Dai Mubai and the Twin Sisters Seen by Zhu Zhuqing

Bibi Dong actually managed to suppress her urge to hit someone once again and wandered around the shop.

Seeing that the Pope was not beating anyone up, Lin Fan and Zhu Zhuqing began browsing the items in the shop as well.

Lin Fan walked over to the wall, his gaze falling on a crystal the size of a human head.

Board Crystal!

It seemed they had arrived before Tang San!

He reached out and touched it, secretly amused. This thing was probably just decoration in Flender's eyes; after all, no one knew that it contained priceless Golden Hair.

"Boss, how much is this crystal?" Lin Fan deliberately asked.

Flender finally deigned to open one eye. He glanced at it and lazily said, "Two hundred Gold Soul Coins. No bargaining."

Bibi Dong and Zhu Zhuqing both frowned deeply.

Two hundred?

This old bastard really dared to name a price!

Zhu Zhuqing could not help saying, "Are you robbing us?"

"Fine, I'll take it." Without another word, Lin Fan pulled out two bags of Gold Soul Coins and tossed them over. "These two bags add up to 200 Gold Soul Coins."

Flender froze for a moment and gave him a suspicious look, apparently not expecting this fool with money to be so straightforward.

He weighed the two bags of Gold Soul Coins in his hand, his eyes shifting before he suddenly said, "Ah, sorry, I remembered wrong. This crystal is actually five hundred Gold Soul Coins."

Lin Fan raised a brow. "Boss, you're quite practiced at hiking up prices on the spot, huh?"

Flender pushed up his glasses, looking completely justified. "Market rates. I just remembered that this crystal is a family heirloom, so it costs extra."

The moment he finished speaking, a terrifying pressure descended. Nine Soul Rings rose beneath Bibi Dong's feet with a swish—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red. The final blood-red Soul Ring glowed so brightly it was blinding.

The air inside the shop instantly froze.

Flender shot up from his recliner, even his glasses crooked. "A T-Titled Douluo?!"

Flender's horse face instantly turned deathly pale, his trembling fingers struggling to straighten his glasses.

That blood-red Soul Ring made his legs shake uncontrollably. That was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!

Bibi Dong pulled out the Pope's Token again. Flender's legs gave out, and he dropped to his knees, the sound of them striking the floor particularly crisp.

"Have you remembered the market rates now?" Bibi Dong slammed the token onto the counter, and Flender's horse face began twitching furiously.

"Mercy, my lady! I-I'll take the sign down right away!" He frantically reached for the signboard, only to be yanked back by the collar with a strand of Spider Silk and slammed face-down onto the counter.

Lin Fan crouched beside Flender, utterly speechless. "Didn't you consider that Spirit Hall might come after you when you were scamming people?"

"I'm innocent!" Flender's nose was wedged in a crack in the counter, making his voice muffled as though it were coming through a rag. "I picked that sign up last year! It looked sturdy, so I hung it up..."

"Using Spirit Hall's name to swindle people so brazenly—have you grown tired of living?" Bibi Dong's cold voice rang out.

Flender's face had already gone pale, his legs trembling so badly he could barely stand. Inside, he was screaming, It's over, it's over. I've really kicked an iron plate this time.

He had never imagined that among the customers he had casually tried to fool, one would be a Spirit Hall expert—and even a Titled Douluo!

"I... I was only trying to attract customers..." Flender forced out a smile uglier than tears. "You know how hard it is to run a shop. Hanging up a Spirit Hall sign makes everyone feel more at ease, doesn't it?"

"At ease?" Bibi Dong sneered. The Soul Rings beneath her feet began to rotate, and an invisible pressure bore down once more. "You want them to feel at ease heading to the coffin shop?"

"I was wrong! I really was wrong!" Flender finally could not hold on any longer and dropped to his knees with a thud. "I'll take down Spirit Hall's sign right away! I'll never hang it up again!"

Bibi Dong snorted and withdrew her Soul Power. "Now you know you were wrong? What were you doing earlier?"

"I... I just had a momentary lapse in judgment..." Flender looked as though he wanted to cry but had no tears.

"A momentary lapse in judgment? Then you needn't keep this shop open." Bibi Dong said mildly, "From today onward, this shop belongs to Spirit Hall."

"What?!" Flender's eyes widened, and he nearly passed out.

Grinning, Lin Fan patted his shoulder. "Boss, your wish has come true. It really is a Spirit Hall business now."

Flender's vision went dark, and he nearly fainted on the spot.

This lousy shop was the labor of half his life! Shrek Academy was poor as hell, and it relied entirely on him scamming and cheating people here... no, on his shrewd business sense, to barely stay afloat. Now that the shop was gone, would those little brats at the academy not have to live off the northwest wind together?

"M-my lady..." Flender's voice trembled as he tried to struggle. "This shop really isn't worth much. Look at these broken walls and crumbling tiles. How could it possibly be worthy of Spirit Hall's glorious reputation..."

He wanted to cry but had no tears, his guts practically turning green with regret.

Had he known this would happen, he would never have dared to scam Spirit Hall even if beaten to death!

Now it was done. His shop was gone!

"You dared to use Spirit Hall's name to swindle people. You must be locked in Spirit Hall's dungeon for ten years!" Bibi Dong said coldly, contempt in her eyes.

Lin Fan hurriedly tried to dissuade her. "Don't, Teacher! Ten years is too long. Let's show a little humanity. Just make him hand over the shop."

They absolutely could not throw Flender into a dungeon. If something really happened to this old fellow, how was he supposed to get into Shrek Academy and disgust Tang San?

Hearing that there was still hope, Flender immediately seized the chance. "Yes, yes, yes! This little brother is right! My lousy shop isn't worth much, but it can at least pay off some of my debt. You're a magnanimous lady, so please spare me!"

Bibi Dong glanced at Lin Fan. Seeing him frantically signaling with his eyes, she snorted coldly. "Fine. The shop belongs to Spirit Hall. Get lost."

Flender felt as though he had been pardoned. He nodded and bowed as he handed over the keys, then turned and ran. He did not want to remain in this place for even another second.

What was a shop compared to ten years of his life?

Lin Fan put the 200 Gold Soul Coins back into his Soul Tool, locked the shop door, and the three continued wandering down the street.

He deliberately led Bibi Dong and Zhu Zhuqing toward the Rose Hotel. Sure enough, at the entrance, they saw a golden-haired guy with his arms around two provocatively dressed twin sisters...

"Damn, that guy really knew how to have fun." Lin Fan jerked his chin toward the hotel entrance.

The golden-haired guy was walking into the hotel with one woman on each arm. The twins' skirts were so short that their safety shorts were nearly visible.

Following Lin Fan's gaze, Zhu Zhuqing and Bibi Dong saw a blond young man with his arms around two extravagantly dressed women. They walked while laughing and fooling around, making for quite a lively scene.

The expressions of the two women instantly became fascinating.

Zhu Zhuqing frowned and said coldly, "Disgusting."

Bibi Dong remained calm, though the corner of her mouth twitched slightly. Clearly, even she had been stunned by the eye-searing sight.

She looked at Zhu Zhuqing, then glanced at Lin Fan. "You know him?"

"Know him? Of course we know him!" Lin Fan grinned. "The third prince of the Star Luo Empire, Zhu Zhuqing's runaway fiancé, a notorious womanizer known as the Evil Eye White Tiger, Dai Mubai."

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes turned cold, and her fists clenched with crackling sounds.

Seeing this, Lin Fan hurriedly fanned the flames. "Tsk, tsk, Zhuqing, you really have it rough. Your fiancé spends every day fooling around outside..."

At that moment, Soul Power fluctuations rose around Zhu Zhuqing, and she instantly became dangerous.