Flender opened his mouth, but in the end, he said nothing to stop him. After all, Oscar was only a student of Shrek, not his disciple.
But then Flender realized something was wrong. Wait! Why had all those innocent students left, while his own disciple, Ma Hongjun, was still kneeling beside him?
Flender hurriedly shouted to Qian Renxue, "Your Holiness, my disciple is innocent too! He may like frequenting brothels, but he's a good child. It was all forced on him by the side effects of his Martial Soul."
But Qian Renxue ignored him. Instead, she lightly tapped the scepter in her hand with a finger and began counting down.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1."
The next instant, under the shocked gazes of everyone present, Ma Hongjun's eyes turned bloodshot as purplish-red flames began burning across his body. Soon, the purple within those flames spread rapidly, completely staining away all the red. Finally, the purple flames deepened further and transformed into black fire.
Flender stared at the scene in shock. Though his teaching ability was atrocious, he was not entirely incompetent. He immediately cried out in surprise, "His Martial Soul mutated? But how is that possible? This child hasn't even obtained his fourth soul ring yet, and the bloodlines of the Soul Beasts we hunted before were all utterly ordinary. They couldn't possibly trigger a mutation in his Phoenix Martial Soul!"
At that moment, Qian Renxue continued, "Though my Martial Soul is not the Six-Winged Angel specifically meant to restrain Fallen Soul Masters, it is naturally highly sensitive to attributes such as darkness and evil. The moment my Soul Power touched this little fellow earlier, I sensed that some influence had already completely awakened the dark attribute within his Martial Soul. His Martial Soul should now be called the Dark