The Number One Academy on the Continent (1)
A few hours later, Ji Chen finally saw Shrek Academy.
Rather than calling it an academy, it was more appropriate to call it a city. They walked out of a forest along the main road. The high city walls of the plains in the distance stretched to the left and right.
Shrek Academy was built on the Horse Plain and occupied an extremely vast area. It was a city in itself. It was known as Shrek City. On the Douluo Continent, Shrek City was one of the largest cities with more than two million people living there. On the other hand, Shrek Academy had the sole authority to govern the city. It did not need to pay taxes to any country. This alone was something that no other academy in the Sun Moon Empire could compare to.
Shrek Academy was not located in the center of Shrek City. It was located in the eastern part of Shrek City because it faced the direction of the Great Star Dou Forest.
There were continents in the north, south, east, and west of Shrek City. Transportation could be said to extend in all directions. This was not only the location of Shrek Academy, but it was also the most important commercial city at the border of the three great empires that originally belonged to the Douluo Continent. Due to Shrek Academy's existence, Shrek City's public security was excellent. Not only were transactions fair here, but it was also easier to put one's mind at ease. Hence, when the merchants of the three great empires engaged in cross-border trade, most of them would choose to conduct their transactions in Shrek City.
Shrek's north, south, and west city gates were open to entry and exit. Only the east side belonged exclusively to Shrek Academy.
Huo Yuhao and Ji Chen were led by Bei Bei and Tang Ya to the east gate.
Although this city gate was only used by Shrek Academy, it was extremely lively at the moment. There were at least five thousand people gathered outside the eastern city gate. The city gate was extraordinarily lively. A large number of vendors had already heard the news and moved. It was estimated that the outside of the city was much more lively than the city.
"Junior brother, you just happened to be in time for the academy to recruit new students. You can also successfully join this batch of new students. She's three grades lower than Xiaoya and me. Not only did these ordinary freshmen have to pass the assessment, but they also had to have a recommendation letter from the three empires that was at least at the level of a main city. This time of the year is always the most lively period in Shrek City. However, Xiao Chen had an invitation letter from Shrek Academy, so the academy would probably make other arrangements for him.”
Ji Chen nodded.
"Eldest Senior Brother, is the test very difficult?" Huo Yuhao asked in a low voice.”
Bebe hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Tang Ya.
"He will know sooner or later," said Tang Ya. This was also his motivation to work hard in the future. Just tell him. There were two requirements for Little Yu Hao to enter Shrek Academy's outer court. The first was to be no older than twelve years old, and the second was to have soul power no lower than rank-15. If you look at it purely from the perspective of the assessment, you are unqualified.”
She didn't ask Huo Yuhao to work harder because he had already worked hard enough.
"Then the first test in three months will also be a test of soul power?" Huo Yuhao asked seriously.”With his physique, wanting to raise his spirit power from rank-11 to rank-15 within three months was a completely impossible task.
Bebe shook his head."No, Shrek Academy's test will always be a test of actual combat. A teacher once said that any data was useless in the face of actual combat.”
Huo Yuhao nodded his head vigorously," Teacher Xiaoya, Senior Brother, maybe I can't compare to most of the new students who signed up now, but I will definitely surpass most of them in the future."”His tone was calm beyond his age, and his spiritual eyes were firm beyond his age.
Bebe was a head taller than Huo Yuhao. She put her arm around his shoulder and said,"Let's go. If you can make it through the next three months, I'm optimistic that you can make it to the end.”
Beibei and Tang Ya led Huo Yuhao around the crowd and came to the east gate.
At the east gate, there were a dozen young men and women of similar age guarding it. Each of them wore a yellow uniform with a green pattern on their chest. This was the uniform of Shrek Academy's outer court second and third grade students.
Upon seeing Bebe, these young students immediately felt deep respect.”
Bei Bei smiled as he greeted each of his juniors. Then, he said something to the person in the lead. The student glanced at Huo Yuhao and Ji Chen and immediately nodded." There's no need to doubt Senior Brother Bei's words. You guys can take this little brother in to register.”
Bebe smiled and gave him a thumbs-up with his right hand.”
That person didn't stand on ceremony and laughed." That's settled then. We won't let go of this opportunity to eat a big family.”
Bebe raised his hand and high-fived him.”Then, he and Tang Ya walked into the eastern gate with Huo Yuhao.
Ji Chen could tell that Bei Bei's popularity was indeed good, which was also related to his friendly personality.
Not far away, a new student who had just completed the registration assessment asked the senior student in charge of his assessment,"Senior, who was that senior just now?”
"That's senior brother Bei. His name is Bei Bei, everyone calls him Thunderbolt Bei Bei. Possessing the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon martial soul, the top of the beast martial souls, and also extraordinary talent. He had broken through to rank-30 at the age of thirteen. It was said that his cultivation base was already close to rank-40. He would be able to break through to become a Soul Ancestor in one or two years. He is one of the strongest in our outer court. If it wasn't for the sake of accompanying Tang Ya, Senior Brother Bei would have been able to take the fifth grade examination of the outer court. If he broke through to rank 40, even the sixth grade assessment would not be a problem for him. Senior Brother Bei is not only powerful, but he has always been kind to others. If we were to talk about the person with the best relationship in our outer court, it would be him. Senior Brother Bei is the Prince Charming in the hearts of many female students in our outer court. However, he was loyal to Tang Ya. He had rejected many seniors and juniors who had confessed their love to him. It was said that even the seniors in the inner court liked him. Everyone said that Senior Brother Bei would definitely enter the inner court in two years at most.”
Bebe and Tang Ya led Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy. It was different from the grand and solemn scene that Huo Yuhao had imagined. Shrek Academy had a beautiful environment, and all kinds of plants were abundant and lush. Walking on the wide road, no matter which direction one looked, they could see at least ten kinds of plants. These plants were clearly carefully trimmed.
Two hundred meters ahead, a few huge statues blocked their view. There were a total of ten statues, all ten meters tall, carved from the hardest granite.
There were a total of three statues in the front row. The one in the middle was an old man wearing a pair of glasses. He had a smiling face and was of medium build and slightly plump. He looked like a nice guy.
"The one in the middle is our Shrek Academy's founder, and also the first dean, Flender. The one on his left is one of my family's ancestors, the one who created Shrek Academy's spirit system teaching foundation, the Spirit World's ten great core competitiveness, the grandmaster Yu Xiaogang. My mother is his direct descendant. The woman on the right was also ancestor, Liu Erlong. She was also Grandmaster's wife. They and Dean Flender formed the Golden Iron Triangle. If it was said that dean Flender created Shrek Academy, then Grandmaster was the true soul of the Academy, and it was also he who single-handedly nurtured the Shrek Seven Devils behind them.”
Grandmaster's statue appeared to be a somewhat emaciated middle aged man, and Liu Erlong was a graceful middle aged woman.
Behind them were seven statues. When Huo Yuhao saw the statue at the front, his body trembled slightly.
It was a tall and handsome man. The most peculiar thing about him was that he had two eyes. There was a 'king' pattern on its forehead. Although it was only a statue, it had a powerful and oppressive aura.
"The seven statues behind the Golden Iron Triangle are the Shrek Seven Devils who once forged their glory. In first place is the White Tiger Douluo Dai Mubai, second is the Sausage Douluo Oscar, and third is our Tang Sect's ancestor, the Thousand Hands Douluo Tang San.”
Ji Chen looked at Tang San's statue with interest. He knew more about Tang San than anyone else, because Tang San, like him, came from another world. "I will definitely surpass you." Ji Chen thought to himself as he looked at Tang San's statue.
Amongst the seven, Tang San was the most handsome one, a head of blue long hair draped over his back, wearing simple clothes, the statue had circles of blue vines coiling around it, clearly his Blue Silver Grass spirit. There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but his gaze was vividly cast towards the fifth person among the seven, a woman with scorpion braids.
"The fourth is the Evil Phoenix battling Luo Ma Hongjun. The fifth is the wife of our Tang Sect's ancestor, the Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu. It's said that our ancestor was a one-hundred-thousand-year soul beast that cultivated into a human. Further behind was the Nine Treasure Douluo Ning Rongrong with the title of the strongest support spirit master. She was Sausage Douluo's wife, and the last Underworld Douluo Zhu Zhuqing was White Tiger Douluo Dai Mubai's wife.”
The seven sculptures of the first generation of Shrek Seven Monsters were of various shapes and sizes. Just from the fact that they were all Title Douluos, one could tell how powerful they were back then.
Tang Ya's gaze was fixed on the statue of the Thousand Hands Douluo Tang San. The Golden Iron Triangle and the first generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters laid the foundation of Shrek Academy. In the ten thousand years that followed, Shrek Academy produced countless outstanding geniuses and powerhouses, but there were only ten statues here, never increasing.
But Ji Chen felt a little strange when he looked at Tang San and Xiao Wu's statues. Why did they look so similar to his parents? They were both in love with humans and beasts, and they also met and fell in love at Shrek Academy. However, the difference was that their endings were different.
"We'll split up from here. To the left is the martial soul department, and to the right is the soul guidance department. These are the two major branches of Shrek Academy. Comparatively speaking, the martial soul department was larger than the soul guidance department. There were still many divisions in the martial soul faculty. We'll go to the soul division to register first. We'll have to pass at least the freshmen's first assessment before we're qualified to register for the soul division.”
Huo Yuhao's eyes were still attracted by the ten statues. He recalled the legendary stories his mother had told him, and he felt shocked from time to time.
Walking left from the statue, the road was still wide enough to accommodate four or five carriages. There was a sign on the side of the road that read 'Lakeside Path'.
On the right side of the tree, there was a wide water surface. In other words, behind the ten statues of the Golden Iron Triangle and the Shrek Seven Devils, there was an enormous lake.
Tang Ya noticed Huo Yuhao's gaze and said proudly,""It's an artificial lake built to commemorate our Tang Sect's ancestor, the Thousand Hands Douluo Tang San. It's called Sea God Lake. Because, according to legend, our ancestor Tang San inherited the Seagod's divinity. The Sea God Lake was extremely vast and drew in underground water. Our Shrek Academy's inner court is located on the Sea God Lake's island. All the outer court disciples were proud to be able to reach Lake Heart Island.”
Bebe cast a deep glance in the direction of the Sea God Lake, his eyes flickering with a resolute and persistent light.
The Sea God Lake was indeed very large. It took a full fifteen minutes to head south along the path by the lake before heading west. After another fifteen minutes, the path began to converge, and a wide rectangular square appeared in their field of vision. A sign for Shrek Square also appeared on the side.
Behind Shrek Square were tall teaching buildings. These teaching buildings were of different colors, mainly white, yellow, purple, and black. He looked into the distance to the north of Shrek Square. There seemed to be a stretch of gray academic buildings there.
Bebe pointed at the school building on the other side of the plaza."The colors of the teaching buildings represent different grades and are differentiated according to the color of the spirit rings. White was the freshmen's teaching block, the lowest level ten year spirit ring, yellow was the outer court second and third year's teaching block, purple was the fourth and fifth year's teaching block. Black was the sixth grade teaching building. Being able to walk out of the black teaching building was already enough to obtain the graduation certificate of the outer court of the academy.”
"Those gray academic buildings in the distance belong to the soul guidance faculty. Judging from the area, the soul system took up roughly one-third of the main teaching area, while the martial soul system occupied two-thirds. In addition to the teaching buildings at the front, there were many special teaching places at the back. For example Spirit Arena, assessment area, dormitory area, teachers 'office area and so on.”
The white freshman teaching building was located on the southernmost side and was the closest to the lakeside path. Huo Yuhao and the other two arrived at the teaching building after passing through the southern side of Shrek Square.
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