Ma Hongjun: I Want a Female Soul Master with Ice Affinity, Ye Qingzhou: You Shame Your Peers, Asking for a Beating

Ma Hongjun, having been tossed onto the ground by Ye Qingzhou, rolled several times until he collided with the gate of the Ye Family Clinic, which forced him to a stop.

"Hongjun!" Seeing Ye Qingzhou discard Ma Hongjun as if he were trash, Flender trotted over to his side in distress and helped him up.

After checking Ma Hongjun's body and discovering there were no major injuries, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Flender stood up, looked at Ye Qingzhou, and demanded, "Who are you, and why did you appear here without a sound?"

Ye Qingzhou looked at Flender with the expression one might reserve for an idiot; Seriously, buddy, are you actually deaf or just pretending?

"This is my home; why wouldn't I be here?"

He remembered calling his grandfather "Grandfather" just a moment ago.

Flender looked at Ye Qingzhou with vigilance and said, "Your home?"

Seeing this, Ye Shuyuan walked over to Flender and Ye Qingzhou, fearing that the two might come to blows.

"Flender, let me introduce you. This is my grandson, Ye Qingzhou."

Grandson?!

Flender had never expected that Ye Shuyuan would have a grandson.

Furthermore, this grandson appeared to be the same age as Ma Hongjun.

Ye Qingzhou swept a glance over Ma Hongjun and Flender, then asked Ye Shuyuan, feigning ignorance, "Grandfather, who are these two?"

Ignoring Flender's reaction, Ye Shuyuan introduced them to Ye Qingzhou:

"One of the Golden Iron Triangle, the seven-ring Soul Saint Flender, here to seek medical treatment for the Evil Fire issue plaguing his disciple, Ma Hongjun."

Ye Qingzhou feigned a sudden realization: "Oh~"

Then, he looked at them calmly.

This child is so mysterious.

Flender looked at Ye Qingzhou, his face full of confusion.

He found himself completely unable to perceive Ye Qingzhou's cultivation level.

A monster.

Flender's intuition told him that Ye Qingzhou was absolutely a monster.

If he weren't a monster, he would have been able to probe Ye Qingzhou's cultivation long ago.

Or, there was another explanation: that Ye Qingzhou possessed no Martial Soul and no soul power.

But the move he used to grab Ma Hongjun earlier didn't look like the work of someone without a Martial Soul.

In the presence of the Medical Saint Douluo Ye Shuyuan, Flender didn't dare to let his greedy nature show.

At this moment, Ma Hongjun woke up, dazed and confused.

Flender looked at Ye Shuyuan beside him and continued to ask, "Your Excellency Medical Saint, please, tell us the final solution."

Ye Shuyuan glanced at Flender, then at the groggy Ma Hongjun, and confirmed once more: "Are you certain you want me to say it?"

Flender responded heavily with two words: "Confirmed."

Ye Shuyuan spoke slowly, articulating every word with extreme seriousness: "This final and fastest method of suppression is to head to the never-before-explored Extreme North. It is freezing cold there, and it is the nemesis of the Evil Fire."

The Extreme North—Flender certainly knew what the Extreme North was.

It was the third-largest, unexplored habitat for soul beasts.

Due to the extreme cold, the vast majority of soul masters dared not take a single step inside, only daring to wander the outermost periphery, the Ice and Snow Forest.

What lay within the Extreme North, no one knew.

Because, to this day, no soul master who had entered the Extreme North had ever walked out alive.

Upon hearing the words "Extreme North," Ma Hongjun instantly perked up. His brain was no longer dizzy, his body no longer weary, and his tone was filled with resistance.

"What?"

"Go to the Extreme North!"

"I don't want to! Teacher, I don't want to go to such a dangerous place as the Extreme North!"

The Extreme North—a place of no return.

He didn't want to throw his life away.

He was only six years old.

He didn't want to waste the prime of his youth.

For once, Flender understood Ma Hongjun's thoughts; even with him, a Soul Saint, present, he wasn't certain he could stay in the Extreme North for any length of time.

Ye Qingzhou hadn't expected that the Extreme North in this world would be such a dangerous place.

However, it made sense; the Star Dou Great Forest and the Sunset Forest were both standard forests.

They were inhabited by soul beasts ranging from ten years to ten thousand years in age.

As long as one had high-level soul masters, one could remain safe, barring a beast tide.

And what about the Extreme North?

Beyond having to deal with soul beasts that could appear at any moment, one also had to face the extreme cold; no one could endure that.

Ma Hongjun continued, "Teacher, I should just find an ice-attribute soul master. That's the safest bet, and it's best if it's a female soul master."

As soon as these words left his mouth, Flender felt too ashamed to face Ye Shuyuan.

He slapped Ma Hongjun across the face, his tone awkward:

"Your Excellency Medical Saint, please don't mind him; this is just the babbling of a child."

Ma Hongjun might not care about his reputation, but Flender certainly did. If his reputation were ruined, how could he ever ask Ye Shuyuan for favors again?

The three words "female soul master" made Ye Shuyuan feel extremely uncomfortable.

He felt an increasing sense of revulsion toward Ma Hongjun.

When other children were precocious, it was in terms of their intellect or maturity, but Ma Hongjun?

All his precociousness was poured entirely into lechery.

It seemed he shouldn't have offered that suggestion in the first place.

The mere thought of a girl being harmed by Ma Hongjun later on made him feel sick.

He no longer had the heart to continue the examination for Ma Hongjun and said to him and Flender, "That's enough for today."

Flender was silent for a moment, looking at the good-for-nothing Ma Hongjun with fury.

As for Ma Hongjun, he completely failed to grasp the subtext of the adults' conversation.

Simply being stared at and blamed by his teacher for no apparent reason, a wave of grievance welled up in his heart.

Watching Ma Hongjun's aggrieved expression, Ye Qingzhou felt nothing but disgust, and he cursed at him:

"What the hell are you feeling aggrieved about?"

He threw a punch, which landed heavily on Ma Hongjun's face.

"I despise you. As someone of the same age, you're thinking about such filthy things every single second. A female soul master? You've got a pretty high opinion of yourself!"

It was perfect; he would let Ye Qingzhou properly experience the feeling of beating an opponent senseless using only soul power, without relying on a martial soul.

Ma Hongjun didn't even have time to react before he was knocked to the ground by Ye Qingzhou's punch.

"You!"

Before Ma Hongjun could finish his sentence, Ye Qingzhou rolled up his sleeves and threw another punch.

Watching Ma Hongjun being beaten by Ye Qingzhou, Flender didn't know whether he should intervene: "This... Your Excellency Medical Saint, should I stop him?"

Ye Shuyuan replied indifferently, "It's normal for children to roughhouse a bit, and besides, don't you want Ma Hongjun to be beaten into his senses?"

To this, Flender said nothing more.

"Teacher, save me! Teacher, save me..."

These cries reaching Flender's ears left him feeling deeply unsettled.

A quarter of an hour later.

Having finished with Ma Hongjun, Ye Qingzhou brushed the dust off his hands and looked at Flender:

"You can take him away now."

"Are you interested in..." Before Flender could finish, he was interrupted by Ye Qingzhou, "I'm not interested. Given the thoughts Ma Hongjun has exposed at his age, I'd be an idiot to join."

He wanted to recruit him into Shrek?

Unless his brain had been bashed in, he wouldn't even consider it.