He Is My Senior Brother!

"So, you're actually getting serious."

Oscar stood his ground, stepping back with his left leg as his center of gravity sank slightly, his right hand raised with a faint, pale green glow shimmering upon it.

"Taiji!"

Oscar's arms moved as if embracing a ball, rotating slowly in front of him. The pale green glow sank from his left hand, forming a tornado-shaped vortex between his palms.

The energy ball of the White Tiger Intense Light Wave, having rushed into the vortex, seemed to encounter immense resistance, its speed plummeting!

"Entwine!"

Oscar turned, rotating his body along with the White Tiger Intense Light Wave, wrapping the energy ball around the palm of his right hand.

"Adhere!"

Oscar's hands circled the energy ball, and the sphere of the White Tiger Intense Light Wave was completely stuck to his palm.

"Draw!"

The energy ball of the White Tiger Intense Light Wave was completely transformed into a weapon in Oscar's hand, swaying within his palm.

Dai Mubai watched all of this in disbelief; the feeling was probably akin to discovering that your son wasn't actually your son...

"Three Jin!"

Grasping the White Tiger Intense Light Wave, Oscar rushed toward Dai Mubai.

"You!"

Dai Mubai's face turned pale as he quickly threw a punch to counter.

But what Oscar held in his hand was his own White Tiger Intense Light Wave!

Even if it had been weakened significantly, it still far surpassed the White Tiger Protection Barrier in terms of power!

In an instant, the White Tiger Protection Barrier was blasted into countless fragments, scattering into the air!

Although Oscar was also knocked into the air, he practiced the Taiji Technique, and his internal energy was much more solid than the spirit power of a normal Spirit Master, so the consumption was not significant!

"That's about enough..."

Oscar muttered to himself. Taking advantage of Dai Mubai's inability to recover, he performed a mid-air somersault and launched a rapid assault!

"Explosive Jin, Parry and Punch!"

A punch struck Dai Mubai's chest, the force surging through his body and blasting outward, shattering the gate and the sign of Shrek Academy.

Dai Mubai's clothes were torn open at the chest, a hole the size of a basin appearing. His eyes lost their luster, his body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

"Junior brother, send him back to rest. When he wakes up, tell him to pay to replace the school's gate and sign."

Oscar brushed the dust off his clothes, glanced at the surrounding students and parents, and turned to walk toward Li Yusong.

"Mission accomplished. I'm going back to continue my cultivation."

"Go, go. Don't work too hard; remember to balance work and rest. Tomorrow, I'll have Dean Flender and teacher Zhao Wuji take you to hunt for a Spirit Ring."

The wrinkles on Li Yusong's face bunched up like a chrysanthemum in a smile. A Spirit Master under eleven years old—this is the kind of monster we have at Shrek...

"I will."

Oscar bowed respectfully before taking his leave.

He had gained a lot from this battle with Dai Mubai. Not only had he determined the limits of his Taiji Fist, but he also understood the effect of his Spirit Bone skill, Mirror Flower Water Moon—complete hypnosis.

It was just that, perhaps due to it being shattered or some other reason, the effect of Mirror Flower Water Moon had been sharply reduced, only capable of temporarily confusing a person's mind and subtly influencing the enemy's combat mentality.

After returning to his dormitory, Oscar replayed the insights from the battle in his mind before rolling over onto his bed, yawning lazily.

"If it weren't for my parents being forced to their deaths by nobles, the Spirit Hall and the nobles colluding, and my foster father being dragged into a crisis, I would really love to just lie here like this for the rest of my life."

Oscar turned over, lying on his quilt in the shape of a 'wood' character.

Although a practitioner of the arts emphasizes going with the flow, every time he thought about returning to the village to pay respects to his parents, the information he had learned from the village elders made his chest burn like a raging fire!

He could imagine the helplessness of his parents back then, could imagine how desperate they must have been when they stuffed him into a water vat, and even more so, the love they showed when they knelt and begged the villagers not to hand him over!

"Truly..."

The more Oscar learned about this world, the more clearly he understood its essence.

Simply put, this world was one of pure exploitation. Nobles could exploit commoners, and if a new genius emerged, these geniuses would be absorbed by the noble factions to join them in oppressing the commoners.

Even if a few geniuses appeared from among the oppressed commoners, they would eventually face two choices: join the noble factions or be completely destroyed.

"I should hurry and rope Dai Mubai into the Sky Net. With him around, future operations will be much more convenient."

Lost in thought, Oscar drifted into a dream.

Outside the window, a chubby boy dressed in black, looking like a porcelain doll, quietly left and headed toward the training ground from earlier.

"Phoenix Fire Line!"

Ma Hongjun spat out raging flames, scorching the trees not far away.

He released his spirit power along with the flames until his reserves were dry, at which point Ma Hongjun stopped and sat on the ground to regulate his breathing.

Once his spirit power recovered slightly, he stood up again to unleash the Phoenix Fire Line, a surge of extreme Yang energy spreading from his dantian to the meridians throughout his body, purging the cold and damp aura within him.

He still remembered what his senior brother had once said: a drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring, and a spark of hatred should be returned with a raging wildfire!

Although his senior brother had always kept things from him, he could feel that ever since the day his senior brother went home to visit the graves, his entire person had changed!

His senior brother no longer possessed his former laziness, and the light that used to be in his eyes had vanished.

The thing that could change a person so rapidly... was the hatred that Teacher Zhao Wuji had spoken of!

"Senior brother, you have forgotten yourself; in many matters, the deciding factor is not the event itself, but the things outside of it."

Phoenix patterns flickered in the eyes of Ma Hongjun, and every moment of self-doubt was a rebirth from the ashes.

At this moment, he lacked no confidence; he had abundant faith in his own future!

The prerequisite for establishing all of this was that he had begun to know himself!

"My brain might not be as sharp as yours, senior brother, but this Ultimate Fire of mine is not something just anyone can endure!"

Ma Hongjun walked in a black robe with the rising sun behind him, its orange-red light reflecting off his body and highlighting the phoenix patterns.

The phoenix patterns grew brighter and brighter until they eventually merged completely into Ma Hongjun's body.

Ma Hongjun's eyes burned like flames that would never be extinguished, and his heart was utterly calm.

That night, he had reversed the Taiji Mental Method, transformed the Taiyin Power, and converted his gentle, harmonious Taiji energy into explosive Extreme Yang!

Having lost the trait of endless replenishment through the mutual transformation of yin and yang, Ma Hongjun spat out a mouthful of blood!

If not for the Taiji Mental Method stabilizing his mind, Ma Hongjun would likely have suffered a cultivation deviation and exploded on the spot.

Even so, he had still lost a great deal of his lifespan!

"It doesn't matter. I want to stand before my senior brother and burn everything that blocks his path until it is...

reduced to ashes!"

Ma Hongjun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve. It was not until he approached the Shrek dormitory area that all the strange changes in his body subsided, as if nothing had ever happened.

No one noticed that a flame pattern had appeared in the center of Ma Hongjun's forehead!

Not even he himself had discovered it!