Hey, I Haven't Even Gotten on Board Yet!

Ma Xiaotao's expression abruptly changed, and a trace of fear rose in her heart.

The pain of ten thousand arrows piercing my heart could actually send the evil fire inside me out of control?

Y-you've got to be kidding!

That agony, mingled with her restless evil fire, made Ma Xiaotao roll uncontrollably back and forth across the ground. In just three seconds, she had visibly weakened.

If this keeps up, I'll definitely die!

Realizing this, Ma Xiaotao dared not hesitate. She immediately abandoned the idea of teaching Aoyao a lesson and barely managed to squeeze a few words through her clenched teeth. "Sorry... I shouldn't have thought that. I'm sorry..."

As though it had heard Ma Xiaotao's apology, the unbearable pain slowly receded. Without the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing her heart to fuel it, the raging evil fire inside her was soon forcibly suppressed.

But the whole ordeal had left Ma Xiaotao utterly exhausted. She lay limp on the ground with her limbs spread wide, leaving every curve of her body on full display.

Only, the way she looked now, anyone would think she had been violated...

Meanwhile, Tang Ya, who had also been eagerly enjoying the spectacle, could no longer sit still.

Although she wanted her name to appear in the diary so she could earn its rewards, this was absolutely not how she wanted to be mentioned!

An evil soul master... I actually become an evil soul master in the future?

Tang Ya's face instantly turned pale.

No one knew her own affairs better than she did. She understood the traits of her martial soul, Blue Silver Grass, better than anyone. In the eyes of the public, a martial soul capable of devouring the vitality of other living creatures was absolutely no different from that of an evil soul master.

Only by consistently resisting this shortcut to rapid advancement had she avoided becoming an evil soul master whom everyone cried out to hunt down.

Could it be that, in the future, in order to revive the Tang Sect and avenge her parents, she would ultimately fail to resist the temptation of power and take this road of rapid advancement from which there was no return?

In the end... am I really going to fall and become an evil soul master?

Every cell in Tang Ya's body rebelled against the thought.

If she were not the Tang Sect's sect master, if she were merely an ordinary person, she might not have resisted so fiercely. But she was the Tang Sect's sect master!

If the Tang Sect's sect master became an evil soul master... forget reviving the Tang Sect. Her very existence would nail the Tang Sect to the pillar of shame forever, and even Ancestor Tang San's reputation would suffer!

No... I absolutely cannot fall and become an evil soul master!

Tang Ya shook her head hard, forcing herself to stop thinking about it.

Yes, that's right!

There are other ways for me to grow stronger. The diary... with the diary, with Aoyao, I can definitely grow stronger too!

Seeing Tang Ya's somewhat pale face, Bei Bei, who was walking beside her, turned slightly toward her and asked with concern:

"Xiaoya, what's wrong?"

Hearing Bei Bei's voice, Tang Ya shook her head almost reflexively and forced a faint smile onto her face. "I'm fine... I'm just feeling a little unwell."

"Sorry, Bei Bei. I'm heading back to the dorm first."

With that, Tang Ya hurried toward the girls' dormitory, leaving behind a worried Bei Bei.

"Mu En... Shrek Academy..."

Zhang Lexuan sat upright in her bedroom, her fingers gently stroking the piece of jade before her, a thoughtful look on her face.

From the diary's contents, she realized that Shrek Academy, where she had spent so many years, might not be all that good.

But it might not be as bad as Aoyao had described, either.

At least, now that she knew these things in advance, she could try to prevent both Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya from ending up in such circumstances.

With advance knowledge and precautions taken ahead of time, surely the two of them would not still fall and become evil soul masters?

[Besides, Shrek Academy can't teach me anything at all. Other than getting shackled by all its restrictions and rules, I can barely see any benefits.]

[In Shrek City, I might not even find anywhere to listen to music!]

[Perhaps only that Golden Tree would hold any appeal for my current martial soul. After all, my martial soul has already evolved into a spirit pearl with Ultimate Light and Ultimate Sacred attributes. Still... that Golden Tree probably isn't anything special, unless it can produce a soul ring for me to absorb.]

[In conclusion, Shrek Academy just isn't right for me!]

[Sigh... forget it. I'll just think of myself as a spectator and go take a look at the familiar people and things in Shrek Academy. After all, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan has given me a comfortable life, and I've never contributed anything. I can at least treat this as repaying their kindness, right?]

[Phew... without a mental health representative, I can only comfort myself. Fine, I guess. This is a good chance to visit the Star Dou Great Forest and see whether I can snatch up Electrolux's divine consciousness fragment before anyone else does.]

[With the attributes of my second martial soul, there should be a chance, right? It feels a little uncertain... If I can get a reward related to spiritual power before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest, this should be much more of a sure thing.]

Through the beginner's gift pack he had earned by writing in his diary, Aoyao had actually gone from having only two and a half levels of innate soul power to being a soul master whose martial soul possessed Ultimate Light and Ultimate Sacred attributes!?

And he even had a second martial soul?

Although they did not know what Aoyao's second martial soul was, if he had twin martial souls, the quality of the two would certainly not differ by much.

Had Aoyao now become a genius?

Some of the women reading the diary were startled, especially Meng Hongchen, far away in the Sun Moon Empire.

The fact that Aoyao had received such generous rewards proved that the rewards truly existed.

Yet Meng Hongchen could do nothing. She could only passively wait for Aoyao to write in his diary.

How long would she have to wait before Aoyao wrote something about her-the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?

By then, the other Diary Copy owners would probably have already received incredibly generous rewards!

Meng Hongchen understood perfectly well that falling behind by one step meant falling behind at every step.

By the time she could receive a reward, the other Diary Copy owners would probably have left her far behind with all their generous rewards... Just thinking about it made Meng Hongchen feel miserable!

Hey, I haven't even gotten on board yet!

Besides, Aoyao had mentioned several times in his diary that he was very handsome.

Meng Hongchen did not think he was being narcissistic. She simply wanted to see just how handsome this fellow really was.

According to Aoyao's own description, he ought to be a handsome, dashing man with effortless charm, right?

I need to find a way to get my name into the diary as soon as possible...

Propping up her chin, Meng Hongchen began to think seriously.