This slap didn't carry much power, but it was incredibly humiliating.
Flender stood there, completely stunned by the slap from Dugu Bo, his large head buzzing.
Ye Shuyuan said to Dugu Bo, "Let's go. Take them directly."
Dugu Bo nodded and stepped between Flender and Zhao Wuji.
"I'll give you two choices now. First, get beaten up by us and follow us. Second, just follow us."
Liu Erlong forced herself to stand, her eyes glaring at Dugu Bo like a tiger spitting fire, her voice raspy.
"Dream on if you think you can make us follow you. Don't think you can bully us just because you're Titled Douluo."
"We will never surrender!"
Dugu Bo's pressure descended once more, forcibly suppressing Liu Erlong.
Liu Erlong's body shuddered, and she tipped forward, making intimate contact with the ground.
"You don't even have the capital to be arrogant, yet you don't even know what you're being arrogant about!"
"What about you two?" Dugu Bo looked at Flender and Zhao Wuji again.
Zhao Wuji had lost his usual arrogance and was the first to beg for mercy.
"We'll go with you, we'll go with you. Please, Your Excellency Poison, withdraw your power."
Are you kidding? Liu Erlong had only opposed him with a single sentence and was already crushed into this pathetic state by Dugu Bo.
If he didn't beg for mercy, wouldn't his fate be even worse?
Flender made the same decision as Zhao Wuji, and both chose to beg for mercy.
"Poison Douluo, Medical Saint Douluo, please calm your anger. Just now, our Liu Erlong failed to recognize your greatness and was blinded by rage. We beg you to be the bigger men and overlook our insolence."
Liu Erlong lay on the ground, watching in disbelief as Flender and Zhao Wuji groveled before the Titled Douluo.
"Boss Flender, Zhao Wuji, you..."
Dugu Bo turned around, his back to Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Liu Erlong. "Move. If you dare pull any tricks, don't blame this old man for taking your lives!"
Ye Shuyuan and Dugu Bo walked in front toward the Skywater Academy playground, with Zhao Wuji following behind, while Liu Erlong was helped up by Flender, bringing up the rear.
Liu Erlong's face was written with defiance toward Dugu Bo and Ye Shuyuan.
"Erlong," Flender began, but he was cut off by Liu Erlong's rebuke. "Shut up, you useless man."
"This is exactly why you will never be as good as Xiao Gang!" Liu Erlong glared at Flender, leaving him speechless.
On the Skywater Academy playground, Shui Qingrou stopped releasing the pressure of a Spirit Emperor.
Children's matters should be resolved by the children themselves; as long as no adults intervened, she would not intervene either.
She would not bully the young unless absolutely necessary.
Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai gasped for air; clearly, this was their first time experiencing the pressure of a powerhouse.
Seeing a child walk out who was the same age as Ma Hongjun—three years younger than himself—a look of disdain appeared in Dai Mubai's eyes.
"Kid, we might not be able to beat a Spirit Emperor, but surely we can handle you?"
Ma Hongjun was just a Spirit Master about to enter the second ring, so someone his age must be at a similar level of cultivation.
Ye Qingzhou looked at Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with indifference, his tone relaxed. "Looks like I've been underestimated."
Shui Bing'er walked to Ye Qingzhou's side, her tone cold, not wanting him to get involved.
"They are here for me, so let me handle it."
"Ice Phoenix, Manifest!"
A phoenix cry resounded, and an icy blue phoenix phantom soared into the sky. A freezing chill instantly swept across the field as yellow, yellow, and purple spirit rings rose from beneath Shui Bing'er's feet.
Ma Hongjun recognized the spirit behind Shui Bing'er as belonging to the same phoenix category as his own, and his tone was inevitably filled with excitement.
"An icy blue phoenix spirit, the Ice Phoenix—you must be Shui Bing'er!"
He leered at Shui Bing'er's body in an incredibly lewd manner; her figure, her appearance, and her age all met his requirements.
She was simply his dream lover, and he licked his lips greedily.
"She's Shui Bing'er?" Dai Mubai tilted his head to look at Ma Hongjun and laughed. "She certainly looks good. The Ice Phoenix and the Evil Fire spirit are a perfect match, and she's already a Spirit Elder."
A Spirit Elder—a thirteen-year-old Spirit Elder—completely met their Shrek enrollment standards.
Ma Hongjun stared straight at Shui Bing'er, scanning her from bottom to top.
"Bing'er, look, both of our spirits are of the phoenix variety; we are a match made in heaven. Don't reject me..."
"Shut up. Who gave you permission to call me Bing'er?" Shui Bing'er's gaze toward Ma Hongjun was exceptionally cold, her voice like a freezing tide. "I have rejected you countless times, you disgusting bunch!"
Even though Ye Qingzhou hadn't known Ma Hongjun for long, he hadn't expected the other party to be this thick-skinned.
"Ma Hongjun, oh Ma Hongjun, you really know how to flatter yourself. How can a pheasant spirit compare to a true phoenix?"
"Sister Bing'er, let's attack together."
"Wild chicken"—these two words could be considered Ma Hongjun's reverse scale; what he hated most was others calling his Martial Soul a wild chicken.
"Ye Qingzhou, shut your trap! This isn't a place for you to speak."
"Fatty, why waste breath on him? Let's go!"
Dai Mubai immediately entered the state of Martial Soul Possession, two yellow soul rings appearing in his wake, and Ma Hongjun did the same.
With the Evil Fire Phoenix possessed, purple-red flames surged upward. His short hair suddenly grew longer, gathering toward the center, while long feathers extended from his exposed arms and his hands transformed into claws. A single yellow soul ring appeared.
"Pfft!" The moment they saw Ma Hongjun's Martial Soul Possession, everyone present couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The loudest laughter of all came from Shui Yue'er.
"This is what you call a phoenix? I think 'dirt chicken' is more like it, hahahahaha!"
As soon as those words were spoken, Skywater Academy erupted into deafening mockery.
His Martial Soul had been ridiculed; where was he supposed to put his face now?
Ma Hongjun's expression was as unsightly as if he had eaten excrement.
Even Shui Bing'er, upon seeing the appearance of Ma Hongjun's Martial Soul Possession, couldn't help but smile with a sense of relief.
A Martial Soul that was neither a wild chicken nor a phoenix trying to pass itself off as a phoenix was simply an insult to the phoenix name.
Ye Qingzhou wore a faint, mocking smile. Looking at the White Tiger and Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Souls, he shook his head and sighed, "A mere wild chicken Martial Soul dares to masquerade as a phoenix."
"Simply insolent, with no sense of the heights of heaven and earth."
"First Soul Skill, Dark Fragrance Bind."
A Magnolia bloomed from the palm of Ye Qingzhou's hand, and the fragrance of the orchid began to spread as purple, purple, black, and black—four soul rings—rose from beneath his feet.
"A four-ringed Soul Ancestor!"
"And a nine-year-old four-ringed Soul Ancestor at that!"
"His soul rings even start at the thousand-year level, with a ten-thousand-year third ring!"
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