shrek Academy for hundreds of years, there will be no exceptions!

If Lin Yun were to throw a lump of mud on Mu En's already messy bottom, then that mud would become the kind of excrement that can't be washed off.

Even if you brought in Fen Gou, the guy from the shady university next door who specializes in washing coal briquettes, he'd be dumbfounded in the face of this absolutely annihilating situation!

Not to mention letting Moon come by himself.

As a result, Old Song's gaze became increasingly sharp, while Mu En was covered in sweat, racking his brains to figure out how to prove his innocence.

But as the saying goes, only the person who slanders you knows how wronged you really are, and only the person who slanders you knows how desperate you can be. Moreover, Mu En himself is not clean, so Lin Yun's actions are at most adding fuel to the fire and making things worse for him.

Finally, Old Song couldn't hold back any longer.

"Heh, in the end, Mr. Mu, you can't prove your innocence, can you?" Old Song sneered, leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed, looking at Mu En with a mocking gaze.

Mu En, who was deep in thought, was startled when he heard Old Song's words and looked at Old Song in disbelief.

"Xiao Song, you..."

Mu En was truly shocked. Not long ago, he thought that even if the higher-ups of Shrek Academy were stupid, they wouldn't be fooled by such petty tricks, and wouldn't think that he, Mu En, was in league with evil spirit masters just because of a few books with no evidence.

But Song Lao's two sharp and incisive questions left Mu En completely dumbfounded, his heart turning ice-cold.

Looking at the other elders of the Sea God Pavilion, apart from Cai Meier's somewhat bewildered and impatient expression, and Zhang Lexuan's face being obscured by her hair and her head lowered, the other elders were all looking at him with the same cold and indifferent eyes as Elder Song.

Moon's anxiety finally died.

(End of this chapter)