Who Agreed to Let You Come to Peach Blossom Spring Academy as Teachers?

"Dean Su Ran, could we discuss something?"

"What is it?"

"Well... could we maybe not pay the ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and the academy's Land Deed?"

"No." Su Ran refused outright.

"Your Peach Blossom Spring Academy has already won the match, and this girl even gained a massive million Gold Soul Coins. You're not short of this ten thousand Gold Soul Coins at all now. Can't you show mercy where you can? Ten thousand Gold Soul Coins—I really can't come up with that right now."

Flender Touched His Head guiltily and explained to Su Ran.

"Flender, do you have even the slightest backbone left? Why lower yourself and beg him? Are you still trying to pinch pennies and save ten thousand Gold Soul Coins at a time like this? We earned quite a lot from the Soul Fighting Competition this month. Yesterday's reward alone was ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. Just give it to him. Don't let people look down on us."

Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back. Though his expression looked terrible, with everyone watching, he still had to keep up appearances.

Flender spread both hands.

"Xiaogang, this time it really isn't that I'm being stingy and don't want to pay. I truly can't produce ten thousand Gold Soul Coins."

"Actually, this is partly your fault. You were the one who said that if Shrek and the Imperial Dou Team joined forces, we had a seventy to eighty percent Winning Chance. Yesterday, I also heard that some girl bet a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on Peach Blossom Spring Academy winning, pulling the Betting Pool odds to around 4:6. I thought if I took ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and bet on us winning, we could earn seven or eight thousand Gold Soul Coins. I just didn't expect so many people to follow the trend afterward and directly push the Betting Pool for us winning to over a million... and in the end, we even lost the match..."

"And Shrek doesn't have a Land Deed either. That plot of land isn't mine. We got it from the village."

"What?!"

After hearing Flender's words, Yu Xiaogang completely blew up.

"Flender, what am I supposed to say about you?! This was clearly your own greed—you failed to accomplish anything and only ruined things! And now you're actually pushing the responsibility onto me."

"I'm not getting involved in this. Handle it yourself!"

Yu Xiaogang angrily flicked his sleeves and turned his back, looking as if it had nothing to do with him.

"So, in other words, first, you can't produce the compensation agreed upon beforehand, and second, you also can't make decisions regarding the academy's land?"

Beneath Su Ran's mask, that pair of Immortal Eyes narrowed slightly.

"I don't actually care that much about the ten thousand Gold Soul Coins or the campus land of your Shrek Academy."

"But this Survival Battle was started by you Shrek people in the first place. Yu Xiaogang personally came to our Peach Blossom Spring Academy that day, delivered a challenge to me, and provoked me.

Now my students worked hard to win this battle, yet you can't even pay the most basic stakes. Although I don't care that much about these things, I'm not the kind of person who swallows my anger after being wronged and lets my students suffer losses."

Su Ran's tone gradually turned a little colder. "If you can't pay this ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and Shrek's campus Land Deed, then my demand is very simple. You will repay it with blood."

Endless peach blossoms actually drifted into the air out of nowhere at that moment and fell across the Soul Fighting Arena.

Even the smell of blood was completely covered by the fragrance of peach blossoms.

But amid that breathtakingly beautiful dance of peach blossoms, Zhao Wuji's body began trembling uncontrollably.

It was this very scene. Back then, when Su Ran had charged into Shrek alone and demanded an explanation from them, peach blossoms had also fallen like this.

At the time, he had even mocked him, saying it was a woman's Martial Soul, too beautiful and too soft.

But only those who had experienced it knew the boundless killing intent and sharp edge hidden among those peach blossoms.

With just one Peach Blossom Branch, he could turn it into a sword from the heavens. With only one strike, he had pierced through his Great Vajra Bear, leaving him with no power to fight back.

That was a true top-tier Martial Soul, the power of a peak Martial Soul. Even the top-tier Martial Souls of the former Upper Three Sects would seem slightly inferior beneath those peach blossoms.

"Give it to him!"

"Old Fu, Gangzi! Hurry up and take out the money!"

"Quick!!!"

"All of you, take out your money!!!"

A peach blossom landed on Zhao Wuji's shoulder, making cold sweat pour down his body. Trembling all over in terror, he hurriedly shouted at Flender and Yu Xiaogang.

Hesitating for even one second would be disrespecting his own life!

At the same time, he had already taken money directly out of his own pocket, producing over a thousand Gold Soul Coins and presenting them respectfully before Su Ran.

"Dean Su, this is everything I own."

"Please calm down. Whatever you do, don't attack. Harmony brings wealth!"

"You're still short by more than eight thousand."

Su Ran did not even blink and only spoke flatly.

That terrifying pressure not only failed to disappear, it instead grew even heavier.

Even Flender felt suffocated, let alone Shrek's students. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, who had already been badly injured and had not fully recovered, were panting heavily, their faces flushed bright red.

"I still have over three thousand Gold Soul Coins here." Flender gritted his teeth and emptied out the last of his savings.

"I earned a little from selling sausages before, and I made quite a bit from the Soul Fighting Competition this month too. I also saved over a thousand Gold Soul Coins." Oscar sighed and also took out money for the emergency.

"Still short four thousand."

"Xiaogang, do you have any savings on you?"

"This is your business. Don't ask me," Yu Xiaogang said irritably.

"I'll pay. Third Brother and I earned the most from the Soul Fighting Competition. Here, there should be over four thousand Gold Soul Coins in this card. Keep the change."

Fortunately, just then, Xiao Wu took out a Gold Soul Coin Savings Card and placed it in Su Ran's hand.

Only, when Xiao Wu moved closer, her eyes kept circling Su Ran's mask. She drew in a deep breath, trying to catch whether the scent on Su Ran was similar to the bathing fragrance that had been on that Immortal Man back then. She desperately wanted to see through the face beneath this mask.

Hurry up and pay the money so they could move on to the academy merger already. She could hardly wait to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy!

She could pester that Immortal Brother from the Star Dou Great Forest all she wanted, but it could not be you people dragging things out here.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you getting so close for? Seriously, you have no sense of boundaries," Ning Rongrong snapped when she saw Xiao Wu sidling up beside Su Ran, her possessiveness flaring up.

"..."

"The Land Deed?"

Su Ran continued asking.

With Shrek Academy's campus environment, honestly, any random farmer's estate would be better than it.

But since it had been part of the wager, whether I used it or not was one thing; you not handing it over was another.

"The Land Deed! Old Fu, hurry up and deal with the Land Deed! Hurry the hell up!"

Zhao Wuji grabbed Flender and urged him anxiously.

"I heard him, I heard him! But rushing me is useless. That land isn't mine, and I don't have the money to buy it anymore! Damn it!"

Flender's face was full of gloom as he said to Yu Xiaogang, "Xiaogang, you were the one who set the terms of this wager. Now that we've lost, you can't just wash your hands of everything and ignore it, can you?"

"Exactly, Master. You can't act like this, right? If you hadn't insisted on challenging Teacher Su, Old Fu and I never would've arranged a fight with Peach Blossom Spring Academy. You have to take responsibility for this too!"

Zhao Wuji also felt a bit dissatisfied with Yu Xiaogang. When nothing happened, he acted like a big shot, and when trouble came, he went offline and ran away? How could that be allowed?

"Enough. You people really are useless. I'll handle the Land Deed."

Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and said to Manager Ao, "Please help me call over the bishop of the Suotuo City Martial Soul Hall Branch."

"All right."

At this point, Manager Ao did not dare say much. He had already been intimidated by the aura around Su Ran. This masked teacher looked young, but in reality, he was at least a Soul Sage-level expert. He could not afford to offend him!

As Martial Soul Hall was the governing force over Soul Masters, Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena naturally had close ties with it. Before long, he had invited over one of Suotuo City's Vice Bishops.

Yu Xiaogang mysteriously led that Vice Bishop to a corner, seeming to take out something and show it to him.

Immediately, that Vice Bishop actually bowed to him with utmost respect, extremely deferential.

"I understand what you mean. As for that plot of land belonging to Shrek Academy in the south of the city, our Martial Soul Hall Branch will be responsible for purchasing it, then sending the Land Deed to Peach Blossom Spring Academy."

The Vice Bishop of the Suotuo City Martial Soul Hall Branch said.

"Holy shit, Xiaogang, what did you show him? You can even order around people from Martial Soul Hall?"

"Master, you've really been hiding your light!"

Seeing this scene, Flender and Zhao Wuji both stared at Yu Xiaogang in stunned disbelief.

At this moment, Master's back once again seemed towering and majestic!

He was always this mysterious, astonishing everyone when no one thought highly of him!

Flender: Now you all know why I indulge Master so much, right? He has far too many secrets on him.

"All right, all right. The Gold Soul Coins and the Land Deed are both settled now!"

"Just consider it my bad luck. The academy is gone; I accept it. From now on, I'll properly take up a position at Peach Blossom Spring Academy and be a good teacher."

"Mubai, Xiao San, Fatty, although you lost this duel, you don't need to take it too much to heart. From now on, we'll all study properly under Teacher Su together. Teacher Su can definitely help you undergo a complete transformation too."

Flender sighed and said helplessly.

"Old Zhao, Xiaogang, what do you think?"

"To be able to serve as a teacher under Dean Su is, of course, my honor."

Zhao Wuji said with a shameless grin. He was truly terrified of being Su Ran's opponent, but if he was on Su Ran's side, that was another matter.

Actually, in this match, if Shrek had won, Flender and Zhao Wuji would have been very happy. If they lost, it did not seem that hard to accept either. Joining Peach Blossom Spring Academy only meant Shrek would exist in another form, under another name.

And they would no longer have to worry bitterly about the academy's expenses and spending.

Yu Xiaogang stood straight, his bearing proud. "I won't casually join someone else's academy. However, according to the wager, Xiao San also has to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy, so I'll reluctantly serve as a teacher at Peach Blossom Spring Academy for a period of time. But let me make this clear beforehand: I will only teach Xiao San."

"Otherwise, I won't go."

"..."

"Wait?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Did I ever say I was hiring you to come to Peach Blossom Spring Academy as teachers?"

Su Ran's face was full of question marks. I don't think I ever mentioned letting them come to my Peach Blossom Spring Academy as teachers, right?

These two sure changed their tune quickly. They were already calling him Dean Su?

Have some shame?

Did my students need you people to help teach them???