The history Ao Yao described was not much different from the knowledge they had learned after entering Shrek Academy, so the women's hearts remained largely unmoved. At most, they were interested in the Battle of the Two Gods, which was not extensively described in historical records.
However, Ning Tian thought of many things.
Under the influence of Tang San achieving godhood, Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect flourished, dominating the continent's academies and Sects for millennia. But their Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, which was the number one Support Sect on the continent ten thousand years ago, had been on a downward trend for this entire ten thousand years.
Even though the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School produced a god, Ning Rongrong, ten thousand years ago, why was the gap so vast?
Especially in the most recent few millennia, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had clearly shown signs of decline. Although they sent people to study at Shrek Academy every generation, the number of Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciples who managed to become one of the contemporary Shrek Seven Devils was very small.
By now, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School might only have wealth as its advantage.
But the problem was... those high-level spirit tools and high-level Soul Engineers capable of changing the status and strength of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School could simply not be obtained with money alone!
Fortunately, Ao Yao descended upon the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and she became the person possessing the diary instance.
Otherwise, Ning Tian truly didn't know how the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School could turn things around and re-establish the glory of the number one Support Sect on the continent.
[For ten thousand years, Shrek Academy has maintained its dominant position. Students who graduate from Shrek Academy have successively entered the high levels of the Three Great Empires, the military, and even some powerful Sects. If it were only this, it would be fine, but the crucial point is that these people from Shrek Academy actually hold the Shrek Academy in high regard!]
[This is a terrifying thing, okay? This means that if Shrek Academy wished, establishing itself as a nation, just like the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago, would not be impossible... No, Shrek Academy is already doing just that. Although Shrek Academy has never established a nation, it does not belong to any single country, and it possesses independent territory, independent rules, independent armed forces, and an independent economic system. Simply maintaining their current state is already sufficient.]
[The Three Great Empires are filled with people from Shrek Academy, and on the side of the Sun Moon Empire, Shrek Academy has definitely begun its machinations. As long as they can support He Caitou, the former Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire, to inherit the throne of the Sun Moon Empire, the Sun Moon Empire will also follow the lead of Shrek!]
[For an academy to achieve this level, it is simply outrageous!]
Hearing this, Xu Jiujiu and Vina almost gasped simultaneously.
They were not Shrek students, and as princesses of their respective Empires, their instincts were even sharper.
Just as Ao Yao said, due to Shrek Academy's transcendent status and powerful educational resources, almost all major Sects and the nobility of the Empires would send their descendants to Shrek Academy for study.
When they return after completing their studies and inherit their parents' positions, their attitude towards Shrek Academy is self-evident.
After several generations of this cycle, the entire Empire... perhaps everyone from top to bottom would have become Shrek loyalists!
As members of the royal family, they naturally did not want to see this happen.
Who would want their subjects to reside in the Empire but have their hearts elsewhere?
But...
They seemed powerless to change this reality.
Because Shrek Academy's teaching power was indeed extremely strong. Countless powerful and outstanding Spirit Masters were cultivated by Shrek, which meant Shrek Academy naturally had a huge advantage over other academies. Moreover, they could not explicitly forbid those under them from sending their children to Shrek Academy.
The only solution was... for Shrek Academy to completely disappear.
But this was something fundamentally impossible to achieve.
After ten thousand years of evolution, Shrek's image was already deeply ingrained in people's hearts, not to mention their formidable strength; it was simply impossible for them to be wiped out overnight.
[The Sun Moon Empire did seize an excellent opportunity. Although cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult was morally questionable, this move did solve the Sun Moon Empire's deficiency in high-level Spirit Master combat power. It was just a pity that they encountered the overpowered Huo Yuhao.]
[It can be said that if there had been no interference from Tang San, and no Huo Yuhao, this child of destiny, the Sun Moon Empire really might have unified the entire continent. However, now, Huo Yuhao has been expelled from Shrek Academy, and I personally witnessed him leaving Shrek Academy... In this case, the future seems to hold many more variables.]
[Returning to Shrek Academy, I have always felt that it is an extremely bizarre pyramid scheme organization. It seems that every person who joins Shrek Academy inexplicably becomes full of belonging and recognition for Shrek Academy, and everyone is willing to give everything, even their lives, for Shrek's glory.]
[This brainwashing capability is truly outrageous.]
Upon reading this, Xu Jiujiu and Vina nodded in deep agreement.
The nobles of those Empires clearly received salaries from the Empire and enjoyed the benefits and preferential treatment of the Empire, yet their hearts leaned towards Shrek Academy. This was absolutely because Shrek Academy's brainwashing ability was too strong!
Meanwhile, Xiao Xiao and Wang Donger, who were only in the First Year, along with Meng Hongchen, who had only recently arrived at Shrek Academy, quickly accepted Ao Yao's assertion.
Shrek Academy did seem to possess this kind of magic, capable of subtly influencing you, making you unknowingly filled with recognition and belonging toward the academy.
Of course, this was also inseparable from the efforts of these external teachers.
After all, in the First Year, the most they received was education regarding Shrek's glory and history.
As for Ma Xiaotao, she scoffed at this statement.
The reason why graduates of Shrek Academy were filled with recognition for Shrek was entirely because Shrek Academy performed exceptionally well! From every angle, Shrek Academy had achieved near perfection.
Shrek Academy possessed the most abundant educational resources, even featuring personal instruction from Titled Douluo level experts, the continent's only large-scale Beast Fighting Area, expensive and unique super simulated training grounds, advanced theories on utilizing Spirits, and the best cafeteria on the continent. For an academy like this, why shouldn't it gain the recognition of its students?
Of course, Ma Xiaotao only dared to refute this in her heart. If she were truly to speak disrespectfully to Ao Yao, she still wouldn't dare.
After all, the lesson from last time was still vivid in her memory, and she didn't want to endure it again.
The punishment last time had caused her Evil Fire to erupt, making her uncomfortable for quite some time. It hadn't been long since then; if it happened again, it might truly endanger her life.