Teacher, Is Your Character Really This Bad? (Please Keep Reading)

Tie Xiong was speechless at the sight of this scene.

They had no sense of the bigger picture. Absolutely none!

This was the Star Dou Great Forest. There was no shortage of soul beasts here! Wasn't it just a ten-thousand-year soul beast?

"Teachers, seniors, may I say something?" Tie Xiong suddenly spoke up.

In an instant, everyone present turned their eyes toward Tie Xiong.

"There are many ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. Why can't both sides work together? One side can absorb the Golden Crocodile first, then we can hunt a suitable Soul Ring for the other side. That would avoid a conflict. If we keep fighting here and alert the Titan Giant Ape in the core region, wouldn't both sides suffer?"

Tie Xiong spoke with great magnanimity.

"That sounds nice enough, but which side absorbs it first?"

Dragon Duke Meng Shu sneered, looking at Tie Xiong as if he were a fool with his sharp eyes.

How could they not have thought of such a method?

It was simply that neither side consisted of good people: Dragon Duke and Snake Granny, Zhao Wuji, and Flender.

They had all traveled the continent and made names for themselves in the past.

But the names they had made were hardly honorable ones. Zhao Wuji in particular had a notorious reputation.

Where was there any basis for trust?

"If it were only the two seniors and my teachers, naturally neither side could trust the other. But now there are Yiran and me. If Teacher Lu absorbs the Soul Ring, I can remain with the seniors as a hostage until my teachers help Senior Snake Granny obtain her Soul Ring. And vice versa!"

Tie Xiong said fearlessly.

The moment Flender heard this, he was tempted. If they really fought, they would most likely lose.

"What do you think, Senior Dragon Duke? Are you satisfied with my student's proposal?" Flender asked with a smile.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang were somewhat tempted as well. But they did not feel at ease sending their granddaughter as a hostage. The Immovable Bright King was a villain.

That meant the other side had to absorb the Soul Ring first.

Meng Shu looked at Tie Xiong again.

"Who knows whether this brat can truly make you wary? What if he's merely an ordinary student of your academy? Trading an ordinary student for a Golden Crocodile—Flender, it's not as though you couldn't do something like that!"

Meng Shu's words cut straight to the heart. Teacher, was your character really this bad?

Flender's face darkened, and he began to doubt himself.

"Hehe, Senior Dragon Duke, let me broaden your horizons today. Little Monster, show them your Soul Ring and let the seniors see what a Soul Ring absorbed beyond the limit looks like!"

Zhao Wuji chuckled.

Tie Xiong did not stand on ceremony. The Heaven Breaking Hammer appeared in his right hand, while a dark yellow Soul Ring rose beneath his feet.

The yellow held a faint hint of purple.

Meng Yiran saw that familiar Soul Ring again, and her eyes lit up.

The two of them had fought too quickly inside that tree hollow, so she had not been able to examine it closely.

Looking at it now, its yellow was far deeper than the yellow on her own Soul Ring.

So this was a Soul Ring beyond its age limit?

In that case, someone like him really was rare. It was only natural that I couldn't beat him.

A strange light flickered in Meng Yiran's eyes.

"Little Monster's first Soul Ring came from an eight-hundred-year Blood Demon Berserk Bear. He has already broken the Soul Ring limit universally recognized in the soul master world. His second Soul Ring will certainly exceed a thousand years. Tell me, can he make us wary or not?"

Zhao Wuji said proudly.

He hadn't even mentioned that Little Monster could grow Bear Paws on his feet. If he did, their eyes would pop out.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang both looked at Tie Xiong in astonishment.

That dark yellow Soul Ring tinged with purple could not be faked.

Meng Shu withdrew his earlier thoughts. His granddaughter must have suffered in that tree hollow just now.

But another thought arose in Meng Shu's heart. This was a genius who had broken the limits of the soul master world.

"Fine. We'll follow Little Monster's suggestion. You absorb it first!"

Meng Shu took a deep breath and stared at Tie Xiong after speaking.

Tie Xiong naturally understood what he meant and slowly walked toward Meng Yiran.

When he reached Meng Yiran's side, he winked at her.

Meng Yiran smiled as well. She was very happy that Tie Xiong had resolved the conflict between the two sides.

For some reason, she simply did not want the two sides to clash fiercely.

Now that both sides had reached an agreement, aside from Lu Qibin, she was the happiest.

Since Tie Xiong had become the hostage, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Lu Qibin no longer stood on ceremony.

Lu Qibin delivered the final blow to the Golden Crocodile and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

Chao Tianxiang glanced enviously at Lu Qibin beside them.

Then she turned back with a kindly expression and looked at Tie Xiong. "Your teachers call you Little Monster, so I'll call you that too. Tell Grandma, how did you absorb a Soul Ring beyond the limit?"

Chao Tianxiang thought that if there truly was some special method, perhaps her granddaughter could do the same in the future.

Meng Yiran also looked at Tie Xiong with eager anticipation.

Tie Xiong did not hide anything. He told them all about training with the hammer since childhood, strengthening his physique with medicinal mud, and raising his spiritual power under Lu Qibin's Star Luo Illusion.

In truth, Tie Xiong guessed that the main reason he had succeeded was because he was a transmigrator. His spiritual power was at least twice that of others his age, and that was the greatest reason.

Strong spiritual power meant strong willpower.

Only then could he endure the impact of that immense energy and the boundless pain.

Otherwise, he would have suffered a backlash in a single wave.

After Tie Xiong finished, Chao Tianxiang immediately lost interest.

Although her granddaughter trained diligently and endured hardship, compared to Tie Xiong, it was like comparing a firefly to the moon.

Dragon Duke and Snake Granny both regarded Tie Xiong in a new light.

He truly deserved to be called a Little Monster.

Meng Yiran's large brown eyes shone with brilliance as she stared at Tie Xiong, wishing she could learn everything about him right then.

While they chatted, Lu Qibin in the clearing had already finished absorbing the Soul Ring.

This Golden Crocodile had cultivated for over fourteen thousand years. A Sixth Soul Skill could absorb a Soul Ring of up to twenty thousand years.

Lu Qibin absorbed it with ease.

After completing the absorption, Lu Qibin appeared more robust and imposing. Everyone congratulated him in turn.

Shrek Academy had gained another Soul Emperor.

Then Meng Shu stated that he knew of a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent nearby that was suitable, one with a cultivation of sixteen thousand years.

Flender and Zhao Wuji's faces instantly turned green.

Meng Shu smiled smugly. "You're not going back on your word, are you?"

"This Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent is incredibly fast. Hunting it will be far too difficult!" Flender said unwillingly.

"My wife and I can use the Dragon-Snake Combined Strike, but our Martial Souls are both weapon-type Martial Souls, so we are somewhat lacking in speed. But you, Flender, possess the Cat Eagle beast Martial Soul, and Teacher Lu here is a control-type Soul Emperor. With all of us hunting together, it shouldn't be difficult. At most, it will take some effort!"

Chao Tianxiang did not agree with Flender.

She had coveted that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for a long time. Meng Shu and she could injure a sixteen-thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but killing it would be difficult.

Now that they had Flender and Lu Qibin, naturally they had to make use of them.

Flender and Zhao Wuji both smiled bitterly and looked at Tie Xiong.

They would suffer a huge loss this time and have to put in a great deal of effort, but with Tie Xiong there, they had no intention of going back on their word.

The two groups put some distance between themselves and headed in the direction of the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.