Meanwhile, after the earlier commotion, the atmosphere inside the Shrek Seven Devils' carriage was extremely strange.
Xiao Wu and Tang San sat on the left side of the carriage, while Dai Mubai and the others sat on the other side. A wide gap separated them... No one spoke, and the silence inside the carriage was terrifying.
In the end, seeing everyone so dejected, Flender, as the academy's dean, spoke to comfort them:
"Don't worry. I heard that the champion team of the Spirit Master Tournament will be rewarded with three rare Soul Bones. Don't be discouraged. Just win them back from Spirit Hall."
"A child's words were enough to cause a rift between you! This isn't the little monsters I know..."
"Got it!"
Everyone agreed, but only on the surface. In truth, each of them had different thoughts.
Give someone a little kindness, and they will demand much more!
Dai Mubai and the others were genuine prodigies in the eyes of ordinary people. They had never been willing to submit to anyone. After accepting Tang San's Immortal Herbs, they had always felt as though they were a step beneath him.
Now, they believed that because of Tang San, they had directly lost a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. As far as they were concerned, that settled the score. They no longer owed Tang San anything...
Tang San vaguely guessed what they were thinking. No matter how hard he tried, he could not understand it. He had been a genius of the Tang Sect in his past life, and now possessed Twin Martial Souls, yet he was still inferior to a child. His anger immediately surged.
Those two little brats, the Red Gourd Baby and the Orange Gourd Baby, had caused the Shrek group to exclude him. He could not simply let this insult go!
Suddenly, someone inside the carriage spoke!
"How about we pretend to apologize to that child and bring him some food? Maybe he'll give us Soul Bones too."
The one who spoke was Ma Hongjun. He looked at everyone with a fawning expression, and his eyes lit up when he made the suggestion.
"Besides, he gave those Soul Bones to Feng Xiaotian and the others. I really don't want that bunch to have something better than ours."
Dai Mubai rubbed his chin, a trace of unwillingness flashing through his eyes before he added.
"Yeah, yeah. Those Soul Bones should have been ours in the first place, but now they've been taken by them."
Ning Rongrong pouted, feeling deeply dissatisfied. She was the only daughter of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, yet she did not even have a single Soul Bone. It made her feel utterly humiliated.
"You... what are you trying to do? You want to flatter a child over a Soul Bone?"
"Have you forgotten how those two Gourd Babies kept making Third Brother lose face... And that Gourd Baby even injured Third Brother earlier."
Xiao Wu said angrily, planting her hands on her hips as if she were ready to stand up for Tang San. In her eyes, Tang San was everything. He could not possibly be wrong.
"Everyone... it's only a Soul Bone. I, Tang San, will bring you even more Soul Bones in the future!!!"
Tang San's expression was somewhat ugly. What was wrong with these bastards? Going to flatter that little brat was nothing less than slapping him in the face. He would never allow it.
Tang San and Xiao Wu spoke at the same time!
"Enough... Xiao San, stop making a fuss."
Dai Mubai spoke with a grim face. "Even if we aren't coveting that Soul Bone, that Gourd Baby clearly isn't ordinary... Since we can befriend him, we naturally shouldn't make an enemy of him."
"Exactly!"
The others also chimed in. Tang San's face turned incomparably ugly... He knew the die had been cast. There was no way to salvage this.
Thus, after Dai Mubai and the others discussed it, they went together to the outside of Godwind Academy's carriage, looking exceptionally fawning.
"Hey, kid, come out for a moment. Do you still want that water? We've got some tasty food here too. Want some?" Ma Hongjun called out with a smile.
Ning Rongrong and the other girls also spoke up.
"Come play with us. Your brother likes being friends with us too."
Soon, a group from Godwind Academy came out. When they saw that people from Shrek Academy had come, they immediately frowned. What were these people doing here?
When they saw the people inside the carriage come out but did not see Shi Yi, the Shrek group's hearts involuntarily skipped a beat.
Still, Dai Mubai hurriedly asked the others, "What's going on... Where's that child with a gourd on his head?"
"We have something to give him, and we want to explain the misunderstanding from earlier."
The people from Godwind Academy could not help but sneer. "Hmph, explain a misunderstanding? I think you're after his Soul Bones. You people from Shrek Academy are truly disgusting. You poisoned him earlier, and now you still have the nerve to come crawling over!"
Most of the surrounding crowd had seen what happened earlier, so Shrek Academy coming over again naturally caused widespread resentment.
"Bullshit... If Feng Xiaotian hadn't stolen our credit, that Soul Bone would have belonged to us in the first place!"
Ma Hongjun cursed with a grim expression.
The onlookers immediately spoke up for Feng Xiaotian, condemning what Shrek Academy had done.
"You're the ones with sinister intentions. You actually poisoned the water. If Shi Yi hadn't discovered and exposed it in time, he might have vanished without a trace after drinking your poisoned water. And you still dare claim Godwind Academy stole your credit? How ridiculous!"
"And you still have the nerve to say such things! You were the ones harboring ill intentions, yet you shamelessly claim someone else stole the Soul Bones that belonged to you. It seems everyone from Shrek Academy is this shameless!"
Tang San, who had been hiding behind the others, was enraged and humiliated by their words. He said, "Stop slandering us! There was no poison in that water. Third Brother just happened to bump into it, and we originally intended to give it to the child. That shameless Feng Xiaotian was the one who stole our credit."
"Exactly, exactly... You should bring that Gourd Baby over here." Ning Rongrong also said with a disdainful expression.
The two sides argued fiercely without giving an inch.
At that moment, Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu slowly emerged from the carriage, holding Shi Yi's hands.
"Tang San, you truly are shameless. I used to respect you as a genius, but now you still want to slander me. What an eye-opener," Feng Xiaotian said, looking at them as though they were idiots.
Huo Wu also looked impatiently at the Shrek group before her. She had once thought she liked Tang San because he had blocked that attack for her, but he was nothing more than a petty man.
However, Shi Yi beside them was different. Looking at the delicious food they had mentioned, he began to drool a little.
He had barely eaten anything over the past few days. They had been traveling constantly, and he only wanted to reach Spirit Hall as soon as possible to rescue his mother and Eldest Brother. What Feng Xiaotian and the others had given him earlier had not been nearly enough to fill him.
"Can you really give that to me to eat?"
The childish voice entered everyone's ears. In an instant, the noisy scene fell silent. Feng Xiaotian even looked at the child in disbelief.
Feng Xiaotian secretly thought, Shi Yi, I can give you whatever you want to eat too. Saying something like that while both sides are arguing so fiercely is really embarrassing.
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