After Dai Mu Bai had been beaten up, the other party did not make things difficult for him and had only given him some superficial injuries. It was obvious that the other party had held back.
"Hey! Brother! I admit defeat at your hands. Can you tell me your name? We're both Soul Masters. No fight, no friendship—let's get acquainted." Dai Mu Bai climbed up from the ground and called out to Ye Liangchen.
He had been knocked down without the other party even summoning his Martial Soul, and that person was younger than him. He was definitely an unprecedented genius. As the young prince of the Star Luo Empire, Dai Mu Bai wanted to befriend him. If he could recruit this kid into Shrek Academy and build a good relationship with him, perhaps he could learn a few moves from him in the future.
"I already told you my name is Wu Ming. Why the hell are you asking again?"
"I'm leaving. Take care of yourself."
Ye Liangchen ignored Dai Mu Bai and walked straight over to Lan Xiao Die and Su Lin.
"Little brother! You were amazing! Your sister is proud of you."
Su Lin cheered excitedly, then threw herself into character and hugged Ye Liangchen, planting a kiss on his cheek without caring about the gazes of the surrounding spectators.
"Stop fooling around. We should head back. The patrol soldiers will be here soon."
Lan Xiao Die pulled Ye Liangchen out of Su Lin's arms and quickly led him toward the street where the Rose Hotel was located.
"Senior Sister! Little Chen did so well! Of course I had to reward him."
Su Lin walked over as well and affectionately took the little guy's other hand, leaving the Three Musketeers not far behind them staring in stunned disbelief.
"Little Chen! How did that battle feel?" Lan Xiao Die asked.
"Aunt Lan! His strength was very formidable after possessing the White Tiger Spirit, but compared to me, he was still a little lacking."
Ye Liangchen felt that Dai Mu Bai was quite strong. Among Soul Grandmasters, he could be considered exceptional. Unfortunately, he had run into a cheater like him.
Tang San had been able to fight the Level 37 Dai Mu Bai at Level 29, but he had not done so as easily as Ye Liangchen.
"Senior Sister, our Little Chen is the greatest genius in the entire world. No one can compare to him."
"Of course. That boy named Dai Mu Bai has the Evil Eye White Tiger as his Martial Soul. He must be royalty from the Star Luo Empire."
"Senior Sister, judging by that boy's appearance, could he be a prince of the Star Luo Empire?"
"That's very likely. I just don't know why he appeared in Suotuo City."
Lan Xiao Die and Su Lin discussed Dai Mu Bai as they walked.
Ye Liangchen knew that Dai Mu Bai had come to Shrek to escape the suppression of his older brother.
Now that Dai Mu Bai had appeared, Little Cat Zhu Zhu Qing would show up in three or four years as well. He just did not know whether that girl would still join Shrek.
After Dai Mu Bai and Fatty Ma were beaten up by Ye Liangchen, they recovered quickly with the help of Oscar's Sausage Spirit.
"Boss Dai, who was that guy? He's so handsome and such a good fighter. He didn't even summon his Martial Soul when he fought you. Could his strength be beyond that of a Soul Elder?" Oscar was extremely curious about what had just happened.
"Xiao Ao, he really was only a Soul Grandmaster. He looked to be around eight or nine years old. I feel like even if the three of us attacked together, we still wouldn't be his match." Dai Mu Bai spoke calmly, but recalling that battle still made him shudder. It had been terrifying.
"Damn it, where did that kid come from? He's more monstrous than a monster. Boss Dai, are we just letting this go?"
Fatty Ma rubbed his round belly. That punch had nearly made him throw up even last night's dinner.
"Fatty, do you still want revenge? With that little strength of yours, you wouldn't even be enough to fill that kid's teeth!"
Dai Mu Bai shot Fatty Ma a disdainful look. If this guy had not insulted that person's sister, he would not have been beaten up.
"Haha...! Boss Dai, the dean said that Soul Masters who don't dare cause trouble are mediocrities. But today, you kicked an iron plate." Thinking about his two brothers getting beaten up, Oscar could not help laughing.
"Xiao Ao, you're still laughing? You should've been beaten up with us."
The three returned to Shrek Academy amid sighs and groans. Flender and Zhao Wuji, who were drinking tea and chatting on a second-floor balcony, were startled when they saw their students' disheveled appearances.
"Boss, something's off with these three brats."
"Judging by Dai Mu Bai's miserable state, he was probably beaten up. Come on! Let's see who dared to beat up Shrek's students."
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two rose to their feet, jumped down from the small building, and quickly arrived before Dai Mu Bai's group to check on the Three Musketeers.
"Dai Mu Bai, did you three little brats go cause trouble again?"
When he saw his teachers arrive, Fatty Ma immediately began crying and complaining. "Teacher, we were just beaten up."
"Who dared to beat my, Flender's, students?" Flender immediately flew into a rage.
"Dean, it was a little boy, around two or three years younger than me. He was only a 23rd Level Soul Grand Master. When I fought him, I could barely resist at all, and he didn't even summon his Martial Soul."
"Dean, he's the real monster!"
Dai Mu Bai explained the entire process of getting beaten up to Flender. The reason he spoke about it was because he hoped Flender could recruit that kid into Shrek Academy. Once he built a good relationship with him, perhaps he could learn a few moves from him.
"Is that true? He's only at Level 23 Soul Power, yet he knocked you down without using his Martial Soul? You aren't bragging, are you?" Flender was shocked to hear of such a monster.
"Dean, Fatty and Xiao Ao can both testify."
"That's right! Fatty was knocked down with one punch, and Boss Dai got beaten up the whole time."
Dai Mu Bai, Fatty Ma, and Oscar all acknowledged the truth. There was nothing embarrassing about it in front of their own dean anyway.
"Boss, these three brats don't look like they're lying."
"If that's true, a monstrous genius like that has to join Shrek Academy!"
Zhao Wuji and Flender exchanged a glance. When they encountered a monstrous genius of this caliber, they had to coax him over.
"Dai Mu Bai, what did that kid look like? Was he a noble or a commoner? Were there any powerful people protecting him?"
Flender questioned Dai Mu Bai in detail. A genius at that monstrous level surely did not have a simple background.
"That kid was very handsome. There were two blue-haired beauties beside him, but their faces were covered, so we couldn't recognize them. We also couldn't tell their cultivation levels."
Dai Mu Bai slowly described the scene, but he did not mention a single word about trying to ask those two beauties out.
"So that's why you got beaten up. You deserved it."
Flender and Zhao Wuji knew Dai Mu Bai's character very well. This brat must have flirted with those beauties.
"Hahaha...!"
Seeing Dai Mu Bai's frustrated expression, Oscar burst out laughing.
"Boss, I remember now. This morning, when Old Li and I passed by the entrance of the Rose Hotel, we saw two blue-haired masked beauties with a little boy around eight years old. It should have been them."
"Let's go take a look. Maybe we really can recruit that little guy. A monstrous genius should grow up at Shrek Academy."
Upon hearing Zhao Wuji say that, Flender immediately became interested. He headed out toward the Rose Hotel, with Zhao Wuji following close behind, along with the Shrek Three Musketeers.
"Boss Dai, the Rose Hotel! Hehe..."
The moment Fatty Ma heard the words Rose Hotel, his eyes lit up. The guest rooms there were ideal places for dates!
"Fatty, can you show a little ambition?" Dai Mu Bai was speechless at this lecherous fatty.
When the Shrek group arrived noisily in the lobby of the Rose Grand Hotel, they happened to run into Ye Liangchen's group coming down from upstairs and heading toward the hotel restaurant.
"Teacher, that's him." Fatty Ma pointed at Ye Liangchen in the distance.
"Kid, were you the one who defeated my students?"
Flender took a large stride forward and rushed before Ye Liangchen's group, his shrewd eyes fixed on Ye Liangchen.
"This Four-Eyed Uncle, who are you?"
When Ye Liangchen saw Dai Mu Bai, Fatty Ma, and their group arrive, he knew this was Four-Eyed Cat Eagle Flender. He deliberately called him Four-Eyed Uncle.
"Four-Eyed Uncle? Hahaha..."
When Oscar and Dai Mu Bai heard that guy call their dean Four-Eyed Uncle, they immediately burst out laughing.
"You two brats, stop laughing." Zhao Wuji glared at them, though he wanted to laugh too.
"Mhm! Not bad! Not bad! Only eight years old, so handsome, and already a 23rd Level Soul Grand Master. What an unprecedented genius!"
Flender did not mind being called Four-Eyed Uncle at all. Instead, his eyes shone as he sized up Ye Liangchen as though he were examining a piece of fine jade.
"What do you want?"
Seeing this four-eyed old man staring at Ye Liangchen, Su Lin immediately pulled the little guy protectively into her arms.
When she saw that the two youths Ye Liangchen had knocked down earlier had arrived as well, she immediately understood that they had gone back to complain and brought their elders to seek justice.
Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die also recognized him as Four-Eyed Cat Eagle Flender, one of the Golden Iron Triangle. They immediately stepped in front of Ye Liangchen and stared coldly at Flender.
"When the young ones can't win, the old ones come out to seek justice. How promising of you."
Flender immediately waved his hands. "Ladies, please don't misunderstand. I am Flender, the dean of Shrek Academy. I heard from my students that a boy knocked them down without even summoning his Martial Soul, so I came specifically to take a look."
"Kid, Shrek Academy only accepts monstrous geniuses, and you are a monster among monsters. Do you want to join our academy?"
"I guarantee that as long as you come, I will devote all my efforts to training you. Given time, you will surely become famous throughout the world."
Upon encountering an unmatched genius like Ye Liangchen, Flender immediately extended an olive branch, hoping to recruit him into Shrek Academy.
"Four-Eyed Uncle, Shrek Academy? What kind of place is that?"
Ye Liangchen deliberately asked. Of course he knew about Shrek Academy. Was it not just a rundown academy built in a mountain village on the outskirts of Suotuo City? Before Tang San joined, it was nothing.
"Our Shrek Academy is a Monster Academy. To enroll, one must reach Level 21 Soul Power by age twelve, and one's Spirit Rings must be Hundred Year Soul Rings."
"Kid, you're only eight and already Level 23. You surpassed the admission requirements long ago. As long as you come, I won't even charge you tuition."
"Let me tell you, every student who has graduated from our academy has become famous throughout the world. Some have even become the youngest elders of Spirit Hall."
Flender introduced Shrek Academy's glorious history to Ye Liangchen, constantly painting him a grand picture.
"Four-Eyed Cat Eagle Flender, right?"
"You really only know how to use tricks to deceive children. You say Spirit Hall's youngest elder was your student? At your age, aren't you ashamed to say that?"
"Those who can become elders of Spirit Hall are all Titled Douluo. How could a mere Soul Saint in his seventies like you teach a Titled Douluo? Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue by boasting so much?"
Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die could not listen anymore and directly exposed Flender's lies, making his face turn the color of pig liver.
"Four-Eyed Uncle, you're really shameless. You actually came to fool an eight-year-old child like me. You don't seem like a good person."
Ye Liangchen put on an innocent expression and deliberately disgusted Flender.
"Pfft... Hahaha...! Four-Eyed Uncle is just a con man. Let's stay away from him." Su Lin laughed, protectively pulling Ye Liangchen back a few steps.
"Hahaha...!" Some guests in the hotel lobby burst into laughter when they saw Flender suffer a setback.
"The dean made a fool of himself! Hahaha..." Dai Mu Bai and Oscar could not help laughing when they saw their dean embarrass himself.
"You two brats, stop laughing." Flender felt extremely stifled and turned to glare at them.
"Boss, we should go."
Zhao Wuji gave a foolish grin. He knew Flender had always liked tricking people and would do anything to cheat them, but today, the other party simply gave him no face.
"Hey! Kid, summon your Martial Soul and Spirit Rings for me to see..." Flender refused to give up and continued trying to coax Ye Liangchen, still wanting to inspect his Martial Soul.
"Flender, are you done yet?"
"Don't force us to make a move!"
Chirp! Chirp!
Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die could no longer tolerate him. They cut Flender off and directly summoned their Martial Souls and Spirit Rings. Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black—eight Spirit Rings appeared around each of them, flashing brilliantly. For a moment, the temperature throughout the hotel lobby dropped considerably.
"S-Soul Douluo?"
Everyone in the hotel lobby was shocked by the eight Spirit Rings around Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die. They had not expected these two masked beauties to be so powerful.
"Level 76 Soul Saint Flender greets the two Soul Douluo."
Once Flender saw them reveal the strength of Soul Douluo, he immediately backed down. He placed a hand over his chest and bowed respectfully.
"Level 72 Soul Saint Zhao Wuji greets the two Soul Douluo."
Zhao Wuji bowed along with Flender. This was the rule of the Soul Master World. Soul Douluo powerhouses were invariably top figures within major forces, and with their Soul Saint-level strength, they could not afford to provoke them.
At this time, Flender and Zhao Wuji had not yet reached the strength they possessed when Tang San and the others entered Shrek Academy.
"Flender, Zhao Wuji, stop bothering us."
"Teach your students properly. Don't let them stray down the wrong path."
After Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die withdrew their Martial Souls, they coldly warned Flender a few times before leading Ye Liangchen into the most luxurious private room in the hotel restaurant.
After suffering a setback, Flender's group immediately returned to Shrek Academy dejectedly.
"Boss, I never expected those two ladies to be Soul Douluo powerhouses. Judging by their Soul Power fluctuations, they're even Advanced Soul Douluo. The woman protecting that handsome boy is at least as strong as you."
Zhao Wuji gave a foolish grin. Fortunately, the other party had not made a move. Otherwise, the two of them would not have escaped a beating.
"Three high-level female Soul Masters, two of whom are Soul Douluo powerhouses. Who could they be? Their Martial Souls looked like Ice Phoenixes."
Flender was not familiar with Soul Masters who possessed Ice Phoenix Martial Souls.
"Boss Dai, you even wanted to date one of those Soul Douluo. You really have nerves of steel! Hahaha..." Recalling Dai Mu Bai's earlier suicidal behavior, Oscar burst out laughing.
"Hehe...! A Soul Douluo beauty? This young master would still welcome her with open arms." Dai Mu Bai smiled smugly. Although that beauty had ignored him, simply trying to date a Soul Douluo beauty was enough for him to brag about for a long time.
"Ahem! Those two beauties were pretending to be that kid's sisters at the time, which was why Boss Dai fell for it. But those two women really were beautiful."
Ma Hongjun chuckled beside them. Thinking of that handsome kid being held in the arms of that exquisite beauty, his thoughts wandered. If the one being held were me, how amazing would that feel?
"You three brats should cause less trouble in the future. Luckily, they did not hold it against you little ones. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable."
Zhao Wuji sternly warned Dai Mu Bai and Ma Hongjun. This incident had been caused by those two, and it had nearly led to a serious disaster.
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