A Small Roasted Chicken

[Today is another beautiful day.]

[It feels great not being in Zhou Yi's class! The curriculum is much more relaxed than Class One, and Teacher Mujin provides so much help and guidance to her students; she is truly far better than Zhou Yi.]

After taking a daily jab at Zhou Yi, Ao Yao walked out of the classroom with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.

Over the past few days, Ao Yao had explored most of Shrek City. Just as he had expected, Shrek City did not allow for any pleasure quarters like those found in the brothel districts of the past.

Although he had anticipated this, Ao Yao still felt a bit disappointed upon confirming the truth, to the point where he even lost the desire to leave Shrek Academy to wander around Shrek City.

Shrek Academy is divided into an inner courtyard and an outer courtyard, each with its own cafeteria. The inner courtyard cafeteria is open only to inner courtyard students and teachers and is completely free, while the outer courtyard cafeteria serves the entire school's faculty and students, charges fees, and is slightly more expensive than the merchants in Shrek City.

Of course, only a portion of the items are expensive.

Aside from the relatively pricey soul beast meat and various delicacies, the prices for ordinary meals are about the same as those outside, so Ao Yao still preferred the closer outer courtyard cafeteria.

It is absolutely not because he feels sad every time he walks through the city and realizes that such a massive city doesn't even have a place like a brothel.

"Trouble, one serving of Scaled Magic Crocodile stew, and a bowl of Wind Spirit Bird medicinal soup, please."

There are benefits to being with a young lady from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect like Ning Tian; at the very least, when it comes to things like eating, he doesn't need to spend his own money at all.

As for feeling ashamed about spending a girl's money... Ao Yao has absolutely no psychological burden whatsoever.

Being able to get a girl to spend money on you is a skill in itself!

I eat based on my own ability, so why should I have a psychological burden?

What? You say this behavior of mine will be met with disdain and contempt from others?

No... that's just them being jealous.

In this day and age, who doesn't want to be kept by a rich woman?

Just as Ao Yao was burying his head in his meal, a sudden, inexplicable commotion broke out in the cafeteria.

Following the source of the noise, a fiery red figure appeared at the entrance of the cafeteria.

It was a graceful figure, and the blood-red inner courtyard uniform looked exceptionally striking in the outer courtyard. With long, blood-red hair and a slender build, she exuded a biting, fierce aura, like a terrifying soul beast, creating a vacuum zone around her that no one dared to approach.

Ao Yao noticed that the air around her body was slightly distorted, and wherever she walked, ripples of water mist even shimmered beneath her feet.

Her figure was undoubtedly incredibly hot; her towering twin mounds stretched her already form-fitting uniform into a slightly exaggerated arc. The only pity was that she wore a red veil over her face, making it impossible to see her true appearance.

"It's actually a senior from the inner courtyard!"

"Why would an inner courtyard senior come to our outer courtyard cafeteria?"

"This senior's figure is really great. If only I could spend..."

"Hiss... are you tired of living? That is one of the two famous 'living volcanoes' of our Shrek Academy inner courtyard, Senior Ma Xiaotao, known as the Flame Mad Demon! If she hears that, every single hair on your body will be burned clean!"

[Hmm? She is Ma Xiaotao?]

[This figure... she truly lives up to the name of a little roasted chicken!]

Little... roasted chicken?

Ma Xiaotao, who had snuck out of the inner courtyard and appeared in the outer courtyard cafeteria, paused slightly, her expression beneath the veil stiffening.

That kind of vocabulary does not sound like a good description at all!

Ma Xiaotao's temper flared up instantly, but thinking of the Pain of Ten Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart she had suffered previously and the eruption of her evil fire, she arched her brows, suppressed her inner anger, and found a random window to order food and sit down.

She had come this time to try her luck.

Even if she didn't say it out loud, she was very greedy for the rewards from the diary.

Whether it was the increase in soul ring age, the increase in soul power, or a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, the boost to her strength would be significant. Furthermore, the diary's rewards might even unlock the ultimate prize—if she could obtain the reward of Martial Soul Evolution, she might never have to suffer the intrusion of the evil fire again, nor would she have to endure this agony.

[Ma Xiaotao... judging by her surname and martial soul, it's not hard to deduce that she should be a descendant of Ma Hongjun, one of the first generation Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago. That guy Ma Hongjun ascended to the God Realm, but failed to inherit the position of the first-tier Fire God, having to settle for the second-tier Phoenix God instead.]

[But a second-tier god does not have the qualifications to bring people up to the God Realm, so he could only be separated from his wife, Tang San's cousin Bai Chenxiang, by the barrier between gods and mortals. Looking at it this way, it's very normal for Ma Hongjun to have descendants.]

[But the problem lies in the fact that by the time Ma Hongjun met Bai Chenxiang and they had children, he had long since resolved the flaws in his own martial soul, and while no longer affected by the evil fire, he had successfully evolved his martial soul into a Fire Phoenix.]

[Even if he had descendants, his descendants would most likely have inherited a pure Fire Phoenix, not the flawed Evil Fire Phoenix.]

[In that case... it's more likely that Ma Xiaotao is a descendant born from Ma Hongjun's early days of venting his evil fire with those brothel women. Ma Hongjun during this period was purely a lady-killer, chasing women everywhere, so it's indeed highly probable he left descendants behind. Descendants born in this way, inheriting Ma Hongjun's original Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul... it's very logical!]

[By the time it reached Ma Xiaotao's generation, her evil fire problem had already become very serious. If Yan Shaozhe hadn't brought her back from the outside, Ma Xiaotao would likely have died from the evil fire invading her body before she could cultivate to her current level.]

[Although that guy Yan Shaozhe is quite stupid in other matters, bringing Ma Xiaotao back to Shrek Academy is one of his few highlights.]

Ma Xiaotao's eating motion paused slightly, and she felt a shiver in her heart.

This guy Ao Yao really knows her situation well!

Her ancestor was indeed Ma Hongjun, one of the Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago, but she was not a descendant of Ma Hongjun and his wife, and her evil fire problem was indeed as serious as Ao Yao described.

However, Ma Xiaotao still felt unhappy that Ao Yao was slandering her teacher like this.

Ever since her teacher brought her back from the outside, he had always taken meticulous care of her and guided her. Even after her evil fire problem emerged, he had been working hard to find a solution. Although the results were minimal, Ma Xiaotao had always deeply respected and loved her teacher.

In her heart, Yan Shaozhe was an existence like both a teacher and a father.

This guy Ao Yao...

Don't you dare spout nonsense about my beloved teacher!