Ma Hongjun, master of drawing everyone's ire

Flender looked somewhat anxious. A stone that had sat in the kitchen for years had suddenly disappeared, and he could not help overthinking it.

If someone within the academy had taken it, things would actually be easier to handle. His students would still have a chance to use it and continue improving their Martial Souls.

What Flender feared was that an outsider had slipped in without anyone noticing and silently stolen the stone. That would be rather frightening.

Shrek's defenses relied entirely on its two deans, himself and Zhao Wuji, and its teachers. If someone could sneak in and steal things without alerting them, that meant this person could also sneak in and kill people.

And Shrek's current students were all treasures. Leaving the cultivation prodigies aside, absolutely nothing could happen to that academic genius.

That was why Flender had reacted this way after discovering something was missing.

Compared with the people, whether the stone itself was valuable was secondary.

The dean had suddenly come in asking questions, and Ma Hongjun had not quite caught up.

Seeing this, Flender explained:

"That big stone in the kitchen that gives off flames. I don't know when it went missing. You often use it to cook, so when did you last see it?"

Only then did Ma Hongjun come to his senses. He waved the pink ring on his hand and said:

"Don't worry, Dean. I put that stone away."

Ever since learning from Ning Rongrong that the stone he used for cooking was Fire Cloud Rock, and finding out its value, Ma Hongjun had kept thinking about it.

So the very night he returned, he had gone to put the Fire Cloud Rock away before going back to sleep with peace of mind.

Flender froze upon seeing the ring on Ma Hongjun's