Ice, Purity, and Jade Purity: Tang San?

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Yu Luomian looked at his elder brother seated on the Sect Master's throne—an elderly man clad in golden soft armor with short snow-white hair. This man was Yu Yuanzhen, the patriarch of the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Luomian spoke up to ask, "Big Brother, the time for this month's Heavenly Dao Rankings of Past and Present exposure has arrived. Should our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect send people out...?"

As he spoke, Yu Luomian looked toward Yu Yuanzhen. He knew that his elder brother understood what he meant.

"No need!" Yu Yuanzhen merely waved a hand and said in his aged voice, "Just keep an eye on whether anyone exposed by the Heavenly Dao Rankings possessed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon in their past life, or has already become a member of our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in this life!"

"After all, the continent is simply too vast. Its population may even exceed ten billion, and there are even more Soul Beasts! How could we possibly find that one and only 'Exposer'?"

"Hmph! Over the past decade, Spirit Hall has spent enough resources gathering fewer than twenty 'Exposers' to produce twice as many powerful experts!"

"Our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan does not do such loss-making business!"

Heaven Dou City, Heaven Dou Empire Royal Palace, within a pavilion at the Crown Prince's Mansion.

"Clack!"

Gently setting down his teacup, a refined young man exuding noble elegance wore a faintly amused smile. He slowly rose from the stone table in the pavilion, turned, and walked to its edge. Gazing at the sea of flowers nearby, he muttered to himself, "This time, I will definitely find the 'Exposer' before you do—and win him over for my own use!"

"It's time for you to taste defeat, my... dear sister!"

At the same time, in a small village outside Suotuo City of the Balak Kingdom, a subordinate kingdom of the Heaven Dou Empire, there stood an "academy" with a crooked little wooden sign hanging over its entrance. The sign bore the words "Shrek Academy," and in its lower-right corner was the ugly head of a little green monster.

With nothing but rows of small rustic wooden cottages inside, calling this place a village would have been more fitting than calling it an academy.

At that moment, on Shrek Academy's training grounds, Flender looked at the seven students before him and nodded in satisfaction. Especially when his gaze fell upon the four new students recruited yesterday, the smile in the corners of his eyes nearly spilled over!

Good grief! Four newcomers had arrived: one was the Little Princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; one was a young lady of Starfall's Zhu Family; and the last pair, a boy and a girl, were both geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power. The boy was even the son of the renowned Clear Sky Douluo!

They had practically gathered the descendants of nearly half the major powers on Douluo Continent!

Moreover, this was the only time in nearly twenty years that Shrek Academy had managed to assemble a full seven-member student team. With the talents of these little monsters, perhaps they could even take part in the Pan-Continent Soul Master Academy Tournament two years from now!

By then, with these little monsters' talent and fame, Shrek Academy would surely attract a great deal of fresh blood!

"Ahem!"

After coughing twice and forcibly restraining the corners of his mouth from stretching to his back teeth, Flender pushed up the rectangular glasses perched on his hooked nose. Then, his owl-like gaze swept across the seven youths before him as he spoke calmly, "First, as the dean of Shrek Academy, I, Flender, a level seventy-eight Soul Saint and the Four-Eyed Owl, congratulate you on successfully passing the selection and joining Shrek Academy!"

"However, training should have begun next, but today's timing is somewhat special!"

"As you all know, it is almost time for this month's Heavenly Dao Rankings of Past and Present exposure!"

"Therefore, this dean has decided that today's training will begin after everyone finishes watching this month's Heavenly Dao Exposure together!"

After saying that, Flender clasped his hands behind his back and said nothing more.

"Tch! What's so good about being exposed? If your past life was a bit dirty, wouldn't you just socially die in this life?!" As Flender's personal disciple, the chubby Ma Hongjun spoke with a disdainful look.

Just imagine it—if his past life had been like this one, crawling into grass nests every day, and such scenes were exposed, Ma Hongjun felt he might as well go live on another planet!

Beside him, Oscar and Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun's friends who had long known what he was thinking, exchanged looks and burst into laughter.

"Ha ha ha..."

"You're just afraid they'll expose scenes of you dying on top of a woman, aren't you?!"

As best friends, there was nothing more enjoyable than exposing each other's secrets!

The four newly enrolled students, Tang San and the others, were also drawn in. They looked curiously at the three senior students, wanting to know what they were laughing about. If one looked closely, however, Tang San's expression seemed strangely peculiar, as though something was off.

At that moment, hearing these two detestable fellows not only expose him in front of the junior students but also mock him so brazenly, Ma Hongjun immediately lost his temper. He turned and cursed at them, "Hmph! You two aren't any better!"

"Little Oscar, you were born with the face of a gigolo! If you had a past life, who knows where you might have been working as some kept boy!"

"And Boss Dai! You've got the nerve to laugh at me? At most, I crawl into grass nests. But Young Master Dai is known as the Seven-Times-a-Night Man, and he's even played with twin sisters. You're far worse than me... mmph!!"

Seeing this dead fatso Ma Hongjun blurt out everything without restraint, Dai Mubai hurried forward. He hooked an arm around Ma Hongjun's neck and clamped a hand over his mouth, preventing him from saying another word.

At the same time, Dai Mubai turned to Tang San and the others. Looking somewhat flustered, he forced a smile and explained, "Ha ha... Well, Fatty's just spouting nonsense. None of that happened, none of that happened... ha ha ha..."

Even as he laughed it off, Dai Mubai's gaze was mainly fixed on Zhu Zhuqing, watching for changes in her expression.

Yet from beginning to end, Zhu Zhuqing's lovely face remained icy cold. She seemed entirely unangered, utterly expressionless!

Beside Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, who already understood some things between adults, had not yet revealed her true personality. Even so, she looked at Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun as if they were trash, and even scorned Oscar, the only slightly better one of them. With disgust, she said, "Eww~ Disgusting!"

Xiao Wu, who was holding Tang San's arm, nodded in agreement. She too cast a disgusted glance at the three of them and said, "Exactly, exactly. Dirty old perverts, hooligans, filthy!"

After viciously roasting Dai Mubai and the others, Xiao Wu finally withdrew her gaze. Her eyes filled with satisfaction as she looked at Tang San beside her and giggled, "My Brother San is still the best—pure and spotless. He would never do that kind of thing!"