The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

An Su did not charge any tuition fees.

Despite many traditional nobles wanting to give him Gold Coins, they were all righteously declined by An.

This traditional practice had long been eliminated by the times.

From the beginning, he disliked money,

An Su had no interest in money.

As he said, everything he did was for his brothers and sisters, for a bright future.

This speech touched the hearts of various parents who all praisingly exclaimed: such an honest and industrious frontier problem-solver is truly the hope of the Church!

They felt even more reassured about An Su.

An Su truly did not collect any tuition fees, as such filthy external things would defile the devout hearts of saints,

He even told the traditional nobles that the reason why the saints failed the Nether exam was because they were influenced by external things.

Coveting vanity.

Admiring flashy exteriors.

Competing in dress and adornment.

It was precisely these distractions, which weakened their faith, that led to the students' failure!

The nobles found themselves in heartfelt agreement.

Indeed, students should look like students!

So, in just one morning, An Su confiscated three strings of intermediate stage alchemic pendants, two low-rank alchemic rings, a Radiant Order Bracelet, and three Druid earrings—of course, as a bishop, An Su would never take the saints' possessions,

He was merely safeguarding them.

After they completed the saint's exam in a year, he would return them.

If they did not trust him, they could make a contract.

After all, in a year's time, An's Rank would be too high to require these lower-rank adornments.

When An Su declared this with an air of nobility, his gaze was stern and his expression was holy, sincerity shone from his greenish-blue eyes—convincing the traditional nobles, who all agreed there was no need for a contract, the young man should just keep them.

The education experts present, after witnessing An's actions, were utterly dumbfounded: Who would have expected such an innovative approach?

How could he be even better at persuasion than themselves?

Some eager-to-learn experts immediately took out their notebooks and began taking notes.

Next, An Su proposed an innovative system.

'Boarding system'

Basking in the radiant sunlight, An Su emphasized the superiority of the boarding system, explaining that the reason for the nobility's lax behavior was due to their comfortable home environment and the lack of centralized management.

Six days of boarding each week, with the option to go home on weekends.

Spending mornings and nights together would foster relationships among companions, living and learning collectively makes it easy to develop a sense of community, unity, and cooperation—all indispensable virtues for a saint.

As for the boarding location, An Su told them that it needed to be a place isolated from the outside world, undisturbed by the hustle and bustle, and the learning paradise he shared without asking for anything in return was his private church world, Seden Town.

An Su intended to kidnap these individuals to the Nether World, creating his own exquisite pain.

He even promised that if there was a single candidate saint who failed the saint's test or the terrifying challenges of the Nether World next year, An Su would compensate a thousand Gold Coins in return.

An Su was very confident.

Because he believed that his own school would be even more terrifying than the Nether World.

Seeing An Su so professional and advanced, the parents signed contracts with him on the spot, where An Su had the responsibility to ensure the safety of the candidate saints, and at the same time, the candidates were obliged to follow An Su's management.

When the sun set and the twilight stained the mountains, all the procedures were completed, and a total of eighty candidate saints chose to enroll.

What surprised An Su was that, in addition to Alice from the Alchemical Church, even Rosen from the Order Church had enrolled.

After giving this batch of supplies... after changing the new students into the most suitable skin for learning, they were all taken to Seden Town.

The original Pain Dry School had already been renovated by An Su.

First, he had all those heaps of taboo and evil materials such as bones and flesh dug out, but An Su did not plan to discard them.

After cleaning them, he renamed the room where the materials were stored to "Druid Biological Laboratory". He soaked the bones in a medicinal solution, labeled them, and they became biological specimens.

For those evil Magic Eyes that filled the dry school with surveillance, and the room that controlled them, An Su had people paint them white and added a signboard, naming it 'School Security Booth'.

Because the Pain Dry School had once been a battlefield, filled with human resentment,

An Su didn't deal with it but built the dormitories in places with heavy yin energy, directly suppressing it with the yang energy of the saints. It was standard practice in a past life to build schools over graveyards.

Flowers and plants were planted in places where the dead lay, nourished by flesh and blood, they grew lush and robust. The dry school playground was covered with a lawn, engraved stones with the school regulations, 'Pursue Excellence', and the dilapidated and gloomy buildings were painted white.

Propaganda slogans like 'Strive for improvement every day' were posted everywhere.

Suddenly, the entire Pain Dry School became bright and sunny,

To anyone looking, this didn't seem like an old den of Esoteric Religion.

The next day, they just waited for the saints to enroll.

That day the sunshine was clear, the campus was quiet and beautiful, birds sang among the fragrant flowers, and the shadows of trees swayed with the sunlight twinkling through.

When they came here from the real world, the first thing they saw was a brightly shining school gate with the words "Saints' Study Group" inscribed in large letters.

As soon as Alice stepped into the academy, she felt goosebumps all over, an inexplicable fear filling her soul.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Even though the academy was so sunny, Alice always felt that there seemed to be some great horror lurking inside.

More than a few saints with severe psychological shadows immediately burst into tears,

Although they had lost their memories, deep in their souls, they still retained a fear of this place, of course, no matter how they refused or explained, their traditionally noble parents also traditionally said:

"It's all just an excuse not to go to school!"

Looking at these embarrassing moments of the Low Rank nobles,

Especially those from poor, rural nobilities,

Alice took a slow breath.

There was a hierarchy in society, and there was also a hierarchy within the academy.

From the first day of birth, from the first moment they stepped into the academy, the hierarchy of nobility was already formed.

She was different from these people. As a major noble of the old Phalos, Alice had to show her authority from the top, and had to establish her rank on the first day, with a light snort:

"Country bumpkins really are..."

The reason Alice came here was simple, to defeat An Su and take back the dignity and honor of her family.

She hadn't finished speaking when she heard a calm voice from a boy behind her.

Hearing that voice, Alice shuddered all over, feeling fear from the depths of her soul.

"In the Training Society, everyone is equal," An Su said slowly. "Miss Alice, this is the first lesson I'm giving you."

Alice wanted to retort.

"Copy the school rules five hundred times," An Su said. "Then, have it copied a thousand times."

"...I'm sorry."

[Intermediate Stage Saint. Alice. Pain Value Increase 0.1]

After gaining the Legion Commander's authority, he felt a connection to the Pain Array at the center of the Esoteric Religion.

The Pain Array was absorbing the pain value, and An Su's smile became even brighter.

In the Training Society, everyone is equal, regardless of your status outside,

——they all had to equally provide suffering for Bishop An Su!