Yu the Great Master: I've Spent My Life Cheating People, Yet You've Made Me Hurt This Deeply!

"Eight levels of Soul Power. You can't pass. Take ten Gold Soul Coins and leave!"

"Your Martial Soul is a hoe? Innate Soul Power at zero? Then why did you come for the test? Take the money and hurry up."

"Good heavens, old lady, you're already ninety. Why are you here causing trouble? What? You don't know which number is bigger, ninety or thirteen? Wonderful!"

Li Yusong once again sat behind the table at the first entrance-test checkpoint. However, as time passed, the people coming to take the entrance test grew stranger and stranger.

There were vegetable vendors, farmers, and even a madman who had carried his own chicken over to ask whether it could take the entrance test.

To convince Li Yusong to agree, the man had even combed the chicken's feathers into a middle part and put it in overalls.

Li Yusong completely broke down. If you have the skill to give a chicken a haircut, couldn't you have opened a pet shop and gotten rich by now?

However, following Flender's instructions, everyone who came to take the entrance test could receive ten Gold Soul Coins, whether they passed or not.

That was why so many people had come to take the test. Almost all of them were residents from around Suotuo City, hoping to take advantage of the offer.

The academy's savings, which he had withdrawn from Suotuo City's bank, had already been completely spent. Flender had somehow found two loan sharks, and they were currently discussing matters in the gatehouse.

"Is this Shrek Academy?"

Hearing the sudden voice, Li Yusong looked up and discovered that someone had appeared beside him.

The man looked to be in his forties or fifties. He was of average height and somewhat thin.

His short black hair was parted thirty-seventy, and his features were very ordinary. Yet he possessed a uniquely sleazy air.

The newcomer was Tang San's teacher—the number-one braggart in the world of soul masters, Yu Xiaogang, also known as Great Master Yu. Not only did he have a useless Martial Soul, he was also a useless soul master.

After Tang San left Nuoding City, Great Master Yu was somewhat worried about his disciple, so he followed behind Tang San and Xiao Wu to Suotuo City.

Of course, the real reason was that he had freeloaded for six whole years at the Nuoding Primary Soul Master Academy, whose headmaster was also his friend. Even he felt he could no longer stay there.

Although Great Master Yu had no shame, he still cared a great deal about his reputation. He did not want to be saddled with the reputation of being a parasite.

After thinking it over carefully, he chose to go to Shrek Academy, hoping to mooch a meal off his old friend Flender.

Li Yusong glanced at Great Master Yu, slapped his forehead hard, and revealed an utterly helpless expression.

"Big brother, you look even older than me. Don't come here causing trouble. Hurry up, take the money, and get lost!"

The corner of Great Master Yu's mouth twitched. He said in confusion, "What do you mean? Are you treating me like a beggar?"

"I'm a good brother of your dean, Flender. Be careful, or I'll have him fire an old fossil like you!"

Li Yusong was slightly stunned when he heard this. Then he said in surprise, "You're the dean's friend?"

"The genuine article!" Great Master Yu raised his chin. "Where's Flender? Have him come see me!"

"Our dean is discussing something with someone in the gatehouse and can't come out for the time being." Li Yusong's voice turned cold.

Clearly, he had grown somewhat angry because of Great Master Yu's earlier insult.

Great Master Yu, however, did not care. Without saying anything else to Li Yusong, he headed straight toward the gatehouse.

As luck would have it, Flender walked out of the gatehouse at that moment.

When Flender saw Great Master Yu, his eyes immediately lit up. "Xiaogang, what brings you here?"

Great Master Yu lowered his head and rubbed at his eyes. His eyes immediately turned red.

Looking at his old friend of many years, Great Master Yu's eyes filled with tears. He opened his arms and walked over.

"Old Cat Eagle, it's been so many years. I've missed you to death!"

"Your brother can barely afford to eat anymore. You have to help me!"

Flender was slightly stunned. Then he waved his hand and said, "That's nothing. We agreed back then to share blessings and endure hardships together. Even after several decades, that promise still stands!"

Great Master Yu was overjoyed. "That's good, that's good! What do you think about me becoming a vice dean here?"

"Now that you're here, anything goes." Flender patted Great Master Yu on the shoulder. "Come on, take off your clothes and come inside with me."

Great Master Yu: ???

"Uh, Old Cat Eagle, what do you mean?" Great Master Yu stammered. "I'm an upstanding man! I've remained chaste for Erlong all these years. You can't harm me!"

Flender said irritably, "Why would I harm you?"

Then he dragged Great Master Yu to the front of the gatehouse and pointed at the two people inside. "These two are my friends. They came this time to paint a portrait of me, but I can't wear clothes."

"Since you're here too, I'll have them paint one of you as well. It's art, understand?"

Great Master Yu:

He never expected that after so many years apart, his old friend would have developed such a bizarre hobby. It truly caught him off guard.

However, he wanted to live under someone else's roof and mooch a living under Flender, so he could only do as he was told.

It was just a portrait. If he endured it for a while, it would be over.

After hesitating for a moment, Great Master Yu found a place where no one else could see him, took off his clothes, and entered the gatehouse with Flender.

After a while, the two "artists" left Shrek Academy with satisfied expressions.

Great Master Yu put his clothes back on and asked Flender in confusion, "By the way, Old Cat Eagle, what are all those people lining up at the academy entrance doing?"

Flender waved his hand while fastening his buttons. "This is a new rule at Shrek Academy. Everyone who takes the entrance test can receive ten Gold Soul Coins."

"Gold Soul Coins for signing up?" Great Master Yu was instantly stunned stiff. "That's damn creative!"

Thinking of this, he could not help regretting it. Why didn't I collect the money before coming to find Flender?

"By the way, those two artists were strange. Why did they make the two of us stack on top of each other?" Great Master Yu asked in confusion. "Their painting skills were impressive, though. The paintings were practically lifelike, with no difference from the real thing."

"Artists? They weren't artists," Flender said.

"What? They weren't artists?" An ominous feeling suddenly rose in Great Master Yu's heart. "Then what do they do?"

"They're loan sharks from Suotuo City. We gave out too much money today, and the academy didn't have enough, so I borrowed a loan of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from them," Flender said.

The corner of Great Master Yu's mouth twitched. He grabbed Flender's shoulder and asked in a trembling voice, "Then the paintings you had them make—"

"I mortgaged the academy's land deed to them. But they said that as a Soul Sage, if I wanted to use force to take back the deed and default on the debt, there was nothing they could do."

"So they said they wanted to paint a picture like that of me. It couldn't be just me, either. I also had to have a friend or relative beside me to serve as guarantor for the contract."

"And you made me take the fall?" Great Master Yu nearly screamed the words.

"Xiaogang, I'm devoting myself to a great charitable cause!" Flender said unhappily. "Charity is the dream I've pursued all my life. As my good brother, shouldn't you support me?"

"I already said that we brothers share blessings and endure hardships. You can't back out at a time like this!"

Great Master Yu said indignantly, "What if you can't repay the money?!"

"It's written in the contract. If the debt isn't repaid by the due date, they'll post those paintings all over Douluo Continent."

"And when that happens, the two of us will have to sell our asses at Suotuo City's brothels."

"I XXXXX! You XXXXX, why did I ever meet a XXX like you? You XXXXXX!"

Great Master Yu flew at Flender in a rage and grabbed him by the neck, choking him until his eyes rolled back.

"Four-Eyed Cat Eagle, I'm going to fight you to the death!!!"

The effects of the system were already about to expire. After Great Master Yu's attack, Flender immediately came to his senses.

Yet he now felt that perhaps it would have been better to remain confused.

The instant he opened his eyes, he understood what an outrageous thing he had done.

He had no idea why he had suddenly become possessed. He had originally arranged the entrance test to make money, but he had turned it into charity—charity funded by loans, no less.

All he remembered was that as he scattered Gold Soul Coins by the handful, the praise and admiration of the people around him had nearly sent him into ecstasy.

Yet now that he had regained consciousness, he finally understood how much trouble he had caused. He had burdened himself with debts as heavy as a mountain.

"My money! My money! All the money I saved for my old age is damn gone!"

Flender covered his face, dropped to his knees, and began wailing loudly.

Great Master Yu was also lying on the ground, crying bitterly as he rolled around.

One hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins! Even if he really went to sell his ass, he would not earn that much in his entire life!

He had cheated and conned people his whole life, only to be ruined by Flender in the end!

If those paintings spread, especially if Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong saw them, he would truly be socially annihilated.

For a sanctimonious hypocrite like Great Master Yu, social death was even more unacceptable than actual death.

"Dean, this is bad! Something terrible has happened!"

Dai Mubai shoved open the door and rushed into the room, only to see Dean Flender cosplaying as a baby with a stranger, rolling around on the floor and crying.

Dai Mubai had never seen anything like this before and instantly froze. When Flender saw a student arrive, he hurriedly stood up and wiped the tears from his face.

"What happened, Mubai? Why are you in such a panic?"

Dai Mubai hesitated for a moment before saying, "Tang San—Tang San is about to be beaten to death!"