Chu Ye: Why Didn't Dean Yan Embezzle More?

As a plant-type Soul Master whose abilities were countered by fire,

Tang Ya was even more stunned:

"Why is Senior Ma Xiaotao coming straight at us?"

The figure came racing across the waves, her enormous black-and-red phoenix wings beating behind her. Flames struck the lake, kicking up layer upon layer of mist.

Xiao Xiao's little face went pale.

That oppressive feeling came from an absolute difference in strength.

Wang Dong grabbed Xiao Xiao by the arm and pulled her back:

"She's a Soul Emperor, at least as strong as one, and those flames aren't ordinary flames either."

Huo Yuhao's expression tightened:

"It looks like we're her targets."

"With strength like that, even the academy's teachers might not be a match for her."

But they couldn't help looking at one figure: Chu Ye.

In their eyes, Chu Ye was as calm as ever.

Both wielded fire, but which was stronger, Senior Chu Ye's Ultimate Fire or this fire phoenix?

And at that moment,

Chu Ye stepped in front of everyone, seemingly intending to withstand Ma Xiaotao's attack with his own body!

Seeing this, Tang Ya cried out, "Senior Chu Ye, be careful!"

Chu Ye smiled and said, "What is there to be careful about?"

Seeing Chu Ye actually come toward her, Ma Xiaotao, who had already lost her reason, grew even angrier. Someone actually dared to challenge her.

"Out of my way!"

"Fourth Soul Skill, Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike!"

She leaped into the air and gathered Evil Fire, then dove down with a terrifying mass of it!

To everyone's shock,

A classic among classics: Phoenix Laughing at the Field Frog!

Chu Feng couldn't help laughing inwardly.

He didn't even light up his Soul Rings.

A red flame of ultimate redness blazed to life in his hand.

Before Ma Xiaotao could react, Chu Ye grabbed her wrist.

Chu Ye directly suppressed the flames of her Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike.

Chu Ye said calmly:

"Ma Xiaotao, you can't even suppress your Evil Fire. You really are a disgrace to the name of the Shrek Seven Devils."

Immediately, Ma Xiaotao's blazing Evil Fire was suppressed bit by bit, and the terrifying Phoenix Flame vanished in an instant.

Ma Xiaotao's eyes rolled back, and she slumped toward Chu Ye as though all her strength had left her.

On the shore of Sea God Lake, everyone was stunned by the sight.

Wang Dong was dumbstruck.

Hadn't Chu Ye said before that he was an ordinary Six-Ring Soul Emperor and definitely couldn't beat the inner court's Shrek Seven Devils?

Yet he had subdued an inner court senior in a single move.

Just how much of his strength was Senior Chu Ye hiding?

No wonder he had said he could deal with anyone below a Titled Douluo.

If the person he had met that day hadn't been a Titled Douluo from the Zodiac Temple, maybe he really would have succeeded in showing off again.

Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up.

"Senior Chu Ye is amazing!"

Huo Yuhao was utterly bewildered.

In his Sea of Consciousness, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm drifted about and said, "That Chu Ye's flames are far too terrifying, even more terrifying than Ultimate Ice. Otherwise, how could he have suppressed that little girl's terrifying Evil Fire so easily?"

Like Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya looked at Chu Ye with shining eyes.

"Senior, thank goodness you were here!"

The sight made Bei Bei grit his teeth, the corner of his mouth twitching.

As a junior of Mu En's lineage, he knew full well how powerful Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul was. She was the foremost of the inner court's Shrek Seven Devils.

In a real fight, even a Seven-Ring Soul Sage might not be able to beat her.

And that was when Ma Xiaotao was out of control. Yet Senior Chu Ye had subdued her in one move, as easily as catching a chick.

Although Senior Ma Xiaotao had used her fourth Soul Skill rather than her sixth and hadn't unleashed her full strength, wasn't this still a bit too outrageous?

Chu Ye patted Ma Xiaotao's face and said:

"Wake up. How much longer are you going to keep leaning on me?"

Hearing this, Ma Xiaotao seemed about to wake up.

Just then, a presence of light rushed from across Sea God Island to the shore of Sea God Lake with a thunderous roar.

By the time Yan Shaozhe noticed that Ma Xiaotao had lost control and her Evil Fire was running wild, it was too late.

He had thought the outer court would be in complete disarray by now. But when he looked closely, several new students stood unharmed where they were, while Chu Ye held his disciple with one hand.

Yan Shaozhe frowned. Seeing that Ma Xiaotao had indeed calmed down, he was astonished.

"Chu Ye, I was handling official business just now and was careless for a moment. Thankfully, Xiaotao didn't make a grave mistake."

"Let me thank you on Xiaotao's behalf for protecting so many outer court students."

With that, Yan Shaozhe moved to take Ma Xiaotao away.

But just then, Chu Ye held out a hand, palm up, and beckoned with it.

Yan Shaozhe didn't understand. "What do you mean by this?"

Chu Ye rolled his eyes and said:

"Don't play dumb, Dean Yan."

"When Ma Xiaotao brought that Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike down just now, if I hadn't fought with everything I had and risked my life to protect them, Wang Dong and the others would have turned into roast suckling pigs long ago."

"I risked injury to protect everyone, saved the future of our Shrek Academy, helped you save face for the Martial Soul Department, and protected your disciple for you."

"And you're going to fob me off with a couple of words of thanks? Is that reasonable? Let's have something more practical. Get me some pills as compensation."

Hearing this, Wang Dong and the others couldn't help feeling speechless. What did he mean, he had fought with everything he had and risked his life?

He had made it look as easy as catching a chick by the roadside, hadn't he?

He was clearly trying to fool Yan Shaozhe.

Wang Dong said unhappily, "Senior Chu Ye, we're not roast suckling pigs!"

Although she was disguised as a man, she was still a girl and cared somewhat about her figure.

Chu Ye waved a hand and said:

"That's not important. It was just a metaphor."

He thought to himself that even as a girl, Wang Dong'er was still the same, only a little better than a washboard at best.

Roast suckling pig really wasn't a fitting comparison.

It was a bit insulting to pigs.

Yan Shaozhe said irritably, "You didn't even get out of breath, as far as I could see. Where was the risk to your life?"

Hearing Yan Shaozhe's words, Chu Ye clutched his chest and said:

"Ah, that's true."

"How could the esteemed Dean Yan, a Super Douluo, spare a thought for whether powerless and uninfluential outer court disciples like us live or die?"

"Later, I'll go ask Mu En to judge who's in the right. I'll tell him the dean of our Martial Soul Department indulged his disciple Ma Xiaotao when she attacked people, and afterward tried to welch on the reward."

"Ah, my wounded heart is no longer fit to go to the Spirit Pagoda or attend its founding ceremony."

Listening to Chu Ye put on such a convincing act,

Yan Shaozhe felt his scalp go numb.

If Chu Ye really complained like that, he, Yan Shaozhe, would at the very least get another scolding from Mu En. After all, Xiaotao was his disciple, and he had failed in his duty as her teacher by not keeping her in check.

He sighed. It seemed he could only spend money to avert disaster.

"Then what pills do you want? I don't have any that are too good."

Chu Ye curled his lip.

"As dean of the Martial Soul Department, aren't you a little too poor, Dean Yan?"

"Don't you usually embezzle a little from the academy?"