The Evil White-Haired Fluffball

As it turned out...

Even when the icy beauty stopped wearing a cold expression, she still wasn't very talkative.

Shen Yichen spent the whole day wandering around campus with Senior Ling Luochеn, and he was the one who came up with most of their topics of conversation.

Shen Yichen could tell that his senior was trying very hard to act like a mature adult and show him how dependable she was.

But she was so cute~

After wandering around for most of the day, the two finally returned to the ten statues just before sunset.

"It's getting late. You should hurry home."

Despite her words, Shen Yichen could clearly see a trace of reluctance on Ling Luochеn's face.

It wasn't that Ling Luochеn had been conquered by the evil white-haired fluffball.

It was more like... a child playing happily with a friend all day, only for his mother to call him home for dinner.

"Senior, can I come play with you again sometime?"

"Mm!" Ling Luochеn nodded briskly. "Just tell them my name, Ling Luochеn, and someone will bring you to me. Your senior still has a bit of pull at Shrek Academy!"

"Okay~"

In this era, even communication was a major problem.

It wasn't like ten thousand years later, when a Communication Soul Tool made it incredibly convenient to chat and such.

In the old days, carriages, horses, and mail were all slow; a lifetime was only long enough to love one person.

Huh? If I got a Communication Soul Tool, wouldn't I be able to love lots of people in one lifetime?

Shen Yichen somewhat regretted disparaging Soul Tools as utterly useless in his diary.

Maybe...

He could learn about Soul Tools in his spare time?

He was too lazy to cultivate anyway. Who knew? With his smarts and ingenuity, he might actually invent cell phones and computers ten thousand years early!

Once he decided, he acted!

Shen Yichen wasn't the indecisive sort. Your Brother Chen was the kind of man who, once he took his clothes off, could go all the way!

Shrek City's southern, western, and northern gates were open for anyone to enter or leave, but the eastern gate belonged exclusively to Shrek Academy.

Ling Luochеn had just seen him out through the eastern gate. If he turned around and went straight back, wouldn't it be super awkward if they ran into each other?

So instead,

he left Shrek City through the eastern gate and made a huge circle around the city to the southern gate.

Then he crossed most of Shrek City from the southern gate before entering Shrek Academy through its southern gate.

The sun had only been setting before, but by the time he entered Shrek Academy, it was completely dark.

Shen Yichen: I'm so stupid, really...

Shen Yichen didn't know what he'd been thinking at the time either. Somehow, in a daze, things had ended up like this.

Ling Luochеn, that woman, was terrifying indeed!

Judging by how late it was, there definitely wasn't time to learn about Soul Tools.

Since things had come to this, he might as well go home and eat first.

He wandered back to Sea God Island and saw from afar that his little house was brightly lit.

He could smell the food from a distance.

The white-haired fluffball pushed open the door, and the first thing he saw was Zhang Lexuan emerging from the kitchen in an apron.

"You're back? Go wash your hands. The food's almost ready."

Boo-hoo-hoo...

Sister Lexuan, she's a woman who could be my mother!!!

If the feeling Ling Luochеn gave Shen Yichen was that of a first love,

the feeling Zhang Lexuan gave him was one of acceptance.

For a moment, Shen Yichen truly had the thought of spending his whole life with Sister Lexuan, just the two of them.

But the evil white-haired fluffball's evil personality instantly struck back.

I'm really a piece of shit!

Shen Yichen condemned himself inwardly.

"What are you standing there for? Go on, little guy, carry the dishes to the table."

"Okay~"

Body Sect

Things were warm and cozy with Shen Yichen and Zhang Lexuan, but Du Busi was worried sick, his hair turning white.

Oh, Du Busi had no hair.

Du Busi was living proof of a theory: working out easily led to baldness!

What worried Du Busi was how to warn Shrek.

At Shrek, Xuan Zi had the highest cultivation. If Du Busi went to Shrek and opened his mouth by calling Xuan Zi one of Shrek's three illusory gods and saying that Xuan Zi would bring two generations of Shrek to ruin, he would probably be attacked by everyone at once.

Du Busi wasn't afraid of Shrek ganging up on him, but the problem was that afterward, they would only think he was stirring up trouble and wouldn't really take his words to heart.

That way, the tragedies that were meant to happen would still happen.

The more he worried, the angrier he got.

I'm the dignified sect master of the Body Sect, yet I have to worry about Shrek!

Fuck, fucking idiots at Shrek!

Angry as he was, he really couldn't stand by and watch Shrek's people die.

It wasn't that he was some great saint. Rather, the pressure from the Sun Moon Empire rested entirely on Shrek. If Shrek showed signs of decline, the mad dogs of the Sun Moon Empire would surely come tearing at them.

In the face of major matters of right and wrong, personal likes and dislikes weren't worth mentioning.

He thought it over and over, but still couldn't figure it out.

[Du Busi: This old man wants to go to Shrek and warn them to avoid the tragedies Xuan Zi will bring about.]

[Du Busi: But I'm afraid Shrek won't take it seriously. Do any of you have any ideas?]

Di Tian thought nothing of it. Wasn't that simple? As long as he didn't let a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast attack Shrek, wouldn't the problem be solved?

But humans could die however they pleased. It had nothing to do with him...

The Snow Empress went even further, ignoring Du Busi's messages entirely. It was none of her business, and she didn't care.

Jing Hongchen couldn't wait for something to happen to Shrek. Offer advice? Impossible!

Zhang Lexuan and Shen Yichen, meanwhile, were having a lovey-dovey "candlelit dinner."

Du Busi keenly felt the malice of his group-chat friends.

A bunch of vermin!

[Huo Yun'er: Sect Master, why not sneak into the Sea God Pavilion and leave a note to warn them?]

Du Busi felt inexplicably weary. This woman was thinking about things too simply.

With someone else, even if they didn't believe the note, they might at least be a little more wary after seeing it.

But Xuan Zi?

Who knew how many wits he was missing to begin with? Even if he gained one more, he'd still be missing wits!

[Du Busi: No. Shrek won't believe it...]

[Du Busi: Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Great Sage Equal to Heaven!!!]

Compared with the others' opinions, he felt that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven could come up with a more constructive idea.

Sure enough...

Shen Yichen came online.

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: Hey, I have a plan!]

[Du Busi: I knew I could count on you, kid!]

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: Just march straight into Shrek and beat Xuan Zi senseless in front of everyone there. Then leave him with a threat: whenever he leads a team in the future, he'd better watch out. You could hit him with a vicious move at any time and leave him unable to protect a single student!]

[Du Busi: ...]

It was a good plan. Highly feasible.

But... his own reputation would be fucking ruined!

A dignified Level 98 Super Douluo, using students to threaten another expert of the same level.

Fuck! Use my own reputation to protect those little brats from Shrek? Are they even worthy?!

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: But there's one problem with this plan. You have to be able to beat Xuan Zi. Can you do it?]

[Du Busi: Hm? Can I do it? I could give Xuan Zi one hand and still hang him up and pound him!]

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: Really? I hope the rumors I hear tomorrow aren't that Du Busi got beaten up by Xuan Zi, then flew into a rage and threatened him with the students. I hope they're that Du Busi beat Xuan Zi up, left him with a threat, and strode away.]

[Du Busi: Then listen closely!]