Only then did Lu Fan continue, "Xiao Ao and I will both help you. We're brothers, after all."
Hearing this, the sense of loss Ma Hongjun had felt because of the huge gap between them immediately turned into overwhelming gratitude.
"Brother Fan, Xiao Ao, it's great to have you two."
Ma Hongjun rubbed his reddened eyes, moved to tears.
After the group returned to Shrek Academy,
Zhao Wuji could not wait to pull Lu Fan along and show off in front of Flender, eager to see what Flender's expression would look like when he saw it.
Just imagining that scene made Zhao Wuji want to laugh.
When they pushed open the door to Flender's office, they found Flender lying in his chair asleep.
The moment he saw the door open, Flender immediately put on the appearance of someone hard at work.
Zhao Wuji rolled his eyes at him. "Enough. Why are you putting on an act in front of me?"
"Ahem."
Flender coughed twice, seemingly reminding Zhao Wuji to leave him some dignity in front of the students.
Then he looked at Lu Fan with a kind smile and asked, "Xiao Fan, you're back from hunting spirit beasts. Did everything go smoothly?"
Lu Fan nodded. "Very smoothly. If I told you, Dean, your jaw would drop."
Flender grew interested, but he still said disdainfully, "This dean is a seven-ring Soul Saint. What could a mere Soul Grandmaster like you possibly have that would shock me?"
"Pfft."
Zhao Wuji, standing nearby, burst out laughing.
Flender looked at Zhao Wuji in surprise as he snickered beside him.
But one thing was certain: Lu Fan's gains from this trip seemed to be enormous.
For a moment, Flender became very curious about what exactly had happened.
"Hey, hey, hey, what happened? Stop keeping me in suspense and tell me already!"
Flender urged them.
Zhao Wuji had laughed enough by then and said to Lu Fan, "Xiao Fan, show Flender your Spirit Rings."
Lu Fan nodded. One yellow and one purple Spirit Ring rose above his head before settling beneath his feet.
"Pur-purple?!"
Flender stared at the purple ring beneath Lu Fan's feet, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
With an incredulous look on his face, he rushed forward, grabbed Lu Fan by the shoulders, and shook him. "Xiao Fan, how did you do this?!"
Lu Fan scratched his head. "It was nothing much. I guess I just endured it by force."
Flender was speechless. "Don't do something so dangerous again next time."
Although he had calmed down, Flender still looked at Lu Fan with immense pride.
He felt that the most correct thing he had ever done in his life was accepting Lu Fan as his disciple.
As for Oscar and Ma Hongjun,
Lu Fan actually planned to bring both brothers with him if he ever went to Spirit Hall in the future.
After all, both of them were very talented. Staying at Shrek Academy was truly beneath their potential.
Then Lu Fan said to Flender, "Dean, my Martial Soul Mutation is actually somewhat incomplete. I need some aphrodisiac stuff like Whale Rubber to replenish my yang energy."
Flender nodded at that.
Flender assured Lu Fan, "Don't worry about it. The effects of Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber are too excessive, so it's actually less valuable than thousand-year or hundred-year varieties. This dean can still get his hands on that stuff."
Although Flender was stingy, Lu Fan did not believe that he could not come up with over a hundred Gold Soul Coins.
After all, he was a Soul Saint.
Besides, Shrek Academy could recruit one or two students on average every year.
However, most of them would run away because they could not endure the academy's environment and the intensity of its training.
Furthermore, Shrek Academy could also make quite a few Gold Soul Coins during admissions.
Some people also felt that Shrek Academy was too cruel about this.
For an ordinary family, ten Gold Soul Coins might take who knew how many years to save up.
But after Lu Fan personally watched the admissions process, he felt that these people completely deserved it.
After all, Shrek Academy's admissions requirements were written clearly enough.
These people came only because they had listened to Spirit Hall's propaganda in Suotuo City, which claimed that graduates could become imperial nobles.
Some even knew they were unqualified, yet still wanted to try their luck.
The problem was that reaching level forty as a Soul Ancestor was a graduation requirement, and Soul Ancestors would be recruited wherever they went.
Shrek Academy's admissions teacher was a Soul Emperor.
A Soul Emperor was supposed to play house with you?
Did they think he had nothing better to do?
This was called greed beyond measure. They deserved to lose their money.
But it was precisely thanks to the support of these fools
that Shrek Academy had managed to keep operating without going bankrupt.
Before you continue