The Plot Moved Ahead

So this training method was quite effective. Both Ning Rongrong and Li Ang were satisfied with the results.

However, Zhu Zhuqing was not particularly suited to this method. Compared to Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing's physical strength was far greater, especially after obtaining her Second Soul Spirit, the Evil Eye White Tiger. Her body had been strengthened yet again, and the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid basically had no effect on her.

So recently, Li Ang had been considering whether he should arrange an Immortal Herb for Zhu Zhuqing.

These things were treasures. Li Ang himself had benefited from them. If he had not eaten several Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he would never have lived to this day, much less lasted until the system came online.

Because he understood very clearly how important Immortal Herbs were to Soul Masters, Li Ang had kept this treasure land under his control ever since discovering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Now, two battalions of the Black Beast Mercenary Group were stationed near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. In addition to more than six hundred Soul Masters, there were nearly ten Soul Sages above rank seventy and even Soul Douluos. That lineup was enough to deal with ordinary Titled Douluos.

As for the various Immortal Herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Li Ang had not wiped them all out. He had only consumed several herbs with relatively balanced and mild effects, such as the Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma, Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

He did not dare touch Immortal Herbs such as the Blazing Apricot Jiao Shu and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, which were simply too dangerous to consume.

Besides those, there was also the most precious Immortal Herb of all, the Acacia Heartbreak Red. Li Ang had always wanted to eat it, but unfortunately, he simply could not.

It could not be helped. This thing had excessively high requirements for its owner. When picking it, one had to think of one's beloved, be utterly sincere and devoted, then spit blood onto its petals.

Li Ang had quite a few beloved women, but precisely because there were too many of them, the Acacia Heartbreak Red refused to acknowledge him.

Thus, this Immortal Herb with the best effects had instead escaped Li Ang's ravaging and was still quietly resting within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

But now, the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to him, Li Ang, so he was not worried that this Immortal Herb would fall into someone else's hands.

He would just leave it there for now. Maybe one day, Li Ang would figure out a way to get his hands on the Acacia Heartbreak Red.

As for the Immortal Herbs he intended to prepare for Zhu Zhuqing, and perhaps Ning Rongrong later on, Li Ang did not plan to take them from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After all, the System Shop stocked every kind of Immortal Herb. Its only drawback was that each one cost more than the last.

But that was fine. Li Ang did not need to pay anyway.

Just as Li Ang was considering how to arrange things for his two bargain disciples, the doors to the Shrek Academy cafeteria were suddenly pushed open.

Immediately afterward, someone staggered inside.

When Oscar, who was eating, saw the person who entered, he nearly spat out the food in his mouth. Staring in shock, he cried, "Damn, who is this? Why does he have a pig's head?"

Tang San, on the other hand, hurried over and asked, "Fatty, what happened to you?"

Meanwhile, Oscar skillfully summoned a Big Sausage and handed it to Ma Hongjun.

Ma Hongjun did not stand on ceremony. Without another word, he took the sausage and bit down. After wolfing it down in just a few bites, he finally recovered a little.

However, Ma Hongjun's tiny eyes were now filled with hatred. His eyes had already been small to begin with, and with his face swollen from the beating, they were nearly squeezed shut by the fat on his cheeks.

After catching his breath, Ma Hongjun said bitterly, "Fuck, this is humiliating as hell!"

"Who beat you into this state?" Oscar asked again.

"A creepy middle-aged man. Damn it, this is so fucking humiliating!" Ma Hongjun muttered indignantly, his face full of fury.

"Don't tell me you got beaten up fighting over a woman?" Oscar asked suspiciously.

"Nonsense! I was there first! That creepy old bastard has no shame!" Ma Hongjun immediately protested.

By this point, everyone in the cafeteria had basically understood what had happened.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong both frowned when they heard this, but neither of them said anything.

Clearly, neither girl thought much of Ma Hongjun's behavior. Spending all day obsessed with Goulan, even if he had his reasons, still made him look plenty sleazy.

As for getting into a fight with someone over a woman in Goulan, it looked no different from dogs biting each other.

Still, though they looked down on Ma Hongjun, they were classmates at the same academy after all. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing said nothing, simply continued eating, and offered no comment.

Xiao Wu, however, had no mature sense of right and wrong. Seeing Fatty beaten up, she immediately said in righteous indignation, "He actually dared to hit you? We can't just let this go! How about we help Fatty get his dignity back and beat that creepy old man until he can't take care of himself!"

Naturally, Li Ang also witnessed this farce.

Of course, he did not particularly care.

If nothing unexpected happened, the creepy middle-aged man who had beaten Ma Hongjun should have been Bu Le. In the original story, that guy was truly no less sleazy than Fatty Ma Hongjun.

However, Li Ang had no intention of interfering in the matter between Ma Hongjun and Bu Le. It really was just dogs biting each other; neither side was any good.

The only thing that surprised Li Ang was that this plot seemed to have happened earlier than in the original timeline. In the original timeline, Bu Le and Ma Hongjun had a conflict, but it did not seem to have occurred at this point.

Still, Li Ang did not dwell on it. Under his influence, the plot had long since diverged from the original timeline.

Under the butterfly effect, it was perfectly reasonable for Bu Le to appear ahead of schedule.

Since he was not interested in the affairs between Bu Le and Ma Hongjun, Li Ang stopped paying attention to them.

Over the next period of time, Li Ang devoted most of his energy to training his disciples.

Having taken in two new female disciples, Li Ang was quite conscientious in teaching them. After more than two months, Zhu Zhuqing's actual combat ability had improved dramatically. Then Li Ang got her a Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, directly raising Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Power to rank thirty.

Moreover, that was because Zhu Zhuqing had not yet added her Third Soul Ring. Otherwise, her Soul Power rank would have been even higher.