Bizarre Shrek Academy, Soul Fighting Arena

Ning Rongrong, whom Ning Fengzhi claimed would not suffer too much hardship, was met with a harsh lesson right from the start.

With Luo Ye's reminder, although Ning Rongrong was exhausted and constantly cursed Flender in her heart, she still successfully completed the entire run.

She wanted to see what excuse he could find to make trouble for her after she had obediently run twenty full laps around the village as Flender had ordered.

When they gathered that evening, Flender's gaze settled on Ning Rongrong, his expression extremely strange.

That shouldn't be possible. How did Ning Rongrong actually finish all twenty laps? With her pampered personality, she shouldn't have obediently followed orders.

After all, I'm only a Soul Sage. Before the mighty Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I'm practically nothing. Yet she really ran twenty laps as I told her to?

Flender began to question his life, feeling for the first time that he had misjudged someone.

His original intention had been to harshly scold Ning Rongrong in front of everyone if she failed to finish the run or went off to eat lunch midway through, using her as an example to warn the others.

Thus, after speaking with Tang San, Flender had secretly followed Ning Rongrong the entire time. In the end, he watched helplessly as she completed all twenty laps before going to eat.

Though she had grown so tired that her steps became unsteady along the way, she still gritted her teeth and persevered.

What pampered young lady? She was clearly a determined little genius.

Sensing Flender's bewilderment, Ning Rongrong snorted and proudly puffed out her chest. It was small, but still adorable.

Since Ning Rongrong had completed the entire run, Flender naturally had no reasonable excuse to make trouble for her. If he targeted her without cause, he would be courting death.

Ning Rongrong's background was no less formidable than Tang San's.

With that in mind, Flender coughed twice and said,

"Oscar and Ning Rongrong performed very well. They completed twenty laps around the village as I ordered. If you wish to remain at the academy and cultivate, you must follow the academy's rules like this. You cannot defy my instructions. My words here are orders."

"Next comes your first lesson. Do not blame me for failing to warn you beforehand—if your performance is not good enough, you may be injured at best, or your lives may be in danger at worst."

"Alright. Follow me now."

Everyone followed Flender toward Suotuo City, while the three girls, including Zhu Zhuqing, could not help criticizing him inwardly.

Just as Luo Ye had said, Shrek Academy did not seem like an academy at all, and Flender seemed even less like a headmaster.

He kept saying that they had to obey orders. Was he treating them as subordinates?

An academy was stricter than a sect in this regard. That was absolutely unreasonable.

As they complained in secret, the diary in their minds stirred once more.

Hahaha, Flender must be dumbfounded, right? With my reminder, Ning Rongrong didn't slack off like she did in her previous life. Instead, she seriously completed the whole run, causing his plan to fall through and leaving him unable to suppress her like before.

With the advantage of reincarnation, ruining the schemes of Flender, Tang San, and the others is practically effortless.

Still, I can't become complacent just because I've gained a small advantage. Since I don't want the tragedies of my previous life to repeat themselves, I absolutely cannot let down my guard.

Speaking of which, Flender is taking us to the Suotuo City Soul Fighting Arena now and making us take part in soul fights. He really is the kind of boss who dumps all the work on others.

Other academies devoted themselves wholeheartedly to teaching their students. Unlike Shrek Academy, which tossed its students into the Soul Fighting Arena and then ignored them.

Oh, no, they didn't ignore them entirely. They placed bets on us and had us earn money for them, then shamelessly claimed it was to train the students' real combat abilities, using such high-sounding excuses to fool them.

If students spent every day in the Soul Fighting Arena, what was the point of having him as headmaster or having Shrek Academy's teachers? What academy on the continent operated like this?

Other than soul fighting, there was running. Those were Shrek Academy's two main teaching methods. It was truly an oddity.

No wonder so few students successfully graduated from Shrek Academy. They either died while hunting soul rings or suffered accidents in the Soul Fighting Arena.

Tsk. If I weren't trying to take Zhu Qing and the other two away with me, I really wouldn't want to stay in this disgusting place for even one second.

If we're going to fight, then besides individual battles, there will also be team battles and two-person battles. Unfortunately, I'm already a Soul Elder and can't form a team with Soul Grandmasters. Otherwise, I could have taken this opportunity to form a two-person team with Ning Rongrong and grow closer to her.

But it doesn't matter. Zhu Qing can team up with her instead. Given Zhu Qing's current relationship with me, Zhu Qing teaming up with Ning Rongrong is practically the same as me teaming up with her.

Once we become closer in the future, convincing Ning Rongrong to leave with us won't be difficult. Xiao Wu is the hard one to deal with.

Xiao Wu desperately wanted to tell Luo Ye that she was already willing to leave Shrek Academy with them, but unfortunately, she could not say it.

Today, her change in attitude had been too abrupt and had nearly made Luo Ye notice something unusual. From now on, she had to restrain herself and could not be so eager.

Moreover, she had already discussed it with Zhu Zhuqing. In the future, she would use Zhu Zhuqing as an excuse to get close to Luo Ye and, so long as it remained reasonable, try to shorten the distance between them as quickly as possible.

Even Ning Rongrong strongly agreed with this.

However, unlike Xiao Wu, who had so many concerns, Ning Rongrong was different.

She had not yet formed deep ties with Shrek Academy, so she could approach Luo Ye without restraint. There would be nothing strange about it.

After all, everyone on the continent knew that because of the limitations of their martial souls, members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had always liked to recruit talented people.

For a genius like Luo Ye, who had reached the Three-Ring Soul Elder level at such a young age, even Ning Fengzhi would likely find a way to invest in and recruit him. He might even take the initiative to bring Ning Rongrong and Luo Ye together.

Ning Rongrong truly wanted to complain. She was now completely certain that Shrek Academy and Flender were incredibly unreliable.

No wonder Flender had said that poor performance could result in injury at best and death at worst.

There were countless soul masters who died in the Soul Fighting Arena. Once one stepped onto the fighting platform, life and death were left to fate.

After all, in battles between soul masters, it was often difficult to control whether one should hold back. One careless mistake could mean killing someone or being killed.

Making freshmen who had just entered the academy go to the Soul Fighting Arena—Flender really had come up with quite a method.

I'm currently writing two books at once. If you're interested in the other one, feel free to check it out. The link is below, and you can also find it by opening the author's page.

It's also Douluo Continent I—an exhilarating read where Tang San gets thoroughly crushed in all sorts of ways.