Watching the Show, Shrek Academy!

Suotuo City, known as Barak's granary, lay at the heart of the Lima Plain, the most fertile region within the Balak Kingdom.

At the western city gate, Liu Yanyang approached in a black robe.

He watched soldiers patrolling everywhere and the endless stream of bustling pedestrians.

It really was a major city!

He then began wandering around at leisure. After quite some time, a shop caught his attention.

A circular emblem was engraved on the shop's signboard, bearing several unusual symbols.

They were a sword, a hammer, and a dragon.

This should be the shop Flender runs, Liu Yanyang thought to himself.

He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have promised Flender two years ago that he would visit Shrek Academy.

Now that he had come to fulfill that promise, it was not too late, was it?

He entered the shop, without even having time to look over the damaged Soul Tools around him.

Flender, who had been rocking in a recliner with his back turned, immediately opened his eyes and looked at Liu Yanyang.

Although two years had passed, Liu Yanyang had changed very little aside from growing taller and sturdier.

Looking at the familiar figure before him, Flender spoke with indignation.

"Brat, you'd better give me an explanation. How dare you stand this old man up!"

"So it's Dean Flender. My apologies, my apologies."

Liu Yanyang clasped his hands slightly, then said without so much as a blush.

"I ran away from home back then, but my family caught me and locked me up for two years. I escaped again, and the first thing I did was rush to Suotuo City to keep our appointment!"

His tone was utterly sincere!

Seeing that earnest gaze, Flender could only cough twice.

"Since there was a reason for it, I won't blame you. Report to Shrek Academy outside the city in two days!"

Good grief. You said I was just coming to take a look, and now you're having me report for enrollment? Liu Yanyang grumbled inwardly.

He then put on an incomparably sincere expression.

"Alright. Thank you, Dean."

He then picked up a dark yellow crystal nearby.

"Dean, I think this crystal looks quite nice! How much is it?"

Flender waved his hand. "What money? If you want it, just take it."

"Then thank you, Dean. I'll be leaving first." Liu Yanyang put away the crystal, clasped his hands slightly toward Flender, then turned and walked out of the shop.

Watching Liu Yanyang disappear, Flender burst into laughter, unable to suppress the upward curl of his lips.

He had never expected the genius who had been out of contact for two years to return. Shrek Academy had gained another little monster.

Walking down the street, he fiddled with the Metal Plate in his hand.

He wondered whether he had tricked the man too badly. He had come to Shrek to harvest "leeks"; he had no intention whatsoever of joining Shrek.

He then shook his head slightly. He thought Flender was an interesting man, though he was a pathetic loser.

But that was mainly due to the influence of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Otherwise, how could Liu Erlong possibly have taken a liking to Yu Xiaogang?

What a pity! Their positions were different, and they could only become strangers in the future.

Bang!

An explosive sound rang out from the lobby of a three-story inn decorated in rose red.

A man with golden hair and heterochromia walked out of the lobby with his arms around two twin women and headed toward a hotel nearby.

This was the famous scene—Little Bie San and the Rogue Rabbit versus the lecherous tiger.

Unfortunately, he had arrived too late and missed it.

An alley nearby drew his attention. A young girl with a voluptuous figure and an icy expression stood there, her black eyes now filled with disappointment.

"Zhu Zhuqing!"

After watching Zhu Zhuqing sigh and vanish into the alley, Liu Yanyang could not help shaking his head. "She was one of the tragic characters from the original story too!"

She could only be Dai Mubai's accessory for her entire life, and she seemingly had no power to change that.

Perhaps the only person in her family who wanted to make a change was her older sister, Zhu Zhuyun.

But as the Martial Soul Fusion Skill was used more frequently, that line of thought would gradually be erased as well.

The Martial Soul Fusion Skill was powerful, but its side effects were equally immense.

As souls merged, the longer it went on, the more the Soul Master with the subordinate Martial Soul would come to revolve around the Soul Master with the primary Martial Soul.

They would even trust, rely on, and submit to them unconditionally.

The Hell White Tiger and the Golden Sacred Dragon were two typical examples.

With a soft sigh, he headed toward his pre-booked hotel room.

Two days later, at dawn.

Liu Yanyang put on his black robe and white mask. After activating Cheng Ying's concealment state, he headed straight toward Shrek Academy.

He had promised Flender that he would go to Shrek Academy. He was a man of his word. As for whether Flender could discover him, that was not his problem.

In a small village south of Suotuo City, quite a few people had gathered at the village entrance, most of them youths who had come with their parents.

"Is this really the academy that claims its graduates can become imperial viscounts?"

"Spirit Hall said so, so it should be true. But this academy is way too shabby!"

A couple stood with a young boy, all three wearing strange expressions.

No one noticed Liu Yanyang pass by them.

Similar remarks rose and fell among the people waiting in line, and Liu Yanyang shook his head.

"Graduates can become viscounts of the Heaven Dou Empire because once you reach Level 40, you can receive a title as long as you join the Heaven Dou Empire. That is Heaven Dou Empire policy!"

"And Shrek Academy's graduation requirement just happens to be becoming a Soul Ancestor!"

When Liu Yanyang reached the registration area, he happened to see Dai Mubai release his Martial Soul.

"If you want your registration fee back, fine. Beat me, and I'll refund every last coin."

A father and son left behind the words, "Consider us unlucky," then hurried away.

Seeing this, Liu Yanyang shook his head. He leapt onto a large tree near the registration area, sat cross-legged, and began eating small pastries.

He then looked toward the queue, where Ning Rongrong stood in a pure white dress with neat ear-length hair.

There were also Tang San in blue, plain-looking; Old Rabbit Xiao Wu in pink with a scorpion braid; and Zhu Zhuqing in black fitted clothing.

It seemed the protagonist group had all arrived. He dusted off his hands, jumped down from the tree, and followed Tang San and the others into Shrek Academy.

"Selling sausages! Selling sausages!"

A burly man in simple gray clothes, with neatly trimmed short hair, a face full of stubble, and large peach-blossom eyes, pushed a cart as he called out in a soft voice.

Tang San and Xiao Wu bought grilled sausages and were about to eat them, while Dai Mubai was leading Zhu Zhuqing over.

Liu Yanyang's eyes shifted. He picked up a pebble and flicked it hard, striking Dai Mubai squarely in the knee.

"Ah!" Dai Mubai fell flat on the ground, leaving Zhu Zhuqing beside him completely stunned.

Tang San and Xiao Wu, who had already put the grilled sausages into their mouths, saw Dai Mubai fall and approached with sausages still between their lips.

Dai Mubai climbed to his feet and dusted off his clothes, his face flushing red. Embarrassing himself in front of a woman he was interested in was shameful.

He then looked at the sausage in Tang San's mouth, and his expression changed drastically.

"Where did you get those sausages?"