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"How could such a cancerous tumor have been able to teach at Shrek Academy for so many years?"

"Are Shrek's eyes blind? Or are they all birds of a feather?"

"They must be severely punished! Give those ruined children an explanation!"

The outcry against Zhou Yi and the questioning of Shrek Academy swept across the entire continent like a tsunami.

Just as public resentment was boiling over and pressure from public opinion reached its peak, Shrek Academy issued a second announcement.

This announcement is relatively concise, consisting of only four parts.

First, Shrek officially acknowledged the error and sincerely apologized, admitting a major oversight in its teacher qualification review and management.

At the same time, we express our deepest apologies to the students and families who were harmed in the past because of bad apples like Zhou Yi.

Secondly, a compensation plan was announced, declaring the establishment of a special fund to compensate all students who, upon verification, had suffered unfair treatment from Zhou Yi and similar teachers, resulting in physical or mental trauma or ruined futures.

The compensation includes financial aid and other support, and will assist them in resuming their studies or finding alternative employment.

Thirdly, it is a solemn promise that an internal review team, personally led by Zhang Lexuan, the prospective head of the Sea God Pavilion, will conduct a thorough review of all faculty and staff members of the entire academy.

They vowed to remove all bad apples from the teaching staff and to provide students with a fair and safe learning environment.

Meanwhile, a second public verdict will be delivered one month after the handling of Zhou Yi's case; no bad apple will be let off the hook.

Fourthly, the final verdict against Zhou Yi was announced, but unlike the previous three, which at least received a paragraph of explanation, this one was only four words long.

— Public execution by slow slicing.

Chapter 141 The Prelude to the Massacre

The day after the end of the first semester of the first year at Shrek Academy, the academy was not quiet because of the holiday. On the contrary, it was even more lively than during the assessment period, with a repressive and restless atmosphere in the air.

Today is the day of Zhou Yi's public execution.

On Poseidon Island, Qian Duoduo, the vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, looked at Fan Yu kneeling before him, his face withered and his eyes empty and lifeless, and sighed helplessly.

Fan Yu had been kneeling here for three days and three nights, begging the academy to show leniency to Zhou Yi and spare her life.

But clearly, his efforts were in vain.

"Fanyu, give up. Old Master Mu won't agree," Qian Duoduo pleaded, her voice filled with pity.

Fan Yu remained silent, still kneeling, as stubborn as a statue.

Qian Duoduo shook her head and sighed inwardly, "He brought this upon himself, and now he can't escape it."

At one moment, a communication soul tool he carried with him vibrated slightly.

Qian Duoduo took it out, and then a light screen was projected out.

The scene unfolds; the execution has begun.

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Shrek City, in the central square, on a tall, makeshift execution platform.

At this moment, Zhou Yi, with disheveled hair, was firmly bound to the rack. Her former stern and ruthless image was completely gone, replaced by a mad, almost demonic, madness in her eyes.

At that moment, a figure gracefully landed in the center of the execution platform; it was Han Ruoruo.

Her face was solemn, holding a scroll of charges against Zhou Yi. Her clear, cold voice, amplified by her soul-guided speaker, resounded throughout the entire plaza as she began to list Zhou Yi's crimes one by one.

"The sinner Zhou Yi, during her teaching tenure, abused her power and, based on personal likes and dislikes, maliciously expelled a total of 347 students who were slightly less talented or did not meet her expectations, thus ruining their future as Soul Masters."

“During the teaching period, inhumane corporal punishment was carried out under the guise of ‘training,’ but in reality, it was abuse, causing physical and mental trauma to many students.”

"They arranged training far beyond the students' limits, disregarding their ability to endure it, resulting in many students suffering permanent disabilities. Furthermore, in pursuit of false results, they tacitly approved and condoned students using improper means, corrupting the academy's atmosphere."

The charges were read out clearly, like heavy hammer blows striking everyone's hearts.

Below the stage, the crowd of onlookers was already filled with indignation.

Among the crowd, some men and women, whose faces had long since lost their youthful innocence and even bore the marks of hardship, were all deeply emotional. They were students who had been arbitrarily expelled by Zhou Yi or who had survived her torment.

On the rack, Zhou Yi, her eyes bloodshot, roared hoarsely:

"What do you know?! My method is the correct one! Shrek Academy doesn't need mediocre people! Those good-for-nothings, those trash, it's only right that they get out! I'm helping the academy select the real elites! You idiots simply don't understand!!"

Han Ruoruo's gaze remained calm, ignoring the dying man's frantic barking.

After reading the last charge, she slowly turned around and walked steadily off the execution platform.

Immediately afterwards, a woman dressed in plain clothes, who appeared to be in her late twenties, carrying a silver-white metal briefcase, slowly walked up.

She stood calmly before Zhou Yi, who appeared to be insane, with a faint smile on her lips.

"It's been a long time, Teacher Zhou," the woman said gently.

Zhou Yi was stunned. She tried to focus her cloudy eyes, but she couldn't remember the person in front of her.

The woman seemed unsurprised, gently shaking her head and smiling, "How could you remember me? In your eyes, we 'mediocre talents' are nothing more than trash that can be discarded at any time."

She said no more, bent down, placed the suitcase at her feet, and opened it with a click.

Inside the box, various gleaming knives were neatly arranged.

The variety of knives—leaf blades, eyebrow razors, hook knives—was dazzling, reflecting a cold luster in the sunlight, carrying a hint of chill.

The woman extended her slender fingers and took out a willow-leaf knife as thin as a cicada's wing, her movements gentle and focused, as if handling a work of art.

She gazed at the cold glint of the blade, her expression slow and calm, without the slightest fluctuation: "Twelve years ago, my younger brother was admitted to Shrek Academy. He was 'lucky' enough to be assigned to your class."

"He is just a support-type Soul Master with weak Soul Power, but he worked hard enough to barely survive your first round of 'elimination'."

"But he shouldn't have been held against him just because he reported the unreasonableness of your training methods to the education department at the time. He was treated as a typical 'troublemaker' and subjected to even more severe corporal punishment."

The woman paused slightly as her fingertips traced the cold blade.

"The three months of freshman life were like hell for him. He had to run with heavy loads every day, which severely depleted his body. You even deliberately placed him in the weakest team during the freshman assessment."

"Unsurprisingly, he was eliminated."

"He left Shrek, but he didn't go home. A few days later, I found his body in a small hotel in Shrek City."

The woman's voice finally trembled slightly, but the smile on her face did not disappear.

She raised her hand, her fingertips gathering a sharp strand of soul power, which she precisely placed on Zhou Yi's lower abdomen, dantian.

"Ugh!"

Zhou Yi screamed in agony. She felt a tearing pain in her dantian, as a tiny crack was forcibly opened.

Her soul power, cultivated diligently for many years, began to leak out uncontrollably, and her cultivation level began to decline at a slow pace, with no chance of recovery.

Strangely, at the same time, a pure life force was forcibly injected into her limbs and bones by the leaking soul power, making her feel more "clear-headed" and "healthy" than ever before, and even her senses became unusually sharp.

"What do you want to do?!"

The real drop in her cultivation level finally instilled fear in Zhou Yi, causing her to scream shrilly.

The woman's smile remained unchanged as she chuckled, "This is slow slicing, Teacher Zhou. Of course, I must ensure your life is safe until the process is over."

"Rest assured, even setting aside personal grudges, simply to uphold professional ethics, I will not let you die easily."

As the woman's voice faded, in the reflection of Zhou Yi's suddenly dilated pupils, the willow-leaf knife, as thin as a cicada's wing, slowly descended.

"ah--!!!!!"

The execution begins.

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Shrek Academy's public announcement of Zhou Yi's torture by slow slicing, along with some edited footage, spread like wildfire throughout the Douluo Three Kingdoms in just one day through the pervasive media network of the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce.

The people of the Douluo Three Kingdoms were talking about this with great interest, while the various forces within the Douluo Three Kingdoms witnessed the iron-blooded transformation of Shrek Academy.

Just when everyone thought the blood-red curtain had fallen, Zhang Lexuan's actions did not stop; in fact, they escalated.

A trial, or rather a massacre, targeting Shrek Academy began within the school.

Chapter 142 Public Execution

Riding the wave of public opinion sparked by the Zhou Yi incident, and with some senior members having compromised and relinquished power under pressure, Zhang Lexuan has seized the vast majority of actual power in Shrek Academy's outer courtyard.

At this moment, with the secret military support provided by the Chamber of Commerce, she wielded the butcher's knife.

Shrek Academy's outer courtyard, during the holidays, was filled with a suffocating, somber atmosphere instead of the usual vibrant energy of youth.

Zhang Lexuan stood quietly on a high platform, her face as cold and aloof as snow, her gaze calmly looking down.

Squads of enforcement officers, composed of a mix of inner court disciples and elite members of the Chamber of Commerce, carrying two lists, moved like precise hunting dogs, traversing every corner of the academy.

Following the order, "Kill anyone who resists on the first list, and kill anyone on the second list upon encounter,"

In dormitories, offices, and even hidden chambers, many were beheaded without even realizing what was happening.

Those who remained obedient were dealt with according to the list; the former did not resist being detained, and the latter did not resist but were still eliminated. The methods were ruthless, leaving no room for leniency.

One by one, the individuals were apprehended and brought to justice. Among them were several highly respected teachers and administrators within the academy, and even relatives with close ties to certain senior members of the academy.

"Do you know who I am?! My father is the Grand Elder of the Sea God Pavilion!"

"I'm innocent, I'm really innocent! Please let me go, please let me go!"

"Let me go! I'm innocent! This is purging dissidents! It's a conspiracy!!"

A cacophony of voices—frantic roars, desperate threats, and frantic defenses—struck at the high and mighty arbiter.

Zhang Lexuan only felt somewhat annoyed by this.

She simply stood there quietly, calmly observing everything, and the purging operation did not pause for a moment because of any clamor.

The following day, another official announcement bearing the dual seals of Shrek Academy and the Sea God Pavilion spread to every corner of the continent through the channels of the Mingmeng Merchant Guild.

The announcement was even shorter than the one given when Zhou Yi was executed, and it had only one main point:

Public execution.

The list of personnel attached to this announcement contains a total of 237 people!

This includes managers and teachers at all levels within Shrek Academy, as well as members of chambers of commerce, vassal families, and peripheral forces closely associated with Shrek.

Next to each person's name, their crimes were clearly listed, such as embezzlement, abuse of power, oppression of students, collusion with external forces, and betrayal of the academy's interests.

The evidence was irrefutable; in fact, one of the newspapers under the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce even printed an extra issue specifically detailing the evidence of their crimes.

Under the deliberate guidance of the Chamber of Commerce's propaganda machine, all the previous negative news about Shrek seemed to be covered and eliminated overnight by this more intense and ruthless "self-cleaning" storm.

The entire continent was utterly shocked by Shrek's extreme, bone-scraping treatment.

With overwhelming force, Zhang Lexuan, the prospective leader of the Sea God Pavilion, forcibly washed away the millennia-old filth of Shrek Academy with her blood. Her name also came into the sight of all the high-ranking officials of the Douluo Three Kingdoms, and no one could ignore her.

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After everything came to a close,

In a pitch-black room, two voices mingled with the rustling of fabric, strangely clear.

"After this period of cleanup, the Foreign Languages ​​Department has been basically brought under control, but we have lost too many people and there is a significant shortage of staff at the grassroots level and among teachers, which needs to be replenished as soon as possible."

With a slightly dry, hoarse voice, Zhang Lexuan was taking advantage of the moment when she was still lucid and not rambling, to report on the matter in a clear and organized manner.

Kong Ming'an's gaze remained calm, yet his movements did not falter in the slightest.

With a slight effort, he lifted Zhang Lexuan up and made her straddle him.

His lips brushed against her snow-white shoulder and neck as Kong Ming'an responded calmly, his voice soft and gentle:

"I will speak with Orange and ask the Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with you as much as possible and fully assist you in completing the preliminary work and staffing of the Foreign Languages ​​Department."

"Um"

Zhang Lexuan made a slightly heavy nasal sound.

She tilted her head slightly, her smooth, graceful neck forming an alluring curve, but her eyebrows unconsciously furrowed slightly, revealing a hint of pain.

Perhaps it's because this period hasn't been fulfilling, just constant killing, and the intervals have been too long; my body needs some time to readjust.