It hurt! It hurt so much!

[I wasn't planning to write in my diary right now, but some things just have to be ranted about. Seriously, is the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's leader out of her mind? Why does Ning Tian wanting to attend Shrek Academy mean I have to go with her? I've never even met Ning Tian, let alone had anything to do with her. Why insist on making me accompany her to Shrek Academy?]

[The clan leader really is careless. I'm this handsome, and she's not worried Ning Tian will see me and be unable to take another step? After all, this is a continent of love-addled brains, a world that judges by faces. Nothing that happens here would surprise me.]

[Fucking Shrek... I don't want to go to Shrek at all!]

As she watched the new entries appear in the diary, Ning Tian, who had been packing her luggage, immediately brightened and inwardly gave her mother a thumbs-up.

Only yesterday, she had told her mother that she wanted Aoyao to go to Shrek Academy with her, and her mother had already gone to see him that morning.

Now that's what you call the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan leader's ability to get things done!

But as she read what Aoyao wrote next, Ning Tian's face flushed slightly, and she couldn't help inwardly scoffing.

What do you mean I'll see you and be unable to take another step? You make it sound so awful... Am I, Ning Tian, the sort of person who cares about looks?

My husband has to be a powerful man, all right?

Although that was what Ning Tian thought, she still grew a little curious about Aoyao's appearance-she had seen him boast about his looks in the diary more than once, even claiming that his landlady had vouched for them.

Coupled with some of the rumors circulating within the clan, she really was curious.

Yes, purely curious. Absolutely nothing else!

Meanwhile, at the Clear Sky Sect, Wang Dong'er also brightened when she saw the new diary entries. She had planned to secretly search the continent for Aoyao after leaving the Clear Sky Sect, never expecting that he would be heading to Shrek Academy too!

Besides, even if Aoyao ultimately didn't go to Shrek Academy, she now knew where he was.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, huh?

That meant she could follow Niu Tian and Tai Tan's plans and attend Shrek Academy disguised as a boy, avoiding arousing their suspicions. If Aoyao wasn't at Shrek Academy, she could also sneak away and head to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan to find him.

Wang Dong'er couldn't help giving her clever little head a thumbs-up.

All according to plan~

Elsewhere, Aoyao knew nothing of their shifting emotions. He simply kept writing furiously, venting his resentment in his diary.

[Shrek Academy, the continent's number one academy. Sounds pretty good, all grand and prestigious, but in reality, it's an academy full of freaks! Just look at that Shrek Academy forebear from ten thousand years ago, the illustrious Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang. He came up with the slogan, "There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters." Yet he himself was the biggest piece of trash of them all!]

[A perfectly good Golden Sacred Dragon martial soul, and he botched its awakening, turning it into the useless martial soul Luo Sanpao. Then he reached middle age and was still just a useless level 29 Soul Grandmaster. "No useless martial souls, only useless soul masters"-that's straight-up introducing himself!]

[He rode his first girlfriend's coattails to get himself the title of Grandmaster, left her looking neither human nor ghost, then dusted off his backside and walked away, only to go and romance his own younger cousin. The most ridiculous part is that the two of them actually ended up having direct descendants!]

[Sea God Pavilion Master Mu En, and that Bei Bei too, are both direct descendants of those two. Absolutely ridiculous! Playing the incest game on the Douluo Continent-you're really not afraid of getting your legs broken, huh!]

Zhang Lexuan, who was in the Inner Court, and Tang Ya, who was agonizing over how to improve her cultivation, both sucked in a breath of cold air.

The Sea God Pavilion Master/Bei Bei was actually a direct descendant of that forebear Yu Xiaogang and his younger female cousin!?

[That was already shocking enough, but Shrek Academy has even more outrageous stuff. I can't even be bothered to roast that Taotie Douluo, Xuan Zi. He's so old, yet he's never handled a single thing reliably. A level 98 Super Douluo led the Shrek Seven Devils to capture an evil soul master who was only a Soul King, and somehow let that evil soul master blow himself up, blasting the Shrek Seven Devils into one dead and six injured!]

[You accomplished what the Holy Spirit Cult couldn't, Xuan Zi! And you're still making excuses, still claiming you aren't the Holy Spirit Cult's unofficial supreme elder?]

[This fucking Shrek Academy keeps claiming it's dedicated to capturing and killing evil soul masters, yet both of the Holy Spirit Cult's great holy maidens came from your Shrek Academy!]

[One was Ma Xiaotao, the Martial Soul Department dean's disciple, and the other was Tang Ya, the Tang Sect's leader. Once those two became evil soul masters, each was more sinister than the other!]

Shrek Academy, Inner Court.

Ma Xiaotao had hardly been troubled by her evil fire lately and had been in a very good mood. But when she saw the words appearing in the diary, her pretty face instantly darkened, and her eyes looked ready to spit flames.

Anyone familiar with Ma Xiaotao knew that she was furious beyond measure.

Ma Xiaotao had treated this diary that had suddenly appeared as nothing more than a diversion, something that let her enjoy a little gossip on the side. Never had she imagined that the gossip would land on her!

At first, when she read that Xuan Zi had led a team only to leave the Shrek Seven Devils with one dead and six injured, Ma Xiaotao was merely puzzled and didn't pay it much mind. She even wondered whether this was a skeleton in Xuan Zi's closet or something that would happen in the future.

But after reading what followed, Ma Xiaotao instantly bristled. She wished she could appear before that brat named Aoyao right that instant and teach him a harsh lesson!

I, Ma Xiaotao, loathe evil soul masters to the marrow of my bones. I cannot live under the same sky as them!

And you actually say I'll become a holy maiden of the Holy Spirit Cult, that I'll fall into becoming an evil soul master?

I don't care what kind of transmigrator you are... How dare you slander me like this!

So you're coming to Shrek Academy with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's young lady to study, are you?

Ma Xiaotao sneered, a cruel expression spreading across her face.

"As long as you dare to come, I'll dare to burn you! If I don't singe every hair on your body, it'll only be because you've already shed them all!"

The moment those words left her mouth, an indescribable pain suddenly struck.

Ma Xiaotao's face abruptly turned pale. Both hands immediately pressed against her chest, disbelief spreading across her face.

Was this...

The pain of ten thousand arrows piercing the heart mentioned in the group rules?

The intense pain instantly left Ma Xiaotao helpless and limp. She toppled over uncontrollably, fine beads of sweat covering her forehead almost in an instant.

There was simply no way to ease this agony, let alone resist it!

It hurt! It hurt so much!

This pain was simply unbearable!

Ma Xiaotao was unwilling to beg for mercy so easily and had intended to force herself through the pain. But then the soul power inside her began to run wild. The evil fire that had remained relatively stable lately instantly turned frenzied, rampaging through every channel in her body!