[They were in a small town, preparing to eat, when they accidentally offended a student and a teacher from an academy.]
The whole incident began with the fat man from Shrek Academy—Ma Hongjun.
If Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were mentioned together, they could easily be called the two most infamous womanizers in all of Shrek Academy.
Ma Hongjun’s favorite pastime was visiting brothels.
His martial soul was the Evil Fire Phoenix.
While this martial soul was undeniably powerful, it came with a serious drawback: excessive internal fire.
This problem could be alleviated either by constant training or by Ma Hongjun’s preferred method—listening to music in brothels.
Given Ma Hongjun’s personality, intensive training was obviously not an option.
So he spent his days frequenting brothels, often dragging Dai Mubai along with him, indulging in an utterly decadent lifestyle.
The women frowned in disgust.
None of them had expected someone this repulsive to come from Shrek Academy.
Hu Liena said coldly, “This is revolting.
It started when he was still a child.
How can someone like this even be considered a Soul Master?”
“It really is disgusting,” Ling Yuan agreed, shaking her head.
“Every fire-attribute Soul Master has issues with excess heat, but his condition is particularly severe.
As Xu Fan said, he could resolve it himself, but…” She trailed off, unwilling to continue.
“A filthy place,” Bibi Dong said icily, her expression dark.
She wished she could send Ma Hongjun straight into the palace and make him a eunuch.
Heaven Dou City
Ning Rongrong looked utterly disgusted.
“My goodness, is this even an academy?
Even nobles from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy rarely go to brothels.”
Most noble Soul Masters were well-mannered.
Even if they were arrogant, they had the qualifications to be so.
More importantly, they were generally clean and discreet.
If they had personal desires, they kept servants at home—there was no need to humiliate themselves in public.
Xu Fan’s judgment of Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai was absolutely accurate.
As for Zhu Zhuqing, she had long grown accustomed to this kind of behavior.
Now that she had severed all ties with Dai Mubai, she naturally felt no anger at all.
[Ma Hongjun spotted a pretty girl from Canghui Academy and immediately began leering at her.
Dai Mubai, standing beside him, egged him on, mocking Canghui Academy as arrogant.]
[What kind of logic was that?
They were Soul Masters—couldn’t they show a bit of confidence?
They had entered quietly and hadn’t offended anyone.]
Hearing this, the people from Canghui Academy were ready to step forward and teach Shrek Academy a lesson.
At that moment, I, Xu Fan, heard a line that I felt was on par with Yu Xiaogang’s infamous quote. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
“As the saying goes, those who don’t dare cause trouble are mediocre.”
Just listen to that—was that even human language?
[Those words came from Flander.
With a dean like that, it would be a miracle if the students ever did anything right.
A dean actually encouraging students to stir up trouble—it’s no wonder they constantly ran into problems later, even going so far as to clash with the Fourth Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.]
The world of Soul Masters revolves around strength.
If you lack the power to cause trouble, aren’t you afraid someone might just come along and kill you?
Brains are a good thing—but Shrek Academy clearly lacked them.
Of course, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong weren’t much better back when they were still there.
I don’t apply double standards.
Not even to my own women.
“A person who doesn’t dare cause trouble is mediocre?” Liu Erlong’s lips twitched.
“With my temper, I only dare to discipline soul beasts.
Flander, you truly are something else.”
Inside Spirit Hall, even Bibi Dong was speechless.
No wonder Flander and Yu Xiaogang were close brothers—they were the same kind of people.
How could someone so brainless become a Soul Saint?
Even Bibi Dong herself didn’t dare to act recklessly all the time.
As for Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, their moods instantly soured.
Xu Fan had just labeled them as brainless.
Especially Ning Rongrong.
She grabbed a pillow and began smashing it furiously.
“You scoundrel!
How dare you speak about me like that!”
“Bad guy!
Xu Fan, you bad guy!”
“You’re the brainless one!
Your whole family is brainless!”
The pillow whistled through the air.
“I, Ning Rongrong, am the smartest!
I could manage three months of the sect’s accounts when I was seven!”
Another fierce strike.
“I exposed Grandpa Bone’s scheme to trick my pocket money when I was nine!”
“Even my father says I’m the smartest little princess the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has seen in a hundred years!”
“What do you know?!
What I’m doing is… is called being wise while appearing foolish!
It’s called not stooping to petty matters!
It’s called—”
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[Before long, the Shrek group was taught a lesson.
The students of Canghui Academy were indeed weaker than Shrek Academy’s students; after all, many of their talents had been recruited through special channels.]
[However, Canghui Academy had teachers.
One of them stepped in and reprimanded Shrek Academy.]
[Unfortunately, Zhao Wuji was with them, and the Canghui Academy teacher was instead suppressed by him.]
[In the end, Canghui Academy suffered all the losses.
It was precisely because of incidents like this that Shrek Academy strayed further and further from the right path.
With no proper guidance and only blind protection, problems were inevitable.]
[These were all minor matters.
The real entertainment began after entering the Star Dou Great Forest.]
[Inside the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San and his group encountered a thousand-year Phoenix-Tail Crested Serpent and planned to give it to Oscar as his third spirit ring.
However, the beast was already being hunted.]
[In the end, it still became Oscar’s third spirit ring.]
[Meng Po was wary of Zhao Wuji’s strength and allowed Meng Yiran to fight Tang San one-on-one.
Naturally, Meng Yiran was no match for Tang San, and the thousand-year Phoenix-Tail Crested Serpent was taken by Shrek Academy.]
[Although Shrek Academy’s actions were unethical, they weren’t entirely unjustified.
Meng Yiran was simply unlucky—but even misfortune has its silver lining.]
That was because she later met me in the Star Dou Great Forest.
[At that time, I was obtaining my first spirit ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
I didn’t have much money, so just getting there had taken tremendous effort.]
[I was mostly deceived.
Those people claimed that spirit rings could only be obtained in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Later, I discovered that spirit beasts existed in other forests as well.
Damn it—I wasted so much time.]
[I had just killed a four-hundred-year spirit beast on my own, absorbed its spirit ring, and then encountered Meng Yiran.
This shocked both her and Meng Po.
How could a Soul Master who had never absorbed a spirit ring kill a spirit beast alone?]
[They recognized my strength and tried to recruit me, but I refused.
Fortunately, Meng Po and Meng Yiran were decent people—otherwise, I might already be dead.
I’m specifically calling out Tang Hao here.]
[After that, I accompanied Meng Yiran to obtain her spirit ring and broadened my understanding of the Soul Master world.]
Meng Yiran froze.
“So this is connected to me?
Those Shrek Academy people really were despicable for stealing my spirit beast.”
“But I’ve already met Xu Fan… If I go to obtain my spirit ring now, will I still be able to see him?”
She shook her head inwardly.
Xu Fan was no longer the same person he had been in her previous life.