Why Does Teacher Always Wear a Mask?

"What a freakish talent. He's actually a seven-ring Soul Sage?"

"So beautiful... his Martial Soul is so beautiful..."

"He's just like a Peach Blossom Immortal. It's way too gorgeous, like being inside the Peach Blossom Immortal Land!"

"His Soul Ring Configuration is this good? How is that possible? His Fourth Soul Ring is already a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring? I'm not seeing things, am I? That can't be possible!"

"Teacher said the age limit of a second soul ring couldn't exceed 764 years, the upper limit for a third soul ring couldn't exceed 1,760 years, and a fourth soul ring should only be three to five thousand years. Yet he directly exceeded it by five or six thousand years?"

The instant the soul rings on Su Ran's body appeared, the entire place was stunned.

Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing both trembled, faintly feeling a sense of regret that they had not decisively acknowledged him as their teacher.

Ning Rongrong's eyes widened. Standing among the peach blossoms, she stared at Su Ran in disbelief, already captivated by Teacher's Martial Soul:

Heavens, a Soul Ring Configuration like this, and such a beautiful Martial Soul! Even across the entire continent, there probably isn't a second one like it, right?

Flender, Dai Mubai, and the others were startled, somewhat unable to believe that Su Ran was actually a seven-ring Soul Sage.

Before them:

The blazing peach grove bloomed like rosy clouds, a graceful youth drifting through fragrant splendor.

His white robes, purer than snow, danced with the wind; his handsome eyes held stars, reflecting all creation.

With one thought, a Peach Blossom Branch descended to the mortal world, alone deciding ten thousand years of fate in the red dust.

Such a man should exist only in the heavens. How often could the mortal world hear of him?

Fourth Soul Skill, Crimson Moon Peach Blossom!

Su Ran casually waved a hand, not wasting any more time with Shrek. Since they wanted to put on an act, he would just finish them off instantly.

On the Peach Blossom Tree behind Su Ran, a peach moon hung. With a light point of his finger, that crimson peach moon fell from the flourishing Peach Tree. Though it looked as if it was drifting down slowly, in the blink of an eye, it rushed toward Li Yusong.

Li Yusong threw a punch at that peach moon.

There was only a boom.

The peach moon burst into bloom, and the enormous shockwave sent everyone from Shrek flying dozens of meters away.

Fluttering peach blossoms, like shattered bomb fragments and flying knives, left cuts across everyone's bodies.

Ning Rongrong turned Pale with Fright at those terrifyingly lethal Peach Blossom Petals shooting toward her. If her delicate little face was cut and left with a scar, that would be terrible.

At that moment, Su Ran held a Peach Wood Branch between his fingers and, with effortless ease, blocked all the peach blossom shards flying toward Ning Rongrong.

Ning Rongrong blinked her watery eyes, suddenly feeling an immense sense of security:

Every move Teacher makes is truly too handsome!

As for Li Yusong, who had collided with Crimson Moon Peach Blossom, his body shot backward like an arrow leaving the bow, blasted away and covered in wounds.

The arm he had used to collide with the peach moon had already been blown into a fracture, mangled and bloody, and he let out a miserable scream.

"Teacher Yusong!"

"Li Yusong, are you all right?"

"Do I look like I'm all right???"

Li Yusong spat out a mouthful of blood, wounded both in body and soul.

"You let me win."

"Dean Flender, am I qualified now to open an academy and be a teacher?"

At this moment, Su Ran's calm voice came over again.

It made both Flender and Li Yusong furious.

Flender gnashed his teeth and said, "Yes, you're qualified. Very qualified. I hope your students can shine brightly in the Soul Fighting Arena in the future. Better yet, I hope they can participate in the All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition."

"They definitely will. Thank you for your blessing."

Su Ran could infuriate people without paying for it. Faced with Flender's sarcasm and threat, he remained calm and unhurried, not afraid in the slightest.

"Let's go, little Sheng, Rongrong. Back to the academy."

Su Ran turned around and led Wang Sheng and Ning Rongrong through the gates of Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

Flender, meanwhile, supported Li Yusong and returned to Shrek Academy to treat his injuries.

Zhu Zhuqing glanced back at the gates of Peach Blossom Spring Academy, and a sudden regret rose in her heart that she had not chosen to register at Peach Blossom Spring Academy just now.

But when she turned back and saw Dai Mubai's figure from behind, helplessness appeared on her face. Perhaps this was her fate?

"Third Brother, that person just now was so amazing. Did Master really tell us to join Shrek Academy, and not the Peach Blossom Spring Academy across the road?"

Xiao Wu's lively eyes widened. Her impression of Peach Blossom Spring Academy had already changed somewhat.

Not only were that academy's students stronger than Shrek's, even their teacher was so stylish. His bearing was the best she had ever seen among humans. Joining Peach Blossom Spring Academy seemed pretty good too.

"Dean, what happened? Who injured Old Li like this?"

"Mu Bai, you're hurt too?"

Zhao Wuji was sitting inside Shrek Academy. As the examiner in charge of enrollment, he had been bored out of his mind, waiting for new students to come in so he could have some fun. He never expected to see Flender supporting the heavily injured Li Yusong as they came in, with Dai Mubai beside them clutching his chest and gasping for breath.

"Don't ask. I'm taking Old Li and Mu Bai to get treated. Old Zhao, these are the newly recruited students. Just give their strength a simple check. Don't scare them off."

Flender gave the instruction.

Zhao Wuji touched his head, somewhat surprised.

"In the past, we couldn't wait to make the test harsher, beat away the ones whose strength wasn't up to standard, and save the school some expenses while we were at it. Why are you only saying to check them simply today? Strange."

"So it's you three little fellows who came to join Shrek? Come on, release your Martial Souls and let me see your strength."

Zhao Wuji stood there like a Small Peak, looking at Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu as he spoke calmly.

On this side, Ning Rongrong followed Su Ran and Wang Sheng into Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

The layout of Peach Blossom Spring Academy was very simple.

At the school gate stood two blooming Peach Blossom Trees. The school emblem and signboard were formed from Peach Blossom Branches and Peach Blossom Petals, like the entrance to a hidden paradise. On both sides inside the gate were two rooms, which served as the academy's security office, where Wang Sheng was living now.

Inside Peach Blossom Spring Academy's campus, the main building was Teacher Su Ran's house. In front of it was a small garden with a clear pond where Jinli were kept. In front of the garden were the classroom and martial training ground. On the left were several dormitory rooms, and on the right were the kitchen and storage room.

Following the leisurely stone path planted full of peach blossoms and Red Maple Trees, they arrived near the classroom, where Ning Rongrong performed the ceremony to acknowledge him as her teacher.

Then Su Ran pointed to the first room on the left for Ning Rongrong and said calmly, "You'll live here from now on. First, get used to the environment here. Although our Peach Blossom Spring Academy's campus is a bit better than Shrek Academy's, life here is still rather hard."

"Previously, the academy's food and hygiene were all Wang Sheng's responsibility. From now on, you'll share some of the burden too. He'll be responsible for the Outer Court environment, and you'll clean the Inner Court."

"Yes, Teacher." Wang Sheng cupped his hands slightly.

"What? I still have to sweep the floor and cook?"

Ning Rongrong looked very surprised.

Su Ran smiled faintly. He did not answer Ning Rongrong's words, but said to Wang Sheng, "She probably hasn't done these things much before. Teach her more."

"Yes, Teacher." Wang Sheng was extremely respectful.

"Wait, what? I joined Peach Blossom Spring Academy so you could teach me everything you know, Teacher, not so I could learn how to wash clothes and cook from him!"

Ning Rongrong was dumbfounded.

However, by then, Su Ran had already slowly walked down the garden path and returned to his room, leaving behind only one sentence.

"I'll be teaching in the classroom tomorrow morning. Don't be late."

"What the heck!"

Ning Rongrong muttered, unable to smile with her little face.

"What kind of teacher is this? A housekeeping teacher who teaches students to wash clothes, cook, and clean?"

"Uh, I'm warning you. Although you're Teacher's disciple now, if you dare slander Teacher, I won't be polite to you."

Sensing that Ning Rongrong was somewhat dissatisfied with Su Ran, Wang Sheng said in a deep voice.

Ning Rongrong grew even more unconvinced.

"Isn't that what he is? The first thing after becoming his disciple is making students do chores. What kind of reasoning is that?"

"Of course there's reasoning. Teacher said that if you don't sweep one room, how can you sweep the world? If you can't even do the most basic things well, how can you become a top-tier Soul Master?"

"As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Teacher said that even the simplest sweeping, washing clothes, and chopping vegetables can train peerless skills."

"That has to be fake, right? Sweeping and chopping vegetables can train ultimate techniques?"

Ning Rongrong froze.

"That's what Teacher said, anyway," Wang Sheng said helplessly.

"All right, I normally can't enter the Inner Court. From now on, I'll leave it to you. I hope you can take good care of Teacher's daily life."

"I'm going out to practice boxing. I still have to do Tiger Form Fist ten more times today."

"Hey! Are you recruiting students, or recruiting Maidservants for Teacher?!"

"Both, I guess. Hehe."

Wang Sheng smiled simple-mindedly.

Ning Rongrong: "..."

"Let me ask you something. Why does Teacher always wear a mask?"

"Maybe... because Teacher is too good-looking."

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